Month: February 2018

Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT module)Subprogram that is part of the API Java API and that allows to integrate a GUI into a Java program.

Absorber Function, most often done in software, intended to simulate a data well, but without any processing of the information received.An absorber is usually used for testing purposes.

Absolute URL A web address that contains all of its constituent elements, which are the access method, the server name, the path, and the file name.

Absolute link Hyperlink whose anchor has an HREF attribute consisting of the complete Web address of the data to which it directs the user and which are generally located in a server different from that of the html document which contains the anchor.

Absolute hyperlink Hyperlink whose anchor has an HREF attribute consisting of the complete Web address of the data to which it directs the user and which are generally located in a server different from that of the html document which contains the anchor.

Absolute coding Coding by means of which the instructions are written in the basic language of the machine, directly assimilated by its circuits.

ABR Average BitRate This encoding method for audio or video streams is derived from the VBR. In this case the encoder will try to keep the target bitrate at its best so that the resulting file size is more predictable.