Definitions for "Transfer mode"
(1) A specification, either Boolean or arithmetic, of how QuickDraw should draw or copy images into a bitmap or pixel map. In drawing text, QuickDraw uses transfer mode, along with foreground and background color, to determine how the text to be drawn (called the source) interacts with anything already drawn in the current graphics port, called the destination. See arithmetic transfer mode, Boolean transfer mode. (2) A QuickDraw GX data structure"also a property of an ink object"that controls the interaction between the color of a shape and the colors of the background at the location where the shape is drawn.
n. Aspects covering transmission, multiplexing, and switching in a communication network.
a method of transmitting, multiplexing, and switching data in a communications network