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object In computing, any self-contained set of data. For example, in a filing system the objects are files and directories, in a database the objects are the various items of data that are stored and in DTP or vector graphics the objects are the various textual items (commonly called stories) and individual graphics of which the document is composed.
object code The form taken by a computer program after it has been translated from the source code by compilation or assembly. See computer language.
object linking and embedding (OLE) In computing, the practice of storing pointers to files instead of the file contents themselves. For example, in a Desktop Publishing document which includes a half-tone illustration as a bitmap the conventional ...
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