Look up descriptor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Descriptor may refer to: An identifier In computer science: Billing descriptor, the merchant's...
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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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In chemical nomenclature, a descriptor is a notational prefix placed before the systematic substance name, which describes the configuration or the stereochemistry...
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A billing descriptor refers to how a company's name appears on a credit card statement and is established when the merchant account is created. It is intended...
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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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ISO 9660 (section Volume descriptor set)
volume descriptor describing the file system and a volume descriptor set terminator which is a volume descriptor that marks the end of the descriptor set...
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Security descriptors are data structures of security information for securable Windows objects, that is objects that can be identified by a unique name...
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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 computer vision, visual descriptors or image descriptors are descriptions of the visual features of the contents in images, videos, or algorithms or...
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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...
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A deployment descriptor (DD) refers to a configuration file for an artifact that is deployed to some container/engine. In the Java Platform, Enterprise...
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The Multi-Crop Passport Descriptor (MCPD) is an extension to the international standard[which?] to facilitate germplasm passport information exchange....
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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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Medical Subject Headings (section Descriptor hierarchy)
terms. The main ones are the "headings" (also known as MeSH headings or descriptors), which describe the subject of each article (e.g., "Body Weight", "Brain...
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JAD (file format) (redirect from Java Application Descriptor)
Java Application Descriptor (JAD) files describe the MIDlets (Java ME applications) that are distributed as JAR files. JAD files are commonly used to package...
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Gender identity (redirect from Gender descriptor)
Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it. In most individuals...
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Human interface device (section Report Descriptor)
describe itself via a Report Descriptor, decoupled hardware device developers from game developers. The Report Descriptor concept also meant that OS vendors...
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In cartography, a Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) is an XML schema specified by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for describing the appearance of map...
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Descriptor Definition Language (SDDL) defines the string format that is used to describe a security descriptor as a text string. Security descriptor Security...
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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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Oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF (redirect from ORB (feature descriptor))
based on the FAST keypoint detector and a modified version of the visual descriptor BRIEF (Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features). Its aim is to provide...
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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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Open Shortest Path First (redirect from Database descriptor)
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a routing protocol for Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It uses a link state routing (LSR) algorithm and falls into...
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by 11 Descriptors: Descriptor 1. Biodiversity is maintained Descriptor 2. Non-indigenous species do not adversely alter the ecosystem Descriptor 3. The...
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SCSI CDB (redirect from Command Descriptor Block)
peripheral devices, often computer storage, commands are sent in a Command Descriptor Block (CDB). Each CDB can be a total of 6, 10, 12, or 16 bytes, but later...
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The histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) is a feature descriptor used in computer vision and image processing for the purpose of object detection. The...
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The use of wine tasting descriptors allows the taster to qualitatively relate the aromas and flavors that the taster experiences and can be used in assessing...
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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...
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with the EDID, using only its standard timing descriptors rather than its Detailed Timing Descriptors (DTDs). Even in cases where the DTDs were read...
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The Binary File Descriptor library (BFD) is the GNU Project's main mechanism for the portable manipulation of object files in a variety of formats. As...
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