See Moore's law on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Intel co-founder",
"2": "",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": ""
},
"expansion": "Intel co-founder",
"name": "named-after/list"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "|",
"name": "!"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Gordon Moore"
},
"expansion": "Gordon Moore",
"name": "lang"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Gordon Moore",
"occ": "Intel co-founder",
"wplink": "="
},
"expansion": "Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore",
"name": "named-after"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Moore's law",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Cantonese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Estonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "en:Computing",
"parents": [
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Futurology",
"orig": "en:Futurology",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "Eroom's law"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012 March 4, Alice Rawsthorn, “Farewell, Pocket Calculator?”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "The pocket calculator’s fortunes have fallen ever since. It is a victim of “Moore’s Law,” the theory that the number of transistors that can be squeezed on to a microchip will roughly double every two years, thereby increasing computing power at the same rate.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, Rachel Jones, Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
"text": "How will industries and enterprises dependent upon and accustomed to Moore's Law continue to thrive? What might this disruption mean for society? And will the certainty of continued exponential change enshrined in Moore's Law ever become standard again?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An empirical observation that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years."
],
"id": "en-Moore's_law-en-name-G3xTJPWb",
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"empirical",
"empirical"
],
[
"observation",
"observation"
],
[
"density",
"density"
],
[
"transistor",
"transistor"
],
[
"chip",
"chip"
],
[
"double",
"double"
],
[
"year",
"year"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(computing) An empirical observation that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Moore's Law"
}
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"word": "摩爾定律"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "mo¹ ji⁵ ding⁶ leot⁶",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"word": "摩尔定律"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"word": "摩爾定律"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Mó'ěr dìnglǜ",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"word": "摩尔定律"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"word": "Moore'i seadus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"word": "Mooren laki"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "loi de Moore"
},
{
"alt": "ムーアのほうそく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Mūa no hōsoku",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"word": "ムーアの法則"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Prawo Moore’a"
}
]
}
],
"word": "Moore's law"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "Eroom's law"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Intel co-founder",
"2": "",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": ""
},
"expansion": "Intel co-founder",
"name": "named-after/list"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "|",
"name": "!"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Gordon Moore"
},
"expansion": "Gordon Moore",
"name": "lang"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Gordon Moore",
"occ": "Intel co-founder",
"wplink": "="
},
"expansion": "Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore",
"name": "named-after"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Moore's law",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English eponyms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Cantonese translations",
"Terms with Estonian translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"en:Computing",
"en:Futurology"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012 March 4, Alice Rawsthorn, “Farewell, Pocket Calculator?”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "The pocket calculator’s fortunes have fallen ever since. It is a victim of “Moore’s Law,” the theory that the number of transistors that can be squeezed on to a microchip will roughly double every two years, thereby increasing computing power at the same rate.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, Rachel Jones, Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
"text": "How will industries and enterprises dependent upon and accustomed to Moore's Law continue to thrive? What might this disruption mean for society? And will the certainty of continued exponential change enshrined in Moore's Law ever become standard again?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An empirical observation that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years."
],
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"empirical",
"empirical"
],
[
"observation",
"observation"
],
[
"density",
"density"
],
[
"transistor",
"transistor"
],
[
"chip",
"chip"
],
[
"double",
"double"
],
[
"year",
"year"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(computing) An empirical observation that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Moore's Law"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"word": "摩爾定律"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "mo¹ ji⁵ ding⁶ leot⁶",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"word": "摩尔定律"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"word": "摩爾定律"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Mó'ěr dìnglǜ",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"word": "摩尔定律"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"word": "Moore'i seadus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"word": "Mooren laki"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "loi de Moore"
},
{
"alt": "ムーアのほうそく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Mūa no hōsoku",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"word": "ムーアの法則"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "empirical observation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Prawo Moore’a"
}
],
"word": "Moore's law"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Moore's law meaning in All languages combined (3.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.