- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
- Number of blossaries: 26
- Company Profile:
An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
A feature available on some tape devices that automatically compresses the data that is being stored on the device. This is usually an option that is turned on or off in a backup program.
Industry:Computer
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an electronic circuit or hardware grouping in which the configuration is determined by the physical interconnection of the components (as opposed to being programmable in software or alterable by a switch).
Industry:Computer
To relinquish control of a block of memory, a device, or another system resource to the operating system.
Industry:Computer
A cursor-control device, such as a mouse or a trackball, in which the movement of an on-screen cursor is linked to the movement of the device but not to the position of the device.
Industry:Computer
An object representing a pair of objects that assume a role in relation to each other.
Industry:Computer
The inability to perform two or more activities because they have been scheduled to occur during the same time period and with the same resource or resources.
Industry:Computer
A subdivision of an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Each subnet has its own unique subnetted network ID.
Industry:Computer
Category labels in a chart that, based on worksheet data, are automatically displayed on more than one line in a hierarchy. For example, the heading Produce might appear above a row with headings Tofu, Apples, and Pears.
Industry:Computer
The property of an alert indicating its seriousness. Examples include Service Unavailable, Security Issue, Critical Error, Error, Warning, Information, and Success.
Industry:Computer
A file-storage device on a local area network that is accessible to users on the network. A file server not only stores files but manages them and maintains order as network users request files and make changes to them.
Industry:Computer
