In computing, a data descriptor is a structure containing information that describes data. Data descriptors may be used in compilers, as a software structure...

Special programs are available to override the standard timing descriptors from EDID data. Even this is not always possible, as some vendors' graphics drivers...

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...

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...

Look up descriptor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Descriptor may refer to: An identifier Short Payment Descriptor, a compact data format for an easy...

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...

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...

The Global Descriptor Table (GDT) is a data structure used by Intel x86-family processors starting with the 80286 in order to define the characteristics...

Short Payment Descriptor (SPAYD, SPD) is a compact data format for an easy exchange of payment information using modern electronic channels, such as smart...

architectures, segment descriptors are a part of the segmentation unit, used for translating a logical address to a linear address. Segment descriptors describe the...

for each of the syllables in the architecture. Partially data-driven tagged and descriptor-based design Few programmer accessible registers Stack machine...

nomenclature British Approved Name Data descriptor Data element Descriptor Diagnosis code Document management system File descriptor Food labeling regulations...

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...

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...

2023. J. Siragusa; D. C. Swift (1997). "General Purpose Stereoscopic Data Descriptor" (PDF). VRex, Inc., Elmsford, New York, US. Archived from the original...

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...

theoretical molecular descriptors are: 1) 0D-descriptors (i.e. constitutional descriptors, count descriptors), 2) 1D-descriptors (i.e. list of structural...

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...

descriptors, identifying which sets database tables participate in. In an active data dictionary constraints may be placed upon the underlying data....

explicitly visible integers; while file descriptors and sockets (which are often implemented as a form of file descriptor) are represented as integers, they...

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...

user-level encryption to help secure user data. In NTFS, each file or folder is assigned a security descriptor that defines its owner and contains two access...

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...

similar example of social application of data mining is its use in expertise finding systems, whereby descriptors of human expertise are extracted, normalized...

A deployment descriptor (DD) refers to a configuration file for an artifact that is deployed to some container/engine. In the Java Platform, Enterprise...

processor reads the 64-bit segment descriptor structure from either the Global Descriptor Table when TI=0 or the Local Descriptor Table when TI=1. It then performs...

Media Descriptor File (MDF) is a proprietary disc image file format developed for Alcohol 120%, an optical disc authoring program. Daemon Tools, CDemu...

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...

The interrupt descriptor table (IDT) is a data structure used by the x86 architecture to implement an interrupt vector table. The IDT is used by the processor...

space. The lines between the common interpretations of "file" and "file descriptor" are often blurred when analysing Unix, and nameability of files is the...