Refers to a motion control system employing position feedback devices (absolute encoders) to maintain a given mechanical location.
Traditional input devices like a standard PC mouse offer only relative positioning: Moving the mouse in a certain direction will move the cursor on the screen in the same direction, but there's no relation between the position of the mouse on your desk and the position of the cursor on the screen. WACOM tablets operate with absolute positioning: The entire active area of your tablet represents the entire screen. Place the pen in the lower left-hand corner of your tablet and the cursor will move to the lower left-hand corner of your screen.
using pixel coordinates to position GUI components
the determination of the coordinates of a receiver with respect to the earth's reference frame by intersection of the signals from four or more GPS satellites (also referred to as single point positioning or simply point positioning)
Positioning mode where a position is described with respect to a well-defined coordinate system. This system is commonly a geocentric system, whose point of origin coincides with the centre of mass of the earth.
Traditional input devices like a standard PC mouse offer only relative positioning: When the mouse reaches the edge of the mouse pad, the on-screen cursor needn't be at the edge of your monitor screen as well. But WACOM tablets operate with absolute positioning: The entire active area of your tablet represents the entire monitor screen - place the pen in the lower left-hand corner of your tablet and the on-screen pointer will move to the lower left-hand corner of your monitor. WACOM tablets, however, offers relative positioning as well. Also, because of a very low frequency electromagnetic field under the active area of the tablet the pen doesn't need to be dragged like a mouse but hovers over the tablet surface. This means, the moment you touch the active area with your pen tip you're already performing a left mouse click.
allows you to position an element on a page in an exact location. Use absolute positioning on div tags only in order to be safe from browser incompatibility CSS
Allows you to position HTML elements in fixed positions on the page as specified in pixel width and height.
When placing components into containers in a graphical user interface using absolute positioning, component positions are specified as co-ordinates within the container. Contrast with use of a layout manager for the same task.
Positioning mode in which a position is identified with respect to a well-defined coordinate system, commonly a geocentric system (i.e., a system whose point of origin coincides with the center of mass of the earth).