An Apple event object contained by another Apple event object specified as the element's container. An Apple event object can contain many elements of the same element class, whereas an Apple event object can have only one of each of its properties. See also Apple event object, container, element classes, property.

A member of or an object in a set.

An element is one object that makes up part of an illustration. On a drawing of a cat, one whisker would like be an individual element. (Drawings are created element by element.)

Any object in a drawing application such as text, a shape, a line, a photo or an image.

One of the objects in a set. Notation

An object that the list manager allocates for an application.

(of a collection) An object that is stored in the collection. It can be identified by a collection key.

An object or process. For example, a dimension is an object, a mapping is a process, and both are elements.