Perl terms starting with O

13 terms

  1. object An entity such as a file, folder, shared folder, printer, or Active Directory object, described by a distinct, named set of attributes.
  2. octal Number representation in base 8. In base 8, only the digits 0 to 7 are used. Digit positions represent successive powers of 8.
  3. offset You offset an options or futures position by taking a second position in a contract with identical terms, buying if you sold initially or selling if you…
  4. one-liner An entire computer program crammed into one line of text.
  5. open source software Programs for which the source code is freely available and freely redistributable, with no commercial strings attached.
  6. operand An operand is an argument of an operator. Expressions involve combinations of operators and operands.
  7. operating system Software which directs the overall activity of a computer (e.g. MS-DOS , Windows , Linux , etcetera).
  8. operator A prokaryotic regulatory element that interacts with a repressor to control the transcription of adjacent structural genes.
  9. operator overloading A kind of "overloading" that you can do on built-in operators to make them work on objects as if the objects were ordinary scalar values, but with the…
  10. options Contracts which give the holder the right to buy (call options) or sell (put option) a fixed amount of a certain stock at a specified price within a…
  11. overloading Using one identifier to refer to multiple items in the same scope. In the Java programming language, you can overload methods but not variables or…
  12. overriding Providing a different implementation of a method in a subclass of the class that originally defined the method.
  13. Owner The only security principal who has an inherent right to allow or deny permission to access an object.