dictionary

dictionaries (plural)
dictionnary (alternative)
dixnary (alternative)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti
Proto-Italic *deikō
Latin dīcō
Proto-Indo-European *-tisder.
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Latin -tiō
Latin dictiō
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āsios
Latin -ārium
Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor.
Middle English dixionare
English dictionary
From Middle English dixionare, a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium, from Latin dictiōnārius, from dictiō (“a speaking”), from dictus, perfect past participle of dīcō (“to speak”) + -ārium (“room, place”). By surface analysis, diction + -ary.

ажвар

publication that explains the meanings of an ordered list of words

vödasbuk (older term, now obsolete; compare Wörterbuch)

User calls RouteCollection.GetVirtualPath, passing in a RequestContext, a dictionary of values, and an optional route name used to select the correct route to generate the URL.

2011, Jon Galloway, Phil Haack, Brad Wilson, Professional ASP.NET MVC 3:

(computing) An associative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a dictionary (sense 1).


cat

From concatenate, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare concat.

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-cat.wav

(computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.


cat

en-verb

cat (third-person singular simple present cats, present participle catting, simple past and past participle catted)

cats (present singular third-person)
catting (participle present)
catted (participle past)
catted (past)

(computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).

(computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.


word

en-noun

word (countable and uncountable, plural words)

words (plural)
worde (alternative obsolete)

desc

Chinese Pidgin English: word, 𭉉 (Chinese spelling)

From Middle English word, from Old English word, from Proto-West Germanic *word, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰh₁om. Doublet of verb and verve; further related to vrata.

you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone

The size of a register in the MIPS architecture is 32 bits; groups of 32 bits occur so frequently that they are given the name word in the MIPS architecture.

1997, John L. Hennessy with David A. Patterson, Computer Organization and Design, 2nd edition, San Francisco, California: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., §3.3, page 109:

(computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).

woord

computing: fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit


A

From the Etruscan letter 𐌀 (a), from the Ancient Greek letter Α (A, “alpha”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤀 (ʾ, “aleph”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓃾.

Decimal 270 can be converted as duodecimal 1A6 or vigesimal DA.

(computing) The variable was a byte with value A0, or 160 in decimal.

Ten, especially used in bases above ten, such as duodecimal, hexadecimal, vigesimal and so on.


dialect

From Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectos, dialectus, from Ancient Greek διάλεκτος (diálektos, “conversation, the language of a country or a place or a nation, the local idiom which derives from a dominant language”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “I participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “inter, through”) + λέγω (légō, “I speak”); by surface analysis, dia- + -lect.

der

Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.

programming language
programming language

(computing, programming) A variant of a non-standardized programming language.


noun

From Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen.

Nouns are the data; verbs are the data transformations, and therefore verbs represent much of the complexity of systems.

1992, Brad A. Myers, David C. Smith, Bruce Horn, chapter 19, in Languages for Developing User Interfaces:

You choose either (1) the verb (change font) first and then select the noun (the paragraph) to which the verb should apply or (2) the noun first and then apply the verb.

2000, Jeff Raskin, The Humane Interface, page 59:

Thus, in essence, the mouse provides a capability for picking among a set of nouns (for instance, the file to which to apply some action) and verbs (such as "edit" or "insert")

2005, Barbara J. Grosz, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 149, number 4:

(computing) An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.


swap

From the verb swap. First attested in 1620.

How much swap do you need?

(computing, informal, uncountable) Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.


swap

swap (nominative singular)
swapit (nominative plural)
swap (accusative nominative singular)
swapit (accusative nominative plural)
swapin (accusative genitive singular)
swapit (accusative genitive plural)
swapin (genitive singular)
swapien (genitive plural)
swapia (partitive singular)
swapeja (partitive plural)
swapissa (inessive singular)
swapeissa (inessive plural)
swapista (elative singular)
swapeista (elative plural)
swapiin (illative singular)
swapeihin (illative plural)
swapilla (adessive singular)
swapeilla (adessive plural)
swapilta (ablative singular)
swapeilta (ablative plural)
swapille (allative singular)
swapeille (allative plural)
swapina (essive singular)
swapeina (essive plural)
swapiksi (singular translative)
swapeiksi (plural translative)
swapitta (abessive singular)
swapeitta (abessive plural)
swapein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
swapini (nominative singular)
swapini (nominative plural)
swapini (accusative nominative singular)
swapini (accusative nominative plural)
swapini (accusative genitive singular)
swapini (accusative genitive plural)
swapini (genitive singular)
swapieni (genitive plural)
swapiani (partitive singular)
swapejani (partitive plural)
swapissani (inessive singular)
swapeissani (inessive plural)
swapistani (elative singular)
swapeistani (elative plural)
swapiini (illative singular)
swapeihini (illative plural)
swapillani (adessive singular)
swapeillani (adessive plural)
swapiltani (ablative singular)
swapeiltani (ablative plural)
swapilleni (allative singular)
swapeilleni (allative plural)
swapinani (essive singular)
swapeinani (essive plural)
swapikseni (singular translative)
swapeikseni (plural translative)
swapittani (abessive singular)
swapeittani (abessive plural)
swapeineni (comitative plural)
swapisi (nominative singular)
swapisi (nominative plural)
swapisi (accusative nominative singular)
swapisi (accusative nominative plural)
swapisi (accusative genitive singular)
swapisi (accusative genitive plural)
swapisi (genitive singular)
swapiesi (genitive plural)
swapiasi (partitive singular)
swapejasi (partitive plural)
swapissasi (inessive singular)
swapeissasi (inessive plural)
swapistasi (elative singular)
swapeistasi (elative plural)
swapiisi (illative singular)
swapeihisi (illative plural)
swapillasi (adessive singular)
swapeillasi (adessive plural)
swapiltasi (ablative singular)
swapeiltasi (ablative plural)
swapillesi (allative singular)
swapeillesi (allative plural)
swapinasi (essive singular)
swapeinasi (essive plural)
swapiksesi (singular translative)
swapeiksesi (plural translative)
swapittasi (abessive singular)
swapeittasi (abessive plural)
swapeinesi (comitative plural)
swapimme (nominative singular)
swapimme (nominative plural)
swapimme (accusative nominative singular)
swapimme (accusative nominative plural)
swapimme (accusative genitive singular)
swapimme (accusative genitive plural)
swapimme (genitive singular)
swapiemme (genitive plural)
swapiamme (partitive singular)
swapejamme (partitive plural)
swapissamme (inessive singular)
swapeissamme (inessive plural)
swapistamme (elative singular)
swapeistamme (elative plural)
swapiimme (illative singular)
swapeihimme (illative plural)
swapillamme (adessive singular)
swapeillamme (adessive plural)
swapiltamme (ablative singular)
swapeiltamme (ablative plural)
swapillemme (allative singular)
swapeillemme (allative plural)
swapinamme (essive singular)
swapeinamme (essive plural)
swapiksemme (singular translative)
swapeiksemme (plural translative)
swapittamme (abessive singular)
swapeittamme (abessive plural)
swapeinemme (comitative plural)
swapinne (nominative singular)
swapinne (nominative plural)
swapinne (accusative nominative singular)
swapinne (accusative nominative plural)
swapinne (accusative genitive singular)
swapinne (accusative genitive plural)
swapinne (genitive singular)
swapienne (genitive plural)
swapianne (partitive singular)
swapejanne (partitive plural)
swapissanne (inessive singular)
swapeissanne (inessive plural)
swapistanne (elative singular)
swapeistanne (elative plural)
swapiinne (illative singular)
swapeihinne (illative plural)
swapillanne (adessive singular)
swapeillanne (adessive plural)
swapiltanne (ablative singular)
swapeiltanne (ablative plural)
swapillenne (allative singular)
swapeillenne (allative plural)
swapinanne (essive singular)
swapeinanne (essive plural)
swapiksenne (singular translative)
swapeiksenne (plural translative)
swapittanne (abessive singular)
swapeittanne (abessive plural)
swapeinenne (comitative plural)
swapinsa (nominative singular)
swapinsa (nominative plural)
swapinsa (accusative nominative singular)
swapinsa (accusative nominative plural)
swapinsa (accusative genitive singular)
swapinsa (accusative genitive plural)
swapinsa (genitive singular)
swapiensa (genitive plural)
swapiaan (partitive singular)
swapiansa (partitive singular)
swapejaan (partitive plural)
swapejansa (partitive plural)
swapissaan (inessive singular)
swapissansa (inessive singular)
swapeissaan (inessive plural)
swapeissansa (inessive plural)
swapistaan (elative singular)
swapistansa (elative singular)
swapeistaan (elative plural)
swapeistansa (elative plural)
swapiinsa (illative singular)
swapeihinsa (illative plural)
swapillaan (adessive singular)
swapillansa (adessive singular)
swapeillaan (adessive plural)
swapeillansa (adessive plural)
swapiltaan (ablative singular)
swapiltansa (ablative singular)
swapeiltaan (ablative plural)
swapeiltansa (ablative plural)
swapilleen (allative singular)
swapillensa (allative singular)
swapeilleen (allative plural)
swapeillensa (allative plural)
swapinaan (essive singular)
swapinansa (essive singular)
swapeinaan (essive plural)
swapeinansa (essive plural)
swapikseen (singular translative)
swapiksensa (singular translative)
swapeikseen (plural translative)
swapeiksensa (plural translative)
swapittaan (abessive singular)
swapittansa (abessive singular)
swapeittaan (abessive plural)
swapeittansa (abessive plural)
swapeineen (comitative plural)
swapeinensa (comitative plural)


head

en-noun

head (countable and uncountable, plural heads or head)

heads (plural)
head (plural)
heed (alternative obsolete)
hed (alternative obsolete)
'ead (alternative UK pronunciation-spelling)

→ Japanese: ヘッド (heddo)

Sranan Tongo: ede

Aukan: ede

Saramaccan: hédi

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput-
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
From Middle English hed, from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; chief”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput.
The modern word comes from Old English oblique stem hēafd-; the expected Modern English outcome for hēafod would be *heaved (similar to the Middle English word). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, chef, chief, and Howth.
Cognate with Scots heid, hede, hevid, heved (“head”), Old English hafola (“head”), North Frisian hood (“head”), Dutch hoofd (“head”), German Haupt (“head”), Swedish huvud (“head”), Danish hoved (“head”), Icelandic höfuð (“head”), Latin caput (“head”), Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”), Hindi कपाल (kapāl, “skull”).

頭

つぶり, tsuburi, つぃぶる, tsiburu, つぃぶるぃ, tsiburi

pää

have one's head screwed on the right way

know one's head from a hole in the ground

run around like a chicken with its head cut off

would lose one's head if it wasn't attached

would lose one's head if it wasn't bolted on

would lose one's head if it wasn't glued on

would lose one's head if it wasn't screwed on

would lose one's head if it wasn't stuck on

would lose one's head if it wasn't tied on

would lose one's head if it weren't attached

you can't put an old head on young shoulders

you can't put a wise head on young shoulders

(countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

(countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.

(computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.

гало́ўка

computing: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data


name

→ Sranan Tongo: nen

→ Japanese: ネーム (nēmu)

PIE word
 *h₁nómn̥
From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥. Cognates include Saterland Frisian Noome, West Frisian namme, Dutch naam, German Name, Danish navn, Swedish namn, Latin nōmen (whence Spanish nombre), Russian имя (imja), Ashkun nām, Kamkata-viri nom, num, Prasuni nom, nëmë, Waigali nām, Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man). Possible cognates outside of Indo-European include Finnish nimi and Hungarian név. Doublet of nomen and noun.

it doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right

(computing) An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.


abduction

Learned borrowing from Latin abductiō(n) (“robbing; abduction”), from abdūcō (“take or lead away”) + -tiō(n) (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results).

lbor

(logic, computing) abductive reasoning; abduction


abort

→ Polish: abort

→ Portuguese: abort

From Middle English, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“come into being”). Doublet of abortus.

(computing) The function used to abort a process.

We've had three aborts over the last two days.

(computing) An event in which a process is aborted.


abort

en-verb

abort (third-person singular simple present aborts, present participle aborting, simple past and past participle aborted)

aborts (present singular third-person)
aborting (participle present)
aborted (participle past)
aborted (past)

From Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).

(transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.

終止 /终止

computing: to terminate a process prior to completion


abort

abort (nominative singular)
aborty (nominative plural)
abortu (genitive singular)
abortów (genitive plural)
abortowi (dative singular)
abortom (dative plural)
abort (accusative singular)
aborty (accusative plural)
abortem (instrumental singular)
abortami (instrumental plural)
aborcie (locative singular)
abortach (locative plural)
aborcie (singular vocative)
aborty (plural vocative)

(computing) force quit, closing (act of stopping a program)


abort

(computing) abort (function used to abort a process)


重い

ja-adj

重(おも)い • (omoi) -i (adverbial 重(おも)く (omoku))

重い (canonical)
omoi (romanization)
重く (adverbial)
重かろ (imperfective stem)
おもかろ (imperfective stem)
omokaro (imperfective)
重く (continuative stem)
おもく (continuative stem)
omoku (continuative)
重い (stem terminative)
おもい (stem terminative)
omoi (terminative)
重い (attributive stem)
おもい (attributive stem)
omoi (attributive)
重けれ (hypothetical stem)
おもけれ (hypothetical stem)
omokere (hypothetical)
重かれ (imperative stem)
おもかれ (imperative stem)
omokare (imperative)
重くない (informal negative)
おもくない (informal negative)
omoku nai (informal negative)
重かった (informal past)
おもかった (informal past)
omokatta (informal past)
重くなかった (informal negative past)
おもくなかった (informal negative past)
omoku nakatta (informal negative past)
重いです (formal)
おもいです (formal)
omoi desu (formal)
重くないです (formal negative)
おもくないです (formal negative)
omoku nai desu (formal negative)
重かったです (formal past)
おもかったです (formal past)
omokatta desu (formal past)
重くなかったです (formal negative past)
おもくなかったです (formal negative past)
omoku nakatta desu (formal negative past)
重くて (conjunctive)
おもくて (conjunctive)
omokute (conjunctive)
重ければ (conditional)
おもければ (conditional)
omokereba (conditional)
重かったら (conditional past)
おもかったら (conditional past)
omokattara (conditional past)
重かろう (volitional)
おもかろう (volitional)
omokarō (volitional)
重く (adverbial)
おもく (adverbial)
omoku (adverbial)
重さ (noun-from-adj)
おもさ (noun-from-adj)
omosa (noun-from-adj)

From おもき (omoki), the 連体形 (rentaikei, “attributive form”) of Early Middle Japanese adjective 重し (omoshi), with the medial /-k-/ falling out; eventually from Proto-Japonic *onpo.

急にchromeが重くなった。起動も重い、タブを開くのも、切り替えるのも重い、WEBページを読み込むのも重い。

My Chrome has suddenly become laggy. It takes forever to start up. Opening and switching tabs takes forever. Loading web pages also takes forever.

Kyū ni Kurōmu ga omokunatta. Kidō mo omoi, tabu o hiraku no mo, kirikaeru no mo omoi, webu pēji o yomikomu no mo omoi.

(computing, of computers or programs) sluggish; slow

回線が重い

(computing, of computer networks) congested; having poor performance

重いデータを送る


mouse potato

Lady Miss Kier is a mouse potato. 'I wake up, I go and turn the computer on before I wash my face or brush my teeth. I'll be sitting there in my underwear, and before I know it, four hours have passed. Then I pick up the phone, push some more buttons and the food delivery arrives, and then 16 hours have passed in front of the computer. It leaves you completely drained.'

1994 July 14, Ruth Shurman, “Me and my Gizmo: No. 8”, in The Guardian:

The internet, the authors say, affords the average mouse-potato the opportunity to experience a Naipaul-esque enigma of arrival in far-away lands without ever leaving the shores of Trinidad.

2001 December 7, Aniruddho Sanyal, “The Trini Trinity Is Found On De Line”, in The Times Higher Education Supplement:

(slang) A person who spends excessive amounts of time using a computer.


robot

it-noun

robot m (invariable, diminutive robottìno)

robottìno (diminutive)
robò (alternative)
roboto (alternative)

Borrowed from French robot, borrowed from Czech robot, from robota, from Old Czech robota, from Proto-Slavic *orbota, from *orbiti + *-ota.


y

Abbreviations.
y
# (Stenoscript) the sound sequence /ɔɪ̯/.
# (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of why.
# (Stenoscript) the suffix -ry or -rry.


accept

First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin acceptō, acceptāre (“receive”), frequentative of accipiō, formed from ad- + capiō (“to take”). Displaced native Old English onfōn.

Almost all line segments will be trivial accepts or trivial rejects, so the above covers the vast majority of cases.

1996, Jim Blinn, Jim Blinn's Corner: A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline, page 127:


accessibility

en-noun

accessibility (usually uncountable, plural accessibilities)

From accessible + -ity, after Late Latin accessibilitas, from Latin accessibilis.

The purpose of this study is to measure West Virginia University's website accessibility for students and users who are blind or visually impaired and compare that measurement to the measurement of other websites of […]

2007, Accessibility of WVU Websites for Individuals with Vision Impairments, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 4:

(computing, web design) Features that increase software usability for users with certain impairments.

無障礙 /无障碍

feature that increases software usability


avatar

From Hindustani अवतार / اوتار (avtār), from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”), a compound of अव (ava, “off, away, down”) and the vṛddhi-stem of the root तरति (√tṝ, “to cross”).


avatar

From English avatar, from Hindustani अवतार / اوتار (avtār), from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”). Doublet of awatara.

(computing) avatar (a digital representation of a person or being)


avatar

Borrowed from French avatar, from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”). The computing sense comes from English.

pt:an instantiation digitally with a simulation


your mileage may vary

The United States Environmental Protection Agency requires all new vehicles to undergo a set of standard emissions tests which simulate city and highway driving. Part of the test measures estimated city and highway gas (petrol) mileage estimates. Since no test can exactly simulate all driving habits and conditions, the actual gas mileage of each vehicle will vary. As a result, when these estimated mileage claims from automobile manufacturers appear in advertisements, they are almost always accompanied with the standard disclaimer “your mileage may vary”.

The battery lasts a day in my phone, but your mileage may vary.

When that definition is executed, the metadata for the temporary table is put into your schema (most likely—your mileage may vary), but no space is allocated to hold data.

1993, Jim Melton, Alan R. Simon, “Basic Data Definition Language (DDL)”, in Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide, San Francisco, Calif.: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, →ISBN, section 4.3.4 (Temporary Tables), page 74:

In other words, your mileage may vary and my disk-size figures are just estimates provided for your convenience.

1994, Bob LeVitus, Macintosh System 7.5 for Dummies (For Dummies), San Mateo, Calif.: IDG Books, →ISBN, page 328:

We pause here to emphasize that with animals, there are no absolutes. […] We like to say that with any given wolf or dog, "your mileage may vary."

2012, Jessica Addams, Andrew Miller, “Modern Wolf Mythology: The Things that ‘Everyone Knows’”, in Between Dog and Wolf: Understanding the Connection and the Confusion, Wenatchee, Wash.: Dogwise Publishing, →ISBN:

Mallory Ortberg: […] The advice game is the ultimate your-mileage-may-vary exercise—do you have a feeling for when someone is looking for (or needs) a gentle smack to return them to their senses, a bit of empathy, a dose of humor? It’s a tricky balance, I think, between writing something entertaining for your many readers and trying to be genuinely helpful to the original writer.

2015 November 12, Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Emily Yoffe, “Dear Prudie, from Prudie: Emily Yoffe’s advice to her successor, Mallory Ortberg”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2018-02-07:

(Canada, US, idiomatic, often computing) It may work differently in your situation, or be different in your experience.

možná to máte jinak

it may work differently in your situation

ez mindenkinél másként/máshogy/máshogyan van/működik (persze)

э́то мо́жет срабо́тать у тебя́ по-друго́му


obfuscate

en-verb

obfuscate (third-person singular simple present obfuscates, present participle obfuscating, simple past and past participle obfuscated)

obfuscates (present singular third-person)
obfuscating (participle present)
obfuscated (participle past)
obfuscated (past)
obfuscate (infinitive)
obfuscate (first-person present singular)
obfuscated (first-person past singular)
obfuscate (present second-person singular)
obfuscatest (archaic present second-person singular)
obfuscated (past second-person singular)
obfuscatedst (archaic past second-person singular)
obfuscates (present singular third-person)
obfuscateth (archaic present singular third-person)
obfuscated (past singular third-person)
obfuscate (plural present)
obfuscated (past plural)
obfuscate (present subjunctive)
obfuscated (past subjunctive)
obfuscate (imperative present)
obfuscating (participle present)
obfuscated (participle past)

explain

antonym(s) of “to deliberately make less confusing”

The adjective is first attested in 1487, in Middle English, the verb in 1536; either borrowed from Middle French obfusquer, offusquer, from Old French offusquer, or directly from Late Latin obfuscātus, offuscātus, the perfect passive participle of obfuscō, offuscō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Latin ob- + fuscō (“to darken”).

bor+

We need to obfuscate these classes before we ship the final release.

(computing) To alter code while preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.


ASCII

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

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

In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) was developed from telegraphic codes.

2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 127:

American Standard Code for Information Interchange#English

(computing) Acronym of American Standard Code for Information Interchange.


ASCII

(computing) ASCII (a 7-bit character encoding)


LDP

Linux Documentation Project
w:Linux Documentation Project

(computing) Initialism of Linux Documentation Project.


parole

parole (nominative singular)
paroles (nominative plural)
paroles (genitive singular)
paroļu (genitive plural)
parolei (dative singular)
parolēm (dative plural)
paroli (accusative singular)
paroles (accusative plural)
paroli (instrumental singular)
parolēm (instrumental plural)
parolē (locative singular)
parolēs (locative plural)
parole (singular vocative)
paroles (plural vocative)

Jūs nekad neuzzināsit manu mobilā tālruņa paroli.

(computing) password (sequence of characters that gives access to a website)


FTP

en-verb

FTP (third-person singular simple present FTPs, present participle FTPing, simple past and past participle FTPed)

FTPs (present singular third-person)
FTPing (participle present)
FTPed (participle past)
FTPed (past)

Just as newsgroups have certain rules to live by, there are several courtesies to remember when FTPing and telneting to remote sites […]

1995, Richard Wagner, Inside CompuServe:

Having saved header.php, I FTPed it back to the Sandbox theme folder, overwriting the old version.

2008, Paul Thewlis, WordPress for Business Bloggers:

File Transfer Protocol
File Transfer Protocol

(computing, transitive) To transfer using File Transfer Protocol.


GUI

graphical user interface
graphical user interface#English

(computing) Initialism of graphical user interface.


GUI

GUI-k (plural)
GUI (nominative singular)
GUI-k (nominative plural)
GUI-t (accusative singular)
GUI-kat (accusative plural)
GUI-nak (dative singular)
GUI-knak (dative plural)
GUI-val (instrumental singular)
GUI-kkal (instrumental plural)
GUI-ért (causal-final singular)
GUI-kért (causal-final plural)
GUI-vá (singular translative)
GUI-kká (plural translative)
GUI-ig (singular terminative)
GUI-kig (plural terminative)
GUI-ként (essive-formal singular)
GUI-kként (essive-formal plural)
GUI-ban (inessive singular)
GUI-kban (inessive plural)
GUI-n (singular superessive)
GUI-kon (plural superessive)
GUI-nál (adessive singular)
GUI-knál (adessive plural)
GUI-ba (illative singular)
GUI-kba (illative plural)
GUI-ra (singular sublative)
GUI-kra (plural sublative)
GUI-hoz (allative singular)
GUI-khoz (allative plural)
GUI-ból (elative singular)
GUI-kból (elative plural)
GUI-ról (delative singular)
GUI-król (delative plural)
GUI-tól (ablative singular)
GUI-któl (ablative plural)
GUI-é (singular)
GUI-ké (plural)
GUI-éi (singular)
GUI-kéi (plural)
GUI-m (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
GUI-jaim (or GUI-im) (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
GUI-d (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
GUI-jaid (or GUI-id) (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
GUI-ja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
GUI-jai (or GUI-i) (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
GUI-nk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
GUI-jaink (or GUI-ink) (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
GUI-tok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
GUI-jaitok (or GUI-itok) (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
GUI-juk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
GUI-jaik (or GUI-ik) (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From English GUI (“graphical user interface”).


OS

OS-ek (plural)
OS (nominative singular)
OS-ek (nominative plural)
OS-t (accusative singular)
OS-eket (accusative plural)
OS-nek (dative singular)
OS-eknek (dative plural)
OS-sel (instrumental singular)
OS-ekkel (instrumental plural)
OS-ért (causal-final singular)
OS-ekért (causal-final plural)
OS-sé (singular translative)
OS-ekké (plural translative)
OS-ig (singular terminative)
OS-ekig (plural terminative)
OS-ként (essive-formal singular)
OS-ekként (essive-formal plural)
OS-ben (inessive singular)
OS-ekben (inessive plural)
OS-en (singular superessive)
OS-eken (plural superessive)
OS-nél (adessive singular)
OS-eknél (adessive plural)
OS-be (illative singular)
OS-ekbe (illative plural)
OS-re (singular sublative)
OS-ekre (plural sublative)
OS-hez (allative singular)
OS-ekhez (allative plural)
OS-ből (elative singular)
OS-ekből (elative plural)
OS-ről (delative singular)
OS-ekről (delative plural)
OS-től (ablative singular)
OS-ektől (ablative plural)
OS-é (singular)
OS-eké (plural)
OS-éi (singular)
OS-ekéi (plural)
OS-em (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
OS-eim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
OS-ed (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
OS-eid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
OS-e (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
OS-ei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
OS-ünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
OS-eink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
OS-etek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
OS-eitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
OS-ük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
OS-eik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

operating system
operating system#Hungarian

(computing) abbreviation of operating system


clock

en-noun

clock (countable and uncountable, plural clocks)

First use appears c. 1370. Middle English clokke, clok, cloke, from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)). Related to Old English clucge, Dutch klok, Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell; clock”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka. Doublet of cloak and cloche.

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic

cog

even a stopped clock is right twice a day

Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds.

1984, The Journal of Forth Application and Research, volume 2, page 83:

The best schedule produced by any hardware algorithm takes 7 clocks, whereas the statically reordered code in Figure 1.2(b) takes only 5 clocks.

1990, Joseph F. Traub, Barbara J. Grosz, Annual Review of Computer Science, page 180:

(computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.


OCR

en-noun

OCR (countable and uncountable, plural OCRs)

optical character recognition
optical character recognition#English

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of optical character recognition (the technology or principle).

optical character reader
optical character reader#English

(computing, countable) Initialism of optical character reader (the scanning device).


bit

Coined by John Tukey in 1946 as an abbreviation of binary digit, probably influenced by connotations of “small portion”. First used in print 1948 by Claude Shannon. Compare byte and nybble, with similar food associations.

(mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.

(computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.


bit

bit (nominative singular)
bity (nominative plural)
bitu (genitive singular)
bitů (genitive plural)
bitu (dative singular)
bitům (dative plural)
bit (accusative singular)
bity (accusative plural)
bite (singular vocative)
bity (plural vocative)
bitu (locative singular)
bitech (locative plural)
bitem (instrumental singular)
bity (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from English bit, from binary digit.


bit

bitek (plural)
bit (nominative singular)
bitek (nominative plural)
bitet (accusative singular)
biteket (accusative plural)
bitnek (dative singular)
biteknek (dative plural)
bittel (instrumental singular)
bitekkel (instrumental plural)
bitért (causal-final singular)
bitekért (causal-final plural)
bitté (singular translative)
bitekké (plural translative)
bitig (singular terminative)
bitekig (plural terminative)
bitként (essive-formal singular)
bitekként (essive-formal plural)
bitben (inessive singular)
bitekben (inessive plural)
biten (singular superessive)
biteken (plural superessive)
bitnél (adessive singular)
biteknél (adessive plural)
bitbe (illative singular)
bitekbe (illative plural)
bitre (singular sublative)
bitekre (plural sublative)
bithez (allative singular)
bitekhez (allative plural)
bitből (elative singular)
bitekből (elative plural)
bitről (delative singular)
bitekről (delative plural)
bittől (ablative singular)
bitektől (ablative plural)
bité (singular)
biteké (plural)
bitéi (singular)
bitekéi (plural)
bitem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
bitjeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
bited (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
bitjeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
bitje (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
bitjei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
bitünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
bitjeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
bitetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
bitjeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
bitjük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
bitjeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


bit

Borrowed from English bit (“binary digit”).

bor+

(computing) bit, smallest unit of storage


bit

(computing) bit, smallest unit of storage.


bit

bitowy (adjective)
bit (nominative singular)
bity (nominative plural)
bit (genitive singular)
bita (genitive singular)
bitów (genitive plural)
bitowi (dative singular)
bitom (dative plural)
bit (accusative singular)
bity (accusative plural)
bitem (instrumental singular)
bitami (instrumental plural)
bicie (locative singular)
bitach (locative plural)
bicie (singular vocative)
bity (plural vocative)

bit informacji

bit po bicie

(mathematics, computing) bit (binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0)


bit

(mathematics, computing) bit (binary digit)


bit

biți (plural)
bit (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
bitul (accusative definite nominative singular)
biți (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
biții (accusative definite nominative plural)
bit (indefinite singular)
bitului (definite singular)
biți (indefinite plural)
biților (definite plural)
bitule (singular vocative)
biților (plural vocative)

Borrowed from English bit or French bit.


bit

bȉt (canonical masculine)
би̏т (Cyrillic)
bȉt (nominative singular)
bìtovi (nominative plural)
bita (genitive singular)
bitova (genitive plural)
bitu (dative singular)
bitovima (dative plural)
bit (accusative singular)
bitove (accusative plural)
bite (singular vocative)
bitovi (plural vocative)
bitu (locative singular)
bitovima (locative plural)
bitom (instrumental singular)
bitovima (instrumental plural)


bit

bit (indefinite nominative singular)
bits (genitive indefinite singular)
biten (definite nominative singular)
bitens (definite genitive singular)
bitar (indefinite nominative plural)
bitars (genitive indefinite plural)
bitarna (definite nominative plural)
bitarnas (definite genitive plural)

ett 64-bitars operativsystem


bit

head

bit (definite accusative biti, plural bitler)

biti (accusative definite)
bitler (plural)
bit (nominative singular)
bitler (nominative plural)
biti (accusative definite singular)
bitleri (accusative definite plural)
bite (dative singular)
bitlere (dative plural)
bitte (locative singular)
bitlerde (locative plural)
bitten (ablative singular)
bitlerden (ablative plural)
bitin (genitive singular)
bitlerin (genitive plural)
bitim (first-person nominative singular)
bitlerim (first-person nominative singular)
bitin (nominative second-person singular)
bitlerin (nominative second-person singular)
biti (nominative singular third-person)
bitleri (nominative singular third-person)
bitimiz (first-person nominative plural)
bitlerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
bitiniz (nominative plural second-person)
bitleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
bitleri (nominative plural third-person)
bitimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
bitlerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
bitini (accusative definite second-person singular)
bitlerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
bitini (accusative definite singular third-person)
bitlerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
bitimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
bitlerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
bitinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
bitlerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
bitlerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
bitime (dative first-person singular)
bitlerime (dative first-person singular)
bitine (dative second-person singular)
bitlerine (dative second-person singular)
bitine (dative singular third-person)
bitlerine (dative singular third-person)
bitimize (dative first-person plural)
bitlerimize (dative first-person plural)
bitinize (dative plural second-person)
bitlerinize (dative plural second-person)
bitlerine (dative plural third-person)
bitimde (first-person locative singular)
bitlerimde (first-person locative singular)
bitinde (locative second-person singular)
bitlerinde (locative second-person singular)
bitinde (locative singular third-person)
bitlerinde (locative singular third-person)
bitimizde (first-person locative plural)
bitlerimizde (first-person locative plural)
bitinizde (locative plural second-person)
bitlerinizde (locative plural second-person)
bitlerinde (locative plural third-person)
bitimden (ablative first-person singular)
bitlerimden (ablative first-person singular)
bitinden (ablative second-person singular)
bitlerinden (ablative second-person singular)
bitinden (ablative singular third-person)
bitlerinden (ablative singular third-person)
bitimizden (ablative first-person plural)
bitlerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
bitinizden (ablative plural second-person)
bitlerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
bitlerinden (ablative plural third-person)
bitimin (first-person genitive singular)
bitlerimin (first-person genitive singular)
bitinin (genitive second-person singular)
bitlerinin (genitive second-person singular)
bitinin (genitive singular third-person)
bitlerinin (genitive singular third-person)
bitimizin (first-person genitive plural)
bitlerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
bitinizin (genitive plural second-person)
bitlerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
bitlerinin (genitive plural third-person)
bitim (first-person singular)
bitlerim (first-person singular)
bitsin (second-person singular)
bitlersin (second-person singular)
bit (singular third-person)
bittir (singular third-person)
bitler (singular third-person)
bitlerdir (singular third-person)
bitiz (first-person plural)
bitleriz (first-person plural)
bitsiniz (plural second-person)
bitlersiniz (plural second-person)
bitler (plural third-person)
bitlerdir (plural third-person)

Borrowed from English bit, abbreviation of binary digit.


bit

LL-Q9199 (vie)-Jessica Nguyen (Pamputt)-bit.wav


point

en-verb

point (third-person singular simple present points, present participle pointing, simple past and past participle pointed)

points (present singular third-person)
pointing (participle present)
pointed (participle past)
pointed (past)
p'int (alternative)

From Middle English pointen, poynten, from Old French pointier, pointer, poynter, from point from Latin pūnctum.

central processing unit
central processing unit

(transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.


man

(computing) A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.


port

Inherited from the Old English port, from the Latin porta (“passage, gate”), reinforced by the Old French porte. Doublet of porta.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

Computer port
w:Computer port (hardware)

A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

مَنْفَذ

computing: logical or physical construct into and from which data are transferred

A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.

(also networking) A number that delimits a connection for specific processes or parts of a network service.


port

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)

ports (present singular third-person)
porting (participle present)
ported (participle past)
ported (past)

From Old French porter, from Latin portāre (“carry”). Akin to transport, portable.

By its tenth week of release, CPH was the best-selling PC game in America. PlayStation and Xbox ports were already in the works, and there was talk of porting it to Nintendo.

2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 259:

(transitive, computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or recode to work on a different platform.

كَيَّفَ

computing: to adapt a program so that it works on a different platform


port

Gamers can't wait until a port of the title is released on the new system.

The latest port of the database software is the worst since we made the changeover.

(computing) A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform; the act of this adapting.

sovitus

computing: program adapted to work on a different platform; act of adapting

(computing, BSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.


port

portok (plural)
port (nominative singular)
portok (nominative plural)
portot (accusative singular)
portokat (accusative plural)
portnak (dative singular)
portoknak (dative plural)
porttal (instrumental singular)
portokkal (instrumental plural)
portért (causal-final singular)
portokért (causal-final plural)
porttá (singular translative)
portokká (plural translative)
portig (singular terminative)
portokig (plural terminative)
portként (essive-formal singular)
portokként (essive-formal plural)
portban (inessive singular)
portokban (inessive plural)
porton (singular superessive)
portokon (plural superessive)
portnál (adessive singular)
portoknál (adessive plural)
portba (illative singular)
portokba (illative plural)
portra (singular sublative)
portokra (plural sublative)
porthoz (allative singular)
portokhoz (allative plural)
portból (elative singular)
portokból (elative plural)
portról (delative singular)
portokról (delative plural)
porttól (ablative singular)
portoktól (ablative plural)
porté (singular)
portoké (plural)
portéi (singular)
portokéi (plural)
portom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
portjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
portod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
portjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
portja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
portjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
portunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
portjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
portotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
portjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
portjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
portjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


port

port m (definite singular porten, indefinite plural porter, definite plural portene)

porten (definite singular)
porter (indefinite plural)
portene (definite plural)

From Middle Norwegian portr m, from late Old Norse portr m, port n, ultimately from Latin porta f.

(computing) port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)

(computing) port (female connector of an electronic device)


port

port m (definite singular porten, indefinite plural portar, definite plural portane)

porten (definite singular)
portar (indefinite plural)
portane (definite plural)

From Middle Norwegian portr m, from late Old Norse port n, ultimately from Latin porta f.


port

pl-noun

port m inan (diminutive porcik, related adjective portowy)

porcik (diminutive)
portowy (adjective)
port (nominative singular)
porty (nominative plural)
portu (genitive singular)
portów (genitive plural)
portowi (dative singular)
portom (dative plural)
port (accusative singular)
porty (accusative plural)
portem (instrumental singular)
portami (instrumental plural)
porcie (locative singular)
portach (locative plural)
porcie (singular vocative)
porty (plural vocative)

→ Kashubian: pòrt

Inherited from Old Polish port. Sense 4 and sense 5 are semantic loans from English port. Doublet of fiord (“fjord”).

sl

(computing, networking) port (number that delimits a connection for specific processes or parts of a network service)


port

port (indefinite nominative singular)
ports (genitive indefinite singular)
porten (definite nominative singular)
portens (definite genitive singular)
portar (indefinite nominative plural)
portars (genitive indefinite plural)
portarna (definite nominative plural)
portarnas (definite genitive plural)

From late Old Norse port n, portr m, from Latin porta f. Computing sense a semantic loan from English.

(computing) a port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)


собака

ru-noun+

соба́ка • (sobáka) f anim (genitive соба́ки, nominative plural соба́ки, genitive plural соба́к, masculine соба́кен, relational adjective соба́чий, diminutive соба́чка or собачу́шка, augmentative собача́ра or соба́чище)

соба́ка (canonical)
sobáka (romanization)
соба́ки (genitive)
соба́ки (nominative plural)
соба́к (genitive plural)
соба́кен (masculine)
соба́чий (adjective relational)
соба́чка (diminutive)
собачу́шка (diminutive)
собача́ра (augmentative)
соба́чище (augmentative)
соба́ка (nominative singular)
соба́ки (nominative plural)
соба́ки (genitive singular)
соба́к (genitive plural)
соба́ке (dative singular)
соба́кам (dative plural)
соба́ку (accusative singular)
соба́к (accusative plural)
соба́кой (instrumental singular)
соба́кою (instrumental singular)
соба́ками (instrumental plural)
соба́ке (prepositional singular)
соба́ках (plural prepositional)
соба́ка (dated nominative singular)
соба́ки (dated nominative plural)
соба́ки (dated genitive singular)
соба́къ (dated genitive plural)
соба́кѣ (dated dative singular)
соба́камъ (dated dative plural)
соба́ку (accusative dated singular)
соба́къ (accusative dated plural)
соба́кой (dated instrumental singular)
соба́кою (dated instrumental singular)
соба́ками (dated instrumental plural)
соба́кѣ (dated prepositional singular)
соба́кахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Aleut: sabaakax

→ Southern Yukaghir: тоуко (towko)

Inherited from Old East Slavic собака (sobaka), from Proto-Slavic *sobaka, derived from Middle Iranian *sabāka-, from West Iranian *spaka, from Proto-Iranian *cwā́, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ; compare Zoroastrian Dari [script needed] (sabah), Old Median σπάκα (spáka) [the source of Old Armenian ասպակ (aspak, “dog”)], Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬐𐬀 (spaka, “dog-like”). Cognates include Ukrainian соба́ка (sobáka), Belarusian саба́ка (sabáka), Polish sobaka (dialectal), Kashubian sobaka (“bitch (female dog); dissolute man”), Sanskrit शुनक (śunaka).

cog

как на охо́ту е́хать, так соба́к корми́ть


jiffy

jiffies (plural)
giffy (alternative obsolete)

Origin unknown; said to have been thieves’ cant for “lightning”. Also formerly written "giffy", to which a connection with gliff has been proposed. As a kind of envelope, a genericization of Jiffy bag.

unk

unknown

The FOR...NEXT loop for TIME increments by STEP 2 (every two jiffies) for two reasons: 1) the printing of 60 jiffies a second is too fast to read, and 2) the printing of each jiffy takes longer than its incrementations; this would delay the loop, so the printing of TIME$ is slower than it should be.

1980, Carroll S. Donahue, Janice K. Enger, PET-CBM Personal Computer Guide, Berkeley, Calif.: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, →OCLC, page 283:

The number of processed packets per round is limited in dependence of the page size. The processed packets are forwarded to a single queue and are processed for the time of two jiffies.

2015, Johanna Ullrich, Edgar R. Weippl, “Protection through Isolation: Virtues and Pitfalls”, in Ryan Ko, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, editors, The Cloud Security Ecosystem: Technical, Legal, Business and Management Issues (Syngress Advanced Topics in Information Security), Waltham, Mass.: Syngress, →ISBN, page 135:

(computing) A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values.

систе́мный тик

(computing) Unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer


language

en-noun

language (countable and uncountable, plural languages)

From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj. Displaced native Old English ġeþēode.

der

/ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/

[ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]

[ˈlæːŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]

[ˈlaŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]

/ˈlaŋɡˌweːd͡ʑ/

a language is a dialect with an army and navy

language analysis for the determination of origin

In fact pointers are called references in these languages to distinguish them from pointers in languages like C and C++.

2015, Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages, →ISBN, page 94:

(computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.

rekenaartaal

computer language — see also computer language


bot

The goals of IRC bots vary widely, such as automatically kicking other users off or more nefarious things like spamming other IRC users. In this paper, a free standing IRC bot is presented that monitors an IRC channel for commands from a particular user and responds accordingly.

2009, Ryan Farley, Xinyuan Wang, “Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation”, in Dimitris Gritzalis, Javier López, editors, Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference, page 42:

He is particularly good at creating web robots, which are also called bots. A bot is software that searches for certain kinds of websites and then automatically does something — good or bad — on each site. Google uses bots to search and index websites.

2009, Richard K. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy, and Style, page 91:

Twitter bots can leverage Twitter′s text message support to allow users to accomplish tasks from their cell phones. You could consider Twitter accounts that are simply an automated import of blog′s RSS feed a Twitter bot.

2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies, page 59:

Some bots help refresh your Facebook feed or figure out how to rank Google search results; other bots impersonate humans and carry out devastating DDoS attacks. […] Overall, bots—good and bad—are responsible for 52 percent of web traffic, according to a new report by the security firm Imperva, which issues an annual assessment of bot activity online.

2017 January 31, Adrienne LaFrance, “The Internet Is Mostly Bots”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2023-02-04:

(computing) A piece of software designed to perform a task (often a minor but repetitive one) automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.

بُوت

a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks


bot

(computing) a piece of software designed to perform a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account


bot

bot (nominative singular)
boty (nominative plural)
bota (genitive singular)
botów (genitive plural)
botowi (dative singular)
botom (dative plural)
bota (accusative singular)
boty (accusative plural)
botem (instrumental singular)
botami (instrumental plural)
bocie (locative singular)
botach (locative plural)
bocie (singular vocative)
boty (plural vocative)


bot

Unadapted borrowing from English bot. Doublet of robô.

(computing) bot (a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks)


nine

en:High availability#"Nines"
en:Nines (notation)
nine

PIE word
 *h₁néwn̥
From Middle English nyne, nine, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”). Cognate with Scots neen, nine (“nine”), Saterland Frisian njúgen (“nine”), West Frisian njoggen (“nine”), Dutch negen (“nine”), German Low German negen (“nine”), German neun (“nine”), Danish ni (“nine”), Swedish nio (“nine”), Icelandic níu (“nine”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun, “nine”), Latin novem (“nine”), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa, “nine”), Sanskrit नवन् (navan, “nine”).

my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas

my very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins

my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas

They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines.

(computing, engineering, usually in the plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).


jitter

(computing) A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.


RAM

random-access memory
random access memory#English

(electronics, computing) Acronym of random-access memory.

ՕՀՍ

random access memory — see also random access memory

ΜΤΠ

μνήμη τυχαίας προσπέλασης f (mními tychaías prospélasis)


RAM

de-noun

RAM n or m (strong, genitive RAMs or RAM, plural (rare) RAMs or RAM)

RAMs (genitive)
RAM (genitive)
RAMs (plural rare)
RAM (plural)
RAM (definite nominative singular)
RAMs (definite nominative plural rare)
RAM (definite nominative plural rare)
RAMs (genitive singular)
RAM (genitive singular)
RAMs (definite genitive plural rare)
RAM (definite genitive plural rare)
RAM (dative singular)
RAMs (dative definite plural rare)
RAM (dative definite plural rare)
RAM (accusative definite singular)
RAMs (accusative definite plural rare)
RAM (accusative definite plural rare)

(electronics, computing) RAM (random-access memory)


RAM

RAM-ok (plural)
RAM (nominative singular)
RAM-ok (nominative plural)
RAM-ot (accusative singular)
RAM-okat (accusative plural)
RAM-nak (dative singular)
RAM-oknak (dative plural)
RAM-mal (instrumental singular)
RAM-okkal (instrumental plural)
RAM-ért (causal-final singular)
RAM-okért (causal-final plural)
RAM-má (singular translative)
RAM-okká (plural translative)
RAM-ig (singular terminative)
RAM-okig (plural terminative)
RAM-ként (essive-formal singular)
RAM-okként (essive-formal plural)
RAM-ban (inessive singular)
RAM-okban (inessive plural)
RAM-on (singular superessive)
RAM-okon (plural superessive)
RAM-nál (adessive singular)
RAM-oknál (adessive plural)
RAM-ba (illative singular)
RAM-okba (illative plural)
RAM-ra (singular sublative)
RAM-okra (plural sublative)
RAM-hoz (allative singular)
RAM-okhoz (allative plural)
RAM-ból (elative singular)
RAM-okból (elative plural)
RAM-ról (delative singular)
RAM-okról (delative plural)
RAM-tól (ablative singular)
RAM-októl (ablative plural)
RAM-é (singular)
RAM-oké (plural)
RAM-éi (singular)
RAM-okéi (plural)
RAM-om (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
RAM-jaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
RAM-od (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
RAM-jaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
RAM-ja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
RAM-jai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
RAM-unk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
RAM-jaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
RAM-otok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
RAM-jaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
RAM-juk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
RAM-jaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

random access memory
random access memory

(electronics, computing) RAM (random access memory)


RAM

Orthographic borrowing from English RAM.


operating system

en-noun

operating system (plural operating systems)

/ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtɪŋ ˌsɪstəm/

/ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɪŋ ˌsɪstəm/

This operating system enjoys little market share but the software is open source and free, and it performs as just as well as the leading competitor's.

(computing, software) Software that is designed for controlling the allocation and the use of various hardware resources to tasks and remote terminals.

ഓപറേറ്റിങ്ങ് സിസ്റ്റം

ōpaṟēṟṟiṅṅŭ sisṟṟaṁ


DOS

denial of service
denial of service#English

(computing, Internet) Initialism of denial of service.


DOS

Next, using your word processor or the DOS text editor, you can edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

1993, Kris A. Jamsa, DOS: The Complete Reference, McGraw–Hill Osborne Media

One way to do that is to turn the PC off and turn it back on again. Then, the PC performs its self-test and boots DOS.

1993, Doug Lowe, The Only DOS Book You'll Ever Need, Mike Murach & Associates Incorporated, →ISBN, page 95:

Disk Operating System
w:Disk Operating System

(computing, historical) Acronym of Disk Operating System, a family of disk-based operating systems.


DVD

(computing) DVD (optical disc on which video is recorded in digital format)

(computing) DVD (drive in a computer that plays such discs)


IME

Japanese IMEs can work with both QWERTY keyboards and Japanese keyboards.

input method editor
input method editor#English

(computing) Initialism of input method editor.


Pythonesque

en-adj

Pythonesque (comparative more Pythonesque, superlative most Pythonesque)

more Pythonesque (comparative)
most Pythonesque (superlative)

The module works by wrapping the C-extended Tkinter module into Pythonesque classes.

2001, Andy Duncan, Sean Hull, Oracle and Open Source: Tools and Applications:

If you want to cut out a third line, you can rewrite the above with a lambda function, which turns four lines into one (how very Pythonesque).

2003, Richard Hightower, Python Programming with the Java Class Libraries:

(computing, informal) Typical of, or suited to, the Python programming language.


bank

banks (plural)
banck (alternative obsolete)
bancke (alternative obsolete)
banke (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English bank, banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old English benċ (“bench”).

(computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.


open

open (comparative more open or (phonetics) opener, superlative most open or (phonetics) openest)

more open (comparative)
opener (comparative)
most open (superlative)
openest (superlative)

closed-source

antonym(s) of “with a free license and no proprietary components”

Adjective from Middle English open, from Old English open (“open”), from Proto-West Germanic *opan, from Proto-Germanic *upanaz (“open”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“up from under, over”).
Cognates
* Scots apen (“open”)
* Saterland Frisian eepen (“open”)
* West Frisian iepen (“open”)
* Dutch open (“open”)
* Low German open, apen (“open”)
* German offen (“open”)
* Danish åben (“open”)
* Swedish öppen (“open”)
* Norwegian Bokmål åpen (“open”)
* Norwegian Nynorsk open (“open”)
* Icelandic opinn (“open”)
 Compare also Latin supinus (“on one's back, supine”), Albanian hap (“to open”). Related to up.
Verb from Middle English openen, from Old English openian (“to open”), from Proto-West Germanic *opanōn, from Proto-Germanic *upanōną (“to raise; lift; open”), from Proto-Germanic *upanaz (“open”, adjective). Cognate with Saterland Frisian eepenje (“to open”), West Frisian iepenje (“to open”), Dutch openen (“to open”), German öffnen (“to open”), Danish åbne (“to open”), Swedish öppna (“to open”), Norwegian Bokmål åpne (“to open”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic opna (“to open”). Related to English up.
Noun from Middle English open (“an aperture or opening”), from the verb. In the sports sense, however, a shortening of “open competition”.

inh

at church every time the doors swing open

I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same file open.

Able to be used or interacted with in some way.

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

You're getting short of memory because you have too many apps open.

(computing, of a program or application, especially one with a screen-based interface) Running.

Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

(computing, education) Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.

free

(computing, used before "code") Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated.


open

en-verb

open (third-person singular simple present opens, present participle opening, simple past and past participle opened)

opens (present singular third-person)
opening (participle present)
opened (participle past)
opened (past)
open (infinitive)
open (first-person present singular)
opened (first-person past singular)
open (present second-person singular)
openest (archaic present second-person singular)
opened (past second-person singular)
openedst (archaic past second-person singular)
opens (present singular third-person)
openeth (archaic present singular third-person)
opened (past singular third-person)
open (plural present)
opened (past plural)
open (present subjunctive)
opened (past subjunctive)
open (imperative present)
opening (participle present)
opened (participle past)

I can't open the file because someone else is editing it.

To make or become available for use or interaction.

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To connect to a resource (a file, document, etc.) for viewing or editing.

Click this icon to open Microsoft Word.

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To start running (a program or application, especially one with a screen-based interface).


consensus

en-noun

consensus (countable and uncountable, plural consensuses or consensus)

Borrowed from Latin cōnsēnsus (“agreement, accordance, unanimity”), from cōnsentiō (“feel together; agree”); see consent.

bor

(computing) An agreement on some data value that is needed during computation.


metadata

[ˈmɛɾ.əˌdeɪ.ɾə]

That photo's metadata suggests it was edited using Photoshop.

(computing) Structured information about a file (date created, creator, software used to create, last modified, file format, file fingerprint, etc).


nag screen

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

WinRAR shows a nag screen once its 40-day trial is over to encourage users to buy a license.

The first screen to pop up is the nag screen; be patient, it disappears after 5 seconds. (Have you ever wondered why nag screens are mandatory for shareware?)

1996, New and improved stupid Windows tricks, page 17:

(computing) A message displayed by a nagware program to encourage the user to purchase the full version.


global

en-adj

global (comparative more global, superlative most global)

more global (comparative)
most global (superlative)

domestic

antonym(s) of “concerning all parts of the world”

local

antonym(s) of “of a variable, in computing”

[ˈɡloʊ̯bə̆ɫ]

From globe + -al; compare French global.

Global variables keep support engineers employed.

(not comparable) Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal:

(not comparable, computing) Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.

-omfattande (e.g. systemomfattande, programomfattande)


global

[ˈɡloʊ̯bə̆ɫ]

(computing) A globally scoped identifier.


global

From globo (“globe”) + -al (“of or relating to”).

af

(computing, of a variable) global (accessible by all parts of a program)


world

whirled (with both the wine–whine merger and fern–fir–fur merger)

whorled (with both mergers, Received Pronunciation only)

From Middle English world, weoreld, from Old English weorold (“world”), from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz (“lifetime, human existence, world”, literally “age/era of man”), equivalent to wer (“man”) + eld (“age”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English mounde (“world”), from Old French monde, munde (“world”). Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), Low German Werld (“world”), German Welt (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål verden (“(the) world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“world”).

inh

a lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on

an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

have the world by the tail on a downhill pull

the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world

the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

(computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.


take

en-verb

take (third-person singular simple present takes, present participle taking, simple past took, past participle taken or (archaic or Scotland) tane)

takes (present singular third-person)
taking (participle present)
took (past)
taken (participle past)
tane (Scotland archaic participle past)
take (infinitive)
take (first-person present singular)
took (first-person past singular)
take (present second-person singular)
takest (archaic present second-person singular)
took (past second-person singular)
tookst (archaic past second-person singular)
tookest (archaic past second-person singular)
takes (present singular third-person)
taketh (archaic present singular third-person)
took (past singular third-person)
take (plural present)
took (past plural)
take (present subjunctive)
took (past subjunctive)
take (imperative present)
taking (participle present)
taken (participle past)
took (colloquial dialectal participle past)

Brill Publishers
Helmut Rix
Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben

From Middle English taken (“to take, lay hold of, grasp, strike”), from Old English tacan (“to grasp, touch”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse taka (“to touch, take”), from Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to touch”), from pre-Germanic *deh₁g- (“to touch”), possibly a phonetically altered form of Proto-Indo-European *te-th₂g- (“to touch, take”) (see there for details).
Gradually displaced native Middle English nimen (“to take”; see nim), from Old English niman (“to take”).
Cognates
Scots tak, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk taka (“to take”), Norwegian Bokmål ta (“to take”), Swedish ta (“to take”), Danish tage (“to take, seize”), Middle Dutch taken (“to grasp”), Dutch taken (“to take; grasp”), Middle Low German tacken (“to grasp”). English thack may be from the same root. Compare tackle. Despite superficial similarity, unrelated to Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to take by hand, obtain”), which is instead cognate with English thig (“to beg”).

gloss

“to take”; see <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">nim</i>

unést

to support or carry without failing or breaking

The function takes two arguments, an array of size n and an integer k.

(transitive) To accept as an input to a relation.

(transitive, mathematics, computing) To accept (zero or more arguments).

To accept as an input to a relation.
To accept (zero or more arguments).


macrovirus

macroviruses (plural)
macro virus (alternative)

/ˈmækɹoʊˌvaɪɹəs/

A macrovirus is a type of virus that is embedded in a document that used the macro programming language.

2002, Kathleen Sindell, Safety Net: Protecting Your Business on the Internet, John Wiley & Sons, page 243:

A computer virus written in a macro language.


but

(computing) bootstrap (process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory)


network

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
English network
Compound of net + work; the nonliteral sense and its subsenses are extended from the literal sense; they are now the dominant senses.

etymon

filtered-popping recursive transition network

The copy machine is connected to the network so it can now serve as a printer.

(computing, Internet) A computer network: multiple computers and other devices connected together to share information.


wireless

Unadapted borrowing from English wireless.


digital

de-adj

digital (strong nominative masculine singular digitaler, not comparable)

digitaler (masculine nominative singular strong)
digital (masculine predicative singular)
digital (feminine predicative singular)
digital (neuter predicative singular)
digital (plural predicative)
digitaler (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
digitale (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
digitales (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
digitale (nominative plural strong without-article)
digitalen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
digitaler (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
digitalen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
digitaler (genitive plural strong without-article)
digitalem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
digitaler (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
digitalem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
digitalen (dative plural strong without-article)
digitalen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
digitale (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
digitales (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
digitale (accusative plural strong without-article)
der digitale (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die digitale (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das digitale (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die digitalen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des digitalen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der digitalen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des digitalen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der digitalen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem digitalen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der digitalen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem digitalen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den digitalen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den digitalen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die digitale (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das digitale (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die digitalen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein digitaler (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine digitale (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein digitales (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
digitalen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine digitalen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines digitalen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer digitalen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines digitalen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
digitalen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner digitalen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem digitalen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer digitalen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem digitalen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
digitalen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen digitalen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen digitalen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine digitale (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein digitales (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
digitalen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine digitalen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)


digital

id-adj

digital (comparative lebih digital, superlative paling digital)

lebih digital (comparative)
paling digital (superlative)

From Dutch digitaal, from Latin digitālis or Middle French digital, itself from Latin.

(computing) of or relating to computers or the Information Age


shadowing

en-noun

shadowing (countable and uncountable, plural shadowings)

(computing) The technique of copying ROM contents to RAM to allow for shorter access times. The ROM chip is then disabled while the initialized memory locations are switched in on the same block of addresses.


CLL

CLL (countable and uncountable, plural CLLs)

(countable, computing) Initialism of command line language.


indice

Borrowed from Latin indicium, from indicō (“point out, indicate, show”).


feature

→ German: Feature

→ Polish: ficzer

→ Ukrainian: фі́ча (fíča)

From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factūra, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Doublet of facture.

feature

long, prominent article or item in the media

The program contained an internal feature, which allowed a user to update display text after each command keystroke.

(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

funcionalitat

computing: beneficial capability of a piece of software


software

en-noun

software (usually uncountable, plural (nonstandard) softwares)

→ Amharic: ሶፍትዌር (softəwer)

desc

→ Persian: نرمافزار (narm-afzâr) (calque)

From soft + -ware, by contrast with hardware (“the computer itself”). Coined by John Tukey in 1958.

The "software" comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.

1958, John W. Tukey, "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics" in The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9

As originally conceived, the word "software" was merely an obvious way to distinguish a program from the computer itself. A program comprised sequences of changeable instructions each having the power to command the behavior of the permanently crafted machinery, the "hardware."

1995, Paul Niquette, Softword: Provenance for the Word ‘Software’:

(computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM).

ໂລຊີຊີແອນ

lō sī sī ʼǣn


software

software (nominative singular)
softwary (nominative plural)
softwaru (genitive singular)
softwarů (genitive plural)
softwaru (dative singular)
softwarům (dative plural)
software (accusative singular)
softwary (accusative plural)
software (singular vocative)
softwary (plural vocative)
softwaru (locative singular)
softwarech (locative plural)
softwarem (instrumental singular)
softwary (instrumental plural)


software

(computing) software (encoded computer instructions)


software

(Jersey, computing) software (encoded computer instructions)


software

pt-noun

software m (countable and uncountable, plural softwares)

Unadapted borrowing from English software.

ubor

(uncountable, computing) software (encoded computer instructions)

Vou instalar um novo software de anti-vírus.

(countable, computing) a piece of software; program


software

software-uri (plural rare)
software (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
software-ul (accusative definite nominative singular)
software-uri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
software-urile (accusative definite nominative plural)
software (indefinite singular)
software-ului (definite singular)
software-uri (indefinite plural)
software-urilor (definite plural)
software-ule (singular vocative)
software-urilor (plural vocative)


computer

→ Albanian: kompjuter

→ Amharic: ኮምፒዩተር (kompiyutär)

desc

كَمْبْيُوتَر

→ Arabic: كَمْبْيُوتَر (kambyūtar)

→ Azerbaijani: kompüter

→ Belarusian: камп'ю́тар (kampʺjútar), кампу́тар (kampútar), камп'ю́тэр (kampʺjúter)

→ Bengali: কম্পিউটার (kompiuṭar)

→ Bulgarian: компю́тър (kompjútǎr)

→ Burmese: ကွန်ပျူတာ (kwanpyuta)

→ Danish: computer

→ Dutch: computer

→ Estonian: kompuuter

→ Georgian: კომპიუტერი (ḳomṗiuṭeri)

→ German: Computer

→ Greek: κομπιούτερ (kompioúter)

→ Hindi: कंप्यूटर (kampyūṭar)

→ Indonesian: komputer

→ Italian: computer

→ Japanese: コンピューター (konpyūtā)

→ Khmer: កុំព្យូទ័រ (kompyuutɔə)

→ Korean: 컴퓨터 (keompyuteo)

→ Kyrgyz: компьютер (kompyuter)

→ Lao: ຄອມພິວເຕີ (khǭm phiu tœ̄)

→ Latvian: kompjūters

→ Lithuanian: kompiuteris

→ Luxembourgish: Computer

→ Macedonian: компју́тер (kompjúter)

→ Malay: komputer

→ Malayalam: കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ (kampyūṭṭaṟ)

→ Maltese: kompjuter

→ Northern Kurdish: kompûter

→ Odia: କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର (kampyuṭara)

→ Persian: کامپیوتر (kâmpyutar)

→ Pitcairn-Norfolk: kompyuuta

→ Polish: komputer

→ Romanian: computer

→ Romansch: computer

desctree

→ Russian: компью́тер (kompʹjúter)
→ Dungan: конбиютә (konbii͡utə)
→ Kazakh: компьютер (kompüter)
→ Kyrgyz: компьютер (kompyuter)
→ Mongolian:
Cyrillic script: компьютер (kompʹjüter)
Mongolian script: ᠺᠣᠮᠫᠢᠶᠦᠲᠧᠷ (kompiyütēr)
→ Tajik: компютер (kompyuter)
→ Turkmen: kompýuter
→ Uzbek: kompyuter

desc

→ Carpathian Rusyn: компю́тер (kompjúter)

→ Scottish Gaelic: coimpiutair

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: компјутер

Latin script: kompjuter

→ Swahili: kompyuta

→ Tagalog: kompiyuter

→ Tajik: компютер (kompyuter), компутар (komputar)

→ Telugu: కంప్యూటర్ (kampyūṭar)

→ Thai: คอมพิวเตอร์ (kɔm-piu-dtə̂ə)

→ Thai: คอมพิวเตอร์ (kɔm-piu-dtə̂ə)

→ Tok Pisin: kompyuta

→ Turkmen: kompýuter

→ Turkish: kompüter (obsolete)

→ Ukrainian: комп'ю́тер (kompʺjúter)

→ Urdu: کمپیوٹر (kampyūṭar)

→ Uyghur: كومپيۇتېر (kompyutër)

→ Xhosa: ikhompyutha

→ Yakut: көмпүүтэр (kömpüüter)

→ Yiddish: קאָמפּיוטער (kompyuter)

→ Zulu: ikhompyutha

Computer
Computer (occupation)
Engineering (magazine)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mental calculator
Richard Brathwait

From compute + -er. Doublet of cantore, counter, and kontor. First sense first appears c. 1613 in the works of the poet Richard Brathwait. Second sense first appears c. 1897 in the magazine Engineering.

I spend around 6 hours a day at the computer.

As well as saving the photos on my computer, I have them backed up on a USB drive.

David is a computer expert.

Janet works at the computer store.

A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.

béésh bee akʼeʼelchíhí tʼáá bí nitsékeesígíí


abstract

en-verb

abstract (third-person singular simple present abstracts, present participle abstracting, simple past and past participle abstracted)

abstracts (present singular third-person)
abstracting (participle present)
abstracted (participle past)
abstracted (past)
abstract (infinitive)
abstract (first-person present singular)
abstracted (first-person past singular)
abstract (present second-person singular)
abstractest (archaic present second-person singular)
abstracted (past second-person singular)
abstractedst (archaic past second-person singular)
abstracts (present singular third-person)
abstracteth (archaic present singular third-person)
abstracted (past singular third-person)
abstract (plural present)
abstracted (past plural)
abstract (present subjunctive)
abstracted (past subjunctive)
abstract (imperative present)
abstracting (participle present)
abstracted (participle past)

From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.

काढून टाकणे

kāḍhūn ṭākṇe

He abstracted out the square root function.

(transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.

(intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".


abstraction

en-noun

abstraction (countable and uncountable, plural abstractions)

From Middle English abstraccyone; either from Middle French abstraction or from Medieval Latin abstrāctiō (“separation”), from Latin abstrahō (“draw away”). Equivalent to abstract + -ion.

der

Files are an abstraction provided by the file system for storing data, so that applications do not have to care how that data is stored.

(computing) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.


accelerator

* First attested in 1611.
* (motor vehicle): First attested in 1900.
* accelerate + -or

a pedal used to control a vehicle's speed

a device that speeds up computer processing

a key which a user can press to activate a menu

If they had allowed single-character accelerators, Windows wouldn't be able to determine whether the character was input or a shortcut.

2002, Davis Howard Chapman, Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++ .NET in 21 Days, page 187:

(computing) A computer component using dedicated hardware to accelerate the processing and display of graphics.


access

en-noun

access (countable and uncountable, plural accesses)

From Middle English accesse, acces, borrowed from Middle French acces (“attack, onslaught”) or from its source Latin accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach; accede”), from ad (“to, toward, at”) + cēdō (“move, yield”). Doublet of accessus. First attested in the early 14th century. The sense "entrance" was first attested about 1380.

der

Operations on C++ volatiles do put the compiler on notice that the object may be modified asynchronously, and hence are generally safer to use than ordinary variable accesses.

2011, Victor Pankratius, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Walter Tichy, Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development, page 74:

(countable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.

存取

computing: process of locating data in memory


access

en-verb

access (third-person singular simple present accesses, present participle accessing, simple past and past participle accessed)

accesses (present singular third-person)
accessing (participle present)
accessed (participle past)
accessed (past)

⇒ Brazilian Portuguese: acessar

I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.

(transitive, computing) To have access to (data).


WYSIWYG

WYSIWYGs (plural)
Wysiwyg (alternative)
wysiwyg (alternative)

Coined by computer typesetter John W. Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s.

coin

WYSIWYGs are helpful tools in that they enable you to create pages much more quickly

2003, James H. Pence, How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML, page 132:

(computing) A type of software that maintains a close correspondence between the screen image and the printed image.

所見即所得 /所见即所得

a type of software that maintains a close correspondence between the screen image and the printed image

wirklichkeitsgetreue Darstellung auf dem Bildschirm

מה שאתה רואה זה מה שאתה מקבל (informal; there is no formal translation)

ne görüyorsan onu alırsın (informal; there is no formal translation)


poison

en-verb

poison (third-person singular simple present poisons, present participle poisoning, simple past and past participle poisoned)

poisons (present singular third-person)
poisoning (participle present)
poisoned (participle past)
poisoned (past)

From Middle English poisoun, poyson, poysone, puyson, puisun, from Old French poison, poisun, from Latin pōtiōnem (“drink, a draught, a poisonous draught, a potion”), from pōtō (“I drink”). See also potion and potable (from the same root). Mostly displaced native Old English ātor (see atter).

der

In this technique, the hacker poisons the cache to launch malware into Web pages.

2013, Ronald L. Mendell, Investigating Information-based Crimes, page 93:

(transitive, computing) To place false or malicious data into (a cache, etc.) as part of an exploit.


vorto

eo-head

vorto (accusative singular vorton, plural vortoj, accusative plural vortojn)

vorton (accusative singular)
vortoj (plural)
vortojn (accusative plural)


map

→ Irish: mapa

Shortening or back-formation of Middle English mappemounde, mapemounde (“world map”), from Old French mapamonde, from Medieval Latin mappa mundī, compound of Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”) and mundus (“world”). See mop for more on the first component. Doublet of mop, nape, and nappe.

associative array
associative array#English

(computing) Synonym of associative array.

映射

(computing) associative array — see also associative array


map

en-verb

map (third-person singular simple present maps, present participle mapping, simple past and past participle mapped)

maps (present singular third-person)
mapping (participle present)
mapped (participle past)
mapped (past)

→ Swedish: mappa

карти́рам

to create a visual representation of a territory

(transitive, computing) To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.


map

nl-noun

map f (plural mappen, diminutive mapje n)

mappen (plural)
mapje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: map

Borrowed from German Mappe, from Latin mappa.


index

en-noun

index (plural indexes or indices or (obsolete, in use in the 17th century) index's)

indexes (plural)
indices (plural)
index's (obsolete plural)

⇒ Chinese: 引得 (yǐndé)

→ Japanese: インデックス (indekkusu)

From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indicō (“point out, show”); see indicate.

der

(computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.

индекс

programming: key indicating location of data

(computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.


index

en-verb

index (third-person singular simple present indexes, present participle indexing, simple past and past participle indexed)

indexes (present singular third-person)
indexing (participle present)
indexed (participle past)
indexed (past)

(computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.


index

index (nominative singular)
indexy (nominative plural)
indexu (genitive singular)
indexů (genitive plural)
indexu (dative singular)
indexům (dative plural)
index (accusative singular)
indexy (accusative plural)
indexe (singular vocative)
indexy (plural vocative)
indexu (locative singular)
indexech (locative plural)
indexem (instrumental singular)
indexy (instrumental plural)

(computing, databases) index (a data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table)


dictionnaire

Haitian Creole: diksyonè

desc

Louisiana Creole: diksyonær, diksyonè, diksyonèr

→ Dutch: dictionaire

→ German: Diktionär

→ Franco-Provençal: diccionèro

→ Luxembourgish: Dictionnaire

→ Romanian: dicționar

→ Turkish: diksiyoner

Inherited from Middle French dictionnaire, borrowed from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium (“dictionary”), derived from Latin dictiō (“saying, speaking”) + -ārium.

bor

(computing) dictionary (an associative array)


CDC

(computing) Connected Device Configuration.


CDC

change data capture
w:change data capture

(computing) Initialism of change data capture.


win

en-verb

win (third-person singular simple present wins, present participle winning, simple past won or (obsolete) wan, past participle won)

wins (present singular third-person)
winning (participle present)
won (past)
wan (obsolete past)
won (participle past)
win (infinitive)
win (first-person present singular)
won (first-person past singular)
win (present second-person singular)
winnest (archaic present second-person singular)
won (past second-person singular)
wonnest (archaic past second-person singular)
wins (present singular third-person)
winneth (archaic present singular third-person)
won (past singular third-person)
win (plural present)
won (past plural)
win (present subjunctive)
won (past subjunctive)
win (imperative present)
winning (participle present)
won (participle past)

From Middle English winnen, from Old English winnan (“to labour, swink, toil,”) (compare Old English ġewinnan (“conquer, obtain, gain; endure, bear, suffer; be ill”)), from Proto-West Germanic *winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winnaną (“to swink, labour, win, gain, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”).
Cognate with Low German winnen, Dutch winnen, German gewinnen, Danish vinde, Norwegian Bokmål vinne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish vinna.

der

when (with both the wine–whine merger and pin–pen merger)

money won is twice as sweet as money earned

If the local filters conflict with the global filters, the global filters always win.

(computing, informal, intransitive) To take priority.


BOF

en-noun

BOF (countable and uncountable, plural BOFs)

(computing) Initialism of beginning of file.


EOF

EOF (countable and uncountable, plural EOFs)


EOF

Enterprise Objects Framework
w:Enterprise Objects Framework

(computing) Initialism of Enterprise Objects Framework.


close

en-verb

close (third-person singular simple present closes, present participle closing, simple past and past participle closed)

closes (present singular third-person)
closing (participle present)
closed (participle past)
closed (past)
close (infinitive)
close (first-person present singular)
closed (first-person past singular)
close (present second-person singular)
closest (archaic present second-person singular)
closed (past second-person singular)
closedst (archaic past second-person singular)
closes (present singular third-person)
closeth (archaic present singular third-person)
closed (past singular third-person)
close (plural present)
closed (past plural)
close (present subjunctive)
closed (past subjunctive)
close (imperative present)
closing (participle present)
closed (participle past)

From Middle English closen (“to close, enclose”), partly continuing (in altered form) earlier Middle English clusen (“to close”) from Old English clȳsan (“to close, shut”); compare beclose, foreclose, etc.), and partly derived from Middle English clos (“close, shut up, confined, secret”, adjective), from Old French clos (“close, confined”, adjective), from Latin clausus (“shut up”, past participle), from claudere (“to bar, block, close, enclose, bring an end to, confine”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- (“key, hook, nail”), related to Latin clāvis (“key, deadbolt, bar”), clāvus (“nail, peg”), claustrum (“bar, bolt, barrier”), claustra (“dam, wall, barricade, stronghold”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “bar, bolt, key”), German schließen (“to close, conclude, lock”), Dutch sluiten (“to close, conclude, lock”). Partially replaced Old English lūcan (“to close, lock, enclose”), (whence English lock). Doublet of clause.

cog

close the stable door after the horse has bolted

Close the file when you have finished reading data.

This app has a bug: when you try to sort a large spreadsheet, it closes.

To make or become non-operational or unavailable for use.

(ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.


kill

en-verb

kill (third-person singular simple present kills, present participle killing, simple past and past participle killed)

kills (present singular third-person)
killing (participle present)
killed (participle past)
killed (past)
kill (infinitive)
kill (first-person present singular)
killed (first-person past singular)
kill (present second-person singular)
killest (archaic present second-person singular)
killed (past second-person singular)
killedst (archaic past second-person singular)
kills (present singular third-person)
killeth (archaic present singular third-person)
killed (past singular third-person)
kill (plural present)
killed (past plural)
kill (present subjunctive)
killed (past subjunctive)
kill (imperative present)
killing (participle present)
killed (participle past)

From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).
* Perhaps from unattested Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”) (whence German Low German kellen, killen (“to hurt, injure, torment, vex”)), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).

cog

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

(computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.


stylus

styli (plural)
styluses (plural)
stilus (alternative)

Borrowed from Latin stylus (“a stake or pale”). Probably not directly related to Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “a pillar”). Doublet of style.

иго́лка

граммофо́нная

(writing) An ancient writing implement consisting of a small rod with a pointed end for scratching letters on clay, wax-covered tablets or other surfaces, and a blunt end for obliterating them.

(computing) A small device resembling a pen used to input handwritten text or drawings directly into an electronic device with a touch-sensitive screen.

ստիլուս

pen for writing on a touch-sensitive screen


stylus

stylus (nominative singular)
stylusy (nominative plural)
stylusu (genitive singular)
stylusů (genitive plural)
stylusu (dative singular)
stylusům (dative plural)
stylus (accusative singular)
stylusy (accusative plural)
styluse (singular vocative)
stylusy (plural vocative)
stylusu (locative singular)
stylusech (locative plural)
stylusem (instrumental singular)
stylusy (instrumental plural)

(computing) stylus (small plastic stick used as a pen for writing on the touch sensitive screen of an electronic gadget)


bomb

en-verb

bomb (third-person singular simple present bombs, present participle bombing, simple past and past participle bombed)

bombs (present singular third-person)
bombing (participle present)
bombed (participle past)
bombed (past)

From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.

onomatopoeic

imitative

When things weren't going Alison's way at work — some editor wanted something changed or her computer bombed again — she'd cuss and yell at whoever happened to be in the way.

2001, Janet Holm McHenry, Girlfriend Gatherings: Creative Ways to Stay Connected, page 28:

(slang)
(intransitive, computing) To crash.


pulpit

pulpicik (diminutive)
pulpit (nominative singular)
pulpity (nominative plural)
pulpitu (genitive singular)
pulpitów (genitive plural)
pulpitowi (dative singular)
pulpitom (dative plural)
pulpit (accusative singular)
pulpity (accusative plural)
pulpitem (instrumental singular)
pulpitami (instrumental plural)
pulpicie (locative singular)
pulpitach (locative plural)
pulpicie (singular vocative)
pulpity (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin pulpitum. Doublet of pult.

(computing) desktop (the main graphical user interface of an operating system)