Chapter 1 Glossary

The Sun Global Glossary contains the comprehensive, definitive U.S. English repository for terms used in all publications and products at Sun, and is a dynamic document to which new terms can be added when those terms have been approved.

The Sun Global Glossary is intended for the following audiences:

• User interface designers

  • Human Computer Interaction (HCI) engineers, linguists, and others who design and implement user interfaces

  • Engineers who write functional specifications

• Technical communicators

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  • Anyone who submits terms and definitions to the Sun Global Glossary

• Localization specialists and globalization engineers

  • Translators who need consistent, stable terms and definitions

  • Engineers who need to implement term-checking features

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Contents
	“8-bit clean” to “64-bit transfer”
	“abort” to “AWT”
	“back-face culling” to “byte order”
	“cabinet-mounted” to “cut buffer”
	“DAC” to “DVMA master”
	“echo” to “external data representation”
	“failback” to “function key”
	“garbage collection” to “GSS-API”
	“HA” to “hung”
	“IA” to “ioctl”
	“JAE” to “JVM”
	“KDC” to “kill”
	“label” to “LWP”
	“machine address” to “MXCC”
	“named pipe” to “null string”
	“object” to “owner”
	“pack” to “put procedure”
	“query” to “quorum device”
	“race condition” to “runtime system”
	“SAD” to “Systems Network Architecture”
	“T1” to “type”
	“UA” to “UUNET”
	“VAC” to “VV”
	“W3C” to “WWW”
	“X11” to “x-y plane”
	“y-axis” to “YUV”
	“z-axis” to “zone”