The Lexicon of New Media Terms

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Terms beginning with "O"

object (dHTML): In object-orientated programming, a self-contained entitiy that consists of both data and manipulation procedures.
OCBC: Open Database Connectivity, a standard for allowing relational databases to share data; oringally developed by Microsoft.
office suite: A commercial bundle of program applications for word processing, data management and other business tasks.
OLE: Object Linking and Embedding, a way application programs can exchange data; succeeded by ActiveX components.
open source: Making the raw, non-compiled code behind a program available to the public for other programers to analyze, modify, and improve.
open source software: Free programs created through the collaborative efforts of programmers from around the world
Opera: A Web browser program, much less popular than Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Netscape.
operator: Shorthand characters that tell JavaScript what to do data in an expression; for example, the "+" in "2+2" is an operator.
O'Reilly & Associates: Publishing company which puts out a series of computer how-to books.
OS: Operating System, the underlining code for how a computer runs programs; examples include MS-DOS, Windows2000, Mac OSX, and UNIX
outline font: A geometrical description of characters used to render type in a variety of sizes, regardless of an output device's resolution.
outsourcing: Using a business or service outside of a company to do specific tasks or projects on an as-needed basis.

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