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  1. peer an individual having expertise in a specific functional area or discipline gained through documented training and experience.
  2. peripheral devices Devices attached to a computer, such as printers, disk drives, mice, etc.
  3. permission bits Bits that the "owner" of a file sets or unsets to allow or disallow access to other people.
  4. Pern What you get when you do Perl++ twice. Doing it only once will curl your hair. You have to increment it eight times to shampoo your hair.
  5. persistence Ability of an organism to remain in a particular setting for a period of time after it is introduced.
  6. persistent field A virtual field of an entity bean that has container-managed persistence; it is stored in a database.
  7. Personal Profile The Personal Profile is a Java ME profile specification. Layered on the Foundation Profile and CDC, the Personal Profile will be the next generation of…
  8. PersonalJava PersonalJava is a Java environment based on the Java virtual machine (JVM) and a set of APIs similar to a JDK 1.1 environment.
  9. pipe A circular conduit constructed of any one of a number of materials that conveys water by gravity or under pressure.
  10. pipeline A series of processes all in a row, linked by pipes, where each passes its output stream to the next.
  11. pixel Picture Element.
  12. platform A generic radar term, often used to encompass the pedestal and antenna assembly; sometimes including the radar control, display and analysis hardware and…
  13. PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is an image format offering lossless compression and storage flexibility.
  14. POA Power of Attorney - formal assignment to another of the right to legally act on your behalf
  15. POD (1) Plan of the Day. (2) Probability of Detection. (3) Port of Debarkation.
  16. point-to-point messaging system A messaging system built on the concept of message queues. Each message is addressed to a specific queue; clients extract messages from the queues…
  17. Pointer A pointer is an index entry in the directory of a disc (or other storage medium) that identifies the space on the disc in which an electronic document or…
  18. polling The process of repeatedly testing until a condition becomes true. Polling can be inefficient if the time between tests is short compared with the time it…
  19. polymorphism (PAH-lee-MOR-fih-zum) A common variation or mutation in DNA.
  20. popup menu A menu of actions that is normally not visible on the screen until a mouse button is clicked.
  21. Port An implanted device through which blood may be withdrawn and drugs may be infused without repeated needle sticks. Also called port-a-cath.
  22. portable Portability is the quality of a program that makes it possible to run it on different types of computers.
  23. porter Someone who "carries" software from one "platform" to another. Porting programs written in platform-dependent languages such as C can be difficult work…
  24. POSE (Palm OS Emulator) Palm OS Emulator (POSE).
  25. POSIX Portable Operating System Interface.
  26. post-decrement operator See decrement operator.
  27. post-increment operator See increment operator.
  28. postfix An "operator" that follows its "operand", as in $x++.
  29. PP (1) Parallel Processing. (2) Principal Polarization. (3) Post Processing. (4) Program Plan.
  30. pragma A standard module whose practical hints and suggestions are received (and possibly ignored) at compile time. Pragmas are named in all lowercase.
  31. PRC (Palm Resource Code) Palm Resource Code (PRC) is the file format for Palm OS applications.
  32. pre-decrement operator See decrement operator.
  33. pre-increment operator See increment operator.
  34. precedence 1. A designator, which indicates the order in which a number of messages shall be served.
  35. precedence rules The rules that determine the order of evaluation of an expression involving more than one operator.
  36. preempt The currently executing thread may be preempted, or forced to yield control, by a higher priority thread that becomes eligible to run during its timeslice.
  37. prefix An "operator" that precedes its "operand", as in ++$x.
  38. preprocessing What some helper "process" did to transform the incoming data into a form more suitable for the current process. Often done with an incoming "pipe".
  39. preverification Due to memory and processing power available on a device, the verification process of classes are split into two processes.
  40. primary key One or more attributes whose values uniquely identify a row in a database table. See also foreign key.
  41. primitive type Java's eight standard non-class types are primitive types: boolean, byte, char, double, float, int, long and short.
  42. Principal Face value of an obligation, such as a bond or a loan, that must be repaid at maturity.
  43. priority level Each thread has a priority level, which indicates to the scheduler where it should be placed in the pecking order for being run.
  44. private A Java keyword used in a method or variable declaration. It signifies that the method or variable can only be accessed by other elements of its class.
  45. privilege A benefit or advantage to certain persons beyond the advantages of other persons, i.e., an exemption, immunity, power, etc.
  46. procedure The rules for the conduct of a lawsuit; there are rules of civil, criminal, evidence, bankruptcy, and appellate procedure.
  47. process A method of making something, a process of operating something or a process of using something. Under U.S. law, one of the statutory classes of inventions.
  48. processing instruction Information contained in an XML structure that is intended to be interpreted by a specific application.
  49. profile A sectional view showing grades and distances, usually taken along the centerline.
  50. profiles A profile is a collection of Java APIs that complements one or more Java 2 Platform Editions by adding domain-specific capabilities.
  51. program counter A program counter is an integral part of a computer's Central Processing Unit. It contains a reference to the memory address of the next instruction to be…
  52. program generator A system that algorithmically writes code for you in a high-level language. See also "code generator".
  53. programmatic security Security decisions that are made by security-aware applications. Programmatic security is useful when declarative security alone is not sufficient to…
  54. progressive matching Pattern matching that picks up where it left off before.
  55. prolog The part of an XML document that precedes the XML data. The prolog includes the declaration and an optional DTD.
  56. propagation The duplication of a whole plant from a range of vegetative materials; adapted for in vitro culture as micropropagation.
  57. property For this survey, property means real estate; that is, land and anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings and those things attached to…
  58. protected A Java keyword used in a method or variable declaration. It signifies that the method or variable can only be accessed by elements residing in its class…
  59. protected access Protected access is available to a class member prefixed with the protected access modifier.
  60. protected statement A statement within the try clause of a try statement.
  61. protocol An action plan for a clinical trial. The plan states what the study will do, how, and why.
  62. prototype An optional part of a "subroutine" declaration telling the Perl compiler how many and what flavor of arguments may be passed as "actual arguments", so…
  63. Provisioning Provisioning is the act of putting a grid component into the active state so that it is available to a consumer of the service or resource it supplies.
  64. pseudofunction A construct that sometimes looks like a function but really isn't. Usually reserved for "lvalue" modifiers like my, for "context" modifiers like scalar…
  65. pseudohash A reference to an array whose initial element happens to hold a reference to a hash.
  66. pseudoliteral An "operator" that looks something like a "literal", such as the output-grabbing operator, `command`.
  67. PSTN (public service telephone network) The public service telephone network (PSTN) is the traditional, land-line based system for exchanging phone calls.
  68. public A Java keyword used in a method or variable declaration. It signifies that the method or variable can be accessed by elements residing in other classes.
  69. public domain Something not owned by anybody. Perl is copyrighted and is thus not in the public domain--it's just "freely available" and "freely redistributable".
  70. public interface The members of a class prefixed with the public access modifier. All such members are visible to every class within a program.
  71. public key certificate A unique electronic stamp stored in a Notes or Domino ID file that associates a name with a public key.
  72. publish/subscribe messaging system A messaging system in which clients address messages to a specific node in a content hierarchy, called a topic.
  73. pumpkin A notional "baton" handed around the Perl community indicating who is the lead integrator in some arena of development.
  74. pumpking A "pumpkin" holder, the person in charge of pumping the pump, or at least priming it. Must be willing to play the part of the Great Pumpkin now and then.
  75. punctuation Symbols such as commas and semicolons, which a compiler uses to understand the structure of a program.
  76. PV A "pointer value", which is Perl Internals Talk for a char*.
  77. qualified Possessing a complete name. The symbol $Ent::moot is qualified; $moot is unqualified. A fully qualified filename is specified from the top-level directory.
  78. quantifier A component of a "regular expression" specifying how many times the foregoing "atom" may occur.
  79. quantum See timeslice.
  80. query string A component of an HTTP request URL that contains a set of parameters and values that affect the handling of the request.
  81. queue A system where if a realm is overloaded, subsequent players trying to log on will be queued up in a first come first serve basis and allowed to log on…
  82. quotient When integer division is performed, the result consists of a quotient and a remainder.
  83. race condition See race hazard.
  84. race hazard A situation that arises between multiple threads sharing a resource. A race hazard arises when one thread's assumptions about the state of a resource are…
  85. radio buttons A group of selectable components in which only one component may be selected. Selection of one of the group causes the previously selected component to be…
  86. Random Access Memory Random access memory, or RAM, is memory whose contents are easily accessible to the processing components of a computer.
  87. RAR Resource Adapter Archive. A JAR archive that contains a resource adapter module.
  88. raster A cellular data structure composed of rows and columns for storing images. Groups of cells with the same value represent features. See also grid.
  89. RDF Resource Description Framework. An XML-based language for describing online resources.
  90. RDF schema A standard for specifying consistency rules that apply to the specifications contained in an RDF.
  91. readable With respect to files, one that has the proper permission bit set to let you access the file.
  92. Reader class A sub class of the Reader abstract, defined in the java.io package. Reader classes translate input from a host-dependent character set encoding into…
  93. real number A number with an integer and a fractional part. The primitive types double and float are used to represent real numbers.
  94. realm A server(s) that hosts a copy of the game. Each and every realm is distinct and seperate from all others and there are completely no interactions between…
  95. reaping The last rites performed by a parent "process" on behalf of a deceased child process so that it doesn't remain a "zombie".
  96. record All the documents and evidence plus transcripts of oral proceedings in a case.
  97. recursion Recursion results from a method being invoked when an existing call to the same method has not yet returned.
  98. redundant value The value of a data type that has no use or meaning within a particular context.
  99. reentrant entity bean An entity bean that can handle multiple simultaneous, interleaved, or nested invocations that will not interfere with each other.
  100. reference A document that discloses subject matter that is material to a determination of the patentability of a claimed invention. MPEP 2126, MPEP 2126.