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| Associative array | Property list |
An associative array (also associative container, map, mapping, hash, dictionary, finite map, lookup table, and in query-processing an index or index file) is an abstract data type composed of a collection of unique keys and a collection of values,...
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| Container format | File Format | Audio file format |
A container format is a computer file format that can contain various types of data, compressed by means of standardized audio/video codecs. The container file is used to identify and interleave the different data types. Simpler container formats...
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OpenType |
In typography, a typeface is a set of one or more font designed with stylistic unity, each comprising a coordinated set of glyph. A typeface usually comprises an alphabet of letters, numeral, and punctuation marks; it may also include ideogram and...
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| Serialization | Property list |
In computer science, in the context of data storage and transmission, serialization is the process of saving an object onto a storage medium (such as a file, or a memory buffer) or to transmit it across a network connection link in binary form. When...
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| Scripting language | Batch file |
A scripting language, script language or extension language, is a programming language that controls a software application. "Scripts" are often treated as distinct from "programs", which execute independently from any other application. At the same...
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File Format | Tag Image File Format / Electronic Photography |
Image file formats are standardized means of organising and storing images. This entry is about digital image formats used to store photographic and other images; (for disk-image file formats see Disk image). Image files are composed of either pixel...
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| Chemical file format | Chemical Markup Language |
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| Simplified molecular input line entry specification | ||||
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| Graphics File Formats | File Format | GIF |
Here is a summary of the most common graphics file format:
Some file formats, e.g. PDF, allow both raster and vector graphics. This is because the underlying PostScript system of the Portable Document Format is designed to handle both methods of...
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| Forward error correction | Parchive |
In telecommunication and information theory, forward error correction (FEC) is a system of error control for data transmission, whereby the sender adds redundant data to its messages, also known as an error correction code. This allows the receiver...
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Deb |
A package management system is a collection of tools to automate the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing software packages from a computer. Linux and other Unix-like systems typically manage thousands of discrete packages.
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File Format | APNG |
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression. PNG was created to improve upon and replace the GIF format, as an image-file format not requiring a patent license. It is ping or spelled out as P-N...
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ICO |
In computing, a cursor is an indicator used to show the position on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to input from a text input or pointing device. The text cursor may be referred to as a caret in some cases. This term...
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Apple Icon Image |
On computer displays, a computer icon is a small pictogram. Icons have been used to supplement the normal alphanumerics of the computer. Modern computers now can handle bitmapped graphics on the display terminal, so the icons are widely used to...
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| Object file |
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File Format | COFF |
In computer science, object code, or an object file, is the representation of code that a compiler or assembler generates by processing a source code file. Object files contain compact code, often called "binaries". A linker is typically used to...
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| PostScript |
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Programming Language | Type 1 and Type 3 fonts |
PostScript (PS) is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. PostScript is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas.
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| ASCII | Abbreviated Topic | .properties |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computer, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character...
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Software Genre | AutoCAD DWG |
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology to aid in the design and especially the drafting (technical drawing and engineering drawing) of a part or product, including entire buildings. It is both a visual (or drawing) and symbol...
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| Outline font | Type 1 and Type 3 fonts |
An outline font (or "vector font") is one defined as vector graphics, i.e. as a set of lines and curves to define the border of glyphs, as opposed to a bitmap font, which defines each glyph as an array of pixels. Examples are PostScript (Type 1 and...
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| Word processing | Rich Text Format Directory |
Word processing is the ability to create documents using a word processor. It can also refer to advanced shorthand techniques, sometimes used in specialized contexts with a specially modified typewriter.
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| Raster graphics |
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File Format | MrSID |
In computer graphics, a raster graphics image or bitmap, is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixel, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium. Raster images are stored in image file with...
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| Computer animation |
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TV Genre | MNG |
Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computer. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. Increasingly it is created by means of 3D computer graphics, though 2D computer graphics are still widely used for...
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| Business card |
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vCard |
Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid. A business card typically includes the giver's name, company affiliation (usually...
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Caltech Intermediate Form |
Electronic design automation (EDA) is the category of tools for designing and producing electronic systems ranging from printed circuit board (PCBs) to integrated circuit. This is sometimes referred to as ECAD (electronic computer-aided design) or...
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| Document file format | File Format | DVI |
A document file format is a text or binary file format for storing document on a storage media, especially for use by computer.There currently exist a multitude of incompatible document file formats. The file format currently used by Microsoft Word ...
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| Binary file |
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File Format | COFF |
A binary file is a computer file which may contain any type of data, encoded in binary form for computer storage and processing purposes; for example, computer document files containing formatted text. Many binary file format contain parts that can...
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| Playlist | File Format | Advanced Stream Redirector |
In its most general form, a playlist is simply a list of song. The term has several specialized meanings in the realms of radio broadcasting and personal computer.
The term originally came about in the early days of top 40 radio format when...
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| Playlist | ||||
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| Audio format | WAV |
An audio format is a medium for storing sound and music. The term is applied to both the physical recording media and the recording format of the audio content – in computer science it is often limited to the audio file format, but its wider use...
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| Core dump | Mach-O |
A core dump is the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally (crash). In practice, other key pieces of program state are usually dumped at the same time,...
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| Markup language |
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XML |
A markup language is an artificial language using a set of annotations to text that describe how text is to be structured, laid out, or formatted. Markup languages have been in use for centuries, and in recent years have also been used in computer...
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| Metalanguage | SGML |
In logic and linguistics, a metalanguage is a language used to make statements about statements in another language which is called the object language. Formal syntactic models for the description of grammar, e.g. generative grammar, are a type of...
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