Ateme

Ateme is a French software company specialising in multimedia applications, particularly video compression technology. The company was founded in 1991.The company is a member of the AVC Alliance and the HD Forum.They co-developed the Nero Digital MPEG-4 compression technology alongside Nero AG.
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v. tie, bind, fasten with a rope or cord

v. tie, bind, fasten; shackle

= tether, strap, tie up.
Ex: The book reached the limits of its potential as an information carrier long ago and libraries unfortunately allowed themselves to become tethered by those limitations.
Ex: Microfilm is said to have been invented during the Franco-Prussian War, to send reduced diagrams of troop positions by strapping these to the legs of carrier pigeons.
Ex: Short wedges, or quoins, were then put in between the long wedges and the inside of the chase, loosely at first so that the string with which the pages were tied up could be unwound and removed.
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* atar a = tie (to), lash (up) to.
* atar con cadenas = chain.
* atar los cabos sueltos = tie up + loose ends.
* loco de atar = stark raving mad, raving mad, raving lunatic.