Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign.

the use of individual bits in a byte (or a set of bytes) to represent boolean values.

Non-uniform rational basis spline (NURBS) is a mathematical model commonly used in computer graphics for generating and representing curves and surfaces which offers great flexibility and precision for handling both analytic and freeform shapes.

Document-based application design enables users to create and manage documents containing their data. In cocoa, this is enabled via the "document architecture" subsystem which provides inbuilt support for applications that manage documents.

ROT13 ("rotate 13 places") is a simple cypher in which each letter is replaced with the letter that comes 13 places after it in the alphabet.

Infopath 2007 is a Microsoft Form Builder Tool used to create forms for Sharepoint.

A Recursive Common Table Expression in SQL is a Common Table Expression (CTE, also known as "WITH clause") that refers to itself recursively. The temporary result set is usually computed by iteration. Use this tag for questions concerning the definition and use of recursive CTEs.

Happstack is a fast and flexible Haskell web framework.

The November 2005 release of Microsoft Visual C++, a C and C++ compiler for Windows, also known as the VC8 compiler.

Clearance is a Ruby gem for authenticating users with email and password in Rails apps.