WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Software engineering - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering

    Software engineering is an engineering approach to software development. [1] [2] [3] A practitioner, a software engineer, applies the engineering design process to develop software. The terms programmer and coder overlap software engineer, but they imply only the construction aspect of typical software engineer workload.

  3. Software - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software

    The application software layer interfaces with the operating system, which in turn communicates with the hardware. The arrows indicate information flow. Software is a collection of programs and data that tell a computer how to perform specific tasks. Software often includes associated software documentation. [1]

  4. Computer-aided design - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_design

    Computer-aided design ( CAD) is the use of computers (or workstations) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. [1] : 3 This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve communications through documentation, and to create a database for manufacturing.

  5. Persian mythology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_mythology

    e. Iranian mythology, or Persian mythology in western term ( Persian: اسطوره‌شناسی ایرانی ), is the body of the myths originally told by ancient Persians and other Iranian peoples and a genre of ancient Persian folklore. These stories concern the origin and nature of the world, the lives and activities of deities, heroes, and ...

  6. Persian blue - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_blue

    Persian blue[edit] The color Persian blue is named from the blue color of some Persian pottery and the color of tiles used in and on mosques and palaces in Iran and in other places in the Middle East. Persian blue is a representation of the color of the mineral lapis lazuli which comes from Persia and Afghanistan. [citation needed]

  7. Persian cat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_cat

    The Persian cat, also known as the Persian Longhair, is a long-haired breed of cat characterised by a round face and short muzzle. The first documented ancestors of Persian cats might have been imported into Italy from Khorasan as early as around 1620, however, this has not been proven. Instead, there is stronger evidence for a longhaired cat ...

  8. Computer-aided manufacturing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_manufacturing

    CAD model and CNC machined part. Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) also known as computer-aided modeling or computer-aided machining is the use of software to control machine tools in the manufacturing of work pieces.

  9. Old Persian - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Persian

    Old Persian is one of two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of the Sasanian Empire ). Like other Old Iranian languages, it was known to its native speakers as ariya (Iranian). [1] [2] Old Persian is close to both Avestan and the language of the Rig Veda, the ...