magic

en-noun

magic (usually uncountable, plural magics)

magics (plural)
magick (alternative)
magicke (alternative obsolete)
magique (alternative obsolete)

→ Japanese: マジック (majikku)

→ Korean: 매직 (maejik)

From Middle English magik, magyk, from Old French magique (noun and adjective), from Latin magicus (adjective), magica (noun use of feminine form of magicus), from Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós, “magical”), from μάγος (mágos, “magus”). Ultimately from Old Iranian, probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to be able to, to help; power, sorcerer”). Displaced native Old English ġealdor (survived in Middle English galder), and dwimmer.

toorkuns

use of rituals or actions exploiting the supernatural

toorkuns

ritual associated with supernatural magic or mysticism

աճպարարություն

illusion performed to give the appearance of magic or the supernatural

The stringstream class hides a lot of string parsing magic from us at this point.

2017, Jacek Galowicz, C++17 STL Cookbook, page 257:

Something producing successful and remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.

(computing, slang) Complicated or esoteric code that is not expected to be generally understood.


splash

Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-).

When the splash appears with Please wait, wait for Windows to start configuration.

2008, Ron Carswell, Heidi Webb, Guide to Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005:


ABC

en-noun

ABC (countable and uncountable, plural ABCs)

Atanasoff-Berry computer
w:Atanasoff-Berry computer

(computing) Initialism of Atanasoff-Berry computer.

artificial bee colony
artificial bee colony#English

(computing) Initialism of artificial bee colony.


ABC

Like QWERTY, the name is based on the first letter keys.

(computing, typography) A keyboard layout in which all keys are arranged in alphabetical order in English.


output

output (countable and uncountable, plural outputs)

From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.

a six-page output; six pages of output

That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.

(computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another.

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(computing, electrical engineering) The terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.


output

en-verb

output (third-person singular simple present outputs, present participle outputting, simple past and past participle output or outputted)

outputs (present singular third-person)
outputting (participle present)
output (participle past)
output (past)
outputted (participle past)
outputted (past)

When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.

(computing) To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another.


output

Unadapted borrowing from English output.


kick

kick (third-person singular simple present kicks, present participle kicking, simple past and past participle kicked)

kicks (present singular third-person)
kicking (participle present)
kicked (participle past)
kicked (past)
kick (infinitive)
kick (first-person present singular)
kicked (first-person past singular)
kick (present second-person singular)
kickest (archaic present second-person singular)
kicked (past second-person singular)
kickedst (archaic past second-person singular)
kicks (present singular third-person)
kicketh (archaic present singular third-person)
kicked (past singular third-person)
kick (plural present)
kicked (past plural)
kick (present subjunctive)
kicked (past subjunctive)
kick (imperative present)
kicking (participle present)
kicked (participle past)

→ German: kicken

→ Welsh: cicio

From Middle English kyken (“to strike out with the foot”), from Old Norse kikna (“to sink at the knees”) and keikja (“to bend backwards”) (compare Old Norse keikr (“bent backwards, the belly jutting forward”)), from Proto-Germanic *kaikaz (“bent backwards”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kī-, *kij- (“to split, dodge, swerve sidewards”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyH- (“to sprout, shoot”). Compare also Dutch kijken (“to look”), Middle Low German kīken (“to look, watch”). See keek.

штовхну́ти

ного́ю; нога́ми

In the meantime, it is possible for the embedded software to “kick” the watchdog timer, to reset its counter to the original large number.

1999, Michael Barr, Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++, page 98:

From now on the process has to periodically kick the watchdog timer in intervals shorter than the initialization interval.

2012, Tarek Sobh, Khaled Elleithy, Emerging Trends in Computing, Informatics, Systems Sciences, and Engineering, page 763:

(computing, transitive) To reset (a watchdog timer).


שמר

he-verb

שָׁמַר • (shamár) (pa'al construction, passive counterpart נִשְׁמַר)

שָׁמַר (canonical)
shamár (romanization)
נִשְׁמַר (passive)
לשמור
לִשְׁמֹר
שְׁמִירָה (noun-from-verb)
שָׁמוּר (participle passive)
שָׁמַרְתִּי (feminine first-person masculine past singular)
שָׁמַרְנוּ (feminine first-person masculine past plural)
שָׁמַרְתָּ (masculine past second-person singular)
שָׁמַרְתְּ (feminine past second-person singular)
שְׁמַרְתֶּם (masculine past plural second-person)
שְׁמַרְתֶּן (feminine past plural second-person)
שָׁמַר (masculine past singular third-person)
שָׁמְרָה (feminine past singular third-person)
שָׁמְרוּ (feminine masculine past plural third-person)
שׁוֹמֵר (masculine present singular)
שׁוֹמֶרֶת (feminine present singular)
שׁוֹמְרִים (masculine plural present)
שׁוֹמְרוֹת (feminine plural present)
אשמור (feminine first-person future masculine singular)
אֶשְׁמֹר (feminine first-person future masculine singular)
נשמור (feminine first-person future masculine plural)
נִשְׁמֹר (feminine first-person future masculine plural)
תשמור (future masculine second-person singular)
תִּשְׁמֹר (future masculine second-person singular)
תִּשְׁמְרִי (feminine future second-person singular)
תִּשְׁמְרוּ (future masculine plural second-person)
תשמורנה (feminine future plural second-person)
תִּשְׁמֹרְנָה (feminine future plural second-person)
ישמור (future masculine singular third-person)
יִשְׁמֹר (future masculine singular third-person)
תשמור (feminine future singular third-person)
תִּשְׁמֹר (feminine future singular third-person)
יִשְׁמְרוּ (future masculine plural third-person)
תשמורנה (feminine future plural third-person)
תִּשְׁמֹרְנָה (feminine future plural third-person)
שמור (imperative masculine singular)
שְׁמֹר (imperative masculine singular)
שִׁמְרִי (feminine imperative singular)
שִׁמְרוּ (imperative masculine plural)
שמורנה (feminine imperative plural)
שְׁמֹרְנָה (feminine imperative plural)


rot

rot (indefinite nominative singular)
rots (genitive indefinite singular)
roten (definite nominative singular)
rotens (definite genitive singular)
rötter (indefinite nominative plural)
rötters (genitive indefinite plural)
rötterna (definite nominative plural)
rötternas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish rōt, from Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.


CD

CD m inan or (canonical feminine neuter)
cd (alternative uncommon)


CD

CDs (plural)
cedê (alternative uncommon)

CD (compact-disc: a type optical data storage disc)


CD-ROM

CD-ROM (canonical)
shīdī-romu (romanization)

[ɕiːdʲiː ɾo̞mɯ̟]


PET

en-noun

PET (countable and uncountable, plural PETs)

The name of the computer (sense 4) derives from the 1970s pet rock fad; the acronym was invented afterwards.

Why is the order of graphical characters in the PETSCII table so seemingly haphazard? The answer is that arrangement was dictated by the PET keyboard design, a hardware-driven decision.

2014, Nick Montfort et al., 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 225:

personal electronic transactor
w:Commodore PET

(countable, historical, computing, backronym) Acronym of personal electronic transactor, a line of personal computers produced by Commodore International.


GCC

* (GNU Compiler Collection): GCC was originally an acronym for "GNU C Compiler", now a backronym for "GNU Compiler Collection".
* (Gulf Cooperation Council): Initialism of Gulf Cooperation Council.

(computing) Initialism of GNU Compiler Collection, a collection of compilers for C, C++, Fortran, etc. aiming to be standards-compliant and correct.


division

division (countable and uncountable, plural divisions)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin dīvīsiō, dīvīsiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.

remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.


dev

dev (countable and uncountable, plural devs)

French: dev


dev

(computing) synonym of développeur (“dev”)


Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin nūllus.

(computing) The null character; the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, which indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.

Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null.

(computing) The attribute of an entity that has no valid value.


en-verb

null (third-person singular simple present nulls, present participle nulling, simple past and past participle nulled)

nulls (present singular third-person)
nulling (participle present)
nulled (participle past)
nulled (past)

A nulled or a cracked plugin is basically a hacked version of a paid plugin that offers its premium functionalities for free.

2020, Tejas Mayekar, Destroyed In Seconds: 10 Mistakes That Will Destroy Your Website, page 6:

(computing, slang, transitive) To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).


行

Characters in the same phonetic series (行) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – a street intersection.
Originally symmetric, it has been simplified asymmetrically; the left half 彳 (chì) is widely used as a radical, while the right half 亍 (chù) finds occasional use, and the character can be broken up as 彳 + 亍, though originally it was not a compound.


表

Daijisen#Online_search_engines
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Nihon Shoki

Ultimately from Old Japanese. Cognate with 面 (omote). Derived as a compound of 面 (omo, “face”) + 手 (te, “hand; direction, side”), basically meaning "face-wards; facing side".
The term omote in general is attested since the Nihon Shoki of 720. The 表 spelling for this word is attested from roughly 1000.
Cognate with Okinawan 表 (umuti).


記

chữ Nôm form of ghi (“to write something for the record, (computing) to write, (literary) to remember; to keep remembrances”)


beta

en-noun

beta (countable and uncountable, plural betas)

From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.

The company is offering a public beta program to test the software.

(uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.

He quickly deduced our goal—ship a quality beta—but he also quickly discerned that we had no idea about the quality of the product because of our pile of untriaged bugs.

2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans, page 107:

We will assume you got the .tgz version—later 2.x series versions such as 2.5.2 or 2.6.0 should be okay, provided they are production releases (not alphas, betas, or release candidates).

2007, Mark Summerfield, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming, Pearson Education, →ISBN:

Before Evolve had even seen its first beta, the game's publisher dipped its toe into presenting it as an eSport.

2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica:

Apple is rolling out the public beta of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 on Thursday. We have a full (and lengthy) preview guide on both operating systems here, and now we’re breaking down how to get the public beta on your iPhone or iPad.
These versions of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 are betas and don’t represent final software.

2020 July 9, Jacob Krol, “Here’s how to get the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 public beta”, in CNN:

(countable) Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.

beta levels; beta characters; beta items in a video game

(proscribed, uncountable) Any kind of content from early development that was not used in the final product.


beta

(computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.


beta

en-verb

beta (third-person singular simple present betas, present participle betaing, simple past and past participle betaed)

betas (present singular third-person)
betaing (participle present)
betaed (participle past)
betaed (past)

(computing) To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.


beta

From Latin bēta, from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).


beta

beta (indefinite nominative singular)
betas (genitive indefinite singular)
betat (definite nominative singular)
betats (definite genitive singular)
beta (indefinite nominative plural)
betas (genitive indefinite plural)
betan (definite nominative plural)
betans (definite genitive plural)
beta (indefinite nominative singular)
betas (genitive indefinite singular)
betan (definite nominative singular)
betans (definite genitive singular)
betor (indefinite nominative plural)
betors (genitive indefinite plural)
betorna (definite nominative plural)
betornas (definite genitive plural)

Latin bēta, from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).


download

download (third-person singular simple present downloads, present participle downloading, simple past and past participle downloaded)

downloads (present singular third-person)
downloading (participle present)
downloaded (participle past)
downloaded (past)
DL (alternative)
dl (alternative)
d/l (alternative)
D/L (alternative)

→ Danish: downloade

→ Dutch: downloaden

→ German: downloaden; herunterladen (calque)

desc

→ Lao: ດາວໂຫຼດ (dāo lōt)

→ Lao: ດາວໂຫຼດ (dāo lōt)

→ Malay: muat turun (calque)

→ Maltese: ddawnlowdja

→ Thai: ดาวน์โหลด (daao-lòot)

From down- + load. Verbal form first appears c. 1962 in the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times. Nominal form first appears c. 1977 in Scientific American.

You can download a trial version of the program for thirty days to determine whether you want to purchase the full version.

You can download Google's deskbar for free […]

2005, Preston Gralla, Windows XP Power Hound: Teach Yourself New Tricks, page 179:

Voiceover: You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow and then steal it again. Downloading films is stealing. If you do it you WILL face the consequences.
Roy: Man, these anti-piracy ads are getting really mean.

2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3

Finally, some e-content must first be downloaded to a computer before being transferred to a tablet or other mobile device for viewing.

2012, Rebecca K. Miller, Carolyn Meier, Heather Moorfield-Lang, Rethinking Reference and Instruction with Tablets, page 38:

With Apple’s solar farm, customers could now be confident that downloading an app or video-chatting a friend would not increase carbon pollution, Jackson said.

2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The Guardian:

That original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans to make any more changes or additions to that initial list.

2022 February 15, David Goldman, “Why your Wordle answers might now be different than your friends’”, in CNN Business:

(transitive, computing) To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.

نَزَّلَ

to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one


download

/taːŋ⁵⁵ lou̯⁵⁵/

/taːŋ⁵⁵ lou̯⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) to download


download

Unadapted borrowing from English download.

ubor

(computing) download (file transfer to the local computer)


cloudlet

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

The idea is to use the cloudlet as a flexible gateway or portal to access the distant cloud. The cloudlet can be implemented on PCs, workstations or low-cost servers.

2017, Kai Hwang, Min Chen, Big-Data Analytics for Cloud, IoT and Cognitive Computing, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(computing) A small-scale cloud data center deployed at the edge.


跑

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *bruː, *bruːɡ): semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 包 (OC *pruː).
Compare Proto-Loloish *paw¹ (“to flee”) (Schuessler, 2007).
The computing sense is a semantic loan from English run.

Han compound

GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Samsung's DeX can be used to run Linux now

三星的DeX可以拿來跑Linux了

三星的DeX可以拿来跑Linux了

(computing, colloquial) to run (a program)


delta

From Ancient Greek δέλτα (délta), borrowed from a Phoenician word for "door", ultimately from Proto-Semitic *dalt-. Doublet of dalet.
* (river): from the triangular shape of the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ
* (USSF): from the delta wing, symbol of the USSF, a triangular wing, shaped like the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ

When you update the file, the system will only save the deltas.

(computing) The set of differences between two versions of a file.

muutos

computing: set of differences between two versions of a file

This will slow the main code path down, but only by delta.

(computing, informal) A small but noticeable effect. Compare epsilon.


delta

en-verb

delta (third-person singular simple present deltas, present participle deltaing, simple past and past participle deltaed)

deltas (present singular third-person)
deltaing (participle present)
deltaed (participle past)
deltaed (past)

The primary function of this command is to delta the product version file (if it has been retrieved for edit). However, prior to deltaing the product version file, the work source tree is searched to verify that no other source files are still waiting to be deltaed.

1992, Israel Silverberg, Source File Management With SCCS, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 166:

(computing) To compare two versions of the same file in order to determine where they differ (where a programmer has made edits).


epsilon

en-noun

epsilon (countable and uncountable, plural epsilons or epsila)

From Ancient Greek ἒ ψιλόν (è psilón, “simple Ε”).

uder

Yes, we have to convert all the symbol names to upper case at startup, but that’s epsilon.

All right, okay. My interest is epsilon.

2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 106:

(computing, colloquial) Something negligible or insignificant.


binary code

en-noun

binary code (countable and uncountable, plural binary codes)

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

(computing) A code that uses the binary digits (1 and 0), usually in groups of eight, to represent characters, machine instructions or other data.


UPN

(computing) Initialism of user principal name.


UPN

Umgekehrte Polnische Notation
Umgekehrte Polnische Notation#German

(computing) initialism of Umgekehrte Polnische Notation


遍

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p-(r/j)an (“to spread (wide), stretch out”); compare Burmese ပြန့် (pran., “flat and even, broad”) (STEDT).

cog

Multiple-pass compilation allows for more extensive and thorough optimization, resulting in a higher quality target program.

Duō biàn biānyì nénggòu shǐ yōuhuà gōngzuò zuò dé gèngduō, gèng chōngfēn, kě huòdé gèng gāo zhìliàng de mùbiāo chéngxù.

多遍編譯能夠使優化工作做得更多、更充分，可獲得更高質量的目標程序。

多遍编译能够使优化工作做得更多、更充分，可获得更高质量的目标程序。

(computing) pass, a run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.


paragraph

/ˈpæɹəɡɹɑːf/

From Middle English paragraf, from Middle French paragraphe from Latin paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos), from παρά (pará, “beside”) and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of paragraphos.

der

(computing) An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.


XXX

From the reduplication of X (“a placeholder for any letter or word”).
The currency code was adopted in October 1976 and officially introduced in 1978 with ISO 4217 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

rdp

(computing) Used as a placeholder in source code to mark that some work still has to be done.


TM

en-noun

TM (countable and uncountable, plural TMs)

(computing) Initialism of Turing machine.


dl

(computing) Download; Alternative form of DL.


dl

en-verb

dl (third-person singular simple present dls, present participle dling, simple past and past participle dled)

dls (present singular third-person)
dling (participle present)
dled (participle past)
dled (past)
DL (alternative)
d/l (alternative)
D/L (alternative)


echo

en-noun

echo (countable and uncountable, plural echoes or echos)

echoes (plural)
echos (plural)
echoe (alternative)
eccho (alternative)

From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.

(computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.

kaiutus

When someone asks an off-topic question […] they are usually quickly told to knock it off. You can't ask a question about modems in an echo devoted to local-area networks.

(computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.


echo

en-verb

echo (third-person singular simple present echoes, present participle echoing, simple past and past participle echoed)

echoes (present singular third-person)
echoing (participle present)
echoed (participle past)
echoed (past)
echoe (alternative)
eccho (alternative)

The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.

1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy:

(computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.


鍵

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡran, *ɡranʔ, *ɡanʔ): semantic 釒 (“metal”) + phonetic 建 (OC *kans) – a metal key.

Han compound

(computing) key (value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container)


鎖

→ Zhuang: suj

via Old Chinese:

→ Burmese: သော့ (sau.)

→ Mon: သအ်

→ Khmer: សោ (sao)

→ Shan: သေႃး (sáu)

→ Khün: ᨪᩳ

→ Lü: ᦌᦸ (soa)

→⇒ Middle Korean: 솨줄〮 (swàcwúl)

→ Old Uyghur: 𐽻𐽳𐽰 (sua)

⇒ Old Uyghur: 𐽻𐽳𐽰𐾁𐽰𐽹𐽰𐽷 (suala-)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *soːlʔ): semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 𧴪 (suǒ).

Han compound

(computing) lock (mutex or other token restricting access to a resource)


MSN

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft Network.

(computing, informal) Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger), an instant messaging client from Microsoft.


bus

bus (nominative singular)
busy (nominative plural)
busu (genitive singular)
busů (genitive plural)
busu (dative singular)
busům (dative plural)
bus (accusative singular)
busy (accusative plural)
buse (singular vocative)
busy (plural vocative)
busu (locative singular)
busech (locative plural)
busem (instrumental singular)
busy (instrumental plural)

(computing) bus (an electrical interface connecting two or more components)


bus

head

bus m (genitive singular bus, nominative plural busanna)

bus (genitive singular)
busanna (nominative plural)
bus (indefinite nominative singular)
busanna (indefinite nominative plural)
a bhus (indefinite singular vocative)
a bhusanna (indefinite plural vocative)
bus (genitive indefinite singular)
busanna (genitive indefinite plural)
bus (dative indefinite singular)
busanna (dative indefinite plural)
an bus (definite nominative singular)
na busanna (definite nominative plural)
an bhus (definite genitive singular)
na mbusanna (definite genitive plural)
leis an mbus (dative definite singular)
don bhus (dative definite singular)
leis na busanna (dative definite plural)
bus
bhus
mbus


bus

Shortening of autobús (in Spain) or borrowed from English bus (in Latin America).


雲

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɢun): semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 云 (OC *ɢun, “cloud”). Originally written 云, with the 雨 radical added to 云 to distinguish from the borrowed sense of “to speak”.
Very few outside cognates exist. Starostin compares it with Mizo vân (“sky, the skies, heaven”) and Karbi inghun (“cloud”).
Alternatively, this is a derivation from a root meaning “to revolve”. Compare 運 (OC *ɢuns, “to move”), 回 (OC *ɡuːl, “to whirl, to circle”) (Schuessler, 2007).


buggy

en-adj

buggy (comparative buggier, superlative buggiest)

buggier (comparative)
buggiest (superlative)

This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!

(computing) Containing programming errors.


頁

Pictogram (象形): 首 + 卩 – head of a kneeling person, emphasising “head”.
頁 and 首 (OC *hljuʔ, *hljus) were originally the same pictographic character with the same meaning of “head”, and the graphical difference was that 頁 also included the body in addition to the head of the person.
頁 was later used as an alternative popular form of 葉 (“leaf; page”) to mean “sheet; page (of paper)”, which is its main meaning today.
The original sense of “head” is preserved in the radical 頁, which is used in characters such as 頭 (“head”) and 頸 (“neck”).
Alternative form of 葉 /叶 (“leaf; sheet (of paper)”).


頭

/tʰɐu̯²¹⁻³⁵/

/tʰɐu̯²¹⁻³⁵/

Burmese language
French language
German language
Khmer language
Latin language
Middle High German language
Nuosu language
Proto-Loloish language
Proto-Mon-Khmer language
Proto-Sino-Tibetan language
Tibetan language

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *doː): phonetic 豆 (OC *doːs) + semantic 頁 (“head”).
Replaced earlier 首 (MC syuwX, “head”) due to homophony with 手 (ɕɨuX, “hand”) (Sagart, 1999).
Several etymologies have been proposed:
* From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tV-pu (“head”) or its allofam *du (“head”); compare Tibetan དབུ (dbu, “head”), Burmese ဦး (u:, “head”), Nuosu ꀑ (o, “head”), Proto-Loloish *ʔ-du² (“head”) (Benedict, 1972; Schuessler, 2007; STEDT; Starostin).
* Contraction of 髑髏 (OC *doːɡ roː, “skull”) (Wu, 2006).
* From Proto-Mon-Khmer *duul() (“to carry on one's head”), whence Khmer ទូល (tul); this is phonologically plausible since final consonants are often lost after a long vowel in loanwords (Schuessler, 2007).
* A variant of 豆 (OC *doːs, “a kind of vessel”), as skulls could have been used as drinking recipients; compare French tête (“head”) from Latin testa (“pot; jug”) and German Kopf (“head”) from Middle High German kopf (“drinking vessel”) (Maréchal, 1994; Sagart, 1999). However, Schuessler (2007) notes that 豆 (*doːs) seems like a tone C (去聲) derivation from 頭 (*doː), which may have originally meant “skull”.
* Baxter and Sagart (2014) reconstructs the Old Chinese with a *m- prefix for human body parts, deriving it from 兜 (*tˤo, “helmet; hood”).

cog-lite

文件頭／文件头

請求頭／请求头


PC

en-noun

PC (countable and uncountable, plural PCs)

(computing) Initialism of program counter.


PC

(computing) PC, personal computer (small computer, built around a microprocessor, for use by one person at a time)


PC

initialism of Paulo César, a male given name.


AI

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(computing) initialism of akal imitasi (“artificial intelligence”)


artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence (countable and uncountable, plural artificial intelligences)

/ˌɑː.təˈfɪʃ.əl ɪnˈtɛl.ə.d͡ʒəns/

/ˌɑɹ.təˈfɪʃ.əl ɪnˈtɛl.ə.d͡ʒəns/

Coined by American computer scientist and cognitive scientist John McCarthy in 1955, and popularized at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, 1956.

kunsmatige intelligensie

intelligence exhibited by an artificial entity

ሠው ሰራሽ ዕውቀት

śäw säraš ʿəwḳät

artificially intelligent → artificially intelligently

Leo also said journalists must use artificial intelligence with “responsibility and discernment”.

2025 May 12, Angela Giuffrida, “Zelenskyy invites Pope Leo to Ukraine as pontiff urges journalists to report truth”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Intelligence exhibited by an artificial (non-natural, human-made) entity.

(countable, computing) A computer system or software package which is artificially intelligent.


emu

Saw this article for playing downloadable games on GBA. It's an official Nintendo product in Japan, and thought it might be useful for Nintendo to release actual emus and some of their older game properties (beyond the $20 classic series).

2005 February 24, Dane L. Galden, “Could this be used for classic emus on GBA?”, in rec.games.video.classic (Usenet), message-ID <9XkTd.5830$Ba3.2608@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>:

(computing, video games, informal) Clipping of emulator.


駭

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡrɯːʔ): semantic 馬 (“horse”) + phonetic 亥 (OC *ɡɯːʔ)
;"to hack"


OE

(computing) Initialism of Outlook Express.


declaration

en-noun

declaration (countable and uncountable, plural declarations)

/ˌdɛkləˈɹeɪʃən/

From Middle English declaration, declaracion, declaracioun, from Old French declaration (French déclaration), from Latin dēclārātiōnem, accusative of Latin dēclārātiō.

(computing) The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents.


鯖

鯖 (canonical)
鯖 (canonical)
saba (romanization)

Abbreviation and punning of サーバー (sābā, “server”), ultimately from English server. This kanji is an ateji (当て字).


terminal

→ Bulgarian: термина́л (terminál)

→ Japanese: ターミナル (tāminaru)

→ Korean: 터미널 (teomineol)

desctree

→ Russian: термина́л (terminál)
→ Kazakh: терминал (terminal)

Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.

термина́л

computing - the end of a line of signals

(computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.

тэрміна́л

(computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.

тэрміна́л

computer program that emulates a terminal


terminal

Borrowed from Late Latin terminālis, from Latin terminus.


terminal

From Dutch terminal, from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”).

(computing) a device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display


terminal

terminal (nominative singular)
terminale (nominative plural)
terminalu (genitive singular)
terminala (genitive singular)
terminali (genitive plural)
terminalów (genitive plural)
terminalowi (dative singular)
terminalom (dative plural)
terminal (accusative singular)
terminale (accusative plural)
terminalem (instrumental singular)
terminalami (instrumental plural)
terminalu (locative singular)
terminalach (locative plural)
terminalu (singular vocative)
terminale (plural vocative)

(computing) computer terminal (device for entering data into a computer)


terminal

(computing) terminal (device for entering and displaying data)

(computing) terminal (computer program that emulates a terminal)


tar

(computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.

(computing) A file produced by such a program.


tar

en-verb

tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)

tars (present singular third-person)
tarring (participle present)
tarred (participle past)
tarred (past)

(computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.


SSE

Streaming SIMD Extensions
w:Streaming SIMD Extensions

(computing) Initialism of Streaming SIMD Extensions, an extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture.

Streaming SIMD Extensions

2012, Django push: Using Server-Sent Events and WebSocket with Django, Curella. https://web.archive.org/web/20121115183325/http://curella.org/blog/django-push-using-server-sent-events-and-websocket/
There are currently a few alternative technologies for pushing events to the browser: Server-Sent Events (SSE) and WebSocket.
SSEs are a simpler protocol and are easier to implement, but they provide communication only in one direction

WebSockets is the optimal transport, but other techniques like Server-Sent Events (SSE) and Long Polling are used when other options aren't available. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/azure/azure-signalr/signalr-overview

2024, What is Azure SignalR Service?, Microsoft:

(computing) Initialism of Server-sent events, a technique for pushing events from HTTP server to client, specified in HTML5.


黑

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (黑):
* → Japanese: 黒(こく) (koku)
* → Korean: 흑(黑) (heuk)
* → Vietnamese: hắc (黑)

Five Punishments
Shuowen
Spring and Autumn
Warring States

Pictogram (象形) – a person (大) with a tattooed face, depicting penal tattooing (墨 and 黥), one of the five punishments of ancient China.
In the bronze inscriptions from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, dots were sometimes added around 大, leading Shuowen to erroneously interpret the character as an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 𡆧 (“chimney”) + 炎 (“fire; flame”) — fire burning under a chimney, causing it to become black from the smoke.
This word displaced the earlier word for "black", 玄. Unrelated to 熏.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-maŋ ~ s-mak. Cognate with 墨 (OC *mlɯːɡ, “ink”).
The sense of “hack” is a phono-semantic matching of English hack.

Han compound

† - usually describes the color of cloth or thread

黑客 ― hēikè ― hacker

Can you hack into Henderson's office computer?

Nǐ kěyǐ hēidiào Hēngdésēn bàngōngshì de diànnǎo ma?

你可以黑掉亨德森辦公室的電腦嗎？

你可以黑掉亨德森办公室的电脑吗？


function

From Middle French function, from Old French fonction, from Latin functiō (“performance, execution”), from functus, perfect participle of fungor (“to perform, execute, discharge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to enjoy”).

der

(computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.

وَظِيفَة

computing: routine that returns a result


error

en-noun

error (countable and uncountable, plural errors)

errors (plural)
errour (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”), infinitive of errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err. By surface analysis, err + -or (suffix forming nouns of quality, state, or condition).

surf

-or<pos:suffix forming nouns of quality, state, or condition>

:Category:English terms prefixed with mis-

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 495. Error

(computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.


error

en-verb

error (third-person singular simple present errors, present participle erroring, simple past and past participle errored)

errors (present singular third-person)
erroring (participle present)
errored (participle past)
errored (past)
errour (alternative obsolete)

The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.

Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there.

This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.

(computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.


dator

Borrowed from Swedish dator (“computer”).


dator

dator (indefinite nominative singular)
dators (genitive indefinite singular)
datorn (definite nominative singular)
datorns (definite genitive singular)
datorer (indefinite nominative plural)
datorers (genitive indefinite plural)
datorerna (definite nominative plural)
datorernas (definite genitive plural)

→ Latvian: dators

→ Elfdalian: dator

From data + -or. Proposed in 1967 by professor Börje Langefors, as a parallel to doktor and traktor, based on data. Earlier Swedish words for computer were kalkylator, matematikmaskin, elektronhjärna and datamaskin, the later often colloquially abbreviated to data.


LCD

LCD monitors offer higher resolution and take up far less space than traditional PC displays.

2001 May 23, James Connell, “Apple to Drop CRT Monitors”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:

liquid crystal display
liquid crystal display#English

(electronics, computing) Initialism of liquid crystal display.


LCD

Orthographic borrowing from English LCD.

(electronics, computing) LCD (liquid crystal display)


mus

head

mus f (definite singular musa, indefinite plural myser or mus, definite plural mysene or musene)

musa (definite singular)
myser (indefinite plural)
mus (indefinite plural)
mysene (definite plural)
musene (definite plural)

From Old Norse mús (nominative and accusative plurals mýss), from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse, a coinage.
Germanic cognates include Icelandic mús, Faroese mús, Danish mus, Swedish mus, German Maus, German Low German Muus, Dutch muis, and English mouse. Indo-European cognates include Albanian mi, Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Armenian մուկ (muk), Hindi मूस (mūs), Latin mūs, Persian موش, and Russian мышь (myšʹ).
(computing): Semantic loan from English mouse.

når katter er vekke, dansar musene på bordet

lus

louse; for its morphological similarities


mus

mus (indefinite nominative singular)
mus (genitive indefinite singular)
musen (definite nominative singular)
musens (definite genitive singular)
möss (indefinite nominative plural)
möss (genitive indefinite plural)
mössen (definite nominative plural)
mössens (definite genitive plural)
mus (indefinite nominative singular)
mus (genitive indefinite singular)
musen (definite nominative singular)
musens (definite genitive singular)
musar (indefinite nominative plural)
musars (genitive indefinite plural)
musarna (definite nominative plural)
musarnas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish mūs, from Old Norse mús, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s (“mouse”).
The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

(computing) a computer mouse; an input device


Maus

de-noun

Maus f (genitive Maus, plural Mäuse, diminutive Mäuschen n or Mäuslein n or Mäuselein n or (uncommon, south-western German) Mäusle n or (Austria) Mauserl n, masculine (for the animal) Mäuserich, feminine (for the animal) Mäusin)

Maus (genitive)
Mäuse (plural)
Mäuschen (diminutive neuter)
Mäuslein (diminutive neuter)
Mäuselein (diminutive neuter)
Mäusle (diminutive neuter south-western-German uncommon)
Mauserl (Austria diminutive neuter)
Mäuserich (masculine)
Mäusin (feminine)
Maus (nominative singular)
Mäuse (definite nominative plural)
Maus (genitive singular)
Mäuse (definite genitive plural)
Maus (dative singular)
Mäusen (dative definite plural)
Maus (accusative singular)
Mäuse (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German mūs, from Old High German mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs. Doublet of Mouse.
The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Das wichtigste Bedienungselement Ihres Amiga ist die Maus. Sie kann für einen großen Teil aller anfallenden Arbeiten auf der Workbench und auch innerhalb der meisten Programme, die Sie für den Amiga kaufen können, eingesetzt werden. Gerade auf der Workbench ist die Tastatur nahezu überflüssig — ohne Maus sind Sie hingegen (fast) rettungslos verloren.

1986, Markus Breuer, “2. Auf der Werkbank [On the Workbench]”, in Das Amiga Handbuch [The Amiga Handbook], Haar (near Munich): Markt&Technik, →ISBN, 2.2 Die Maus [The Mouse], page 46:

The most important control element on your Amiga is the mouse. It can be used for a large portion of all tasks on the Workbench and also within most programs you can buy for the Amiga. Especially on the Workbench, the keyboard is almost superfluous—without a mouse, you're (almost) hopelessly lost.

Sie benötigen einen Hauptspeicher von 640 KByte, eine Festplatte und eine Maus. GEM Artline unterstützt die meisten Grafikkarten.

1988 October 10, DOS International, number 10, Daten & Medien Verlagsges (DMV), →ISSN, Aktuelles [News], page 12, column 4:

You will need 640 KB of RAM, a hard drive, and a mouse. GEM Artline supports most graphics cards.

Was man mit der Maus alles machen kant, erkläre ich dir später. Schauen wir uns jetzt noch die Tastatur an.

2006, Hans-Dieter Brunowsky, Maximilian Kubenz, “Die erste Begegnung [The first encounter]”, in OPA - Das kannst du auch! Mein Enkel erklärt mir den Computer [GRANDPA - you can do it too! My grandson explains me the computer], Cologne: BrunoMedia, →ISBN, PC, Bildschirm, Maus und Tastatur [PC, screen, mouse and keyboard], page 11:

I'll explain later what you can do with the mouse. For now let's take a look at the keyboard.


buss

buss (indefinite nominative singular)
buss (genitive indefinite singular)
bussen (definite nominative singular)
bussens (definite genitive singular)
bussar (indefinite nominative plural)
bussars (genitive indefinite plural)
bussarna (definite nominative plural)
bussarnas (definite genitive plural)


tool

From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw (“to prepare”) + -le (agent suffix). Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").

mjet

mechanical device intended to make a task easier

The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools.

a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk

(computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.


generic

en-adj

generic (comparative more generic, superlative most generic)

more generic (comparative)
most generic (superlative)
generick (alternative obsolete)

gendered

antonym(s) of “neither masculine nor feminine”

/d͡ʒɪˈnɛɹɪk/

From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic; thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, general.

(computing, of procedures) Written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.

generisch

(computing) written so as to operate on any data type


tile

→ Bengali: টালি (ṭali)

→ Japanese: タイル (tairu)

→ Korean: 타일 (tail)

→ Nepali: टाइल (ṭāil)

→ Odia: ଟାଇଲ୍ (ṭāil)

→ Welsh: teils

From Middle English tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tieġle, tiġle, tiġele (“tile; brick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā, from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile”), from Latin tēgula. Doublet of tegula.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tichel (“tile”), West Frisian teil, tegel, tichel (“tile”), Dutch tichel, tegel (“tile”), German Ziegel (“brick; tile”), Danish tegl (“brick”), Swedish tegel (“brick; tile”), Icelandic tigl (“tile; brick”).

Each tile within the map consists of 256 × 256 pixels.

Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.


real

UK

US

From Middle English real, from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”). Doublet of realis.

der

There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these problems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts and Cauchy Sequences, named respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine Cauchy (1789 - 1857). We will not discuss these constructions here, but will use a more modern one developed by Gabriel Stolzenberg, based on "interval arithmetic."

2007, Mark Bridges, REAL ANALYSIS: A Constructive Approach, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, page 11:


intelligent

en-adj

intelligent (comparative more intelligent or (rare, proscribed) intelligenter, superlative most intelligent or (rare, proscribed) intelligentest)

more intelligent (comparative)
intelligenter (comparative proscribed rare)
most intelligent (superlative)
intelligentest (proscribed rare superlative)
entelligent (alternative)

/ˈɪɳʈəlɪd͡ʒəɳʈ/

From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intellegēns (“discerning”), present active participle of intellegō (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + legō (“choose, pick out, read”).

an intelligent network or keyboard

(computing) Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.


expose

en-verb

expose (third-person singular simple present exposes, present participle exposing, simple past and past participle exposed)

exposes (present singular third-person)
exposing (participle present)
exposed (participle past)
exposed (past)

Borrowed from Middle French exposer (“to lay open, set forth”), from Latin expōnō (“set forth”), with contamination from poser (“to lay, place”). Doublet of expound, via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”), from the same Latin term.

der

In the OO world, the word is to hide the structure of the data, and expose only functionality. OO designers expose an object to the world in terms of the services it provides.

2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ Gems, page 266:

(computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.


online

en-verb

online (third-person singular simple present onlines, present participle onlining, simple past and past participle onlined)

onlines (present singular third-person)
onlining (participle present)
onlined (participle past)
onlined (past)
on-line (alternative)

The output in Listing 8-2 shows your disk group status prior to onlining the disks, the commands to online your disks, and the status after onlining.

2013, John Clarke, Oracle Exadata Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 219:

(computing, transitive) To bring (a system, etc.) online; to promote to an active or running state.


manifest

From Middle English manifest, manifeste, from Latin manifestus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from manus (“hand”) + *infestus, participle of *infendō (“strike”) (from the root of dēfendō, offendō, etc.), or from Proto-Indo-European *dʰers-. Doublet of manifesto.

(computing) A file containing metadata describing other files.


Boolean

From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864).

named-after

boolean (alternative)
Boolian (alternative)

Oh, Boolean operators! "Blue and ones"! Good idea!

2005 May 9, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Bug In Mouth Disease”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Sad (Matthew Chapman):

(logic, computing) Pertaining to data items that can have “true” and “false” (or, equivalently, 1 and 0 respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values.

booleà

logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”


Boolean

Booleans (plural)
boolean (alternative)
Boolian (alternative)

(logic, computing) A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.


developer

More important, when we looked at who worked in that industry, we noticed that programmers were in the minority. They’re dwarfed by, among other occupations, the software developers. The two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but the jobs follow very different trajectories. Nationwide, software developers haven’t struggled nearly as much as their programming brethren — few other computer-related occupations have. So what makes programmers different? To answer that, we need to dive forehead first into everybody’s favorite part of any analysis: arcane occupation definitions! Upon perusing the fine print, we saw that while programmers do in fact program, they “work from specifications drawn up by software and web developers or other individuals.” That seems like a clue. In the real world, “developer” and “programmer” can seem almost interchangeable. But in the world of government statistics, where we have legal permanent residency, there’s a clear distinction. In the [US] government’s schema, programmers do the grunt work while the much more numerous — and much faster-growing — software developers enjoy a broader remit. They figure out what clients need, design solutions and work with folks such as programmers and hardware engineers to implement them. Their pay reflects this gap in responsibilities. The median programmer earned $99,700 in 2023, compared with $132,270 for the median developer. And while 27.5 percent of programming jobs vanished, jobs for developers have only fallen 0.3 percent, similar to the broader industry.

2025 March 14, Andrew Van Dam, “Department of Data: More than a quarter of computer-programming jobs just vanished. What happened? Learning to code was supposedly the salvation of millions of liberal art majors. But now programming jobs are plummeting. The Post’s Department of Data tries to figure out what’s going on”, in Washington Post:

(computing) A software developer; a person or company who creates or modifies computer software.


fork

en-verb

fork (third-person singular simple present forks, present participle forking, simple past and past participle forked)

forks (present singular third-person)
forking (participle present)
forked (participle past)
forked (past)

From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork, forked stake; gallows, beam, stake, support post, yoke”), of uncertain origin. The Middle English word was later reinforced by Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French forque (= Old French forche whence French fourche), also from the Latin. Doublet of fourche and furcate. Cognate also with North Frisian forck (“fork”), Dutch vork (“fork”), Danish fork (“fork”), German Forke (“pitchfork”). Displaced native gafol, ġeafel, ġeafle (“fork”), from Old English.
In its primary sense of “fork”, Latin furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).

der

A parent process forks a child process, which in turn can fork other processes.

2008, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Pearson Education, →ISBN:

It appears that the shell forks a copy of itself and that this copy then forks to make each of the previous processes in the pipeline.

2013, W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 304:

(ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.

(ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.

разклонявам

computer science: to spawn a new child process

fork bomb

computer science: spawn a new child process


pager

From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).

more is a pager. The basic purpose of a pager is that it lets you view the contents of a file without actually having to open the file.

2006, James Duncan Davidson, Jason Deraleau, Running Mac OS X Tiger, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 73:

(computing) A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time.


transparent

en-adj

transparent (comparative more transparent, superlative most transparent)

more transparent (comparative)
most transparent (superlative)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspārēns, trānspārēntis (“transparent”), present participle of transpareō, from Latin trans + pareō. Displaced native Old English þurhsīene.

bor

In order to make that transparent to the user, browsers usually cache the usernames and passwords and retransmit them automatically each time they contact the server.

2003, Rolf Oppliger, Security Technologies for the World Wide Web, page 34:

(computing) Not noticeable because it happens automatically or in the background; invisible.


trash

en-noun

trash (countable and uncountable, plural trashes)

From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).
Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).

cog

one man's trash is another man's treasure

Drag the unwanted message to the trash.

en:temporary storage on disk for deleted files

(computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.


launch

en-verb

launch (third-person singular simple present launches, present participle launching, simple past and past participle launched or (obsolete) launcht)

launches (present singular third-person)
launching (participle present)
launched (participle past)
launched (past)
launcht (obsolete participle past)
launcht (obsolete past)
lanch (alternative obsolete)

⇒ Irish: lainseáil

⇒ Welsh: lansio

From Middle English launchen (“to throw as a lance”), Old French lanchier, another form (Old Northern French/Norman variant, compare Jèrriais lanchi) of lancier, French lancer, from lance.

inh

Double-click an icon to launch the associated application.

(transitive, computing) To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.

After clicking the icon, the application will launch.

(intransitive, computing, of a program) To start to operate.


own

en-verb

own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)

owns (present singular third-person)
owning (participle present)
owned (participle past)
owned (past)

A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.

"TH15 5Y5T3M 15 0WN3D"

1996 June 21, The Happiest Dragon Alive!!, “Re: An unusual situation”, in (Usenet), retrieved 2016-09-24, message-ID <4qe8pc$8ti@nerd.apk.net>:

(transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system.


langage

langages (plural)
language (alternative archaic misspelling)

Haitian Creole: langaj

→ English: langaj

Mauritian Creole: langaz

Louisiana Creole: langaj

→ Romanian: limbaj (partial calque)

Inherited from Middle French language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”) (whence langue). By surface analysis, langue + -age.

inh

programming language
programming language


pop

en-noun

pop (countable and uncountable, plural pops)

From Middle English pop, poppe (“a blow; strike; buffet”) (> Middle English poppen (“to strike; thrust”, verb)), of onomatopoeic origin – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions. The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.

cog

Pushes and pops change the stack; indexing just accesses it.

2011, Mark Lutz, Programming Python, page 1371:

(computing) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.


pop

en-verb

pop (third-person singular simple present pops, present participle popping, simple past and past participle popped)

pops (present singular third-person)
popping (participle present)
popped (participle past)
popped (past)

Once the callee (the called function) terminates, it cleans the stack that it has been locally using and pops the next value stored on top of the stack.

2010, Enrico Perla, Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core, page 55:

The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed:

(transitive, computing) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.

vetää

computing: to remove a data item from the top of a stack


plane

→ Irish: plána

From Latin plānum (“flat surface”), a noun use of the neuter of plānus (“plain”). The word was introduced in the 17th century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain. Doublet of llano, piano, and plain.

հարթություն

geometry: flat surface extending infinitely in all directions

(computing, Unicode) Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.


arrow

arrow (third-person singular simple present arrows, present participle arrowing, simple past and past participle arrowed)

arrows (present singular third-person)
arrowing (participle present)
arrowed (participle past)
arrowed (past)

From Middle English arwe, from Old English earh (oblique form ēarw-), from Proto-West Germanic *arhu, from Proto-Germanic *arhwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érkʷo- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with Faroese ørv (“arrow”), Icelandic ör (“arrow”), örvar (“arrows”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌶𐌽𐌰 (arƕazna, “dart”), Latin arcus (“bow”).

der

Arrow left until you reach the start of the text you want to delete.

(computing, intransitive) To navigate using the arrow keys.


forest

en-noun

forest (countable and uncountable, plural forests)

forests (plural)
foreste (alternative obsolete)

forced (US, sometimes especially in fast speech)

Inherited from Middle English forest, from Old French forest, from Early Medieval Latin forestis, likely from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *furhisti (“forest, fir-grove, wooded land”), equivalent to fir + hurst. Related to Old English fyrhþe (“forested land”), Old High German forst, forsti (“forest”), Old Norse fýri (“pine forest”). Doublet of frith.
In this sense, mostly displaced the native Middle English wode, from Old English wudu (modern English wood) and Middle English wold, wald, wæld, from Old English weald (modern English wold, weald).

der

Forests are considered the security boundary in Active Directory; by this we mean that if you need to definitively restrict access to a resource within a particular domain so that administrators from other domains do not have any access to it whatsoever, you need to implement a separate forest instead of using an additional domain within the current forest.

2008, Laura E. Hunter, Robbie Allen, Active Directory Cookbook, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 17:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A group of domains that are managed as a unit.


crash

From Middle English crasshen, crasschen, craschen (“to break into pieces”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier *crasken, from crasen (“to break”) + -k (formative suffix); or from earlier *craskien, *craksien, a variant of craken (“to crack, break open”) (for form development compare break, brask, brash).

suffix

My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.

(computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.


crash

en-verb

crash (third-person singular simple present crashes, present participle crashing, simple past and past participle crashed)

crashes (present singular third-person)
crashing (participle present)
crashed (participle past)
crashed (past)

разбивам

to severely damage or destroy by causing to collide with something else

If the system crashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop.

(computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.

Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.

(computing, hardware, software, transitive) To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.


dash

From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dwǣsċan (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also dush.

noncog

(typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).


hash

From French hacher (“to chop”), from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache (“axe”), from Frankish *happjā (“axe”). Compare also Old English ġehæċċa (“sausage meat”, literally “that which is hacked or chopped up”).

ncog

(computing) The result generated by a hash function.

hajautusarvo

for distributing values in a data structure

(computing, cryptocurrencies) One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.


hash

en-verb

hash (third-person singular simple present hashes, present participle hashing, simple past and past participle hashed)

hashes (present singular third-person)
hashing (participle present)
hashed (participle past)
hashed (past)

(computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function.

tiivistää

to transform according to a hash function


hash

(computing) hash (key generated by a hash function)


mega

mega (nominative singular)
megat (nominative plural)
mega (accusative nominative singular)
megat (accusative nominative plural)
megan (accusative genitive singular)
megat (accusative genitive plural)
megan (genitive singular)
megojen (genitive plural)
megain (genitive plural rare)
megaa (partitive singular)
megoja (partitive plural)
megassa (inessive singular)
megoissa (inessive plural)
megasta (elative singular)
megoista (elative plural)
megaan (illative singular)
megoihin (illative plural)
megalla (adessive singular)
megoilla (adessive plural)
megalta (ablative singular)
megoilta (ablative plural)
megalle (allative singular)
megoille (allative plural)
megana (essive singular)
megoina (essive plural)
megaksi (singular translative)
megoiksi (plural translative)
megatta (abessive singular)
megoitta (abessive plural)
megoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
megani (nominative singular)
megani (nominative plural)
megani (accusative nominative singular)
megani (accusative nominative plural)
megani (accusative genitive singular)
megani (accusative genitive plural)
megani (genitive singular)
megojeni (genitive plural)
megaini (genitive plural rare)
megaani (partitive singular)
megojani (partitive plural)
megassani (inessive singular)
megoissani (inessive plural)
megastani (elative singular)
megoistani (elative plural)
megaani (illative singular)
megoihini (illative plural)
megallani (adessive singular)
megoillani (adessive plural)
megaltani (ablative singular)
megoiltani (ablative plural)
megalleni (allative singular)
megoilleni (allative plural)
meganani (essive singular)
megoinani (essive plural)
megakseni (singular translative)
megoikseni (plural translative)
megattani (abessive singular)
megoittani (abessive plural)
megoineni (comitative plural)
megasi (nominative singular)
megasi (nominative plural)
megasi (accusative nominative singular)
megasi (accusative nominative plural)
megasi (accusative genitive singular)
megasi (accusative genitive plural)
megasi (genitive singular)
megojesi (genitive plural)
megaisi (genitive plural rare)
megaasi (partitive singular)
megojasi (partitive plural)
megassasi (inessive singular)
megoissasi (inessive plural)
megastasi (elative singular)
megoistasi (elative plural)
megaasi (illative singular)
megoihisi (illative plural)
megallasi (adessive singular)
megoillasi (adessive plural)
megaltasi (ablative singular)
megoiltasi (ablative plural)
megallesi (allative singular)
megoillesi (allative plural)
meganasi (essive singular)
megoinasi (essive plural)
megaksesi (singular translative)
megoiksesi (plural translative)
megattasi (abessive singular)
megoittasi (abessive plural)
megoinesi (comitative plural)
megamme (nominative singular)
megamme (nominative plural)
megamme (accusative nominative singular)
megamme (accusative nominative plural)
megamme (accusative genitive singular)
megamme (accusative genitive plural)
megamme (genitive singular)
megojemme (genitive plural)
megaimme (genitive plural rare)
megaamme (partitive singular)
megojamme (partitive plural)
megassamme (inessive singular)
megoissamme (inessive plural)
megastamme (elative singular)
megoistamme (elative plural)
megaamme (illative singular)
megoihimme (illative plural)
megallamme (adessive singular)
megoillamme (adessive plural)
megaltamme (ablative singular)
megoiltamme (ablative plural)
megallemme (allative singular)
megoillemme (allative plural)
meganamme (essive singular)
megoinamme (essive plural)
megaksemme (singular translative)
megoiksemme (plural translative)
megattamme (abessive singular)
megoittamme (abessive plural)
megoinemme (comitative plural)
meganne (nominative singular)
meganne (nominative plural)
meganne (accusative nominative singular)
meganne (accusative nominative plural)
meganne (accusative genitive singular)
meganne (accusative genitive plural)
meganne (genitive singular)
megojenne (genitive plural)
megainne (genitive plural rare)
megaanne (partitive singular)
megojanne (partitive plural)
megassanne (inessive singular)
megoissanne (inessive plural)
megastanne (elative singular)
megoistanne (elative plural)
megaanne (illative singular)
megoihinne (illative plural)
megallanne (adessive singular)
megoillanne (adessive plural)
megaltanne (ablative singular)
megoiltanne (ablative plural)
megallenne (allative singular)
megoillenne (allative plural)
megananne (essive singular)
megoinanne (essive plural)
megaksenne (singular translative)
megoiksenne (plural translative)
megattanne (abessive singular)
megoittanne (abessive plural)
megoinenne (comitative plural)
megansa (nominative singular)
megansa (nominative plural)
megansa (accusative nominative singular)
megansa (accusative nominative plural)
megansa (accusative genitive singular)
megansa (accusative genitive plural)
megansa (genitive singular)
megojensa (genitive plural)
megainsa (genitive plural rare)
megaansa (partitive singular)
megojaan (partitive plural)
megojansa (partitive plural)
megassaan (inessive singular)
megassansa (inessive singular)
megoissaan (inessive plural)
megoissansa (inessive plural)
megastaan (elative singular)
megastansa (elative singular)
megoistaan (elative plural)
megoistansa (elative plural)
megaansa (illative singular)
megoihinsa (illative plural)
megallaan (adessive singular)
megallansa (adessive singular)
megoillaan (adessive plural)
megoillansa (adessive plural)
megaltaan (ablative singular)
megaltansa (ablative singular)
megoiltaan (ablative plural)
megoiltansa (ablative plural)
megalleen (allative singular)
megallensa (allative singular)
megoilleen (allative plural)
megoillensa (allative plural)
meganaan (essive singular)
meganansa (essive singular)
megoinaan (essive plural)
megoinansa (essive plural)
megakseen (singular translative)
megaksensa (singular translative)
megoikseen (plural translative)
megoiksensa (plural translative)
megattaan (abessive singular)
megattansa (abessive singular)
megoittaan (abessive plural)
megoittansa (abessive plural)
megoineen (comitative plural)
megoinensa (comitative plural)

(computing) ellipsis of megatavu (“megabyte”)

(computing) ellipsis of megabitti (“megabit”)


micro

en-noun

micro (countable and uncountable, plural micros)

From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”), or shortened form for modern words formed from its derivative micro-.

If you can possibly afford to spend a few more pounds then you should move up into the next price bracket, where the potential of the home micro starts to be realised.

1984, Mike Gerrard, Bryan Skinner, Mr Chips comes home: micros and home education, page 23:

So what sort of hero is this bounding, bomb collecting midget? The answer is an arcade hero - and now he's let loose in your micro courtesy of conversion kings, Elite.

1986, Rachael Smith, Bomb Jack (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 5, May 1986

(computing, dated, countable) short form of microcomputer


net

netek (plural)
net (nominative singular)
netek (nominative plural)
netet (accusative singular)
neteket (accusative plural)
netnek (dative singular)
neteknek (dative plural)
nettel (instrumental singular)
netekkel (instrumental plural)
netért (causal-final singular)
netekért (causal-final plural)
netté (singular translative)
netekké (plural translative)
netig (singular terminative)
netekig (plural terminative)
netként (essive-formal singular)
netekként (essive-formal plural)
netben (inessive singular)
netekben (inessive plural)
neten (singular superessive)
neteken (plural superessive)
netnél (adessive singular)
neteknél (adessive plural)
netbe (illative singular)
netekbe (illative plural)
netre (singular sublative)
netekre (plural sublative)
nethez (allative singular)
netekhez (allative plural)
netből (elative singular)
netekből (elative plural)
netről (delative singular)
netekről (delative plural)
nettől (ablative singular)
netektől (ablative plural)
neté (singular)
neteké (plural)
netéi (singular)
netekéi (plural)
netem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
neteim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
neted (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
neteid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
nete (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
netei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
netünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
neteink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
netetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
neteitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
netük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
neteik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

(informal, computing, Internet) Internet


net

is-noun

net n (genitive singular nets, nominative plural net)

nets (genitive singular)
net (nominative plural)
net (indefinite nominative singular)
netið (definite nominative singular)
net (indefinite nominative plural)
netin (definite nominative plural)
net (accusative indefinite singular)
netið (accusative definite singular)
net (accusative indefinite plural)
netin (accusative definite plural)
neti (dative indefinite singular)
netinu (dative definite singular)
netum (dative indefinite plural)
netunum (dative definite plural)
nets (genitive indefinite singular)
netsins (definite genitive singular)
neta (genitive indefinite plural)
netanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse net, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”).

der

Ég þoli þetta ekki, ég kemst ekki á netið.

I can't stand it, I can't connect to the internet.

(computing, usually definite) the Internet


switch

→ Gulf Arabic: سويچ (swīč)

→ German: Switch

Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”), first attested in c. 1592. The mechanical device for altering the direction of something sense is first attested in c. 1797, pertaining to pivoted rails on minecart railways, which were once wooden.

камута́тар

system allowing the interconnection of telephone lines

2004, Curt, “Can I use IF statements, and still use switches?”, in microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields (Usenet):

(computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.

(computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.


switch

Unadapted borrowing from English switch.

(computing) switch (command line notation allowing specification of optional behaviour)


address book

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

(computing) A computerized storage area for contact information such as e-mail addresses.


closed

Make sure that all files are closed before you switch off the computer.

Not available for operation, participation, interaction, etc.

(computing, of a file, document, etc.) Not in current use; not connected to as a resource.


chop

en-verb

chop (third-person singular simple present chops, present participle chopping, simple past and past participle chopped)

chops (present singular third-person)
chopping (participle present)
chopped (participle past)
chopped (past)

From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly onomatopoeic, or a variant of chap (“to become cracked”).
Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare also Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *ċippian (in forċippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.

cog

(computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).


destructive

en-adj

destructive (comparative more destructive, superlative most destructive)

more destructive (comparative)
most destructive (superlative)

From Middle French destructif, from Latin destructivus, from past participle of destruere (“to tear down, destroy”) + -ivus.

Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.

(computing) Lossy; causing irreversible change.


recycle bin

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

First sense appears c. 1971, in the Arizona Daily Sun. Computing sense appears in 1995 with the Windows 95 operating system.

trash

sense 2, on other operating systems and emails

(computing) In Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files, from which they can be retrieved or permanently deleted.

سَلَّة الْمَحْذُوفَات

(computing) in Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files


Tenth century “West Arabic” variation of the Nepali form of Hindu-Arabic numeral ٠ (compare Devanāgarī script ० (0)), adopted for use with the Latin script in Europe. See 0 § History for more.

(computing) Indicates that the number that follows is in octal.

select currency expressions containing ‘0’


pdf2txt, i.e. conversion from PDF to plain text

(computing) Abbreviation of to; designating conversion from one format to another.


Derives from overset Io, a Latin abbreviation of either interiectiō (“interjection”) or the interjection iō (“hey!”), placed at the end of an exclamation to mark it as such. It expresses awe, wonderment (Latin admīrātiō) in the clause.

(computing, in many programming languages) A Boolean negation, the not operator, serving to invert the truth value of what follows.

(computing, e-mail) Formerly used as a separator between hostnames in an e-mail address for the purpose of routing a message (called bang path notation).

(computing, IRC) Used as a separator between a user's nickname and ident.


attribute

From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.

This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.

A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.

atribut

computing: the applicable option selection


pair

en-verb

pair (third-person singular simple present pairs, present participle pairing, simple past and past participle paired)

pairs (present singular third-person)
pairing (participle present)
paired (participle past)
paired (past)

From Middle English paire, from Old French paire, from Latin paria (“equals”), neuter plural of par (“pair”). Related to pār (“equal”, adjective). Compare Saterland Frisian Poor (“pair”), West Frisian pear (“pair”), Dutch paar (“pair”), German Paar (“pair”), Italian paio (“pair”)

It was not possible to pair my smartphone with an incompatible smartwatch.

If your computer has a built-in, non-Microsoft transceiver, you can pair the device directly to the computer by using your computer’s Bluetooth software configuration program but without using the Microsoft Bluetooth transceiver.

2015, Microsoft, “How-to: Keyboards”, in http://www.microsoft.com, retrieved 2015-02-21:

(computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth.


operation

en-noun

operation (countable and uncountable, plural operations)

→ Japanese: オペレーション (operēshon)

→ Scottish Gaelic: opairèisean

/ˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

/ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

From Middle French operation, from Old French operacion, from Latin operātiō, from the verb operor (“I work”), from opus, operis (“work”). Equivalent to operate + -ion.

عَمَلِيَّة

The number of operands associated with an operation is called its arity; an operation of arity 2 is called a binary operation.

(computing, logic, mathematics, countable) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).

(mathematics, more formally, countable) A function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.


associative

en-adj

associative (comparative more associative, superlative most associative)

more associative (comparative)
most associative (superlative)

AWK's associative arrays may be indexed by strings.

Associative memories were once given considerable attention.

(computing) Addressable by a key more complex than an integer index.


machine translation

en-noun

machine translation (countable and uncountable, plural machine translations)

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

(computing, programming) The production of instructions in a computer language that are equal in meaning to that in another language.


whiteboard

→ German: Whiteboard

→ Swedish: whiteboard

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

From white + board, modelled on blackboard.

(by extension, computing) A collaborative tool allowing several users to write and draw on the same shared display.


constant

en-adj

constant (comparative more constant, superlative most constant)

more constant (comparative)
most constant (superlative)

From Middle English constant, from Old French constant, from Latin constantem, accusative of constans, from cōnstāre (“to stand firm”). Displaced native Old English singal.

constant time   constant space

(computing, complexity theory) Bounded above by a constant.


constant

(computing) An identifier that is bound to an invariant value; a fixed value given a name to aid in readability of source code.


matrix

matrices (plural)
matrixes (plural)
matrice (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English matris, matrice, matrix, from Old French matrice (“pregnant animal”), or from Latin mātrīx (“dam, womb”), both ultimately from māter (“mother”). Doublet of mother from Indo-European ancestor.
Slang usage coined with the 1999 sci-fi action film The Matrix.

基質 /基质

analytical chemistry: sampling environment


operand

From Late Latin operandum. Doublet of operandum.

When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.

1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47:

(mathematics, computing) A quantity to which an operator is applied (in 3-x, the operands of the subtraction operator are 3 and x).


vector

Learned borrowing from Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“I carry, I transport, I bear”), also ultimately the root of English vehicle.
The “person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme” sense derives from the disease sense.
The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.

coin

Computers store many types of data as vectors for ease of processing.

A row vector is a matrix whose M dimension is 1. In fact, a row vector is a matrix consisting of a single row, and a column vector a matrix consisting of a single column.

2003 February 26, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, The PC Graphics Handbook, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 62:

Color is stored as a vector attribute (R, G, B).

2011 March 8, Lee Lanier, Advanced Maya Texturing and Lighting, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 97:

GPU cores are essentially vector-processing units, capable of applying the same instruction on a large collection of operands.

2022 February 9, Gerassimos Barlas, Multicore and GPU Programming: An Integrated Approach, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 398:

(mathematics, physics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.

(mathematics, computing) An ordered tuple, originally one representing a directed quantity, but by extension any one-dimensional matrix.

(programming) A kind of dynamically resizable array.

(computing, operating systems) A memory address containing the address of a code entry point, usually one which is part of a table and often one that is dereferenced and jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.


vector

en-verb

vector (third-person singular simple present vectors, present participle vectoring, simple past and past participle vectored)

vectors (present singular third-person)
vectoring (participle present)
vectored (participle past)
vectored (past)

(computing) To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.


operator

en-noun

operator (countable and uncountable, plural operators)

/ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtə/

/ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɚ/

Borrowed from Latin operātor, from operor (“work, labour”). Equivalent to operate + -or.

en:kind of administrator, or instance thereof, on Internet Relay Chat

(computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.

διαχειριστής

the administrator of a channel or network on IRC

en:kind of symbol, or instance thereof, in computer programming

(computing) A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.


operator

operator (indefinite nominative singular)
operators (genitive indefinite singular)
operatorn (definite nominative singular)
operatorns (definite genitive singular)
operatorer (indefinite nominative plural)
operatorers (genitive indefinite plural)
operatorerna (definite nominative plural)
operatorernas (definite genitive plural)


slave

Inherited from Middle English sclave, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), traditionally assumed to be because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos); see that entry and Slav for more. Displaced native Old English þēow. Thrall and bondsman/bondswoman, however, remain common synonyms. Doublet of ciao and Slav.
An alternative hypothesis derives sclavus from Ancient Greek σκῡλεύω (skūleúō), σκῡλάω (skūláō, “to strip or despoil a slain enemy”).

If you administer your own reverse DNS zones, remember to include them in your slave configuration.

2011, Roderick W. Smith, LPIC-2 Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(engineering, computing, photography) A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).

slave

device that is controlled by another device


user

From Middle English usere, equivalent to use + -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”).

parasite

one that unfairly takes advantage of or exploits

(computing) A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.


share

→ Thai: แชร์ (chɛɛ)

From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (“a share in a communal pasture”), Dutch schare (“share in property”), German Schar (“band, troop, party, company”), Icelandic skor (“department”). Compare shard, shear. Doublet of eschel.

cog

Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.

(computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.

Freigabe

computing: configuration enabling sharing of resources


share

en-verb

share (third-person singular simple present shares, present participle sharing, simple past and past participle shared)

shares (present singular third-person)
sharing (participle present)
shared (participle past)
shared (past)

(computing, Internet) To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network

teilen

(computing, Internet) to allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network


DML

(computing) Initialism of Dimensional Markup Language.


nice

nice (third-person singular simple present nices, present participle nicing, simple past and past participle niced)

nices (present singular third-person)
nicing (participle present)
niced (participle past)
niced (past)
nyc (alternative)
noice (alternative slang)

Name of a Unix program used to invoke a script or program with a specified priority, with the implication that running at a lower priority is "nice" (kind, etc.) because it leaves more resources for others.

(transitive, computing, Unix) To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.


import

import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)

imports (present singular third-person)
importing (participle present)
imported (participle past)
imported (past)

From Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin importō (“bring in from abroad, import”, verb), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + portō (“I carry, bear; convey”).

der

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

How can I import files from older versions of this application?

(transitive, computing) To load a file into a software application from another version or system.

зареждам

to load files into a computer from another source


cola

Inherited from Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda, or from its diminutive caudula. Cognate to French queue and Italian coda.


skin

en-noun

skin (countable and uncountable, plural skins)

skins (plural)
skinne (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), from which derives hide.
Cognate with Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish cenn (“covering, shell”), Irish scáin (“to tear, burst”), Latin scindō (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “to split”).

hinasuna

outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal

don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear

You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(countable, computing, graphical user interface) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.

面板

image used as the background of graphical user interface


skin

en-verb

skin (third-person singular simple present skins, present participle skinning, simple past and past participle skinned)

skins (present singular third-person)
skinning (participle present)
skinned (participle past)
skinned (past)
skinne (alternative obsolete)

een skin gebruiken

to use a replacement image for the graphical user interface of

Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?

(transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).


skin

nl-noun

skin m or f (plural skins, diminutive skinnetje n)

skins (plural)
skinnetje (diminutive neuter)


skin

(computing) skin (image used as the background of a graphical user interface)


translator

translators (plural)
tr. (alternative)
trans. (alternative)
transl. (alternative)
translater (alternative)
translatour (alternative)
translatoure (alternative)
traunslatour (alternative)
translacttor (alternative)
translature (alternative)
translatar (alternative)
translatare (alternative)

[ˌtʰɹænzˈleɪtʰɚ]

[ˌtʰɹænzˈleɪɾɚ]

Directly from Latin trānslātor and French translator, and also from Middle English translatour, from Old French translatour, translateur, etc., from Latin trānslātor, from trānslātus (“carried across”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from trānsferō (“carry across”), from trans (“across”) + ferō (“bear, carry”), q.v. Equivalent to translate + -or.

vertaler

someone or something that translates meaning from one language to another

A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly

(computing, chiefly historical) A machine that converts inputs into a pattern of holes on a punch card.

(computing) A program that converts commands from one computer language into another.


translator

translator (nominative singular)
translatory (nominative plural)
translatora (genitive singular)
translatorów (genitive plural)
translatorowi (dative singular)
translatorom (dative plural)
translator (accusative singular)
translatory (accusative plural)
translatorem (instrumental singular)
translatorami (instrumental plural)
translatorze (locative singular)
translatorach (locative plural)
translatorze (singular vocative)
translatory (plural vocative)

Borrowed from English translator, from Middle English translatour, from Old French translator, translatour, translateur, from Latin trānslātor.

(computing) translator (computer program that translates something from one language to another using machine translation)


snowflake

en-verb

snowflake (third-person singular simple present snowflakes, present participle snowflaking, simple past and past participle snowflaked)

snowflakes (present singular third-person)
snowflaking (participle present)
snowflaked (participle past)
snowflaked (past)
snow-flake (alternative)

From snow + flake. Compare Saterland Frisian Sneeflokke (“snowflake”), Dutch sneeuwvlok, Luxembourgish Schnéiflack, German Schneeflocke.

cog

(computing, databases) To arrange (data) into a snowflake schema.


fail

From English file, from Old French fil (“thread”), from Latin filum (“thread”). Compare to Malay fail.

(computing) an aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name


fail

(computing) file (aggregation of data on a storage device)


interpreter

interpreters (plural)
interpretour (alternative)
enterpretour (alternative)
enterpretor (alternative)

/ɪnˈtɝpɹɪɾɚ/

/ɪnˈtɝpɹɪtɚ/

/ɪnˈtɜːpɹɪtə/

From Middle English interpreter, interpretour, etc., from Old French interpreteur, interpreteeur, etc., from Late Latin interpretātōr, from classical Latin interpretātus (“explained, translated”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from interpretārī (“to explain, to translate”), from interpres (“go-between, translator”) + -ārī (“to be ~ed”), q.v. In reference to divine emissaries, a calque of Mercury's Latin epithet interpres divum (“go-between of the gods”). In reference to the rhetorical device, a calque of Latin interpretatio. Equivalent to interpret + -er.
Displaced native Old English wealhstod.

der

A person or thing that interprets the meaning of something for another, particularly:

(computing, historical) A machine that reads the pattern of holes on a punch card and prints its meaning along the top of the card.

Programs written in BASIC are usually run through an interpreter rather than a compiler.

(computing) A program that converts commands into machine language in real time rather than compiling it in advance.

tolk

one who interprets a language — see also dragoman


interpreter

interpreter (nominative singular)
interpretery (nominative plural)
interpretera (genitive singular)
interpreterów (genitive plural)
interpreterowi (dative singular)
interpreterom (dative plural)
interpreter (accusative singular)
interpretery (accusative plural)
interpreterem (instrumental singular)
interpreterami (instrumental plural)
interpreterze (locative singular)
interpreterach (locative plural)
interpreterze (singular vocative)
interpretery (plural vocative)


terp

So, I'm writing a Z-Machine terp. It is not done. It's getting there. Now, I have some ideas of things I would like this terp to do, but I thought it might be a nice idea to find out if there are any features that other people on this newsgroup would like in a Z-Machine terp.

2001 July 23, Fillmore, “Z-Machine terp”, in rec.arts.int-fiction (Usenet), message-ID <6j177.12538$Iz3.3461071@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>:

As far as I know all the TADS terps are just ports of the original.

2009 September 15, Dannii, “IF System Idea”, in rec.arts.int-fiction (Usenet), message-ID <15cd3135-0302-421e-be03-d40a5dbb1645@m7g2000prd.googlegroups.com>:

(computing, slang) An interpreter (program that parses and executes another program).


element

From Middle English element, from Old French element, from Latin elementum (“a first principle, element, rudiment”) (see further etymology there).
The verb is from Middle English elementen, from the noun.

element

simplest or essential part or principle of anything

The div element was introduced into HTML as a solution to the layout problem.

2011, Richard Wagner, Creating Web Pages All-in-One For Dummies:

(computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.

elementti

computing: conceptual object in a markup language


element

element (indefinite nominative singular)
elements (genitive indefinite singular)
elementet (definite nominative singular)
elementets (definite genitive singular)
element (indefinite nominative plural)
elements (genitive indefinite plural)
elementen (definite nominative plural)
elementens (definite genitive plural)

(computing) element; object in markup language


pole

pole (nominative singular)
pole (nominative plural)
pole (genitive singular)
polí (genitive plural)
poli (dative singular)
polím (dative plural)
pole (accusative singular)
pole (accusative plural)
pole (singular vocative)
pole (plural vocative)
poli (locative singular)
polích (locative plural)
polem (instrumental singular)
poli (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech pole, from Proto-Slavic *poľe.


pole

pl-noun

pole n (diminutive pólko or poletko, related adjective polny)

pólko (diminutive)
poletko (diminutive)
polny (adjective)
pole (nominative singular)
pola (nominative plural)
pola (genitive singular)
pól (genitive plural)
polu (dative singular)
polom (dative plural)
pole (accusative singular)
pola (accusative plural)
polem (instrumental singular)
polami (instrumental plural)
polu (locative singular)
polach (locative plural)
pole (singular vocative)
pola (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish pole. Doublet of polje.

(computing) field (area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls)


pole

polny (adjective)
pole (nominative singular)
pola (nominative plural)
pola (genitive singular)
polōw (genitive plural)
polu (dative singular)
polōm (dative plural)
pole (accusative singular)
pola (accusative plural)
polym (instrumental singular)
polami (instrumental plural)
polōma (instrumental plural)
polu (locative singular)
polach (locative plural)
pole (singular vocative)
pola (plural vocative)


font

→ Thai: ฟอนต์ (fɔ́n)

From Middle French fonte (“act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”) (modern French fonte), either:
* from fondre (“to melt, melt down; to smelt”), from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere, the present active infinitive of fundō (“to pour out; to make by smelting, found”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”); or
* from Late Latin *fundita, a noun use of funditus, a perfect passive participle form of Latin fundō (see above; the classical Latin form is fūsus).

der

They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.

en:computer file encoding a typeface or subset thereof

(computing, typography, metonymic) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.


font

fontok (plural)
font (nominative singular)
fontok (nominative plural)
fontot (accusative singular)
fontokat (accusative plural)
fontnak (dative singular)
fontoknak (dative plural)
fonttal (instrumental singular)
fontokkal (instrumental plural)
fontért (causal-final singular)
fontokért (causal-final plural)
fonttá (singular translative)
fontokká (plural translative)
fontig (singular terminative)
fontokig (plural terminative)
fontként (essive-formal singular)
fontokként (essive-formal plural)
fontban (inessive singular)
fontokban (inessive plural)
fonton (singular superessive)
fontokon (plural superessive)
fontnál (adessive singular)
fontoknál (adessive plural)
fontba (illative singular)
fontokba (illative plural)
fontra (singular sublative)
fontokra (plural sublative)
fonthoz (allative singular)
fontokhoz (allative plural)
fontból (elative singular)
fontokból (elative plural)
fontról (delative singular)
fontokról (delative plural)
fonttól (ablative singular)
fontoktól (ablative plural)
fonté (singular)
fontoké (plural)
fontéi (singular)
fontokéi (plural)
fontom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
fontjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
fontod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
fontjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
fontja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
fontjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
fontunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
fontjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
fontotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
fontjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
fontjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
fontjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Borrowed from English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of fondre (“to melt”), from Latin fundō (“I melt”).

(typography) digital font (set of glyphs of unified design contained in a computer file)