aberration

en-noun

aberration (countable and uncountable, plural aberrations)

/ˌæb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩/

A learned borrowing from Latin aberrātiō(n) (“relief, diversion”), first attested in 1594, from aberrō (“wander away, go astray”), from ab (“away”) + errō (“wander”). Compare French aberration. By surface analysis, aberrat(e) + -ion.

абера́ция

astronomy: small periodical change of position of heavenly bodies

(electronics) A defect in an image produced by an optical or electrostatic lens system.


PM

en-noun

PM (countable and uncountable, plural PMs)

permanent magnet
permanent magnet#English

(electronics) Initialism of permanent magnet.


KGB

(electronics) Initialism of known good board.


jiffy

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

(electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).


decade

From Middle English decade, from Old French decade, from Late Latin decādem (“(set of) ten”), from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás), from δέκα (déka, “ten”). In reference to a span of ten years, originally a clipping of the phrase decade of years. By surface analysis, deca- + -ade. Doublet of decad.

teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties

Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties

A group, set, or series of ten , particularly:

(electronics) A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.

(electronics) A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.

dekadi

electronics: set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected to provide even increments between one and ten


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 (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
RAM-oké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
RAM-éi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
RAM-okéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
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)


LED

light-emitting diode
light-emitting diode#English

(electronics) LED (light-emitting diode)


LED

[e̞ɾɯ̟iːdʲiː]


LED

ledowy (adjective)
LED (nominative singular)
LED-y (nominative plural)
LED-a (genitive singular)
LED-ów (genitive plural)
LED-owi (dative singular)
LED-om (dative plural)
LED (accusative singular)
LED-y (accusative plural)
LED-em (instrumental singular)
LED-ami (instrumental plural)
LED-zie (locative singular)
LED-ach (locative plural)
LED-zie (singular vocative)
LED-y (plural vocative)

Orthographic borrowing from English LED.

(electronics, technology) LED (rectifying semiconductor device which converts electrical energy into electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength in or near the visible spectrum of light)


sound card

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

(computer hardware) A computer hardware device used for generating and capturing sounds.

聲卡

a computer hardware device used for generating and capturing sounds


AMPS

(electronics) Advanced Mobile Phone System, American Mobile Phone System, Analog Mobile Phone System.


CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access
wikipedia:Code division multiple access

(electronics) Initialism of Code Division Multiple Access.


GSM

(mobile telephony) Initialism of Global System for Mobile communications.


DVD

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

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


mobile phone

A portable telephone that connects with the telephone network over radio wave transmission.

行动电话

hàng-thung thien-fa, hàng-thûng thien-fa

GSM

note: often used for mobile phones that are not technically GSM


SMS

SMS; text message (a text message sent on a cell phone)


mobile

en-adj

mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)

more mobile (comparative)
most mobile (superlative)

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).

der

mobile number

mobile internet

A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.

matkapuhelin-

pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones


mobile

→ Japanese: モバイル (mobairu)

→ Kurtöp: མོ་བའིལ (mobail)

→ Persian: موبایل (mobâil)

Mobiles squerking, mobiles chirping / Take the money and run

2000, “Idioteque”, in Kid A, performed by Radiohead:

(telephony, UK, Ireland) Ellipsis of mobile phone.

there are many business opportunities in mobile

(uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices.


mobile

Learned borrowing from Latin mōbilis. Doublet of meuble.

téléphone mobile
téléphone mobile#French

mobile phone; Ellipsis of téléphone mobile.


wireless

en-noun

wireless (usually uncountable, plural (dated) wirelesses)

If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.

(uncountable, networking) Wireless connectivity to a computer network.

безжично свързване

wireless connectivity to a computer network


false

en-verb

false (third-person singular simple present falses, present participle falsing, simple past and past participle falsed)

falses (present singular third-person)
falsing (participle present)
falsed (participle past)
falsed (past)

From Middle English false, fals, from Old English fals (“false; counterfeit; fraudulent; wrong; mistaken”), from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman and Old French fals, faus. Compare Scots fals, false, Saterland Frisian falsk, German falsch, Dutch vals, Swedish and Danish falsk; all from Latin falsus. Displaced native Middle English les, lese, from Old English lēas (“false”); See lease, leasing. Doublet of faux.
The verb is from Middle English falsen, falsien, from Old French falser, from Latin falsō (“falsify”), itself also from falsus; compare French fausser (“to falsify, to distort”).

cog

(electronics, telecommunications, of a decoder) To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.


clock

en-noun

clock (countable and uncountable, plural clocks)

c. 1350–1400, 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

сахӏат

instrument to measure or keep track of time

chronometer

instrument used to measure or keep track of time

even a stopped clock is right twice a day

(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.


port

en-verb

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.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

If you submit a request to port a number, and you list the name on the account as Bob Smith, but your local carrier has the number listed under your wife's name Mary Mahoney, the porting request is rejected.

2011, Stephen P. Olejniczak, Telecom For Dummies, page 131:

(telephony, transitive) To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one telephone service provider to another.


port

head

port (definite accusative portu, plural portlar)

portu (accusative definite)
portlar (plural)
port (nominative singular)
portlar (nominative plural)
portu (accusative definite singular)
portları (accusative definite plural)
porta (dative singular)
portlara (dative plural)
portta (locative singular)
portlarda (locative plural)
porttan (ablative singular)
portlardan (ablative plural)
portun (genitive singular)
portların (genitive plural)
portum (first-person nominative singular)
portlarım (first-person nominative singular)
portun (nominative second-person singular)
portların (nominative second-person singular)
portu (nominative singular third-person)
portları (nominative singular third-person)
portumuz (first-person nominative plural)
portlarımız (first-person nominative plural)
portunuz (nominative plural second-person)
portlarınız (nominative plural second-person)
portları (nominative plural third-person)
portumu (accusative definite first-person singular)
portlarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
portunu (accusative definite second-person singular)
portlarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
portunu (accusative definite singular third-person)
portlarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
portumuzu (accusative definite first-person plural)
portlarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
portunuzu (accusative definite plural second-person)
portlarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
portlarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
portuma (dative first-person singular)
portlarıma (dative first-person singular)
portuna (dative second-person singular)
portlarına (dative second-person singular)
portuna (dative singular third-person)
portlarına (dative singular third-person)
portumuza (dative first-person plural)
portlarımıza (dative first-person plural)
portunuza (dative plural second-person)
portlarınıza (dative plural second-person)
portlarına (dative plural third-person)
portumda (first-person locative singular)
portlarımda (first-person locative singular)
portunda (locative second-person singular)
portlarında (locative second-person singular)
portunda (locative singular third-person)
portlarında (locative singular third-person)
portumuzda (first-person locative plural)
portlarımızda (first-person locative plural)
portunuzda (locative plural second-person)
portlarınızda (locative plural second-person)
portlarında (locative plural third-person)
portumdan (ablative first-person singular)
portlarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
portundan (ablative second-person singular)
portlarından (ablative second-person singular)
portundan (ablative singular third-person)
portlarından (ablative singular third-person)
portumuzdan (ablative first-person plural)
portlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
portunuzdan (ablative plural second-person)
portlarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
portlarından (ablative plural third-person)
portumun (first-person genitive singular)
portlarımın (first-person genitive singular)
portunun (genitive second-person singular)
portlarının (genitive second-person singular)
portunun (genitive singular third-person)
portlarının (genitive singular third-person)
portumuzun (first-person genitive plural)
portlarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
portunuzun (genitive plural second-person)
portlarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
portlarının (genitive plural third-person)


word

en-noun

word (countable and uncountable, plural words)

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

(telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.


die

From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum.
Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).

der

The number of dies per wafer is basically the area of the wafer divided by the area of the die.

2002, John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 19:

Once the wafer has undergone the wafer-probe test, it is separated into individual dice by sawing or scribing and breaking. The dice are visually inspected, sorted, and readied for assembly into packages.

2009, Paul R. Gray, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, 5th edition, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 159:

(semiconductors, plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.


penny

en-verb

penny (third-person singular simple present pennies, present participle pennying, simple past and past participle pennied)

pennies (present singular third-person)
pennying (participle present)
pennied (participle past)
pennied (past)

From Middle English penny, peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig and fening.

(electronics) To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.


open

From Middle English open (“an aperture or opening”), from the verb (see Etymology 2 above). In the sports sense, however, a shortening of “open competition”.

inh

The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.

(electronics) A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing.


router

→ Japanese: ルーター, ルータ

→ Korean: 라우터 (rauteo)

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

(electronics, electronic design automation) In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.


radio

es-noun

radio m or f same meaning (plural radios)

radio m or f same meaning (canonical)
radios (plural)

Chavacano: radio

→ Cebuano: radyo

→ Hiligaynon: radyo

→ Ilocano: radio

→ Maguindanao: radiu

→ Maranao: radiyo

→ Tagalog: radyo

→ Ye'kwana: daadiyu

(electronics, home appliance) radio (device)


skew

The verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (“to run at an angle or obliquely; to escape”), from Old Northern French escuer [and other forms], variants of Old French eschuer, eschever, eschiver (“to escape, flee; to avoid”) (modern French esquiver (“to dodge (a blow), duck; to elude, evade; to slip away; to sidestep”)), from Frankish *skiuhan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhijaną (“to frighten”). The English word is cognate with Catalan esquiu (“evasive, shy”), Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”) (> Norwegian Bokmål skjev), Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”), Norwegian skeiv (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew.
The adjective and adverb are probably derived from the verb and/or from askew, and the noun is derived from either the adjective or the verb.

cog

One application for which an optical filter can play an important role is that of a wideband connection with low time skew. [...] One signal, the clock, needs to be distributed to all parts of a digital circuit to synchronize its action. The necessarily long path results in the danger of the clock signal arriving at the wrong time (clock skew), limiting the maximum frequency at which the circuit may be clocked.

1989, Ivan Andonovic, Deepak Uttamchandani, editors, Principles of Modern Optical Systems, volume 1, Norwood, Mass.: Artech House, →ISBN, page 501:

Until recently, there has been a great reluctance to alter the clock network and attempt a nonzero-skew solution. However, recently, an increasing number of designers have been willing to utilize skews for performance enhancement.

2004, Sachin Sapatnekar, “Clocking and Clock Skew Optimization”, in Timing, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, section 9.8 (Conclusion), page 205:

(electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.

vääristymä

phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times


jack

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jegue

→ European Portuguese: jaque

Transferative use of the personal name Jack.
(cricket: eleventh batsman): An allusion to the jack in playing cards, which follows the 10.

náłbiil bijaadbee dahnádidlohí

device for raising and supporting a heavy object

jekker

military: coarse medieval coat of defense

telephone jack

(electronics) A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.


or

(logic, electronics) Alternative form of OR


boom

Borrowed from Dutch boom (“tree; pole”). Doublet of beam.

(electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.


mouse

(computing, computer hardware) mouse (for a PC)


mouse

(Brazil, computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)


PI

en-noun

PI (countable and uncountable, plural PIs)

(electronics) Initialism of power integrity.


PE

PE (countable and uncountable, plural PEs)

(electronics) Initialism of protective earthing.


NL

Coordinate term: DL

(telegraphy) Initialism of night letter.


SI

SI (countable and uncountable, plural SIs)

S.I.

statutory instrument, chiefly in citation

(electronics) Initialism of signal integrity.


PR

PR (countable and uncountable, plural PRs)


NC

(electronics, of a relay) Initialism of normally closed.


MC

MC (countable and uncountable, plural MCs or MC's)

Coordinate term: MM

(electronics, audio) Initialism of moving coil, a type of phono cartridge.


TX

en-verb

TX (third-person singular simple present TXes, present participle TXing, simple past and past participle TXed)

TXes (present singular third-person)
TXing (participle present)
TXed (participle past)
TXed (past)

(telecommunications, electronics) Abbreviation of transmit.


TX

(telecommunications, electronics) Abbreviation of transmitter.


VA

en-noun

VA (countable and uncountable, plural VAs)

vertical alignment
vertical alignment#English

(electronics) Initialism of vertical alignment (“LCD screen technology”).


TCO

(electronics) Initialism of transparent conducting oxide.


teléfono

→ Bikol Central: telepono

→ Cebuano: telepono

→ Hiligaynon: telepono

→ Tagalog: telepono

→ Waray-Waray: telepono

telephone number (the sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network)


rato

13th century. Obscure. From a family of words common to most Romance and Germanic languages; the Germanic origin of this family of words is not universally accepted. Compare English rat.

unk

Obscure

(computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)


rato

pt-noun

rato m (plural ratos, feminine rata, feminine plural ratas)

ratos (plural)
rata (feminine)
ratas (feminine plural)

From Vulgar Latin rattus (“rat”), of Germanic origin. Cognate to Galician rato and Spanish ratón. Mostly displaced Old Galician-Portuguese mur. The computing term is a semantic loan from English mouse.

(computer hardware, Portugal) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)


rail

→ Catalan: rail

→ Dutch: rail

→ French: rail

→ Japanese: レール (rēru)

→ Punjabi: ਰੇਲ (rel)

→ Spanish: raíl

→ Swahili: reli

→ Tibetan: རི་ལི (ri li, “train”)

From Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (“a ruler”)), partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”), from regō (“to rule, to guide, to govern”); see regular. Doublet of regal, regula, rigol, and rule.

doublet

ISA devices draw power from the +5 V, −5 V, +12 V, and −12 V rails of the power supply unit.

There has been another, fairly gradual change in the ATX specification: Initially a lot of power was supplied on the 5V and 3.3V rails, but over time more and more power shifted to 12V because it's more efficient. Modern (ATX12V 2.x) PSUs supply most of their power on the 12V rail and not a lot on the 5V rail, which means a modern PSU may not be able to supply an old board, unless it's a really beefy PSU—because providing 500W on the 12V rail is of very little use to an AT or early ATX system.

2019 December 5, Michal Necasek, “Power Trouble”, in OS/2 Museum, archived from the original on 2022-09-25:

(electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.


leg

→ Finnish: legi

→ Hungarian: leg

From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”) (see it for more).
Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).

der

piss on someone's leg and tell them it's raining

(telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.


input

en-noun

input (countable and uncountable, plural inputs)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-input.wav

From Middle English inputten, equivalent to in- + put.

model with A/V input


met

met (prepositional)
mee (adverb postpositional)
ermee
hiermee
daarmee
waarmee
ergens mee
nergens mee
overal mee

Berbice Creole Dutch: mete

Jersey Dutch: met, mät

Negerhollands: met, mi, mit, mee

Skepi Creole Dutch: met

From Middle Dutch met, from Old Dutch mit, variant of *midi (from which mee, mede), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

Met Jan de Vries.
Hello, this is Jan de Vries.

(telephony) Used to answer a telephone call, followed by one's name, shortened from "u spreekt met..."


race

race (countable and uncountable, plural races)

From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (“a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset”), from Proto-West Germanic *rās; and partially from Old Norse rás (“a running, race”); both from Proto-Germanic *rēsō (“a course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow, rush”). Cognate with Middle Low German râs (“a strong current”), Dutch ras (“a strong whirling current”), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås.

cog

Many problems of oscillations and races are solved by this arrangement.

1989, R. Raghuram, Computer Simulation of Electronic Circuits, New Delhi: Wiley Eastern, →ISBN, page 181:

Because a race by definition depends on the timing being just wrong, you could test your program any number of times, never observe any misbehavior, and still have a user run into the problem.¶ This occurrence is not just a theoretical possibility: Real programs have race bugs and real users have encountered them, sometimes with consequences that have literally been fatal.

1999, Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight, “Java, Applets, and Concurrency”, in Concrete Abstractions, Brooks/Cole Publishing, →ISBN, page 622:

As the name implies, a race condition means that two processes are competing within the same time interval, and the race affects the integrity or correctness of the computing tasks.

2012, Charles P. Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Analyzing Computer Security, Prentice Hall, page 79:

(electronics, computing) A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.


drive

en-noun

drive (countable and uncountable, plural drives)

[d̠ɹ̠ ̝ʷaɪv]

From Middle English driven, from Old English drīfan (“to drive, force, move”), from Proto-West Germanic *drīban, from Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots drive (“to drive”), North Frisian driwe (“to drive”), Saterland Frisian drieuwe (“to drive”), West Frisian driuwe (“to chase, drive, impel”), Dutch drijven (“to drive”), Low German drieven (“to drive, drift, push”), German treiben (“to drive, push, propel”), Norwegian Bokmål drive, Danish drive (“to drive, run, force”), Norwegian Nynorsk driva, Swedish driva (“to drive, power, drift, push, force”), Icelandic drífa (“to drive, hurry, rush”).

cog

(computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.

(computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.

jednotka

computing: apparatus for reading and writing to or from a storage device


drive

pt-noun

drive (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural drives)

(computer hardware) drive (a mass-storage device)


machine

→ Ainu: マシン

→ Bengali: মেশিন (meśin)

→ Cowlitz: məšín

→ Hindustani: मशीन (maśīn) / مشین (maśīn)

→ Irish: meaisín

→ Japanese: マシン (mashin)

→ Korean: 머신 (meosin)

→ Maori: mīhini

→ Punjabi

Gurmukhi script: ਮਸ਼ੀਨ (maśīn)

Shahmukhi script: مشین (maśīn)

→ Swahili: mashine

→ Tok Pisin: masin

Borrowed from Middle French machine, from Latin māchina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhanā́), cognate with Attic Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhanḗ, “a machine, engine, contrivance, device”), from which comes mechanical. Displaced native Old English searu.

cog

perpetual motion machine of the first kind

perpetual motion machine of the second kind

Outline of machines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.

(telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.


cell

Ellipsis of cell phone, itself a clipping of cellular phone, from cellular + phone.

(US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.

selfoon

informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone


cell

Clipping of cellulaire; influenced by North American English cell

téléphone cellulaire
téléphone cellulaire#French

(Quebec, colloquial) cellular phone, mobile phone; clipping of téléphone cellulaire.


basis

From Dutch basis, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basa.

(Standard Malay)

(electronics) the name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).


straight

en-adj

straight (comparative straighter, superlative straightest)

straighter (comparative)
straightest (superlative)

→ Japanese: ストレート

From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straught. Equivalent to stretch + -ed

der

“Was it a straight message?” Miss Jenny asked. The other said yes and she added: “Horace must have got rich, like the soldiers say all the Y.M.C.A. did. Well, if it has taught a man like Horace to make money, the war was a pretty good thing, after all.”

1964 [1929], William Faulkner, Sartoris (The Collected Works of William Faulkner), London: Chatto & Windus, page 23:

(telegraphy, historical, of a telegram) Sent at a full rate for immediate delivery; being a fast telegram.


ROM

en-noun

ROM (countable and uncountable, plural ROMs)

read-only memory
read-only memory#English

(electronics, computing) Acronym of read-only memory.


入

Ideogram (指事) - an arrowhead indicating "to enter".
Compare 人 (rén).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nup ~ nip. Cognate with Tibetan ནུབ (nub, “to fall (gradually), sink, to set; to decay, to decline”) and Burmese နိပ် (nip, “to decline (e.g. price); to be suppressed, to settle, to be quelled”).
Chinese characters belonging to the same word family include:
* 納 (OC *nuːb, “to make enter”)
* 內 (OC *nuːbs, “inside”)
* 軜 (OC *nuːb, “reins on the inside of the horse”)
* 妠 (OC *nuːms, *nuːb, *rnoːd, “to marry (a girl)”)
* 躡 (OC *neb, “to tiptoe, tread”)
* 攝 (OC *neːb, *ʔnjeb, “to take in, photograph, grasp”)
* 鑷 (OC *neb, “tweezers, forceps”)
* and potentially Cantonese 擸 (laap3, “to bring together, to collect”)
The regular Mandarin pronunciation as predicted from Middle Chinese is rì. The irregular sound change is for taboo reasons - to avoid homophony with its derived vulgar meaning "to enter > to have sexual intercourse", nowadays represented by 日 (rì).


modem

modemek (plural)
modem (nominative singular)
modemek (nominative plural)
modemet (accusative singular)
modemeket (accusative plural)
modemnek (dative singular)
modemeknek (dative plural)
modemmel (instrumental singular)
modemekkel (instrumental plural)
modemért (causal-final singular)
modemekért (causal-final plural)
modemmé (singular translative)
modemekké (plural translative)
modemig (singular terminative)
modemekig (plural terminative)
modemként (essive-formal singular)
modemekként (essive-formal plural)
modemben (inessive singular)
modemekben (inessive plural)
modemen (singular superessive)
modemeken (plural superessive)
modemnél (adessive singular)
modemeknél (adessive plural)
modembe (illative singular)
modemekbe (illative plural)
modemre (singular sublative)
modemekre (plural sublative)
modemhez (allative singular)
modemekhez (allative plural)
modemből (elative singular)
modemekből (elative plural)
modemről (delative singular)
modemekről (delative plural)
modemtől (ablative singular)
modemektől (ablative plural)
modemé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
modemeké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
modeméi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
modemekéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
modemem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
modemeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
modemed (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
modemeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
modeme (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
modemei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
modemünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
modemeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
modemetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
modemeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
modemük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
modemeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


modem

(networking, computer hardware) modem (a device that encodes computer signals into telephone signals and vice versa)


MDM

en-noun

MDM (countable and uncountable, plural MDMs)

(electronics) Initialism of multiplexer-demultiplexer.


bridge

From Middle English brigge, from Old English brycġ (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brugjō, *brugjǭ (“bridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrēw- (“wooden flooring, decking, bridge”).
Cognate with Scots brig, brigg, breeg (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Dutch brug (“bridge”), German Brücke (“bridge”), Danish brygge (“wharf”), Icelandic brygga (“pier”), Gaulish briua (“bridge”).
The verb is from Middle English briggen, from Old English brycġian (“to bridge, make a causeway, pave”), derived from the noun. Cognate with Dutch bruggen (“to bridge”), Middle Low German bruggen (“to bridge”), Old High German bruccōn (“to bridge”) (whence Modern German brücken).
The musical connection sense is a semantic loan from German Steg, from Old High German steg.

ацҳа

construction or natural feature that spans a divide

if someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it

(electronics) An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.

(electronics) Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit


base

en-noun

base (countable and uncountable, plural bases)

acid

antonym(s) of “chemical compound that will neutralize an alkali”

From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basis and bass.

أَسَاس

something from which other things extend

(electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).

ба́за

electronics: controlling terminal of a transistor


solenoid

From French solénoïde, from Ancient Greek σωληνοειδής (sōlēnoeidḗs) (from σωλήν (sōlḗn, “channel, pipe”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs); see -oid).

(electronics) An electromechanical switch controlled by a solenoid; solenoid switch, relay.


random access memory

random access memory (usually uncountable, plural random access memories)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-random access memory.wav

(computing, electronics) Computer memory, usually volatile, that stores program and data values during operation and in which each word of memory may be directly (randomly) accessed.

operativ yaddaş qurğusu

computer memory in which each byte of memory may be directly accessed — see also RAM

随机存取存储器

suíjī cúnqǔ cúnchǔqì, suíjī cúnqǔ cúnchúqì


device

From Middle English devis, devise, devyce, devys, devyse, from Old French devis and devise, from Latin dīvīsus, past participle of dīvidō (“to divide”). Doublet of devise (noun).

(computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.


gain

gain (countable and uncountable, plural gains)

From Middle English gayn, gain, gein (“profit, advantage”), from Old Norse gagn (“benefit, advantage, use”), from Proto-Germanic *gagną, *gaganą (“gain, profit", literally "return”), from Proto-Germanic *gagana (“back, against, in return”), a reduplication of Proto-Germanic *ga- (“with, together”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).
Cognate with Icelandic gagn (“gain, advantage, use”), Swedish gagn (“benefit, profit”), Danish gavn (“gain, profit, success”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (gageigan, “to gain, profit”), Old Norse gegn (“ready”), dialectal Swedish gen (“useful, noteful”), Latin cum (“with”); see gain-, again, against. Compare also Middle English gaynen, geinen (“to be of use, profit, avail”), Icelandic and Swedish gagna (“to avail, help”), Danish gavne (“to benefit”).
The Middle English word was reinforced by Middle French gain (“gain, profit, advancement, cultivation”), from Old French gaaing, gaaigne, gaigne, a noun derivative of gaaignier, gaigner (“to till, earn, win”), from Frankish *waiþanōn (“to pasture, graze, hunt for food”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waiþiz, *waiþō, *waiþijō (“pasture, field, hunting ground”); compare Old High German weidōn, weidanōn (“to hunt, forage for food”) (Modern German Weide (“pasture”)), Old Norse veiða (“to catch, hunt”), Old English wǣþan (“to hunt, chase, pursue”). Related to wide.

cog

There follows the high and low-frequency replay equalization, which normally involves two adjustments with a further control allowing the replay gain to be set.

1987, John Borwick, Sound recording practice, page 238:

(electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.


wire

en-noun

wire (countable and uncountable, plural wires)

→ Gulf Arabic: واير (wāyir)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: vaier, wire

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: vaier, wire

→ Swedish: vajer, wire

From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wīr (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *wīraz (“wire”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”).

score string

object used to keep the score in billiards

Another letter. "Friedrichswerks, Hamburg, Germany. We beg to acknowledge receipt of order for fifteen thousand Robots." [Telephone rings.] Hello! This is the Central Office. Yes. Certainly. Well, send them a wire. Good. [Hangs up telephone.] Where did I leave off?

c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:

“Oh, hadn’t I told you?” the other said quickly. “I had a wire yesterday. He landed in New York Wednesday. It was such a mixed-up sort of message, I never could understand what he was trying to tell me, except that he would have to stay in New York for a week or so. It was over fifty words long.”

(by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.

telegram

informal: message transmitted by telegraph


文

Characters in the same phonetic series (文) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Ideogram (指事): a man with a painted or tattooed chest – original form of 紋. The tattoo was usually a cross, a V shape or a stylized heart. In current form, tattoo has vanished, so simply an outline of a man (head, outstretched arms, legs, chest) similar to 立. Compare 大, which has no chest.
Unrelated to the Kangxi radicals 齐 and 攵.
Possibly a derivation, with -n nominal suffix, of 煤 (*mɯː) "soot (obs.), ink (obs.), coal" (Schuessler, 2007).
Semantic shift: "pattern, tattoo (made of soot)", "written glyph (made of ink)" > "literature" > "refined, cultured" (Schuessler, 2007).

Han etyl

文夕大火

(～日) (telegraphy) the twelfth day of a month


field

→ Japanese: フィールド (fīrudo)

From Middle English feeld, feld, from Old English feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fjild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German Feld (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”). Related also to Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at fold.

veld

land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country

fushë

sports: area reserved for playing a game

Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain

Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ring

Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.

(electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.


佳

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kreː): semantic 人 (“man; person”) + phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː).

Han compound

(～日) (telegraphy) the ninth day of a month


刪

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sraːn): phonetic 冊 (OC *sʰreːɡ) + semantic 刀 (“knife”).

Han compound

(～日) (telegraphy) the fifteenth day of a month


東

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (東):
* → Japanese: 東(とう) (tō)
* → Korean: 동(東) (dong)
* → Vietnamese: đông (東)

Japanese: 東(トン) (ton, “east wind (mahjong tile)”)

Jiajie (假借) and Ideogram (指事): 束 (OC *hljoɡ) or 橐 (OC *tʰaːɡ) borrowed for sound 東 (OC *toːŋ), whith a horizontal stroke added as a distinguishing mark to differentiate the character from 束.
Alternatively, it is also thought to be a pictogram (象形) of either a bundle of faggots tied together or a bag tied at both ends (like a cellophane-wrapped candy with the ends twisted).
Interpreted in the Shuowen Jiezi as an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) the sun (日) rising behind a tree (木). According to Allan (1991) p. 47-50, the character represents the Fu Sang tree. However, the original form is rather different, hence any interpretation tied to a tree is most likely a folk etymology.
See the top component of 曹 in the original version. See also 柬, 熏, 西 and 鹵/卤.
Cognate with Burmese ထွန်း (htwan:, “be bright”), Chepang थोङ्सा (thoŋ‑, “lighten; be bright”) and Chepang थोङ्ह (thoŋh, “awake time (as opposed to dream time)”) (Schuessler, 2007). Perhaps related to or influenced by 暾 (OC *tʰuːn, “rising sun”).

cog

(～日) (telegraphy) the first day of a month


冬

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tuːŋ): phonetic 夂 (, “end”) + semantic 日 (“day”) or 仌 (“ice”).
;Bronze script and Chu slip script
:Composed of the early form of 終 (“end”, as well phonetic), here represented by Shuowen ancient script , + 日 (“day”). In bronze script, 日 () was inside . In Chu slip script, 日 () was below ().
; Seal script, Qin clerical script and after
:Composed of (“end”, as well phonetic) + 仌 (“ice”).
Possibly related to 終 (OC *tjuŋ, “to end”) (Wang, 1982, Sagart, 2023b). Sagart (ibid.) also proposes cognacy to Chepang त्युङ्हसा (tyuŋh, “at end, be weak, exhausted”), द्युमःसा (dyumʔ, “at ease after completing work”), द्युम्सा (dyum, “terminate, reach end; to be at end”), Jingpho chatum (“end, finish”), Limbu [script needed] (tum-ma, “ripe, mature”), Proto-Ao *a-thəm (“end, finish”).

cog

昸
㫡
𠔙
𣆼
𠘀
𣅈
𠘗

(～日) (telegraphy) the second day of a month


元

Cao Wei
Chen dynasty
Eastern Han dynasty
Eastern Wei
Eastern Wu
Eastern Zhou dynasty
Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
Garo language
Han dynasty
I Ching
Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
Jin dynasty (265–420)
Liang dynasty
Liao dynasty
Liu Song dynasty
Ming dynasty
Northern Qi
Northern Wei
Northern Zhou
Northern and Southern dynasties
Proto-Sino-Tibetan language
Qin dynasty
Qing dynasty
Shang dynasty
Shu Han
Song dynasty
Southern Qi
Southern and Northern dynasties
Spring and Autumn period
Sui dynasty
Tang dynasty
Three Kingdoms
Tibetan language
Warring States period
Western Han dynasty
Western Liao
Western Wei
Western Xia
Western Zhou dynasty
Xia dynasty
Xianbei
Xin dynasty
Yuan dynasty
Zhou dynasty

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (元):
* → Korean: 원(元) (won)
* → Vietnamese: nguyên (元)

→ English: yuan

Pictogram (象形) – a figure with two lines 二 for a head (one connected to body, one above it), emphasizing the head.
Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-gaw (“head”), with a noun-forming suffix *-n (Schuessler, 2003; STEDT). If so, cognate with 后 (OC *ɡoːʔ, “ruler; lord; queen”), Tibetan མགོ (mgo, “head; summit; beginning”), མགོན (mgon, “protector; master; lord”), Garo sko (“skull”), Northern Tujia kho⁵⁵ pa⁵⁵ (“head”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT). 原 (OC *ŋʷan, “source; origin; basic; primary”) and 黿 (OC *ŋoːn, *ŋon, “large turtle”) may be the same word (Schuessler, 2007). It may also be related to 君 (OC *klun, “lord; prince; ruler”), 尹 (OC *ɢʷlinʔ, “magistrate; governor”), 侯 (OC *ɡoː, “marquis”) (Mei, 1985).
The name of the dynasty comes from the I Ching:
:
Part of the people with this surname are Xianbei descendants. It was changed from 拓跋 (Tuòbá) as ordered by Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei.

och-l

Vast is the ‘great and originating (power)’ indicated by Qian! All things owe to it their beginning: - it contains all the meaning belonging to (the name) heaven.

I Ching, 11ᵗʰ – 8ᵗʰ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Dà zāi qián yuán, wànwù zī shǐ, nǎi tǒng tiān.

大哉乾元，萬物資始，乃統天。

大哉干元，万物资始，乃统天。

(～日) (telegraphy) the thirteenth day of a month


cycle

en-verb

cycle (third-person singular simple present cycles, present participle cycling, simple past and past participle cycled)

cycles (present singular third-person)
cycling (participle present)
cycled (participle past)
cycled (past)

From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Hellenic *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”).
Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cyclus, and wheel (see there for more).

doublet

Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.

(electronics) To turn power off and back on


地

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (地):
* → Japanese: 地(じ) (ji); 地(ち) (chi)
* → Korean: 지(地) (ji)
* → Vietnamese: địa (地)

→ Proto-Tai: *diːᴮ

Ahom: 𑜄𑜣 (tī)

Lao: ທີ່ (thī)

Lü: ᦑᦲᧈ (tii¹)

Northern Thai: ᨴᩦ᩵

Shan: တီႈ (tīi)

Thai: ที่ (tîi)

Zhuang: dih

Characters in the same phonetic series (也) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'els): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 也 (OC *laːlʔ).
Compare Tibetan གཞི (gzhi, “ground”), Burmese မ္လိယ် (ma.liy) (whence Burmese မြေ (mre, “earth; ground”)) (Hill, 2019).

Han compound

坔
埅
埊
𡍑
𨹛
𨻐
墬
𡏇
𠏂
𡑸
𡒿
𡒴
𡒰
𡓬
嶳
𪒉
𤅴
哋

叫天天不應，叫地地不靈／叫天天不应，叫地地不灵

jiào tiān tiān bù yìng, jiào dì dì bù líng

浮地

2023, “计算机抽象及相关技术” (chapter 1), in 王党辉, 安建峰, 张萌, 王继禾, transl., 计算机组成与设计：硬件/软件接口MIPS版（原书第6版）, translation of Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, MIPS Edition, Sixth Edition by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy (in English), →ISBN, 功耗墙 (section 7), page 30:

Modern microprocessors use hundreds of pins just for power and ground! Similarly, multiple levels of chip interconnect are used solely for power and ground distribution to portions of the chip.

Xiàndài wēichùlǐqì tōngcháng shǐyòng jǐ bǎi ge guǎnjiǎo zuòwèi diànyuán hé dì! Tóngyàng, xīnpiàn de duō ge hùlián céngjí jǐnjǐn shì wèile jiějué xīnpiàn de diànyuán hé dì de fēnbù bǐlì wèntí.

現代微處理器通常使用幾百個管腳作為電源和地！同樣，芯片的多個互連層級僅僅是為了解決芯片的電源和地的分佈比例問題。

现代微处理器通常使用几百个管脚作为电源和地！同样，芯片的多个互连层级仅仅是为了解决芯片的电源和地的分布比例问题。


寒

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 宀 (“house”) + 人 (“person”) + 茻 (“grass”) – a person in a house, sleeping in the grass to protect from the cold. In some bronze inscriptions, 二 is added at the bottom of the character; this may simply be decorative or may represent a mat. In the seal script, 二 is changed to 仌 (“ice”) to emphasize its meaning of coldness.
Contrast 宿.
Unknown (Schuessler, 2007).

(～日) (telegraphy) the fourteenth day of a month


巧

/t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

/t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰruːʔ, *kʰruːs): semantic 工 + phonetic 丂 (OC *kʰluːʔ)

Han compound

(～日) (telegraphy) the eighteenth day of a month


微

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (微):
* → Japanese: 微(み) (mi); 微(び) (bi)
* → Korean: 미(微) (mi)
* → Vietnamese: vi (微)

In oracle bone script, it may be written as 𡵂 or 𢼸.
The former is a variant of 美 (OC *mriʔ), borrowed for sound, pictogram (象形) of a person with long hair.
The latter an ideogrammic (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mɯl): phonetic 𡵂 (OC *mriʔ) + semantic 攵 (“hand with tool”) – splitting or combing hairs; minute. Possibly the original form of 媺 (OC *mrɯlʔ).
彳 (OC *tʰeɡ) was added to emphasize action to create the modern form.
; "not; no"
; "small"

Han compound

Obsolete. 皮 is used for SI prefix pico-.

(～日) (telegraphy) the fifth day of a month


synthesizer

→ Hebrew: סינתיסייזר (síntesaizer)

سِنْثِسَيْزَر

music: an electronic instrument module without a keyboard

(electronics) An electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation with accurate timing from a reference oscillator.

penyintesis

electronics: an electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation

(electronics) An electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns to test an electronic circuit.

penyintesis

electronics: an electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns


支

Sino-Xenic (支):
* → Vietnamese: chi (支)

→ Vietnamese: chia

Characters in the same phonetic series (支) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 又 (“hand”) + 十 (“(half of 竹) branch of bamboo”) – a hand breaking off a branch of bamboo.
Similar but unrelated to 攴, 丈, 尹 and 父.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ka(ː)k (“fork, branch, crotch”). Cognate with the first syllable of Burmese ခက်ရင်း (hkak-rang:, “fork”), as well as the following words (STEDT):
* 枝 (OC *kje, “branch (of tree); to resist, go astray”)
* 肢 (OC *kje, “limb (of body)”)
* 翅 (OC *qʰjes, “wing”)
* 歧 (OC *ɡe, “bifurcating, forked (as of a road)”)

och-l

(～日) (telegraphy) the fourth day of a month


江

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (江):
* → Japanese: 江(こう) (kō)
* → Korean: 강(江) (gang)
* → Vietnamese: giang (江)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kroːŋ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 工 (OC *koːŋ).
; "Yangtze River"
Borrowed from a substrate Austroasiatic language as Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kl(j)u(ŋ/k) (“river, valley”); compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruŋ ~ ruuŋ ~ ruəŋ (“river”) > Proto-Vietic *k-roːŋ (“river”) (Vietnamese sông), Mon ကြုၚ် (krɜŋ, “small river, creek”).
Derivative: 港 (OC *kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs, “harbour”).

cog

(～日) (telegraphy) the third day of a month


programmable read-only memory

en-noun

programmable read-only memory (usually uncountable, plural programmable read-only memories)

programmable read-only memories (plural)

write once, read many
write once, read many

(electronics) A type of read-only memory which can be written to once (write once, read many memory/WORM), and thereafter becomes fixed in value.


燒

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hŋjew, *hŋjaws): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 堯 (OC *ŋeːw).
From 蕘 (OC *ŋjew, “firewood; fuel”) with causative devoicing (Schuessler, 2007).

Han compound

GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified); † - describes the weather; ‡ - describes objects


灰

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 又 (“hand”) + 火 (“fire”) – fire that can be touched with the hand (ash). 又 has been modified to 𠂇; compare 友 (“friend”), 右 (“right”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷut ~ hwut (“ashes, dust”) (STEDT; Schuessler (2007) reconstructs Proto-Sino-Tibetan *wu). Compare Mizo vutᴸ, Apatani mù-bu, Manipuri ut, Northern Tujia bu³ ci².

inh

(～日) (telegraphy) the tenth day of a month


皓

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡuːʔ): semantic 白 (“white”) + phonetic 告 (OC *kuːɡs, *kuːɡ).
Compare Proto-Tai *xaːwᴬ (“white”) (whence Zhuang hau and Thai ขาว (kǎao)) and Proto-Hlai *kʰaːw (“white”) (Matisoff, 1988).

Han compound

皓電

皓电

(～日) (telegraphy) the nineteenth day of a month


球

球 (canonical)
kyū (romanization)
kiu (romanization)
きう (hiragana historical)

From Middle Chinese 毬／球 (gjuw, “ball, sphere, orb”).

五球スーパーラジオ


球

球のアンプ


hardware

hardware (nominative singular)
hardwaret (nominative plural)
hardware (accusative nominative singular)
hardwaret (accusative nominative plural)
hardwaren (accusative genitive singular)
hardwaret (accusative genitive plural)
hardwaren (genitive singular)
hardwarejen (genitive plural)
hardwarein (genitive plural rare)
hardwarea (partitive singular)
hardwareja (partitive plural)
hardwaressa (inessive singular)
hardwareissa (inessive plural)
hardwaresta (elative singular)
hardwareista (elative plural)
hardwareen (illative singular)
hardwareihin (illative plural)
hardwarella (adessive singular)
hardwareilla (adessive plural)
hardwarelta (ablative singular)
hardwareilta (ablative plural)
hardwarelle (allative singular)
hardwareille (allative plural)
hardwarena (essive singular)
hardwareina (essive plural)
hardwareksi (singular translative)
hardwareiksi (plural translative)
hardwaretta (abessive singular)
hardwareitta (abessive plural)
hardwarein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
hardwareni (nominative singular)
hardwareni (nominative plural)
hardwareni (accusative nominative singular)
hardwareni (accusative nominative plural)
hardwareni (accusative genitive singular)
hardwareni (accusative genitive plural)
hardwareni (genitive singular)
hardwarejeni (genitive plural)
hardwareini (genitive plural rare)
hardwareani (partitive singular)
hardwarejani (partitive plural)
hardwaressani (inessive singular)
hardwareissani (inessive plural)
hardwarestani (elative singular)
hardwareistani (elative plural)
hardwareeni (illative singular)
hardwareihini (illative plural)
hardwarellani (adessive singular)
hardwareillani (adessive plural)
hardwareltani (ablative singular)
hardwareiltani (ablative plural)
hardwarelleni (allative singular)
hardwareilleni (allative plural)
hardwarenani (essive singular)
hardwareinani (essive plural)
hardwarekseni (singular translative)
hardwareikseni (plural translative)
hardwarettani (abessive singular)
hardwareittani (abessive plural)
hardwareineni (comitative plural)
hardwaresi (nominative singular)
hardwaresi (nominative plural)
hardwaresi (accusative nominative singular)
hardwaresi (accusative nominative plural)
hardwaresi (accusative genitive singular)
hardwaresi (accusative genitive plural)
hardwaresi (genitive singular)
hardwarejesi (genitive plural)
hardwareisi (genitive plural rare)
hardwareasi (partitive singular)
hardwarejasi (partitive plural)
hardwaressasi (inessive singular)
hardwareissasi (inessive plural)
hardwarestasi (elative singular)
hardwareistasi (elative plural)
hardwareesi (illative singular)
hardwareihisi (illative plural)
hardwarellasi (adessive singular)
hardwareillasi (adessive plural)
hardwareltasi (ablative singular)
hardwareiltasi (ablative plural)
hardwarellesi (allative singular)
hardwareillesi (allative plural)
hardwarenasi (essive singular)
hardwareinasi (essive plural)
hardwareksesi (singular translative)
hardwareiksesi (plural translative)
hardwarettasi (abessive singular)
hardwareittasi (abessive plural)
hardwareinesi (comitative plural)
hardwaremme (nominative singular)
hardwaremme (nominative plural)
hardwaremme (accusative nominative singular)
hardwaremme (accusative nominative plural)
hardwaremme (accusative genitive singular)
hardwaremme (accusative genitive plural)
hardwaremme (genitive singular)
hardwarejemme (genitive plural)
hardwareimme (genitive plural rare)
hardwareamme (partitive singular)
hardwarejamme (partitive plural)
hardwaressamme (inessive singular)
hardwareissamme (inessive plural)
hardwarestamme (elative singular)
hardwareistamme (elative plural)
hardwareemme (illative singular)
hardwareihimme (illative plural)
hardwarellamme (adessive singular)
hardwareillamme (adessive plural)
hardwareltamme (ablative singular)
hardwareiltamme (ablative plural)
hardwarellemme (allative singular)
hardwareillemme (allative plural)
hardwarenamme (essive singular)
hardwareinamme (essive plural)
hardwareksemme (singular translative)
hardwareiksemme (plural translative)
hardwarettamme (abessive singular)
hardwareittamme (abessive plural)
hardwareinemme (comitative plural)
hardwarenne (nominative singular)
hardwarenne (nominative plural)
hardwarenne (accusative nominative singular)
hardwarenne (accusative nominative plural)
hardwarenne (accusative genitive singular)
hardwarenne (accusative genitive plural)
hardwarenne (genitive singular)
hardwarejenne (genitive plural)
hardwareinne (genitive plural rare)
hardwareanne (partitive singular)
hardwarejanne (partitive plural)
hardwaressanne (inessive singular)
hardwareissanne (inessive plural)
hardwarestanne (elative singular)
hardwareistanne (elative plural)
hardwareenne (illative singular)
hardwareihinne (illative plural)
hardwarellanne (adessive singular)
hardwareillanne (adessive plural)
hardwareltanne (ablative singular)
hardwareiltanne (ablative plural)
hardwarellenne (allative singular)
hardwareillenne (allative plural)
hardwarenanne (essive singular)
hardwareinanne (essive plural)
hardwareksenne (singular translative)
hardwareiksenne (plural translative)
hardwarettanne (abessive singular)
hardwareittanne (abessive plural)
hardwareinenne (comitative plural)
hardwarensa (nominative singular)
hardwarensa (nominative plural)
hardwarensa (accusative nominative singular)
hardwarensa (accusative nominative plural)
hardwarensa (accusative genitive singular)
hardwarensa (accusative genitive plural)
hardwarensa (genitive singular)
hardwarejensa (genitive plural)
hardwareinsa (genitive plural rare)
hardwareaan (partitive singular)
hardwareansa (partitive singular)
hardwarejaan (partitive plural)
hardwarejansa (partitive plural)
hardwaressaan (inessive singular)
hardwaressansa (inessive singular)
hardwareissaan (inessive plural)
hardwareissansa (inessive plural)
hardwarestaan (elative singular)
hardwarestansa (elative singular)
hardwareistaan (elative plural)
hardwareistansa (elative plural)
hardwareensa (illative singular)
hardwareihinsa (illative plural)
hardwarellaan (adessive singular)
hardwarellansa (adessive singular)
hardwareillaan (adessive plural)
hardwareillansa (adessive plural)
hardwareltaan (ablative singular)
hardwareltansa (ablative singular)
hardwareiltaan (ablative plural)
hardwareiltansa (ablative plural)
hardwarelleen (allative singular)
hardwarellensa (allative singular)
hardwareilleen (allative plural)
hardwareillensa (allative plural)
hardwarenaan (essive singular)
hardwarenansa (essive singular)
hardwareinaan (essive plural)
hardwareinansa (essive plural)
hardwarekseen (singular translative)
hardwareksensa (singular translative)
hardwareikseen (plural translative)
hardwareiksensa (plural translative)
hardwarettaan (abessive singular)
hardwarettansa (abessive singular)
hardwareittaan (abessive plural)
hardwareittansa (abessive plural)
hardwareineen (comitative plural)
hardwareinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈhɑ̝ːdwe̞ø̞]

(anglicism, computing, electronics) Synonym of laitteisto (“hardware”) (physical equipment, as opposed to software)


hardware

hardware (nominative singular)
hardware'u (genitive singular)
hardware'owi (dative singular)
hardware (accusative singular)
hardware'em (instrumental singular)
hardwarze (locative singular)
hardwarze (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English hardware.

ubor

Coordinate term: software

(computer hardware) hardware (material part of a computer)


篠

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *slɯːwʔ): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 條 (OC *l'ɯːw).

Han compound

(～日) (telegraphy) the seventeenth day of a month


真

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (真):
* → Japanese: 真(しん) (shin)
* → Korean: 진(眞) (jin)
* → Vietnamese: chân (真)

→ Lao: ຈິງ (ching)

→ Old Turkic: 𐰲𐰃𐰣 (čin)

→ Kazakh: шын (şyn)

→ Uzbek: chin

→ Uyghur: چىن (chin)

→ Karakalpak: шын

→ Nogai: шын (şın)

→ Kyrgyz: чын (cın)

→ Yakut: дьиҥ (jiñ)

→ Tatar: чын (çın)

→ Tuvan: шын (şın)

→ Southern Altai: чын (čïn)

→ Bashkir: ысын (ısın)

→ Turkmen: çyn (чын)

→ Chuvash: чӑн (čăn)

→ Eastern Mari: чын (čyn)

→ Thai: จริง (jing)

Originally phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔljin): phonetic 𠂈 (OC *l'ɯːnʔ) + 貝 (“cowry”); 𠂈 (a knife or dagger) was then a phonetic component. Often 丁 (OC *rteːŋ, *teːŋ) (a nail) was added as a second phonetic component at the bottom; originally, it appeared as a black dot. He Linyi posits it to be the original character for 珍 (OC *ʔl'ɯn, “rare; valuable”).
The sound component 𠂈 corrupted into 十 in the modern form, and into 匕 in the orthodox seal script form 眞. The bottom of the character in both forms derives from the components 貝 and 丁 corrupting into 目 and 丌.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan བདེན (bden, “true; truth”). Possibly connected with 貞 (OC *teŋ) (Schuessler, 2007).

Han compound

眞
𡙊
𠤛
⿱𥃭大
⿱𥃰大
⿱𥃰六
𰶵
𰶱
⿳上目大
⿳止目六
⿳十且八

(～日) (telegraphy) the eleventh day of a month


結

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kiːd): semantic 糸 + phonetic 吉 (OC *klid).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)(j)i(t/k) (“to tie; to bind”); cognate with Tibetan ཁྱིག (khyig, “to bind”), Burmese ကျစ် (kyac, “to twist”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).


石

⟨isi⟩ → /iɕi/
From Old Japanese. First cited in the Man'yōshū of 759. In turn, the Old Japanese is reconstructed as from Proto-Japonic *esoy.
Likely cognate with 磯 (iso, “pebble; gravel; rocky beach”).


石

六石ラジオ

(slang, electronics) counter for transistors, especially discrete ones


SW

en-noun

SW (countable and uncountable, plural SWs)


ABC

(electronics, electric vehicles, automotive) Initialism of always be charging; a recommendation to remember to charge or be left without use by a low battery at an inopportune time.


on hold

I have been on hold for 45 minutes listening to a recording about how important my call is to them.


EPROM

(electronics) Initialism of erasable programmable read-only memory.


NSA

(mobile telephony) Initialism of non-standalone architecture.


虞

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋʷa): semantic 虍 (“tiger”) + phonetic 吳 (OC *ŋʷaː).

Han compound

(～日) (telegraphy) the seventh day of a month


otto

otto (nominative singular)
otot (nominative plural)
otto (accusative nominative singular)
otot (accusative nominative plural)
oton (accusative genitive singular)
otot (accusative genitive plural)
oton (genitive singular)
ottojen (genitive plural)
ottoa (partitive singular)
ottoja (partitive plural)
otossa (inessive singular)
otoissa (inessive plural)
otosta (elative singular)
otoista (elative plural)
ottoon (illative singular)
ottoihin (illative plural)
otolla (adessive singular)
otoilla (adessive plural)
otolta (ablative singular)
otoilta (ablative plural)
otolle (allative singular)
otoille (allative plural)
ottona (essive singular)
ottoina (essive plural)
otoksi (singular translative)
otoiksi (plural translative)
ototta (abessive singular)
otoitta (abessive plural)
otoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
ottoni (nominative singular)
ottoni (nominative plural)
ottoni (accusative nominative singular)
ottoni (accusative nominative plural)
ottoni (accusative genitive singular)
ottoni (accusative genitive plural)
ottoni (genitive singular)
ottojeni (genitive plural)
ottoani (partitive singular)
ottojani (partitive plural)
otossani (inessive singular)
otoissani (inessive plural)
otostani (elative singular)
otoistani (elative plural)
ottooni (illative singular)
ottoihini (illative plural)
otollani (adessive singular)
otoillani (adessive plural)
otoltani (ablative singular)
otoiltani (ablative plural)
otolleni (allative singular)
otoilleni (allative plural)
ottonani (essive singular)
ottoinani (essive plural)
otokseni (singular translative)
otoikseni (plural translative)
otottani (abessive singular)
otoittani (abessive plural)
ottoineni (comitative plural)
ottosi (nominative singular)
ottosi (nominative plural)
ottosi (accusative nominative singular)
ottosi (accusative nominative plural)
ottosi (accusative genitive singular)
ottosi (accusative genitive plural)
ottosi (genitive singular)
ottojesi (genitive plural)
ottoasi (partitive singular)
ottojasi (partitive plural)
otossasi (inessive singular)
otoissasi (inessive plural)
otostasi (elative singular)
otoistasi (elative plural)
ottoosi (illative singular)
ottoihisi (illative plural)
otollasi (adessive singular)
otoillasi (adessive plural)
otoltasi (ablative singular)
otoiltasi (ablative plural)
otollesi (allative singular)
otoillesi (allative plural)
ottonasi (essive singular)
ottoinasi (essive plural)
otoksesi (singular translative)
otoiksesi (plural translative)
otottasi (abessive singular)
otoittasi (abessive plural)
ottoinesi (comitative plural)
ottomme (nominative singular)
ottomme (nominative plural)
ottomme (accusative nominative singular)
ottomme (accusative nominative plural)
ottomme (accusative genitive singular)
ottomme (accusative genitive plural)
ottomme (genitive singular)
ottojemme (genitive plural)
ottoamme (partitive singular)
ottojamme (partitive plural)
otossamme (inessive singular)
otoissamme (inessive plural)
otostamme (elative singular)
otoistamme (elative plural)
ottoomme (illative singular)
ottoihimme (illative plural)
otollamme (adessive singular)
otoillamme (adessive plural)
otoltamme (ablative singular)
otoiltamme (ablative plural)
otollemme (allative singular)
otoillemme (allative plural)
ottonamme (essive singular)
ottoinamme (essive plural)
otoksemme (singular translative)
otoiksemme (plural translative)
otottamme (abessive singular)
otoittamme (abessive plural)
ottoinemme (comitative plural)
ottonne (nominative singular)
ottonne (nominative plural)
ottonne (accusative nominative singular)
ottonne (accusative nominative plural)
ottonne (accusative genitive singular)
ottonne (accusative genitive plural)
ottonne (genitive singular)
ottojenne (genitive plural)
ottoanne (partitive singular)
ottojanne (partitive plural)
otossanne (inessive singular)
otoissanne (inessive plural)
otostanne (elative singular)
otoistanne (elative plural)
ottoonne (illative singular)
ottoihinne (illative plural)
otollanne (adessive singular)
otoillanne (adessive plural)
otoltanne (ablative singular)
otoiltanne (ablative plural)
otollenne (allative singular)
otoillenne (allative plural)
ottonanne (essive singular)
ottoinanne (essive plural)
otoksenne (singular translative)
otoiksenne (plural translative)
otottanne (abessive singular)
otoittanne (abessive plural)
ottoinenne (comitative plural)
ottonsa (nominative singular)
ottonsa (nominative plural)
ottonsa (accusative nominative singular)
ottonsa (accusative nominative plural)
ottonsa (accusative genitive singular)
ottonsa (accusative genitive plural)
ottonsa (genitive singular)
ottojensa (genitive plural)
ottoaan (partitive singular)
ottoansa (partitive singular)
ottojaan (partitive plural)
ottojansa (partitive plural)
otossaan (inessive singular)
otossansa (inessive singular)
otoissaan (inessive plural)
otoissansa (inessive plural)
otostaan (elative singular)
otostansa (elative singular)
otoistaan (elative plural)
otoistansa (elative plural)
ottoonsa (illative singular)
ottoihinsa (illative plural)
otollaan (adessive singular)
otollansa (adessive singular)
otoillaan (adessive plural)
otoillansa (adessive plural)
otoltaan (ablative singular)
otoltansa (ablative singular)
otoiltaan (ablative plural)
otoiltansa (ablative plural)
otolleen (allative singular)
otollensa (allative singular)
otoilleen (allative plural)
otoillensa (allative plural)
ottonaan (essive singular)
ottonansa (essive singular)
ottoinaan (essive plural)
ottoinansa (essive plural)
otokseen (singular translative)
otoksensa (singular translative)
otoikseen (plural translative)
otoiksensa (plural translative)
otottaan (abessive singular)
otottansa (abessive singular)
otoittaan (abessive plural)
otoittansa (abessive plural)
ottoineen (comitative plural)
ottoinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *votto. Equivalent to ottaa (“to take”) + -o.

(electronics) input (reception of data or power from a source into a device, etc.)


CD

CD m inan or (canonical feminine neuter)


Orthographic borrowing from English MP3.

Coordinate term: MP4

MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, an audio data compression format)

(music) MP3 (digital sound recording in MP3 format; a song file)

(music) MP3 player (electronic device for playing digital audio files in the MP3 format (and, in many cases, also files in some other formats and/or including a radio function))


order

en-noun

order (countable and uncountable, plural orders)

→ Swahili: oda

From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-.
Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo.

cog

a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter

(electronics) A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

řád

electronics: power of polynomial function in a circuit’s block


銑

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sɯːnʔ): semantic 釒 + phonetic 先 (OC *sɯːn, *sɯːns).
Compare Tibetan གསེར (gser, “gold”) (Hill, 2019).

Han compound

(～日) (telegraphy) the sixteenth day of a month


通

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰoːŋ): semantic 辶 + phonetic 甬 (OC *loŋʔ).

Han compound

I tried to call several times but couldn't get through.

ngo⁵ daa² zo² gei² ci³ dou¹ daa² m⁴ tung¹.

我打咗幾次都打唔通。

我打咗几次都打唔通。

to pass through; to travel through; to go through; or, to allow passage


country code

A short alphabetic or numeric geographical code representing a specific country or area.


mobil

mobilen (definite singular)
mobiler (indefinite plural)
mobilene (definite plural)

Han sitter på mobilen hele tida.

cell phone, mobile (short for mobile phone)


mobil

mobilen (definite singular)
mobilar (indefinite plural)
mobilane (definite plural)


MF

en-noun

MF (countable and uncountable, plural MFs)

(electronics) Initialism of medium frequency.


GST

(electronics) One of various compounds of germanium, antimony, and tellurium used as a phase change material, including GeSbTe.


門

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (門):
* → Japanese: 門(もん) (mon)
* → Korean: 문(門) (mun)
* → Vietnamese: môn (門)

Wutunhua: men

Characters in the same phonetic series (門) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形): a gate. Compare 戶 (OC *ɡʷaːʔ, “(one) door”), which is half of this character (𠁣).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-muːr (“mouth; lip; to hold in mouth; to chew; face; gills”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan མུར་བ (mur ba, “to masticate”), Tibetan མུར་འགྲམ (mur 'gram, “jawbone; cheek”), Mizo hmûi (“lips; upper lip”) and 吻 (OC *mɯnʔ, “lips; corner of the lips”).
; “-gate”


LCD

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

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

liquid crystal display
liquid crystal display#English

(electronics, computing) Initialism of liquid crystal display.


LCD

Orthographic borrowing from English LCD.

(electronics, computing) LCD (liquid crystal display)


dator

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

→ Latvian: dators

→ Elfdalian: dator

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


MM

Coordinate term: MC

(audio, electronics) Initialism of moving magnet, a type of phono cartridge.


resistor

(electronics) An electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it.


resistor

id-noun

résistor (plural resistor-resistor, first-person possessive resistorku, second-person possessive resistormu, third-person possessive resistornya)

résistor (canonical)
resistor-resistor (plural)
resistorku (first-person possessive)
resistormu (possessive second-person)
resistornya (possessive third-person)

(electronics) resistor: an electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it.


resistor

resistor (indefinite nominative singular)
resistors (genitive indefinite singular)
resistorn (definite nominative singular)
resistorns (definite genitive singular)
resistorer (indefinite nominative plural)
resistorers (genitive indefinite plural)
resistorerna (definite nominative plural)
resistorernas (definite genitive plural)


terminal

→ Bulgarian: термина́л (terminál)

→ Japanese: ターミナル (tāminaru)

→ Korean: 터미널 (teomineol)

desctree

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

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

термина́л

computing - the end of a line of signals

(electronics) the end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.


terminal

Borrowed from Late Latin terminālis, from Latin terminus.

(electronics) terminal (the end of a line where signals are transmitted or received)


齊

Characters in the same phonetic series (齊) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Ideogram (指事): a field of grain, hence of uniform height. Compare 森, in which three trees represent a whole forest.
Either related to Mizo čelʔᴸ (“equal, to endure”) or, more phonologically likely, Tibetan ཚིར (tshir, “queue, order, succession”) as Tibetan /tsʰir/'s final /-r/ can explain the Middle Chinese retroflex initial of 儕 (OC *zriːl), which is derived from 齊 (OC *zliːl). Note also similarities to Burmese စီ (ci, “to line up”), စေ့ (ce., “to keep things close together”).

cog

齐
斉
斊
立
亝
𠫼
𠄷
齐
褿
全
仝
巢
樵
昭
𤍫
焦
勻

(～日) (telegraphy) the eighth day of a month


electronic

(physics, chemistry) Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.

Operating on the physical behavior of electrons, especially in semiconductors.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.

2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:


魚

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (魚):
* → Japanese: 魚(ぎょ) (gyo)
* → Korean: 어(魚) (eo)
* → Vietnamese: ngư (魚)

/ᵑɡui²²⁻²²⁵/

/ᵑɡui²²⁻²¹⁵/

/ᵑɡui²²⁻²²⁵/

/ᵑɡui²²⁻²¹⁵/

Characters in the same phonetic series (魚) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – a fish. A conservative variant is 𤋳.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja. Cognate with 漁 (OC *ŋa, “to fish”).

Han etyl

(～日) (telegraphy) the sixth day of a month


PLC

en-noun

PLC (countable and uncountable, plural PLCs)

Audio (US)

programmable logic controller
programmable logic controller#English

(countable, electronics) Initialism of programmable logic controller.

plc

public limited company, programmable logic controller


computer architecture

computer architecture (countable and uncountable, plural computer architectures)

(computer hardware) The conceptual structure around which a given computer is designed.

(computer hardware) The science of computer design.


pilot

pilot (nominative singular)
piloty (nominative plural)
pilota (genitive singular)
pilotów (genitive plural)
pilotowi (dative singular)
pilotom (dative plural)
pilot (accusative singular)
piloty (accusative plural)
pilotem (instrumental singular)
pilotami (instrumental plural)
pilocie (locative singular)
pilotach (locative plural)
pilocie (singular vocative)
piloty (plural vocative)


scalar

Borrowed from Latin scālāris, adjectival form from scāla (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder, scale”), for *scadla, from scandere (“to climb”); compare scale. The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.

coin

(electronics) An amplifier whose output is a constant multiple of its input.


pisa

(of electronics, electrical, mechanical) a part or a component

(by extension) an integrated circuit; electronic component


matrix

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

基質

analytical chemistry: sampling environment

Any type of core or diode matrix used to derive the decoding of these codes would amount to a rather large volume of terminals for just the 17,500 terminals alone.

1949, Proceedings of the Association of American Railroads:

The transistor matrix in the encoder supplies the sequential gates.

1959, John Millar Carroll, Modern Transistor Circuits:

A transistor-diode matrix is composed of vertical and horizontal wires with a transistor at each intersection.

1962, Burroughs Corporation, Digital Computer Principles:

Robot controllers range in complexity from simple stepping switches through pneumatic logic sequencers, diode matrix boards, electronic sequencers, and microprocessors to minicomputers.

1987, David Ardayfio, Fundamentals of Robotics:

Diode matrix is the most fundamental of all ROM structure.

2002, B. Somantathan Nair, Digital Electronics and Logic Design:

(electronics) A grid-like arrangement of electronic components, especially one intended for information coding, decoding or storage.


primary

/ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹi/

Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier.

bor

(electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.


translator

[ˌtʰɹænzˈleɪtʰɚ]

[ˌtʰɹænzˈleɪɾɚ]

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

vertaler

someone or something that translates meaning from one language to another

(obsolete) Synonym of repeater, a thing that automatically retransmits an incoming message along a telegraph line.


tu

Tu Janek!

(colloquial, telephony) used by the speaker to introduce themselves on the telephone; speaking


dash

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

noncog

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

The dash clock said 2:38 when[…] I turned off a dirt road[…].

1955 October 19, Rex Stout, The Next Witness, Three Witnesses, 94 Bantam, →ISBN, page 31:

-i hope you find at least one thing on your dash that will make you laugh today.

2018, anonymous, quoted in Mélanie Bourdaa, "'May We Meet Again': Social Bonds, Activities, and Identities in the #Clexa Fandom", in A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (ed. Paul Booth), page 392

i cannot tell you how happy it makes me when i see my dash filled with selfies from other folks who look like me.

2018, "notthesameknowledge", quoted in Randall Lake, Recovering Argument, unnumbered page

“You wanna know what else is all over my dash? Gifs of you and your boyfriend."

2018, Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie, Alphas Like Us, unnumbered page:

(Internet, informal) The dashboard of a social media user.

Short for dashboard.
The dashboard of a social media user.


pot

en-verb

pot (third-person singular simple present pots, present participle potting, simple past and past participle potted)

pots (present singular third-person)
potting (participle present)
potted (participle past)
potted (past)

From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”).
The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training.

cog

(electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.


pot

(slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.

slide pot

a sliding (linear) potentiometer typically designed to be manipulated by a thumb or finger

thumb pot

a rotating potentiometer designed to be turned by a thumb or finger


grid

Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.

(electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).


reception

en-noun

reception (countable and uncountable, plural receptions)

/ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/

Borrowed from Middle French reception, from Latin recipiō(n) (“the act of receiving; reception”), from recipiō (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“I hold”).

der

We have poor TV reception in the valley.

The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.

(uncountable, electronics) The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.

прие́мане

electronics: act or ability to receive signals


flip-flop

→ Japanese: フリップフロップ (furippu-furoppu)

Onomatopoeic. Most probably an imitation of the sound produced when walking in them.

Ten two-state flip-flops […] were formed into ten-stage ring counters representing each decimal digit in the ten-digit accumulators […]

2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 72:

(computing, electronics) A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.


flip-flop

Unadapted borrowing from English flip-flop.

ubor

(electronics) flip-flop (electronic circuit able to switch between two states)


ADC

en-noun

ADC (countable and uncountable, plural ADCs)

analog-to-digital converter
analog-to-digital converter#English

(electronics) Initialism of analog-to-digital converter.


EEPROM

(electronics) Electrically erasable programmable read-only memory.


bar

bar (countable and uncountable, plural bars)

→ Albanian: bar m

→ Arabic: بَار m (bār)

→ Armenian: բար (bar)

→ Bulgarian: бар (bar)

→ Burmese: ဘား (bha:)

→ Chichewa: bála

→ Cantonese: 吧 (baa¹)

→ Czech: bar m

→ Danish: bar c

→ Dutch: bar m

→ Esperanto: baro

→ Estonian: baar

→ French: bar m
→ Romanian: bar

→ Galician: bar m

→ Georgian: ბარი (bari)

→ German: Bar f

→ Greek: μπαρ n (bar)

→ Gulf Arabic: بار (bār)

→ Hebrew: בָּר (bar), בָּאר (bár)

→ Hungarian: bár (also via German)

→ Icelandic: bar m

→ Irish: beár m

→ Italian: bar m

→ Japanese: バー (bā)

→ Khmer: បារ (baa)

→ Korean: 바 (ba)

→ Lithuanian: bãras m

→ Macedonian: бар m (bar)

→ Malagasy: ba

→ Mandarin: 吧 (bā)

→ Norwegian:

Bokmål: bar m

Nynorsk: bar m

→ Persian: بار (bâr)

→ Polish: bar m

→ Portuguese: bar m

→ Russian: бар m (bar)

→ Serbo-Croatian: ба̑р m, bȃr m

→ Slovene: bȃr m

→ Spanish: bar m

→ Swahili: baa

→ Swedish: bar c (see there for further descendants)

→ Thai: บาร์ (baa)

→ Turkish: bar

→ Xhosa: íbhári

→ Zulu: ibha

From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.

der

I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.

(telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.

linie

technology: a part of a pictogram indicating signal strength or charge level


net

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-der.
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
From Middle English net, from Old English net, nett, from Proto-West Germanic *nati, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”).
Cognate with West Frisian net, Low German Nett, Dutch net, German Netz, Danish net, Swedish nät.

der

A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.

(electronics) A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.