screen

screens (plural)
skreen (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.

skerm

viewing area of electronic output device

After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears.

Clicking the Edit button sends you to a screen where you can change the name and description.

Various forms or formats of information display

(computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.


abductive

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(logic, computing) Being or relating to a logical process of abduction or inference.


plain

en-adj

plain (comparative plainer, superlative plainest)

plainer (comparative)
plainest (superlative)
plaine (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English pleyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pleyn, playn, Middle French plain, plein, and Old French plain, from Latin plānus (“flat, even, level, plain”). Doublet of llano, piano, and plane.

der

(computing) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).

net

computing: containing no non-printing characters


SDP

en-noun

SDP (countable and uncountable, plural SDPs)

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of stochastic dynamic programming.


EBCDIC

Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.

1989, D. Russell, The Principles of Computer Networking, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 218:

(computing) Acronym of Extended Binary-Coded-Decimal Interchange Code, an 8-bit character set and encoding representing 256 alphanumeric and special characters, devised by and used primarily by IBM.


populate

en-verb

populate (third-person singular simple present populates, present participle populating, simple past and past participle populated)

populates (present singular third-person)
populating (participle present)
populated (participle past)
populated (past)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin populātus, past participle of populor (“populate”), from Latin populus (“people”).

John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate.

Clicking the refresh button will populate the grid.

(computing, ambitransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.


task

From Middle English taske (“task, tax”), from Old Northern French tasque, (compare Old French variant tasche), from Medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxāre (“censure; charge”). Doublet of tax.

The user killed the frozen task.

(computing) A process or execution of a program.


database publishing

(computing) the production of catalogues, price lists etc, using data from a database


back up

back up (third-person singular simple present backs up, present participle backing up, simple past and past participle backed up)

backs up (present singular third-person)
backing up (participle present)
backed up (participle past)
backed up (past)

Back up your documents folder before applying the update.

(idiomatic, computing, transitive) To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost.


dichotomic

en-adj

dichotomic (comparative more dichotomic, superlative most dichotomic)

more dichotomic (comparative)
most dichotomic (superlative)

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(computing) Choosing between two antithetical choices, between two distinct alternatives. Classification based upon two opposites. http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0305-4470/27/14/016


permission

en-noun

permission (countable and uncountable, plural permissions)

permissions (plural)
permistion (alternative obsolete)
permixtion (alternative obsolete)

/ˈpəːʳmɪʃən/

From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).

it's better to ask forgiveness than permission

it's easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission

I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.

(computing) Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.


CASE

(computing, software) computer-aided software engineering.


ones' complement

ones' complement (plural ones' complements)

The ones' complement of 0xAAAA is 0x5555 on a 16-bit machine, and 0xFFFF5555 on a 32-bit machine.

(computing) The number obtained by subtracting a given n-digit binary number from 2ⁿ-1 (which yields the same result as the logical complement).

Computers that use ones' complement arithmetic have two representations for zero, all 0's and all 1's.

(computing) The convention by which bit patterns with high bit 0 represent positive numbers from 0 to 2ⁿ⁻¹-1 directly, while bit patterns with high bit 1 represent negative numbers from 0 to -(2ⁿ⁻¹-1), n being the word size of the machine, and the numeric complement of a number is its ones' complement.


two's complement

two's complement (plural two's complements)

The two's complement of 0xAAAA is 0x5556 on a 16-bit machine, and 0xFFFF5556 on a 32-bit machine.

(computing) The number obtained by complementing every bit of a given number and adding one. A number and its complement add to 2ⁿ, where n is the word size of the machine.

Nearly all modern computers use two's complement for integer arithmetic.

(computing) The convention by which bit patterns with high bit 0 represent positive numbers from 0 to 2ⁿ⁻¹-1 directly, while bit patterns with high bit 1 represent negative numbers from −1 to -2ⁿ⁻¹, n being the word size of the machine, and the numeric complement of a number is its two's complement.


logical complement

logical complement (plural logical complements)

The logical complement of 0xAAAA is 0x5555 on a 16-bit machine, and 0xFFFF5555 on a 32-bit machine.

(computing) The number, obtained by complementing every bit of a given number, which produces all ones when exclusive ored with the given number.


numeric complement

numeric complement (plural numeric complements)

The numeric complement of -123 is 123.

(computing) The number obtained by changing the numeric sign of a number. This may or may not be the twos complement, depending on the way numbers are stored.

vastaluku

math: number obtained by changing the numeric sign


signed magnitude

The IEEE standard for floating point uses signed magnitude for the mantissa.

(computing) The convention by which one bit in the representation of a number indicates the numeric sign, while the rest indicate the magnitude.


negative zero

negative zero (countable and uncountable, plural negative zeros or negative zeroes)

negative zeros (plural)
negative zeroes (plural)

One must take care in handling negative zero in comparisons.

(computing) A signed magnitude representation of zero in which the sign bit indicates a negative number.


positive zero

positive zero (countable and uncountable, plural positive zeros or positive zeroes)

positive zeros (plural)
positive zeroes (plural)

When not otherwise noted, "zero" will mean "positive zero" here.

(computing) A signed magnitude representation of zero in which the sign bit indicates a positive number.


sign bit

(computing) The bit in the representation of a number indicating whether it is negative or positive; applicable to both twos complement and signed magnitude representations.


character encoding

character encoding (plural character encodings)

(computing) A well-defined correspondence between text characters and the numeric values used to represent them.

编码

well-defined correspondence between text characters and numeric values


interface

→ Armenian: միջերես (miǰeres) (calque)

→ Japanese: インターフェース (intāfēsu)

→ Korean: 인터페이스 (inteopeiseu)

desctree

→ Russian: интерфе́йс (interféjs)
→ Kazakh: интерфейс (interfeis)

→ Turkish: ayarüz (calque)

From inter- (“between”) + face (“shape, figure, form”).

تَعْشِيق

point of interconnection between entities

The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.

(computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.

koppelvlak

computing: point of interconnection between systems or subsystems

The options are selected via the user interface.

(computing) The connection between a user and a machine.

միջերես

computing: connection between a user and a machine

interfaze

computing, object-oriented: connection between parts of software


interface

(computing) interface (point of interconnection between systems or subsystems)

(computing) interface (connection between a user and a machine)


stable

en-adj

stable (comparative stabler or more stable, superlative stablest or most stable)

stabler (comparative)
more stable (comparative)
stablest (superlative)
most stable (superlative)

From Middle English stable, from Anglo-Norman stable, stabel, from Latin stabilis (“firm, steadfast”) (itself from stare (“stand”) + -abilis (“able”)). Displaced native Old English staþolfæst.

You should download the 1.9 version of that video editing software: it is the latest stable version. The newer beta version has some bugs.

(computing) Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.


border

en-noun

border (countable and uncountable, plural borders)

Inherited from Middle English bordure, from Old French bordeure, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bord, equivalent to modern French bord (“a border”) + -er.
Akin to Middle High German borte (“border, trim”), German Borte (“ribbon, trimming”). Doublet of bordure. More at board.
Further cognate to English board, Old Norse barð (“edge”), Swedish bård (“edge”), also English beard, German Bart (“beard”) (edge of the face) etc.

cog

(computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.


fault

en-verb

fault (third-person singular simple present faults, present participle faulting, simple past and past participle faulted)

faults (present singular third-person)
faulting (participle present)
faulted (participle past)
faulted (past)

From Middle English faute, faulte, from Anglo-Norman faute, Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita (“shortcoming”), feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Displaced native Middle English schuld, schuild (“fault”) (from Old English scyld (“fault”)), Middle English lac (“fault, lack”) (from Middle Dutch lak (“lack, fault”)), Middle English last (“fault, vice”) (from Old Norse lǫstr (“fault, vice, crime”)). Compare French faute (“fault, foul”), Portuguese falta (“lack, shortage”) and Spanish falta (“lack, absence”). More at fail, false.

cog

(intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.


hyper-

From Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“over, above”) (English over), from *upo (“under, below”) (whence English up). Doublet of over-, super-, sur-, and uber-.

dbt

hyper- → hypertext

Used to create forms that are found beyond the root.


terminator

[ˈtɜː.mɪ.næɪ.ɾə]

* Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly from terminate + -or.
* (android that kills humans): After the 1984 film The Terminator.

(computing) A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.


terminator

Internationalism, ultimately from post-classical Latin terminātor.

(computing) a text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission


safe mode

(computing) A troubleshooting mode of many operating systems in which most advanced functions are not activated.


lower

en-verb

lower (third-person singular simple present lowers, present participle lowering, simple past and past participle lowered)

lowers (present singular third-person)
lowering (participle present)
lowered (participle past)
lowered (past)

(computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.


RSVP

R.S.V.P. (alternative)
R. S. V. P. (alternative)
rsvp (alternative)
r.s.v.p. (alternative)
r. s. v. p. (alternative)

Resource Reservation Protocol
w:Resource reservation protocol

(computing) Initialism of Resource Reservation Protocol.


administrate

administrate (third-person singular simple present administrates, present participle administrating, simple past and past participle administrated)

administrates (present singular third-person)
administrating (participle present)
administrated (participle past)
administrated (past)

* archaic: Latin administrātus, past participle of administrō.
* modern: Back-formation from administration (from Latin administrātiō, also from administrō)
(The exact etymology is disputed, see note below.)

The job is to administrate the network.

(computing) the act or function of providing maintenance and general housekeeping for computer systems, networks, peripheral equipment, etc.


MDC

(computing) Initialism of mapped diagnostic context.

multiple description coding
w:multiple description coding

(computing) Initialism of multiple description coding.


script kiddie

script kiddies (plural)
script kiddy (alternative)

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Generally speaking, script kiddies are bored individuals without girlfriends or boyfriends who can think of nothing better to do on a Saturday night than make people come into work to fix a failing system.

2003, Kevin Day, Inside the Security Mind: Making the Tough Decisions, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 126:

It is important to realize that the motive behind the script kiddie or recreational hacker is a more ego-driven destruction of data without a hidden moral, political, or economic agenda.

2011, Will Gragido, John Pirc, Cybercrime and Espionage: An Analysis of Subversive Multi-Vector Threats, Newnes, →ISBN, page 115:

(informal, derogatory) A (usually amateur) hacker who compromises files on others' computers or launches attacks on computer systems, using widely distributed computer programs or scripts rather than developing their own.


PDF

en-noun

PDF (countable and uncountable, plural PDFs)

Translingual: .pdf

DjVu was developed at AT&T Research by Yan LeCun et al. in 1966. It generates files that are smaller than PDF files. […] PDF primarily encodes graphics and text as vectorized data, whereas DjVu primarily encodes them as pixmap images.

2021, Alexander Thomasian, Storage Systems..., §2.13.7

(computing) Initialism of Portable Document Format, a standard for representing electronic documents, allowing them to be transmitted and reproduced accurately with the same printed layout.

Portable Document Format

The reMarkable PDF reader is really targeted at the digital writing market, rather than the digital reading market, though most serious e-readers support pens for annotations and signatures.

2019 June 27, Jack Schofield, “What’s the best cheap tablet or e-reader for PDF files?”, in The Guardian:

(computing) Initialism of portable document format (“document in PDF format”).


miss

Verb from Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), from Proto-West Germanic *missijan, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate with West Frisian misse (“to miss”), Dutch missen (“to miss”), German missen (“to miss”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish miste (“to lose”), Swedish missa (“to miss”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Icelandic missa (“to lose”) and Latin mittere (“to send, let go”).
Noun from Middle English misse, mis, from Old English miss (“loss, absence”), from Proto-West Germanic *miss, from Proto-Germanic *miss- (“loss”). Cognate with Scots miss (“a loss, want, cause of grief or mourning”), Middle High German misse, mis (“lack, missing, absence”), Icelandic missir (“loss”). Related also to Scots mis (“wrongdoing, sin, guilt”), Dutch mis (“misdeed, wrongdoing, mistake”), Middle Low German misse (“sin, wrong”).

cog

Already we're seeing fewer cache misses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables.

1999, Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating Systems:

(computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.


software architect

en-noun

software architect (plural software architects)

(computing) An architect (not to be confused with a designer) of software based on technology, who prepares plans and superintends construction of that software.


unfreeze

en-verb

unfreeze (third-person singular simple present unfreezes, present participle unfreezing, simple past unfroze, past participle unfrozen)

unfreezes (present singular third-person)
unfreezing (participle present)
unfroze (past)
unfrozen (participle past)

(transitive, computing) To release from a previously locked or frozen state.


maximize

maximize (third-person singular simple present maximizes, present participle maximizing, simple past and past participle maximized)

maximizes (present singular third-person)
maximizing (participle present)
maximized (participle past)
maximized (past)
maximise (alternative)

Since I only have one window open, I maximized the window so that the desktop is not visible.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) To expand (a window) to fill the main display area.

առավելացնել

to expand (a window) to fill the main display area (computing)


yield

yield (third-person singular simple present yields, present participle yielding, simple past yielded or (obsolete) yold, past participle yielded or (obsolete) yolden)

yields (present singular third-person)
yielding (participle present)
yielded (past)
yold (obsolete past)
yielded (participle past)
yolden (obsolete participle past)

Verb from Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan, from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots yield (“to yield”), North Frisian jilden (“to pay”), Saterland Frisian jäilde (“to be valid; matter; count; be worth”), West Frisian jilde (“to pay”), Low German gellen, gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Dutch gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), German gelten (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Icelandic gjalda (“to pay, yield, give”), Danish gælde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Norwegian Bokmål gjelde.
Noun from Middle English ȝeld, from Old English ġield, from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian jild, Dutch geld, Low German and German Geld, Danish gæld, Swedish gäld, Icelandic gjald. See also geld.

inh

to end all resistance because of loss of hope

because of helplessness and extreme weakness

The system froze because the buggy program got into an infinite loop and didn't yield.

(computing, intransitive) Of a running process, to give control back to the operating system so that other processes can be allowed to run.


modulus

Learned borrowing from Latin modulus. Doublet of module and mold.

(computing, programming) An operator placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.

moduuli

computing, programming: type of operator


transaction

Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio.

database transaction
database transaction

(computing) An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).


ubergeek

ubergeeks (plural)
übergeek (alternative)

(computing, informal) A highly proficient geek.


idempotent

From Latin roots idem (“same”) + potent (“having power”), thus “having the same power”. Coined in 1870 by American mathematician Benjamin Peirce in the context of algebra, later generalized to computer science.

A projection operator is idempotent.

An HTTP request using the PUT verb should be idempotent, so that it can be sent to the server any number of times with the same end result.

(mathematics, computing) (said of a function) Such that, when performed multiple times on the same subject, it has no further effect on its subject after the first time it is performed.

冪等 /幂等

mathematics: an action which, when performed multiple time, has no further effect on its subject after the first time it is performed


query

queries (plural)
quæry (alternative archaic)

An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.

The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.

(computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.

اِسْتِعْلام

computing: set of instructions passed to a database


query

en-verb

query (third-person singular simple present queries, present participle querying, simple past and past participle queried)

queries (present singular third-person)
querying (participle present)
queried (participle past)
queried (past)
quæry (alternative archaic)

Linked tables can be accessed, queried, combined and reorganised much more flexibly and in a number of ways that may not be immediately predictable when the database is under construction.

1999, Luciano Floridi, Philosophy and computing: an introduction, page 104:

(computing, databases) To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.


quorum

From Latin quōrum, genitive plural form of quī (“who, which”), used as standard wording in written commissions.

نِصَاب

minimum number present for official business

päätösvaltaisuus (päätösvaltainen as an adjective is more common)

határozatképesség (more commonly expressed with the adjective határozatképes)

(computing, distributed systems) The minimum number of votes that a distributed transaction has to obtain in order to be allowed to perform an operation in a distributed system.


PEBCAK

Acronym of problem exists between chair and keyboard.

acronym

Miraculously, all of a sudden, the client's network began behaving beautifully! Before, PEBCAKs were causing a technician to need to visit their company every day, and now—after a simple deployment of basic policies—the client was ecstatic. […] Ask your IT professionals, "What percentage of your time, on a daily basis, do you spend solving PEBCAK issues?" Don't be surprised if you hear answers of 30% or more. Now, calculate how much money PEBCAKs are costing you in IT expense as well as lost productivity for the employees. Then deploy policies in a staged rollout to reduce this costly expense.

2007, Mike Foster, “Domain Policies”, in The Secure CEO: How to Protect Your Computer Systems, Your Company, and Your Job, Wichita, Kan.: Prime Concepts Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 150:

In the tech support world, there's an old joke about "PEBCAK," or Problem Exists Between the Chair and Keyboard. Cybersecurity really is all about people and incentives. There are plenty of important technical fixes and new tools to adopt, but if organizations and individuals aren't willing to invest in securing themselves, then they will remain insecure.

2014 July 2, Peter W[arren] Singer, Allan Friedman, “The 5 Biggest Cybersecurity Myths, Debunked”, in Wired, archived from the original on 2014-07-02:

How can I make my PC completely secure from any type of virus and hacking? Juzer You can’t, because of the old computer industry phenomenon known as PEBCAK, or "Problem exists between chair and keyboard". A lot of hacks depend on "social engineering," which means manipulating people into handing over their passwords or other details. […] Linux and Mac OS X are more secure than Windows, but PEBCAK is a problem with every operating system.

2015 January 15, Jack Schofield, “Ask Jack: How Can I Make My PC Completely Secure?”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2018-07-26:

There is no way to stop every single cyber-attack. That said, for many attacks, PEBCAK is the answer. Unfamiliar with this approach? It's an oldie but goodie that anyone in IT will recognize, the letters forming an acronym that neatly states why countless attacks are successful. PEBCAK stands for Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard. While it is true that cyber-threats abound, the only way to contain the pandemic and meaningfully push back is if everybody does what they are supposed to do.

2017 August 19, Adam [K.] Levin, “5 Cyber-security Myths We Need to Ditch”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2017-10-09:

The user asked if she could access the appropriate help desk ASAP, but Ben's colleague "simply said 'No' and hung up." And that, says Ben, "was the first time I ever saw a ticket closed with the cause code PEBCAK". Which for those of you with bad memories for acronyms stands for "Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard". Ben told us this was "certainly not the last" time his help desk applied code PEBCAK.

2017 November 17, Simon Sharwood, “Help Desk Declared Code PEBCAK and therefore Refused to Help!: Problem Existed between Chair and Keyboard”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2018-07-03:

technical support
technical support#English

(computing, humorous, also attributively) Chiefly used by technical support helpdesk staff: a problem experienced with a user's computer that is due to user error.

fejl 40

ongelma sijaitsee näppäimistön ja tuolin välissä

a probléma a szék és a billentyűzet között van

PEBCAC

problem exists between chair and computer

PEBKAC

problem exists between keyboard and chair

PEBKAM

problem exists between keyboard and monitor

PEBKAS

problem exists between keyboard and seat

PEBMAC

problem exists between monitor and chair


chunk

Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) + *-k (diminutive suffix) (compare hunk from hump, etc.).

The first DWORD of a chunk data in the RIFF chunk is a four character code value identifying the form type of the file.

1994, Paul J Perry, Multimedia developer's guide:

(computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.


classifier

C@Side-PalmAcross L@Side-PalmAcross

(linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class

classifieur

OOP: class which classifies other classes by features

(computing) A program or algorithm that classifies.

classifieur

computing: a program or algorithm that classifies


commit

en-verb

commit (third-person singular simple present commits, present participle committing, simple past and past participle committed)

commits (present singular third-person)
committing (participle present)
committed (participle past)
committed (past)

→ German: committen

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Borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission.

bor

When all SQL statements in the transaction are executed successfully, the transaction is committed and all the work that the SQL statements performed is made a permanent part of the database.

2005, Thearon Willis, Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Databases, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 343:

We can commit all unstaged files with one command: […]

2014, Wlodzimierz Gajda, Git Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Apress, →ISBN, page 86:

(transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.

(Programm-)Änderungen als dauerhaft erklären


commit

→ German: Commit

→ Russian: комми́т (kommít)

To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits, the server provides semaphore objects[…]

1988, Klaus R Dittrich, Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems: 2nd International Workshop:

Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.

2009, Jon Loeliger, Version Control with Git:

(computing, databases) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.

vahvistus

(computing) act of committing, making a permanent change


instruction

en-noun

instruction (countable and uncountable, plural instructions)

From Middle English instruccioun, from Old French instruccion, from Latin instructio; equivalent to instruct + -ion.

(computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.


redirect

en-verb

redirect (third-person singular simple present redirects, present participle redirecting, simple past and past participle redirected)

redirects (present singular third-person)
redirecting (participle present)
redirected (participle past)
redirected (past)

(computing, transitive) To substitute an address or pointer to a new location.

преадресирам

You will be redirected shortly.

(computing) To send to a new location by substituting an address or pointer.


redirect

(computing) The substitution of one address or identifier for another one, so as to navigate to a different location.

redirecció

substitution of an address for another one


external

en-adj

external (comparative more external, superlative most external)

more external (comparative)
most external (superlative)
externall (alternative)

From Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin externus (“outward, external”), from exter/exterus (“on the outside, outward”).

der

(computing, of a hardware) Not contained in the main computer.

(computing, of storage) Using a disk or tape drive rather than the main memory.


canonical

en-adj

canonical (comparative more canonical, superlative most canonical)

more canonical (comparative)
most canonical (superlative)

From Middle English canonycal, from Medieval Latin canōnicālis. By surface analysis, canon + -ical.

(mathematics, computing) In canonical form.


mangle

en-verb

mangle (third-person singular simple present mangles, present participle mangling, simple past and past participle mangled)

mangles (present singular third-person)
mangling (participle present)
mangled (participle past)
mangled (past)

From Middle English mangelen, manglen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, mahangler, frequentative of either Old French mangonner (“to cut to pieces”) or mahaigner (“to mutilate”), of Germanic origin, for which see mayhem.
Alternate etymology derives mangle from Middle English *mankelen, a frequentative form of manken (“to mutilate”), from Old English *mancian, bemancian (“to maim”). More at mank.

der

(transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.


tourist

→ Albanian: turist

→ Armenian: տուրիստ (turist)

→ Asturian: turista

→ Azerbaijani: turist

→ Belarusian: турыст (turyst)

→ Catalan: turista

→ Czech: turista

→ Danish: turist

→ Dutch: toerist

→ Estonian: turist

→ Finnish: turisti

desctree

→ French: touriste
→ Persian: توریست (turist)
→ Italian: turista
→ Afar: tuurísti
→ Cimbrian: turist
→ Mòcheno: turist
→ Norman: touriste
→ Romanian: turist
→ Turkish: turist

→ Galician: turista

→ Georgian: ტურისტი (ṭurisṭi)

→ German: Tourist

→ Greek: τουρίστας (tourístas)

desc

→ Hindi: टूरिस्ट (ṭūrisṭ)

→ Hindi: टूरिस्ट (ṭūrisṭ)

→ Hungarian: turista

→ Indonesian: turis

→ Japanese: ツーリスト (tsūrisuto)

→ Kazakh: турист (turist)

→ Kyrgyz: турист (turist)

→ Latvian: tūrists

→ Lithuanian: turistas

→ Macedonian: турист (turist)

desctree

→ Norwegian: turist
→ Northern Sami: turista, durista

→ Occitan: torista

→ Polish: turysta

→ Portuguese: turista

→ Russian: турист (turist)

→ Serbo-Croatian: turist / турист

→ Slovak: turista

→ Slovene: turist

→ Spanish: turista
→ English: turista

→ Swedish: turist

→ Tagalog: turista

→ Turkmen: turist

→ Ukrainian: турист (turyst)

→ Uzbek: turist

→ Welsh: twrist

→ Yiddish: טוריסט (turist)

This popularity was supposedly due to M.I.T.'s tolerance of "tourists" on its system.

1984, Dean Gengle, The Netweaver's Sourcebook, page 105:

The online tourists then uploaded the files to share with other BBS aficionados.

2012, Michael Banks, On the Way to the Web:

(computing, dated) A guest user on a computer system.


housing

(computing) colocation; A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear, connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, with a minimum of cost and complexity


portable

en-adj

portable (comparative more portable, superlative most portable)

more portable (comparative)
most portable (superlative)

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[ˈpʰɔɹɾɪ̈bl̩]

From Middle English portable, from Middle French portable and Latin portābilis. By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -able.

surf

How do Java and C# create cross-platform, portable programs, and why can't C++ do the same?

2012, Herbert Schildt, C++: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, page 6:

(computing) Of software: able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems.

Starting with release 1.7, a portable version allows all Host Attachment Kit commands to be run without installing the Host Attachment Kit.

2014, Bertrand Dufrasne, Bruce Allworth, Desire Brival, IBM XIV Storage System: Host Attachment and Interoperability, page 10:

(computing) Of a program: able to be copied directly from one machine to another without the use of an installer.


portable

[ˈpʰɔɹɾɪ̈bl̩]

siirrettävä rakennus

temporary building that is portable, especially one located at a school

A few portables, particularly the small laphelds, go one step further and come with software built into the computer.

1985, New Accountant, volumes 1-3, page lxvii:

Compaq portables have grown lighter and more powerful since then. Their newest luggable, the Compaq Portable III, is six times more powerful and 10 pounds lighter than the original model.

1987, InfoWorld, volume 9, number 20, page 71:

portable computer
portable computer#English

(computing) Clipping of portable computer.


portable

Borrowed from Latin portābilis. By surface analysis, porter + -able.

ordinateur portable
ordinateur portable#French

a laptop; ellipsis of ordinateur portable


biner

id-adj

binèr (comparative lebih biner, superlative paling biner)

binèr (canonical)
lebih biner (comparative)
paling biner (superlative)
binari (alternative)

From Dutch binair (“binary”), from French binaire, from Latin bīnārius.

(arithmetic, computing) binary (concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system)


version

en-noun

version (countable and uncountable, plural versions)

From Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versiō, from Latin vertō (“I turn”). Used in English since 16th century.

Upgrade to the latest version for new features and bug fixes.

(computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).


version

en-verb

version (third-person singular simple present versions, present participle versioning, simple past and past participle versioned)

versions (present singular third-person)
versioning (participle present)
versioned (participle past)
versioned (past)

(transitive, computing) To keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.


pixel

pixelek (plural)
pixel (nominative singular)
pixelek (nominative plural)
pixelt (accusative singular)
pixeleket (accusative plural)
pixelnek (dative singular)
pixeleknek (dative plural)
pixellel (instrumental singular)
pixelekkel (instrumental plural)
pixelért (causal-final singular)
pixelekért (causal-final plural)
pixellé (singular translative)
pixelekké (plural translative)
pixelig (singular terminative)
pixelekig (plural terminative)
pixelként (essive-formal singular)
pixelekként (essive-formal plural)
pixelben (inessive singular)
pixelekben (inessive plural)
pixelen (singular superessive)
pixeleken (plural superessive)
pixelnél (adessive singular)
pixeleknél (adessive plural)
pixelbe (illative singular)
pixelekbe (illative plural)
pixelre (singular sublative)
pixelekre (plural sublative)
pixelhez (allative singular)
pixelekhez (allative plural)
pixelből (elative singular)
pixelekből (elative plural)
pixelről (delative singular)
pixelekről (delative plural)
pixeltől (ablative singular)
pixelektől (ablative plural)
pixelé (singular)
pixeleké (plural)
pixeléi (singular)
pixelekéi (plural)
pixelem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
pixeljeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
pixeled (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
pixeljeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
pixelje (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
pixeljei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
pixelünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
pixeljeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
pixeletek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
pixeljeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
pixeljük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
pixeljeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

(computing) pixel (one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory)


pixel

head

pixel m (definite singular pixelen, indefinite plural pixeler or pixler, definite plural pixelene or pixlene)

pixelen (definite singular)
pixeler (indefinite plural)
pixler (indefinite plural)
pixelene (definite plural)
pixlene (definite plural)

Borrowed from English pixel, abbreviation of "picture element".


pixel

pixel (indefinite nominative singular)
pixels (genitive indefinite singular)
pixeln (definite nominative singular)
pixelns (definite genitive singular)
pixlar (indefinite nominative plural)
pixlars (genitive indefinite plural)
pixlarna (definite nominative plural)
pixlarnas (definite genitive plural)


container

→ Danish: container

→ Dutch: container

→ French: container

→ German: Container

→ Greek: κοντέινερ (kontéiner)

→ Japanese: コンテナ

→ Korean: 컨테이너 (keonteineo)

desc

→ Norwegian Bokmål: container, konteiner

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: container, konteinar

→ Brazilian Portuguese: contêiner, container

→ Russian: контейнер (kontejner)

→ Spanish: container

→ Swahili: kontena

→ Swedish: container

From Middle English conteyner, equivalent to contain + -er.

As the MP4 container can store audio, video, or both, the M4A naming and file extension is used to hint that this MP4 container holds solely audio information.

2011, Cory Altheide, Harlan Carvey, Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools, page 187:

(file format) A file format that can hold various types of data.

This advantage is the primary incentive for using a list container, rather than a vector or a deque.

2015, Ivor Horton, Using the C++ Standard Template Libraries, Apress, →ISBN, page 64:

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.

Flex automatically creates a TabBar container at the top of the TabNavigator container, with a tab corresponding to each child container. Each tab can have its own label and icon.

2007, Rich Tretola, Simon Barber, Renaun Erickson, Professional Adobe Flex 2, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 62:

(graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.

(Java programming language) A web container.

Generally, when people think of serverless computing, they tend to think of applications with back-ends that run on third-party services, also described as code running on ephemeral containers.

2017, Maddie Stigler, Beginning Serverless Computing, Apress, →ISBN, page 1:

The application components all run in containers. They are isolated like VMs but lightweight and efficient like PaaS services.

2020, Elton Stoneman, chapter 1, in Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, →ISBN:

(cloud computing) A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself.


static memory allocation

en-noun

static memory allocation (countable and uncountable, plural static memory allocations)

(computing) The process of allocating fixed memory at compile time.


cartridge

cartridges (plural)
cartage (alternative)

/ˈkɑɹtɹɪd͡ʒ/

Corruption of earlier cartage, from French cartouche, from Italian cartoccio (“roll of paper”), from Medieval Latin carta (“paper”). Doublet of cartouche.

Cartridge (firearms)
Magnetic tape data storage
cartridge

(computing) A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.

fishek

vessel which contains the ink for a computer printer

The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated.

1983, “Helpline”, in Sinclair User, number 21:

(computing) Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.

We would like to see someone market a low-power, text-to-speech cartridge that would mate with the Epson and use its internal battery pack.

Nintendo made sure to loudly trumpet all of the advantages of the cartridge format, particularly the greatly reduced loading times and the sturdiness of the cartridges[…]

Not as good, though, as the PolyStation. Looks like a first-generation PlayStation in a Nitendo 64 box. And even though that bit on top looks like it should take a disc, it actually uses something like a Super Nintendo cartridge.

2015 June 24, “Top 10 Chinese Knockoffs of Foreign Products” (00:01:54 from the start), in China Uncensored, spoken by himself (Chris Chappell), New Tang Dynasty Television, via New Tang Dynasty Television:

(computing) A removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.

kasedo

enclosure containung read-only memory devices


peercast

en-verb

peercast (third-person singular simple present peercasts, present participle peercasting, simple past and past participle peercasted or peercast)

peercasts (present singular third-person)
peercasting (participle present)
peercasted (participle past)
peercasted (past)
peercast (participle past)
peercast (past)

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(computing) To transmit streaming media via a peer-to-peer network.


forge

SourceForge
forge
forge (disambiguation)

From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric. Computing sense perhaps derived from the early SourceForge service, launched in 1999.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […]

2018, V. M. Brasseur, Forge Your Future with Open Source, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:

(computing) A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.


hygiene

en-noun

hygiene (countable and uncountable, plural hygienes)

From French hygiène, from Ancient Greek ὑγιεινή (τέχνη) (hugieinḗ (tékhnē), literally “art of health”), from ὑγιεινός (hugieinós, “of health, good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy”), from ὑγιής (hugiḗs, “healthy, sound”).

der

ὑγιεινή (τέχνη)

(computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.


firmware

→ Amharic: ፈርምዌር (färməwer)

→ German: Firmware

→ Spanish: firmware

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From firm + -ware, coined in an article in 1967 as an intermediary term between hardware and software.

(computing) A permanent form of software that provides a low-level control of computing device hardware.

(computing, software) Software that is intended for such embedded computer applications.


firmware

firmware (nominative singular)
firmwaret (nominative plural)
firmware (accusative nominative singular)
firmwaret (accusative nominative plural)
firmwaren (accusative genitive singular)
firmwaret (accusative genitive plural)
firmwaren (genitive singular)
firmwarejen (genitive plural)
firmwarein (genitive plural rare)
firmwarea (partitive singular)
firmwareja (partitive plural)
firmwaressa (inessive singular)
firmwareissa (inessive plural)
firmwaresta (elative singular)
firmwareista (elative plural)
firmwareen (illative singular)
firmwareihin (illative plural)
firmwarella (adessive singular)
firmwareilla (adessive plural)
firmwarelta (ablative singular)
firmwareilta (ablative plural)
firmwarelle (allative singular)
firmwareille (allative plural)
firmwarena (essive singular)
firmwareina (essive plural)
firmwareksi (singular translative)
firmwareiksi (plural translative)
firmwaretta (abessive singular)
firmwareitta (abessive plural)
firmwarein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
firmwareni (nominative singular)
firmwareni (nominative plural)
firmwareni (accusative nominative singular)
firmwareni (accusative nominative plural)
firmwareni (accusative genitive singular)
firmwareni (accusative genitive plural)
firmwareni (genitive singular)
firmwarejeni (genitive plural)
firmwareini (genitive plural rare)
firmwareani (partitive singular)
firmwarejani (partitive plural)
firmwaressani (inessive singular)
firmwareissani (inessive plural)
firmwarestani (elative singular)
firmwareistani (elative plural)
firmwareeni (illative singular)
firmwareihini (illative plural)
firmwarellani (adessive singular)
firmwareillani (adessive plural)
firmwareltani (ablative singular)
firmwareiltani (ablative plural)
firmwarelleni (allative singular)
firmwareilleni (allative plural)
firmwarenani (essive singular)
firmwareinani (essive plural)
firmwarekseni (singular translative)
firmwareikseni (plural translative)
firmwarettani (abessive singular)
firmwareittani (abessive plural)
firmwareineni (comitative plural)
firmwaresi (nominative singular)
firmwaresi (nominative plural)
firmwaresi (accusative nominative singular)
firmwaresi (accusative nominative plural)
firmwaresi (accusative genitive singular)
firmwaresi (accusative genitive plural)
firmwaresi (genitive singular)
firmwarejesi (genitive plural)
firmwareisi (genitive plural rare)
firmwareasi (partitive singular)
firmwarejasi (partitive plural)
firmwaressasi (inessive singular)
firmwareissasi (inessive plural)
firmwarestasi (elative singular)
firmwareistasi (elative plural)
firmwareesi (illative singular)
firmwareihisi (illative plural)
firmwarellasi (adessive singular)
firmwareillasi (adessive plural)
firmwareltasi (ablative singular)
firmwareiltasi (ablative plural)
firmwarellesi (allative singular)
firmwareillesi (allative plural)
firmwarenasi (essive singular)
firmwareinasi (essive plural)
firmwareksesi (singular translative)
firmwareiksesi (plural translative)
firmwarettasi (abessive singular)
firmwareittasi (abessive plural)
firmwareinesi (comitative plural)
firmwaremme (nominative singular)
firmwaremme (nominative plural)
firmwaremme (accusative nominative singular)
firmwaremme (accusative nominative plural)
firmwaremme (accusative genitive singular)
firmwaremme (accusative genitive plural)
firmwaremme (genitive singular)
firmwarejemme (genitive plural)
firmwareimme (genitive plural rare)
firmwareamme (partitive singular)
firmwarejamme (partitive plural)
firmwaressamme (inessive singular)
firmwareissamme (inessive plural)
firmwarestamme (elative singular)
firmwareistamme (elative plural)
firmwareemme (illative singular)
firmwareihimme (illative plural)
firmwarellamme (adessive singular)
firmwareillamme (adessive plural)
firmwareltamme (ablative singular)
firmwareiltamme (ablative plural)
firmwarellemme (allative singular)
firmwareillemme (allative plural)
firmwarenamme (essive singular)
firmwareinamme (essive plural)
firmwareksemme (singular translative)
firmwareiksemme (plural translative)
firmwarettamme (abessive singular)
firmwareittamme (abessive plural)
firmwareinemme (comitative plural)
firmwarenne (nominative singular)
firmwarenne (nominative plural)
firmwarenne (accusative nominative singular)
firmwarenne (accusative nominative plural)
firmwarenne (accusative genitive singular)
firmwarenne (accusative genitive plural)
firmwarenne (genitive singular)
firmwarejenne (genitive plural)
firmwareinne (genitive plural rare)
firmwareanne (partitive singular)
firmwarejanne (partitive plural)
firmwaressanne (inessive singular)
firmwareissanne (inessive plural)
firmwarestanne (elative singular)
firmwareistanne (elative plural)
firmwareenne (illative singular)
firmwareihinne (illative plural)
firmwarellanne (adessive singular)
firmwareillanne (adessive plural)
firmwareltanne (ablative singular)
firmwareiltanne (ablative plural)
firmwarellenne (allative singular)
firmwareillenne (allative plural)
firmwarenanne (essive singular)
firmwareinanne (essive plural)
firmwareksenne (singular translative)
firmwareiksenne (plural translative)
firmwarettanne (abessive singular)
firmwareittanne (abessive plural)
firmwareinenne (comitative plural)
firmwarensa (nominative singular)
firmwarensa (nominative plural)
firmwarensa (accusative nominative singular)
firmwarensa (accusative nominative plural)
firmwarensa (accusative genitive singular)
firmwarensa (accusative genitive plural)
firmwarensa (genitive singular)
firmwarejensa (genitive plural)
firmwareinsa (genitive plural rare)
firmwareaan (partitive singular)
firmwareansa (partitive singular)
firmwarejaan (partitive plural)
firmwarejansa (partitive plural)
firmwaressaan (inessive singular)
firmwaressansa (inessive singular)
firmwareissaan (inessive plural)
firmwareissansa (inessive plural)
firmwarestaan (elative singular)
firmwarestansa (elative singular)
firmwareistaan (elative plural)
firmwareistansa (elative plural)
firmwareensa (illative singular)
firmwareihinsa (illative plural)
firmwarellaan (adessive singular)
firmwarellansa (adessive singular)
firmwareillaan (adessive plural)
firmwareillansa (adessive plural)
firmwareltaan (ablative singular)
firmwareltansa (ablative singular)
firmwareiltaan (ablative plural)
firmwareiltansa (ablative plural)
firmwarelleen (allative singular)
firmwarellensa (allative singular)
firmwareilleen (allative plural)
firmwareillensa (allative plural)
firmwarenaan (essive singular)
firmwarenansa (essive singular)
firmwareinaan (essive plural)
firmwareinansa (essive plural)
firmwarekseen (singular translative)
firmwareksensa (singular translative)
firmwareikseen (plural translative)
firmwareiksensa (plural translative)
firmwarettaan (abessive singular)
firmwarettansa (abessive singular)
firmwareittaan (abessive plural)
firmwareittansa (abessive plural)
firmwareineen (comitative plural)
firmwareinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈfø̞ːmʋe̞ø̞]


firmware

(computing) firmware (software closely tied to the hardware on which it runs)


firmware

Unadapted borrowing from English firmware.


dado

From Old Galician-Portuguese dado, from Latin datus. By surface analysis, dar + -ado. Doublet of data.

Não encontrei nenhum dado no sistema.

(computing, sciences) data; datum (item of information)


subset

en-verb

subset (third-person singular simple present subsets, present participle subsetting, simple past and past participle subsetted)

subsets (present singular third-person)
subsetting (participle present)
subsetted (participle past)
subsetted (past)

(transitive, computing, typography) To extract only the portions of (a font) that are needed to display a particular document.


floating-point number

en-noun

floating-point number (plural floating-point numbers)

(computing) A real number held as a pair of integers, one representing the mantissa and the other representing the exponent. The base is normally 10, 16 or 256 depending on the computing system.

浮点数

computing: real number held as a pair of integers, representing the mantissa and the exponent

浮動小数点数

ふどうしょうすうてんすう


mutant

From Latin mūtāns, present participle of mūtō. By surface analysis, muta- + -ant.


admin

admin (countable and uncountable, plural admins)

admins (plural)
admin. (alternative)
Admin. (alternative)

Clipping of administrator or administration.

Our admin has upgraded the server in our office, so we can exchange files faster.

(countable, informal, computing) A systems administrator (one who maintains a computer system or network).


admin

en-verb

admin (third-person singular simple present admins, present participle admining or adminning, simple past and past participle admined or adminned)

admins (present singular third-person)
admining (participle present)
adminning (participle present)
admined (participle past)
admined (past)
adminned (participle past)
adminned (past)
admin. (alternative)
Admin. (alternative)

(transitive, computing, informal) To serve as an administrator for or of.


admin

Jag tror du måste kontakta admin

I think you'll have to contact the admin

Är du admin?


rollback

rollback (third-person singular simple present rollbacks, present participle rollbacking, simple past and past participle rollbacked)

rollbacks (present singular third-person)
rollbacking (participle present)
rollbacked (participle past)
rollbacked (past)

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The noun is a deverbal from roll back. The verb is a back-formation from the noun despite being redundant to roll back.

The server is unstable, we need to rollback the changes.

(transitive, computing, databases) To return to the previous state.


align

align (third-person singular simple present aligns, present participle aligning, simple past and past participle aligned)

aligns (present singular third-person)
aligning (participle present)
aligned (participle past)
aligned (past)
aline (alternative)

From Middle English alynen, alinen (“copulate”), from Middle French aligner, from Old French alignier, from a- + lignier, from Latin lineare (“make straight or perpendicular”), from the noun linea (“line”), from līneus (“flaxen; flaxen [thing]”), from līnum (“flax”), likely ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *līnom (compare linen).

der

(transitive, computing) To store (data) in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture, i.e. by beginning each item at an offset equal to some multiple of the word size.

對齊 /对齐

to store data in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture


artifact

artifacts (plural)
artefact (alternative)

Alteration of artefact, from Italian artefatto, from Latin arte (“by skill”) (ablative of ars (“art”)) + factum (“thing made”) (from facio (“to make, do”)).

This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has unsightly artifacts, making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.

The opacity in his chest radiograph turned out to be an artifact due to the film.

These hallucinations are compression artifacts, but—like the incorrect labels generated by the Xerox photocopier—they are plausible enough that identifying them requires comparing them against the originals, which in this case means either the Web or our own knowledge of the world.

2023 February 9, Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, in The New Yorker:

en:perceptible distortion in image or AV file

(computing, radiology) A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or an image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm or of physical interference in an acquisition process.


vault

From Middle English vaute, vowte, from Old French volte (modern voûte), from Vulgar Latin *volta < *volvita or *volŭta, a regularization of Latin volūta (compare modern volute (“spire”)), the past participle of volvere (“roll, turn”). Cognate with Spanish vuelta (“turn”) and Portuguese volta ("turn"). Doublet of volute.

свод

figuratively: anything resembling a vault

(computing) An encrypted digital archive.


barra

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *barra, possibly from Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”), cognate with French barre and English bar. Doublet of bar.

(computing, rare, proscribed) backslash ("\" symbol)


folder

→ Brazilian Portuguese: folder, fôlder

→ Dutch: folder

→ Indonesian: folder

→ Japanese: フォルダ (foruda), フォルダー (forudā)

→ Polish: folder

→ Serbo-Croatian: folder

My essays are in the folder named "Schoolwork".

(computing) A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are usually related.


folder

foldêr (canonical)
folder-folder (plural)

(computing) folder (a virtual container in a computer's file system)


folder

folder (nominative singular)
foldery (nominative plural)
folderu (more rarely foldera) (genitive singular)
folderów (genitive plural)
folderowi (dative singular)
folderom (dative plural)
folder (accusative singular)
foldery (accusative plural)
folderem (instrumental singular)
folderami (instrumental plural)
folderze (locative singular)
folderach (locative plural)
folderze (singular vocative)
foldery (plural vocative)


folder

Unadapted borrowing from English folder. According to SO attested since 1948.

Det här tillägget, som är gratis, vägleder dig genom förloppet i tre enkla steg. Du ombeds välja den folder där de raderade mejlen först fanns (Återskapa dokument eller Rensa).

2023 March 6, “Jobba smartare – här är 10 finfina tillägg till Microsoft Office [Work smarter – here are 10 excellent add-ons for Microsoft Office]”, in Computer Sweden:

This add-on, which is free, guides you through the process in three simple steps. You are asked to select the folder where the deleted emails were originally located (Restore documents or Clean up).

(computing, nonstandard) synonym of mapp (“folder”)


routine

en-noun

routine (countable and uncountable, plural routines)

Unadapted borrowing from French routine.

(computing) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.

rutiini

computing: set of instructions designed to perform a specific task


journal

journals (plural)
journall (alternative)

From Middle English journal, from Anglo-Norman jurnal (“daily”), from Old French jornel (“day”) (French journal), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”). Doublet of diurnal and the journal from French.

(computing) A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.

loki

computing: chronological record of changes


journal

Haitian Creole: jounal

Mauritian Creole: zournal

Borrowings

→ Afrikaans: joernaal

→ Belarusian: журнал (žurnal)

→ Bulgarian: журнал (žurnal)

→ Czech: žurnál

→ Dutch: journaal

→ Egyptian Arabic: جورنال (gōrnāl)

→ English: journal

→ Esperanto: ĵurnalo

Ido: jurnalo

→ Indonesian: jurnal

→ German: Journal

→ Estonian: žurnaal

→ Ladino: jurnal / ז׳ורנאל

→ Latvian: žurnāls

→ Lower Sorbian: žurnal

→ Maltese: ġurnal

→ Malay: jurnal

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: ژورنال (jurnal)
Turkish: jurnal

→ Pashto: ژورنال (žurnãl)

→ Persian: ژورنال (žurnâl)

→ Polish: żurnal

→ Portuguese: jornal
→ Hunsrik: Schurnall
→ Tetum: jornál

→ Romanian: jurnal

→ Russian: журна́л (žurnál) (see there for further descendants)

→ Slovak: žurnál

→ Swedish: journal

→ Ukrainian: журнал (žurnal)

→ West Frisian: sjoernaal

→ Yiddish: זשורנאַל (zhurnal)

Inherited from Old French journal (“daily”), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”), from diēs (“day”).


vaccine

en-noun

vaccine (countable and uncountable, plural vaccines)

The noun is probably partly:
* derived from vaccine (adjective) (see etymology 1); and
* borrowed from French vaccine (“cowpox (short for variole vaccine); vaccination against smallpox using material from cowpox”), vaccin (“cowpox material used for smallpox vaccination”), both noun uses of vaccin (adjective), from Latin vaccīnus (see etymology 1).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Italian vaccina
* Portuguese vacina
* Spanish vacuna

bor

(computing) A software program which protects computers against, or detects and neutralizes, computer viruses and other types of malware; an antivirus.


exponent

From Latin expōnēns, present participle of expōnō (“to expose; to exhibit, display, set out; to explain”), from ex- (“out, away”) + pōnō (“to lay, place, put”).

floating-point number
floating-point number

(computing) The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.


upgrade

en-verb

upgrade (third-person singular simple present upgrades, present participle upgrading, simple past and past participle upgraded)

upgrades (present singular third-person)
upgrading (participle present)
upgraded (participle past)
upgraded (past)

She waited a long time to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11, hoping the worst bugs would be worked out before she took the plunge.

She waited a long time to upgrade Windows, hoping the worst bugs would be worked out before she took the plunge.

(intransitive, transitive, computing) To replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher version number or marketed under a more recent product name.

actualitzar

to replace a program with a later version of itself


heartbeat

(computing) A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.


production

en-noun

production (countable and uncountable, plural productions)

→ Japanese: プロダクション (purodakushon)

/pɹəˈdʌkʃən/

From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin prōductiō, prōductiōnem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). See produce.

der

Each production is implemented with a function.

(computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)


cred

en-noun

cred (countable and uncountable, plural creds)

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DCE programming: using login creds to auth server?

1998, Lou Langholtz, comp.soft-sys.dce (Usenet):

(computing, informal, usually in the plural) A credential.


downcast

downcast (countable and uncountable, plural downcasts)

From Middle English downcast (“misfortune”), adoun-cast (“destruction, overthrow”), from adoun (“downward”) + cast (“a throw, a cast”) (from Old Norse kast (“a throw”), from kasten (“to cast, throw”)), from Middle English casten adoun: see etymology 1. The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“act of throwing”, noun).

prefix

(countable, computing) A cast (“change of expression of a data type”) from supertype to subtype.


downcast

en-verb

downcast (third-person singular simple present downcasts, present participle downcasting, simple past and past participle downcast or downcasted)

downcasts (present singular third-person)
downcasting (participle present)
downcast (participle past)
downcast (past)
downcasted (participle past)
downcasted (past)

From Middle English doun-casten, *adoun-casten (“to cast or throw (something) downwards; to break down (something); to overcome (someone); to overturn (something)”), from down (“in a downward direction; (figurative) to destruction”), adoun (“downward”) + casten (“to throw (something), fling, hurl; to overcome (someone), defeat, overpower; [etc.]”): see etymology 1. The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“to throw”, verb).

prefix

(computing) To cast (“change the expression of”) (a data type) from supertype to subtype.

alityypiksi muuntaminen

to cast (a data type) from supertype to subtype


signature

/ˈsɪɡnət͡ʃə(ɹ)/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

/ˈsɪɡnət͡ʃɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre (“to sign”) from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”).

ncog

(computing) A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.

簽名 /签名

computing: pattern used for matching identity


gallery

From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Latin galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Israel. More at Galilee.

unk

unknown origin

a gallery of image thumbnails

a clip-art gallery in a word processor

en:collection of images, icons, etc, in computing

(computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.


proxy

head

proxy (definite accusative proxyi, plural proxyler)

proxyi (accusative definite)
proxyler (plural)
proxy (nominative singular)
proxyler (nominative plural)
proxyi (accusative definite singular)
proxyleri (accusative definite plural)
proxye (dative singular)
proxylere (dative plural)
proxyde (locative singular)
proxylerde (locative plural)
proxyden (ablative singular)
proxylerden (ablative plural)
proxynin (genitive singular)
proxylerin (genitive plural)


afabla

eo-head

afabla (accusative singular afablan, plural afablaj, accusative plural afablajn)

afablan (accusative singular)
afablaj (plural)
afablajn (accusative plural)


mantissa

en-noun

mantissa (plural mantissas or mantissae)

Borrowed from Latin mantissa, mantīsa, of unknown origin (said by Festus to be a loanword from Etruscan, but it may actually be from Celtic, possibly through Etruscan mediation).

(mathematics, computing) The significand; that part of a floating-point number or number in scientific notation that contains its significant digits.


rig

From Early Modern English rygge, probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian rigge (“to bind up; wrap around; rig; equip”), Swedish dialectal rigga (“to rig a horse”), Faroese rigga (“to rig; to equip and fit; to make s.th. function”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *rik- (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *rign-, *reyg- (“to bind”); or related to Old English *wrīhan, wrīohan, wrēohan, wrēon (“to bind; wrap up; cover”). See also wry (“to cover; clothe; dress; hide”).

cog

When I saw a special version of Quake running on Voodoo hardware, I knew I would be forking out quite a bit of money on my gaming rig.

2004, Radford Castro, Let Me Play: Stories of Gaming and Emulation, page 104:

(slang, computing) A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.


FPS

frames per second
frame per second#English

(film, television, computing) Initialism of frames per second.


bundle

From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bundą (“bundle”). Compare also bindle, Dutch bundel, German Bündel.

(computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.


bundle

en-verb

bundle (third-person singular simple present bundles, present participle bundling, simple past and past participle bundled)

bundles (present singular third-person)
bundling (participle present)
bundled (participle past)
bundled (past)

(computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.

paketoida

computing: to sell hardware and software as single product


gin

head

gin (past ghin, future ginidh, verbal noun gintinn, past participle ginte)

ghin (past)
ginidh (future)
gintinn (noun-from-verb)
ginte (participle past)

From Old Irish gainithir (“is born”), from Proto-Celtic *ganyetor (compare Welsh geni (“be born, bear”)) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (compare English kin, Latin gignō (“beget, bear”), Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “become”), Sanskrit जनति (janati, “beget”)).


pita

Inherited from Malay pita, from Portuguese fita, from Latin vitta.

(physics, computing) a part of the electromagnetic spectrum

band
a part of the electromagnetic spectrum


session

→ Japanese: セッション (sesshon)

→ Korean: 세션 (sesyeon)

→ Scottish Gaelic: seisean

sĕshˈˈˈˈˈˈˈ -ən

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).

Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session.

(computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

sesión

(computing) the sequence of interactions between client and server


session

Inherited from Old French session, borrowed from Latin sessiōnem.


png

/ˌpiːɛnˈd͡ʒiː/

(computing) Alternative letter-case form of PNG; Portable Network Graphics, an open protocol for digital images.


pont

pontok (plural)
pont (nominative singular)
pontok (nominative plural)
pontot (accusative singular)
pontokat (accusative plural)
pontnak (dative singular)
pontoknak (dative plural)
ponttal (instrumental singular)
pontokkal (instrumental plural)
pontért (causal-final singular)
pontokért (causal-final plural)
ponttá (singular translative)
pontokká (plural translative)
pontig (singular terminative)
pontokig (plural terminative)
pontként (essive-formal singular)
pontokként (essive-formal plural)
pontban (inessive singular)
pontokban (inessive plural)
ponton (singular superessive)
pontokon (plural superessive)
pontnál (adessive singular)
pontoknál (adessive plural)
pontba (illative singular)
pontokba (illative plural)
pontra (singular sublative)
pontokra (plural sublative)
ponthoz (allative singular)
pontokhoz (allative plural)
pontból (elative singular)
pontokból (elative plural)
pontról (delative singular)
pontokról (delative plural)
ponttól (ablative singular)
pontoktól (ablative plural)
ponté (singular)
pontoké (plural)
pontéi (singular)
pontokéi (plural)
pontom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
pontjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
pontod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
pontjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
pontja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
pontjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
pontunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
pontjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
pontotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
pontjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
pontjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
pontjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Borrowed from German Punkt, from Latin punctum.

(computing) dot (a symbol to separate domain levels such as in a URL or email address)


background

en-noun

background (countable and uncountable, plural backgrounds)

backgrounds (plural)
back ground (alternative obsolete)

(computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).

The antivirus program is running in the background.

(computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.

за́ден план

computing: activity not visible to the user


DCG

The AGFL formalism for the syntactic description of Natural Languages has been developed by the Computer Science Department of the Radboud University of Nijmegen. It is a formalism in which large context free grammars can be described in a compact way. AGFLs belong to the family of two level grammars, along with attribute grammars and DCG's: a first, context-free level is augmented with set-valued features for expressing agreement between constituents.

(computing) Initialism of definite clause grammar.

(computing) Initialism of discounted cumulative gain.


packed decimal

packed decimal (countable and uncountable, plural packed decimals)

(computing) A storage mode that places two decimal digits into one byte, each digit occupying four bits. The sign occupies four bits in the least significant byte.


ECB

(computing) Initialism of event control block (IBM).


spoof

en-verb

spoof (third-person singular simple present spoofs, present participle spoofing, simple past and past participle spoofed)

spoofs (present singular third-person)
spoofing (participle present)
spoofed (participle past)
spoofed (past)

Coined by the English comedian Arthur Roberts (1852–1933) in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.

However, MULTOPS assumes that packet rates between two hosts are proportional and the IP addresses are not spoofed.

2003, Tao Peng, Christopher Leckie, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, “Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attacks by Sharing Distributed Beliefs”, in Rei Safavi-Naini, Jennifer Seberry, editors, Information Security and Privacy: 8th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2003, Wollongong, Australia, July 9–11, 2003: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2727), Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Springer, →ISBN, page 224:

[I]dentities in the online world can be easily spoofed. Your ten-year-old daughter will know that a middle-aged man is not her age or gender when she sees him in the physical world. But as we have seen, that middle-aged man can easily pass himself off as another ten-year-old girl in the online world.

2007, Wes Kussmaul, “The Solution”, in The Sex Life of Tables: What Happens When Databases about You … Mate, Waltham, Mass.: PKI Press, →ISBN, page 83:

This attack [session hijacking] uses the fact that most communications are protected at session setup but not thereafter. The attacker spoofs the victim's IP address and performs a DoS [denial-of-service] attack on the victim.

2009, Manfred Fettinger, “Overview of Security Attacks”, in Intrusion Detection in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Comparison of Different Approaches, [Munich]: GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, section 2.5.2 (Session Hijacking), page 5:


codec

Blend of coder + decoder, probably in imitation of how modem was formed.

Audio and video codecs are important in making multimedia files small enough to distribute and simple to play back.

(computing) A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.

կոդեկ

H.264 and AV1 are examples of video codecs.


codec

(computing) codec (a device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal)


XPCOM

Although most components available from XPCOM are written in C++, the XPConnect/XPCOM pairing can also accommodate other languages.

2002, David Boswell, Creating Applications with Mozilla, →ISBN, page 241:

XPCOM is entirely internal to the Mozilla Platform. XPConnect is the glue that turns XPCOM-compliant objects and their interfaces into JavaScript host objects.

2004, Nigel McFarlane, Rapid Application Development with Mozilla, →ISBN, page 176:

XPCOM enables component software development, a paradigm that is heavily leveraged in the Mozilla product line. DLLs that implement the required external functions and classes defined for this purpose by XPCOM can be registered as components with a Mozilla-based project, and applications can then uses XPCOM to query these components for classes and interfaces, and then make calls against the interfaces to obtain the services provided by the component.

2007, Syd Logan, Cross-Platform Development in C++, →ISBN:

These XPCOM interfaces are the starting point for all XUL elements.

2007, Kenneth C. Feldt, Programming Firefox: Building Rich Internet Applications with XUL, →ISBN:

Cross-Platform Component Object Model
w:XPCOM

(computing) Abbreviation of Cross-Platform Component Object Model.


resize

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(computing) An operation that changes the size of something.


vulnerable

en-adj

vulnerable (comparative more vulnerable, superlative most vulnerable)

more vulnerable (comparative)
most vulnerable (superlative)

From Late Latin vulnerābilis (“injurious, wounding”), from Latin vulnerō (“I wound”).

bor

a vulnerable PC with no antivirus software

(computing) More likely to be exposed to malicious programs or viruses.


unfold

en-verb

unfold (third-person singular simple present unfolds, present participle unfolding, simple past and past participle unfolded)

unfolds (present singular third-person)
unfolding (participle present)
unfolded (participle past)
unfolded (past)

From Middle English unfolden, from Old English unfealdan (“to unfold”), equivalent to un- + fold.

(transitive, computing) To reassemble a line of text that was split across multiple lines.


unfold

functional programming
functional programming

higher-order function
higher-order function

(computing, programming) In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.


relocation

en-noun

relocation (countable and uncountable, plural relocations)

/ˌɹiːləʊˈkeɪʃən/

A peculiarity of ECOFF relocation entries is that even on 32-bit machines, they're 10 bytes long, which means that on machines that require aligned data, the linker can't just load the entire relocation table into a memory array[…]

2000, John R. Levine, Linkers and Loaders, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 157:

(computing) The assigning of addresses to variables either at linkage editing, or at runtime.


double-click

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(computing) The action of pushing the button on a mouse twice in quick succession in order to perform a different task that would be performed from a single-click or triple-click.

երկկտտոց

action or event of pushing mouse-button twice


double-click

en-verb

double-click (third-person singular simple present double-clicks, present participle double-clicking, simple past and past participle double-clicked)

double-clicks (present singular third-person)
double-clicking (participle present)
double-clicked (participle past)
double-clicked (past)

(computing) To push the button on a mouse twice in quick succession in order to perform a different task than would be performed from a single-click or triple-click.


DASD

(computing) Initialism of direct access storage device, such as a USB drive or hard drive.


nbsp

I also changed OutputToString and OutputToStream to check for an empty document when requesting plain text, in which case they'll return an empty string or stream. This fixes the bug where we'd send back an nbsp in the string.

1999 September 8, Simon Fraser, “fixes for empty doc testing and output”, in netscape.public.mozilla.editor (Usenet):

You need the nbsp in order for the cell to show like a regular cell (otherwise you get that "raised" looking space -- if you know what I mean).

2001 June 4, Fox, “Netscape: DIV within a table?”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):

Incidentally - I noticed myself that GL doesn't automatically put a nbsp in table cells.

2003 June 6, "S Chapman", "Help me upgrade from PageMill !", in adobe.golive.windows, Usenet

non-breaking space
non-breaking space#English

(HTML) Initialism of non-breaking space.


word processing

word-processing (alternative)
wordprocessing (alternative)

/ˈwəːdˌprəʊsɛsŋ/

(computing) The creation, input, editing and formatting of documents and other text using software on a computer.


word processing

Unadapted borrowing from English word processing.


reproduction

en-noun

reproduction (countable and uncountable, plural reproductions)

/ˌɹiːpɹəˈdʌkʃən/

Could you file a bug at on the issue tracker with a minimum reproduction so that we can investigate?

2020, Joe Tsai, “[Bug?] Repeated imported enum cause panic in golang”, in protobuf mailing list:

(computing) A method for reproducing a bug or problem.


CNC

Near-synonyms: NC, numerical control (broadly synonymous in current usage)

computer numerical control
w:computer numerical control

numerical control
numerical control#English

(computing, manufacturing) Initialism of computer numerical control or computerized numerical control.


POV

(finance, computing) Initialism of percentage of volume, a type of securities trading algorithm.


cross-platform

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(computing) Of software, etc., designed to work on various operating systems.


CPAD

(computing) Initialism of cross-platform application development.


PMS

PMS (countable and uncountable, plural PMSs)

package management system
package management system#English

(computing, countable) Initialism of package management system.


fortune cookie

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(computing) A quote-of-the-day feature (especially on *nix systems.)


carousel

carousels (plural)
carrousel (alternative)

From French carrousel, from Italian carosello, from Sicilian caruseḍḍu and/or Neapolitan carusiello. Uncertain. Some suggested a derivation from carro (“cart”), from Latin carrus, but this does not fit the criteria of an appropriate morphological reconstruction. Not believed to be related to carousal.

(computing) Synonym of jukebox (“automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.”).


From ᵒ/c, from Nᵒ/c, an abbreviation of Italian numero per cento (“number per hundred”). For the extension to Astraea is derived from the shift-5 key on the keyboard for asteroid (5).

der

(computing) Used as a wildcard, usually in SQL, to stand for zero or more characters.

(computing, programming) Used as the symbol for the modulus, placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.


(computing) user's home directory in Unix-like operating systems


(computing) A common prefix for escape characters.

(computing) A pathname component separator in some operating systems, predominantly Microsoft ones.


Press ^F to search for text in your document.

(computing, as part of a keyboard shortcut) Control key.

^W = end of control block

control character
control character#English

(computing) Indicates an ASCII control character in caret notation.


bloatware

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From bloat + -ware, originally in the sense “unwieldy software”. The sense “pre-installed software” has become predominant since the 2010s.

Today’s software development cycle does not allow time to optimize and refine products, and that leads to bloatware.

1996 February 12, Ed Foster, “Passing the bloatware buck: Programmers finger deadlines, driven bosses”, in InfoWorld, page 58:

That’s not really a surprise, considering that writing efficient software takes more time than writing wasteful code. “Bloatware” makes economic sense for software developers, if not for consumers!

2001, Glenn E. Weadock, Upgrading Your Home PC, →ISBN, page 16:

I’ll bet you think I’m going to write one of those boring articles you see all over the net bemoaning “bloatware.” Whine whine whine, this stuff is so bloated, oh woe is me, edlin and vi are so much better than Word and Emacs because they are svelte, etc.

2001 March 23, Joel Spolsky, “Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth”, in Joel on Software; republished as Joel on Software […], 2004, →ISBN, page 277:

(computing, informal) Software that is packed with too many features and therefore slow or unwieldy; software that is inefficiently designed and occupies an excessive amount of memory or disk space.

turhakeohjelmisto

software that is overpacked with features

Bloatware has also introduced numerous security and trust issues in smartphones. […] OEMs, third-party app providers, telecommunication operators, and malicious parties have used bloatware apps to over-collect user data.

2017, Haroon Elahi, Guojun Wang, Xu Li, “Smartphone Bloatware: An Overlooked Privacy Problem”, in Guojun Wang et al., editors, Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage, →ISBN, page 170:

Most phones had preinstalled Android stores and bloatware built in by manufacturers, but workers would still choose to install third-party marketplaces like Tencent MyApp, Baidu 91 Mobile Assistance, and Qihoo 360 Mobile Assistants.

2018, Luzhou Nina Li, “Android App Stores and the Appification of Everything”, in Jeremy Wade Morris, Sarah Murray, editors, Appified: Culture in the Age of Apps, →ISBN, page 46:

“[…] samsung should stop adding crap bloatware […] i never use such app^([sic]) and i dont need it”

2018, Shawn Mankad, Shengli Hu, Anandasivam Gopal, “Single state prediction with embedded topic modeling of online reviews for mobile app management”, in The Annals of Applied Statistics, volume 12, number 4, →JSTOR, page 2297:

(computing) Unwanted pre-installed software, especially on a smartphone.


listing

Print me a listing of the latest version.

(computing) A printout of a program or data set.


CP

en-noun

CP (countable and uncountable, plural CPs)


CBT

CBT (countable and uncountable, plural CBTs)

(computing, countable) Initialism of closed beta test.


rem

programming language
programming language

(computing) A remark; a programming language statement used for documentation (in BASIC for example); also used in DOS batch files.


backport

en-verb

backport (third-person singular simple present backports, present participle backporting, simple past and past participle backported)

backports (present singular third-person)
backporting (participle present)
backported (participle past)
backported (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-backport.wav

To retroactively supply (to a previous version of a software product) a fix, or a new feature, at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.

corregir retroactivament

to retroactively supply to (a previous version of a software product) a fix, or a new feature, at the same time or after supplying it to the current version

To retroactively supply (a fix or a new feature) to a previous version of a software product at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.

(also video games) To re-release software on its original or a previous platform with new features, after its release on a different platform.


backport

This backport fixes an urgent bug.

A software program that has been backported.


executive

executives (plural)
exe. (alternative abbreviation)
exec. (alternative abbreviation)
execu. (alternative abbreviation)

/ˈɛɡzɪkjuːʈɪv/

From Middle French executif, from Latin executivus, from Latin exsequi, from ex- ‘out’ + sequi ‘follow’.

1973, ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems, Fourth Symposium on Operating System Principles
The second phase of the executive development proceeded through two steps as stated in Section 2. First, a failsoft executive was developed providing automatic failure detection and recovery […]

(computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.


intrinsic

intrinsics (plural)
intrinsick (alternative obsolete)

From Middle French intrinsèque, from Latin intrīnsecus (“on the inside, inwardly”), from *intrim, an assumed adverbial form of inter (“within”) + secus (“by, on the side”).

der

SIMD intrinics

Crappy loops, we got them: Use vector intrinsics¶ For troublesome loops that just don't vectorize even with hints, vector intrinsics are another option.

2021, Robert Robey, Yuliana Zamora, Parallel and High Performance Computing, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 190:

(computing, programming) A built-in function that is implemented directly by the compiler, without any intermediate call to a library.


spindle

spindles (plural)
spindel (alternative obsolete)
spinnel (alternative dialectal)

From Middle English spyndel, spindle, spyndylle, from Old English spindle, spindel, alteration of earlier spinel, spinil, spinl (“spindle”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinnilu (“spindle”), equivalent to spin + -le. Cognate with Scots spindil, spinnell (“spindle”), Dutch spindel ("spindle"; < Middle Dutch spille, spinle), German Spindel (“spindle”), Danish spindel (“spindle”), Swedish spindel (“spindle”).
The dragonfly sense (sense 13) is a calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle); this word was introduced by New Sweden settlers.

gloss

(computing) A plastic container for packaging optical discs such as CDs or DVDs, having a central column that passes through the central holes in the discs and keeps them in a stack.

spindel

computing: a plastic container for packaging optical discs


hint

→ Danish: hint

→ Dutch: hint

→ Japanese: ヒント (hinto)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: hint

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: hint

→ Swedish: hint

From Middle English hinten, hynten, variant of henten (“to lay hold of, catch”), from Old English hentan (“to seize, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *hantijan, from Proto-Germanic *hantijaną. Doublet of hent. Related also to hunt.

This font does not scale well to small sizes; the hints for the 10-point letter 'g' still need work.

(computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.


rekey

en-verb

rekey (third-person singular simple present rekeys, present participle rekeying, simple past and past participle rekeyed)

rekeys (present singular third-person)
rekeying (participle present)
rekeyed (participle past)
rekeyed (past)

She had to rekey the security code.

(computing) To enter information into a device, such as a keyboard or keypad, after it has been done at least once before.


conversion

en-noun

conversion (countable and uncountable, plural conversions)

From Middle English conversion, conversioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conversion, from Latin conversiō, from convertō.

обръщане

the act of having converted something or someone

המרת דת

to replace one religious faith with another

Mike Follin […] also programmed the Spectrum version of The Sentinel (97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-op conversions Bubble Bobble (90%, Issue 45) and Bionic Commando (92%, Issue 53).

(computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.


disable

en-verb

disable (third-person singular simple present disables, present participle disabling, simple past and past participle disabled)

disables (present singular third-person)
disabling (participle present)
disabled (participle past)
disabled (past)

The pilot had to disable the autopilot of his airplane.

At the end of March 2015 the onboard software configuration of the AGILE satellite was modified in order to disable the veto signal of the anticoincidence shield for the minicalorimeter instrument.

2016, M. Marisaldi, A. Argan, A. Ursi, T. Gjesteland, F. Fuschino, C. Labanti, M. Galli, M. Tavani, C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia, F. D'Amico, N. Østgaard, S. Mereghetti, R. Campana, P.W. Cattaneo, A. Bulgarelli, S. Colafrancesco, S. Dietrich, F. Longo, F. Gianotti, P. Giommi, A. Rappoldi, M. Trifoglio, A. Trois, “Enhanced detection of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes by AGILE”, in arXiv:

(chiefly electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

afskakel

to deactivate a function of an electronic or mechanical device


luser

(computing, slang, derogatory) An incompetent computer user.

(computing, slang, derogatory) A user (especially in IRC) who disobeys the rules of the servers that they are using and usually resorts to disruptive or offensive behavior/behaviour.


Easter egg

/ˈiː.stəɹ ˌɛɡ/

From Easter + egg. Cognate with German Low German Ooosterei (“Easter egg”), Middle High German ōsterei ("Easter egg"; > modern German Osterei). So called because eggs would be eaten during Easter to break the fasting during Lent. (No eggs, dairy, meat except fish, lard, or foods containing these ingredients could be eaten during Lent.) The computing sense is from the early 1980s, popularized by the video game Adventure.

gloss

"Easter egg"; > modern German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Osterei</i>

an Easter egg that displays the names of the application's development team

Once found, the Easter egg will often enable the player to traverse through the game much more rapidly the second time around.

2011, Myint Swe Khine, Learning to Play: Exploring the Future of Education with Video Games, page 59:

(computing, video games) An undocumented function hidden in a program or video game, typically triggered by a particular input sequence or combination of keystrokes.

ou de pasqua

an undocumented function hidden in a program


pilvi

pilvi (nominative singular)
pilvet (nominative plural)
pilvi (accusative nominative singular)
pilvet (accusative nominative plural)
pilven (accusative genitive singular)
pilvet (accusative genitive plural)
pilven (genitive singular)
pilvien (genitive plural)
pilveä (partitive singular)
pilviä (partitive plural)
pilvessä (inessive singular)
pilvissä (inessive plural)
pilvestä (elative singular)
pilvistä (elative plural)
pilveen (illative singular)
pilviin (illative plural)
pilvellä (adessive singular)
pilvillä (adessive plural)
pilveltä (ablative singular)
pilviltä (ablative plural)
pilvelle (allative singular)
pilville (allative plural)
pilvenä (essive singular)
pilvinä (essive plural)
pilveksi (singular translative)
pilviksi (plural translative)
pilvettä (abessive singular)
pilvittä (abessive plural)
pilvin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
pilveni (nominative singular)
pilveni (nominative plural)
pilveni (accusative nominative singular)
pilveni (accusative nominative plural)
pilveni (accusative genitive singular)
pilveni (accusative genitive plural)
pilveni (genitive singular)
pilvieni (genitive plural)
pilveäni (partitive singular)
pilviäni (partitive plural)
pilvessäni (inessive singular)
pilvissäni (inessive plural)
pilvestäni (elative singular)
pilvistäni (elative plural)
pilveeni (illative singular)
pilviini (illative plural)
pilvelläni (adessive singular)
pilvilläni (adessive plural)
pilveltäni (ablative singular)
pilviltäni (ablative plural)
pilvelleni (allative singular)
pilvilleni (allative plural)
pilvenäni (essive singular)
pilvinäni (essive plural)
pilvekseni (singular translative)
pilvikseni (plural translative)
pilvettäni (abessive singular)
pilvittäni (abessive plural)
pilvineni (comitative plural)
pilvesi (nominative singular)
pilvesi (nominative plural)
pilvesi (accusative nominative singular)
pilvesi (accusative nominative plural)
pilvesi (accusative genitive singular)
pilvesi (accusative genitive plural)
pilvesi (genitive singular)
pilviesi (genitive plural)
pilveäsi (partitive singular)
pilviäsi (partitive plural)
pilvessäsi (inessive singular)
pilvissäsi (inessive plural)
pilvestäsi (elative singular)
pilvistäsi (elative plural)
pilveesi (illative singular)
pilviisi (illative plural)
pilvelläsi (adessive singular)
pilvilläsi (adessive plural)
pilveltäsi (ablative singular)
pilviltäsi (ablative plural)
pilvellesi (allative singular)
pilvillesi (allative plural)
pilvenäsi (essive singular)
pilvinäsi (essive plural)
pilveksesi (singular translative)
pilviksesi (plural translative)
pilvettäsi (abessive singular)
pilvittäsi (abessive plural)
pilvinesi (comitative plural)
pilvemme (nominative singular)
pilvemme (nominative plural)
pilvemme (accusative nominative singular)
pilvemme (accusative nominative plural)
pilvemme (accusative genitive singular)
pilvemme (accusative genitive plural)
pilvemme (genitive singular)
pilviemme (genitive plural)
pilveämme (partitive singular)
pilviämme (partitive plural)
pilvessämme (inessive singular)
pilvissämme (inessive plural)
pilvestämme (elative singular)
pilvistämme (elative plural)
pilveemme (illative singular)
pilviimme (illative plural)
pilvellämme (adessive singular)
pilvillämme (adessive plural)
pilveltämme (ablative singular)
pilviltämme (ablative plural)
pilvellemme (allative singular)
pilvillemme (allative plural)
pilvenämme (essive singular)
pilvinämme (essive plural)
pilveksemme (singular translative)
pilviksemme (plural translative)
pilvettämme (abessive singular)
pilvittämme (abessive plural)
pilvinemme (comitative plural)
pilvenne (nominative singular)
pilvenne (nominative plural)
pilvenne (accusative nominative singular)
pilvenne (accusative nominative plural)
pilvenne (accusative genitive singular)
pilvenne (accusative genitive plural)
pilvenne (genitive singular)
pilvienne (genitive plural)
pilveänne (partitive singular)
pilviänne (partitive plural)
pilvessänne (inessive singular)
pilvissänne (inessive plural)
pilvestänne (elative singular)
pilvistänne (elative plural)
pilveenne (illative singular)
pilviinne (illative plural)
pilvellänne (adessive singular)
pilvillänne (adessive plural)
pilveltänne (ablative singular)
pilviltänne (ablative plural)
pilvellenne (allative singular)
pilvillenne (allative plural)
pilvenänne (essive singular)
pilvinänne (essive plural)
pilveksenne (singular translative)
pilviksenne (plural translative)
pilvettänne (abessive singular)
pilvittänne (abessive plural)
pilvinenne (comitative plural)
pilvensä (nominative singular)
pilvensä (nominative plural)
pilvensä (accusative nominative singular)
pilvensä (accusative nominative plural)
pilvensä (accusative genitive singular)
pilvensä (accusative genitive plural)
pilvensä (genitive singular)
pilviensä (genitive plural)
pilveään (partitive singular)
pilveänsä (partitive singular)
pilviään (partitive plural)
pilviänsä (partitive plural)
pilvessään (inessive singular)
pilvessänsä (inessive singular)
pilvissään (inessive plural)
pilvissänsä (inessive plural)
pilvestään (elative singular)
pilvestänsä (elative singular)
pilvistään (elative plural)
pilvistänsä (elative plural)
pilveensä (illative singular)
pilviinsä (illative plural)
pilvellään (adessive singular)
pilvellänsä (adessive singular)
pilvillään (adessive plural)
pilvillänsä (adessive plural)
pilveltään (ablative singular)
pilveltänsä (ablative singular)
pilviltään (ablative plural)
pilviltänsä (ablative plural)
pilvelleen (allative singular)
pilvellensä (allative singular)
pilvilleen (allative plural)
pilvillensä (allative plural)
pilvenään (essive singular)
pilvenänsä (essive singular)
pilvinään (essive plural)
pilvinänsä (essive plural)
pilvekseen (singular translative)
pilveksensä (singular translative)
pilvikseen (plural translative)
pilviksensä (plural translative)
pilvettään (abessive singular)
pilvettänsä (abessive singular)
pilvittään (abessive plural)
pilvittänsä (abessive plural)
pilvineen (comitative plural)
pilvinensä (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *pilvi, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pilwe. Cognate with Estonian pilv, Northern Sami balva, Erzya пель (peľ) and Hungarian felhő.