scalable

en-adj

scalable (comparative more scalable, superlative most scalable)

more scalable (comparative)
most scalable (superlative)

Most systems have a small host table, but it cannot be used for all applications because it is not scalable and does not have a standard method for automatic distribution.

2002, Craig Hunt, TCP/IP Network Administration 3rd ed, page 82:

(computing, logistics, business) Able to greatly increase in capacity, with relative ease.


parallelism

en-noun

parallelism (countable and uncountable, plural parallelisms)

From parallel + -ism and from Late Latin parallelismus.

(computing) The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be performed at the same time.

paral·lelisme

the use of parallel methods in computing


log out

en-verb

log out (third-person singular simple present logs out, present participle logging out, simple past and past participle logged out)

logs out (present singular third-person)
logging out (participle present)
logged out (participle past)
logged out (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-log out.wav

Please don't forget to log out after you finish your work.

(computing) To exit a user account in a computer system, so that one is not recognized until signing in again.

դուրս գրվել

to exit an account in a computing system


dropper

(computing) A software component designed to install malware on a target system.


backgrounded

en-adj

backgrounded (comparative more backgrounded, superlative most backgrounded)

more backgrounded (comparative)
most backgrounded (superlative)

(computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive


hacky

hacky (comparative hackier, superlative hackiest)

hackier (comparative)
hackiest (superlative)

(computing, informal) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.


startup

en-noun

startup (countable and uncountable, plural startups)

startups (plural)
start-up (alternative)

Add an app to run automatically at startup in Windows 10, Microsoft Support
3. With the file location open, press the Windows logo key + R, type shell:startup, then select OK. This opens the Startup folder. / 4. Copy and paste the shortcut to the app from the file location to the Startup folder.

(computing, often capitalized) A folder (especially in Windows), containing shortcuts of applications or programs that start up automatically after a user signs in.

indítópult

computing: folder containing shortcuts of applications or programs that start up automatically after a user signs in


slosh

(computing, slang) backslash, the character \.


nub

Either directly from Middle Low German, or from knub, from a Middle Low German word (compare Low German Knubbel, Knobbel (“knot; lump”)). Compare knob.

cog

(computing, colloquial) A pointing stick.


CFD

Computational Fluid Dynamics
computational fluid dynamics#English

(computing, mechanics) Initialism of Computational Fluid Dynamics.


cluebat

(computing slang) A bat (club) with which someone clueless is struck (figuratively or in one's imagination).


USP

stored procedure
stored procedure#English

(computing, databases) Initialism of user stored procedure.


angle bracket

programming language
programming language

Any of a number of angle-shaped brackets.

(computing) Either of the inequality signs < and >, when used as brackets in programming languages and markup languages.


slipstream

en-verb

slipstream (third-person singular simple present slipstreams, present participle slipstreaming, simple past and past participle slipstreamed)

slipstreams (present singular third-person)
slipstreaming (participle present)
slipstreamed (participle past)
slipstreamed (past)

Compound of slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in 1989.

coin

You do this by slipstreaming the updates into the distribution folder.

2003, William Boswell, Inside Windows Server 2003:

A better solution is to create a bootable Windows XP installation CD slipstreamed with the current service pack...

2004, Ed Bott, Carl Siechert, Craig Stinson, Microsoft Windows XP inside out:

It is illegal to distribute slipstreamed CDs. In some locales, it may also be illegal to create them.

2005, Jesper M Johansson, Steve Riley, Protect your Windows network: from perimeter to data:

(computing, transitive) To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.


resel

(computing) A resolution element describing the actual spatial image resolution in an image (or a volume).


filetype

(computing) An identifier indicating the type of information contained in an electronic format.


touchpad

/ˈtʌt͡ʃˌpæd/

(computing) A flat surface which is sensitive to touch, used mostly in laptop computers to control an on-screen cursor.


notefile

(computing) A file containing plain text with little or no formatting.


REST

Coding a REST API has never felt right to me. I believe that REST APIs should be designed and configured, but not coded.

2011, Mark Masse, REST API Design Rulebook: Designing Consistent RESTful Web Service Interfaces, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 86:

representational state transfer
representational state transfer#English

(computing) Acronym of representational state transfer.


packager

(computing) A program that groups objects or data into a single file.


unpack

en-verb

unpack (third-person singular simple present unpacks, present participle unpacking, simple past and past participle unpacked)

unpacks (present singular third-person)
unpacking (participle present)
unpacked (participle past)
unpacked (past)

From Middle English unpakken, equivalent to un- + pack. Compare Saterland Frisian uutpakje (“to unpack”), West Frisian útpakke (“to unpack”), Dutch uitpakken (“to unpack”), German auspacken (“to unpack”).

cog

Packages […] are often archived and compressed using the zip utility; you can unpack these with the unzip command[…]

2005, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Matt Welsh, Running Linux:

(computing, transitive) To unzip, decompress.


rule-based

(computing, of a computing language, or expert system) Based on a series of simple "if-then" rules.


sandpile

(mathematics, computing) Any of several models in which a series of connected nodes interact with their neighbours according to fixed rules.


offline

en-verb

offline (third-person singular simple present offlines, present participle offlining, simple past and past participle offlined)

offlines (present singular third-person)
offlining (participle present)
offlined (participle past)
offlined (past)
off-line (alternative)
off line (alternative rare)

Offlining a memory processor can be accomplished by using the flexible interleaving capability described earlier to interleave segments across subsets of the memory processors, avoiding the faulty one(s).

1986, Kai Hwang, Steven M. Jacobs, Earl E. Swartzlander, Proceedings of the 1986 International Conference on Parallel Processing, page 462:

Traditionally, you fixed the problem by offlining the disk and re-creating the disk's extents on a different disk using redundant extent copies and then dropping the failed disk.

2008, Sam Alapati, Expert Oracle Database 11g Administration, page 908:

(computing, transitive) To take (a system, etc.) offline; to demote from an active or online state.


inheritor

inheritors (plural)
enheritour (alternative)
inheritour (alternative)

From Middle English enheriter, enheritour; equivalent to inherit + -or. Displaced Old English ierfenuma.

(computing, programming) A class, etc. that derives from another code element through inheritance.


Seems that while he was out supporting them in his role as Uber Haxx0r, she was at home letting script kiddies bust root on her box.

2004, Ryan Russell, et al: Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent:

(leetspeak) Alternative spelling of haxxor.


video card

(computing) A piece of hardware installed into a personal computer to allow it to send video signals to an external output device such as a monitor or projector.


buglet

(computing, informal) A minor bug in a program.


thread count

(computing) The total number of threads that a single processor core can run simultaneously.


VOS

Virtual Object System
w:Virtual Object System

(computing) Initialism of Virtual Object System.


voxelate

voxelate (third-person singular simple present voxelates, present participle voxelating, simple past and past participle voxelated)

voxelates (present singular third-person)
voxelating (participle present)
voxelated (participle past)
voxelated (past)

From voxel + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

(computing) To represent something as an array of voxels.


(computing) The year 2038, in which certain date-related bugs in computer software are expected to manifest themselves.


blocking

en-noun

blocking (countable and uncountable, plural blockings)

Examine your matrix map, and make sure that no three keystrokes form a rectangle with a fourth keystroke that will cause you problems. This prevents both ghosting and blocking.

2011, John St. Clair, Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine, page 218:

(computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.


roaming

roaming (countable and uncountable, plural roamings)

(uncountable, computing, telecommunications) The use of a network or service from different locations or devices.

verkkovierailu

using a network or a service from different locations or devices

(uncountable, computing, operating system) Using the OS service of manipulating folders and documents from different PC devices by a registered user.

etäkäyttö

registering a PC and a cycle of {uploading, editing and downloading} from any networked PC


threaded

en-adj

threaded (comparative more threaded, superlative most threaded)

more threaded (comparative)
most threaded (superlative)

A threaded email will commonly have a number, (e.g., (5)) after the sender's name to show how many emails are in that thread. An unthreaded email, however, will not have that number marker because all the messages are listed separately.

2025 January 31 (last accessed), Darlene Antonelli, “What is an Email Thread? Definition, Using Threads, & More”, in wikiHow:

(computing, not comparable) Of messages: arranged in a thread or threads.

(computing, not comparable) Of messages in a digital forum conversation: displayed hierarchically (based on parent messages), rather than linearly (usually purely chronologically).


forgiving

forgiving (comparative more forgiving, superlative most forgiving)

more forgiving (comparative)
most forgiving (superlative)

A good WebApp interface is understandable and forgiving, providing the user with a sense of control. […] Work is carefully and continuously saved, with full option for the user to undo any activity at any time.

2010, Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, page 336:

(computing) User-friendly, such that harmful mistakes are not easily made.


-adic

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

Back-formation from monadic, etc., from Ancient Greek -άς (-ás) (genitive -άδος (-ádos)) + -ικός (-ikós) (English -ad + -ic). Compare related adicity and Latinate -ary.
The algebraic sense is by analogy with p-adic, since ℤ₍ₚ₎ equipped with the (p)-adic topology passes to the ring of p-adic numbers under the operation of completion.

(mathematics, computing) Having a specified adicity.


scraping

From Middle English scrapinge, equivalent to scrape + -ing.

The practice of scraping the internet is longstanding and was largely disclosed by the companies and nonprofit organizations that did it. But it was not well understood or seen as especially problematic by the companies that owned the data.

2023 July 15, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson, “‘Not for Machines to Harvest’: Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(computing) Automated collection of data, data scraping.


locking

(computing) The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.

zárolás

the use of a lock to restrict access to a part of a code


intranet

/ˈɪntɹəˌnɛt/

The operator uses a variety of methods to maximise engagement, including a new and improved intranet that's designed to encourage honest two-way communication between staff and management.

2020 January 2, Paul Stephen, “A great place to work”, in Rail, page 29:

(computing) A private computer network, typically one that uses the protocols of the Internet.

內聯網 /内联网

private computer network that uses the protocols of the Internet


stop list

stop lists (plural)
stoplist (alternative)

If you equip your search engine with a stop list containing a few common words such as "a", "the", and "and", you can decrease the full-text index size by about 20%.

(computing) A list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation.


tethered

Many mobile phones are equipped with software to offer tethered Internet access.

(computing, electronics) connected (especially a mobile phone to a computer, for use as a wireless modem)


enumerated

enumerated (comparative more enumerated, superlative most enumerated)

more enumerated (comparative)
most enumerated (superlative)

Enumerated types make your code easy to modify.

2004, Steve McConnell, Code Complete, page 304:

Specified (especially when fully specified) by an enumeration or list of steps, parts, values, amounts, etc.;

(computing) Defined to consist of a specified list of possible values.

Continuing the analogy, just as the numeric constant Math.PI can be assigned to a variable of its type (i.e., double), an enumerated constant can be assigned to a variable of its type (e.g. Team).

2021, William McAllister, S. Jane Fritz, Programming Fundamentals Using JAVA:

Having been included or listed in an enumeration of possibilities.

(computing) Having one of the possible values specified in advance for a type defined by an enumeration.


stop word

stop words (plural)
stopword (alternative)

(computing) A word, usually one of a series in a stop list, that is ignored when searches are conducted on a database, search engine, etc.


computer technician

en-noun

computer technician (plural computer technicians)

(computing) A person who repairs computers, typically both hardware and software.


IBM Pollyanna Principle

From Pollyanna principle, and in reference to the technology company IBM.

e.g. machines should do all the hard work, freeing people to think (hence the reference to Pollyanna)

e.g. most of the world's major problems result from machines that fail to work, and people who fail to think.

The axiom that "machines should work; people should think".


netcentric

en-adj

netcentric (comparative more netcentric, superlative most netcentric)

more netcentric (comparative)
most netcentric (superlative)

(computing) Pertaining to client/server architecture that is used throughout an enterprise's entire lines of business.


power user

Whether you already consider yourself a 1-2-3 power user or would like to become one, the fact that you have picked up this book probably qualifies you as a person who will benefit from a guide to the real power of 1-2-3.

1988, E. Michael Lunsford, Peter Antoniak, Power user's guide to 1-2-3, Sybex Inc, →ISBN:

(computing) A person who makes heavy use of computers, running many applications and capable of using advanced functionality.

(computing) A computer user who seeks and uses products having the most features and the fastest performance.


memory page

(computing) A fixed-length contiguous block of virtual memory, representing the smallest division of a page table.


data processing

Any of many techniques in which data is retrieved, stored, classified, manipulated, transmitted and/or reported in such a way as to generate information; especially such processing using computers.


presenter

(computing) A small handheld device used to remotely control a computerised slide show.


DWIM

(computing, humorous) Initialism of do what I mean: a wished-for feature in computer systems, offering magical freedom from the often frustrating discrepancies between one's intentions and the actual effects of a command.


conversational

conversational (comparative more conversational, superlative most conversational)

more conversational (comparative)
most conversational (superlative)

(computing) Involving a two-way exchange of messages, such as between a client and a server.

交互式的

(computing) involving a two-way exchange of messages, such as between a client and a server


pharming

From farming, by analogy with earlier phishing.

Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests.

2006, Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures, page 128:

(computing) The redirection of traffic for one website to another, with intent to deceive.


CDRAM

cached dynamic random-access memory#English

(computing) Initialism of cached dynamic random-access memory.


RDRAM

random-access memory
random-access memory#English

(computing) Initialism of Rambus dynamic random-access memory.


SGRAM

(computing) Initialism of synchronous graphics random-access memory.


golfer

(computing) One who takes part in code golf or regex golf.


Oberon

Earlier Auberon, from Old French Alberon, partial loan translation from Middle High German Alberich, literally ‘elf king, fairy king’, from alp + -rich << Proto-Germanic *rīks.

(computing, operating systems) A general purpose programming language and operating system descended from Modula-2, developed in the late 1980s.


user experience

en-noun

user experience (countable and uncountable, plural user experiences)

(computing) The desired, expected, or actual experience of a user interacting with a product, especially as it relates to the design of the product's user interface.


extensibility

extensibility (usually uncountable, plural extensibilities)

(computing) A quality of design that takes possible future advances into consideration and attempts to accommodate them


deallocate

en-verb

deallocate (third-person singular simple present deallocates, present participle deallocating, simple past and past participle deallocated)

deallocates (present singular third-person)
deallocating (participle present)
deallocated (participle past)
deallocated (past)

Computer programs should deallocate memory they no longer need, releasing it back to the system.

Similarly, the program deallocates storage for automatic objects when the procedure returns to its caller.

2010, Randall Hyde, The Art of Assembly Language, 2nd edition, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 267:

(transitive, computing) To return previously allocated memory.


CRS

en-noun

CRS (countable and uncountable, plural CRSs)

central reservation system
w:central reservation system

computer reservation system
w:computer reservation system

(computing, aviation, travel) Initialism of central reservation system or computer reservation system.


niceness

niceness (countable and uncountable, plural nicenesses)

(computing, Unix) A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice (verb), renice.)


pessimism

pessimism (usually uncountable, plural pessimisms)

From French pessimisme, from Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -ism, superlative of malus (“bad”).
As a doctrine, from German Pessimismus as used by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in 1819.

(computing) The condition of being pessimal.


short circuit operator

short circuit operator (plural short circuit operators)

short circuit operators (plural)
short-circuit operator (alternative)

(computing) A logical operator that returns a value as soon as the outcome is certain, without necessarily testing all operands (for example, an OR operator returning true if the first operand evaluates as true, without evaluating the second operand).


first-party

a first-party video game; a first-party character; first-party hardware

(computing, hardware, software) Of products, created or published by the company responsible for the platform on which it is released (or its internal developers), as opposed to third-party.


gTLD

generic top-level domain
generic top-level domain#English

(Internet) Initialism of generic top-level domain.


NPC

NPC (countable and uncountable, plural NPCs)

non-printing character
non-printing character#English

(computing) Initialism of non-printing character.


deploy

en-verb

deploy (third-person singular simple present deploys, present participle deploying, simple past and past participle deployed)

deploys (present singular third-person)
deploying (participle present)
deployed (participle past)
deployed (past)

Borrowed from French déployer (“to unroll, unfold”), from Old French desploiier, itself from des- + ploiier, or possibly from Late Latin displicāre (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicare (“to fold”). Doublet of display.

der

The process for the deployment scenario includes: building a master installation of the operating system, creating its image and deploying the image onto a destination computer.

(computing) To install, test and implement a computer system or application.

uitrollen

to install, test and implement a computer system or application


daisy-chain

en-verb

daisy-chain (third-person singular simple present daisy-chains, present participle daisy-chaining, simple past and past participle daisy-chained)

daisy-chains (present singular third-person)
daisy-chaining (participle present)
daisy-chained (participle past)
daisy-chained (past)
daisychain (alternative)
daisy chain (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-daisy chain.wav

The verb is derived from daisy chain (noun).

myydä edestakaisin hinnan nostamiseksi

(transitive, intransitive) to artificially increase (the price of a commodity) by a group of dealers buying and selling it among themselves before it is sold to a party outside the group

We daisy-chained several USB hubs to see if we could reach the far side of the room.

The jacks can be ‘daisy-chained’ and controlled as a synchronised set.

2021 November 3, “Network News: Lifting Jacks for SWR”, in Rail, number 943, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29:

(chiefly computing, electronics) To connect (several computer devices or peripherals, or other components) in sequence with each other, usually such that the output of one component forms the input of another; also (followed by to), to connect (a computer device, peripheral, or other component) to another component in such a sequence.

ketjuttaa

to connect (several computer components) in sequence with each other; to connect (a computer component) to another component in such a sequence

These peripherals are designed to daisy-chain easily with each other.

(chiefly computing, electronics) Especially of a computer device, peripheral, or other component: to be capable of being connected with other components in sequence.

ketjuttua

especially of a computer component: to be capable of being connected with other components in sequence


unlink

unlink (third-person singular simple present unlinks, present participle unlinking, simple past and past participle unlinked)

unlinks (present singular third-person)
unlinking (participle present)
unlinked (participle past)
unlinked (past)

That's because the permission to unlink a file doesn't depend upon the permission bits on the file itself; it's the permission bits on the directory that contains the file that matter.

2001, Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz, Learning Perl, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 175:

(transitive, computing, Unix) To delete (a file).


data table

(computing) Any display of information in tabular form, with rows and/or columns named


spreadsheet

The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar.

1985 September 15, Erik Snadberg-Diment, “Number Crunching on the Macintosh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(computing) A computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form.


courseware

en-noun

courseware (countable and uncountable, plural coursewares)

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

(computing) Educational software or documents in computerized form that facilitate course-based learning and teaching.


tokenizer

(computing) A system that parses an input stream into its component tokens.


canonicalize

en-verb

canonicalize (third-person singular simple present canonicalizes, present participle canonicalizing, simple past and past participle canonicalized)

canonicalizes (present singular third-person)
canonicalizing (participle present)
canonicalized (participle past)
canonicalized (past)
canonicalise (alternative)

(transitive, computing) To convert (data) into canonical form.


serialize

serialize (third-person singular simple present serializes, present participle serializing, simple past and past participle serialized)

serializes (present singular third-person)
serializing (participle present)
serialized (participle past)
serialized (past)
serialise (alternative UK)

(computing) To convert an object into a sequence of bytes that can later be converted back into an object with equivalent properties.

serialitzar

convert an object into a byte sequence that can be converted back


Eureka step

(computing, mathematics) A flash of insight that cracks a problem and paves the way to a solution.


bare-bones

en-adj

bare-bones (comparative more bare-bones, superlative most bare-bones)

more bare-bones (comparative)
most bare-bones (superlative)

Emil bought a bare-bones rig and a new CPU at the computer show, then popped in his old hard drive.

(computing) Describes a computer sold preassembled, but without certain essential components, often a processor, memory, and hard drive.


clickable

c. 1943 (entertainment), c. 1965 (manufacturing), c. 1985 (computing) click + -able

Putting a clickable link in your post is easy.

(computing) Causing some action to occur when clicked with a mouse or other pointing device.


clickable

The design strategy was to boil down the story's 17 pages to simple language, 5 sing-along songs and 5 games, with about 100 total clickables throughout the program.

1993, Children's Software Revue, volumes 1-4, page 13:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) Any element that can be clicked by the user.


buttery

buttery (comparative butterier, superlative butteriest)

butterier (comparative)
butteriest (superlative)

From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter + -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin būtȳrum and -y being a doublet of -ic.

(see title)

2014 October 30, Greg Kumparak, “YouTube Can Now Play Videos At A Buttery 60 Frames Per Second”, in Tech Crunch:

These include improved textures and character models plus a new buttery frame rate as the game gets boosted to 1080p resolution and animation of 60 frames per second. Stylish.

2015 April 28, Jason Hidalgo, “Shout at the devil: DmC Devil May Cry Definitive Edition review”, in Reno Gazette Journal:

I dipped a few of the Nvidia-specific settings since I prefer smooth, buttery frame rate, but that’s impressive in itself given it’s the only game this year to make that happen.

2015 November 19, Hayden Dingman, “Assassin’s Creed Syndicate PC review impressions: This gorgeous, mostly smooth game is no Unity”, in PC World:

For video, setting a higher frame rate, like 60 frames per second, means having the ability for getting nicer, buttery, silky-smooth, slow motion—if you're into that sort of thing.

That frame rate is buttery. Your computer has an excellent graphics card, Masato

2018, Dachima Inaka, Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?:

So, if you're looking to play PC games with a buttery frame rate, these monitors are ready to deliver a great experience, and it gets even better when paired with Nvidia’s G-Sync or AMD’s FreeSync.

2021 December 12, Mark Knapp, Matt Elliot, “Best 1080p Gaming Monitors 2021”, in IGN:

(computing, video games) Ellipsis of buttery smooth.


unwrite

en-verb

unwrite (third-person singular simple present unwrites, present participle unwriting, simple past unwrote, past participle unwritten)

unwrites (present singular third-person)
unwriting (participle present)
unwrote (past)
unwritten (participle past)

To eliminate this nonadiabatic energy loss, we need to change the cell state into a known state before writing a new data, which is called a^([sic]) unwrite operation.

2005, ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, ISLPED'05, →ISBN:

(transitive, computing) To revert to a known state in so that new data can be written.


overwrite

overwrite (third-person singular simple present overwrites, present participle overwriting, simple past overwrote, past participle overwritten)

overwrites (present singular third-person)
overwriting (participle present)
overwrote (past)
overwritten (participle past)

/əʊ.vəˈɹaɪt/

I accidentally saved my unwanted changes and overwrote the version of the document I wanted to keep.

(transitive, computing) To destroy (older) data by recording new data over it.


overwrite

/əʊ.vəˈɹaɪt/

Tab to the number specifying the number of overwrites and enter a number between 1 and 9.

2014, Bruce Middleton, Conducting Network Penetration and Espionage in a Global Environment:

(computing) The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it.


address space

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-address space.wav

(computing) A range of discrete addresses, all the address locations available in a particular, named, subset of a computer's (virtual or real) memory.


fsck

en-noun

fsck (countable and uncountable, plural fscks)

(computing) A *nix file system check to detect damage to, or corruption of, files or filesystem structures.


fsck

(computing) The tool, fsck, that performs a fsck.


fsck

en-verb

fsck (third-person singular simple present fscks, present participle fscking, simple past and past participle fscked)

fscks (present singular third-person)
fscking (participle present)
fscked (participle past)
fscked (past)

(computing, transitive) To run fsck on; to perform a fsck on.


fsck

At some point in your Linux career you should ask yourself:
"If there are 3.4 million successful, happy Mandrake users...what the fsck is wrong with me?"

2002, David D. Huff Jr., “Re: Mandrake 8.2 Musings”, in alt.os.linux.mandrake (Usenet):

What the fsck are you on?

2002, Lev Lafayette, “Re: "We are all Africans under the Skin"”, in alt.politics.nationalism.white (Usenet):

2003, Agelmar, Re: SSH problem, alt.roundtable, http://groups.google.com/group/alt.roundtable/msg/789b5801baee1417?dmode=source
At least I know what the fsck is going on with Slack...

(computing, Internet slang, text messaging, vulgar, euphemistic) Fuck.


*nix

Apparently from the wildcard *, indicating any sequence of characters, and Unix and Linux.

Linux, Mac OS X, AIX, Solaris, and DG/UX are examples of *nixes.

(computing, Internet) Unix and various other similar or compatible operating systems.


space bar

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-space bar.wav

Hand position is best secured by dropping the fourth fingers upon P and Q and making the other fingers fall naturally upon the next figures in order, P O I U, for right hand, and Q W E R for the left; then place the right thumb on the space bar, and if the elbows are close to the body, a good hand position is attained.

1893, Bates Torrey, Instuction in Practical Shorthand, page 276:

(computing) A key, in the shape of a bar, near the bottom of a keyboard, that generates a space character when pressed.


space request

(computing) a parameter (in some file systems) that specifies the storage space required for a new file


space suppression

(computing, printing) The suppression of the normal advancement of paper in a printer after printing a line of text.


malloc

It compares the behavior of nine different mallocs when used with Hummingbird and GNU Emacs dynamic memory activity traces.

2001, USENIX Association, Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference:

dynamic memory allocation
dynamic memory allocation

(computing) A subroutine in the C programming language's standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation.


malloc

malloc (third-person singular simple present mallocs, present participle mallocing, simple past and past participle malloced)

mallocs (present singular third-person)
mallocing (participle present)
malloced (participle past)
malloced (past)

(computing) To allocate memory using the C programming language malloc subroutine.


digital divide

As schools were closed, the digital divide meant that more affluent families with computers, iPads and good internet connections had a very different home educational (and informational, social and entertainment) situation than families without these amenities.

2020 April 17, Rebecca Solnit, “Coronavirus does discriminate, because that’s what humans do”, in The Guardian:

information technology
information technology

(information technology, sociology, neologism) The gap between those with regular, effective access to digital technologies (and the computer literacy to use them) and those without it.


EMU

en-noun

EMU (countable and uncountable, plural EMUs)

English metric unit
English metric unit#English

(computing) Initialism of English metric unit (“1/360,000-th of a centimetre, or, 1/914400-th of an inch”).


information integrity

(computing) The accuracy, consistency and reliability of the information content, processes and systems, especially with regard to database corruption.


workspace

(computing) A file (or system of files) in which related software and data can be manipulated or developed in isolation from others.

työtila

computing: A file (or system of files) in which related software and data can be manipulated

Unlike other Microsoft Office applications, Access doesn't automatically display an empty workspace when you start the program.

2011, June Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja, Donna Mulder, Practical Microsoft Office 2010, page 128:

(computing, graphical user interface) An empty portion of the screen or window that serves as a container for other windows or objects.

(computing, graphical user interface) Any of the screens that can be switched between in a virtual desktop.


content wrangling

content management system
content management system

(computing) All the various tasks associated with content management systems, especially the preparation of documents for posting on a website.


content management system

content management system (plural content management systems)

(computing) A computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content, especially for loading to a website.


printer buffer

(computing) A hardware or software device that stores a stream of data to be printed until a printer is ready to process it.


built-in function

built-in function (plural built-in functions)

built-in functions (plural)
inbuilt function (alternative)

(computing) Any function that is provided as part of a high-level language and can be executed by a simple reference with specification of arguments


function code

(computing) Any character used to specify a function of a piece of software or hardware (such as carriage return of a printer)


function key

First use appears c. 1930 in the listing of U.S. Patents.

(computing) Any of a set of keys on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used to activate a predefined or programmable function, especially a numbered row of keys (F1, F2, etc.) above the alphanumeric keys.

功能键

computing: key that activates a function


shift key

First use appears c. 1883 in the listing of U.S. Patents.

(computing) A key on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used to effect the same function, or to change the function of the function keys.


alt key

First use appears c. 1964 on the computer keyboard of the PDP-6 TECO.

(computing) A key on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used in combination to alter the function of other keys.


control key

First use appears c. 1978 in the publication Practical Computing.

(computing, computer hardware) A key on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used in combination to modify the function of other keys; normally labelled "Ctrl".


function multiplier

function multiplier (plural function multipliers)

An electronic analog computing device that accepts as input two periodic functions and outputs their mathematical product


function-evaluation routine

function-evaluation routine (plural function-evaluation routines)

(computing) A program, module or subroutine etc that returns the value of a defined function


Ctrl

Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart the computer.

(computing) Abbreviation of control key.

Strg

abbreviation on the control key on a keyboard


screen capture

A picture or image captured from a computer screen; a screenshot.


mashup

From mash (“to convert into a mash; to mix thoroughly”) + up.

(informal) Something consisting of two or more elements combined together.

(chiefly computing, slang) A derivative work consisting of two or more pieces of (generally digital) media joined together, such as a video clip with a different soundtrack applied for humorous effect, or a map overlaid with user-supplied data.

Mashup

derivative work consisting of two or more pieces of media joined together


astral plane

Emoji are in the astral plane.

If your application works with MathML, or in various languages whose character sets gained support in Unicode 3.1 through the so-called Astral Planes, you will need to know that what Java calls a char is not really the same thing as a Unicode character or an XML character.

2002, David Brownell, SAX2, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 110:

The answer was UTF-16. Two blocks of 16-bit values were set aside for use as special values for encoding astral plane characters.

2002, Lars Marius Garshol, “Re: Stupid Unicode/UTF-16 Question”, in comp.text.xml (Usenet):

UTF-16 encodes every character from O—65535 as 2 bytes; it then uses some dirty hacks if you actually need to represent the rarely used astral plane Unicode characters beyond 65535.

2009, Mark Pilgrim, Dive Into Python 3, Apress, →ISBN, page 55:

The astral planes include some such characters, notably in the CJK extensions, without which it is impossible to write some people's names correctly.

2011, Tom Anderson, “Efficient unicode string implementation was: Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?”, in comp.lang.java.programmer (Usenet):

Such characters are in the so-called “Astral Planes,” with a code point above U+FFFF.

2011, David Hunter, Jeff Rafter, et al. (6 other authors), Beginning XML, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 134:

But not all codepoints are used equally. Those in the "astral plane", for example, are used rarely, so the vast majority of the time you would be using twice as much memory as strictly necessary.

2012, MRAB, “Re: Py 3.3, unicode / upper()”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet):

Let's assume you want to display a Unicode character via JavaScript that is in an astral plane (obviously, there is a risk when doing so: not all fonts support all such characters).

2014, Axel Rauschmayer, Speaking JavaScript, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 364:

(computing, slang, humorous) A Unicode plane (range of code points) above the Basic Multilingual Plane; any plane beyond U+FFFF.


GUID

(computing) Acronym of globally unique identifier.


enterprisey

en-adj

enterprisey (comparative more enterprisey, superlative most enterprisey)

more enterprisey (comparative)
most enterprisey (superlative)

Because of its built-in support for many advanced features, TorqueBox is often distinguished as enterprise-grade software. But it does this without many of the drawbacks programmers often associate with “enterprisey” things.

2016, Joe Kutner, Deploying with JRuby 9k: Deliver Scalable Web Apps Using the JVM, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:

(computing slang, often derogatory) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the sort of software that would be developed for a large commercial enterprise.


keypunch

In an admirable combination of the skills of the scientist and the sensitivity of the artist, he mapped hundreds of thousands of images through a keypunch data-processing system and then tried to understand the meanings of the patterns that emerged independent of his own classifications.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 107:

(computing) A mechanical device whose keys are pressed, individually or in combination, to punch holes in punched cards or paper tape that correspond to particular characters.

(computing) An electric machine with a keyboard that has the same function.


coder

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

Part of the series' goal was to change how coders are perceived -- and show the community that it offers.

2016 May 7, Sara Ashley O'Brien, “Girls Who Code taps four teen girls for YouTube series”, in CNN Business:

Reshma Saujani is not a coder but she's empowering "an army of young women" to take on tech's gender gap through her nonprofit Girls Who Code.

2017 August 21, Haley Draznin, “Girls Who Code founder: Men build technologies to 'replace their mothers'”, in CNN Business:

(computing) A programmer (computer programmer).


LSI

en-noun

LSI (countable and uncountable, plural LSIs)

latent semantic indexing
w:latent semantic indexing

(computing) Initialism of latent semantic indexing.


malfunction routine

malfunction routine (plural malfunction routines)

(computing) Any program or subroutine responsible for troubleshooting problems.


predefined function

predefined function (plural predefined functions)

(computing) Any of a set of subroutines that perform standard mathematical functions included in a programming language; either included in a program at compilation time, or called when a program is executed


PHY

(computing) An electronic circuit implementing the physical layer of the OSI model.


programmed function key

programmed function key (plural programmed function keys)

programmed function keys (plural)
PF key (abbreviation)

(computing) A function key whose function can be assigned by the user or by a program.


random function

random function (plural random functions)

(mathematics, computing) A function whose formula is always the same, but whose initial value is chosen at random from a set of possible values (its domain).

probability distribution
probability distribution

(computing) A function that returns a random or pseudo-random value that is distributed according to a specific probability distribution associated with the function.


recursive function

recursive function (plural recursive functions)

Computable function
Recursion (computer science)

(computing) Any function that uses recursion and can call itself until a certain condition is met.


restricted function

restricted function (plural restricted functions)

(computing) A function used in an operating system that is not available to application programs.


application program

application program (plural application programs)

application programs (plural)
application programme (alternative)

(computing) A computer program written to solve a particular problem or to be used in a particular user-defined application.


user-defined function

user-defined function (plural user-defined functions)

(computing) A program or subroutine, provided by the user rather than being built into the system, that may return a value and may take input parameters.


MathML

Abbreviation of mathematical markup language.

abbrev

(mathematics, computing) An XML-based markup language for defining the appearance and meaning of mathematical formulae.


piconet

(computing) a small computer network using Bluetooth protocols


always-on

(computing) continuously connected to the Internet e.g. by broadband


dial-up

dial-up networking

In dial-up networking, both your PC and the remote system run network-protocol (called TCP/IP) software. When your PC dials up and sets up a communication path, the network protocols exchange data packets over that dial-up connection.

2004, Naba Barkakati, “Setting Up Dial-Up Networking”, in Red Hat Fedora Linux 2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 285:

(computing, of a connection to a network) Requiring a telephone number to be dialed.


dial-up

(computing) A network connection that requires a telephone number to be dialed.


microbrowser

(computing) Any relatively small web browser designed for use on a mobile phone or similar technology


extranet

(computing) A private computer network that uses Internet protocols and can be accessed by authorized individuals via the Internet.

ekstranet

private computer network accessed via the Internet


superstring

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

From super- + string. In physics sense: Back-formation from superstring theory, which is a shorthand for supersymmetric string theory.

Given the superstring "cathode", we can extract the substrings "cat", "hod", and "ode".

(computing) The string (sequence of text characters) that contains a substring.


webcam

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

And while the Webcams focused on street scenes and other public gathering spots do seem to occupy an uncertain status as a new medium, they perhaps raise an ethical question: Is this the cinéma vérité of cyberspace or is it private surveillance?

1996 April 29, Steve Lohr, “Dining Out in Manhattan: How to See and Be Seen”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page D24:

As Covid-19 lockdowns took effect around the world, millions turned to remote working and organising virtual hangouts with friends. Overnight, webcams went from mundane computer accessories to gold dust.

2020 July 25, Chris Baraniuk, “No end to Covid-19 webcam shortage”, in BBC News:

(computing, photography) A video camera whose output may be viewed in real time over a computer network, originally the World Wide Web.


weblogging

(computing) The design and editing of a weblog; blogging


blogging

(computing) The design and editing of a blog; weblogging.


volatility

en-noun

volatility (countable and uncountable, plural volatilities)

(computing, uncountable) The state of not retaining data in the absence of power.

энергозависимый

о компьютерной памяти


documentarian

From documentary + -an.
From document + -arian.

After you have gone through all these steps, you are ready to tackle your company's documentation problems. You have also become an experienced systems documentarian...

1976 September 20, Joseph T. Rigo, “Personal initiative only way to learn documentation?”, in Computerworld, page 19:

Have you considered hiring a technical writer or documentarian to assist in the production of user manuals?

1981 October 12, Larry E. Long, “What makes a DP author different?”, in Computerworld, page 41:

A person who writes software documentation.


text box

text boxes (plural)
textbox (alternative)

(computing, graphical user interface) A rectangular widget that accepts textual input on an interactive electronic display.


hypermedia

From hyper- + media, coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in 1965.

coin

From the `70s onwards, Muffler, de Sola Pool and other gurus attempted to prove that the advent of hypermedia would paradoxically involve a return to the economic liberalism of the past.

1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN:

(computing) The use of text, data, graphics, audio and video as elements of an extended hypertext system in which all elements are linked so that the user can move among them at will.


generics

(computing, programming) The use of templates etc. to create generic source code that can be used in many situations.


user-friendly

en-adj

user-friendly (comparative user-friendlier or more user-friendly, superlative user-friendliest or most user-friendly)

user-friendlier (comparative)
more user-friendly (comparative)
user-friendliest (superlative)
most user-friendly (superlative)
userfriendly (alternative)
user friendly (alternative)

In the past few years, product engineers have infused the basic telephone with lots of high-tech, razzle-dazzle, and user friendly innovations such as speed dialing, automatic redial, speakerphones, cordless phones, hold buttons, and dialing memories.

1994 May, Gary Turbak, “The Phone Phenomenon”, in The Rotarian, volume 164, number 5, page 31:

(chiefly computing) Designed to be easy for an untrained user to use, with intuitive ordering of steps, consistent and logical placement of controls, etc.

使用者の使いやすい

しようしゃのつかいやすい


whiteout

en-noun

whiteout (countable and uncountable, plural whiteouts)

whiteouts (plural)
white-out (alternative)

(computing) The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.


GDI

Graphics Device Interface
w:Graphics Device Interface

(computing, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of Graphics Device Interface.


predictive text

(computing) A system for inputting text on a device where individual buttons correspond to several characters that attempts to guess which word was intended (typically out of a writable vocabulary), as opposed to a system where disambiguation is achieved through repeated presses of the same key.

词组联想

function on certain text messaging software

[…] whereas before it more ^([sic]) akin to a typewriter, nowadays, with built in functions such as spelling check and predictive text, Microsoft Word has evolved to the point where it appears to “know” what you would like to do.

2012, Anthony Elliott, Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies, page 138:

(computing) A system, as in a word processor, that attempts to predict and autocomplete the text being typed.


package management system

package management system (plural package management systems)

In Red Hat, use the glint package management system and the Applications subdirectory to locate the font files.

1999, Bernice Sacks Lipkin, LaTeX for Linux:

It is, however, weak on configuration amenities for newcomers, and it uses no package management system comparable to RPM or Debian's package manager, so it is more difficult to maintain.

2000, Roderick W Smith, The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook:

If your system uses a package management system, you can query that system's database to see if the attr package and its associated library, libattr, are installed.

2006, Bill Von Hagen, Brian K Jones, Linux Server Hacks: Tips & Tools for Connecting, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting:

(computing) A package manager: the tool used by an operating system to manage software installation.


chained

(computing, of data items) Linked in a chain.


sticky bit

(computing) A flag applied to an inode, formerly indicating that an executable program should be kept in memory after it terminates, but on modern systems used to determine which users can rename or delete the files in a directory.


modeler

modelers (plural)
modeller (alternative)

(computing) a computer program that simulates a physical system

(computing) a computer program that generates a three-dimensional representation of an object or system


initiator

(computing) A task (in a mainframe computer) that initiates multiple jobs.


uncommented

Uncommented source code can be difficult to understand.

(computing) Not annotated with comments.


paren

(informal, especially computing) A parenthesis (bracket used to enclose parenthetical material in text).


rebase

en-verb

rebase (third-person singular simple present rebases, present participle rebasing, simple past and past participle rebased)

rebases (present singular third-person)
rebasing (participle present)
rebased (participle past)
rebased (past)

(computing) To modify core data from which other data is derived in such a way that the final meaning is unchanged.

When a DLL must be loaded at an address different from its preferred address (because the preferred address is unavailable), the kernel must rebase the DLL, which consists of updating (fixing up) all addresses in the DLL so that they refer to its new location in memory.

(computing, transitive) To change the base address of.

(computing, source control) To integrate changes by appending them to another commit or branch, rather than pulling or merging in changes from a branch.


diddle

diddle (third-person singular simple present diddles, present participle diddling, simple past and past participle diddled)

diddles (present singular third-person)
diddling (participle present)
diddled (participle past)
diddled (past)

→ Kashubian: dydlowac (United States)

From dialectal duddle (“to trick”) (16th century), and diddle, duddle (“to totter”) (17th century), perhaps dissimilated from dialectal didder, dither (“to shake, tremble”), from Middle English dideren (“to shake, quiver, tremble”) and Middle English bididren (“to seduce, deceive”), from Old English bedidrian, bedyderian (“to trick, deceive”). Compare also Saterland Frisian diedelje (“to play or sing without a melody”), Dutch bedodden, bedotten (“to trick, fool, diddle”), German Low German Diedeldentjes (“pranks, pranking”). Possibly influenced or reinforced by the name (which itself was probably chosen as an allusion to duddle) of the swindling character Jeremy Diddler in Kenney's Raising the Wind (1803).
Meaning "to have sex with" is from the 19th century; "to masturbate" is from the 1950s. Compare dildo.

cog

(transitive, computing, slang) To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits (binary digits).


segment

From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).

jaoke

botany: portion of an organ derived from a single cell within the primordium

(computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.

segmentti

computing: region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program


sudo

Originally understood as a blend of superuser + do, now has evolved to be an abbreviation of substitute user, do.

(computing) A Unix command that allows a user to run a program with the security privileges of another user.


sudo

en-verb

sudo (third-person singular simple present sudos, present participle sudoing, simple past and past participle sudoed)

sudos (present singular third-person)
sudoing (participle present)
sudoed (participle past)
sudoed (past)


pseudonymous

en-adj

pseudonymous (not generally comparable, comparative more pseudonymous, superlative most pseudonymous)

more pseudonymous (comparative)
most pseudonymous (superlative)

From Latin pseudōnymus, from Ancient Greek ψευδώνῠμος (pseudṓnŭmos). By surface analysis, pseudonym + -ous.

(computing, law) Pertaining to pseudonymization.


subshell

(computing) A child process launched by a shell.


compression ratio

en-noun

compression ratio (plural compression ratios)

(computing) The ratio of the size of compressed data to the size of the original uncompressed data.

kompressionsforhold

the ratio of the size of compressed data to uncompressed data


payload

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

From pay + load. From the early 20th century.

(computing) The functional part of a computer virus or another type of malware program, rather than the part that spreads it.

charge utile

the functional part of a computer virus rather than the part that spreads it


bookkeeping

bookkeeping (usually uncountable, plural bookkeepings)

bookkeepings (plural)
book-keeping (alternative)
book keeping (alternative)

(computing) General tasks for maintaining a system.


preemption

preemption (countable and uncountable, plural preemptions)

preemptions (plural)
præemption (alternative archaic)
præ-emption (alternative archaic)
pre-emption (alternative)
preëmption (alternative)

From Medieval Latin praeēmptiō (“previous purchase”), from praeemō (“buy before”), from Latin prae- (“before”) + emō (“buy”).

An act or process that preempts; a preventive or forestalling action; as:

(computing) The temporary interruption of a task without its cooperation and with the intention of resuming it at a later time.

Präemption

computing: temporary interruption of a process


lazy evaluation

lazy evaluation (plural lazy evaluations)

By default, Haskell uses an execution strategy called lazy evaluation. Under laziness, an expression is never evaluated until it is needed for the evaluation of a larger one.

[2014, Alejandro Serrano Mena, Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach, Apress, →ISBN, page 5:

(computing) Any of a variety of computing techniques that delay the computation of expressions until (and unless) the results are needed.


Boolean algebra

Boolean algebra (plural Boolean algebras)

Named after George Boole (1815–1864), an English mathematician, educator, philosopher and logician.

(algebra, logic, computing) Specifically, an algebra in which all elements can take only one of two values (typically 0 and 1, or "true" and "false") and are subject to operations based on AND, OR and NOT


Boolean function

Boolean function (plural Boolean functions)

(algebra, logic, computing) Any function based on the operations AND, OR and NOT, and whose elements are from the domain of Boolean algebra

fonction booléenne

function based on AND, OR and NOT operations


Boolean variable

Boolean variable (plural Boolean variables)

(mathematics, logic, computing) Any variable, from the domain of Boolean algebra, having one of only two values

totuusarvomuuttuja

variable from the domain of Boolean algebra


Boolean logic

Boolean logic (usually uncountable, plural Boolean logics)

Boolean logic can be shown to be "embedded" in integer arithmetic (modulo 2) by assigning polynomials to logical connectives, like so: operatorname NOT(x)=1-x,  operatorname AND(x,y)=xy,  operatorname OR(x,y)=x+y-xy.

(computing, logic, mathematics) A system of symbolic logic that is the basis of Boolean algebra


RM

en-verb

RM (third-person singular simple present RMs, present participle RMing, simple past and past participle RMed)

RMs (present singular third-person)
RMing (participle present)
RMed (participle past)
RMed (past)

(computing, Unix) Abbreviation of remove.


RAC

(computing, databases) Initialism of Real Application Cluster.


CFML

ColdFusion Markup Language
w:ColdFusion Markup Language

(computing) Initialism of ColdFusion Markup Language.


Winsock

(computing) The Windows interface to TCP/IP.


workbook

(computing) A collection of spreadsheets stored in the same file.


wraparound

en-noun

wraparound (countable and uncountable, plural wraparounds)

wraparounds (plural)
wrap-around (alternative)

răpˈˈˈˈˈˈˈ -ə-round

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

See also: autowrap, backwrap, line break, word wrap, and wrapping

(uncountable, countable, computing) Word wrap, the word processing feature that moves text to the beginning of the next line if it will not fit at the end of the current line.


random-access

(computing) Capable of being accessed in any order, not required to be sequential.


closed shop

(computing, historical) A facility that runs programs on behalf of others, giving them no oversight over execution but merely returning the output at the end.


mousing

mousing (countable and uncountable, plural mousings)


rootless

en-adj

rootless (comparative more rootless, superlative most rootless)

more rootless (comparative)
most rootless (superlative)

(computing) Without (the use of) a root user account.


bookmarklet

(computing, Internet) A small piece of JavaScript code stored as a URL within a bookmark.


currying

en-noun

currying (countable and uncountable, plural curryings)

Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.

named-after

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

(computing) The technique of converting a function that takes multiple arguments into a sequence of functions that each take a single argument.


interleave

en-verb

interleave (third-person singular simple present interleaves, present participle interleaving, simple past and past participle interleaved)

interleaves (present singular third-person)
interleaving (participle present)
interleaved (participle past)
interleaved (past)
interleaf (alternative)

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

(computing, transitive) To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks.

lomittaa

computing: to allocate things such as successive segments of memory to different tasks


BSD

Berkeley Software Distribution
w:Berkeley Software Distribution

(computing) Initialism of Berkeley Software Distribution.


digitize

digitize (third-person singular simple present digitizes, present participle digitizing, simple past and past participle digitized)

digitizes (present singular third-person)
digitizing (participle present)
digitized (participle past)
digitized (past)
digitise (alternative)
digitilize (alternative)

When you digitize a visual image, you are translating it into digital signals so that it can be broken down into pixels and loaded into the computer.

2000, Adele Droblas Greenberg, Seth Greenberg, Fundamental Photoshop 5.5, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 302:

According to press releases and university librarians, Google plans to digitize and make available through its Google Books service approximately 15 million volumes within a decade.

2013, Nihar K. Patra, editor, Progressive Trends in Electronic Resource Management in Libraries, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 187:

(transitive, computing) To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.

رَقْمَنَة

represent something as a sequence of binary digits


breaking change

en-noun

breaking change (plural breaking changes)

Not possible to fix old entries without a breaking change, so remap old to new in import lib.

(computing) A change in one part of a software system that potentially causes other components to fail; occurs most often in shared libraries of code used by multiple applications.


partial dependency

partial dependency (plural partial dependencies)

(computing) An attribute of a relation that depends on a key but also on a part of such key; this is a violation of second normal form.


filer

The filer allows users to format and copy disks and to include a run-time UCSD Pascal operating system.

1983 February 28, InfoWorld, volume 5, number 9, page 28:

(computing) A software program for managing files.


disassemble

en-verb

disassemble (third-person singular simple present disassembles, present participle disassembling, simple past and past participle disassembled)

disassembles (present singular third-person)
disassembling (participle present)
disassembled (participle past)
disassembled (past)

(computing) To convert machine code to a human-readable, mnemonic form.


disassembly

en-noun

disassembly (countable and uncountable, plural disassemblies)

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

If you can trace back through the disassembly to where the variable is first loaded into a register, you can often discover its value or its address by inspecting that register.

2014, Jason Gregory, Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition, page 90:

(computing, countable) The code generated by a disassembler.


restful

en-adj

restful (comparative more restful, superlative most restful)

more restful (comparative)
most restful (superlative)

From Middle English restful, restfulle, equivalent to rest + -ful.

(computing) Alternative form of RESTful.


calendaring

[…] the standard email and calendaring functions of Outlook […]

2004, Rand Morimoto, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed, page 741:

(computing) The use of a computerized calendar to schedule events or appointments.


booting

en-noun

booting (countable and uncountable, plural bootings)

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

[…] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS.

1999, Peter Norton, John M. Goodman, Peter Norton's Inside the PC, page 101:

(computing) The act by which a computer is booted.


spooling

Hence, if a query is parallelized correctly it can benefit also from parallel I/O facilities and from the increased database cache that can reduce disk spoolings.

1998, Ashish Gupta, Oded Shmueli, Jennifer Widom, Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth International Conference on Very Large Databases:

(computing) The operation of placing something in temporary storage, i.e. a spool.


supercomputer

The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine...

1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:

But at the microlevel it consists of an unimaginable number of atoms connected by springy chemical bonds, all jiggling around at a rate that even our fastest supercomputer might envy.

2007 November 18, Jim Holt, “Mind of a Rock”, in The New York Times:

(computing) Any computer that has a far greater processing power than others of its generation.

supercomputador

computer that has great processing power


picker

From Middle English pikere, pykare, equivalent to pick + -er.

date picker

file picker

(computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.

valitsin

computing: any user interface control that selects something


auto-forwarding

(computing) The capability of forwarding incoming messages from one user account to another user account or from one domain to another.


predication

predication (countable and uncountable, plural predications)

predications (plural)
prædication (alternative archaic)

From Middle English predicacion, from Anglo-Norman predicaciun, from Latin praedicātiō, from praedicō.

(computing) The parallel execution of all possible outcomes of a branch instruction, all except one of which are discarded after the branch condition has been evaluated.


biocomputing

A fungal computer may sound fantastical, but 'biocomputing' is a fast-growing field.

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 71:

(computing) The design and construction of computers containing biological components.

(computing) The application of computing to the biological sciences; bioinformatics.


PHAR

(computing) Acronym of PHP archive, a file format that contains an entire PHP application.


sequential file

sequential file (plural sequential files)

(computing) A file which consists of the same record types that is stored on a secondary storage device. The physical sequence of records may be based upon sorting values of one or more data items or fields.


serial file

(computing) A type of sequential file consisting of multiple data records with the same fields.


blow away

en-verb

blow away (third-person singular simple present blows away, present participle blowing away, simple past blew away, past participle blown away)

blows away (present singular third-person)
blowing away (participle present)
blew away (past)
blown away (participle past)

(transitive, computing, informal) To delete (data, files, etc.).


desugared

en-adj

desugared (comparative more desugared, superlative most desugared)

more desugared (comparative)
most desugared (superlative)

(computing) Having had the syntactic sugar removed


superclass

superclasses (plural)
super class (alternative)

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

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(computing, object-oriented programming) A high-level class that passes attributes and methods down the hierarchy to subclasses.


superclass

en-verb

superclass (third-person singular simple present superclasses, present participle superclassing, simple past and past participle superclassed)

superclasses (present singular third-person)
superclassing (participle present)
superclassed (participle past)
superclassed (past)
super class (alternative)

Applications incorporating superclassing "clean up" by calling UnregisterClass on all superclassed classes.

2001, Stephen Teilhet, Subclassing and Hooking With Visual Basic, page 223:

(transitive, computing, object-oriented programming) To create a superclass of.


telnetable

(computing) Accessible over the Internet using telnet.


telnet

en-noun

telnet (countable and uncountable, plural telnets)

telnets (plural)
Telnet (alternative)
TELNET (alternative)

(computing, uncountable) A network protocol that enables one computer to communicate with another via a local area network or the Internet.

(computing, countable) The program that acts as the client for such communication.


telnet

en-verb

telnet (third-person singular simple present telnets, present participle telnetting or telneting, simple past and past participle telnetted or telneted)

telnets (present singular third-person)
telnetting (participle present)
telneting (participle present)
telnetted (participle past)
telnetted (past)
telneted (participle past)
telneted (past)
Telnet (alternative)
TELNET (alternative)

(computing, intransitive) To use such a program to make such a connection


CSV

Certified Server Validation
w:Certified Server Validation

(computing) Initialism of Certified Server Validation.


webmeister

(The O.E.D. might have gone overboard by including a couple of iffy web-words: webliography, for a Web-based bibliography, and webmeister, a silly alternative to webmaster.)

[2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine:

(computing, informal, rare) A webmaster.


webzine

In the spring, the museum launched its new Internet magazine, ¡del Corazón! (“From the Heart”). This interactive webzine focuses on Latino artists in the collection, such as Carmen Lomas Garza, Aguela Martinez, and Irvin Trujillo.

1998, Elizabeth Broun, “National Museum of American Art”, in Smithsonian Year: Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year Ended September 30, 1997, Smithsonian Institution Press, page 37:

Dickinson, 42, takes the magazine’s helm after working 14 years for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. He edited a bimonthly webzine, Fish and Wildlife Today, wrote frequently for the department’s magazine, and managed communications for the agency’s Wildlife, Fisheries, and Ecological Services divisions.

2002, “Dickinson takes the reins of Montana Outdoors”, in Tom Dickinson, editor, Montana Outdoors, page 32:

Readers of the story by Zak Jason ’11 titled “Curtain Call: The Secretary and the Blogger” (Summer 2011) will remember how the recent Commencement speaker, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, singled out Allison Lantero, a graduating senior, in his remarks. Writing for the webzine Her Campus, Lantero had blogged in part, “Now that our sighs of disappointment have subsided, what we really wand to know is: Who is Ray LaHood?” adding, “all we can hope is that the speech is short.”

2011, “Update”, in Ben Birnbaum, editor, Boston College Magazine, volume 71, number 4, Boston College, →ISSN, page 3:

(computing) A magazine published on the World Wide Web.


Clipper chip

From Clipper, of unknown origin, + chip.

(computing, historical) A microchip promoted by the US government in the mid-1990s as an encryption device to be used by all telecommunications companies, and having a back door to allow decryption by the government.


cyberpet

(computing) A virtual pet in the form of an interactive program.


cybrary

(computing) An online collection of reference material.


janky

en-adj

janky (comparative jankier, superlative jankiest)

jankier (comparative)
jankiest (superlative)

While the asynchronous HTTP call is running on a background thread (preventing a janky UI, or ANRs), the user can navigate away from the activity after the request has been sent but before the response has been received by the device.

2016, Adam Stroud, Android Database Best Practices, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN:

If you love B-movies, crazy sci-fi and intense, janky-as-all-hell videogames, you’ve come to the right place.

2016 September, “Earth Defense Force”, in Play, number 273, →ISSN, page 64:

(computing, colloquial) Unresponsive (of a software application’s user interface), sluggish.


mail bomb

denial-of-service attack
denial-of-service attack

(computing) A large number of e-mails sent to one destination, or an e-mail with a very large attachment, as a denial-of-service attack.


overclocker

(computing) A person who overclocks a computer.


script monkey

(computing, slang) A hacker who has no talent other than for using other people's scripts.


joe job

In the computing sense, originated from such a spam attack against Joe Doll in 1997.

(US, idiomatic, computing) An act of e-mail spamming where the sender's identity and address are those of an innocent third party, intended either to tarnish that person's reputation or to flood that person's e-mail with bounces.


megabit

When reading clock pulses only, the signal frequency is 625 kHz. The bit rate, however, is twice the signal frequency, or 1.25 megabits/sec.

1965, Field Engineering Theory of Operation 2311 Disk Storage Drive, IBM, pages 3–27:

(computing) One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes).

(computing, informal) one megabit per second


hardwired

hardwired (comparative more hardwired, superlative most hardwired)

more hardwired (comparative)
most hardwired (superlative)
hard wired (alternative)
hard-wired (alternative)

(computing) Having a fixed placement (on a screen format for example).


device driver

The identity of the device driver process is returned by the process manager to the file manager[…]

1978, Dennis M. Ritchie, Unix Time-Sharing System, page 2064:

(computing) Software, usually supplied with the operating system or by a hardware manufacturer, that communicates between the operating system of a personal computer and a specific hardware device.

controlador de dispositiu

software that communicates between operating system and hardware


number-crunching

(computing) Any computing application that requires large amounts of numerical calculation.


Unix-like

Unix-like (comparative more Unix-like, superlative most Unix-like)

more Unix-like (comparative)
most Unix-like (superlative)
unix-like (alternative)
Unixlike (alternative)

NetBSD provides its users with a free Unix-like system.

(computing) Behaving similarly to Unix. Often used to describe systems which do not qualify for use of the Unix trademark.

This program is much more Unix-like: it operates on standard I/O instead of prompting the user for filenames.

(computing) Having design principles consistent with those of Unix.


tabulator

You can put a tabulator in all those places where a space is allowed. A tabulator character corresponds to, for example, 4 spaces in the program editor.

2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C#, page 110:

(computing, historical) An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards.

tabulaattori

computing: early data processing machine


session bean

(computing) In Samsung Enterprise Edition specifications of the Java Platform, a type of Enterprise Bean that maintains the state for a particular session with a client.


dropdown

Click the Colours button on the toolbar to show a dropdown menu of available colours.

(computing, graphical user interface, of a widget) Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.


dropdown

dropdowns (plural)
drop-down (alternative)

That screen is good, but add a couple of dropdowns and it will be perfect.

Your Web site doesn't have to be full of the latest dropdowns, rollovers, superslick graphics, or Flash videos.

2007, Ray Foley, Heather Dismore, Running a Bar for Dummies, page 273:

(computing, graphical user interface) An instance of a selection object that hides the contents (especially the other choices) until activated.


WMF

Windows Media Format
w:Windows Media Format

(computing) Initialism of Windows Media Format.


WMF

(computing) Initialism of Windows Metafile.


transclusion

en-noun

transclusion (countable and uncountable, plural transclusions)

Coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in his book Literary Machines (1981). Probably from trans- + (in)clusion.

coin

Transclusion means that a thing can be in two places at once.

1990 September, Ted Nelson, “On the Xanadu Project”, in Byte, volume 15, number 9, →ISSN, page 298:

The MediaWiki parser processes an article in two stages. The first stage is called preprocessing and is mainly involved with the transclusion of templates and the expansion of the Wikitext.

2011, Hannes Dohrn, Dirk Riehle, “Design and implementation of the Sweble Wikitext parser: unlocking the structured data of Wikipedia”, in Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym '11), Mountain View, California: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 72–81:

Transclusion has always been a key component of the vision of hypermedia, ever since its earliest days (Nelson 1965). The term was originally used to denote the inclusion, by referential addressing, of part of one document within another; […]

2012, Julie A. Jacko, editor, Human Computer Interaction Handbook, 3rd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 571:

Directives that use transclusion are treated specially by the compiler in that the contents of the directive's elements are removed and provided via a transclusion function before their compile function is called.

2014, Brad Dayley, Learning AngularJS, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 229:

(computing) The inclusion of part of one hypertext document in another one by means of reference rather than copying.

transclusió

the inclusion of part of one hypertext document in another one by means of reference rather than copying


MAN

→ Thai: แมน (mɛɛn)

Metropolitan Area Network
Metropolitan Area Network#English

(computing) Initialism of Metropolitan Area Network, a large computer network usually spanning a city.


debugging

en-noun

debugging (usually uncountable, plural debuggings)

(computing) The process of finding and resolving bugs or defects that prevent correct operation of computer software or a system.

調試 /调试

the process of finding and resolving bugs or defects that prevent correct operation of computer software or a system


MIPS

(computing) Initialism of million instructions per second.


MIPS

(computing) Initialism of Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages, a RISC-style instruction set architecture.


null path length

null path length (plural null path lengths)

(computing) The path length from a given node to its nearest descendant null node in a binary tree.


path length

(computing) The number of text characters in a path (file or resource specifier).


registry

registry (countable and uncountable, plural registries)

/ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪstɹi/

A variant of registery, from Middle English regestery (“?a record book; ?a bookmark”), partly from Medieval Latin regesterium, registerium and probably also partly formed with -ery. Equivalent to register + -y.

inh

To unregister a DLL and remove the corresponding entries from the registry, add the /u switch to the command […]

1999, John Papa, C. Caison, Matt Brown, Professional ADO RDS programming with ASP, page 252:

(countable, computing) A database of configuration settings etc. maintained by the Microsoft Windows operating system.


back channel

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-back channel.wav

TodaysMeet visualizes collaborative and parallel conversations in a backchannel through a digital classroom where every student has a voice.

2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1083:

(computing) A real-time online discussion that occurs simultaneously with a verbal presentation.


tabbed

A tabbed browser can display a different webpage on each tab.

If you're a stranger to tabbed browsing, you're probably trapped in a somewhat old-fashioned Web surfing pattern. Perhaps you click on an interesting link, wait for that link to load, then press the Back button when you've finished reading that new page.

2005, Cheah Chu Yeow, Firefox Secrets, SitePoint, →ISBN, page 26:

(computing, graphical user interface) Having tabs (the user interface element).


groupware

(computing) software designed to be used collaboratively by multiple users on a network


sha

(computing) Alternative letter-case form of SHA (“cryptographic hash”).


message board

(computing, Internet) A system by which users may send, read and reply to public messages; an electronic bulletin board or forum.


superminicomputer

superminicomputers (plural)
supermini (abbreviation)

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

(computing, dated) A minicomputer that has higher-than-normal performance, especially one using 32-bit rather than 16-bit words.


ODE

Orchestration Director Engine
w:Apache ODE

(computing) Initialism of Orchestration Director Engine.


MCP

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft Certified Professional.


NLP

natural language processing
natural language processing#English

(computing) Initialism of natural language processing.


ESN

echo state network
echo state network#English

(computing) Initialism of echo state network.


spreader

Spreaders uploaded the games to an online BBS to distribute the games as quickly as possible to as many people as possible.

2017, Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories: Going to New York:

(computing, slang) A member of a cracking group who distributes warez.


approximation algorithm

en-noun

approximation algorithm (plural approximation algorithms)

(computing) A method of finding a nearly optimal solution to an optimization problem that cannot be solved exactly within a reasonable time.

近似算法

method of finding a nearly optimal solution to a problem


Universal Serial Bus

(computing) An international standard for interconnecting personal computer devices using simple plugs and sockets and lightweight cables.

通用串列匯流排 /通用串列汇流排

computing standard for interconnecting PC devices


outbox

(computing) An electronic folder serving the same purpose, for electronic mail.


inbox

→ German: Inbox

Your goal with the remaining emails is to take care of them and remove them from your inbox as soon as possible.

2014, Bonnie Hillman Shay, Take Charge of Your Email Inbox, page 35:

(computing) An electronic folder serving the same purpose, but for electronic files, especially email.


USB adapter

(computing) Any of various network or communications controllers that plug into a USB port of a personal computer.


USB port

(computing) A socket on a personal computer or peripheral device into which a USB cable is plugged.


botty

Bye bye, botty.

(informal, rare, computing) A term of address for a bot (automated software process).


botty

en-adj

botty (comparative more botty, superlative most botty)

more botty (comparative)
most botty (superlative)

That email seemed pretty botty; it probably shouldn't be trusted.

(informal, rare, computing) Resembling a bot (automated software process); botlike.


toolkit

toolkits (plural)
tool kit (alternative)

Morgan Computing Co.'s Disk Toolkit is the perfect program for speed demons who want a more flexible way to wield DEBUG's power.

1986, PC Mag, volume 5, number 17, page 221:

(computing) A set of software tools or components.


deque

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

This algorithm is difficult to implement with a standard queue, but with a deque it's easy.

As with the stack and queue, the Standard Template Library provides an implementation of a deque.

2011, Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, David M. Mount, Data Structures and Algorithms in C++, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 218:

(computing) A linear data structure in which elements may be appended to or removed from either end.


unread

en-verb

unread (third-person singular simple present unreads, present participle unreading, simple past and past participle unread)

unreads (present singular third-person)
unreading (participle present)
unread (participle past)
unread (past)

(computing, transitive) To flag (a previously read e-mail or similar message) as not having been read.


unread

You will have fewer 'Unreads' staring at you from your Inbox, and will feel—and be—more productive.

2011, Hugh D. Culver, Give Me a Break: The Art of Making Time Work for You, page 129:

I flipped from the calendar app to the email app and logged in to view Cooper's. The unreads were staggering; I'd have to triage them later.

(computing) An unread email or instant message.


interceptor

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

(computing, programming) A hook routine that intercepts normal program flow to carry out a task.


mailbox

mailboxes (plural)
mail-box (alternative)
mail box (alternative)

(computing) A folder or account for the storage of email; an electronic inbox or mailstore.


syntax highlighting

Some pastebins even include syntax highlighting for common programming languages.

2015, Ernesto Damiani, Fulvio Frati, Dirk Riehle, Open Source Systems: Adoption and Impact:

(computing) Highlighting of source code with color, boldfacing, etc. to indicate its syntactic structure.


control code

(computing) A numeric value or string of such values that triggers a specific command or action to occur, rather than displaying a text character.


escape character

en-noun

escape character (plural escape characters)

In the C programming language, the backslash is an escape character; for example, \n represents a newline.

(computing, telecommunications) A single metacharacter, usually a control code, which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative interpretation. The term escape sequence refers to the escape character and the subsequent character or characters so modified.


installer

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

Because this version of the Windows Installer is aware of the GAC, it has the capability to publish components into it. […] You can manually or programmatically push an assembly into the GAC by using the command-line tool Gacutil.exe.

2002, Lars Powers, Mike Snell, Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library, page 968:

Slackware does not include a graphical installer. Its package manager does not perform any dependency resolution. This can be jarring for new users, particularly within the last few years, but it also enables a deeper understanding of the system.

2018 July 16, Ben Cotton, “The oldest, active Linux distro, Slackware, turns 25”, in Opensource.com:

(computing) A program that installs software in a computer and prepares it for use.

instalátor

program that installs software and prepares it for use


scrolling

scrolling (usually uncountable, plural scrollings)

(computing) The continuous movement of text or images on a display screen in either a horizontal or vertical direction.


indexer

(computing, programming, .NET) A special property of a class allowing objects of the class to be accessed by index as though they were arrays or hash tables.


reload

en-verb

reload (third-person singular simple present reloads, present participle reloading, simple past and past participle reloaded)

reloads (present singular third-person)
reloading (participle present)
reloaded (participle past)
reloaded (past)

(computing) To refresh a copy of a program etc. in memory or of a web page etc. on screen

recarregar

to refresh a copy of a program in memory or of a web page on screen


provisioning

The problem of installing software on a booted system is known as provisioning, and is often the job of shell scripts, configuration management systems, or manual command-line entry.

2015, Michael Peacock, Creating Development Environments with Vagrant, Second edition, Packt, →ISBN, page 37:

(computing) The installation of software on a system, especially when automated.


seeder

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

random number generator
random number generator

(computing) A process that seeds a random number generator.


imperative language

en-noun

imperative language (plural imperative languages)

programming language
programming language

(computing) Any programming language that consists (mostly) of a series of commands, typically assigning values to objects; a procedural language.


cron

From chrono-, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”). Originating as the name of a specific program, but since generalized to analogous ones.

(computing) A scheduler or timer that automatically starts a job, program, task.


AMF

(computing) Initialism of action message format, a proprietary protocol for object remoting.


real time

(computing) The duration required by a computer system to complete a particular task.


tunneling

tunneling (countable and uncountable, plural tunnelings)

tunnelings (plural)
tunnelling (alternative)

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.


pixelization

pixelization (countable and uncountable, plural pixelizations)

pixelizations (plural)
pixelisation (alternative)

(computing) The result of enlarging a digital image further than the resolution of the monitor device, usually 72 dpi (dots per inch), causing the individual pixels making up the image to become more prominent, thus causing a grainy appearance in the image.

(computing) The blurring of part of an image by setting groups of pixels that are close to each other to the same color.


man page

man pages (plural)
manpage (alternative)

man, short for manual, is the command used to display help pages.

(computing) A helpfile in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.


helpfile

(computing) A computer file explaining how to use the associated software.


BSC

(computing, electronics) Initialism of Basic Spacing between Centers: Used in integrated circuits to specify package mechanical dimensions. This is a theoretical true position dimension and has no tolerance.


bit interval

(telecommunications, computing) The time required to send one signal bit.


wordmark

(computing) A bit in each memory location on some variable-word-length computers (e.g. IBM 1401, IBM 1620) used to mark the end of a word.


mainline

en-verb

mainline (third-person singular simple present mainlines, present participle mainlining, simple past and past participle mainlined)

mainlines (present singular third-person)
mainlining (participle present)
mainlined (participle past)
mainlined (past)

(computing, transitive) To integrate (code, etc.) into the main repository for a software project, rather than separate forks.


mainline

mainlines (plural)
main line (alternative)

(computing) The main repository for a software project, from which different versions (forks) may be split off.


gigaflop

The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine...

1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:

floating point operation
floating point operation

(computing) A unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion (10⁹) floating point operations per second.


regexp

/ˈɹɛd͡ʒˌɛksp/

I guess it also can come in handy when trying to learn regexps because it is possible to experiment with them.

1999, Tim Altom, Mitch Chapman, Programming with Python, Prima Tech, →ISBN:


search term

The final number of search terms was 40.

2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 119:

(computing) The word or phrase that a user searches for, e.g. in a search engine.


hunt and peck

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-hunt and peck.wav

(computing) The hunt-and-peck typing technique.


bytecode

en-noun

bytecode (countable and uncountable, plural bytecodes)

bytecodes (plural)
byte code (alternative)

(computing) P-code (various forms of instruction sets designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter as well as being suitable for further compilation into machine code).


serialization

serializations (plural)
serialisation (alternative)


reference variable

reference variable (plural reference variables)

The value of a reference variable is the memory address at which the data associated with the object is stored.

2003, Grant Palmer, Technical Java: Developing Scientific and Engineering Applications:

(computing) A variable used for storing the address of another variable or structure, equivalent to a pointer.


preprocessor

(computing) program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input to another program

preprocesor

program that processes input data before it is used by another program


overload

/ˌəʊvəˈləʊd/

/ˌəʉvəˈləʉd/

/ˌɐʉvəˈlɐʉd/

/ˌɐʉvəˈlɐʉd/

/ˈəʊvəˌləʊd/

/ˈəʉvəˌləʉd/

/ˈɐʉvəˌlɐʉd/

Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class.

2005, John C Molluzzo, C++ for business programming:

(computing, programming) An overloaded version of a function.


nullable

You want to perform an aggregation on a column, but the column is nullable.

(computing, of a variable or object) That is allowed to have a null value.


nullable

(computing) A variable, etc. that is allowed to have a null value.


nullified

(computing) Whose value has been set to null


windowing

windowing (usually uncountable, plural windowings)

NeWS was an early windowing system.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing) The use of a graphical user interface divided into windows.


send out

(computing) A networking broadcast transmission.


OOXML

(computing) Initialism of Office Open XML: a Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, charts, wordprocessed documents, etc.


OpenDocument

(computing) A standard file format, based on XML, for office applications.


ODF

(computing) Initialism of OpenDocument format.


dialup

(computing) Alternative spelling of dial-up.


classical computer

classical computer (plural classical computers)

(computing) A computer which is not a quantum computer, nor enjoys any other sort of (yet unknown) mechanism for transcending known computer science; a computer which can be modelled by a deterministic Turing machine