Comparison of terms in WAI Glossary with Standard Definitions

The indented capitalized terms below are the unique sorted entries
are found in the markup <dfn><strong>...</strong></dfn> from the WAI
Printable Glossary Internal Working Draft, 05 May 2001

    http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/Glossary/:html
 n hypermedia and multimedia, to convert data into the form to be presented to the user.

Source for "Standard Definitions" is:

American National Standard Dictionary of Information Technology (ANSDIT)

    http://www.ncits.org/tc_home/k5htm/ANSDIT.htm

It's forward:
 
    http://www.ncits.org/tc_home/k5htm/Foreword.htm

suggests that this is not yet a standard.

"Under the direction of the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) ” National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS),
the Technical Committee on Vocabulary, K5, prepared this American National
Standard Dictionary of Information Technology (ANSDIT). The dictionary was
developed by studying the use of terms throughout the field of information
technology, including computers, data communications, data processing,
text processing, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and related
fields. The ANSDIT has been harmonized with ISO/IEC-2382, Information
Technology ” Vocabulary (ITV), for which Technical Committee NCITS/K5 served
as the technical advisory group for the American National Standards Institute.

That may mean that the WAI terms might be added, as may many of the other
W3 TR glossary terms.

It's introduction has good content that WAI GL should consider adopting.

    http://www.ncits.org/tc_home/k5htm/Introduction.htm

Terms in the ANSDIT that also appear as terms in the WAI glossary are
copied unindented, usually lower-case (unless an abbreviation/acronym),
and contain the ANSDIT definitions (but without the internal hyperlinks).

  
[[[I note what seem to be seeming inconsistencies in WG entries]]]

Some related terms are shown that suggest topics that are unaddressed in
the WAI glossary. Some of these come from the virtual reality work, an
area that WAI has largely ignored, but which may have some potential for
alternative channels for information presentation. Others come from
color, and still others from speech. Some entries, such as the first
below indicate collections of terms using prefix words that seem unrelated.
That first one suggests that the WAI meaning of accessibility is not
recognized, and may suggest instead any of the many other information
processing concepts starting with "access...".

(29 terms begin with access...)
  Accessibility
  Accessibility Awareness
  Accessibility Information
  Accessibility Permission
  Accessibility Problem
  Accessible
  Accessible Authoring Practice
  Acronym
  Activate
  activated

activation: 
(1) In artificial intelligence, an operation that allows the firing
of a rule or the invocation of a program or of a subprogram.
(2) In programming, the establishment of an activation record.

  Active Element
  ActualText Value
  Adobe Glyph Name
  Afford, Affordance

affordance: 
In virtual reality, the means of entering a virtual world and making
it part of the participant's experience.

  Aging-Related Conditions
  Alert
  Alternative Equivalents for Content
  Alternative Information
  Alternative Keyboards or Switches
  Animation
  Annotation Services

annotation: 
In a programming language, an added descriptive comment or explanatory note. 

  Annotea
  Anonymization

anonymous: 
Pertaining to a data object that has no explicit data type declaration.

anonymous FTP: 
A form of FTP when the server permits anonymous login.

anonymous remailer: 
A functional unit that allows originators of messages to keep their
identities concealed from the ultimate recipients.

  API's

API: 
Synonym for application programming interface.

  Applet

applet: 
A small application program performing a specific function that
runs on a client computer and that is loaded from a server as needed.
Applets may be used for animation or for checking entry of data.

  Application Programming Interface (API)

application programming interface (API): 
A set of subprograms that application programs may use to request
and carry out lower-level services performed by an operating system.

  Application Programming Interface, standard input/output/device (API)
  Array

array: 
An arrangement of elements of the same type in which these elements
or appropriate groups of elements may be referenced randomly and
independently of the others.

  auditory description
  Authentication Cide

authentication: 
In security, the act of verifying the claimed identity of an entity.

  Backward Compatible
  Basic Shape
  Blindness
  Boolean

Boolean: 
Pertaining to the processes used in the algebra formulated by the
mathematician George Boole in 1847.

  Braille 
  Braille and Refreshable Braille
  braille display
  Cache

cache: 
Synonym for cache memory.

cache memory: 
A special-purpose buffer, smaller and faster than main storage, used
to hold a copy of instructions and data obtained from main storage
and likely to be needed next by the processor. Synonymous with cache.

  Cacheable
  Canvas
  Capability

capability: 
In computer security, a representation of the address of an object
that defines one or more authorized access types. A capability can
be implemented in the form of a ticket.

capability list: 
A list associated with a subject that identifies all of the subject's
access types for all objects; for example, a list associated with a
process that identifies all of its access types for all files and
other protected resources.

  caption
  Captions
  CC/PP
  CC/PP Repository
  Channel Security
  Character

character: 
A member of a predefined set of elements that is used for the
representation, organization, or control of data. Characters are
sometimes categorized as shown in the figure.
(Figure 12 - Character taxonomy). 

(20 other terms with prefix character ...)

  Character Codes
  Character Encoding
  Characters
  Check for

chunking: 
Grouping of data into a single entity at a higher conceptual level
for further analysis or for storage and retrieval.

  Class

class: 
(1) In object-oriented design or programming, a group of objects
that share a common definition and that, therefore, share common
properties, operations, and behavior. Members of the group are
called instances of the class.
(2) In a conceptual schema language, all possible entities in the
universe of discourse for which a given proposition holds.
(3) In programming languages, a template for objects that defines
the internal structure and the set of operations for instances of
such objects. In this usage, the concept of class is an extension
of the concept of data type.

  Client

client: 
A functional unit that receives services from a server. Services
may be dedicated services or shared services.

client-server: 
In distributed data processing, pertaining to a method of distributed
processing in which a client obtains services from a server..

  Clipping Path

clipping: 
The action of truncating data or a display image by removing all
the display elements that lie outside a clip mask.

  CMap
  Cognitive and Neurological Disabilities

cognitive modeling: 
The modeling of human perception, action, memory, and reasoning
in terms of data and information processing.

cognitive science: 
An interdisciplinary knowledge field, whose stated objective is to
discover the representational and computational capacities of the
mind and their structural and functional representation in the
brain. Cognitive science deals with the symbol-processing nature of
cognition and encompasses disciplines as diverse as psychology,
computer science, linguistics, anthropology, philosophy, education,
mathematics, engineering, physiology, and neuroscience.

collate: 
To arrange two or more sets of data into a single set according to a predetermined order.

  Collated Text Transcript
  collated text transcript

color: 
In optics, the spectral appearance of the image dependent upon the
spectral reflectance of the image, the spectral response of the
observer, and the spectral composition of incident light.
See also color value.

  Color Blindness

color value: 
The characterization of a color, in terms of hue, saturation, and
luminance. In many displays, color is generated by mixing pure colors
of various luminances and thus color values are frequently also
represented by three numbers corresponding to three pure-color value
magnitudes.

(6 more terms beginning with color ...)


column: 
One of two or more vertical arrangements of characters, expressions,
or lines positioned side by side on a page or screen, or other object
such as a card column.

  Column Headers
  Concatenate
  Concatenation

concatenation synthesis: 
A method of speech synthesis that consists of chaining synthesized
or prerecorded speech units. When compared with direct waveform
synthesis, more computation is required at the time of playback to
recreate the speech signal, but the storage requirements per message
are reduced.

  Conditional-content
  Configure

configure: 
To select, arrange, and connect the elements of an information
processing system.

  Conformance
  Container Element
  Content Focus

content: 
In electronic mail, the part of a message that the message transfer
system neither examines nor modifies, except for conversion, during
the transmittal of the message. In some types of messages, the
content consists of a heading and a body.

  Content Model
  Content Negotiation
  Context

contextual analysis: 
The process of identifying an object by known factors governing
its appearance in a particular context.

  Control

(17 terms begin with control ...)


convert: 
To change the representation of data from one form to another,
without changing the information conveyed. For example, code
conversion, radix conversion; analog to digital conversion,
media conversion.

  Conversion Tool
  Cookie

cookie: 
A record created by a Web server, stored on a user's storage device,
and accessed by the Web server in order to facilitate subsequent
communication.

  Core
  Country Code

country name: 
A standard attribute that identifies a country. The country name
is generally the two-letter symbol of the country, according to
ISO 3166. (Figure 66 - Examples of O/R addresses). 

  Crop Box
  CTM
  Current Focus
  current

current pointer: 
A pointer that is updated, if necessary, at the execution of a data
manipulation language statement to identify the location of the
current data object of the data manipulation.

  Current Innermost SVG Document Fragment
  Current Selection
  Current SVG Document Fragment
  Current Transformation Matrix (CTM)
  Current Viewport
  current ciewport
  Data

data: 
Any representation subject to interpretation (such as through
analysis or pattern matching) or to which meaning may be assigned,
such as by applying social conventions or special agreed upon codes.
Data can be processed by humans or by automatic means.
(Figure 16 - Interrelationships of data). 

  Data Category
  Data Element

data element: 
(1) In organization of data, a unit of data that is considered in
context to be indivisible; for example, the data element
"age of a person" with values consisting of all combinations of
3 decimal digits.
(2) In database usage, an identifier of an entity or of an attribute.
(3) A named relationship, viewed as an elementary unit, established
between objects of the universe of discourse and words representing them.

  Data Model

data model: 
A description of the organization of data in a manner that reflects
the information structure of an application or an enterprise.

  Data Object

data object: 
(1) In a database, discrete data, considered as a unit, representing
an instance of a data structure that is known or assumed to be known,
that have an identifier and that occupy one or more storage locations.
(2) In programming languages, an element of a data structure such as
a file, an array, or an operand, that is needed for the execution of
programs. A data object may be a constant or a variable.

  Data Set
  Data Tables

(114 terms begin with data...)

  default value

default: 
Pertaining to an attribute, data value, or option that is assumed
when none is explicitly specified. For example, in Fortran, the
default naming convention specifies that names beginning with one
of the letters I through N denote variables of the integer type.

  Deprecated
  Description Link (D-link)
  Device Independent
  Device-independence
  Digital Signature

digital: 
Pertaining to the representation of data by distinct states or
discrete values, and more specifically to data that consist of
digits, to processes, or to functional units that use such data.

(12 terms have prefix digital...)

display: 
(1) A visual presentation of data.
(2) To present data visually.


display device: 
An output unit that gives a visual representation of data. Usually,
the data are displayed temporarily; however, arrangements may be
made for producing a hard copy of this representation


display window: 
Synonym for window.

(14 other terms with prefix display...)

  Document

document: 
(1) Data in a form that generally has persistence and that can be
read by man or machine.
(2) In text processing, a named, structured unit of text and possibly
images that can be stored, edited, retrieved, and exchanged among
systems or users as a separate unit.

document architecture: 
A complete set of interrelated rules defining the possible structures
of documents taken into consideration in a specific text processing
environment.

  Document Character Set
  Document Content, Structure, and Presentation

document formatter: 
A program that allows a user to lay out and obtain a printable copy
of a document. A document formatter may perform other functions such
as numbering pages or paragraphs.

  Document Object
  Document Object Model
  Document Source
  Document Source View
  Document Tree
  Documentation

documentation: 
(1) One or more of the aids provided for the understanding of the
structure and intended uses of an information system or its
components, such as flowcharts, textual material, and user manuals.
(2) A collection of documents on a given subject.

(8 other terms begin with document...)

  Documents, Elements, and Attributes
  DOM
  DTD's,  Documents Definition Types [[[No! DTD Document Type Definition]]]
  Dynamic Content

dynamic: 
In programming, pertaining to a data attribute whose values can only
be established during the execution of part or all of a program.
For example, the length of a variable-length data object is dynamic.

dynamic binding: 
Binding performed during the execution of a program.

  Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
  Dyslexia, Dyscalculia

edit: 
To prepare or manipulate data for a specific purpose. Editing may include the rearrangement, the addition or modification of data, the deletion of unwanted data, format control, code conversion, or text editing, and the application of standard processes such as zero suppression.

editing: 
Synonym for text editing.

  Editing View
  Element
  Enabled-element, Disabled element  [[[?Why one hypnenated, one not]]]
  Entity

entity: 
(1) Anything, such as a person, place, process, object, concept,
association, or event.
(2) In databases, any concrete or abstract thing that exists, did
exist, or might exist, including associations among these things.
For example, a person, object, event, idea, process, etc. An entit
]exists whether data about it are available or not.
(3) In OSI, an element within a subsystem.

  Equivalent
  Equivalent (for Content)
  Equivalent Alternatives for Content
  Event

event: 
(1) An action or occurance.
(2) In information theory, the concept "event" is to be understood as
used in the theory of probability. For instance, an event may be: 
the presence of a specific element in a given set of elements; 
the occurrence of a specific character or word in a given message
or in a given position of a message; 
any one of the distinct results an experiment may yield. 

  event handler
  Events and Scripting, Event Handler

event-driven processing: 
The operating mode in which the processing sequence is controlled
by events, such as mouse movement or data entry. Some events may have
higher priority than others and these may interrupt their processing.


expand: 
(1) To return compressed data to their original form.
(2) To enlarge the size of a window.

  Expansion

expansion: 
Synonym for dilation.

  Explicit User Request
  Extreme Changes in Context
  Facilities
  Fee Link
  Fill

fill: 
(1) In a token-ring network, a specified bit pattern that a transmitting
data station sends before or after frames, tokens, or abort sequences
to avoid what would otherwise be interpreted as an inactive or
indeterminate transmitter state.
(2) In computer graphics, to propagate a repeated arrangement of
display elements throughout a closed area or object.


flicker: 
In computer graphics, an undesirable rhythmic variation in one of
the characteristics of a display image, such as intensity or color.

  Focus
  Font

font: 
In text processing, a set of characters of the same size and style;
for example, 9-point Helvetica.

  Form Fields
  Gateway

gateway: 
A functional unit that connects two computer networks based on common
network protocols and that supports routing; for examples: LAN gateway,
mail gateway. The computer networks may be local area networks, wide
area networks, or other types of networks.
(Figure 6 - Interconnecting networks). 

  Generation Tool

gestural input: 
The detection and recognition of body posture or movement (e.g., the
orientation of hands and fingers, eye motion) as a means of providing
input to an artificial-reality engine. 

gestural recognition: 
Synonym for gesture recognition. 

gestural transducer: 
A device that recognizes human gestures and translates them into data. 

gesture recognition: 
An interpretation by the computer of hand or body movements as commands
for action. Synonymous with gestural recognition.

glove-based input: 
Synonym for glove input. 

glove input: 
In virtual reality, the gestural input of the hand that is monitored
through a glove fitted with sensors along the fingers and translated
into computer commands that are reflected in a virtual world.
Synonymous with glove-based input. 

glove input device: 
A data glove that detects and returns the parameters of position and
orientation of a human hand and each of its fingers.
Synonymous with sensor glove. 

glove output device: 
A data glove that causes tactile illusions in the wearer.

  Glyph

glyph: 
The shape of a graphic character, such as the shape of a letter or of an icon.

  Graceful Transformation, Graceful Degradation
  Graphical
  Graphics
  Graphics Element
  Graphics Referencing Element

graphics tablet: 
In computer graphics, a special flat surface with a mechanism for
indicating positions thereon, normally used as a locator device.

(8 other terms about graphical, graphic, graphics

handshaking: 
Protocols and procedures used by two devices for establishing communications. 

haptic: 
Pertaining to sensations of touch, pressure, temperature, twist, etc.,
mediated by skin, muscle, tendons, or joints. Haptic represents tactile
senses, but are not limited to them. 

haptic display: 
In virtual reality, a computer-controlled object within a virtual world
with assigned force fields, torque, friction, heat, and pressure that
are made noticeable to a person interacting with the object.

head-mounted display (HMD): 
In virtual reality, a head-supported device including a three-dimensional
display, position and orientation captors, and sometimes also earphones. 

head-related transfer function (HRTF): 
In virtual reality, the transfer function that transforms head movement
data into spacial location for sound.

  Hearing Disabilities
  Highlight

highlighting: 
Emphasizing a display element by modifying its visual attributes

hidden Markov model (HMM): 
In speech recognition, a model in which the state of each speech segment
is represented as a state in a Markov process and in which these states
are not directly observable. To recognize an utterance, the speech
recognizer computes the likelihood that it was generated by each of the
models derived during training. The utterance is recognized as the word
or syntagma whose model gives the highest likelihood score.

homonym: 
One of a set of identical terms that refer to different entities.

hotspot: 
(1) The x, y position that corresponds to the coordinates reported for
a pointer. For example, the position of the tip of an arrow.
(2) An icon or an active region in a hypermedia application that can be
selected by a pointing device to activate a hyperlink; for example:
an icon used to represent an anchor in a document. A hotspot usually
is a word highlighted by underlining or other means, or a small picture.
(Figure 71 - Difference between anchor and hotspot). 

HTML: 
A markup language used to create hypertext documents that are portable
from one platform to another. HTML is based on SGML and has generic
semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide
range of applications. HTML is the abbreviation for HyperText Mark-up
Language.

  HTTP

HTTP: 
Name of an application protocol providing means to transfer hypertext
documents between servers and clients. HTTP is the abbreviation for
Hypertext Transfer Protocol

  HTTPS

hue: 
That attribute of a colored object by which it is identified as
red, green, blue, etc. The hues of pure colors correlate directly with
the dominant wavelength of their radiation. White, black, and grays
possess no hue. Hue is one of the three attributes of color; the other
are saturation and luminance.

  Hyperlink

hyperlink: 
An oriented logical connection between individual units of data in a
hypermedia application, that allows moving from one unit to another.
At the source of a hyperlink a tag, an icon, or a region of a picture
may be displayed and used as a hotspot. The target of a hyperlink may
be a specific tag within a document, a general reference to a document,
or a process. Synonymous with hypermedia link.

hypermedia: 
(1) Pertaining to the organization, storage, or presentation of data,
with references within these data, that permit users to move from one
data to another without linear searches.
(2) The domain of hypermedia concepts, applications, and techniques,
for example: hypertext, a Web page with embeddded video.
(Figure 68 - Current usage of terms in relation to the characteristics).

  Hypertext

hypertext: 
(1) A method of presenting text in discrete units, or nodes, that arei
connected by links for navigation.
(2) Text designed to be read or accessed in a nonlinear manner using
nodes that are connected by links for navigation. (Figure 68 - Current
usage of terms in relation to the characteristics).
(3) Synonym for hypermedia (deprecated in this sense).

  Image

image: 
A representation of visual aspects of one or more objects or concepts.
Examples: A photograph, hologram, drawing, frame of video, X-ray picture.

(25 more terms dealing with image and imaging):

  Image Map
  Impairments of Intelligence
  Important
  Inaccessible
  Inaccessible Markup
  Indexing Value

(8 terms about indexing)

  Inference Rules

inference: 
A reasoning process by which a new premise is derived from one or more
given premises. A premise is either a fact or a rule. The term 
inference" also refers to the result of the process.

inference engine: 
The component of an expert system that applies principles of reasoning
to draw conclusions from the information stored in a knowledge base.

  Inform
  Information Appliances

(31 terms about information)

  Inheritance

inheritance: 
(1) The copying of all or part of the internal structure and of the set
of operations from one class to a subordinate class.
(2) In artificial intelligence and in a knowledge representation,
default transmission of class characteristics to one or more of its
subclasses. There is multiple inheritance in non-hierarchical knowledge
representations.

  Input Configuration

(22 terms about input, or input/output)

  Input Method
  Insertion Point, Current Insertion Point

insert: 
(1) To introduce data between previously stored items of data.
(2) A function or mode that enables a user to introduce additional
text within existing text; the existing text is automatically
rearranged to accommodate the addition.

  Integrity
  Interactive Resource

interactive: 
Pertaining to an operating mode of a functional unit in which the
functional unit responds to each user input and in which the user has
the perception of directly influencing operations during the process.

(6 terms on interactive ...)

  Interoperability


interoperability: 
The capability to communicate, execute programs, or transfer data
among various functional units under specified conditions.


intrinsic: 
Synonym for predefined.

  Intrinsic Dimensions
  Line-break Hyphen
  Linearized Table
  Link Text

lipreading system: 
A system used for speech recognition, based on patterns of lip movement.

  Local URI reference, Non-local URI referemce

local address administration: 
Address administration in which all LAN individual addresses are
unique within the same local area network.


luminance: 
The amount of light that is emitted by a pixel or by a particular
area of a display surface. Luminance, hue, and saturation are three
attributes of color. Intensity is a commonly-used term for luminance.
Brightness is the term for the perception of the level of luminance

Lynx: 
An early set of procedures built on the Internet Protocol and
supporting file transfer that supported users in browsing
text-oriented files on the World Wide Web. 

  Machine Understandable

machine discovery: 
Discovery of empirical laws describing regularities in observed data
by machines capable of learning. Contrast with analytic learning,
conceptual clustering, and taxonomy formation.

machine learning: 
The process by which a functional unit improves its capability or
performance by acquiring new knowledge or skills, or by reorganizing
existing knowledge or skills.

(9 other terms beginning with machine ...)

  Machine-centric
  MacRomanEncoding, MacExpertEncoding, or WinAnsi Encoding
  Map, Mapped

map: 
(1) A set of values that have a defined correspondence with the values
or quantities of another set.
(2) To establish a set of values, as in (1); for example, in the
evaluation of a mathematical function, to establish the values of
the dependent variable of the function, for those values of the
independent variable or variables that are of immediate concern.

  Markup

markup: 
Text added to the data of a document to convey information about
the document; for example: tags, processing instructions, and hyperlinks.

  Markup Language

markup language: 
(1) A text-formatting language designed to transform raw text into
structured documents, by inserting procedural and descriptive markup
into the raw text.
(2) A language designed to describe or transform in space or time
data, text, or objects into structured data, text, or objects,
for example: SGML, HTML, VRML. 

  Mask

mask: 
(1) A pattern of bits or characters that is used to control the
retention or elimination of portions of another such pattern.
(2) In computer security, to add data to a transmission to make
interpretation of the signal more difficult for an unauthorized user.

masking: 
In computer graphics, an operation in which regions of an image are
set to a constant color value.

  Memory Impairments

memory: 
(1) Any of the addressable storage space in a processing unit or any
other internal storage that is used to execute instructions.
(2) All of the addressable space in internal storage.
(3) Loosely, synonymous with main storage, however, in calculators,
microcomputers, and some minicomputers, the term "memory" is preferred
to the term "main storage".

  Mental Health Disabilities
  Metadata

metadata: 
Data about data, including their data descriptions, ownership, access
paths, access rights, and data volatility.

  Method

method: 
In programming languages, a procedure or set of actions that an
object executes upon receipt of a message.

  Modal
  Modalities
  Mode

mode: 
A method, condition, manner, or way of doing, acting, operating, or
functioning.

  Model

(5 terms model-based ...)

  Multi-modal

multimedia: 
(1) Pertaining to the combined use of more than one type of media.
A multimedia presentation may combine audio, text, two- and
three-dimensional graphics, still pictures, or moving pictures.
(2) The domain of multimedia concepts, applications, and techniques.
(Figure 67 - Media and links). (Figure 68 - Current usage of terms
in relation to the characteristics). (Figure 69 - Examples of object types).

multimedia object: 
Hyperobjects using two or more types of representation media; for
example: audio embedded in text. (Figure 69 - Examples of object types).

  Multimedia Presentation
  Namespace
  Native Support
  Natural Language

natural language: 
A language whose rules are based on current usage without being
explicitly prescribed.


navigation: 
(1) The selection of discrete units of information or nodes, by
following links.
(2) The process, performed by the user, of retrieving information
by following links.
(3) Moving through a network by following logical links from one
node to another.

navigation agent: 
Synonym for navigation assistant.

navigation assistant: 
Software that performs tasks of navigation and some other tasks
on behalf of a user. Synonymous with navigation agent.

  Navigation Mechanism
  Negotiation Metadata
  Non-local URI Reference
  Non-repudiation
  Non-text equivalents
  Normative / Informative
  Normative / Non-normative

object: 
(1) In computer security, an entity to which access is controlled;
for example, a file, a program, an area of main storage; data
collected and maintained about a person.
(2) In programming languages, a set of operations and data that
store and retain the effect of the operations. Objects are
implemented as packages or tasks in Ada, as "modules" in
Modula-2, and as "objects" in Smalltalk. In object-oriented
programming, an object is an instance corresponding to a class
definition. (3) In artificial intelligence, a physical or
conceptual entity that may have one or more attributes.

  Objects
  Obsolete Element
  Ontology
  Operators

operator: 
(1) In symbol manipulation, a symbol that represents the action
to be performed in an operation.
(2) A person who operates a machine.

  Output Method

output: 
Pertaining to a device, process, or channel involved in an output
process, or to the associated data or states. The word "output"
may be used in place of "output data", "output signal", or
"output process" when such a usage is clear in a given context.

(11 terms about output ...)


page:
(1) In text processing, a physical or logical block of data that
may be printed on a single sheet of paper or displayed on a screen.
(2) In a virtual storage system, a fixed-length block of data that
has a virtual address and is transferred as a unit.

<11 terma about page ...)

  Page-content Stream
  Pagination

pagination: 
In text processing, the division of a document into pages, either
by a user or automatically.

  Paint

parse: 
To determine the syntactic structure of a language construct by
decomposing it into lexical tokens and establishing the relationships
among them; for example, to parse blocks into statements, statements
into expressions, expressions into operators and operands.

parser: 
A software tool that parses programs or other text, often as the
first step of assembly, compilation, interpretation, or analysis.

  Parser, Parsing
  Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)

personal name: 
An attribute or identifier of a unique designation of a person
relative to the entity denoted by another attribute, e.g., an
organization name. Components of a personal name are for example: 
surname, 
given name, 
initials, 
generation qualifier. 

  Personally Identifiable Data
  Photoepilepsy
  Physical Disabilities

physical: 
(1) Pertaining to actual implementation or location as opposed to
conceptual content or meaning.
(2) Pertaining to the representation and storage of data on a
medium such as magnetic disk, or to a description of data that
depends on physical factors such as length of data elements,
records, or pointers. Contrast with logical.

  Placeholder

place-holder node: 
A hypermedia node that may contain its title, its unique identifier,
and a brief description of the data that will be associated with it.
Place-holder nodes are used during detailed design.

  Plaintext

plaintext: 
Data, the semantic content of which is available without using
cryptographic techniques. Synonymous with cleartext.

  Point of Regard

pointer: 
(1) In organization of data, a data element that indicates the
location of another data element.
(2) In programming languages, a data object whose data value is
the address of another data object.
(3) In computer graphics, a symbol displayed on a screen that a
user can move with a pointing device, such as a mouse, to select
items, and that may change shape with context.

pointing device: 
An instrument used to move an aiming symbol on a screen; for
example: a mouse, a trackball, or a joystick.

pointing stick: 
A pointing device, resembling the eraser at the tip of a pencil,
usually placed in the middle of a keyboard of some portable computers.

  Policy
  Practice
  Preference
  Presentation Attrobite
  Presentation Markup

presentation medium: 
A medium for the reproduction of data to a user; for example:
sound as emitted by a loudspeaker; graphics as presented on a screen.

  Profile

profile: 
In computer security, a description of the characteristics of an
entity to which access is controlled.

  Prompt

prompt: 
A visual or audible message sent by a program to request the
user's response.

  Properties, Values, and Defai;ts
  Property

property list: 
A list containing attributes of an object or a symbol and their
values used to describe knowledge states.

  Protocol

protocol: 
(1) A set of rules that determines the behavior of functional units
in achieving communication.
(2) In programming languages, the set of rules that determines the
behavior of objects in the exchange of messages.
(3) In OSI, a set of semantic and syntactic rules that determine
the behavior of entities in the same layer in performing
communication functions.

  Protocols
  Publishing Tool
  Purpose

query: 
A request to extract data directly or to derive them from a
database, based on specified conditions; for example, a request
to a reservation system for availability of a seat on a specific flight.

  Query-by-example
  Recognize
  Redirection

redirection: 
A transmittal event in which a message transfer agent replaces a user
or distribution list among a message's immediate recipients with an
alternate recipient.


render: 
In hypermedia and multimedia, to convert data into the form to be
presented to the user.

  Rendered
  Rendered Content
  Rendered Content, Rendered Text
  Rendered View
  Rendering

rendering: 
The conversion of the geometry, coloring, texturing, lighting,
and other characteristics of a scene into a display image.

  Repair Content, Repair Text
  Replaced Element
  Repository
  Repudiation

repudiation: 
The denial by one of the entities involved in a communication of
having participated in all or part of the communication. In the
description of techniques and mechanisms the term "non-repudiation"
is often used to mean that none of the entities involved in a
communication can deny its participation in the communication.

  Repurpose
  ReverseChars

reverse video: 
The modification of a display image or a portion thereof by
inverting background and foreground colors or shades, usually
for highlighting purposes.

  Router

router: 
A functional unit that establishes a path through one or more
computer networks. In computer networks conforming to the OSI model,
a router operates at the network layer.

routing: 
The process of determining the path to be used over a network for the
transmission of a signal or a message.

  Rules
  Running Headers

running foot: 
Synonym for page footer.

running head: 
Synonym for page header.


saturation: 
The attribute of a color that expresses the degree of departure from
the gray of the same luminance. A color that is highly saturated
appears to be pure hue and free of gray, but if it is of low saturation
it appears to have a great deal of gray mixed with it.
All grays have zero saturation.


scan: 
(1) To systematically examine data.
(2) To use a scanner.
(3) In computer vision, to examine an object or synthesize an image
according to a predetermined sequence. Graphic images may be generated
by a raster scan system. Examples: 
a fax system scanning a subject image left to right and top to bottom,
as when reading; 
radar scanning from the image center outward at various angles
corresponding to compass directions; 
generation of a television picture, line by line. 

scan line: 
A typically horizontal alignment of pixels that are scanned
sequentially. Synonymous with scanning line.

  Scanning Software
  Schema
  Schema, schema

schema: 
(1) In artificial intelligence, a formalism for representing information
about a simple concept, an entity, or a class of objects by means of
its possible uses. The schema shows ways of using a concept. It does
not describe typical instances of that concept.
(2) A complete description of the structure of a database pertaining
to a specific level of consideration.

  Screen

screen: 
In a display device, the surface on which display images may appear.

  Screen Magnifier
  Screen Reader
  Script

script: 
(1) In knowledge representation, an event-oriented knowledge
representation that uses predetermined sequences of events to determine
the results of interactions between known entities. The event is
represented by means of scenes, settings, thematic roles, and props.
(2) In hypermedia and multimedia, a specification of how hyperobjects
are to be presented to a user and how input from the user is to be handled.

  Seizure Disorders
  Selection

selection: 
In databases, an operation of relational algebra that forms a new
relation which is a subset of the entity occurrences from a given
relation; for example: in a relation of "books" containing the
attributes "author" and "title", the formation of a list of the
titles of the books written by a particular author.

  Sender-initiated Transmission
  Server

server: 
In a computer network, a functional unit that provides services to
workstations, to personal computers or to other functional units;
for example: a file server, a print server, a mail server.
Services may be dedicated services or shared services.

  Service

service: 
In OSI, a capability of a given layer and the layers below it that
is provided to the entities of the next higher layer. The service
of a given layer is provided at the boundary between this layer
and the next higher layer. (Figure 47 - The Open Systems
Interconnection Reference Model).

  Showstring
  Signature

signature: 
(1) The observable or characteristic measurement or feature pattern
derived from entities of a particular category; for example, the
feature pattern that determines the particular class of entities.
(2) In electronic mail, at the end of the body, a specific piece
of text designed by the originator for individual identification.
The signature usually contains name, address, and may also include
telephone and fax numbers. The signature may include a digital
signature or other data authenticating the message.

  Simpler-language Alternative
  Site Management Tool
  Soft Hyphen

soft hyphen: 
A special character in a word, inserted automatically or by the
user to mark where the word can be divided, and displayed as a
hyphen when the word must be divided at the end of the line due
to lack of space. Soft hyphens are subject to hyphen drop.
Synonymous with discretionary hyphen. Contrast with hard hyphen.

soft page break: 
A page break inserted by automatic pagination that may change its
position during text editing. Contrast with hard page break.

  Sound Notification

sound: 
A vibration of air or other medium capable of causing a sensation
through the auditory nerves.

  Source Document
  Spawned Viewport

(13 terms on speaker ..., speaking)
  Speech Recognition

speech: 
Voice patterns in a given natural language or acoustic signals
simulating such patterns.

speech analysis: 
Extraction of characteristic parameters of a speech signal.
Characteristic parameters include the nature of individual sound
segments, syllable structures, prosodic features, morpheme structures,
the lexicon, the syntax, and the long-term discourse constraints.

(30 terms on speech ...)

  Speech Synthesis

speech synthesis: 
The generation of artificial speech by the use of a functional unit.

  Speech Synthesizer

speech synthesizer: 
A functional unit for speech synthesis.

(5 terms on spoken ..., -command; -language identification;
-language translation; menu; vocabulary)

  Standard Device <acronym>API</acronym>s
  State

state: 
(1) A condition of an entity at a given instant, in terms of values
of attributes that characterize that entity; for example: a switch may
be set to the states "on" or "off".
(2) The snapshot description of a problem at one stage of its solution.

  Statement

statement: 
(1) An explicitly terminated syntactic unit either representing a
declaration or prescribing a unit of work that includes identification
of actions to be performed, operands (if any) to be used in performing
these actions, and disposition of any results. Some programming
languages do not consider declarations to be statements.
(2) Deprecated synonym for instruction.

  String

string: 
A sequence of elements of a set, such as characters, considered as a whole.

  Stroke

stroke: 
A straight line or arc that is used as a segment of a graphic character.

  Structural Markup
  Structure Types

structured type: 
In Pascal, the term for composite type.

  Style Sheets, Valid Style Sheets

style sheet: 
A collection of styles stored in a file that determines the layout of
the documents to which it is attached.

  Support, Implement, Conform
  Synchronize

synchronization: 
The action of maintaining common timing and coordination of the
execution of two or more asynchronous procedures.

synchronous: 
Pertaining to two or more processes that proceed within a given time
interval and that depend upon the occurrence of specific events such
as common timing signals.

synchronous operation: 
(1) An operation that occurs regularly or predictably with respect
to the occurrence of a specified event in another process; for
example, the calling of an input/output routine that receives control
at a precoded location in a program.
(2) A mode of operation in which each action is started by a clock.
Contrast with asynchronous operation.

  Tab Order
  Tabular Information
  Tactile Object
  Tactile Track
  Tactile-only Presentation
  Tag
tag: 
In hypermedia, a language element in a markup language used for
structuring data, text, or objects; for example: start-tags and end-tags.

  Target

(target language, machine, and program)

  Taxonomy
  Text

text: 
(1) Data in the form of characters, symbols, words, phrases,
paragraphs, sentences, tables, or other character arrangements,
intended to convey a meaning, and whose interpretation is
essentially based upon the reader's knowledge of some natural
language or artificial language; for example, a business letter
printed on paper or displayed on a screen.
(2) In data communications, a sequence of characters treated as
an entity, if preceded by one start-of-text character and
terminated by one end-of-text character, respectively.

  Text Browsers

  Text Content Element
  Text Decoration 
  Text Equivalent
  text transcript    [[[[No Caps]]]]
  Text Transcript
  Text-To-Speech 

text-to-speech conversion: 
The conversion of text to speech output.

text-to-speech synthesis system: 
Synonym for text-to-speech synthesizer.

text-to-speech synthesizer: 
A speech synthesizer that converts text to phonetic symbols, and then
to artificial speech. Synonymous with text-to-speech synthesis system.

  Trailing Space Character
  Transcript
  Transform Gracefully  

transform: 
To change the form of data according to specified rules, without fundamentally changing the meaning of the data.

  Transform Gracefully
  Transformation 
  Transformation Filter
  Transformation Matrix
  Type 0 Font, Type 1 Font
  Typographic Style
  Unicode

Unicode: 
An international standard for character encoding that supports
2-byte wide characters.

  Unicode Value
  User

user: 
(1) A person, device, program, or computer system that uses a computer
system for the purpose of data processing and information exchange.
(2) In electronic mail, a person or a functional unit that participates
in message handling as a potential source or destination.

  User Agent

user agent (UA): 
In electronic mail, a functional unit by means of which a single
direct user interacts with a message handling system. The user agent
is a component of the message handling system by which the user
creates, submits, or receives messages.

  User Agent Default Styles
  User Agent Profile
  User Coordinate System, User Space

user coordinate: 
A coordinate specified by a user and expressed in a device-independent
coordinate system.


user ID: 
A character string or pattern that is used by a data processing
system to identify a user. Synonymous with user identification.

user identification: 
Synonym for user ID.

  User interface 

user interface: 
The part of a system with which a user interacts.

  User Interface Focus
  User Name (/TU key)
  User Styles 

(14 other entries beginning with user ...)
  User Units,User Space
  User-centric  
  User-Configurable Schedule
  User-initiated and User Agent-initiated
  Validation  

validation test: 
A test to determine whether an implemented system fulfills its
specified requirements.

  Variant
  Variant Content

variant part: 
A part of a record, composed of data objects, whose corresponding
data structures or declared data types may vary. Both the number of
data objects and their composition may vary.

variant record: 
A record that contains a variant part. The record may contain
discriminants to indicate the data types in the variant part.

variant record type: 
A record type that has a variant part specifying alternative lists
of components.

variation name: 
(1) In an information resource dictionary, a character string used
to identify each of several logically related entities with the same
assigned access name or descriptive name. (2) A component of the
version identifier of an entity in an information resource dictionary.

  View

view: 
(1) In computer graphics, any one of the possible representations of
a three-dimensional object.
(2) Synonym for subschema.

  view
  viewport
  Viewport
  Viewport Coordinate System, Viewport Space
  Viewport Units
  Views, Viewports, and Current Viewport
  Visual Disabilities  
  Visual Object
  Visual Track
  Visual-only Presentation
  Vocabulary   

(4 terms about vocabulary -dependent and -independent recognition)

  Voice Browser
  Voice Markup Language

(23 terms starting with voice...)

  W3C Document Object Model (<acronym>DOM</acronym>)

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium): 
An organization responsible for the World Wide Web that, among other
things, develops standards, such as HTML, XML, HTTP, and other
open standards.
                 [[[What an admission! from the custodians of
                     old standards.]]]
  Web Resource 
  Well-formed  
  Word Breaks

word: 
A character string or a bit string treated as a unit for a given purpose.
The length of a computer word is defined by the computer architecture,
while the words in text processing are delimited by special characters
or control characters.


word spotting: 
The capability of a speech recognizer to recognize either a command
word or a command sequence within fluent speech.

word wrap: 
A function that automatically places a whole word on the next line
when the length of the word and its associated punctuation exceeds
the available space on the line.

  XML Schema


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