lag time

lag time (countable and uncountable, plural lag times)

(computing, networking, video games) The time delay (latency) between the action of the user and the reaction of the server supporting the task, which requires resending to the client.


latency time

en-noun

latency time (countable and uncountable, plural latency times)

(networking) The amount of time required for data to pass from one point on a network to another.


push time

push time (countable and uncountable, plural push times)

(networking, telecommunications) The time when a remote server sends an unsolicited update.


Hypertext Transfer Protocol

(Internet, networking) An application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, and hypermedia information systems.


identity broker

identity broker (plural identity brokers)

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(computing, networking) An intermediary proxy service connecting multiple service providers with multiple identity providers.


identity provider

identity provider (plural identity providers)

(computing, networking) A system entity that creates, maintains, and manages identity information for principals and also provides authentication services to relying applications within a federation or distributed network.


AirDrop

By the analogy of an airdrop, in which items are delivered by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.

(networking) A wireless service of Apple Inc. which can transfer files among supported Macintosh computers and iOS devices by means of close-range wireless communication.


AirDrop

en-verb

AirDrop (third-person singular simple present AirDrops, present participle AirDropping, simple past and past participle AirDropped)

AirDrops (present singular third-person)
AirDropping (participle present)
AirDropped (participle past)
AirDropped (past)

Alternative form: airdrop

“Another day another group of french^([sic]) teens trying to AirDrop me memes on the subway,” one woman tweeted. “In a crowd of teens and they keep trying to AirDrop me memes!!!” said another. One young Twitter user joked that she was going to a music festival last weekend “just to AirDrop.”

2019 June 5, Taylor Lorenz, “When Grown-Ups Get Caught in Teens’ AirDrop Crossfire”, in The Atlantic:

Cyber-flashing is not experienced as a less harmful or less damaging behaviour just because it happens digitally rather than on the street. […] For those who have been AirDropped in a public place, there is not even the comfort of knowing for certain who is guilty.

2023 April 19, Sophie Gallagher, “Cyber-flashing is just as damaging as the ‘real world’ equivalent. When will the law catch up?”, in The Guardian:

(intransitive, ditransitive, networking) To transfer a file using AirDrop.


network socket

(computing, networking) A software structure within a network node of a computer network that serves as an endpoint for sending and receiving data across the network.


zombie master

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A "zombie computer" is one that, unknown to its owner, has been infected with malicious software that allows a distant "zombie master" to control it, along with potentially thousands of other machines similarly affected.

2013, Tom Chatfield, Netymology, From Apps to Zombies: A Linguistic Celebration of the Digital World, page 41:

(computing, networking) A command and control center that guides and directs a zombie computer or zombie network.


timestamp reply

en-noun

timestamp reply (plural timestamp replies)

(Internet, networking) An ICMP query message that is sent in response to an ICMP timestamp request message.


jumbo frame

(networking) An Ethernet frame with more than 1500 bytes of payload, the limit set by the IEEE 802.3 standard.