Point of sale is the place where a retail transaction is completed. It is the point at which a customer makes a payment to the merchant in exchange for goods or services.

a special type of database query on geodata

The name given to windows used to analyse/synthesize a signal with wavelet transforms. Used mostly in the analysis of non-stationary signals whose frequency content varies with time. The variable length windows with which the signals are analysed are called wavelets.

PHP.ini is very useful and it is a configuration file that is used to customize behavior of PHP at runtime.

spatstat is an R package for analysing spatial data, mainly Spatial Point Patterns.

Key Value Coding is a mechanism for accessing an object’s properties indirectly, using strings to identify properties, rather than through invocation of an accessor method or accessing them directly through instance variables.

Optical flow or optic flow is the pattern of apparent motion of objects, surfaces, and edges in a visual scene caused by the relative motion between an observer (an eye or a camera) and the scene.

A postal code is a series of letters and/or digits which is useful to identify the a particular region within a postal address. Once postal codes were introduced, other applications became possible.

jTable is a jQuery plugin that manages CRUD tables using AJAX. It can be used with any server side technology also.

Optimization Programming Language (OPL) is an algebraic modeling language to describe models of optimization and mathematical programming. It is part of IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio.

bs4 is 4th version of BeautifulSoup