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  2. Glossary of computer science - Wikipedia

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    Also simply application or app. Computer software designed to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities for the benefit of the user. Common examples of applications include word processors, spreadsheets, accounting applications, web browsers, media players, aeronautical flight simulators, console games, and photo editors. This contrasts with system software, which is ...

  3. Dependency - Wikipedia

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    Dependency (UML), a relationship between one element in the Unified Modeling Language; Dependency relation, a type of binary relation in mathematics and computer science. Functional dependency, a relationship between database attributes allowing normalization. Dependent type, in computer science and logic, a type that depends on a value

  4. Dependent type - Wikipedia

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    In computer science and logic, a dependent type is a type whose definition depends on a value. It is an overlapping feature of type theory and type systems.In intuitionistic type theory, dependent types are used to encode logic's quantifiers like "for all" and "there exists".

  5. Thesaurus (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus is composed by at least three elements: 1-a list of words (or terms), 2-the relationship amongst the words (or terms), indicated by their hierarchical relative position (e.g. parent/broader term; child/narrower term, synonym, etc.), 3-a set of rules on how to use the thesaurus.

  6. Computer performance - Wikipedia

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    In computing, computer performance is the amount of useful work accomplished by a computer system. Outside of specific contexts, computer performance is estimated in terms of accuracy, efficiency and speed of executing computer program instructions. When it comes to high computer performance, one or more of the following factors might be involved:

  7. Knowledge transfer - Wikipedia

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    Knowledge transfer icon from The Noun Project. Knowledge transfer refers to transferring an awareness of facts or practical skills from one entity to another. [1] The particular profile of transfer processes activated for a given situation depends on (a) the type of knowledge to be transferred and how it is represented (the source and recipient relationship with this knowledge) and (b) the ...

  8. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  9. Dependability - Wikipedia

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    In systems engineering, dependability is a measure of a system's availability, reliability, maintainability, and in some cases, other characteristics such as durability, safety and security. [1]