cloudify

cloudify (third-person singular simple present cloudifies, present participle cloudifying, simple past and past participle cloudified)

cloudifies (present singular third-person)
cloudifying (participle present)
cloudified (participle past)
cloudified (past)

(computing) To convert and/or migrate data and application programs in order to make use of cloud computing.


unacquire

en-verb

unacquire (third-person singular simple present unacquires, present participle unacquiring, simple past and past participle unacquired)

unacquires (present singular third-person)
unacquiring (participle present)
unacquired (participle past)
unacquired (past)

If you forget to unacquire the input devices you've been using, when your game ends those devices may still be locked by the system and may be unable to be used.

2011, Allen Sherrod, Wendy Jones, Beginning DirectX 11 Game Programming - Page 197:

(computing, transitive) To lose or get rid of; reverse the possession or acquisition of; unget


XAP

(computing) Initialism of Extensible Application Package, a Windows file container format for mobile apps and Silverlight Web apps.


NewSQL

(computing, databases) A class of relational database management systems that seek to provide the scalability of NoSQL for online transaction processing (OLTP) read-write workloads while still maintaining the ACID guarantees of a traditional database.


EDO

(computing) Abbreviation of extended data-out.


core memory

en-noun

core memory (countable and uncountable, plural core memories)

* (sense 1): From being a type of computer memory consisting of magnetic cores.
* (sense 2): Popularized by the Pixar film Inside Out (2015), in which the character Riley has five "core memories", each forming the foundation of a "personality island" which represents an aspect of Riley's personality.

NVRAM

non-volatile random access memory; erasable memory

Wilkes, on his visit to America in summer and fall 1950 had witnessed the core memory being implemented on the Whirlwind at MIT—and as in the case of seeing the control matrix in the same machine, this made a strong impression on him.

2014, Subrata Dasgupta, It Began with Babbage, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

(computing, historical, countable, uncountable) A type of non-volatile random-access rewritable electronic memory using ferrite cores to magnetically store binary digits (bits).


memory core

Tali'Zorah nar Rayya: I tracked a patrol of geth to an uncharted world. I waited for one to become separated from its unit. Then I disabled it and removed its memory core.
Captain Anderson: I thought the geth fried their memory cores when they died. Some kind of defense mechanism.
Shepard: How did you manage to preserve the memory core?[…]
Tali'Zorah nar Rayya: According to the memory core, the Reapers were a hyper-advanced machine race that existed 50,000 years ago.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:

(science fiction, computing) A (semi-)permanent computer memory storage device that may be extracted, and may or may not be separate from the computer core.


computer core

(science fiction, computing) a computer processing center or central computer


stringy floppy

stringy floppy (plural stringy floppies)

(computing, dated) An early computer storage medium, a cartridge of looped tape.


visible Web

(computing, Internet) Synonym of Surface Web.


midclick

Should it come down to the final hole, as two of the three playoff tournaments have, that could very well stop some channel surfers in midclick.

2009 September 21, Larry Dorman, “This Year, Golf’s FedEx Cup Finale Promises Some Excitement”, in New York Times:

(computing) A point in time when the user is clicking something.


midclick

This behavior makes it easy for users to change their minds midclick.

2003, Eric Eaton, Designing Web Site Interface Elements, page 77:

(computing) While the user is clicking something.


desk check

(computing) A test of an algorithm by a human, who runs through its operations in sequence to verify the result.


code base

(computing) Alternative form of codebase.


physical unclonable function

physical unclonable function (plural physical unclonable functions)

An integrated circuit with a randomized physical structure, used in cryptography.


LHA

Abbreviation
* (data compression): Short for Lempel-Ziv Huffman archiver, after the mathematicians on whose work it was based.

(computing) A particular data compression format.


HTMLer

As they did with me, these tags fascinated many new HTMLers creating their first Web pages.

2010, Bradley J. Dilger, Jeff Rice, From A to A: Keywords of Markup, page 99:

Adding alternative text (often referred to by HTMLers as “alt text”) is a good practice […]

2010, Ed Tittel, Jeff Noble, HTML, XHTML and CSS For Dummies, page 110:

(computing, informal) A person who writes HTML markup.


ground truthing

(computing) In machine learning, the process of gathering objective (provable) data in order to test the system.


GCM

Google Cloud Messaging
w:Google Cloud Messaging

(cloud computing, historical) Initialism of Google Cloud Messaging, superseded by FCM.


command-line interface

command-line interface (plural command-line interfaces)

command line interface
command line interface#English

(computing) Alternative form of command line interface.


HAXM

(computing) Initialism of hardware-accelerated execution manager.


LTV

LTV (countable and uncountable, plural LTVs)

(computing) Initialism of long-term validation.


remirror

en-verb

remirror (third-person singular simple present remirrors, present participle remirroring, simple past and past participle remirrored)

remirrors (present singular third-person)
remirroring (participle present)
remirrored (participle past)
remirrored (past)

(computing, transitive) To mirror again.


supertablet

supertablets (plural)
super tablet (alternative)

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(computing) A high-performance tablet computer


falsiness

(computing, programming) The property of being falsy, i.e. evaluating to false in a Boolean context.


single-user

(computing, telecommunications) Of an operating system, etc., only capable of serving one user at a time, not many users simultaneously.


sysplex

When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave.

2010, Mike Ebbers, Dino Tonelli, Jason Arnold, Co-locating Transactional and Data Warehouse Workloads on System z, page 245:

(computing) A group of connected IBM mainframe systems that share resources.


no-CD

Some NO-CDs will replace your Game.exe, which sucks. I can entirely understand how he lost his game.exe, and why he needs it back.

2000, Sean, “CD-Key Generator and Game.exe”, in alt.games.diablo (Usenet):

I have one little problem with no cds, not insurmountable. Sometimes when I click to start up the game I get a message about not being abole to find the right DirectX driver or soemthing ( I forget exactly because I no longer actually read it ) and I have to reboot the computer then it's ok.

2008, kat, “Re: Speedy skilling”, in alt.games.the-sims (Usenet):

I know you said you were talking about real DOS, but I have this game setup to run in DOSbox with no-CDs and it plays great, better than it did in DOS 6.22 in fact. :)

2008, Matt v3.2, “Re: Daemon tools - best virtual drive choice?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg (Usenet):

(computing, video games, informal) A software crack for a program that usually requires the presence of the original compact disc (to prove that it is a legally-acquired copy), allowing it to run without the disc.


tarbomb

(computing, slang) A tarball (archive file) containing numerous files that are extracted into the working directory, potentially causing inconvenience by overwriting other files or mixing up files from different sources.


openSUSE

From open (as in open-source) and the name of its sponsor, SUSE S.A., originally an acronym of German Software- und System-Entwicklung (“Software and Systems Development”).

der

(computing) A free and open-source Linux distribution.


accelerator card

en-noun

accelerator card (plural accelerator cards)

(computing) A graphics card with its own GPU and memory, for greater performance.


single-platform

(computing) Of software, etc., designed to work on only one operating system.


widgetize

en-verb

widgetize (third-person singular simple present widgetizes, present participle widgetizing, simple past and past participle widgetized)

widgetizes (present singular third-person)
widgetizing (participle present)
widgetized (participle past)
widgetized (past)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To adapt to work with user-interface widgets.


typechecking

(computing) The process of verifying whether a given value belongs to a certain data type.


bootblock

bootblocks (plural)
boot block (alternative)

(computing) A block of storage on disk that holds the code for booting the operating system.


fraglet

(computing) A fragment of distributed code in a bio-inspired network.


single-tasking

(computing) Of an operating system, etc., only capable of execution of one task (program or app) at a time, not many tasks simultaneously.


tabber

OmniWeb has a reputation for fast browsing, but if you're a card-carrying member of TA (Tabbers Anonymous), you need the 5.0 beta version to get that feature.

2004, Sarah Milstein, Rael Dornfest, Google: The Missing Manual, page 172:

(computing) A user who switches between tabs.


plussed

I think the only good form of email address munging is a plussed email address as I have in this message. While I am not automatically bitbucketing email addressed in this way, it does keep it from hitting my inbox and demanding my immediate attention.

1997, Matthew N. Dodd, “anti-spam e-mail addresses”, in comp.os.vms (Usenet):

(computing, informal) Containing a plus sign.


chunkserver

Each chunk at the time of storage is replicated and stored in multiple chunkservers which provides enhanced reliability to the data stored in the GFS.

2015, Pethuru Raj, Anupama Raman, Dhivya Nagaraj, High-Performance Big-Data Analytics: Computing Systems and Approaches, page 141:

(computing) A specialized server that retrieves chunks of data.


crypto-anarchism

The rise of crypto-anarchism might be good news for individual users – and there are plenty working on ways of using this technology for decent social purposes – but it’s also bad news for governments.

2017 June 4, Jamie Bartlett, “Forget far-right populism – crypto-anarchists are the new masters”, in The Observer:

(computing, political science) The belief that cyberspace should exist decentralized and without authority, achievable through cryptography.

Krypto-Anarchismus

discipline concerned with communication security


TWENEX

Blend of twenty + TENEX, the latter (derived from ten extended) being an earlier operating system for the same machine.

(computing, informal) The TOPS-20 operating system for the PDP-10 mainframe computer.


PDL

(computing) Initialism of pushdown list.

page description language
page description language#English

(computing) Initialism of page description language.


macroparameter

(computing) Any parameter of a macro (normally written as macro parameter)


DBI

(computing, languages) Initialism of Database Interface, a module of the Perl 5 language.


DBD

(computing, languages) Initialism of Database Driver (“the database driver of Perl DBI”).


full binary tree

en-noun

full binary tree (plural full binary trees)

(mathematics, computing) A binary tree in which each node has exactly two or zero children.


ATX

(computing) Initialism of advanced technology extended: a motherboard configuration for computers.


malvertisement

(computing) An advertisement, published on the Internet, that is infected with malicious code aiming to hijack the viewer's computer.


auto-away

(computing) Alternative form of autoaway.


Web Ontology Language

Web Ontology Language (plural Web Ontology Languages)

(computing, Internet) A formal language (or family of languages) used to draw inferences from a large data set, especially from the Semantic Web


wide-area network

wide-area network (plural wide-area networks)

wide area network
wide area network#English

(computing) Alternative form of wide area network.


Y10K bug

Abbreviation of year 10 and 000 (10k) bug. Based on the Y2K bug.

abbrev

(computing, often humorous) A bug like the millennium bug, that arises when a 4‐digit year system — from "0000" to "9999" — fails to display, store or calculate the year 10,000 or any later year.


high order bit

most significant bit
most significant bit


dependency hell

(computing, colloquial) The situation when installed software packages have conflicting, incompatible dependencies on specific versions of other software packages.


JAR hell

(computing, informal) Of the Java language, problems caused by incompatible versions of a JAR (Java archive).


Heartbleed

Blend of heartbeat (“periodic signal generated to indicate normal operation of hardware or software”) + bleed

blend

(computing) A security bug in OpenSSL, where more data can be read than should be allowed, which was disclosed and fixed in April 2014.


minifier

(computing) A program that minifies, or removes unnecessary characters to make a document smaller.


CCR

condition code register
condition code register#English

(computing) Acronym of condition code register.


echoback

(computing) A test where data is transmitted from one system to another system and back again.


self-hosting

A self-hosting compiler can compile its own source code.

(computing) Of software: capable of generating new versions of itself.


Ubuntero

From Ubuntu and Spanish -ero (“forming occupations from nouns”).

uder

(computing, informal) A user of the Ubuntu operating system.


nroff

en-verb

nroff (third-person singular simple present nroffs, present participle nroffing, simple past and past participle nroffed)

nroffs (present singular third-person)
nroffing (participle present)
nroffed (participle past)
nroffed (past)

Name of the program, short for new roff; an earlier similar program was called roff, a shortening of runoff.

The user either selects a new filename, edits the default file, nroffs it to the screen, or to a printer, or logs out.

1985, Eric Foxley, UNIX for super-users, page 158:

You could contrive macro sets that nroffed a document onto a printer […]

1991, Computer Language, volume 8, page 18:

(transitive, computing) To format (text) using the nroff program, which produces output suitable for simple fixed-width printers and terminal windows.


minipalette

Although only six tools, six inks, and a minipalette are displayed at any one time in the toolbox, right clicking on any of these objects brings up an appropriate dialog box from which you can pick substitutes.

If you use AutoShapes a lot, you can keep a minipalette (bottom) of them open by choosing Insert → Picture → AutoShapes.

2001, Nan Barber, David Reynolds, Office 2001 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual, page 588:

(computing, graphical user interface) A small palette.


autoclick

Rather than hire hordes of people to click banner ads, some website operators run automated programs known as autoclick software.

2006, Wally Wang, Steal this Computer Book 4.0:

When you hover the mouse cursor over an item that has the autoclick feature enabled, the feature is automatically clicked after a second or two.

2012, John Paul Mueller, Windows 8 For Dummies Quick Reference:

(computing) A software feature that simulates the click of a mouse button.


autoclick

autoclick (third-person singular simple present autoclicks, present participle autoclicking, simple past and past participle autoclicked)

autoclicks (present singular third-person)
autoclicking (participle present)
autoclicked (participle past)
autoclicked (past)

Push the Freakin' Button, a little freeware program to autoclick on annoying Windows buttons

2002 August 12, David Ripton, “MTGO works in Linux with Win4Lin”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc (Usenet):

(computing, of a program) To simulate a click without direct user input.


CUA

IBM Common User Access
w:IBM Common User Access

(computing, graphical user interface) Initialism of IBM Common User Access: a standard describing how user interfaces should look and function.


scamware

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(computing) Software that fraudulently fails to do what it is claimed to do.


Hollerith code

Named after American inventor Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), who patented machine-readable punch card devices in 1889.

named-after

(computing, historical) A standard code defining the patterns of holes on punch cards that represent various text characters.


zigamorph

(computing, slang, dated, rare) The text character with hexadecimal value 0xff, when used as a string separator or terminator.


multipunch

en-verb

multipunch (third-person singular simple present multipunches, present participle multipunching, simple past and past participle multipunched)

multipunches (present singular third-person)
multipunching (participle present)
multipunched (participle past)
multipunched (past)

(computing, dated) To punch more than one hole in one column of a punch card, allowing a greater number of unique values to be represented per column.


multipunch

(computing, dated) An instance of more than one hole being punched in one column of a punch card.


multiperforation

en-noun

multiperforation (usually uncountable, plural multiperforations)

(computing, dated) Synonym of multipunch.


Mozillian

From Mozilla + -ian. Mozilla (stylized: "moz://a") originated from Mosaic + -zilla. NCSA Mosaic from mosaic.

It's a way for us to allow Mozillians in our community to associate themselves to^([sic]) product, project and technology groups […]

2011, Aakash Desai, “Re: Mozillians and "Groups"”, in mozilla.mozillians (Usenet):

In addition to new products and initiatives, we've worked hard this year to get programs and infrastructure in place that support Mozillians.

2012, Jono Bacon, The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation, page 512:

(computing) A member or supporter of Mozilla, a community that develops and supports free software.


SLO

service-level objective
w:service-level objective

(computing) Initialism of service-level objective.


Ctrl-Alt-Delete

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Key combination of Ctrl, Alt and Delete. In many computer systems, this interrupts or shuts down the system or some part of it or opens up a shut-down menu.

Ctrl-Alt-Del (alternative)
Ctrl+Alt+Del (alternative)
Control-Alt-Delete (alternative)
Control+Alt+Delete (alternative)
ctrl-alt-delete (alternative)

Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to reboot.

(computing) The simultaneous key combination of Ctrl, Alt, and Delete.


Ctrl-Alt-Delete

en-verb

Ctrl-Alt-Delete (third-person singular simple present Ctrl-Alt-Deletes, present participle Ctrl-Alt-Deleting, simple past and past participle Ctrl-Alt-Deleted)

Ctrl-Alt-Deletes (present singular third-person)
Ctrl-Alt-Deleting (participle present)
Ctrl-Alt-Deleted (participle past)
Ctrl-Alt-Deleted (past)
Ctrl-Alt-Del (alternative)
Ctrl+Alt+Del (alternative)
Control-Alt-Delete (alternative)
Control+Alt+Delete (alternative)
ctrl-alt-delete (alternative)

(computing, literal, transitive, intransitive) To press Ctrl, Alt, and Delete simultaneously to restart.


case mod

case mods (plural)
casemod (alternative)

(computing, informal) A modification to the outer case of a computer or video game console, to change its appearance or improve its performance.


DBCS

(computing) Initialism of double-byte character set.


preinitialize

preinitialize (third-person singular simple present preinitializes, present participle preinitializing, simple past and past participle preinitialized)

preinitializes (present singular third-person)
preinitializing (participle present)
preinitialized (participle past)
preinitialized (past)

(transitive, computing) To preprepare (a data structure, etc.) so that it is ready to be initialized.


preinitialization

(computing) A phase prior to initialization, when something is preinitialized.


unassembler

The unassembler works only in hex, for both input and output.

1984, David J. Bradley, Assembly Language Programming for the IBM Personal Computer, page 144:


unassembly

en-noun

unassembly (usually uncountable, plural unassemblies)


captureless

en-adj

captureless (comparative more captureless, superlative most captureless)

more captureless (comparative)
most captureless (superlative)

(computing, by extension) (of a lambda function) That has an empty capture list.


mini tower

(computing) A relatively small tower case for a computer system.


mediary

This tape becomes the system mediary input tape and is in turn processed by the system.

1959, Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, page 155:

Many applications, however, require the use of mediary, or scratch files.

This converted data is written on the mediary output tape immediately behind the absolute program which is going to read it. In this manner, separate jobs are processed one after another and written onto the mediary output tape for later execution.

1964, F. Peter Fisher, George F. Swindle, Computer programming systems, page 564:

(computing, dated) Storing data that is written by one process so that it can be read by another process.


data plane

data planes (plural)
dataplane (alternative)

(computing) The part of a network that carries user traffic, as opposed to those parts handling network topology and signalling.


multifont

(computing, typography) Involving multiple fonts or typefaces.


drawmetric

SUIS is categorized as both a cognometric and drawmetric system.

2016, Shahid Alam, “SUIS: An Online Graphical Signature-Based User Identification System”, in arXiv:

(computing) Relating to authentication schemes where the user has to recall and reproduce a drawing or image.


RAML

(computing) Initialism of RESTful API Modeling Language, a YAML-based language for describing RESTful APIs.


borken

borken (comparative more borken, superlative most borken)

more borken (comparative)
most borken (superlative)

(chiefly computing, slang) Broken; wrongly designed or configured.


ANSEL

(computing) Initialism of American National Standard for Extended Latin.


batch job

(computing) A series of instructions executed by the operating system.


farkled

(computing, slang) Not working correctly; ruined; broken; hosed.


superstabilizing

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(computing) Of a distributed algorithm: able to be started in any arbitrary state and then to converge to a legitimate state, and additionally to recover rapidly from changes in the network topology.


superstabilization

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(computing) The self-correcting behaviour of a superstabilizing algorithm.


CIDT

(computing) Abbreviation of cluster independent data collection tree: the cluster and tree topology-based routing protocol for MWSN.


VELCT

mobile wireless sensor networks
mobile wireless sensor networks

(computing) Abbreviation of Velocity Energy-efficient and Link-aware Cluster-Tree, a cluster and tree based topology management protocol for mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs).


DCT

en-noun

DCT (countable and uncountable, plural DCTs)

data collection tree
data collection tree#English

(computing) Abbreviation of data collection tree.


unghost

en-verb

unghost (third-person singular simple present unghosts, present participle unghosting, simple past and past participle unghosted)

unghosts (present singular third-person)
unghosting (participle present)
unghosted (participle past)
unghosted (past)

(transitive, computing) To restore from a ghosted state.


pentesting

Nevertheless, the most predominant term is penetration testing, more commonly referred to as pentesting.

2016, James S. Tiller, CISO's Guide to Penetration Testing: A Framework to Plan, Manage, and Maximize Benefits:

(computing, informal) The act of conducting a pen test.


semiclairvoyant

(computing) Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given approximate advance information about the problem, but not fully clairvoyant.


backstore

The most recent control units (3 GB cache size) provide a much better performance although the cache/backstore ratio is similar.

2004, Journal of Computer Resource Management, Issues 113-116:

(computing) A back end data storage; a backing store device.


video stream

video streams (plural)
videostream (alternative)


zero out

zero out (third-person singular simple present zeroes out or zeros out, present participle zeroing out, simple past and past participle zeroed out)

zeroes out (present singular third-person)
zeros out (present singular third-person)
zeroing out (participle present)
zeroed out (participle past)
zeroed out (past)

to zero out an array

(computing, transitive) To fill with zeros, replacing any previous contents.


perceptronium

Coined by the physicist Max Tegmark, from perceptron + -ium.

Max Tegmark, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Physics (he also spoke at the New York event), has proposed that there is a state of matter — like solid, liquid and gas — that he calls perceptronium: atoms arranged so they can process information and give rise to subjectivity.

2016 July 4, George Johnson, “Consciousness: The Mind Messing With the Mind”, in New York Times:

A hypothetical state of matter capable of giving rise to self-awareness and subjectivity.


hitscan

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With this code the server now has enough information to perform hitscans: it has the position of the player, the player orientation, and the player look direction (camera rotation).

2013, Alan R. Stagner, Unity Multiplayer Games:

Duel maps usually do not contain super weapons (eg, the Redeemer which fires a small nuclear warhead), but have one or two hitscan weapons (which when fired instantly hit whatever they are pointing at) and one or two projectile weapons (eg, a rocket launcher).

2014, L. Galli, P. L. Lanzi, D. Loiacono, Applying data mining to extract design patterns from Unreal Tournament levels:

(computing, video games) A calculation to find the point at which a given line intersects an object in the game world, commonly used to determine whether a bullet or projectile hits a target.


unassociate

unassociate (third-person singular simple present unassociates, present participle unassociating, simple past and past participle unassociated)

unassociates (present singular third-person)
unassociating (participle present)
unassociated (participle past)
unassociated (past)

(chiefly computing) To remove an association (of e.g. a computer with a network, or a file type with an application program); to disassociate.


space-cadet keyboard

en-noun

space-cadet keyboard (plural space-cadet keyboards)

(computing) A style of computer keyboard, traditionally used on MIT Lisp machines, equipped with seven modifier keys and three shift keys, arranged to facilitate chording.


Multician

From Multics + -ian; coined at Honeywell around the 1970s, according to the Jargon File.

(computing, slang) A competent user of Multics.


shotgun debugging

(computing, slang) A poorly-directed form of debugging, making various experimental changes to the source code in the hope that one of them will eventually fix the problem.


TIP

w:Plane (Unicode)#Tertiary Ideographic Plane

(computing) Initialism of Tertiary Ideographic Plane, the fourth 65,536-codepoint plane in Unicode (from U+30000 through U+3FFFF).


NSWBC

(computing) Initialism of National Security Whistleblowers Coalition.


WoW

(computing, software) Initialism of Windows on Windows.


fat arrow

From fat + arrow, because of its thickness compared to ->.

The fat arrow is a new shorter way to write functions using '=>' instead of 'function() {}', and will look familiar to anyone who has used CoffeeScript.

2013, Mark E. Daggett, Expert JavaScript, →ISBN, page 39:

A constant can't be used on the left-hand side of a fat arrow (=>) because that turns it into a string.

2013, Peter Scott, Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code, →ISBN, page 78:

(computing) The => symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.


autocategorization

(computing, chiefly US) Automatic categorization.


autocategorize

en-verb

autocategorize (third-person singular simple present autocategorizes, present participle autocategorizing, simple past and past participle autocategorized)

autocategorizes (present singular third-person)
autocategorizing (participle present)
autocategorized (participle past)
autocategorized (past)

(computing, rare, chiefly US) To automatically categorize.


autoclassify

autoclassify (third-person singular simple present autoclassifies, present participle autoclassifying, simple past and past participle autoclassified)

autoclassifies (present singular third-person)
autoclassifying (participle present)
autoclassified (participle past)
autoclassified (past)


autoclassifier

autoclassifiers (plural)
auto-classifier (alternative)

(computing) Something that autoclassifies.


XBL

(computing) Initialism of XML binding language: an XML-based markup language used to define the behaviour and appearance of XUL widgets and XML elements.


ALG

Application-level gateway
w:Application-level gateway

(computing, networking) Initialism of Application-level gateway.


cookied

(computing) (of an HTTP request, a transferred file, a user) That has cookies.


subdatasheet

(computing, databases) A datasheet embedded within another datasheet, showing child records relating to a parent table.


dynaset

(computing, databases) A data set taken from a larger database and linked back to it, so that local changes to the data are propagated back to the parent database.


bank switching

(computing) A method to increase the usable memory beyond what the processor normally supports by switching between different areas of memory ("banks") at runtime.


expanded memory

(computing) On x86-compatible PCs, a way to increase available memory beyond the 640 kilobytes usable by DOS, through use of bank switching.


long mode

(computing) An operational mode of x86-64 computers which enables 64-bit addressing, running older 32-bit code in compatibility mode and foregoing support for real-mode applications entirely.


(computing) A superset of the x86 instruction set architecture, providing additional support for 64-bit addressing while remaining mostly backward compatible with older applications.


long polling

(computing) A technology where the client requests information from the server without expecting an immediate response.


untrace

untrace (third-person singular simple present untraces, present participle untracing, simple past and past participle untraced)

untraces (present singular third-person)
untracing (participle present)
untraced (participle past)
untraced (past)

It is important to untrace a function before modifying its definition, since some tools may not be smart enough to realize that the version of reScale on the session frame is only for debugging!

1998, John M. Chambers, Programming with Data: A Guide to the S Language, page 268:

(computing, programming, transitive) To remove a trace from.


untaint

untaint (third-person singular simple present untaints, present participle untainting, simple past and past participle untainted)

untaints (present singular third-person)
untainting (participle present)
untainted (participle past)
untainted (past)

(transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a previously tainted variable) as safe.


RTC

(computing) Initialism of rational team concert.

(computing) Initialism of real-time computing.

(computing) Initialism of real-time control.


VCPI

Virtual Control Program Interface
w:Virtual Control Program Interface

(computing) Initialism of Virtual Control Program Interface.


Eurocard

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

(computing) A printed circuit board card in a standard European format, designed to plug into a standardized subrack.


unaddress

unaddress (third-person singular simple present unaddresses, present participle unaddressing, simple past and past participle unaddressed)

unaddresses (present singular third-person)
unaddressing (participle present)
unaddressed (participle past)
unaddressed (past)

The computer unaddresses the DVM as a listener, and remains a talker.

1992, Peter H. Sydenham, R. Thorn, Handbook of measurement science: Volume 3, Elements of change:

The function ibrd automatically addresses a device as a talker before the device sends data and unaddresses the device afterward.

1995, IEEE Proceedings of the Southeastcon:

(computing, transitive) To delete or forget the address of some entity.


IaaS

infrastructure as a service
w:infrastructure as a service

(computing) Acronym of infrastructure as a service.


PaaS

The application components all run in containers. They are isolated like VMs but lightweight and efficient like PaaS services.

2020, Elton Stoneman, chapter 1, in Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, →ISBN:

platform as a service
w:platform as a service

(computing) Acronym of platform as a service.


domain-specific

en-adj

domain-specific (comparative more domain-specific, superlative most domain-specific)

more domain-specific (comparative)
most domain-specific (superlative)

(computing) dedicated to a particular problem domain, a particular problem representation/solution technique


polyvariadic

5 Typed polyvariadic printf.

2011 November, Kenichi Asai, Oleg Kiselyov, Chung-chieh Shan, “Functional un|unparsing”, in Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, volume 24, number 4:

(computing) Supporting a variable but nonzero number of arguments.


MINASWAN

programming language
programming language

(computing) Initialism of Matz is nice and so we are nice: a motto of the Ruby programming language community, in reference to the demeanor of Yukihiro Matsumoto (nicknamed Matz, born 1965), the Japanese computer scientist who designed the language.


metacube

computer architecture
computer architecture

(computing) A kind of computer architecture derived from the hypercube and intended for use with large-scale parallel systems.


HKCU

(computing, Microsoft Windows) HKEY_CURRENT_USER, part of the registry containing settings specific to the logged-on user.


WAR

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Web Application aRchive (a Java archive file).


WAR

(computing) Initialism of write after read, a kind of data hazard.


pseudo-English

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There is a strong feeling that pseudo-English is more "user friendly" than symbolic notation.

1983, Laurie A. Russell, David M. Weintraub, APL 83, Conference proceedings, Washington, D.C., April 10-13, 1983:

The possibility of verbal encoding of mathematical formulas into pseudo-English has deliberately been built into COBOL; for example, "compute velocity times time giving distance" is nothing but syntactic sugar for "distance := velocity · time".

2014, Jenny Cheshire, Dieter Stein, Taming the Vernacular: From Dialect to Written Standard Language, →ISBN:

(computing) A structured artificial language that uses English words in order to be more user friendly for English speakers.


webware

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Because the workflow for database construction, the program pipelines and the post-treatment scripts used by BIBI were extensively changed since the publication of the original paper, we present here a completely new version of this webware called leBIBI QBPP .

2015 August 12, Jean-Pierre Flandrois, Guy Perrière, Manolo Gouy, “leBIBIQBPP: a set of databases and a webtool for automatic phylogenetic analysis of prokaryotic sequences”, in BMC Bioinformatics, volume 16, →DOI:

(Internet, computing) software that is accessed online, typically via a browser


T-state

The execution of a microprocessor instruction involves an M1 cycle comprising four T-states and an M2 cycle requiring five T-states.

2012, Mike Tooley, David Wyatt, Aircraft Digital Electronic and Computer Systems, page 86:

(computing) A single clock pulse of a microprocessor.


hex editor

hex editors (plural)
hexeditor (alternative)
hex-editor (alternative)

The only good thing about Solitaire is being able to ruin it with a hex editor so nobody else can play it.

2000 September 18, Maddox (George Ouzounian), I hate Solitaire., retrieved 2016-09-19:

(computing) A text editor that allows for manipulation of the fundamental binary data that constitutes a computer file, displayed in hexadecimal format.


vertical line

(computing, typography) The vertical bar; |.


OWIN

(.NET, computing) Initialism of Open Web Web Interface for .NET, a runtime and a set of APIs in the .NET Framework used to build connected, service-oriented applications.


keystore

(computing) A storage area for cryptographic keys.


BPaaS

(computing) Acronym of business process as a service.


DICaaS

data-intensive computing
w:data-intensive computing

(computing) Acronym of data-intensive computing as a service.


IDaaS

identity as a service
w:identity provider

(computing) Acronym of identity as a service.


LTS

(computing) Initialism of long-term support.


taskpad

You can also control the size of the list, whether the list is displayed horizontally or vertically in the results pane, and more. Here are the steps to follow to create a custom taskpad view: […]

2012, Brian Knittel, Paul McFedries, Windows 8 In Depth:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A graphical user interface that gathers several tasks into a single display, giving each one an icon.


IHV

(computing) Initialism of independent hardware vendor.


open-sourceness

(computing, of software, hardware or a product) The quality of being open-source.


NTLDR

(computing) The boot loader for Windows NT.


EAV

Entity–attribute–value model
w:Entity–attribute–value model

(computing) Initialism of Entity–attribute–value model.


fuzzer

You should be able to write a simple fuzzer that hits your arguments to make sure your program is properly checking inputs. Actually, I would take this time to write a fuzzer to just learn how they are built.

2006 August 5, “indentify^([sic]) if argument is char or float”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet), message-ID <1154846659.167840.131380@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>:

Found this bug on my own, no need for a fuzzer

2010 April 6, MC Frontalot, “Zero Day” (track 1), in Zero Day ft. Dual Core, YTCracker, and Jane Silence:

In exchange for this additional complexity it is more efficient in finding bugs than fuzzers that blindly generate inputs with rand.

2015 December 4, Dmitry Vyukov, “RFC: upstreaming fuzzing coverage support”, in linux-kernel mailing list, message-ID <CACT4Y+Y7qjRCnwUZc60ZOvXyQTrV+o7mToEUgh5hzKVFc48PnA@mail.gmail.com>:

(computing) A software program that performs fuzz testing.


profilee

The first is that once you request in-process debugging, the profilee will run slower.

2003, John Robbins, Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows:

(computing, rare) A program undergoing profiling.


PDFize

en-verb

PDFize (third-person singular simple present PDFizes, present participle PDFizing, simple past and past participle PDFized)

PDFizes (present singular third-person)
PDFizing (participle present)
PDFized (participle past)
PDFized (past)

Printing a file to PDF is really simple. Just open the file you want to PDF-ize, and select Print in the File menu of the application for that document.

2005, Rickford Grant, Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 154:

(transitive, rare, computing) To convert (a file) to PDF format.


dialog window

In the Print dialog window that then appears, click the drop-down menu button where your printer is listed and select Print to File (PDF), as shown in Figure 9-17.


VHD

(computing) Initialism of video high density, a videodisc format.

(computing) Initialism of virtual hard Disk, a disk image file format used by Microsoft Virtual PC.

virtual hard Disk

(computing) Initialism of volumetric haptic display, a display that about informs touch instead of vision.


role-based

en-adj

role-based (comparative more role-based, superlative most role-based)

more role-based (comparative)
most role-based (superlative)

(computing, databases) based on a special given role to access a content; used usually in cloud computing, databases, or other complex systems.


CHAP

(computing) Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.


Rainbow Books

Meronyms: Red Book, Yellow Book

(computing) The various standards for CD formats, each named after a particular color.


thumbnailer

From thumbnail (“to create a smaller representation of (a larger image)”, verb) + -er.

suf

(computing) A program that generates thumbnail images.


sidechannel

sidechannels (plural)
side-channel (alternative)

VLSI circuits are open to sidechannel attacks which disclose information about its internal state to an adversary.

2005, Subhamoy Maitra, C.E. Veni Madhavan, Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2005, →ISBN:

Timing attacks are an example of sidechannel analysis: examining ways a device can inadvertently transmit information, in addition to its official I/O channels.

2007, Sean Smith, John Marchesini, The Craft of System Security, →ISBN:

Due to their non-invasive, non-harming manner, and the rarely available and the yet more rarely implemented proper countermeasures, sidechannel attacks are a particularly dangerous attack method against many vehicular IT security mechanisms.

2009, Marko Wolf, Security Engineering for Vehicular IT Systems, →ISBN:

(computing, security) An indirect source of information about what a system is doing, such as execution time, version number, etc.


ECTS

European Computer Trade Show
w:European Computer Trade Show

(computing, historical) Initialism of European Computer Trade Show.


DMI

(computing) Initialism of Desktop Management Interface.


BSON

(computing) A simple data interchange format used in the MongoDB database.


massive parallelism

en-noun

massive parallelism (usually uncountable, plural massive parallelisms)

(computing) The property of being massively parallel.


systolic array

(computing) In parallel computer architectures, a homogeneous network of tightly coupled data processing units (DPUs), each of which independently computes a partial result as a function of the data received from its upstream neighbors, stores the result within itself, and passes it downstream.


proggy

proggy (countable and uncountable, plural proggies)

99.5% of this proggy is password-phree, but we can't have lamers going around on overhead accounts...

(computing, slang) Alternative spelling of proggie.


Radio Shack's "schlocky" image begins not with the name or the advertising or the "Trash-80" computers but at the store. I recently went to get some replacement pens for my TRS-80 PC-2 printer. The clerk asked, "What's a PC-2?" and "Why does it need pens?" With help like that, who needs competition?

1984, InfoWorld, volume 6, number 37, page 6:

It seems that the developers and users were much more attached to their beloved Trash-80s than anyone at Tandy.

2007, Theresa M. Welsh, David Welsh, Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution:

He'd picked a computer. It was a perfect choice for a boy who takes things apart—because the little Trash-80 computer was a portal to the Blue Nowhere, which is infinitely deep and infinitely complex, made up of layer upon layer of parts small as molecules and big as the exploding universe.

2016, Jeffery Deaver, The Blue Nowhere, page 200:

(computing, slang, derogatory) A TRS-80 microcomputer.


POODLE

Initialism from Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption.

(computing) A man-in-the-middle exploit that takes advantage of Internet and security software clients' fallback to an older version of SSL.


read receipt

/ˈɹiːd ɹɪˌsiːt/

/ˈɹɛd ɹɪˌsiːt/

(computing) An automatic response, often containing a timestamp, which notifies the sender of an e-mail or instant message that the message was opened.

Lesebestätigung

automatic response that notifies the sender that their message was opened


auto-shuffle

(computing) A feature that automatically randomly reorders something, such as tracks in a playlist or the cards held in a game.


super class

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(computing, object-oriented programming) Alternative form of superclass.


hackday

(computing, informal) The day when a hackathon is held.


weak reference

(computing) A reference that does not protect the referenced object from collection by a garbage collector.


strong reference

strong reference (plural strong references)

(computing) A reference that does protect the referenced object from collection by a garbage collector.


phantom reference

phantom reference (plural phantom references)

(computing) A weak reference, where the memory of the object could be reclaimed.


soft reference

(computing) A weak reference that is garbage-collected less aggressively.


circular reference

circular reference (plural circular references)

(computing) A series of references, where the last object references the first.


forward reference

forward reference (plural forward references)

(computing) The actual use of an entity before any declaration.

forward declaration
forward declaration#English

(computing) Synonym of forward declaration.


OPML

(computing) Initialism of Outline Processor Markup Language.


SBC

single-board computer
w:single-board computer

(computing, technology) Initialism of single-board computer.


cue sheet

cue sheets (plural)
cuesheet (alternative)

(computing) A text file that details the layout of tracks on a compact disc.


WTFPL

w:Do What the Fuck You Want To Public License

(computing) Initialism of Do What the Fuck You Want To Public License.


semi-naive

en-adj

semi-naive (comparative more semi-naive, superlative most semi-naive)

more semi-naive (comparative)
most semi-naive (superlative)
semi-naïf (alternative)
seminaive (alternative)
seminaïve (alternative)
semi-naïve (alternative)

We would like to know if correlating some of the disjoint (and conditionally independent) feature subsets of a semi-naive Bayes can improve its predictive accuracy.

2013, Concha Bielza, Antonio Salmeron, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Advances in Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN:

(computing) Predominantly naive but including modifications that improve efficiency.


FOSSie

(computing, informal) An advocate of free open source software.


ITSM

(computing) Acronym of IT service management.


bit-compressed

(mathematics, computing) Represented by the minimum number of bits that can represent the maximum value (of an integer variable)


bitvector

(mathematics, computing) A vector (or similar array) of bits that represent Boolean variables.


RADIUS

(computing) Initialism of Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service.


sleeper account

en-noun

sleeper account (plural sleeper accounts)

(computing, Internet) An account that has been created but not edited in a long time and has now become dormant.


LIBlet

(computing, Java programming language) A library that works with the MIDP.


multilock

(computing) A lock that restricts access to more than one object.


ungzip

en-verb

ungzip (third-person singular simple present ungzips, present participle ungzipping, simple past and past participle ungzipped)

ungzips (present singular third-person)
ungzipping (participle present)
ungzipped (participle past)
ungzipped (past)

I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]

2002, John Bryan Callender, Perl for Web site management, page 405:

This should completely reset everything to exactly the way it was after you untared/ungzipped PHP […]

2002, Luis Argerich, Professional PHP4 XML, page 764:

(computing, transitive) To decompress (data previously gzipped).


OCL

(computing, design) Initialism of Object Constraint Language, a declarative language developed at IBM that is now part of the UML standard.


unfilter

(computing, data) The lack or absence of a filter


system tray

From the file SysTray.exe, first appearing in Microsoft Windows 95 in 1995.

The system tray sits on the opposite end of the taskbar from the Start menu. If the taskbar is on the bottom of the screen, the system tray is on the right side of the taskbar.

2005, Dan Gookin, PCs For Dummies Quick Reference, →ISBN, page 57:

The new System Tray API makes it possible for an application to gain access to the desktop's system tray, which presents the system time and icons of applications that interact with the system tray.

2007, Jeff Friesen, Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional, →ISBN, page 103:

This DLL will enable us to put an icon in the system tray, control that icon while it's in the system tray, and remove it from the system tray when we're done with it.

2008, Jonathan Morrison, C++ for VB Programmers, →ISBN, page 183:

(computing, graphical user interface) The portion of the taskbar that displays the system time and icons for running processes, which can often launch menus for those processes.


SML/NJ

(computing) Initialism of Standard ML of New Jersey, a compiler and programming environment for the Standard ML programming language.


moof

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Blend of moo (“lowing sound of a cow”) + woof (“barking sound of a dog”). Coined by American computer programmer Mark Harlan in 1987 or 1988 in internal memoranda within Apple Computer. First publicly attested in 1989. Trademarked by Apple from 1992 to 1999 (U.S. Reg. No. 1,695,826).

coinage

Upon closer examination, I discovered that dogcows actually "speak." In a very excited condition, like being near an open can of Mountain Dew, dogcows will say "Boo Woo! Moof!" But it is much more common to hear them just say, "Moof!"

1989 April 10, Mark Harlan, “The Dogcow”, in Machintosh Technical Notes, number 31, Cupertino, California: Apple Computer, archived from the original on 2004-02-02:

“And won’t you just cry out and beg for mercy? You know, Alisha dear,” warm breath on him, “I used to think he was just a dog, and then I thought he was a cow, but I think—I know—he’s just a cross between both, a cow and a dog. Cows go moo, dogs go woof, so what does a dogcow go? Moof moof moof. Go moof, Chuck, go moof.”

1995, Michael A. Hemmingson, Nice Little Stories Jam-Packed with Depraved Sex & Violence, Denver: CyberPsychos AOD, →ISBN, page 23:

Everyone knew where the hackers were sitting when they started yelling “Moof! moof!” at the screen—“moof” is the sound the LaserWriter Options dogcow makes.

1998 September 3, David Morgenstein, “BMUG Report: The Cupertino Shuffle”, in MicroTimes, volume 7, number 9, Oakland, California: BAM Publications, page 178:

His name, they say, is Clarus. His bark, they say, is Moof.

1998 October 29, Bob LeVitus, “The tail of the dogcow”, in Mac OS 8.5 For Dummies, Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, →ISBN, page 162:

You can predict, we bet, the sound she makes: Moof! (Yes, the Dogcow is a she—as is every cow. Otherwise, she would be a dogbull.

2001 June 29, David Pogue, Joseph Schorr, “The inevitable Dogcow sidebar”, in Macworld? Mac? Secrets?, Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, →ISBN, page 1040:

“But it has ten legs and goes ‘moof-moof’,” Eddie joked.

2007 March 1, Holly Haggarty, Summer Dragons, Toronto: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 99:

Before you reconfigure, mount
a scratch monkey. A dogcow
makes a moof. An aliasing bug
can smash the stack.

2009 May 11, Heather McHugh, “Hackers Can Sidejack Cookies”, in The New Yorker, volume 85, number 13, New York City, retrieved 2025-04-12:

(onomatopoeia, usually computing, humorous) Used to indicate the lowing or barking sound of a dogcow or similar chimeric creature.


filterware

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(computing) Software that filters out objectionable material.


titlecase

en-noun

titlecase (countable and uncountable, plural titlecases)

2012, Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Programming Perl: Unmatched power for text processing and scripting
In ASCII, there are uppercase letters and lowercase letters, but in Unicode, there is also a third sort of case, called titlecase.

(computing, countable, uncountable) The variant of the letter that is used when this letter appears in the beginning of the sentence.


titlecase

en-verb

titlecase (third-person singular simple present titlecases, present participle titlecasing, simple past and past participle titlecased)

titlecases (present singular third-person)
titlecasing (participle present)
titlecased (participle past)
titlecased (past)

For example, if we wanted to titlecase the BlogPost title, you would simply call the title() filter like this: <h2>{{ post.title|title }}</h2>

2012, Wesley Chun, Core Python Applications Programming:

(computing, transitive) To convert to titlecase form.


SFTP

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Secure File Transfer Protocol, a true SSH File Transfer Protocol client from the OpenSSH project.

Secure File Transfer Protocol

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Simple File Transfer Protocol, an unsecured and rarely used file transfer protocol from the early days of the Internet.

Simple File Transfer Protocol

(computing, Internet) Initialism of SSH File Transfer Protocol, a network protocol used for secure file transfer over secure shell.


metadirectory

(computing) A directory service that lists other directory services.


TET

en-noun

TET (countable and uncountable, plural TETs)

TETs of the first and last categories are also called ex-ante TETs, as they provide transparency of any intended data processing to the data subjects before they are releasing any personal data.

2012, John R. Vacca, Computer and Information Security Handbook, →ISBN, page 767:

There are two classes of TETs that can be leveraged to identify, assess, and mitigate risks related to the lack of awareness on OSNs: user-side tools and provider-side tools.

2014, Johannes Buchmann, Internet Privacy: Options for adequate realisation, →ISBN, page 75:

If we define transparency as insight in how user's data is being collected, stored, processed and disclosed, TETs can then be viewed as tools providing this insight in an accurate and comprehensible way.

2015, Sanjay Goel, Yuan Hong, Vagelis Papakonstantinou, Smart Grid Security, →ISBN, page 111:

(computing) Initialism of transparency-enhancing tool.


respool

en-verb

respool (third-person singular simple present respools, present participle respooling, simple past and past participle respooled)

respools (present singular third-person)
respooling (participle present)
respooled (participle past)
respooled (past)

The failed print job was respooled by the operating system.

(transitive, computing) To place (data) back on a queue for later transmission.


relog

relog (third-person singular simple present relogs, present participle relogging, simple past and past participle relogged)

relogs (present singular third-person)
relogging (participle present)
relogged (participle past)
relogged (past)

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The game glitched out and I had to relog before I could continue playing.

(computing, video games, slang, intransitive) To log out and log in again.


ZB

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of zettabyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of zebibyte.


SX

single precision
single precision#English

(computing) Initialism of single precision.


phisherman

From phisher + -man, modeled on fisherman.

Thus if he mistakenly enters his Citibank password into a phishing site, the phisherman gets a different password and cannot use it to impersonate him.

2010, Ross J. Anderson, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems:

(computing, Internet) The criminal performing phishing attacks.


front-side bus

en-noun

front-side bus (plural front-side buses or front-side busses)

front-side buses (plural)
front-side busses (plural)
frontside bus (alternative)

(computing) A bus that conducts data between a CPU and a memory controller.


VNC

(computing, networking) Initialism of Virtual Network Computing.

(computing, networking, automotive) Abbreviation of Vehicular Networking Conference.


character-based

(computing) capable of displaying only text characters or having a text-based user interface


structured programming

(computing) A style of programming that relies on blocks of code, subroutines and the absence of simple tests and jumps


octacore

(computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of eight cores.


decacore

(computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of 10 cores.


gskew

(computing, attributive) A form of branch predictor that implements multiple prediction mechanisms with different indexing functions.


branch predictor

branch predictor (plural branch predictors)

(computing) A digital circuit that tries to predict which way a branch structure will go, so as to improve the flow in the instruction pipeline.


IFS

Input Field Separators
w:Input Field Separators

(computing, Unix) Initialism of Input Field Separators.


tryte

The Poliz-program did not consist of commands of different addresses; instead, it used short word logic of 6-trit trytes. As an element of a program, we defined a tryte (the smallest addressable unit) for addressing or for operating.

2011, John Impagliazzo, Perspectives on Soviet and Russian Computing:

(computing) The ternary equivalent of a byte.


unsort

en-verb

unsort (third-person singular simple present unsorts, present participle unsorting, simple past and past participle unsorted)

unsorts (present singular third-person)
unsorting (participle present)
unsorted (participle past)
unsorted (past)

From un- + sort, apparently by confusion of unravel, untangle or similar and sort.

And what if we want to unsort an array? The shuffle ( ) function uses PHP's random number generator to re-arrange the elements of an array randomly.

1999, Jesus Castagnetto, Professional PHP Programming, page 162:

(computing) To shuffle a data structure so that it is no longer sorted.


holepunch

holepunch (third-person singular simple present holepunches, present participle holepunching, simple past and past participle holepunched)

holepunches (present singular third-person)
holepunching (participle present)
holepunched (participle past)
holepunched (past)

(computing, networking) Alternative form of hole punch, to create a port forwarding on the router.


Chipzilla

From chip + -zilla, attributed to Terry Shannon.

(slang, somewhat derogatory, computing) Intel.


deadlockable

a deadlockable algorithm

(computing) Capable of entering a state of deadlock.


multigranular

(computing) Offering multiple levels of granularity.


multigranularity

(computing) The property of being multigranular.


deprovision

deprovision (third-person singular simple present deprovisions, present participle deprovisioning, simple past and past participle deprovisioned)

deprovisions (present singular third-person)
deprovisioning (participle present)
deprovisioned (participle past)
deprovisioned (past)

Normally, you would deprovision a Chromebook before sending it in for repair or before disposing of it—for example, selling the Chromebook or donating it.

2018, Guy Hart-Davis, Deploying Chromebooks in the Classroom: Planning, Installing, and Managing Chromebooks in Schools and Colleges, Apress, →ISBN, page 347:

(transitive, computing) To free up or delete the accounts, resources, etc. of (a system, or a user who will no longer be using a system).


egd

equality-generating dependency
equality-generating dependency#English

(computing) Initialism of equality-generating dependency.


tgd

tuple-generating dependency
tuple-generating dependency#English

(computing) Initialism of tuple-generating dependency.


WU

(computing) Initialism of Windows Update.


pwd

(computing) Unix command to print the working directory


unquiesce

unquiesce (third-person singular simple present unquiesces, present participle unquiescing, simple past and past participle unquiesced)

unquiesces (present singular third-person)
unquiescing (participle present)
unquiesced (participle past)
unquiesced (past)

(computing, transitive) To restore from a quiesced state.


unmanage

unmanage (third-person singular simple present unmanages, present participle unmanaging, simple past and past participle unmanaged)

unmanages (present singular third-person)
unmanaging (participle present)
unmanaged (participle past)
unmanaged (past)

Since the XmDialogShell is not used here, managing and unmanaging the child of the shell will have no effect on whether the shell window itself is visible.

1994, David Flanagan, Motif tools: streamlined GUI design and programming with the Xmt library:

The web interface enables you to unmanage a chassis, and re-manage the chassis in centralized user management mode. However, unmanaging a chassis deletes all of the chassis settings […]

2014, Ilya Krutov, Carl Gola, Jeff Schoby, Implementing Systems Management of IBM PureFlex System, page 143:

(transitive, computing) To cease to manage; to relinquish ownership or control of.


vhost

(computing) Abbreviation of virtual host.


PC speaker

(computing) A device found in most IBM PC compatible computers that allows simple beeps to be output.


proggie

Ben bought a laptop shortly after and we would stay up all night making proggies with Visual Basic to use on AOL. These proggies were platform based applications that allowed us to do numerous things online, to other customers.

2008, Eric James, Shades of the Moon: Brawls before Laws, page 37:

The hackers had homemade programs, which they called proggies, and each proggie had some stupid scary-sounding name that paid homage to the miasma of gangsta rap and Mountain Dew from which it had been born.

2011, Justin Taylor, The Gospel of Anarchy: A Novel:

(computing, slang) A program, especially (historical) an externally produced hacking tool used to attack other users on early America Online services.


application logic

To make the business layer more cohesive, some programmers place the application logic and processes in the presentation layer; this unfortunately often results in a very messy and hard to modify presentation layer.

2007, Randy Connolly, Core Internet Application Development Using ASP.NET 2.0, →ISBN, page 689:

(computing) The logic governing what a computer program is trying to accomplish; domain logic.


concolic

If concolic testing fails to cover some test goals, then the model checker refines its program abstraction to prove more paths infeasible, which reduces the search space for concolic testing.

2015, Przemysław Daca, Ashutosh Gupta, Thomas A. Henzinger, “Abstraction-driven Concolic Testing”, in arXiv:

(computing) Having elements of both concrete (normal) and symbolic processing


metapipelining

In this paper, we identify two optimizations that are important when using parallel patterns to generate hardware: tiling and metapipelining.

2015, Raghu Prabhakar, David Koeplinger, Kevin Brown, HyoukJoong Lee, Christopher De Sa, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle Olukotun, “Generating Configurable Hardware from Parallel Patterns”, in arXiv:


metapipeline

(computing) A kind of pipeline that exploits nested parallelism.


bilattice

We show that for a linear space of operators #123;#92;mathcalM#125;#92;subseteq#123;#92;mathcalB#125;(H#95;1,H#95;2) the following assertions are equivalent. (i) #123;#92;mathcalM#125; is reflexive in the sense of Loginov--Shulman. (ii) There exists an order-preserving map 1 on a bilattice Bil(#123;#92;mathcalM#125;) of subspaces determined by #123;#92;mathcalM#125;, with P#92;leq#92;psi#95;1(P,Q) and Q#92;leq#92;psi#95;2(P,Q), for any pair (P,Q)#92;inBil(#123;#92;mathcalM#125;), and such that an operator T#92;in#123;#92;mathcalB#125;(H#95;1,H#95;2) lies in #123;#92;mathcalM#125; if and only if #92;psi#95;2(P,Q)T#92;psi#95;1(P,Q)#61;0 for all (P,Q)#92;inBil(#123;#92;mathcalM#125;).

2015, Janko Bračič, Lina Oliveira, “A characterization of reflexive spaces of operators”, in arXiv:

(mathematics, computing) A structure B = (S,⊑₁ ,⊑₂) in which S is a non-empty set, and ⊑₁ and ⊑₂ are partial orderings each giving S the structure of a lattice, determining thus for each of the two lattices the corresponding operations of meet and join.


memcomputing

Since digital memcomputing machines map integers into integers they are robust against noise, and hence scalable.

2015, Fabio L. Traversa, Massimiliano Di Ventra, “Polynomial-time solution of prime factorization and NP-hard problems with digital memcomputing machines”, in arXiv:

(computing) computing by means of a memcomputer


memcomputer

(computing) A computer that has very fast (even instantaneous) access to memory


touchlogging

Allowing patterns to emerge from high dimensional unavoidably noisy data. The goal of this work is to raise awareness about the potential risks related to motion sensors built-in wearable devices and to demonstrate abuse opportunities leveraged by advanced neural network architectures. The LSTM-based implementation presented in this research can perform touchlogging and keylogging on 12-keys keypads with above-average accuracy even when confronted with raw unprocessed data.

2015, Tony Beltramelli, Sebastian Risi, “Deep-Spying: Spying using Smartwatch and Deep Learning”, in arXiv:

(computing) The logging of the use of a touchpad


touchlogger

(computing) A system that performs touchlogging.


effectful

en-adj

effectful (comparative more effectful, superlative most effectful)

more effectful (comparative)
most effectful (superlative)

On the other hand, we hope it can contribute a small-step towards the ultimate goal of an elegant fully fledged language for certified effectful programming..

2015, Matthijs Vákár, “A Framework for Dependent Types and Effects”, in arXiv:


coinstall

en-verb

coinstall (third-person singular simple present coinstalls, present participle coinstalling, simple past and past participle coinstalled)

coinstalls (present singular third-person)
coinstalling (participle present)
coinstalled (participle past)
coinstalled (past)

(transitive, computing) To install together.


multistack

We show that the Hartmanis--Stearns problem can be solved in a satisfactory way for the class of multistack machines.

2016, Boris Adamczewski, Julien Cassaigne, Marion Le Gonidec, “On the computational complexity of algebraic numbers: the Hartmanis--Stearns problem revisited”, in arXiv:

(mathematics, computing) Employing multiple stacks


superslice

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These transformations occur only if all bit slices within a superslice have identical context (e.g., all bit slice input ports a within a superslice have the constant value 0 applied from the outside). Otherwise, the superslice is left unchanged.

2010, Scott Hauck, André DeHon, Reconfigurable Computing:

(computing) A slice that is an amalgamation of smaller slices.


bitslice

We represent these vectors in bitslice format.

2016, Shixiong Xu, David Gregg, “Customizable Precision of Floating-Point Arithmetic with Bitslice Vector Types”, in arXiv:

(mathematics, computing) Alternative form of bit slice.


bit slice

(mathematics, computing) Any of a group of variable-length words that may be combined to form computable lengths of bits of any length


Linuxer

Now, like the feel of solid ground in this informational morass, there is a book that will serve as a slipway to launch myriads of new Linuxers. Matt Welsh has written clearly and simply about the what, where, and how, of Linux.

1993, AUUGN, volume 14, number 5, page 45:

You do know about the text-mode consoles, don't you? (If you have a distribution that always boots to a graphical user interface (GUI) and you haven't been a Linuxer for some time, maybe you don't.)

2002, Michael Schwarz, Jeremy Anderson, Peter Curtis, Multitool Linux: Practical Uses for Open Source Software, page 76:


ATASCII

Short for Atari Standard Code for Information Interchange, modelled on ASCII.

(computing, historical) An ASCII-based character set used in the Atari 8-bit family of home computers of the 1980s.


kbit

We demonstrate that the proposed codec operating at 48 kbit/s and 64 kbit/s out-performs both G.722.1C and MP3 and has quality comparable to AAC-LD, despite having less than one fourth of the algorithmic delay of these codecs..

2016, Jean-Marc Valin, Timothy B. Terriberry, Christopher Montgomery, Gregory Maxwell, “A High-Quality Speech and Audio Codec With Less Than 10 ms Delay”, in IEEE Transactions on Audio, volumes Speech and Language Processing:

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of kilobit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of kibibit.


microbenchmarking

The evaluation work is performed at two levels: the microbenchmarking level and the real-world application level.

2016, Zhaokui Li, Jianbin Fang, Tao Tang, Xuhao Chen, Cheng Chen, Canqun Yang, “Evaluating the Performance Impact of Multiple Streams on the MIC-based Heterogeneous Platform”, in arXiv:

(computing) Measuring the performance of a small piece of code that executes in microseconds or nanoseconds.


break movie

(computing) A crude form of text-based animation created in ATASCII, using special control characters to move the cursor and overwrite previous animation frames.


emuscene

(computing, informal, rare) The subculture or community of people who use emulators to simulate the operation of one computer system on another.


typecheck

typecheck (third-person singular simple present typechecks, present participle typechecking, simple past and past participle typechecked)

typechecks (present singular third-person)
typechecking (participle present)
typechecked (participle past)
typechecked (past)

Lastly, we demonstrate using Hummingbird in Rails development mode to typecheck an app as live updates are applied to it..

2016, Brianna M. Ren, Jeffrey S. Foster, “Just-in-Time Static Type Checking for Dynamic Languages”, in arXiv:

(computing, transitive) To verify whether a given value belongs to a certain data type.


soft error

(electronics, computing) A type of transient error where a signal or datum is momentarily wrong, caused for example by an ionizing particle striking a chip.


subwrite

(computing) A partial write operation making up part of a larger one.


ebit

(physics, computing) An entangled bit (in a quantum computer)


unapply

unapply (third-person singular simple present unapplies, present participle unapplying, simple past and past participle unapplied)

unapplies (present singular third-person)
unapplying (participle present)
unapplied (participle past)
unapplied (past)

To unapply the name from every formula in the worksheet, select only a single cell.

If you want to unapply payments that you've already applied to open invoices, click the Un-Apply Payment button.

2016, Stephen L. Nelson, QuickBooks 2017 For Dummies:

(transitive, computing) To undo an apply operation; to remove (something previously applied).


superfloppy

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The superfloppy is capable of storing 2.88M bytes of data after it is formatted and will be used heavily in financial services, architecture, engineering and design, health care and graphics, according to Gene Dougherty, director of sales […]

1991 July 15, Computerworld, volume XXV, number 28, IDG Enterprise, page 19:

(computing, dated) Any of various disks of approximately the size of a floppy disk but capable of storing far larger amounts of data.


codeline

(computing) A branch (group of related files) in a source control system.


camelize

camelize (third-person singular simple present camelizes, present participle camelizing, simple past and past participle camelized)

camelizes (present singular third-person)
camelizing (participle present)
camelized (participle past)
camelized (past)

We may use a camelized form to improve readability. You can use also underscore in between words if you want the identifier separated.

2014, Jeremias Esperanza, My First In Java:

(computing) To change a variable or object name that consists of several words into camel case.


coarray

(computing) A variable declared with a codimension.


appbar

From app + bar; introduced in Windows 95.

Create an appbar to display the system palette

1996, Scott Stanfield, Ralph Arvesen, Visual C++ 4 How-to, page 513:

Home Page of the FinanceHub Windows 8 store application displaying the stocks watchlist and an appbar with Add Stock flyout

2013, Ashish Ghoda, Windows 8 MVVM Patterns Revealed, page XX:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A toolbar, anchored to an edge of the user's desktop, providing quick access to programs or features.


BREACH

Short for browser reconnaissance and exfiltration via adaptive compression of hypertext, chosen to spell the word breach.

(computing) A particular security exploit against HTTPS when using HTTP compression, based on the CRIME exploit.


CRIME

Short for compression ratio info-leak made easy, chosen to spell the word crime.

(computing) A particular security exploit against secret Web cookies over connections using the HTTPS and SPDY protocols that also use data compression. It relies on observing the change in size of the compressed ciphertext for various inputs.


base address

(computing) An address serving as a point of reference for calculating other addresses.


PUP

(computing) Acronym of potentially unwanted program, software that most computer users do not want on their computers, such as adware.


PUP

(computing) Initialism of Private Use Plane: either of the two Unicode planes (planes 15 and 16) reserved for private use.


barrel shifter

(computing) A digital circuit that can shift a word by a specified number of bits using only combinational logic, without any sequential logic.


femtocaching

The femtocaching idea was proposed as a solution to compensate for the weak backhaul capacity, by deploying coverage-limited nodes with high storage capacity called femtocaches (FCs).

2016, Yousef N. Shnaiwer, Sameh Sorour, Parastoo Sadeghi, Neda Aboutorab, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, “Network-Coded Macrocell Offloading in Femtocaching-Assisted Cellular Networks”, in arXiv:


subdisk

(computing) Any of the disks making up a RAID array.


expectimax

Namely, using 3-ply expectimax search, the program with MS-TD learning reached 32768-tiles with a rate of 18.31%, while the one with TD learning did not reach any.

2016, Kun-Hao Yeh, I-Chen Wu, Chu-Hsuan Hsueh, Chia-Chuan Chang, Chao-Chin Liang, Han Chiang, “Multi-Stage Temporal Difference Learning for 2048-like Games”, in arXiv:


rat's nest

Many CPU silicon designers in the 1990s complained bitterly about the rat's nest in the center of SPARC chips.

2002 January 14, Jim Turley, “Embedded Processors, Part Two”, in PC Magazine, retrieved 2017-03-02:

And cloud computing relies on millions of connections and services. In other words, it's a troubleshooting nightmare when the cloud goes bust. . . . In other words, the cloud will likely become more of a rat's nest.

2008 July 21, Larry Dignan, “Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?”, in ZDNet, retrieved 2017-03-02:

2016 July 2, veryatlantic, "Saturday, July 2, 2016: Addendum," Tales From The Trailer Court™ (retrieved 2 March 2017):

Think of libraries as the way the sub-idiots who like C code hide all the rat's-nest programming they don't want you to see.

(idiomatic) Something that is excessively complicated, entangled, or disorderly (either physically or metaphorically).

(idiomatic, computing, often hyphenated when used attributively) A software or hardware system whose design lacks organized structure, making it difficult to understand and maintain.


coinstaller

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A DLL that aids in the installation of a hardware device, chiefly by updating files.


NUMA

non-uniform memory access
w:non-uniform memory access

(computing) Initialism of non-uniform memory access.


Suggesting one of the truncated 8.3-style file and directory names sometimes encountered in Microsoft Windows as a result of its MS-DOS roots, e.g. PROGRA~1 for Program Files.

(computing, slang, humorous, derogatory, dated) The computing company Microsoft.


netmail

bulletin board system
bulletin board system

(computing) A kind of electronic mail used on bulletin board systems.


self-encrypting

a self-encrypting hard disk

(computing) Automatically encrypting data without user intervention.


georedundancy

(computing) The property of being georedundant.


functoid

(computing, Microsoft BizTalk Server) A tool that transforms data from one form to another as it is routed from a source to a destination.


friendly name

(computing, Microsoft Windows) The everyday name of a hardware device, displayed to the user instead of the internal or technical designation.


georemote

(computing) Geographically remote; taking place over a significant physical distance.


plug and pray

Blend of plug and play + pray, suggesting the idea of a user desperately hoping that the device will be correctly recognised.

(computing, humorous, derogatory) An unreliable plug and play feature.


SHA

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To eliminate this risk, you should modify your shrinkwrap file to reference Git SHAs, or deploy your own npm mirror that contains the correct versions of each dependency.

2020, Andrew Hoffman, Web Application Security: Exploitation and Countermeasures for Modern Web Applications, O'Reilly, →ISBN:

(computing) A cryptographic hash produced with SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm).


key-value

(computing, usually attributive) A pair consisting of a key (usually unique) and a value associated with the key.


circular queue

(computing) A linked list whose last element links to its first element.


log-structured

(computing) Storing data in such a way that modifications are kept in a buffer rather than overwriting the previous version.


transaction block

en-noun

transaction block (plural transaction blocks)

(computing, especially databases) An atomic sequence of instructions.


multihome

en-verb

multihome (third-person singular simple present multihomes, present participle multihoming, simple past and past participle multihomed)

multihomes (present singular third-person)
multihoming (participle present)
multihomed (participle past)
multihomed (past)

(computing) To use the technique of multihoming.


RAT

en-noun

RAT (countable and uncountable, plural RATs)

(computing, countable) Initialism of remote-access Trojan.


JSX

(computing) Initialism of JavaScript Syntax eXtension.


virtual keyboard

virtual keyboard (plural virtual keyboards)

A software component that allows a user to enter characters.

虛擬鍵盤 /虚拟键盘

software that allows a user to enter characters


artificial stupidity

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By analogy with artificial intelligence.

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence#English

(humorous, artificial intelligence, computing, science fiction) Artificial intelligence that is not well developed.


artificially intelligent

en-adj

artificially intelligent (comparative more artificially intelligent, superlative most artificially intelligent)

more artificially intelligent (comparative)
most artificially intelligent (superlative)

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence#English

(artificial intelligence, computing, science fiction) Possessing artificial intelligence.


artificially intelligently

en-adv

artificially intelligently (comparative more artificially intelligently, superlative most artificially intelligently)

more artificially intelligently (comparative)
most artificially intelligently (superlative)

(very rare, artificial intelligence, computing) By means of or through artificial intelligence.


McKinley

McKinleys (plural)
McKinlay (alternative)

Anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Mac Fhionnlaoich, "son of Fionnlaoch (=Fair Warrior)". The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of William McKinley featured on it.

This may or may not be true, but the masses are going to believe it and buy Merceds ( or hold off buying anything ) on the promise that in a year or two they'll be able to upgrade to McKinleys that will blow away anything the competition has.

2001 June 28, Malcolm Dunnett, “Full port of VMS to Itanium.”, in comp.os.vms (Usenet), archived from the original on 2025-06-22:

The cost of the Alpha processors in a current mid-range or better AlphaServer is a *small* percentage of the whole. Replace them with 'McKinleys and the box price won't change significantly (unless you try to recoup the cost of developing the McKinley version, in which case the price will go *up*) - even if you *give the McKinleys away*.

2001 November 7, Bill Todd, “Compaq: VMS is alive and kicking”, in comp.os.vms (Usenet), archived from the original on 2025-06-22:

We'll see, INTEL are playing their cards very close to their chest, but $1500 'low-end' McKinleys don't sounds like they are going to compete in any meaningful way with the P4 line to me.

2002 July 17, Rupert Pigott, “McKinley Cometh...”, in comp.arch (Usenet), archived from the original on 2025-06-22:

That comment was refering to the systems with 1.5 GHz Itanium 2 6M CPUs (aka Madison), not the older McKinleys.

2003 April 29, Rick Jones, “Itanium Madison blasts Sun, IBM in encryption specs!”, in comp.os.vms (Usenet), archived from the original on 2025-06-22:

(computing, historical, informal) A processor of Intel’s first Itanium 2 brand, code-named McKinley.


unexpire

en-verb

unexpire (third-person singular simple present unexpires, present participle unexpiring, simple past and past participle unexpired)

unexpires (present singular third-person)
unexpiring (participle present)
unexpired (participle past)
unexpired (past)

To unexpire a password, you simply need to change it.

2013, Darl Kuhn, Pro Oracle Database 12c Administration, page 129:

(transitive, computing) To cause (a password or other setting) no longer to be expired; to restore as valid.


JSSE

(computing) Initialism of Java Secure Socket Extension.


Edge

English topographic surname, derived from the noun edge. Compare Eck.


untouch

untouch (third-person singular simple present untouches, present participle untouching, simple past and past participle untouched)

untouches (present singular third-person)
untouching (participle present)
untouched (participle past)
untouched (past)

(computing, transitive) To mark (a file or document) as not having been modified.


AJP

(computing, eclipse, Web) Initialism of Apache JServ Protocol.


scanbed

Because of its tabloid-size scanbed, the Plug-n-Scan has a large footprint that makes it very stable. On the other hand, being a CIS scanner, it's light and has a very low profile and is designed so that the scanner can be stood upright on its end and still function.

1998, PC Mag, volume 17, number 18, page 179:

(computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.


birds-of-a-feather session

en-noun

birds-of-a-feather session (plural birds-of-a-feather sessions)

The first use of this term among computer specialists is uncertain, but it was employed during DECUS conferences and may have been used at SHARE user group meetings in the 1960s.

(computing) An informal discussion group, typically at a conference, based on a shared interest and without any fixed agenda.


PERQ

(computing) Initialism of Pascal Engine that Runs Quicker, the original meaning of the acronym PERQ.


PERQ

(computing) a pioneering workstation computer that is the first that commercially available personal workstation with a GUI


autodarwinate

en-verb

autodarwinate (third-person singular simple present autodarwinates, present participle autodarwinating, simple past and past participle autodarwinated)

autodarwinates (present singular third-person)
autodarwinating (participle present)
autodarwinated (participle past)
autodarwinated (past)

From auto- + Darwin + -ate, in reference to Darwin's idea of "survival of the fittest". Compare Darwin Award.

[…] so how did your pet luser autodarwinate?

2004, Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives:

(computing, intransitive, slang) To kill oneself in a foolish manner.


ArmSCII

(computing) A set of obsolete single-byte character encodings for the Armenian alphabet.


wall time

(computing) The actual time of day, as would be seen on a wall clock; contrasted with the (possibly inaccurate) time according to a computer system.

Additionally, determining the wall time for specific functions or control structures (e.g. for loops) can help identify the most computationally-intensive portion of your program, and indicate which sections should be optimised if possible.

2019, Joshua Izaac, Jingbo Wang, Computational Quantum Mechanics, Springer, →ISBN, page 158:

(computing) The actual amount of time taken from the start to the end of an operation, as opposed to CPU time, which only includes the periods of time during which the CPU was processing instructions.


SD-WAN

wide area network
wide area network#English

(computing) Acronym of software-defined wide area network.


progie

[.]I have a question about burning a packaged progie'', (i.e.. installshield or
self-extractor etc.), so that progie can be installed from the boot
process.[.]

2002 February 22, iam me, “Bootable progie??”, in alt.comp.periphs.cdr (Usenet):

Is it possible for Apache or an add on progie to show those online and their
connect speeds? My old BBS software could but that may be asking for too
much now.

2002 April 13, Rich, “add on progie????”, in comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows (Usenet):

Can I use a news group progie with Google's alt. groups? And if so,
which do you recommend?[.]

2004 May 19, The Boss, “News Group Progie?”, in alt.cracks (Usenet):


Sather

The language was originally based on Eiffel, and the name is inspired by this: the Sather Tower is a recognizable landmark at Berkeley, named after Jane Krom Sather, and the Eiffel Tower is also a famous tower.

programming language
programming language

(computing) An object-oriented programming language.


forced update

(computing) An update required before the user is allowed to continue using the software.


hotbar

Now that you have the tools needed for Alchemy, you must create your tradeskill hotbar to use when you practice Alchemy.

2002, Justin Brown, Robert Howarth, Damien Waples, Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles, →ISBN, page 267:

The reason to do this is that if you set up a single macro on one hotbar button to use multiple abilities, you won't be able to see when they refresh unless they are visible on the screen — placing them on another hotbar will let you press them individually as they refresh, or simply push your batch macro again.

2003, Phillip Marcus, Danielle Vanderlip, Horizons: Empires of Istaria Official Strategy Guide, →ISBN, page 18:

To activate a hotbar command, use Point-and-Shoot techniques. You can place any valid command that could be manually entered on the Command line.

2013, Michael Rotter, Eugenie Alexander, Rodney Almodovar, Improving Productivity with IBM ISPF Productivity Tool V7.1 for z/OS, →ISBN, page 600:

At the very bottom of the screen are nine grey boxes. These represent your hotbar slots! Pressing the keyboard keys that are bound to those hotbar slots lets you switch between items quickly once you assign objects to the slots.

2014, BradyGames, Build, Discover, Survive! Mastering Minecraft Strategy Guide, →ISBN:

(computing) A panel of buttons to which users can assign frequently used commands.


PFY

(slang, computing) Initialism of pimply-faced youth: the archetypical younger apprentice of the BOFH; a junior sysadmin.


reblit

reblit (third-person singular simple present reblits, present participle reblitting, simple past and past participle reblitted)

reblits (present singular third-person)
reblitting (participle present)
reblitted (participle past)
reblitted (past)

To scroll around, change the source position (effectively moving your little window around in the big area) and reblit.

1998, jack, “Tile maps”, in rec.games.programmer (Usenet):


Win

(computing) Windows, an operating system family developed by Microsoft.

(computing, by extension) Clipping of Windows key.


WKID

(computing) Abbreviation of well-known identifier.


linkware

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(computing) Software components that can be used for free on the condition that the user links back to the creator's web site.


multiforest

(computing) Of or relating to more than one forest.


red forest

* (ecology): Due to the colouration found in forest that has been killed.

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A forest (group of domains) having high security and limited access, used for administrative purposes.


unsuppress

unsuppress (third-person singular simple present unsuppresses, present participle unsuppressing, simple past and past participle unsuppressed)

unsuppresses (present singular third-person)
unsuppressing (participle present)
unsuppressed (participle past)
unsuppressed (past)

to unsuppress a compiler warning

(transitive, computing) To cause no longer to be suppressed; to undo the suppression of.


infoset

(computing) An abstract data model of an XML document in terms of a set of information items.


superadmin

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unassign

unassign (third-person singular simple present unassigns, present participle unassigning, simple past and past participle unassigned)

unassigns (present singular third-person)
unassigning (participle present)
unassigned (participle past)
unassigned (past)

(chiefly computing) To remove or undo the assignment of.


requeue

requeue (third-person singular simple present requeues, present participle requeuing, simple past and past participle requeued)

requeues (present singular third-person)
requeuing (participle present)
requeued (participle past)
requeued (past)

(transitive, computing) To add to a queue again.


superoptimizer

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(computing) An algorithm that carries out superoptimization.


multirequest

(computing) A single request for more than one item of data.


nodeset

(computing, graph theory) A set of nodes.


NFV

network function virtualization
w:network function virtualization

(computing) Initialism of network function virtualization.


file format

(computing) A standard structure according to which data is encoded in a file.


file manager

(computing) A computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders.


app wrapper

Some features like encryption, VPN configuration, authentication features, and copy/paste control are hard-coded directly into the app wrapper when an app is deployed.

2014, Jack Madden, “Why you need to know about vendors like Apperian, even if you’re not building custom mobile apps yet”, in Brian Madden:

The Reddit app will look familiar to anyone that has been asked to try out the mobile website, but it does feel like a native app, rather than a simple app wrapper.

2016, Tom Dawson, “At Long Last, Reddit’s Official App Hits Android”, in Android Headlines:

Newspapers and magazines realised that an 'app wrapper' for content simply creates another barrier to entry – for readers and search engines alike.

2016, Molly Flatt, “The Memo’s year: 2016 in review”, in The Memo:

(computing) An application for mobile devices made wholly from an existing website or platform, with few or no changes made to the original version.


minidriver

The minidriver architecture first used for Windows 3.1 printer drivers and more recently for Windows NT disk drivers has found its way into the display and disk driver designs for Windows 95.

1994, Adrian King, Inside Windows 95, page 91:

Microsoft provides device class drivers, which work with the device minidriver. The minidriver is written for a specific piece of hardware, most often by the hardware manufacturer.

2001, Erik Eckel, Brian Alderman, Windows 2000 Professional on Site, →ISBN, page 316:

Cameras that use PTP require no vendor-provided driver components though a vendor can provide a minidriver to support vendor-specific features and capabilities.

2015, Jan Axelson, USB Complete: The Developer's Guide, →ISBN, page 196:

(computing) A device-specific plug-in that connects to a generic utility that is supplied with the operating system to form a device driver.


miniport

Attempts to access the SCSI port directly are actually blocked by the operating system. However, the same operating system provides you with the ability to control the device via an SCSI miniport.

2004, Kris Kaspersky, CD Cracking Uncovered: Protection against Unsactioned CD Copying, →ISBN:

Miniport drivers use a port driver interface instead of the device driver interface, and the port driver simply implements a collection of device driver support routines that interface miniport drivers to Windows.

2012, Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu, Windows Internals - Part 2, →ISBN, page 132:

(computing) A port that uses a lightweight driver that relies on built-in support from the operating system.


confused deputy

en-noun

confused deputy (plural confused deputies)

(computing) A computer program that is innocently fooled by some other party into misusing its authority.


kibibit

(computing) Strictly, 2¹⁰ (1,024) bits, as opposed to a kilobit.


mebibit

(computing) Strictly, 2²⁰ (1024², or 1,048,576) bits or 2¹⁰ (1024) kibibits, as opposed to a megabit.


lawbot

(computing, law) A piece of software designed to complete minor but repetitive legal tasks automatically or on command.

(computing, law) A piece of software designed to retrieve legal information automatically or on command.


reverse integration

(computing) The process of merging different team branches into the main trunk of a versioning system.


VAXherd

Modelled on cowherd, shepherd, etc., as though the computers were animals, probably from the similarity of VAXen to oxen through oxherd.

(computing, humorous, slang) A sysadmin who works with VAX computers.


Kube

(computing) An individual container of the Kubernetes orchestration system.


self-signed

(computing, cryptography) Of a security certificate: signed by the same entity whose identity it certifies; signed with its own private key.


self-signing

(computing, cryptography) The use of self-signed security certificates.


resequencer

(computing) A program or algorithm that arranges items in a different sequence.


skinable

Flex controls are visually consistent, and easily skinable.

2007, EffectiveUI Inc, Anthony Franco, The EffectiveUI Team, Flex Early Evaluation: Assessing Flex and Your Project Needs:

(computing, of software with user interface) Alternative spelling of skinnable.


beige box

Beige box (phreaking)
gray-box testing
white box (software engineering)

(computing) A desktop computer in the style typical of personal computers of the 1980s and 1990s, having a boxy off-white case and CRT monitor.


autoreceive

(computing) A feature (of telecommunication software etc.) that receives automatically.


autosend

(computing) A feature (of telecommunication software etc.) that sends automatically.


EER

(computing) Initialism of Enhanced/Extended Entity-Relationship.


subnavigation

(computing) A level of navigation below the primary level, such as that offered by a submenu.


FFI

FFI (countable and uncountable, plural FFIs)

foreign function interface
w:foreign function interface

(countable, computing) Initialism of foreign function interface.


help vampire

From help + vampire (“person who drains one’s energy, money, time, etc.”).

compound

Help Vampires are found in every public online community, from those nearest to our hearts to those furthest from our principles. Instead of consuming of ill-gotten hemoglobin, these vampires suck the very life and energy out of people. By nature they feed on generous individuals who tend towards helping others, and leave their victims exhausted, bitter and dispirited.

2006 December 22, Amy Hoy, “Help Vampires: A Spotter’s Guide”, in Slash7:

Personally, I see this ratings/feedback thing only useful for mentors to know if a student is abusive and/or a help vampire, if he is willing to learn and put some effort on the process or not, etc, to be able to dedicate mentoring time to someone who will really appreciate it and will benefit from this.

2009 May 21, Matías Flores, “Rails Mentors”, in Bridgefoundry Google Group:

All kinds of people hop onto the list. In addition to genuine ones there are spammers, trolls, dicks, nuts, philosophers, help-vampires etc etc.

2013 November 29, rusto…@gmail.com, “Managing Google Groups Headaches”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet):

Mark, I sympathize with your feelings. jmf is certainly a troll, and it doesn't feel like anything has been, or is being, done about that situation (or for that matter, the help vampire situation … although I haven't seen any threads from that one lately – did he give up, or has he been moderated away?). […] And, to be clear, the coddling of trolls and help-vampires also makes the list an unfriendly place to be. Terry, would it be appropriate to share some of what the moderators do do for us on this list and the others? And what does the Code of Conduct have to say about trolls and help-vampires?

2013 December 3, Ethan Furman, “Python Unicode Handling Wins Again – Mostly”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet):

(chiefly computing, derogatory, informal) A person who requests answers and solutions from a community while giving nothing in return.


unshorten

en-verb

unshorten (third-person singular simple present unshortens, present participle unshortening, simple past and past participle unshortened)

unshortens (present singular third-person)
unshortening (participle present)
unshortened (participle past)
unshortened (past)

The following is a snippet from the UnShortEmAll Greasemonkey script, which unshortens the shortened URLs in Twitter […]

2010, Shelley Powers, JavaScript Cookbook, page 488:

(rare, transitive, chiefly computing) To expand from an abbreviated form; to restore to its original length.


linestring

geographic information systems
geographic information systems

(computing) A curve with linear interpolation between points, used in geographic information systems e.g. to represent streets and rivers.