Windoze

Blend of Windows + doze, suggesting slow performance. First use appears c. 1986. See cite below.

Every point and counterpoint is peppered with derisive terms such as "Windoze," "File Mangler," and "PeeCees."

1986, PC Communications Corporation, PC Magazine, The Independent Guide to IBM-standard Personal Computing · Volume 15, page 85:

I've had it with the Windoze Gestapo. They want to make everyone use Windoze. They have propogandize^([sic]) the public through computer publications and large newspapers.

1997 February 19, ROWE BOBBY S, “Defend yourself against the Windoze Gestapo”, in alt.destroy.microsoft (Usenet):

My big fear was that they'd use some kind of weirdo operating system, but it turned out just to be Windoze. And not Windoze Millennium, NT, or '98, or even '95, but Windoze 3.1

2006, Anthony McGowan, Hellbent, page 118:

(computing, slang, dysphemistic) Microsoft Windows.


Windross

Blend of Windows + dross, suggesting an inferior product.

Like Danny, I made the difficult decision to take a close look at Windross at Xmas96. The OS is a monster it's true; but IMHO it also brings alternative ways of achieving your objectives which are, as I have tried to show, not available in the Acorn environment. Recent threads on Acorn v Windross in schools don't seem to focus on this?

1998 June 10, Martin Birchall, “Sad”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):

The Windross user experience is awful. I migrated to the Mac, and while it's amazing to have inDesign, XPress, Photoshop, Acrobat, etc. right there, Mac OS 8/9's GUI was nothing on RISC OS and it's difficult to describe in any meaningful way Mac OS X's GUI is better than Windows - especially as the responsiveness remains poor.

2003 January 4, David, “Comments about Windross OS”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):

I copy the file to a plain Jane Lexar thumb drive, then move the drive to Windoze. Windross does it's^([sic]) usual popup game: "Yay! Look at me! I found something! Yay! It's a USB device! Yay! I'm setting it up now! Yay! Look at me!!"

2012 November 17, Sinister Midget, “Windwoes Dimwittery”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):


Page Down

(computing) A keyboard key that when pressed scrolls down to the next page of content.

sivu alas

a key that scrolls down to the next page of content


Page Up

(computing) A keyboard key that when pressed scrolls up to the previous page of content.

sivu ylös

a key that scrolls down to the previous page of content


num lock

(computing) Alternative spelling of Num Lock.


wildcarding

(computing) The use of wildcard characters for partial matching.


subquadratic

(computing) Describing an algorithm that runs in greater than linear, but less than quadratic time.


scroll lock

(computing) Alternative spelling of Scroll Lock.


software escrow

(computing) The holding of software source code by a third party in order to protect customers against the future insolvency of the software supplier


character user interface

en-noun

character user interface (plural character user interfaces)

command line interface
command line interface


supernode

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Supernode (circuit)
Supernode (networking)

(computing) Any peer-to-peer network node that also serves as a proxy server.


savefile

savefiles (plural)
save file (alternative)

(computing) A file containing saved data.


octoword

(computing) A numerical value of eight times the magnitude of a word, 128 bits on a 16-bit architecture.


crimeware

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Technical subterfuge schemes plant crimeware onto PCs to steal credentials […]

2007, Harold F Tipton, Micki Krause, Information Security Management Handbook, Volume 2:

(computing) Software that performs or facilitates illegal activities.


overstrike

overstrike (countable and uncountable, plural overstrikes)

/ˈəʊvəstɹʌɪk/

/əʊvəˈstɹʌɪk/

(computing, uncountable) overtype (feature where input replaces existing characters instead of being inserted before them)


load up

en-verb

load up (third-person singular simple present loads up, present participle loading up, simple past and past participle loaded up)

loads up (present singular third-person)
loading up (participle present)
loaded up (participle past)
loaded up (past)

The game loaded up and he instantly grabbed the game controller.

2014, Nathan K. Battles, The Transcendent, page 29:

(computing, ambitransitive) To load (software) fully into memory.


system pull

Literally meaning “pulled from an already assembled system”.

(computing) A new computer part that has been removed from an unused, previously assembled system.

(computing) A new computer part that has not been unpacked, but is excess inventory from an end-of-lifed system configuration.


biclustering

(mathematics, computing) The simultaneous clustering of the rows and columns of a matrix


bicluster

(mathematics, computing) A subset of rows or columns of a matrix produced by biclustering


unpark

unpark (third-person singular simple present unparks, present participle unparking, simple past and past participle unparked)

unparks (present singular third-person)
unparking (participle present)
unparked (participle past)
unparked (past)

to unpark the head of a disk drive

(computing, transitive) To release from the fixed position adopted when not in use.


three-finger salute

en-noun

three-finger salute (plural three-finger salutes)

THE THREE-FINGER SALUTE … to suddenly find that your keyboard is frozen or to watching the screen fill up with garbage. You may not even be aware of the two different types of crashes, the soft crash (recoverable by the three-finger salute, Ctrl-Alt-Del) or the hard crash (big red switch and count to 5 slowly).

1986, February 25, Charles Petzold, PC Magazine, volume 5, number 4, article "Operating in a New Environment"

(computing, humorous) Control-Alt-Delete, a keypress used to reset or interrupt the computer.


scumware

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(computing, informal, derogatory) malware


hackery

From hack + -ery. In its computing sense, from Middle English hakken (“to cut violently or coarsely”) etc., q.v. In its pejorative sense, from hackney (“cheap carriage for hire”).

inh

All without any of the subterfuge and hackery required to do it with Java.

2012, Seymour Bosworth, M. E. Kabay, Eric Whyne, Computer Security Handbook, page 57:

(slang, computing) The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).


sublogarithmic

(computing) Describing an algorithm that may be completed in less than logarithmic time


VU meter

The ECC Syncro Demo is a demonstration of text scrolling in the GS border area, as well as having VU meters in the border area. Similar to FTA's X-mas demo.

1991, Kenrick J. Mock, “demos on tybalt?”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet):

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any source code that showed how to read the values to construct a VU meter from a tracker replay routine.

1991, Cybernetworx, “VU meters”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet):

(computing, chiefly demoscene) Any animated graphical representation of the volume of sound or music (often subdivided across channels).


subwindow

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A window making up part of a larger composite window.


exascale

(physics, computing) Used as a metric to signify 10¹⁸


eigenface

(mathematics, computing) One of a set of eigenvectors used in face-recognition systems.


white label

US, 20th century. Originally used for musical vinyl records whose labels had been torn off or covered with a white label by competing DJs to conceal which records they were using.

(computing) Unbranded; being a brand name product which has had a white label applied to remove branding so that it can be resold for cheaper without undercutting the value of the brand.


composability

(computing) The condition of being modular in a variety of ways.


XAML

w:Extensible Application Markup Language

(computing, Microsoft) Initialism of Extensible Application Markup Language.


autovector

(computing) An interrupt vector representing a priority level, from which the processor determines the actual target address.


pretranslation

en-noun

pretranslation (usually uncountable, plural pretranslations)

(computing) Translation performed in advance.


cloner

Higher-end hard disk cloners have the ability to create multiple copies simultaneously.

2014, Darren R. Hayes, A Practical Guide to Computer Forensics Investigations:

(computing) A software program that duplicates media.


response time

vasteaika

time between step change and instrument display update

(computing) The period of time between a request for a service and the associated response; typically the request is caused by a user at a terminal hitting the return key, and the response is displayed on a screen.

vasteaika

time between request and computer service response


CPU time

CPU time (countable and uncountable, plural CPU times)

central processing unit
central processing unit

(computing) The length of time that a central processing unit takes to process instructions for a particular program or task.


metacircular

en-adj

metacircular (comparative more metacircular, superlative most metacircular)

more metacircular (comparative)
most metacircular (superlative)

(computing, programming) Exhibiting metacircularity.


Russification

From Russify + -ification, from Russian.

(computing, rare) Enabling a computer system to work with the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.


nonpaged

nonpaged memory


treewidth

(mathematics, computing) The width (maximum number of nodes or leaves at any level) of a tree.


minification

en-noun

minification (countable and uncountable, plural minifications)

magnification

antonym(s) of “reduction in apparent size”

Minification is the process of eliminating white space, comments, and other non-essential parts of the JavaScript code to decrease the size of the JavaScript files that need to be transferred from the server to the browser.

2010, Stoyan Stefanov, JavaScript Patterns,, O'Reilly, page 36:

(computing) The removal of white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to reduce its size and improve download time.


async

The tradeoff is that the first time an async event causes a scheduling point, it incurs the thread creation overhead that it has avoided.

2002, Peter Dibble, Real-time Java platform programming:

(computing) Abbreviation of asynchronous.


feedreader

(computing, Internet) A software program that gathers content from newsfeeds.


templatizable

They are equally templatizable and inlinable.

1998 September 21, John Potter, "Re: operator+(C c1, const C& c2)", in comp.lang.c++.moderated, Usenet

Closures would be reassignable and templatizable, and of course used as values, leading to some ugly syntax without typedefs, but one could contemplate something along the following lines: […]

2006 August 22, The Ghost In The Machine, “Re: Java FACT ?”, in comp.lang.java.advocacy (Usenet):

One can also split the problem into pieces, which gets kind of ugly in C, but might be templatizable in C++: […]

2006 December 17, "The Ghost In The Machine" (username), "Re: Goto's labels makes code _Tons_ more readable ( and lest nested ).", in sci.physics and alt.usenet.kooks, Usenet

Next, TTBOMK you need to do your classes in header files if you are going to make them into generic templates...well, putting them into headers isn't strictly a requirement but the other restrictions for (templatizable code) would encourage only using headers.

2007 January 22, "noone" (username), "work related dig regarding separation of definitions and implementations", in comp.lang.c++, Usenet

(computing, rare) Able to be templatized.


subpath

(computing) A file or resource path relative to another path.


ASA character

From the initialism for the American Standards Association.

carriage control character
carriage control character

(computing) A standard carriage control character added to the start of each line of text to be printed on a line printer


line printer

(computing) A high-speed impact printer, most often used by older mainframes, that prints an entire line in a single operation


carriage control character

carriage control character (plural carriage control characters)

(computing) A character, added to the beginning of each line of text to be printed on a line printer, that controls the movement of paper through the printer before each new line is printed


split horizon

(computing) A method of preventing routing loops in distance-vector routing protocols by prohibiting a router from advertising a route back onto the interface from which it was learned.


astroinformatics

(astronomy, computing) The processing of large amounts of astronomical data


astrostatistics

(astronomy, computing) The application of statistics to the study and analysis of astronomical data.


von Neumann machine

von Neumann machine (plural von Neumann machines)

For John von Neumann, Hungarian mathematician

von Neumann architecture
von Neumann architecture

(computing) A computer that implements the von Neumann architecture.

máquina de von Neumann

any computer that has a central processing unit and can store programs in memory


pseudodata

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(computing) Data that is artificially generated in order to test a program; test data.


inode

Uncertain, but possibly short for index node.

(computing) A data structure representing an object such as a file or a directory in a Unix (or similar) file system.


flowcharting

Finally, they use descriptions and statements from set theory to provide material for flowcharting problems that contain multiple decisions (nested if-thens).

2000, Harold J. Rood, Logic and Structured Design for Computer Programmers, Brooks/Cole, →ISBN, page ix:

(computing) The design and construction of flowcharts.


zone punch

(computing) A hole punched (normally in the top two or three positions) of a punched card in addition to another in order to designate a different (sometimes related) character or to add a plus or minus sign


CCM

CCM (countable and uncountable, plural CCMs)

constrained conditional model
w:constrained conditional model

(computing) Initialism of constrained conditional model.


subterm

(mathematics, law, computing) A subordinate term.


multi-touch

The PowerPad is used to produce multi-touch, multi-color graphics.

1983, Personal Computing, volume 7, page 347:

Mr. Jobs seized on the multitouch technology after Apple product designers proposed it as a “safari pad,” a portable Web surfing appliance.

2007 June 29, John Markoff, “Chiefs Defend Slow Network for the iPhone”, in New York Times:

Its trackpad is multi-touch and quite comfortable, though we found its sensitivity too high.

2008, “Asus Eee PC 901” (review), in MaximumPC (December), South San Francisco: Future US, p 64

The multi-touch support on the iPhone provides a series of touch events consisting of smaller, individual parts of a single multi-touch gesture. For example, placing your finger on the screen generates one event, placing a second finger on the screen generates another, and moving either finger generates yet another.

2009, Jonathan Zdziarski, IPhone SDK Application Development: Building Applications for the AppStore, Sebastopol, Cal.: O'Reilly, page 118:

(computing) Of a computer tablet or touch-screen interface, accepting more than one touch at the same time.

multitàctil

accepting more than one touch at same time


multi-touch

But the performance of multi-touch is not so impressive.

2004, Wontaek Seo, Beom-joon Cho, “Efficient Segmentation Path Generation”, in Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications: 11th International Conference, Springer, page 445:

One incredible example comes from Thomas Robinson [. . .] ; he creates a virtual light table that pulls in Flickr photos, then uses multitouch to allow you to use two fingers to pinch, zoom, rotate, or simply move the images around on the screen (Figure 12–16).

2009, Brian Fling, Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps, Sebastopol, Cal.: O'Reilly, page 227:


ZWNJ

(computing, typography) Initialism of zero-width non-joiner (“non-printing character used to avoid ligatures”).

zero-width non-joiner

neobʺjedinjájuščij símvol nulevój širiný

необъединя́ющий си́мвол нулево́й ширины́


ZWJ

(computing, typography) Acronym of zero-width joiner.


SODIMM

dual-inline memory module
w:Dual-inline memory module

(computing, electronics) Acronym of small-outline dual-inline memory module.


SO-DIMM

(computing, electronics) Alternative form of SODIMM.


red-black tree

From the colours traditionally used for nodes in diagrams of such trees.

(computing) A type of self-balancing binary search tree, typically used to implement associative arrays.


supercookie

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The SharedObject class is familiar to many Flash programmers as a way to create a kind of supercookie; a local shared object (LSO) can store ActionScript data on the client between sessions.

2005, Brian Lesser, Giacomo Guilizzoni, Robert Reinhardt, Programming Flash Communication Server:

While doing an online security scan, I was told I can ^([sic]) a vulnerability because of the presence of a supercookie.

2005, Boojum, “Supercookie”, in microsoft.public.security (Usenet):

I use the SR Ware Iron Browser, always on Incognito, and set to remove all data when i close the pane. I also remove all records after each day. Can you tell me, does this remove the supercookies?

2009, Billy, “Adobe's Flash Player sets "supercookies"”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet):

(computing, informal) A data store on a user's computer that can be accessed by websites and used as a more persistent form of cookie.


The x functions as a wildcard; the processors immediately succeeding the original 8086 and using the same architecture (with progressively greater expansions) also had names ending in 86 (the 80186, 80286, 80386, and 80486; Intel shifted away from this numerical nomenclature after the 80486, but other manufacturers of x86 processors continued the series with -586- and -686-branded processors).

The x86 version of Windows 7 only supports a maximum of 4 GiB of RAM; 64-bit Windows can support a lot more.

(computing) Any of a family of instruction set architectures based on that used by the Intel 8086 microprocessor.

Specifically, the 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture.

(rare) Specifically, the original, 16-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture.


protected mode

(computing) An operational mode of x86-compatible CPUs, in which software can use features such as virtual memory, paging, and safe multitasking.


real mode

(computing) The default operational mode of x86-compatible CPUs, offering direct software access to all memory and peripherals but without the advanced features of protected mode.


deblock

en-verb

deblock (third-person singular simple present deblocks, present participle deblocking, simple past and past participle deblocked)

deblocks (present singular third-person)
deblocking (participle present)
deblocked (participle past)
deblocked (past)

(transitive, computing) To separate the logical records that have been combined into a physical block for storage.

(transitive, computing) To process (digital video) so as to remove block-shaped artifacts of encoding.


deblocked

(computing, of a physical block) Separated into logical records


VLIW

This machine has a VLIW architecture.

(computing, chiefly attributive) Initialism of very long instruction word: an explicitly created set of processor instructions to be executed simultaneously.


unpassworded

Until they do, however, the server will allow unpassworded access to those users, so we strongly discourage this approach.

2003, Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz, Practical UNIX and Internet security:

(computing) Not protected with a password.


autoindexing

(computing) The programmed retrieval of words from a document for use in building an index


nongreedy

In modern versions of Perl, you can force nongreedy, minimal matching by placing a question mark after any quantifier.

2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl:


d/l

d/ls (plural)
DL (alternative)
dl (alternative)
D/L (alternative)


d/l

d/l (third-person singular simple present d/ls, present participle d/ling, simple past and past participle d/led)

d/ls (present singular third-person)
d/ling (participle present)
d/led (participle past)
d/led (past)
DL (alternative)
dl (alternative)
D/L (alternative)


nondirty

The share locks are used to make sure that each individual read of the database's rows contains non-dirty data […]

2002, Heather Wright, ADO.NET: From Novice to Pro, Visual Basic .NET Edition, page 269:


microapp

(computing) A very small application, often one of a group that are integrated into a website


precomposed

For example, the middle letter of naïve could be represented using the combining character approach by U+0069 U+0308, or as a single, precomposed unit using the already prepared character U+00EF. Around 500 precomposed Latin letters, for instance, in the Unicode standard are superfluous, in that they can be represented using combining character sequences.

2009, Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, David M. Nichols, How to Build a Digital Library, 2nd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 383:

(computing) Describing a character that can also be represented an equivalent string of other characters (typically a letter and a diacritical mark).


localizer

localizers (plural)
localiser (alternative)
localizor (alternative)

(computing, translation studies) A person who localizes (adapts a product for use in a particular country or region, or adapts translated text to fit a local culture).


biosimulation

(biology, computing) The computer simulation of a biological system


JRE

(computing) Initialism of Java runtime environment.


preread

(computing) An operation in which data is read in advance of its being needed.


arraylike

en-adj

arraylike (comparative more arraylike, superlative most arraylike)

more arraylike (comparative)
most arraylike (superlative)

an arraylike data structure

(computing) Resembling or characteristic of an array.


marshaler

marshalers (plural)
marshaller (alternative)

The CLR includes a marshaler that knows how to convert parameters and return values between .NET types and unmanaged types. In this example, the int parameters translate directly to 4-byte integers that the function expects […]

2007, Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari, C# 3.0 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, page 723:

(computing) A mechanism for marshalling data.


yottabit

Assuming a steady traffic growth similar to that created by the Internet over the last 3 years, we could actually be consuming a yottabit of bandwidth by the year 2015!

2000, Roberto Saracco et al., The Disappearance of Telecommunications, →ISBN, page 38:


nondeclarative

(computing) Not declarative; procedural.


dynamization

en-noun

dynamization (countable and uncountable, plural dynamizations)

(computing) Transformation of static data to dynamic ones.


sys

(computing, attributive) Abbreviation of system.


devkit

A devkit basically contains a set of software tools, and several of them can be installed into a target.

2007, Frank H. P. Fitzek, Frank Reichert, Mobile Phone Programming and Its Application to Wireless Networks, page 178:

Sony's devkits are large, to say the least. The Dreamcast, on the other hand, was very much a Microsoft animal and friendlier to code and test.

2009, Luis Levy, Jeannie Novak, Game Development Essentials: Game QA & Testing:

(computing) A set of development tools that allow the creation of software for a particular platform or framework.


subcommand

This command accepts additional subcommands as parameters.

(computing) A command that makes up part of a larger command.


social network

The trends in recent years have focussed on online social networks, in which the social network is enabled as an internet application. Some examples of such networks are Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace.

2011, Charu C. Aggarwal, Social Network Data Analytics, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page xiii:

(Internet) A service allowing users to manage and interact with their network of friends or contacts on the Internet. (Called a social network application in precise usage that reserves social network to its original sense.)


patcher

It is hidden in an installer, license key generator or patcher that you will need to access the offered video or software.

2006, Elizabeth Drake, 50 Plus One Tips to Preventing Identity Theft, page 26:

(computing) A process or program that applies a software patch.


parallel port

(computing) A physical interface capable of transmitting multiple bits of data simultaneously.


workalike

workalikes (plural)
work-alike (alternative)

(computing) A computer capable of running software designed for another.

(computing) A piece of software that has the same function as another.


rebuffer

en-verb

rebuffer (third-person singular simple present rebuffers, present participle rebuffering, simple past and past participle rebuffered)

rebuffers (present singular third-person)
rebuffering (participle present)
rebuffered (participle past)
rebuffered (past)

This avoids client-side buffer underflows and rebuffering interruptions.

2005, Stephen B. Weinstein, The multimedia Internet:

(transitive, computing) To buffer (data) again.


rebuffering

(computing) A second or subsequent buffering.


pseudonymized

en-adj

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

more pseudonymized (comparative)
most pseudonymized (superlative)
pseudonymised (alternative)

(computing, law) Synonym of pseudonymous.


autodeletion

Many BBS features are also available, including autodeletion of old messages.

1987, Patrick R. Dewey, 101 software packages to use in your library:

This is no different from the way you handle autodeletion in any other public folder.

2003, Barry Gerber, Mastering Microsoft Exchange Server 2003:

(computing) Automatic deletion; the process of autodeleting.


left-drag

en-verb

left-drag (third-person singular simple present left-drags, present participle left-dragging, simple past and past participle left-dragged)

left-drags (present singular third-person)
left-dragging (participle present)
left-dragged (participle past)
left-dragged (past)

(transitive, computing) To drag an item using the left mouse button.


right-drag

right-drag (third-person singular simple present right-drags, present participle right-dragging, simple past and past participle right-dragged)

right-drags (present singular third-person)
right-dragging (participle present)
right-dragged (participle past)
right-dragged (past)

(transitive, computing) To drag an item using the right mouse button.


input/output

(computing, usually used attributively) The flow of information to and from human users or other client systems.


housekeep

housekeep (third-person singular simple present housekeeps, present participle housekeeping, simple past and past participle housekept)

housekeeps (present singular third-person)
housekeeping (participle present)
housekept (participle past)
housekept (past)

The clock burst which enables the supervisor to housekeep the console input and output and to change program status is currently set to 200 ms.

1965, P. A. Crisman, The compatible time-sharing system: a programmer's guide, page 14:

(ambitransitive, computing) To perform the general tasks of housekeeping.


nonspace

en-noun

nonspace (countable and uncountable, plural nonspaces)

For instance, spaces in a filename shipped from a DOS client are not translated to nonspace characters...

2006, Mark Lutz, Programming Python, Volume 10:

(computing) A text character that is not a space (or not whitespace).


chromeless

The chromeless player is intended to be implemented by experienced web programmers who want to design a customized video player for their users.

2009, John Rittinghouse, James F. Ransome, Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security:

(computing, graphical user interface) Without chrome (basic visual elements).


bitboard

(computing) A specialized data structure, a bitset with each bit representing a game position or state, commonly used in computer systems that play board games.


game port

(computing) An I/O port, on earlier PCs, used for the attachment of a joystick or similar hardware


segmentation fault

segmentation fault (plural segmentation faults)

(computing) A software error that occurs when a program attempts to access a memory location that it is not permitted to access.

muistialueen ylitys

software error — see also access violation


multipartition

en-verb

multipartition (third-person singular simple present multipartitions, present participle multipartitioning, simple past and past participle multipartitioned)

multipartitions (present singular third-person)
multipartitioning (participle present)
multipartitioned (participle past)
multipartitioned (past)
multi-partition (alternative)

(computing) To logically divide a hard disk into multiple partitions


subcube

(computing) A subset of a cube (data structure).


schemaless

a schemaless XML document


WAE

(computing) Acronym of Web Application Extension.


wrist rest

A padded platform that raises the wrists above a keyboard.


unreserve

unreserve (third-person singular simple present unreserves, present participle unreserving, simple past and past participle unreserved)

unreserves (present singular third-person)
unreserving (participle present)
unreserved (participle past)
unreserved (past)

(transitive, chiefly computing) To undo or cancel a reservation.


pushdown

From push + down; by analogy with a spring-loaded stack of plates in a cafeteria.

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(computing) Describing a stack in which items are removed in a LIFO manner from the end at which they were added.


shapelet

(computing) A stylized shape used in pattern recognition systems to correspond to a real object


tebibit

(computing) Strictly, 2⁴⁰ (1024⁴, or 1,099,511,627,776) bits or 2¹⁰ (1024) gibibits, as opposed to a terabit.


terabit

(computing) One trillion (10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 gigabits.


quadbit

(computing) Four bits (binary digits), half a byte; a nibble.


sublanguage

DML is considered a sublanguage of SQL. It's concerned with manipulating data stored in the database. DML consists of four commonly used statements: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE.

2015, Miguel Cebollero, Michael Coles, Jay Natarajan, Pro T-SQL Programmer's Guide, Apress, →ISBN, page 4:

programming language
programming language

(computing) A subset of a language, in particular of a programming language.


nonbooting

Your data is still safe, despite being locked up inside an otherwise nonbooting machine.

2004, Rael Dornfest, James Duncan Davidson, Mac OS X Panther hacks:


automounter

(computing) A software system that handles automounting.


automount

automount (third-person singular simple present automounts, present participle automounting, simple past and past participle automounted)

automounts (present singular third-person)
automounting (participle present)
automounted (participle past)
automounted (past)

(transitive, computing) To mount (a file system) automatically.


automount

It can manage devices, automounts, paths, sockets, and other things.

2015, Christopher Negus, Linux Bible, page 567:

(computing) The automatic mounting of a file system.


multifactor

(computing) Involving more than one distinct authentication mechanism, such as both a password and facial recognition.


multibuffered

en-adj

multibuffered (comparative more multibuffered, superlative most multibuffered)

more multibuffered (comparative)
most multibuffered (superlative)

(computing, chemistry) Involving more than one buffer.


LUN

logical unit number
w:logical unit number

(computing) Initialism of logical unit number.


oplock

(computing) An opportunistic lock on a file system object, used for caching purposes rather than to avoid modifications by multiple users at once.


NIS

Network Information Service
w:Network Information Service

(computing) Initialism of Network Information Service.


URBI

(computing) Acronym of Universal Real-Time Behavior Interface.


urbiscript

(computing) A scripting language used to orchestrate C++ (and other) components in robotics software


garbage in, garbage out

Officials explained that the quality of the computer's work depends on the quality of the data fed into it. Neil Hoke, administrative assistant to Stewart, quoted an adage of computer men: "Garbage in, garbage out."

1963 April 1, Raymond Crowley, “Robot Tax Collector Seeks Indications of 'Fudging'”, in Times Daily, Alabama, USA, retrieved 2010-07-26:

The old caveat "GIGO"—garbage in, garbage out—is as valid in architectural design as in any other computer-aided activity.

2008, Roger K. Lewis, "'In Architectural Design, Brains and Talent Trump the Best Software," Washington Post, 19 July (retrieved 26 July 2010)

information technology
information technology

(computing, information technology, translation studies) If input data are not complete, accurate, and timely, then the resulting output is unreliable and of no useful value. If the input is junk, then the output is junk.

eiserchómena dedoména exerchómena dedoména

εισερχόμενα δεδομένα εξερχόμενα δεδομένα

му́сор на вхо́де — му́сор на вы́ходе (músor na vxóde — músor na výxode)

ask a silly question, get a silly answer


procedure division

en-noun

procedure division (plural procedure divisions)

The procedure division contains the imperative, arithmetic, conditional, and other statements that create and manipulate the data.

1971, Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science:

The procedure division contains program logic to compute, manipulate data, and to iterate and branch through program execution.

1999, Gordon Bitter Davis, The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of management information:

In the following alternative formulation of the procedure division, the PERFORM statement is used to execute a sequence of paragraphs.

2003, Robert C. Seacord et al., Modernizing legacy systems:

(computing) The part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to execute


data division

The data division is that portion of the program set aside to identify explicitly all the format characteristics of data received by the program, created within the program, and produced as output.

It is best to define the variables within the data division before writing the procedure division.

1997, Peter Groves, Sourcebook on intellectual property law:

We use the data division to control the definition of these fields.

2002, Earl H. Parsons, Structured Programming with COBOL Examples:

(computing) The part of a COBOL program in which the format and layout of external files and databases, and internally-used variables and constants are defined


identification division

identification division (plural identification divisions)

Identification Division This division is the smallest and simplest division of a COBOL program. As the name indicates, it supplies identifying data about the program. It has no effect on the execution of the program but is required as a means of identifying the program to the computer's operating system.

1988, Allen Kent, James G. Williams, Encyclopedia of microcomputers:

The identification division gives the name of the program, its author, the date the program was written and other information that other users may find helpful in understanding or maintaining the program.

The identification division is used to establish the identification of the program and its author.

2006, Prakash Dhara, Computer in Biological Sciences:

(computing) The (sometimes optional) part of a COBOL program that identifies the name of the program (and optionally of its programmer)


environment division

environment division (plural environment divisions)

The developers of Cobol made explicit recognition of this problem by providing an environment division for programs, into which as many as possible of the machine- dependent aspects of a process are collected.

The environment division comprises two sections: the configuration section which holds information about the way in which a specific machine implements COBOL, and the input-output section, which describes external devices that will be accessed during execution of the program.

The environment division is the link between the COBOL program and the computer and input-output devices the program uses.

2006, Knute Axelson, Mary Bellino, Dave Harper, Coding: The Handbook for Information Technology:

(computing) The part of a COBOL program that specifies the hardware on which it is designed to run, the symbolic names to be used by files, and certain other specifications.


data entry

(computing) The act of inputting data into a computer, such as by typing out handwriting, capturing data from scanned documents, taking responses from telephone interviews, etc.


configuration section

configuration section (plural configuration sections)

environment division
environment division

(computing) The part of the environment division of a COBOL program that specifies the computer that the compiled code is to run on, and hence the instruction set that the compiler should use.


input-output section

input-output section (plural input-output sections)

(computing) The part of the environment division of a COBOL program that specifies the symbolic names of external files accessed by the program


file section

(computing) The part of the data division of a COBOL program that describes the format of the logical records associated with external files to be accessed by the progrem


working-storage section

working-storage section (plural working-storage sections)

(computing) The part of the data division of a COBOL program that describes the format of local variables and constants to be used by the program


linkage section

linkage section (plural linkage sections)

(computing) The part of the data division of a COBOL program that describes the format of variables and constants passed to the program as parameters, either from JCL or from a calling program


JCL

Job Control Language
w:Job Control Language

(computing) Initialism of Job Control Language.


hacking run

It'll take a hacking run to find the roots of such a Byzantine bug.

(computing) A hacking session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours; sometimes an all-nighter.


schlockware

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From schlock (“shoddy or inferior commodity”) + -ware, from Yiddish שלאַק (shlak).

af

As someone else wrote, "interesting thread you have here." Having worked in a group that has implemented 70,000 seats of M$ schlockware for a single customer, I can testify that having that many seats in your environment, barely draws any attention from the boyz in Redmond.

1997, Vincent M. Hanchon, “The best GUI that ever was”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet):

1998, Larry Wall, quoted in "Open source gurus convene", C-Net E-Magazine, April 8, 1998.
You'll do us all a big favor if you disassociate freeware from schlockware.

(computing, derogatory, slang) Software that is of shoddy or inferior quality.


misclick

It takes time, dedication, curiosity, and a hint of stubbornness to get past the missteps and misclicks. Every image you work on today teaches you strategy and skills for the image you'll open tomorrow.

2005, Katrin Eismann, Wayne Palmer, Photoshop restoration and retouching:

(computing) A click of a computer mouse that is inaccurate and therefore fails to perform the desired action.


misclick

en-verb

misclick (third-person singular simple present misclicks, present participle misclicking, simple past and past participle misclicked)

misclicks (present singular third-person)
misclicking (participle present)
misclicked (participle past)
misclicked (past)

(computing, ambitransitive) To perform an erroneous click with a computer mouse.


microoperation

microoperations (plural)
micro-operation (alternative)

(computing) Any of several simpler operations that form a more complex machine instruction


waitable

en-adj

waitable (comparative more waitable, superlative most waitable)

more waitable (comparative)
most waitable (superlative)

This function cancels a waitable timer operation. The timer remains in its current state and will not restart until explicitly started […]

1997, Daniel Appleman, Dan Appleman's Visual Basic 5.0 programmer's guide to the Win32 API, Ziff-Davis Press, →ISBN, page 1160:

In a [certain] Win32 application, you need to process messages, but you also want to wait for kernel-level waitable objects, and coordinate several activities.

2005, Alex Martelli et al., Python Cookbook, Second Edition, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 381:

(computing) Implementing a wait/notify functionality.


unmarshal

en-verb

unmarshal (third-person singular simple present unmarshals, present participle unmarshalling or unmarshaling, simple past and past participle unmarshalled or unmarshaled)

unmarshals (present singular third-person)
unmarshalling (participle present)
unmarshaling (participle present)
unmarshalled (participle past)
unmarshalled (past)
unmarshaled (participle past)
unmarshaled (past)

(computing, transitive) To decode from a marshalled state.


terascale

(computing) Describing any computer operating at a speed measured in teraflops


pathname

Meronyms: filepath, filename, basename

(computing) The full name of a computer file, including the names of any directories or subdirectories in the path needed to access it.


multibuffering

(computing) The use of more than one buffer.


Winblows

Blend of Windows + blows (in the slang sense where something that "blows" is worthless or inferior). First use appears c. 1997 in the periodical Working Woman.

Winblows regrets that it is "Not Justice Department Approved."

1998, Newsweek, Incorporated, Newsweek, Volume 131, page 12:

Ring me when Winblows becomes free, or when there are free dev tools for it!

1999, John Purcell (editor), Linux, The Complete Reference; The Advanced Reference · Book 2, page 319:

While many users run versions of Linux or Unix on their PCs, most PC users run some flavor of Windows (often referred to by Mac and Unix users as WinDoze or WinBlows).

2003, David Chappelle, Protect Yourself Online, How to Cover Your Assets Every Time You Log On, page 27:

(computing, slang, dysphemistic) The Microsoft Windows operating system.


Microshaft

Blend of Microsoft + shaft (in slang sense; see shafted).

(computing, slang, derogatory) The computer company Microsoft.


modeless

(computing) Not modal; not having separate modes in which user input has different effects.


modelessness

(computing) The property of being modeless.


nondialup

The method used is to connect the autoanswer modem between the telephone line and a line to the nondialup network.

1989, James Arlin Cooper, Computer and communications security: strategies for the 1990s:

Here is a more complicated example in which we upload a text file to an IBM mainframe through a direct (nondialup) linemode connection.

1992, Christine M. Gianone, Using MS-DOS Kermit: connecting your PC to the electronic world:

However, lock-and-key also works over nondialup links.

2004, Richard A. Deal, Cisco router firewall security:


linemode

This example, since it is via telnet, uses the linemode browser. The user will be able to explore the web, but will not be able to use a hypertext-based interface.

1993, A. Heck, Fionn Murtagh, Intelligent information retrieval:

In line-at-a-time or linemode, basically all the character processing including backspacing is done by the client, with the desired characters sent to the server only when the enter key is pressed.

2000, J. Scott Haugdahl, Network analysis and troubleshooting:

(computing) A mode of interaction with a remote server where all incoming text characters are printed to the current line, without the possibility of updating the text of previous lines.


suboption

(chiefly computing) A secondary option available as part of a main option.


vuln

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of vulnerability.


premaster

premaster (third-person singular simple present premasters, present participle premastering, simple past and past participle premastered)

premasters (present singular third-person)
premastering (participle present)
premastered (participle past)
premastered (past)

(computing) To make a master copy of data on a hard disk before writing it to optical disc.


reskin

reskin (third-person singular simple present reskins, present participle reskinning, simple past and past participle reskinned)

reskins (present singular third-person)
reskinning (participle present)
reskinned (participle past)
reskinned (past)

The editor can be reskinned. In other words, the color scheme and look and feel of the buttons can be changed.

2007, Quentin Zervaas, Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP, page 291:

(computing, transitive) To change the skin, or visual appearance, of an application or a video game character etc.


informetrics

(mathematics, computing) The study of quantitative aspects of information


autofill

(computing) Any software feature that fills in (fields of a form, cells of a spreadsheet, etc.) automatically.


prepopulate

prepopulate (third-person singular simple present prepopulates, present participle prepopulating, simple past and past participle prepopulated)

prepopulates (present singular third-person)
prepopulating (participle present)
prepopulated (participle past)
prepopulated (past)

However, in addition to disabling the billing fields, we are also prepopulating them with data from the shipping fields.

(transitive, computing) To populate (form fields, a database, etc.) in advance.


sploit

Other exploit creators were less careful, turning out garbage sploits that sometimes wouldn't work at all or would even crash a target service most of the time.

2006, Ed Skoudis, Tom Liston, Counter hack reloaded:

In other words, some script-kiddie blindly launching a “sploit” to a range of addresses does not exactly embody the essence of this category.

2007, Thomas W. Shinder, Thorsten Behrens, The Best Damn Firewall Book Period:

(informal, computing) exploit (program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software)


translational bioinformatics

(genetics, biology, computing) The branch of bioinformatics that uses genomic data as its source


baby duck syndrome

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From the tendency of newly hatched ducks or other birds to imprint on the first thing they see.

Lotus 1-2-3 has become the spreadsheet package chosen by most people and is still widely used. This is sometimes called the "baby duck syndrome," meaning that once a person uses one certain spreadsheet and becomes familiar with it, he will not try another package even though it may be easier to use and better suited to his needs.

1991, Andrew W. Lai, “Graphical Decision Aids: Spreadsheets”, in Allen Kent, James G. Williams, editors, Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, volume 8 (Geographic Information System to Hypertext), New York, N.Y., Basel: Marcel Dekker, →ISBN, page 82:

The tools go back on the shelf, mostly unused, for a number of reasons, not just the baby-duck syndrome.

1993, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, page 78, column 3:

The phenomenon of baby duck syndrome is well known – it's what happens when users judge new and upcoming systems by comparing them with the first system they learned. This means that users generally prefer systems similar to those they learned on and dislike unfamiliar systems. […] This syndrome has substantial impact on user interface design. Developers must take into account previous user experiences to make users comfortable if they want these users to move or upgrade to their system. Baby duck syndrome can also make usability studies difficult as users familiar with a given system almost invariably describe deviations from it as confusing or problematic.

2005 March 2, Peter Seebach, “The Cranky User: Baby Duck Syndrome: Imprinting on Your First System Makes Change a Very Hard Thing”, in IBM developerWorks, archived from the original on 2012-04-19:

Most people acquainted with a personal computer system exhibit the baby duck syndrome. Ducklings (and birds generally) bond to the first caregiver they see, usually a parent duck. […] The same occurs with people who bond to one kind of computer system, say Windows or Mac, and become fixed on that system as the natural way that computers should be.

2013 April 22, Ted Herman, “General Landscape of Computing Languages”, in A Functional Start to Computing with Python (Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 13:

Frankly speaking, baby duck syndrome is detrimental because users block themselves from trying new and better methods, even though the learning curve of the new tool is worth the climb.

2022, Chong Ho Alex Yu, “Cutting Edge Data Analytical Tools”, in Data Mining and Exploration: From Traditional Statistics to Modern Data Science (A Science Publishers Book), Boca Raton, Fla., New York, N.Y.: CRC Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 47:

(computing, humorous) The tendency of computer users to think the system (software or usage paradigm) they originally started using is better than others.


filestore

The manipulation of files and related data in an OSI environment is achieved by mapping the real filestores of real systems on to virtual filestores that have standard interfaces to the OSI communications networks.

1994, Andy Sloane, Computer communications: principles and business applications, page 200:

(computing) A conceptual space where files are stored.


reparent

reparent (third-person singular simple present reparents, present participle reparenting, simple past and past participle reparented)

reparents (present singular third-person)
reparenting (participle present)
reparented (participle past)
reparented (past)

If the client reparents the window away from root, the window is no longer a top-level window.

1995, Adrian Nye, David Flanagan, Programmer's supplement for release 6 of the X Window System:

(transitive, computing) To change the parent of an object in a data structure.


nondraggable

This game covers the whole screen with a single, nondraggable window, but the menu bar is visible and events are processed.

1995, Jamie McCornack, Ingemar Ragnemalm, Paul Celestin, Tricks of the Mac game programming gurus, page 291:


dequantization

en-noun

dequantization (usually uncountable, plural dequantizations)

(computing) A quantum algorithm once thought to have quantum advantage has been efficiently replicated using classical algorithms with suitable data access


call graph

call graphs (plural)
callgraph (alternative)

(computing) A directed graph that represents relationships between called and calling subroutines in a computer program, used in code analysis.


i/o

i/o devices are pieces of hardware used to communicate with a computer.

(computing, also nominalised) in/out, input/output (descriptive of data flow)


picture box

Visual Basic has a picture box control in its toolbox, represented by a cactus (the same icon as is used by Developer Studio to represent a bitmap resource).

1998, Mike Collins, Windows NT infrastructure design, page 325:

Displaying images on a form is very simple with a picture box. Just set the image property to a file on your hard drive.

2004, Kate Gregory, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003: kick start, page 65:

(computing, graphical user interface) A user interface control for displaying an image.


dedent

en-verb

dedent (third-person singular simple present dedents, present participle dedenting, simple past and past participle dedented)

dedents (present singular third-person)
dedenting (participle present)
dedented (participle past)
dedented (past)

Dedent Region If there were any need to prove that Python was a programmer's tool, and not something written for anyone with the slightest grasp of the English language, instead of the Python language, this menu option would dissuade them from that belief. Really, who would call something dedent? ... Unlike the indenting command, dedenting (can this really be used as a verb?) a block can cause problems.

2008, Matthew A. Telles, Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide, →ISBN:

If the body of the if statement, the failwith, was dedented four spaces and therefore lined up with the if keyword, the F# compiler would yield a warning.

2009, Chris Smith, Programming F#, →ISBN, page 7:

Items within a block structure are sequential code statements indented the same amount to indicate that they are related. The first line of code dedented (moved back a notch) after a block structure does not belong to the block structure.

2016, Laura Tateosian, Python For ArcGIS, page 24:

(computing, transitive, primarily Python) To outdent; to remove an indent from.


dedent

(computing, transitive, primarily Python) An outdent.


nonmodem

external clocking A term often used to describe nonmodem clocking; clocks located outside of a modem; because of confusion in the use of the term, it is better to use the terms "modem clocking" and "nonmodem clocking"...

1985, Malcolm G. Lane, Data communications software design:

If you want faster or nonmodem access, you can also purchase a dedicated phone line connection with special hardware.

1997, Brian J. Thomas, The Internet for scientists and engineers: online tools and resources, page 7:

(computing) Not of or pertaining to a modem.


modemless

Although a modemless interface to these non-PCM networks is possible, they are limited in data speed to 4,800 b/s or less […]

1986, James Harry Green, The Dow Jones-Irwin handbook of telecommunications, page 314:


multisession

multisession (third-person singular simple present multisessions, present participle multisessioning, simple past and past participle multisessioned)

multisessions (present singular third-person)
multisessioning (participle present)
multisessioned (participle past)
multisessioned (past)

(computing) To operate multiple simultaneous sessions, for example allowing many users to be active at one time.


autoblock

en-noun

autoblock (usually uncountable, plural autoblocks)

autoblocks (plural)
auto-block (alternative)

From the online vendor documentation, we determined that this version of the WatchGuard Firebox enabled an autoblock feature by default.

2004, TechRepublic, IT security survival guide:

(computing) (An) automatic blocking (inhibition of a feature etc.).


autoblock

en-verb

autoblock (third-person singular simple present autoblocks, present participle autoblocking, simple past and past participle autoblocked)

autoblocks (present singular third-person)
autoblocking (participle present)
autoblocked (participle past)
autoblocked (past)
auto-block (alternative)


RIA

rich Internet application
rich Internet application#English

(computing) Initialism of rich Internet application.


nonpointer

(computing, chiefly attributive) A variable, etc. that is not a pointer.


fileserver

fileservers (plural)
file server (alternative)

(computing) A server used to share files with other computers.


softmodem

(computing) A modem with minimal hardware capabilities, designed to use a host computer's resources to perform most of the tasks performed by dedicated hardware in a traditional modem.


Winmodem

Blend of Windows + modem; from a trademark of U.S. Robotics.

(computing) A softmodem designed to work with the Microsoft Windows operating system.


jump drive

(USB flash drive): A trademark name of flash drives owned by Lexar.


ABAC

attribute-based access control
w:Attribute Based Access Control

(computing) Initialism of attribute-based access control.


autonumbering

Luckily for us, that's where FrameMaker's autonumbering feature comes in. In documents, autonumbering does just what its name implies: It automatically numbers your paragraphs so you don't have to.

2001, Lisa Jahred, FrameMaker 6: Beyond the Basics, page 40:


DFSG

(computing) Initialism of Debian Free Software Guidelines.


TV tuner

(computing) A hardware component that allows a computer to receive television signals.


memoried

en-adj

memoried (comparative more memoried, superlative most memoried)

more memoried (comparative)
most memoried (superlative)

Recently, such price-reduction strategies have been replaced by a stable pricing system for our much more powerful, large-memoried machines of today.

1992, The Journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, page 105:

(poetic, literary or computing, in combination) Having a memory (of a given kind).


SDL

(computing) Initialism of Simple Declarative Language.


RESTful

The RESTafarians — or REST zealots — are probably right that a RESTful approach is best for retrieving information, but it is obviously inappropriate whenever the remote procedure call has side effects.

2005, David Paul Megginson, Imperfect XML: Rants, Raves, Tips, and Tricks, page 124:

In this chapter, we'll build a RESTful web service on top of the MoviesService and OrdersService applications.

2008, Dan Chak, Enterprise Rails, page 279:

representational state transfer
representational state transfer#English

(computing) Using REST (representational state transfer).


writeback

(computing) An operation in which data previously read into a cache is written back to permanent storage.


JSR

(computing) Initialism of Jump to Subroutine: (an assembler command).

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Java Specification Request.


readahead

en-noun

readahead (countable and uncountable, plural readaheads)

(computing) The operation of reading data from a storage medium in advance so that it is immediately available when requested.


spooler

The print spooler sends each page to the printer when it is ready for it.

(computing) A program or process that spools (places data in a queue to be accessed later)


data-bound

(computing) Synchronised with a data source by means of data binding.


multimediocrity

multimediocrity (usually uncountable, plural multimediocrities)

Blend of multimedia + mediocrity, used in the early 1990s.

(slang, computing, rare) Poor-quality multimedia material.


LUG

(computing) Initialism of Linux user group.


unencode

en-verb

unencode (third-person singular simple present unencodes, present participle unencoding, simple past and past participle unencoded)

unencodes (present singular third-person)
unencoding (participle present)
unencoded (participle past)
unencoded (past)


uuencode

uuencode (third-person singular simple present uuencodes, present participle uuencoding, simple past and past participle uuencoded)

uuencodes (present singular third-person)
uuencoding (participle present)
uuencoded (participle past)
uuencoded (past)

After the Unix program uuencode (Unix-to-Unix encoding), for encoding binary data for transmission over the UUCP mail system.

(transitive, computing) To encode (binary data) into a text-based format for transmission.


minisupercomputer

(computing) A computer capable of vector processing and small-scale multiprocessing, a cheaper alternative to a full supercomputer in the 1980s.


Crayette

From Cray + -ette; coined by the industry magazine Datamation.

(computing, informal, dated) Any minisupercomputer with an instruction set compatible with those of Cray supercomputers.


readback

Deverbal from read back, as in read that back to me, please.

If buffer readbacks are used, it is therefore important to try to reduce both the number of readbacks issued and the amount of data read back.

2005, Christer Ericson, Real-time collision detection, page 415:

(computing) The act of reading data back from a location where it has been stored.


socketless

(computing) Without the use of network sockets.


WORA

en-adj

WORA (comparative more WORA, superlative most WORA)

more WORA (comparative)
most WORA (superlative)

Is JavaScript any more WORA than C?

write once, run anywhere
write once, run anywhere#English

(computing) Initialism of write once, run anywhere.


WORE

(computing) Initialism of write once, run everywhere.


content repository

en-noun

content repository (plural content repositories)

content management system
content management system

(computing) The main repository of a content management system.


SNS

Simple Notification Service
w:Amazon Simple Notification Service

(cloud computing) Initialism of Simple Notification Service.


test harness

(computing) A software framework containing tests to verify the behaviour of other software components.


FAT

FAT (countable and uncountable, plural FATs)

File Allocation Table
w:File Allocation Table

file allocation table
file allocation table#English

(computing) Acronym of File Allocation Table or file allocation table.

Any of a series of file systems that use one or more FATs.

(specifically, Microsoft Windows) FAT12 or FAT16, without drawing a distinction between the two.


VFAT

backwards compatibility
backwards compatibility

(computing) Initialism of virtual file allocation table: the method used by Windows 9x and Windows NT to allow the use of long filenames on FAT16 and FAT32 file systems while still providing 8.3 aliases of these filenames for backwards compatibility with systems not supporting long filenames.


FATX

(computing) Abbreviation of Xbox file allocation table: the version of the FAT file system used on Xbox consoles and compatible storage peripherals.


exFAT

(computing) Initialism of extended file allocation table, a 64-bit derivative of the FAT family of file systems.


file allocation table
file allocation table

(computing) A version of the FAT series of file systems which uses a 64-bit file allocation table.

(rare) A hypothetical FAT filesystem using a 64-bit file allocation table, but without the additional data structures found in exFAT.


(computing) The version of the FAT series of file systems which uses a 12-bit file allocation table.


(computing) The version of the FAT series of file systems which uses a 16-bit file allocation table.

(very strictly) The original version of this file system, storing both the number of (real or virtual) disk sectors and the number of sector clusters in a volume as 16-bit integers.

(often) FAT16B, the version of this file system storing the number of clusters in a volume as a 16-bit integer but using a 32-bit integer to represent the total number of sectors in a volume, allowing for larger volume and file sizes.


(computing) The version of the FAT series of file systems which uses a 32-bit file allocation table.


retrig

en-verb

retrig (third-person singular simple present retrigs, present participle retrigging, simple past and past participle retrigged)

retrigs (present singular third-person)
retrigging (participle present)
retrigged (participle past)
retrigged (past)

This command will retrig the same note before playing the next. Where to retrig depends on the speed of the song. If you retrig with 1 in speed 6 that note will be trigged 6 times in one note slot.

1992, Ian Tweedie, “OK here it is!! Mod-File-Format!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard (Usenet):

The clicking during the piano part is specially horrid... It sounds a bit like this: Click! Click-click-click! Whrrrrrr... Click! Click-click-click! Whrrrrrr... etc. (The Whrrrrrr bit sounds a bit like a sample being retrigged at a very high rate (a dozen times per second)).

1993, Justin William Brown, “Nausicaa MID... the clicking :(”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard (Usenet):

However, if you need to use different notes, just use 2 channels and delay the 2nd note instead of retrigging it.

1996, Andrew Carlson, “MOD composition question”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

(transitive, computing, tracker music) To retrigger (a note, or a sample within it).


retrig

(computing, tracker music) The retriggering of a note or sample.


lifelog

lifelog (third-person singular simple present lifelogs, present participle lifelogging, simple past and past participle lifelogged)

lifelogs (present singular third-person)
lifelogging (participle present)
lifelogged (participle past)
lifelogged (past)

(computing) To capture and record images of one's entire life.


lifelog

(computing) A collection of images of events in one's life, analogous to a weblog.


binary-compatible

en-adj

binary-compatible (comparative more binary-compatible, superlative most binary-compatible)

more binary-compatible (comparative)
most binary-compatible (superlative)

(computing) able to run the same binary code intended to be run on another computer


(computing, historical) Initialism of Personal System/2, IBM's second generation of personal computers, released in 1987.


(computing, historical) Ellipsis of IBM PS/1, a line of personal computers.


portscanner

(computing) A software program that performs portscans.


bi-endian

(computing) Supporting both big-endian and little-endian processing.


anigif

The gentleman's original complaint was that his gifs (not anigifs) had been turned into anigifs. The answer you gave would be okay IF he only had one type of graphic involved.

1997 May 8, Ken M. Hale, “Gifs now Anigifs, How to turn them back?”, in microsoft.public.publisher (Usenet), message-ID <01bc5c0c$d93dcc00$e27681ce@premier1.premier1.net>:

If you are asking about making an anigif then the other posts have addys that are good. If you're asking about placing an anigif on yer page, the answer's easy: Place it on like anyother^([sic]) picture.

1998 January 18, Rancie, “Animated Gif”, in alt.homepages.geocities (Usenet), message-ID <34c3b930.0@news1.ibm.net>:

Stella, once you've converted the anigif to avi, insert it into PPT (using Insert/Movie/From File), then right-click it and select Custom Animation.

2001 March 18, Echo S, “Powerpoint 97”, in microsoft.public.design.gallery (Usenet), message-ID <3AB4C80A.E55238BE@indy.net>:

(computing, informal) An animated image in the GIF format.


superglobal

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(computing, programming, in the PHP programming language) Any of a set of special predefined variables that can be accessed at any point in a program without the need to be explicitly declared as global.


pingee

(computing) The recipient of a ping (packet sent over a network to determine the presence of a host).


pseudocoding

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(computing) The expression of an algorithm in pseudocode.


codestream

The codestream obtained after compression of an image with JPEG 2000 is scalable in nature, meaning that it can be decoded in a number of ways.


FTE

(computing, network) Initialism of fault-tolerant Ethernet.


nondomain

(chiefly computing) Not of or pertaining to a domain.


multitaskable

multitaskable (comparative more multitaskable, superlative most multitaskable)

more multitaskable (comparative)
most multitaskable (superlative)

By granularity we mean the length of time to execute a multitaskable segment of the original program on a single CPU. Granularity is measured in time units, rather than floating point operations, […]

2012, Geerd-R. Hoffmann, David F. Snelling, Multiprocessing in Meteorological Models, page 57:

(computing) Capable of being solved or executed using multitasking.


rubout

A direct manipulation editor would support, for example, a single rubout key that uses the cursor to find the appropriate character for deletion […]

1990, Michael D. Harrison, Harold Thimbleby, Formal methods in human-computer interaction, page 130:

The TS-1000 had ENTER instead of NEW LINE and DELETE instead of RUBOUT.

2002, Brotha G, “ZX81 Prototype Keyboard”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):

(computing, uncountable, by extension, dated) Synonym of backspace.


dict

I did not see the message from Joe, when I began to make another attempt to collect a multilingual dict, which is now is included in the Debian Women Project [4] and in my homepage [5]. […] There currently are three sorts of dicts:
 - The acronym dict
 - Translations from and to English languages
 - Monolingual Dictionaries with explanations of words or phrases.

2005 January 26, Jutta Wrage, “Debian Dictionary”, in linux.debian.doc (Usenet):

Other times, they combine words from one big dictionary with words from a smaller one. Steube was able to crack "momof3g8kids" because he had "momof3g" in his 111 million dict and "8kids" in a smaller dict.

2013 May 28, Dan Goodin, “Anatomy of a hack: even your ’complicated’ password is easy to crack”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-27:

(chiefly computing, informal) Clipping of dictionary.


manpage

manpages (plural)
man page (alternative)

From man (“short for manual and a Unix command to display help pages”) + page.

compound

short for <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">manual</i> and a Unix command to display help pages

(computing, Unix) A block of user documentation.


blade server

(computing) A stripped-down server with a modular design, optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy.


mousework

TIP OF THE WEEK Keyboard shortcuts can save time and a lot of mousework for common computing chores, but sometimes it is hard to find them.

2007 June 14, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Fixing Silent Movies in Windows”, in New York Times:

(computing) Activities requiring the use of a mouse (input device).


unassemble

en-verb

unassemble (third-person singular simple present unassembles, present participle unassembling, simple past and past participle unassembled)

unassembles (present singular third-person)
unassembling (participle present)
unassembled (participle past)
unassembled (past)


disambiguator

(computing) A program that determines the meaning of a term from the context in which it is used


byter

This patch is a one-byter.

(computing, in combination with a number) A chunk of data having a size of so many bytes.


kernel space

(computing) The on-board RAM set aside specifically for kernel-related tasks.


cyberzine

Today, comparable cyberzines reach tens of thousands of readers without incurring any printing or distribution costs. The only expenses, in addition to the hard- and software, are modest server and access fees.

1999, Steven Heller, Design literacy (continued): understanding graphic design, page 34:

(computing) A magazine published on the Internet.


MIC

(computing, Microsoft) Initialism of Microsoft Innovation Center.

(computing) Initialism of Message Integrity Check, a strong encryption technology that is employed to prevent an attacker from capturing data packets, altering them and resending them.


backspaceable

The reason was to allow the newer backspaceable Teletypes and their code-compatible derivatives to represent the international character sets more readily.

1992, Joseph M. Newcomer, “ASCII”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet):

Anyway, the standard does allow for non-backspaceable files, at the compiler's choice.

2009, Richard Maine, “Error writing on unit 22”, in comp.lang.fortran (Usenet):

(computing, rare) Supporting a backspace function.


unzipper

The problem is that you may not have the necessary unzipper.

1992 March 31, PC Mag, volume 11, number 6:

Which comes first, the ZIP file or the unzipper? You can't uncompress a file containing PKUNZIP unless you first have PKUNZIP.

1995, Urban A. LeJeune, Jeff Duntemann, Mosaic and Web Explorer, page 202:

(computing) A program that extracts files from compressed archives.


TAPI

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of Telephony Application Programming Interface.


overpunch

overpunch (third-person singular simple present overpunches, present participle overpunching, simple past and past participle overpunched)

overpunches (present singular third-person)
overpunching (participle present)
overpunched (participle past)
overpunched (past)

(transitive, computing) To punch (some value or pattern) over an existing pattern on paper tape.


GID

en-noun

GID (countable and uncountable, plural GIDs)

(computing, Unix) Acronym of group identifier.


zeroable

(computing, linguistics) Capable of being zeroed.


RMI

Remote Method Invocation
remote method invocation#English

(computing) Abbreviation of Remote Method Invocation.


JDK

(computing) Initialism of Java Development Kit.


IIOP

(computing) Initialism of Internet inter-ORB protocol.


RMI-IIOP

(computing) Abbreviation of RMI over IIOP.


JMX

Java Management Extensions
w:Java Management Extensions

(computing) Initialism of Java Management Extensions.


AWT

Abstract Window Toolkit
w:Abstract Window Toolkit

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Abstract Window Toolkit.


(dated, computing) Abbreviation of JavaEE.


(computing) Old abbreviation for JavaSE.


JavaME

Java Platform, Micro Edition
w:Java Platform, Micro Edition

(computing) Acronym of Java Platform, Micro Edition.


JavaSE

Java Platform, Standard Edition
w:Java Platform, Standard Edition

(computing) Acronym of Java Platform, Standard Edition.


JavaEE

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
w:Java Platform, Enterprise Edition

(computing) Abbreviation of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition.


command-line interpreter

command-line interpreter (plural command-line interpreters)

programming language
programming language

(computing) A computer program that reads lines of text entered by a user and interprets them in the context of a given operating system or programming language.


CLDC

(computing) Connected limited device configuration


JTWI

(computing) Initialism of Java Technology for the Wireless Industry.


WMA

(computing) Initialism of Wireless Messaging API.


WMA

(computing) Initialism of Windows Media Audio (file).


PBP

PBP (countable and uncountable, plural PBPs)

(computing) Initialism of personal basis profile (of JavaME).

(computing) Initialism of picture-by-picture.


EVP

Enhanced Virus Protection
w:Enhanced Virus Protection

(computing) Initialism of Enhanced Virus Protection.


multipost

en-verb

multipost (third-person singular simple present multiposts, present participle multiposting, simple past and past participle multiposted)

multiposts (present singular third-person)
multiposting (participle present)
multiposted (participle past)
multiposted (past)

It makes more sense to crosspost than to multipost: that way, replies will all appear together in a single thread.

(computing, ambitransitive) To post several copies of (a message) to different newsgroups.


unbrick

unbrick (third-person singular simple present unbricks, present participle unbricking, simple past and past participle unbricked)

unbricks (present singular third-person)
unbricking (participle present)
unbricked (participle past)
unbricked (past)

Using JTAG to Unbrick Your Router

2007, Paul Asadoorian, Larry Pesce, Linksys WRT54G: ultimate hacking, page 327:

(transitive, slang, computing) To repair a device that was bricked (rendered inoperative).


JCP

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Java Community Process.


SNAP

Subnetwork Access Protocol
w:Subnetwork Access Protocol

(computing) Acronym of Subnetwork Access Protocol.

Scalable Network Application Package
w:Scalable Network Application Package

(computing) Acronym of Scalable Network Application Package.

(computing) Acronym of Symbolic Network Analysis Program.


recompilable

(computing) Capable of being recompiled.


compilability

(computing) The quality of being compilable.


OTA

en-noun

OTA (countable and uncountable, plural OTAs)

(computing, communication) Initialism of over-the-air.


vblank

(television, computing) Abbreviation of vertical blanking.


hblank

(television, computing) Abbreviation of horizontal blanking.


bolt-on

Hagström
Huffy
bolt-on neck
motorized bicycle

This week we take a close look at four top contenders in the multitasking arena […] All the multitasking systems available for microcomputers today fall into one of two distinct categories: "bolt-on" multitaskers, which add multitasking to an operating system (DOS, for example) that originally executed one task at a time; and "built-in" multitaskers, which are part of the operating system by design.

1990 September 24, Brett Glass, Tracey Capen, “Orchestrating Applications: While Desqview Referees MS-DOS Applications, Three Graphics-based Multitaskers Promote Cooperative Look-alike Environments”, in InfoWorld, volume 12, number 39, Menlo Park, Calif.: InfoWorld Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63, column 4:

Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE), also known as Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS), is a digital mobile phone technology which acts as a bolt-on enhancement to 2G and 2.5G General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks.

2007, “Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution”, in Jielin Dong, editor, Network Dictionary, Saratoga, Calif.: Javvin Technologies, →ISBN, page 177:

(figuratively, computing) Used to extend an existing system, operating as an add-on or plug-in.


quadcore

The system runs on the PC with Fedora Linux operating system, 2.5 GHz quadcore processor and 4 GB of memory and is able to process 10 video frames per second in real time […]

2010, George A. Tsihrintzis, Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, page 18:

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


(computing) Short for third level in various contexts

(computing) The third-level cache of a processor, farther away from the processor than the second-level cache.

an L3 switch

(networking) The network layer in the seven-layer OSI network model.


CTS

(computing) Initialism of Common Time System.


protothread

(computing) A lightweight stackless thread used in concurrent programming.


SCJP

Sun Certified Java Programmer
w:Sun Certified Java Programmer

(computing) Initialism of Sun Certified Java Programmer.


CLOS

(computing) Acronym of common Lisp object system.


C++

Notepad++

(computing) Indicates a product with additional features or functionality.


hyperslice

(computing, programming) A set of concerns in aspect-oriented programming.


WAIS

Additionally, gateways exist so that WAIS users can retrieve information from non-WAIS data bases like Gopher, developed by university users of Next computers, and the World Wide Web, which makes available physicists' research from many locations.

1993 February 28, John Markoff, “A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services”, in New York Times:

Wide Area Information Servers
w:Wide Area Information Servers

(computing) Initialism of Wide Area Information Servers.


null modem

(computing) A means of directly connecting two pieces of equipment (computer, printer, etc.) using a serial cable.


rollover cable

(computing) A particular type of cable used to connect consoles to computers.


IDE cable

(computing) A 40-pin parallel cable used between personal computers and storage devices.


SATA cable

(computing) A particular high-speed serial cable


floptical disk

(computing) A form of floppy disk whose head tracking was optically controlled (superseded by compact disc technology).


conventional memory

(computing, computer hardware) The first 640 kilobytes of RAM in an IBM-compatible PC.


base memory

random access memory
random access memory

(computing) The first 640 kilobytes of RAM (random access memory) in an IBM-compatible PC.

(computing) The amount of RAM installed on a new computer, before any optional upgrades.


extended memory

(computing) The extent of memory above the first megabyte in the address space of later PCs


impact printer

(computing, retronym) A printer in which each character is produced by part of the mechanism striking the paper (normally through an inked ribbon)


Tamagotchi

Tamagotchis (plural)
tamagotchi (alternative)

/ˌtaməˈɡɒtʃɪ/

/ˌtɑməˈɡoʊt͡ʃi/

/ˌtɑməˈɡɑt͡ʃi/

A genericization of Tamagotchi, the name of a virtual pet series: the word is a Japanese blend of 卵 (たまご, tamago, “egg”) + ウオッチ (uotchi, from English watch).

blend

from English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">watch</i>

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tamagotchi.

A toy consisting of a small electronic virtual pet, a cyberpet.


unenabled

They too would employ only unindividuated and unenabled blastocysts.

2001 June 1, Louis M. Guenin, “ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Morals and Primordials”, in Science, volume 292, number 5522, →DOI, pages 1659–1660:

(chiefly in embryology or computing) Not having been enabled.


factory reset

A factory reset returns your Android device to “out of the box” condition. It deletes all user data and settings.

2014, Mark Edward Soper, The PC and Gadget Help Desk, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 590:

(computing, computer hardware) A process that restores an electronic device to its factory setting by erasing all user data and personalized configurations.


factory reset

en-verb

factory reset (third-person singular simple present factory resets, present participle factory resetting, simple past and past participle factory reset)

factory resets (present singular third-person)
factory resetting (participle present)
factory reset (participle past)
factory reset (past)

(computing, transitive) To perform a factory reset.


semantics-free

en-adj

semantics-free (comparative more semantics-free, superlative most semantics-free)

more semantics-free (comparative)
most semantics-free (superlative)

However, most of DHT systems focus strictly on handling semantics-free, large-granularity requests for objects by identifier (typically a name). They are limited to caching, pre-fetching, or pushing of content at the object level

2004, Weixiong Rao with Hui Song and Fanyuan Ma, “Querying XML data over DHT System using XPeer”, in Hai Jin, editor, Grid and cooperative computing: GCC 2004, page 559:

They all try to demonstrate that language is more than just the assembling of context-free words using semantics-free rules

2007, Wolfgang Teubert, Text corpora and multilingual lexicography, page 131:

To date, such research has been impossible, since corpora have for the most part been annotated at a relatively shallow (semantics-free) level, forcing NLP researchers to choose between shallow approaches and hand-crafted approaches,

2009, Hans Christian Boas, Multilingual FrameNets in computational lexicography, page 292:

(linguistics, computing) Having no semantic content.


reflowable

(computing, wordprocessing, of text) Capable of having its layout modified so as to fit into the spaces around other objects in a document.


RDP

(computing) Initialism of Remote Desktop Protocol.


PAT

en-noun

PAT (countable and uncountable, plural PATs)

(computing) Initialism of personal access token.


(computing) Initialism of Java 2 Runtime Environment.


mailfile

(computing) A file that stores electronic mail.


JeOS

operating system
operating system#English

(computing) Abbreviation of just enough operating system: one customised to the needs of a specific application, with other features excluded.


DIB

(computing) Abbreviation of device-independent bitmap.


The Commodore 64, a home computer of the 1980s.


crash out

en-verb

crash out (third-person singular simple present crashes out, present participle crashing out, simple past and past participle crashed out)

crashes out (present singular third-person)
crashing out (participle present)
crashed out (participle past)
crashed out (past)

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From crash + out. References online to the slang sense go as far back as a Twitter post from 2013, attributed to YoungBoy Never Broke Again, a rapper from Baton Rouge, La. Popularized by a December 2023 viral TikTok video.

(informal, computing) To terminate with an unhandled error; to crash.


computerist

To the beginning computerist, the printout of memory errors won't mean much. But it does indicate a problem in one of the memory modules.

1981, Eastern House Software, The Monkey Wrench II User's Guide:

The natural question most often asked by novice computerists is, why buy one integrated package instead of several separate packages.

1984, Interface Age: Volume 9, Issues 7-12:


hextet

Each of the eight blocks in an IPv6 network address is a hextet.

(computing) A group of 16 bits, or four nibbles.


filemask

Specify a filemask of *.BMP to match bitmap image files.

(computing) A text pattern that matches certain filenames.


VSS

(computing) Microsoft Volume Snapshot Service


VMS

(computing) Initialism of Virtual Memory System, the operating system for the DEC VAX series of computers.


HAL

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(fiction, computing) A homicidal computer, an artificial intelligence that acts similarly to the HAL 9000 featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey.


multipathing

network interface card
network interface card

(computing) A network facility providing fault tolerance and load-spreading for network interface cards, each interface being assigned a static "test" IP address for diagnostic purposes.


pseudographics

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Pseudographics is an inexpensive way to convey simple graphical information and should probably be used more widely in batch applications.

1991, Marvin D. Dunnette, Leaetta M. Hough, Harry Charalambos Triandis, Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology: Volume 2:

(computing) An approximation of graphics achieved through the use of text characters.


pseudographical

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CompuServe, for example, offers members a pseudographical FTP facility for Internet access.

1996, Rand Dixon, Client/server and open systems:

Surprise your recipients by adding some pseudographical glitz to your email signature.

2008, Philipp Lenssen, Google Apps Hacks, page 126:

(computing) Having the appearance of graphics, though actually text-based.


dictionary attack

en-noun

dictionary attack (plural dictionary attacks)

/ˌdɪkʃənəɹi əˈtæk/

/ˌdɪkʃəˌnɛɹi əˈtæk/

Experts warn against using ordinary words as passwords as they are vulnerable to dictionary attacks.

(computing, cryptography) An attempt to illegally access a computer network, website, etc., that uses a list of words (from a dictionary) to try to guess decryption keys or passwords.

هجوم المعجم

attempt to illegally access a computer network, website, etc., that uses a list of words to try and guess decryption keys or passwords


unpacker

All packed malware consists of the unpacker code and packed data, which typically look like random data. The benefit of packed malware, from a malicious author's point of view, is that it cannot be analyzed until it is properly unpacked.

2007, David Harley, AVIEN malware defense guide for the Enterprise, page 408:

(computing) A software program that decompresses code or data.


supranet

From supra- + net, coined at the turn of the 21st century by information technology analysis firm Gartner.

(computing) the fusion of the physical and the digital (‘virtual’) worlds.


roamable

(computing, telecommunications) Supporting roaming (the use of a network or service from different locations or devices).


renest

en-verb

renest (third-person singular simple present renests, present participle renesting, simple past and past participle renested)

renests (present singular third-person)
renesting (participle present)
renested (participle past)
renested (past)

Renest/merge loops for more concurrent iterations.

1991, Kasra Barkeshli, John L. Volakis, Applications of the Conjugate Gradient FFT Method in Scattering and ...:

(transitive, computing) To nest (code structures) again or differently.


RTTI

(computing) Initialism of run-time type information.

(computing) Initialism of run-time type identification.


TUIO

Tangible User Interface Objects
Tangible User Interface Objects#English

(computing) Initialism of Tangible User Interface Objects.


SDG

en-noun

SDG (countable and uncountable, plural SDGs)

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of single-display groupware.


DTW

(computing) Dynamic Time Warping, a pattern matching algorithm


XTM

(computing) Initialism of XML topic map.


NUI

natural user interface
natural user interface#English

(computing) Initialism of natural user interface.


(computing, dated) Intel 80386, 386 family


PPTP

(computing) Initialism of point-to-point tunnelling protocol.


OSC

Open Sound Control
Open Sound Control#English

(computing) Initialism of Open Sound Control.


Delete

Deletes (plural)
Del (alternative)
delete (alternative)

(computing) A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. The key also erases text from left to right, unlike the backspace key.

touche de suppression

a key that may be pressed to delete something


Shift

(computing) A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously).


natural user interface

natural user interface (plural natural user interfaces)

(computing) A user interface for a computer that is effectively invisible, or becomes invisible to its users with successive learned interactions.


Open Sound Control

(computing) A communication protocol among computers and multimedia devices, such as sound synthesizers, which is optimized for modern networking technology.


TUI

(computing, retronym) Initialism of text-based user interface or terminal user interface.

(computing) Initialism of tangible user interface.

(computing) Initialism of touch user interface.


Pure Data

(computing) A visual programming language for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works.


MIG

Multi Input Gateway
Multi Input Gateway#English

(computing) Initialism of Multi Input Gateway.


Multi Input Gateway

(computing) An interface that receives input from an OSC device and forwards it to applications via Silverlight, Adobe Flash, etc.


CCV

(computing) Initialism of Community Core Vision.


WMV

Windows Media Video
w:Windows Media Video

(computing, video) Initialism of Windows Media Video.


WDM

Windows Driver Model
w:Windows Driver Model

(computing) Initialism of Windows Driver Model.


absolute address

absolute address (plural absolute addresses)

(computing) A numerical value that identifies a fixed location in real storage in terms of the number of bytes from the beginning, or in a peripheral device in terms of disks, sectors and bytes


IRQL

interrupt request
interrupt request#English

(computing) Initialism of interrupt request level.


IRP

(computing) Initialism of I/O request packet.


decompression bomb

decompression bomb (plural decompression bombs)

(computing) A usually malicious file with a very high compression ratio, thus expected to consume a large amount of memory and disk space when decompressed.


multihoming

(computing) A technique to increase the reliability of a network connection by means of additional, alternative network interfaces or IP addresses.


Punycode

Punycode is an encoding, or an escape scheme (depending on how you look at it), for a specific purpose: implementing Internationalized Domain Names (IDN).

2006, Jukka Korpela, Unicode Explained, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 322:

(computing) A mapping from Unicode to the simpler ASCII character set, intended for the representation of international domain names where Unicode is not available.


deindex

en-verb

deindex (third-person singular simple present deindexes, present participle deindexing, simple past and past participle deindexed)

deindexes (present singular third-person)
deindexing (participle present)
deindexed (participle past)
deindexed (past)
de-index (alternative)

(computing, finance, transitive) To remove from an index.


blocklist

Every time I get spam in my inbox, I add the sender to my blocklist.

(computing) A list of websites or other material to be blocked.

danh sách cấm

(computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned.

lista de prohibició

list or set of people or entities to be banned


kBps

(computing) Initialism of kilobytes per second.


Bps

(computing) Initialism of byte per second.


pseudoclass

pseudoclasses (plural)
pseudo-class (alternative)

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(computing, Internet, Cascading Style Sheets) A construct in code that behaves like a class but is not a true class.


pseudoelement

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(computing, Internet, Cascading Style Sheets) An object in code that behaves like an HTML element but is not a true element.


renamer

(computing) A program or process that performs renaming.


nonexecuting

A nonexecuting program is the limp puppet without a hand, an empty shell. Slip a computer inside and it becomes a working software machine: an electric-powered information-transforming machine...

1998, David Hillel Gelernter, Machine beauty: elegance and the heart of technology:

Program comments are nonexecuting statements that you add to a program for the purpose of documentation. Programmers use comments to leave notes for themselves and for others who might read their programs in the future.


domino computer

en-noun

domino computer (plural domino computers)

A mechanical computer built using domino tiles to represent logical operators, so that toppling certain dominos causes a "signal" to propagate.


foistware

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They can acquire viruses, worms, foistware, and back doors.

2003, William R. Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin, Aviel D. Rubin, Firewalls and Internet security: repelling the wily hacker, page 241:

Is it possible to block foistware using Proxomitron or Privoxy filters ?

2003, data64, “What browsers are vulnerable to drive-by download”, in alt.privacy.spyware (Usenet):

It is essential to check for spyware/hijackware/foistware.

2004, Sandi - Microsoft MVP, “won't go to typed-in URL”, in microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.browser (Usenet):

(computing, derogatory) Software that is installed without the user's knowledge or consent, often bundled with another product.


refactorability

(computing) The degree or quality of being refactorable (possible to rewrite without changing the behaviour of the code).


multiaddress

The use of these arrays depends on using multiaddress instructions with a small number of address bits to specify each argument. Thus the size of register arrays is limited.

1987, Fredrick J. Hill, Gerald R. Peterson, Digital systems: hardware organization and design:

(computing) Of or pertaining to more than one address in memory.


uncrunch

en-verb

uncrunch (third-person singular simple present uncrunches, present participle uncrunching, simple past and past participle uncrunched)

uncrunches (present singular third-person)
uncrunching (participle present)
uncrunched (participle past)
uncrunched (past)

Load (but do not run) the BASIC program you want to uncrunch.

Thus when you invoke the crunched version of emacs, for instance, it actually loads the uncruncher, which then loads and uncrunches the rest of emacs.

1989, Ranjit Bhatnagar, “Saving Disk Space (was Re: Relying on ARP)”, in comp.sys.amiga (Usenet):

Presumably, having uncrunched the data from the compressed archive, it's faster to reload the uncrunched version if it's needed again.

2002, Mark Blunden, “Temple District”, in alt.games.baldurs-gate (Usenet):


read-only access

If they want read-only access for political purposes — fine. But don’t give them write access.”

2025 February 18, Jeanne Sahadi, “DOGE’s request for IRS data systems access may pose risks to tax filers”, in CNN:

(computing) A permission to access files or directories where the user is only allowed to read or view, not to make changes.

lesaðgangur

permission where the user cannot make changes


ECM

en-noun

ECM (countable and uncountable, plural ECMs)

enterprise content management
w:Enterprise content management

(computing) Initialism of enterprise content management.


cddr

(computing) Cdr of the cdr in Lisp. The remainder of a list if the first two elements are removed.


lowercasify

en-verb

lowercasify (third-person singular simple present lowercasifies, present participle lowercasifying, simple past and past participle lowercasified)

lowercasifies (present singular third-person)
lowercasifying (participle present)
lowercasified (participle past)
lowercasified (past)

Well, actually, my host is REALLY called "X", but I've already been advised to lowercasify it.

1984 September 15, John Woods, “Local site "x"”, in net.news.newsite (Usenet):

To think of it, propably I need to a) add a section about testing into smtpserver(8) man-page, and also b) lowercasify the lookup key of "aliases".

2000 November 18, Matti Aarnio, “ORBS Problem”, in muc.lists.zmailer (Usenet):

Press it again (or press it when there's already a period there) and it will remove any punctuation and spaces, insert a single space, and lowercasify the following word (unless it's a word that should always be capitalized)

2006 July 9, Keith F. Lynch, “Momentarily verbal (was Re: Talking of old jokes)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet):

(informal, computing) To make lower case.


arrow key

(computing) Any of a set of keyboard keys marked with directional arrows, used for navigation through documents and lists etc.


nonpooled

This method opens a new, nonpooled connection to the database. ASP.NET checks the queue for notifications using this connection.

2010, Matthew MacDonald, Adam Freeman, Mario Szpuszta, Pro ASP.Net 4 in C# 2010, page 509:

(computing, of computer resources) not grouped together, not put together


bugmail

I noticed this software change in my bugmail.

My inbox is flooded with bugmail; I need to set up a filter for it.

A quantity of e-mail messages announcing changes made in a bug tracker.