In computing, a data descriptor is a structure containing information that describes data. Data descriptors may be used in compilers, as a software structure...
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Special programs are available to override the standard timing descriptors from EDID data. Even this is not always possible, as some vendors' graphics drivers...
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they are descriptor-based. Descriptors are the means of having data that does not reside on the stack such as arrays and objects. Descriptors are also...
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In Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is a process-unique identifier (handle) for a file or...
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ZIP (file format) (section Data descriptor)
ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed...
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Look up descriptor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Descriptor may refer to: An identifier Short Payment Descriptor, a compact data format for an easy...
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The Global Descriptor Table (GDT) is a core part of Intel's x86 architecture that helps manage how memory is accessed and protected. Introduced with the...
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for each of the syllables in the architecture. Partially data-driven tagged and descriptor-based design Few programmer accessible registers Stack machine...
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ISO 9660 (section Volume descriptor set)
1998 with much-relaxed file name rules using a new "enhanced volume descriptor" data structure. The standard was submitted for ISO 9660:1999 and supposedly...
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nomenclature British Approved Name Data descriptor Data element Descriptor Diagnosis code Document management system File descriptor Food labeling regulations...
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Short Payment Descriptor (SPAYD, SPD) is a compact data format for an easy exchange of payment information using modern electronic channels, such as smart...
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Media Descriptor File (MDF) is a proprietary disc image file format developed for Alcohol 120%, an optical disc authoring program. Daemon Tools, CDemu...
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techniques, the latter under the name Project Silica. The "5-dimensional" descriptor is because, unlike marking only on the surface of a 2D piece of paper...
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variable-length record. V records when stored on media are prefixed by a Record Descriptor Word (RDW) containing the integer length of the record in bytes and flag...
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primitive data types are a set of basic data types from which all other data types are constructed. Specifically it often refers to the limited set of data representations...
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Virtual Storage Access Method (redirect from Keyed sequential data set)
two types of entry: a control interval descriptor field (CIDF) which is always present, and record descriptor fields (RDF) which are present when there...
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Human interface device (section Report Descriptor)
their data packets and then present a "HID descriptor" to the host. The HID descriptor is a hard coded array of bytes that describes the device's data packets...
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Program-specific information (section Descriptor)
PMT could have bad consequence Each descriptor in a transport stream table is identified by an 8-bit descriptor tag. Each elementary stream in a transport...
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Python syntax and semantics (redirect from Data structures in Python)
value), __delete__(self, instance) can be used as a descriptor. Creating an instance of a descriptor as a class member of a second class makes the instance...
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architectures, segment descriptors are a part of the segmentation unit, used for translating a logical address to a linear address. Segment descriptors describe the...
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represents it as a file descriptor in the Unix philosophy that provides a common interface for input and output to streams of data. Berkeley sockets evolved...
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theoretical molecular descriptors are: 1) 0D-descriptors (i.e. constitutional descriptors, count descriptors), 2) 1D-descriptors (i.e. list of structural...
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JPEG (redirect from Data compression/JPEG)
2023. J. Siragusa; D. C. Swift (1997). "General Purpose Stereoscopic Data Descriptor" (PDF). VRex, Inc., Elmsford, New York, US. Archived from the original...
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Executable-space protection (redirect from Data execution protection)
accesses to code and data took place through descriptors, which had memory tags preventing them from being modified; descriptors for code did not allow...
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often useful to pack these parameters into a record called the array's descriptor, stride vector, or dope vector. The size of each element, and the minimum...
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shared across multiple datatypes (not just arrays and/or strings). Data descriptor Iliffe vector Reflection (computer programming) Pratt, T.; Zelkowitz...
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similar example of social application of data mining is its use in expertise finding systems, whereby descriptors of human expertise are extracted, normalized...
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Handle (computing) (category Data types)
explicitly visible integers; while file descriptors and sockets (which are often implemented as a form of file descriptor) are represented as integers, they...
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descriptors, identifying which sets database tables participate in. In an active data dictionary constraints may be placed upon the underlying data....
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principal steps of QSAR/QSPR include: Selection of data set and extraction of structural/empirical descriptors Variable selection Model construction Validation...
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