X Internet  -  A set of technologies that connect firms' information systems to physical assets, products, and devices.

 

X.25  -  A type of packet switched network used extensively by PNOs for public services and popular for transaction based private networks.

 

X.400 (n) -  An international messaging standard that can be used by a variety of messaging systems. X.400 uses a strict addressing method that reflects a hierarchical environment. The use of X.400 has been largely supplanted by the combination of SMTP and MIME.

 

X.509 certificate (n) -  A certificate that adheres to the X.509 public key infrastructure (PKI) standard, which identifies the requirements for robust public key certificates.

 

X.509 v3 certificate (n) -  A certificate that adheres to the syntax and format described in version 3 of the International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication [Standardization Sector] (ITU-T) recommendation X.509. This is the standard certificate format used by Windows certificate-based processes. An X.509 certificate includes the public key and information about the person or entity to whom the certificate is issued, information about the certificate, plus optional information about the certification authority (CA) issuing the certificate.

 

X++ (PN) -  The object-oriented programming language used to develop software for the Microsoft Dynamics AX application.

 

x64 (n) -  Pertaining to the x64 64-bit architecture. The x64 platform enables 64-bit memory addressing, and can run on processors such as AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon with EM64T, and Intel Pentium 4 with EM64T.

 

x64  -  A processor architecture based on the 32-bit IA-32 (x86) architecture, with extensions for the execution of 64-bit software. AMD produced the first instances of x64- based processors, the AMD64 processors-€”also referred to with the term- x86-64. x64-based (oth) -  Pertaining to the combination of a 64-bit Windows operating system and microprocessors that natively support the x86 for extended systems (x64) 64-bit instruction set. Examples include AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon with 64-bit extension technology processors.

 

x86 (n) -  Refers to microprocessors that have or emulate the 32-bit Intel processor architecture.

 

x86-based (oth) -  Pertaining to the combination of a 32-bit Windows operating system and a microprocessor that natively supports the 32-bit x86 instruction set. Examples include Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon and VIA C7 processors.

 

XAML (PN) -  An XML-based language used to represent a tree of objects. Events generated by these objects can be handled using any .NET programming language.

 

XAML activation (n) -  The process of activating a workflow instance directly from the XAMLX file that contains the workflow definition rather than from a DLL or by using a configuration file.

 

XAML Binary File (n) -  A file containing a pre-parsed binary representation of a XAML file produced by the XamlBinaryWriter class intended to be write-once to improve loading

and parsing performance.

 

x-axis (n) -  The horizontal reference line on a grid, chart, or graph that has horizontal and vertical dimensions.

 

X-band  -  bandwith between 7 GHz to 8 GHz, which usually is used by military satellites. XBF (n) -  A file containing a pre-parsed binary representation of a XAML file produced by the XamlBinaryWriter class intended to be write-once to improve loading and parsing performance.

 

Xbox Music Store (PN) -  The area of Xbox Live where music is sold.

 

Xbox Video (PN) -  The brand name of the video offering from Xbox Live.

 

XBRL (oth) -  An XML language for the electronic communication of business and financial data.

 

XBRL instance document (n) -  An XML file that contains the financial data and XBRL taxonomy information of a report.

 

XBRL-€“Financial reporting (oth) -  XBRL messages that contain financial data in summary form, such as balances per period and which provide a standard understanding of what profit is or what depreciation is on a financial report.

 

XBRL-€“FR (oth) -  XBRL messages that contain financial data in summary form, such as balances per period and which provide a standard understanding of what profit is or what depreciation is on a financial report.

 

XBRL-€“General Ledger (oth) -  XBRL messages that contain financial transactions and which provide a standard understanding of what a journal ledger posting is or what a depreciation posting is.

 

XBRL-€“GL (oth) -  XBRL messages that contain financial transactions and which provide a standard understanding of what a journal ledger posting is or what a depreciation posting is.

 

XBRL-€“Global Ledger (oth) -  XBRL messages that contain financial transactions and which provide a standard understanding of what a journal ledger posting is or what a depreciation posting is.

 

XBT (n) -  A digital currency that uses Bitcoin.

 

x-coordinate (n) -  The position of a point with reference to the x-axis, defined in conjunction with the y- and z-coordinates.

 

xcopy  -  a command in Windows and other operating systems for copying groups of files. It works just like copy except that as many files as possible are read into memory before any are written to disk. This is usually faster than using copy.

 

XDE (PN) -  An extended development environment integrating Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Rational Application Developer.

 

Xen  -  A virtualization platform which began as a research project at the University of Cambridge and was released as open source software in 2003. Xen utilizes paravirtualization to hook calls to the hardware node's resources Xeon  -  a high-speed Pentium-class microprocessor introduced by Intel in 2002 as a successor to the Pentium 4. It features a pipelined architecture with clock speeds of 1.8 GHz and higher.

 

X-header (n) -  An e-mail message header that begins with X-‘.'

 

X-Header storage option (n) -  The option that adds an X-Header to the Internet header of spam messages. Information contained in this X-Header is specified by administrators in the Administration Center.

 

XHTML (n) -  A markup language that extends HTML and reformulates it as XML.

 

XID (n) -  An identifier exchanged between nodes on an SNA network. The XID enables the nodes to recognize each other and to establish link and node characteristics for communicating. Host Integration Server supports two types of XIDs: Format 0 XIDs and Format 3 XIDs.

 

Xlmage (PN) -  A command-line tool that captures, modifies, and applies installation images for deployment in a manufacturing or corporate environment.

 

XING  -  XING (named openBC/Open Business Club until 17 November 2006) is a social software platform for enabling a small-world network for professionals.http://www.xing.com/

 

XML (n) -  A markup language for describing and exchanging structured data in a format that is independent of operating systems and applications. XML is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specification and is a subset of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).

 

XML attribute (n) -  A name-value pair, separated by an equal sign and included in a tagged element, that modifies features of an element. All XML attribute values are strings enclosed in quotation marks.

 

XML element (n) -  An XML structure that consists of a start tag, an end tag, and the information between the tags. Elements can have attributes and can contain other elements.

 

XML entity (n) -  The combination of characters and symbols that replace other characters when an XML document is parsed, usually those that have other meanings in XML. For example, &lt; represents the < symbol, which is also the opening bracket for a tag. A General Entity is an entity that is used within the XML document itself, as opposed to a parameter entity, which is only referenced in the DTD.

 

XML expansion pack (n) -  A collection of files, managed by a manifest.xml file, that add functionality to a Microsoft Office Word or Microsoft Office Excel document by specifying custom display or actions.

 

XML feed (n) -  A distribution mechanism for frequently-updated content that is aggregated by an RSS reader and delivered or published in a standard XML format. The content is often summarized, with links to a more complete version.

 

XML for Analysis (PN) -  A specification that describes an open standard that supports data access to data sources that reside on the World Wide Web.

 

XML fragment (n) -  Lines of text that adhere to XML tag rules, but do not have a Document Type Definition (DTD) or schema, processing instructions, or any other header information.

 

XML literal (n) -  A Visual Basic coding construct that enables direct incorporation of XML into code, instead of requiring that it be stored in a string.

 

XML namespace (n) -  A collection of names, identified by a URI reference, that are used in XML documents as element types and attribute names.

 

XML namespace prefix (n) -  An abbreviated form of an XML namespace.

 

XML Paper Specification (PN) -  A specification that describes a file format that is used to store documents, to process them for printing, and to print them. This means that a document does not change during the printing process. The XPS format conforms to the Open Packaging Conventions (OpenXML, ECMA-376 1st edition Part 2).

 

XML Paper Specification Viewer (n) -  A viewer that allows users to visualize, navigate, and customize the view of files with an XPS Document format.

 

XML Path Language (n) -  A language used to address parts of an XML document. XPath also provides basic facilities for manipulation of strings, numbers, and Boolean values. XML Query (n) -  Functional query language that is broadly applicable to a variety of XML data types derived from Quilt, XPath, and XQL. Both Ipedo and Software AG implement their own versions of the W3C's proposed specification for the XQuery language. Also called: XML Query, XQL.

 

XML schema (n) -  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard language used for creating XML schema documents. The XML schema contains two parts: a set of predefined types (for example, string, dateTime, decimal), and an XML language for defining new types (for example, complexType, minOccurs, element).

 

XML schema definition language (n) -  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard language used for creating XML schema documents. The XML schema contains two parts: a set of predefined types (for example, string, dateTime, decimal), and an XML language for defining new types (for example, complexType, minOccurs, element).

 

XML Schema Document (n) -  A specification that describes the complex types used in a Web method and thereby enables interoperability between clients and Web services built on different platforms by adhering to a common type system, as defined by the W3C. XML Signature (n) -  An XML-based digital signature that can be used to secure the data contained in XML documents. XML Signatures are a standard governed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

 

XML standalone (n) -  An enumerated constant that indicates how an IXmlWriter produces the standalone attribute of the XML declaration. The following are the possible values: omit, yes, no.

 

XML template file (n) -  An XML file that contains the sample data that is displayed in the fields of a form before a user fills it out.

 

XML tree (n) -  A hierarchical structure of XML elements.

 

XML Web service (n) -  A unit of application logic providing data and services to other applications that can invoke Web protocols.

 

XMLA (PN) -  A specification that describes an open standard that supports data access to data sources that reside on the World Wide Web.

 

XMP (n) -  An extensible markup language that records metadata in a syntax that is a subset of XML. It is used in PDF, photography and photo editing applications and was first introduced by Adobe Systems in April 2001.

 

XMS (n) -  A specification developed by Lotus, Intel, Microsoft, and AST Research that defines a software interface allowing real-mode applications to use extended memory and areas of memory not managed by MS-DOS. Memory is managed by an installable device driver, the Expanded Memory Manager (EMM). The application must use the driver to access the additional memory.

 

XOR (n) -  A Boolean operation that yields true' if and only if one of its operands is true and the other is false. ‘

 

XP  -  Windows XP. Refers to the Windows XP operating system from

 

Microsoft.www.microsoft.com (obsolete)

 

XPath (PN) -  A language used to address parts of an XML document. XPath also provides basic facilities for manipulation of strings, numbers, and Boolean values.

 

Xperia  -  Sony Xperia is a family of Sony smartphones and tablets. The line of phones has been manufactured since 2008, while the first tablet released under the brand was launched in 2012. The name Xperia is derived from the word ‘experience', and was first used in the Xperia X1 tagline, ‘I (Sony Ericsson) Xperia the best'.

 

XPress compression (n) -  A Microsoft proprietary compression algorithm highly tuned for speed. It achieves ZIP-level compression ratios and is currently the server-side compression implementation of choice within Microsoft.

 

XPS (PN) -  A specification that describes a file format that is used to store documents, to process them for printing, and to print them. This means that a document does not change during the printing process. The XPS format conforms to the Open Packaging Conventions (OpenXML, ECMA-376 1st edition Part 2).

 

XPS document (n) -  An Open Packaging Conventions package that conforms to the XML Paper Specification. An XPS document can be stored as a file or a memory stream.

 

XPS Document file format (n) -  An open, cross-platform document format that allows customers to effortlessly create, share, print, and archive paginated documents.

 

XPS Document format (n) -  An open, cross-platform document format that allows customers to effortlessly create, share, print, and archive paginated documents.

 

XPS Essentials Pack (n) -  A package that includes all the essentials one needs to have a full experience with XPS documents, without the need of .NET Framework components.

 

It includes the XPS Viewer EP, filters, renderers, and resource files.

 

XPS package (n) -  An XPS document that is saved to a file as an Open Packaging Conventions package that complies with the XML Paper Specification.

 

XPS printer driver (n) -  A GDI-based Version 3 printer driver or printer driver component that supports the XPS print path that was introduced in Windows Vista.

 

XPS Viewer (n) -  A viewer that allows users to visualize, navigate, and customize the view of files with an XPS Document format.

 

XPS Viewer EP (n) -  An XPS viewer included in XPS Essentials Pack that allows users to visualize, navigate, and customize the view of files with an XPS Document format. XPSDrv (n) -  A GDI-based Version 3 printer driver or printer driver component that supports the XPS print path that was introduced in Windows Vista.

 

xRank (PN) -  A service that tracks the popularity of notable people and topics based on Bing search data.

 

x-report (n) -  A type of report that is generated to record current sales totals for a specific cash register.

 

xRM (PN) -  The Microsoft Dynamics CRM's business application framework that surfaces the Microsoft Application Platform to accelerate the development of enterprise- class relational business applications.

 

XrML (n) -  A proposed standard digital rights management (DRM) markup language which enables users to specify rights and conditions associated with resources, such as digital content or Web services.

 

XSD (n) -  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard language used for creating XML schema documents. The XML schema contains two parts: a set of predefined types (for example, string, dateTime, decimal), and an XML language for defining new types (for example, complexType, minOccurs, element).

 

XSD Browser (PN) -  In Visual Studio, an object browser that displays the structure of XML schema definitions (XSD).

 

XSDL (n) -  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard language used for creating XML schema documents. The XML schema contains two parts: a set of predefined types (for example, string, dateTime, decimal), and an XML language for defining new types (for example, complexType, minOccurs, element).

 

XSL (n) -  An XML vocabulary that is used to transform XML data to another form, such as HTML, by means of a style sheet that defines presentation rules.

 

XSL Transformation (n) -  A declarative, XML-based language that is used to present or transform XML data.

 

XSLT (n) -  A declarative, XML-based language that is used to present or transform XML data.

 

x-ua-compatible header (n) -  An HTML header in which the HTTP-EQUIV property has a value of x-ua-compatible, which allows content to specify the document compatibility modes supported by the webpage.

 

X-Windows  -  The software system written for managing windows under Unix. A graphics architecture, application programming interface and prototype implementation developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, X-Windows defines a client/server relationship between the application program and the workstation. It is not, however, a complete graphical user interface, but rather the basis on which one can be built.

 

xy chart (n) -  A chart that plots numerical data along two value axes (x,y).

 

x-y-z coordinate system (n) -  A three-dimensional system of Cartesian coordinates that includes a third (z) axis running perpendicular to the horizontal (x) and vertical (y) axes. The x-y-z coordinate system is used in computer graphics for creating models with length, breadth, and depth.