megabyte

/ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/

The IBM 2301 Drum Storage (Figure 20) provides random access storage of approximately 4 million bytes at a data rate of 1.2 megabytes per second.

1964, System/360 System Summary, IBM, page 27:

This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.

1973, Reference Manual for IBM 3340/3344 Disk Storage, IBM, page 3:

(computing, formal) One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.

One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.

2003, Michael Meyers, Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, page 933:

Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).

2004, Kerry Cox, Christopher Gerg, Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools, page 92:

By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.

2006, Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed, page 290:


mebibyte

At a minimum, a textual (command-line) system requires 256 mebibytes of RAM and a graphical (desktop) system requires 384-512 mebibytes of RAM.

2012, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 29:

(computing) Strictly, 2²⁰ (1024², or 1,048,576) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) kibibytes, as opposed to a megabyte.


preamble

preambles (plural)
præamble (alternative)

From Middle English preamble, from Old French preambule (French préambule), from Medieval Latin praeambulum, from praeambulō (“I walk before”).


kibibyte

The computer's operating system and applications all fit with within 32 kibibytes of read-only memory (ROM); much of the code in the ROM was personally written by Bill Gates.

2018, Simson L. Garfinkel, Rachel H. Grunspan, The Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, New York: Sterling, →ISBN:

(computing) Strictly, 2¹⁰ (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte.


GFX

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of graphics.


SOA

en-noun

SOA (countable and uncountable, plural SOAs)

search-oriented architecture
search-oriented architecture#English

(computing, architecture) Initialism of search-oriented architecture.

service-oriented architecture
service-oriented architecture#English

(computing, architecture) Initialism of service-oriented architecture.

(computing, networks) Initialism of start of authority, a record that identifies the authoritative name server for a specific DNS database segment.


EA

EA (countable and uncountable, plural EAs)

enterprise architecture
enterprise architecture#English

(computing) Initialism of enterprise architecture.

evolutionary algorithm
evolutionary algorithm#English

(computing, biology) Initialism of evolutionary algorithm.


EDI

electronic data interchange
electronic data interchange#English

(computing) Initialism of electronic data interchange.


VBA

Visual Basic for Applications
w:Visual Basic for Applications

(computing) Initialism of Visual Basic for Applications.


DWH

(computing) Initialism of data warehouse.


OLAP

OLAP (countable and uncountable, plural OLAPs)

online analytical processing
w:online analytical processing

(computing) Acronym of online analytical processing.


(computing) Acronym of Post Office Protocol version 3, a standard for receiving Internet email.


hunk

Probably borrowed from West Flemish hunke (“hunk; chunk”), of obscure origin. Probably from an earlier *humke, *humpke, a diminutive related to Dutch homp (“hunk; lump”), English hump, equivalent to hump + -kin. The sense of an attractive man is recorded in Australian slang in 1941, in jive talk in 1945.

(computing) A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.


legacy

From Middle English legacie, from Old French legacie and Medieval Latin lēgātia, from Latin lēgātum.

They have no idea what occurs in the network or its topology, and all of the services remain dependent on it — a very legacy approach to creating services in the optical network.

2000, International Engineering Consortium, The Emerging Optical Network, →ISBN, page 75:

However, pre-relational DBMS are legacy.

2003, Carlo Zaniolo, Peter C. Lockemann, Marc H. Scholl, Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2000, →ISBN:

Finally, the organisation ends up with an expensive ERP of which it uses only part because of divergent evolutionary directions and a set of new systems fast becoming legacy.

2006, Anne Gams Steine Asserson, Eduard J. Simons, Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League, →ISBN, page 118:

There was talk in the past that ERP systems were legacy, lacked the agility and flexibility, and did not support interoperability.

Because most of these HALs are legacy and only used on aging or outdated hardware, chances are that you do not have any in your lab and must be creative in procuring one from an active user.

2009, Kerrie Meyler, Byron Holt, Greg Ramsey, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 Unleashed, →ISBN:

In practice, there are legacy or mature, domain specific, off the shelf (i.e. software that other software projects can reuse and integrate into their own products) tools that are used regularly by modeleres (e.g., for testing purposes, for communication and collaboration).

2013, Management Association, Software Design and Development, →ISBN:

Legacy acts won't stop releasing music

2024 February 24, “Outtakes or must-haves? Legacy acts won't stop releasing music - have we reached Peak Archive?”, in The Independent, The Independent, retrieved 2025-03-07:

(especially computing) Left over from the past; old and no longer current.

遺留的 /遗留的

left behind, old or no longer in active use


ADT

ADT (countable and uncountable, plural ADTs)

(computing) Initialism of acknowledged data transfer.

advanced DRAM technology
advanced DRAM technology#English

(computing) Initialism of advanced DRAM technology.


interpret

en-verb

interpret (third-person singular simple present interprets, present participle interpreting, simple past and past participle interpreted)

interprets (present singular third-person)
interpreting (participle present)
interpreted (participle past)
interpreted (past)

From Middle English interpreten, from Old French enterpreter, (French interpréter), from Latin interpretor (“to explain, expound, interpret”), past participle interpretatus, from interpres (“an agent, broker, explainer, interpreter, negotiator”), from inter (“between”) + -pres, probably the root of pretium (“price”); -pres is probably connected with Ancient Greek φράζειν (phrázein, “to point out, show, explain, declare, speak”), from which φραδή (phradḗ, “understanding”), φράσις (phrásis, “speech”); see phrase.

cog

(computing, transitive) To analyse or execute (a program) by reading the instructions as they are encountered, rather than compiling in advance.


LAMPP

(computing) Initialism of Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl: an interoperable group of open-source software for serving websites.


snippet

(computing) A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.

snippet

a textfile containing a relatively small amount of code


snippet

en-verb

snippet (third-person singular simple present snippets, present participle snippeting or (nonstandard) snippetting, simple past and past participle snippeted or (nonstandard) snippetted)

snippets (present singular third-person)
snippeting (participle present)
snippetting (nonstandard participle present)
snippeted (participle past)
snippeted (past)
snippetted (nonstandard participle past)
snippetted (nonstandard past)

We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.

(transitive, often computing) To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.


MSFC

(computing) Initialism of multilayer switch feature card.


authentication

/ɔːˌθɛntɪˈkeɪʃn/

(computing) proof of the identity of a user logging on to some network


gotcha

gotchas (plural)
gotchya (alternative)
gottcha (alternative)
gotchu (alternative)

A potential problem or source of trouble.

(computing) A feature of a system or a program that works in the way it is documented but is counter-intuitive and almost invites mistake or non-function.

gotcha

(computing) a feature that is counter-intuitive


partition

en-noun

partition (countable and uncountable, plural partitions)

/pɑɹˈtɪ.ʃən/

/pɑɹˈtɪ.ʃɪn/

Recorded c.1430, "division into shares, distinction," from Middle English particioun, from Old French particion (modern partition), from Latin partitio, partitionem (“division, portion”), from partitus, the past participle of partire (“to split (up), part(ition)”).

der

The epicenter of the disturbance is the partition currently housing a [personality construct array] retrieved from Contender AI 05-032 <+> 0816.

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Three (Legendary):

(computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.

পার্টিশন

(computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).


gadget

Unknown. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come from French gâchette or gagée, or from the French family name Gaget, an industrialist who produced promotional gadgets in collaboration with the project to build the statue of Liberty.

A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.

Security > Red Hat > CVE Database > CVE-2019-1125

(computing) A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.


annoybot

(computing, slang) A bot within an IRC channel that sends annoying messages to online participants.


knowbot

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(computing) a bot that roams a distributive network (especially the Internet) to gather or distribute information


shopping bot

(computing) A bot that searches the Internet for the best price of a particular retail product.


change management

(computing) the controlled implementation of required changes to some system; includes version control and planned fallback


client-server

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(computing) describes computer software usually comprising a number of client modules, and a server module to which they are connected in some way. The clients make requests of the server; the server processes the requests and returns the results to the appropriate client.


cut and paste

en-verb

cut and paste (third-person singular simple present cuts and pastes, present participle cutting and pasting, simple past and past participle cut and pasted)

cuts and pastes (present singular third-person)
cutting and pasting (participle present)
cut and pasted (participle past)
cut and pasted (past)

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(computing) To delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or a different one.


tutorial

/t͡ʃʉˈtoːɹɪ.əl/

The adjective is from tutor (noun) + -ial, ultimately from Latin tūtor (“watcher, protector, defender”). The noun is transferred from the adjective.

der

(computing) A video or text guide or instruction about a specific topic (generally a how-to).

tutorial

computing: video that is basically a how-to


warwalking

From war + walking, modelled on war-dialing.

(Internet, computing) The act of walking around with a wireless device to find an access point for a wireless network.


scrape

en-verb

scrape (third-person singular simple present scrapes, present participle scraping, simple past and past participle scraped)

scrapes (present singular third-person)
scraping (participle present)
scraped (participle past)
scraped (past)

From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skrebʰ- (“to engrave”).
Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”), Danish skrabe (“to scrape”), Icelandic skrapa (“to scrape”), Walloon screper (“to scrape”), Latin scribō (“dig with a pen, draw, write”).

cog

They didn't provide an API, so I simply scraped their website.

The threat of the impending axe horrified Scott. He and his supporters hastily “scraped” as many Geocities^([sic]) pages as they could, creating a 641-gigabyte archive that initially circulated on file-sharing networks.

2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist:

(computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.

škrábat

cause to be in a certain state by scraping


synchronize

en-verb

synchronize (third-person singular simple present synchronizes, present participle synchronizing, simple past and past participle synchronized)

tlb

(American spelling, Oxford British English)

synchronizes (present singular third-person)
synchronizing (participle present)
synchronized (participle past)
synchronized (past)
synchronise (alternative)

From Ancient Greek συγχρονίζω (sunkhronízō), equivalent to syn- + chrono- + -ize.

زَامَنَ

cause two events to have coordinated timing

(computing, ambitransitive) To cause (a set of files, data, or settings) on one computer or device to be (and try to remain) the same as on another.


biter

The first microprocessor was a 4-bit device called the 4004. Today you can buy 1-bit machines, 4-biters, 8-biters, 12-biters and 16-biters. Which one should you buy, and why?

1978, Product Engineering, volume 49, page unknown:

Didn't know it was an 8-biter first, cool. The ST Star Raiders is pretty cool - my fav one yet & worth any $5.

1994 July 22, Jonathan T. Hunt, “ST Star Raiders”, in rec.games.video.atari (Usenet):

(in combination, computing) Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits.


hose

en-verb

hose (third-person singular simple present hoses, present participle hosing, simple past and past participle hosed)

hoses (present singular third-person)
hosing (participle present)
hosed (participle past)
hosed (past)

From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).
Cognate with West Frisian hoas (“hose”), Dutch hoos (“stocking, water-hose”), German Hose (“trousers”); also, Tocharian A kać (“skin”), Russian кишка́ (kišká, “gut”), Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), Sanskrit कोष्ठ (koṣṭha, “intestine”). More at sky.

cog

There aren't any tricky hexadecimal calculations to snare your brain, nor is there a need to worry about hosing the registry for all eternity.

2006 Spring, Joel Durham Jr., “Pimp Out Win XP with TweakUI”, in Maximum PC, Future US, Inc., →ISSN, page 63:

(transitive, computing, slang) To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content.


number sign

(computing) The character # used to represent the word number.


hybrid computer

en-noun

hybrid computer (plural hybrid computers)

A computer that features the best characteristics of the analog computer and digital computer.


brittle

en-adj

brittle (comparative brittler or more brittle, superlative brittlest or most brittle)

brittler (comparative)
more brittle (comparative)
brittlest (superlative)
most brittle (superlative)

From Middle English britel, brutel, brotel (“brittle”), from Old English *brytel, *bryttol (“brittle, fragile”, literally “prone to or tending to break”); equivalent to brit + -le.

(engineering, computing, of a system) Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.


jagged

jagged (comparative more jagged, superlative most jagged)

more jagged (comparative)
most jagged (superlative)

(computing) Of an array, having a different cardinality in each dimension, such that a representation on paper would appear uneven.


reflection

en-noun

reflection (countable and uncountable, plural reflections)

reflections (plural)
reflexion (alternative)

/ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/

From Middle French reflexion, reflection, and its source Late Latin reflexio, from the participle stem of reflectō. The current spelling is influenced by reflect.

відобра́ження

representative manifestation or outcome of a condition, trend or trait

DynamicMBeanFacade uses Java's reflection API to introspect the managed resource and discover data type information for attributes.

2002, Java Enterprise Best Practices, O'Reilly:

(computing) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.

reflektio

(computing) process of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time


flic

From flick in the cinematographic sense.

(computing) A data file containing computer animations.


hax

OMG, hax! That player just ran through a solid wall.


parsable

en-adj

parsable (comparative more parsable, superlative most parsable)

more parsable (comparative)
most parsable (superlative)
parseable (alternative)

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Well-formed XML is an example of parsable text.

The regular languages are also efficiently parsable and used extensively in computing for string matching.

2019, Hannes Hapke, Cole Howard, Hobson Lane, Natural Language Processing in Action, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:


JHOVE

(computing) JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment: a format-specific digital object validation API written in Java.


pessimistic

pessimistic (comparative more pessimistic, superlative most pessimistic)

more pessimistic (comparative)
most pessimistic (superlative)

pessimistic concurrency; pessimistic locking

(computing) Taking out exclusive locks on data to prevent conflicts with other processes that might modify it.


postfix

Two, or three at the very most, of the prefixes or postfixes are quite sufficient for one day's lesson.

1843, George Moody, The English journal of education, volume 1, page 69:

An example of a postfix operator is the ++ notation used in the C programming language to increment the value of a variable.

2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §9.4


overhead

en-noun

overhead (countable and uncountable, plural overheads)

From Middle English owerheved, over-hed, over hede (adverb), from Old English oferhēafod (adverb), equivalent to over- + head. Compare German Low German overhoopt, överhoopt, German überhaupt.

computational overhead| digital overhead

Network overhead is the header data that is required to route and transport data over the network, whereas fork overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within the operating system.

(computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.

Overhead

data or steps of computation used only to facilitate computation


VM

When the Java VM executes the switch statement, it determines the value of the target expression.

2005, Jeff Langr, Agile Java: Crafting Code with Test-Driven Development, Pearson Education, →ISBN:

(computing) Initialism of virtual machine.

(computing) Initialism of virtual memory.


HD

HD (countable and uncountable, plural HDs)

(computing) Initialism of hard disc, hard disk, or hard drive.


codimension

(computing) A scope that indicates another variable of the same name and type is assigned to the local memory of each image.


NAK

(computing): A negative ACK; a response indicating that a message was not fully received, or that there was a problem with the message.


pitfall

First recorded use in the 14th century from pit + fall in the sense of "pit trap, pit snare", from Old English fealle (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *fallą, *fallaz (“a fall, trap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pōl-. Cognate with German Falle (“trap, snare”).


twiddle

en-verb

twiddle (third-person singular simple present twiddles, present participle twiddling, simple past and past participle twiddled)

twiddles (present singular third-person)
twiddling (participle present)
twiddled (participle past)
twiddled (past)

Unknown. Perhaps a blend of twirl, twist, or twitch + fiddle.

blend

(transitive, computing) To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits).


e-zine

After reading the submission guidelines for various e-zines and print markets, I've found a wide variety of "rights" listed.

2003, Tina Morgan, Know Your Rights, Fiction Factor: The online magazine for fiction writers:

(computing) A magazine published in electronic form, especially on the World Wide Web.


designer

→ Dutch: designer

→ Finnish: designer

→ French: designer

→ Italian: designer

→ Japanese: デザイナー (dezainā)

→ Korean: 디자이너 (dijaineo)

→ Portuguese: designer

→ Russian: диза́йнер (dizájner) (see there for further descendants)

→ Swedish: designer

a font designer

a level designer for a video game

(computing) A software tool for designing things.


browser

A program which provides access to the hypertext world we call a browser.

[1990 November 12, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C):

The real strengthof AR browsers is their discoverability. Today, browsers have most of the attention and it's amazing how many people have yet to experience a browser for themselves. Browsers are incredibly useful ways to discover information about places and objects around you.

2011, Lester Madden, Professional Augmented Reality Browsers for Smartphones: Programming for junaio, Layar and Wikitude, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 10:

(computing, by extension) Any other type of information browser.


nybble

From nibble (“small, quick bite”), with the i changed to y by analogy with byte.

I own several abaci and two books on how to use them, but they all have four counters below the bar and one counter above it. […] The bottom four counters of each abacus can be used to represent a "nybble," and the upper counter on each can be used for parity.

1978 May 22, William B. Adams, “Letters to the Editor: Query on Abacus”, in E. Drake Lundell Jr., editor, Computerworld: The Newsweekly for the Computer Community, volume XII, number 21, Newton, Mass.: CW Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26, column 4:

At every negative-going transition it reads a 4-bit ADPCM nybble (there are 2 nybbles per byte) and stores it in a memory-resident table.

1983 June, Steve Ciarcia, “Ciarcia’s Circuit Cellar: Use ADPCM for Highly Intelligible Speech Synthesis”, in Lawrence J. Curran, editor, Byte: The Small Systems Journal, volume 8, number 6, Peterborough, N.H.: Byte Publications, McGraw-Hill, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 1:

Data is being received by a system in serial sequences of four bit nybbles. (A nybble is usually defined as a four bit grouping.) […] Our mission, should we decide to accept it, is to test each nybble and determine whether or not the four bits constitute a valid BCD (8421) number.

1985, Ronald C. Emery, “General Sequential Circuitry”, in Digital Circuits: Logic and Design (Electrical Engineering and Electronics; 25), New York, N.Y.; Basel, Basel-Stadt: Marcel Dekker, →ISBN, page 171:

Similarly, it's easy to convert a binary number such as %1100011010110010 into its hexadecimal equivalent. All we have to do is to split the binary value into 4-bit nybbles and to map each nybble onto its corresponding hexadecimal digit.

2005, Clive “MAX” Maxfield, Alvin Brown, The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math […], Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 20:

(computing) Alternative spelling of nibble (“unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits”).


Ajax

Short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by…

2005, Jesse James Garrett, Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications:

(computing) A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.


mixed initiative

en-noun

mixed initiative (plural mixed initiatives)

(computing) A computer-human interaction in which either the computer or the human can take initiative and decide what to do next.


completion

completion (countable and uncountable, plural completions)

termination

antonym(s) of “making complete, accomplishment”

Borrowed from Latin completio, completionem, from complere (“to fill up, complete”); comparable to English complete + -ion.

tab completion


datestamp

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(computing) The date on which an event occurred, often included in a log to track the sequence of events.


Alpha

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(computing) A RISC CPU instruction set architecture developed and marketed by Digital Equipment Corporation (then later by Compaq and then Hewlett-Packard) from 1992 until 2004.


Alt

Abbreviation of alternate or alternative.

(computing) A modifier key used to change (alternate) the function of other pressed keys.


Android

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(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile operating system currently developed by Google.


Android

Both Androids and iPhones have a timer that can delay taking a photo by up to 10 seconds.

2016, Technology Made Easy: Simple Ways to Use Your Computer, Phone, and Other Electronic Devices, Peachtree City, Ga.: FC&A Publishing, →ISBN, page 317:

(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile phone running on Android OS.


B

From abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’.
* (billion): abbreviation of billion
* (cricket): abbreviation of balls
* (bitch): abbreviation of bitch


Bash

Short for Bourne-again shell, a pun on the name of the Bourne shell, an earlier Unix shell designed by Stephen R. Bourne, and the Christian concept of being "born again".

Baŝo

computing: command interpreter for operating systems

Bash stands for “Bourne-again shell”.

(computing) The Free Software Foundation's command interpreter (the "shell") for UNIX-like operating systems.


Bliss

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programming language
programming language

(computing) a programming language used for systems programming primarily on computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Bliss is a parallel language to C, both being derived from B and BCPL


Blowfish

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(computing) A symmetric block cipher encryption algorithm used in modern cryptographic software, designed by Bruce Schneier in 1993.


Cedar

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(computing) A programming language, adding various features to the earlier language Mesa.


Cocoa

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(computing) an object-oriented programming API for macOS


Excel

“Do you know Excel?” ¶ “No.” ¶ “Could you learn?” ¶ “Probably not. I find it very difficult to learn things I don't already know.” Then, remembering the advice that I try to sell myself, I added, “But I'm sure I'd pick it up eventually.”

2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 9:

(computing, software) A spreadsheet application software program written and distributed by Microsoft.


Google

A deliberate misspelling of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.

(computing, trademark) A search engine that popularized the company of the same name.


Home

(computing) A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or in a web browser to the top of the web page.


I

I (countable and uncountable, plural Is)

(computing) Abbreviation of instruction.


K

Abbreviations.
# (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of counter, prefix counter-, sequence contr.

ng

prefix <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">counter-</i>, sequence contr.

5k = 5,000

(often computing) Abbreviation of kilo-, 1,000 or 1,024.

(computing) A single character message used as an acknowledgement (ACK), meaning "previous message received and understood."


Lintel

(computing) The computing environment of the Linux operating system running on an Intel CPU; mostly in a server.


Macintosh

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From Scottish Gaelic Mac an Tòisiche, meaning "son of the thane (Old Irish toísech (“leader”))". The brand is named after McIntosh, an apple cultivar, in turn also from the Scottish Gaelic name.

(computing) A brand of personal computer manufactured by Apple Inc.


Me

(computing) Windows Me (Millennium Edition).


Net

The Web is just part of the Net.


PK

en-noun

PK (countable and uncountable, plural PKs)

(computing, databases) Initialism of primary key.


POH

(computing) Initialism of powered-on hours.


Pentium

Given the usual Pentium-level processors now commonly available and the amount of memory these systems typically contain, the program we have developed can deal (optimally) with object set sizes in the lower teen’s, but even this requires the capability of Fortran90 to allocate very large arrays dynamically (and inform the user whether sufficient memory exists on the system to solve the problem of the size being requested).

1997, Lawrence Hubert, Phipps Arabie, Jacqueline Meulman, “Hierarchical clustering and the construction of (optimal) ultrametrics using Lₚ-norms”, in Yadolah Dodge, editor, L₁-Statistical Procedures and Related Topics (Institute of Mathematical Statistics: Lecture Notes—Monograph Series; volume 31), Hayward, Calif.: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, →ISBN, section VII (Classification), page 464:

A CPU chip designed and manufactured by Intel, successor to the 486 chip, introduced in 1993.


Swift

If anyone outside Apple saw Swift coming, they certainly weren't making any public predictions.

2014 June 5, John Timmer, “A fast look at Swift, Apple’s new programming language”, in Ars Technica:

Apple has made its Swift programming tools open source, Google opened up its TensorFlow machine-learning software, and IBM did the same with its SystemML.

2015 December 14, Steve Lohr, “Stephen Wolfram Aims to Democratize His Software”, in New York Times:

Unlike some children’s apps, which employ drag-and-drop blocks to teach coding, the Apple program uses Swift, a professional programming language that the company introduced in 2014.

2016 September 13, Natasha Singer, “Apple Offers Free App to Teach Children Coding (iPads Sold Separately)”, in New York Times:

(computing) A general-purpose multi-paradigm compiled programming language introduced by Apple Inc. in 2014.


Telex

Central Telegraph Office
General Post Office
Telex (input method)
Western Union

From Telex Printergram, a service offered beginning 15 Aug. 1932 by the British General Post Office's Central Telegraph Office, derived as a blend of tele- (“telegraph, teletype, teleprinter, etc.”) + exchange. Subsequently branded in the United States by Western Union and then similarly genericized. In reference to the Vietnamese conventions, a borrowing of Vietnamese Telex, from French télex, from the English term.

blend

(computing) Input method for Vietnamese text based on this convention.


Tor

tor (alternative)
TOR (alternative)
T.O.R. (alternative)

(computing) Abbreviation of The Onion Routing, an implementation of second-generation onion routing.


Whetstone

The benchmark is named after the Whetstone compiler built at a English Electric Company division in Whetstone, Leicestershire.

Developed in the early 1970s by Harold Curnow and Brian Wichmann, Whetstones was originally released in Algol and Fortran versions but was later translated into several other languages.

2016, Joseph D. Dumas II, Computer Architecture: Fundamentals and Principles of Computer Design, second edition, CRC Press, →ISBN:

Whetstone reflects mostly numerical computing, using a substantial amount of floating-point arithmetic.

2018, Sajjan G. Shiva, Advanced Computer Architectures, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 67:

(computing) A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.


Whetstone

The Prodigy 4 does 500,000 Whetstones.

1994, Binod C. Agrawal, Larry R. Symes, Future of Computerisation in Institutions of Higher Learning, Concept Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 92:

(computing) A single instruction of the Whetstone benchmark, often expressed as a value per second.


shuck

en-verb

shuck (third-person singular simple present shucks, present participle shucking, simple past and past participle shucked)

shucks (present singular third-person)
shucking (participle present)
shucked (participle past)
shucked (past)
shock (alternative dialectal)

Origin unknown. Possibly a dialectal survival of unrecorded Middle English *schulk(e), *schullok (“small shell”); either from Old English *sċylluc, *sċylloc, diminutive of Old English sċyll (“shell”), or alternatively created in Middle English from Middle English schulle, schelle (“shell, husk, pod”) + -ok, making it equivalent to shell + -ock (diminutive suffix) or shell + -k (diminutive suffix).

unknown

Origin unknown

(computing, slang, transitive) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.


greek

en-verb

greek (third-person singular simple present greeks, present participle greeking, simple past and past participle greeked)

greeks (present singular third-person)
greeking (participle present)
greeked (participle past)
greeked (past)

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Probably from Greek (“unintelligible speech or text”).

You can specify the type size below which text will be greeked in the Preferences dialog box. Designers often prefer to use greeked text in rough layouts because it helps the client focus on the design rather than on the words.

1991, Ronnie Shushan, Don Wright, Desktop Publishing by Design, 2nd edition, Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, →OCLC:

If text gets smaller than this value, [Adobe] Illustrator shows the text blocks as gray bars, an operation called greeking. Both type size and view size figure into the equation, so that 6-point type greeks at 100-percent view size and 12-point type greeks at 50 percent. Greeking speeds the screen display because gray bars are easier to draw than individual characters.

2002, Deke McClelland, “The Interface”, in Real World Adobe Illustrator 10, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, →ISBN, pages 46–47:

(transitive, computing) To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.

(transitive, computing) To fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form can be focused on instead of content.


MAC

en-noun

MAC (countable and uncountable, plural MACs)

(computing) Initialism of multiply and accumulate, a hardware module found in digital signal processors which performs a multiplication and adds the result of that operation to an accumulator in the same cycle, used extensively in implementations of digital filters, transforms, and codecs.


sift

en-verb

sift (third-person singular simple present sifts, present participle sifting, simple past and past participle sifted)

sifts (present singular third-person)
sifting (participle present)
sifted (participle past)
sifted (past)

From Middle English syften, from Old English siftan, from Proto-West Germanic *siftijan.

(computing, dated, transitive) To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.


personal digital assistant

en-noun

personal digital assistant (plural personal digital assistants)

The device, about the size of a fat paperback book, represents the most ambitious attempt yet by computer and communications companies to pool their resources in hopes of finally creating a market for what the industry calls "personal digital assistants."

[1994 September 28, Lawrence M. Fisher, “Personal Digital Assistant, Part III”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Already, Sharp owns at least 60 percent of the market for personal digital assistants, or P.D.A.'s, with its Wizard line, ranking far ahead of Hewlett-Packard, Casio, Apple Computer and other competitors past and present.

1994 December 18, Laurie Flynn, “Sharp Unveils a New Breed of Personal Digital Assistant”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(dated) A hand-held computer, mostly used as an organizer.

個人數位助理 /个人数位助理

kò-jîn sò͘-ūi chō͘-lí, kò-lîn sò͘-ūi chō͘-lí

携帯情報端末

けいたいじょうほうたんまつ


BOFH

bastard operator from hell
bastard operator from hell#English

(slang, computing, Internet) Initialism of bastard operator from hell.


shell out

en-verb

shell out (third-person singular simple present shells out, present participle shelling out, simple past and past participle shelled out)

shells out (present singular third-person)
shelling out (participle present)
shelled out (participle past)
shelled out (past)

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(computing, especially Unix) To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.


preso

We need to provide a pause of "down time" after each preso for the streaming team to save the captured video to disk before beginning the next presentation.

1999 August 30, Eric Krock, “CodeStock E1 speakers: coordinating Gecko/JS embedding presentations”, in netscape.public.mozilla.embedding (Usenet):

“Now that I've finished Russ's preso, neither do I!”

2003 August, J. D. Richard, Oh, Crapper!, Xlibris Corporation, page 245:

Sorry no formal preso for you, but the first point is a real killer in my book.

2005 March 11, Carey Matthew Black, “AR System Presentation”, in Remedy ARS (Usenet):


CDT

(computing) Initialism of C/C++ Development Toolkit (a component of Eclipse)


CST

en-noun

CST (countable and uncountable, plural CSTs)

(computing) Initialism of concrete syntax tree.


data glove

data gloves (plural)
dataglove (alternative)

(computing) a glove containing sensors to detect movement of the hand and fingers, used to control a computer-generated virtual reality environment


data warehouse

Coined by IBM researchers Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy in 1988.

(computing) A collection of data, from a variety of sources, organized to provide useful guidance to an organization's decision-makers.


dependency

dependency (countable and uncountable, plural dependencies)

From dependent + -cy or dependence + -y or depend + -ency.

This library has dependencies on a lot of other libraries. We have to compile all of those other libraries first.

(computing) Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.

One of this library's dependencies is very finicky. It can be hard to get it to compile on some systems.

(computing) An external component whose functionality is relied on.


PBR

PBR (countable and uncountable, plural PBRs)

(computing) Initialism of policy-based routing.


DD

DD (countable and uncountable, plural DDs)

(computing) Initialism of Debian developer.


PSW

program status word
program status word#English

(computing) Initialism of program status word.


blivet

Unknown; seems to have been coined by American soldiers in World War Two.

(computing, slang) A program that has messy source code.


EDM

EDM (countable and uncountable, plural EDMs)

(computing) Initialism of electronic document management.

(computing) Initialism of entity data model.


cruft

Circa 1959, MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. Unknown origin; possibly from Cruft Hall, built in 1915 as a gift from a donor named Harriet Otis Cruft. Cruft Hall was the radar laboratory of Harvard's physics department during the Second World War, which contained much old and unused technical equipment. Possibly blend of crust + fluff, both of which may form on old abandoned things, or influenced by crud.

The PEB includes the list of loaded modules (i.e., the EXE and DLLs), the memory containing environment strings, the current working directory, and data for managing the process’ heaps—as well as lots of special-case Win32 cruft that has been added over time.

2015 [1992], Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 908:

Best developer practices run the gamut from keeping the cruft out of your code to ensuring your code is accessible to all your application or site’s users.

2015, Shelley Powers, JavaScript Cookbook, Sebastopol: O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 143:

Sawyer cites responses to a message saying "there is cruft in [Perl]" as the excuse some Perl community members used to "push him into a corner" until he deactivated his Twitter account.

2021 August 14, Jim Salter, quoting Sawyer X, “The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct enforcement”, in Ars Technica:

(computing, slang) Redundant, old or improperly written code, especially that which accumulates over time.


cruft

en-verb

cruft (third-person singular simple present crufts, present participle crufting, simple past and past participle crufted)

crufts (present singular third-person)
crufting (participle present)
crufted (participle past)
crufted (past)


meg

Clipping of megabyte, megahertz, megajoule, etc.

(computing) - "My new computer has over 500 megs [or meg] of RAM." (megabytes)

(radio) - "What frequency does Radio XYZ broadcast on?" "105.7 meg." (megahertz)

(heating) - "a 250-meg gas heater" (megajoule)

(colloquial) Any unit having the SI prefix mega-.


fetch

The verb is derived from Middle English fecchen (“to get and bring back, fetch; to come for, get and take away; to steal; to carry away to kill; to search for; to obtain, procure”) [and other forms], from Old English feċċan, fæċċan, feccean (“to fetch, bring; to draw; to gain, take; to seek”), a variant of fetian, fatian (“to bring near, fetch; to acquire, obtain; to bring on, induce; to fetch a wife, marry”) and possibly related to Old English facian, fācian (“to acquire, obtain; to try to obtain; to get; to get to, reach”), both from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to hold, seize; to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”).
The English word is cognate with Dutch vatten (“to apprehend, catch; to grasp; to understand”), German fassen (“to catch, grasp; to capture, seize”), English fet (“(obsolete) to fetch”), Faroese fata (“to grasp, understand”), Danish fatte (“to grasp, understand”), Swedish fatta (“to grasp, understand”), Icelandic feta (“to go, step”), West Frisian fetsje (“to grasp”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

nb...

facch, facche, facchen, fach, fache, fæchen, fatche, feccean, fecche, fecchen, fecchenn, fecchyn, fech, fechchen, feche, fechen, fechin, fechyn, fetche, fetchen, fetchyn, focche, focchen, fochche, foche, fotche, vacche, vacchen, vecche, vecchen, vechchen,

cog

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Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete

a fetch from a cache

(also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

(computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.


login

I've forgotten my login again.

If you’re currently confused considering she [Billie Eilish] made $50 million in one year—don’t forget about how high Billie’s taxes must be and how high her expenses presumably are. Anyway, if you need me, I’ll be here using my friend’s ex’s mom’s Netflix log-in.

2024 September 4, Mehera Bonner, Samantha Olson, “Behold, A Breakdown of Billie Eilish's Massive Net Worth”, in Cosmopolitan:

(computing) Credentials: the combination of a user's identification and password used to enter a computer, program, network, etc.

Your login failed because you weren't connected to the office network.

(computing) The process or an instance of logging in.


Hungarian notation

/hʌŋˈɡɛɹi.ən noʊˈteɪʃən/

The notation was invented by Charles Simonyi (born 1948), Hungarian-American computer programmer.

lpsz is Hungarian notation for a 32-bit pointer to a null-terminated string.

(computing, programming) A naming convention in which the name of a variable indicates its data type and intended use by including abbreviations as prefixes.


LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
w:Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.


snapshot

This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.

(computing) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.

στιγμιότυπο

(Computing) Files captured at a particular time that are capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state


snapshot

en-verb

snapshot (third-person singular simple present snapshots, present participle snapshotting, simple past and past participle snapshotted)

snapshots (present singular third-person)
snapshotting (participle present)
snapshotted (participle past)
snapshotted (past)

Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.

2007, David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure, page 30:

(transitive, computing) To capture the state of, in a snapshot.


navigator

Although the window looks like a view of files and folders on disk, the “folders” that appear here are called groups; they don't exist on disk. They appear in the navigator because it's convenient to group related files together […]

2012, Richard Wentk, iOS App Development Portable Genius, page 38:

(computing) A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.


all elbows

From the idea that these programs rudely elbow others out of their way.

Multicom goes beyond lame. It's about the worst example of
an 'all elbows' 1984 vintage DOS program that I've seen in
a long time. Yuk!

1995 October 12, Randy Reames, “MFJ-1278 Software?”, in rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc (Usenet):

It /will/ nuke NT's loader, but that's because NT is all
elbows when it comes to booting.

1998 December 20, Iain Georgeson, “Boot sector woes”, in alt.dur.general (Usenet):

Amen, even more than most games poor `all elbows' behavior, modern
games are generally boring to the extreme.

2002 March 22, Dowe Keller, “Hardest Mistake in Comp Arch to Fix”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet):

(computing, dated) of a program that steals whatever resources it needs without consideration for other tasks.


pixelated

en-adj

pixelated (comparative more pixelated, superlative most pixelated)

more pixelated (comparative)
most pixelated (superlative)
pixellated (alternative UK)

The photo may be pixelated if you print it too large.

The free-flowing pixelated compositions, while full of angles, owe something to automatist drawing.

2008 March 14, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times:

(computing) Of an image, visibly made of discrete pixels.

pikselöity

of an image, visibly made of discrete pixels


octal

en-noun

octal (countable and uncountable, plural octals)

(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) The number system that uses the eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

(arithmetic, computing, countable) A digit or value in the octal number system.


octal

(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in octal or mathematical calculations performed using octal.

八進制 /八进制

concerning numbers expressed in octal or mathematics calculations performed using octal


ER

ER (countable and uncountable, plural ERs)

(computing) Initialism of entity-relationship.


CMYK

(computing, printing) Initialism of cyan, magenta, yellow, key: the colour model used in colour printing.


thicket

From Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce (“thick”) + Old English nominal suffix -et. Compare similar German Dickicht (“thicket”), which is first attested in the 17th century, however.
Compare typologically Bulgarian гъстак (gǎstak), Macedonian густеж (gustež), Czech houští, Polish gęstwina (< Proto-Slavic *gǫstъ); Latin dūmus (akin to dense).

(computing, figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.


padding

padding (countable and uncountable, plural paddings)

(computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.

täyte

extra characters such as spaces added to a record


RE

RE (countable and uncountable, plural REs)

(computing, countable) Abbreviation of run-time environment.


Moore's law

Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore.

named-after

The pocket calculator’s fortunes have fallen ever since. It is a victim of “Moore’s Law,” the theory that the number of transistors that can be squeezed on to a microchip will roughly double every two years, thereby increasing computing power at the same rate.

2012 March 4, Alice Rawsthorn, “Farewell, Pocket Calculator?”, in The New York Times:

How will industries and enterprises dependent upon and accustomed to Moore's Law continue to thrive? What might this disruption mean for society? And will the certainty of continued exponential change enshrined in Moore's Law ever become standard again?

2015, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, Rachel Jones, Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(computing) An empirical observation that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years.


tuple

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From the ending of the words quintuple, sextuple; from Latin -plus.

(computing) A set of comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system as a parameter to a function call.


lint

en-verb

lint (third-person singular simple present lints, present participle linting, simple past and past participle linted)

lints (present singular third-person)
linting (participle present)
linted (participle past)
linted (past)

From the lint Unix utility, written in 1979, which analyses programs written in the C language, itself named after the undesirable bits of fiber and fluff found in sheep's wool (see etymology 1).

You should lint your JavaScript code before committing it.

(transitive, computing) To perform a static check on (source code) to detect stylistic or programmatic errors.


ICE

(computing) Initialism of in-circuit emulator/emulation.


singleton

From single + -ton, probably following the model of simpleton.

singleton design pattern
singleton pattern

(computing) A class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.


zombify

zombify (third-person singular simple present zombifies, present participle zombifying, simple past and past participle zombified)

zombifies (present singular third-person)
zombifying (participle present)
zombified (participle past)
zombified (past)
zombiefy (alternative)

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These trojans can zombify your machine.

(transitive, computing) To take control of (a computer) in order to use it covertly and illicitly.


shebang

From hash + bang or sharp + bang, after Etymology 1.

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(computing) The character string "#!" used at the beginning of a computer file to indicate which interpreter can process the commands in the file, chiefly used in Unix and related operating systems.


foreground

/ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/

From fore- + ground. Compare Dutch voorgrond (“foreground”), German Vordergrund (“foreground”), Danish forgrund (“foreground”), Swedish förgrund (“foreground”), Norwegian forgrunn (“foreground”), Icelandic forgrunni (“foreground”).

(computing, often attributive) The application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others.


RPM

rpm (alternative)
R.P.M. (alternative)
R. P. M. (alternative)

RPM Package Manager
w:RPM Package Manager

Red Hat Package Manager
Red Hat Package Manager#English

package management system
package management system

(computing) Initialism of RPM Package Manager or (formerly) Red Hat Package Manager, a package management system used by some Linux distributions, especially by Red Hat.


WP

(computing) Initialism of word processing.

(computing) Initialism of weakest precondition.


RFC

Request for Comments
w:Request for Comments

(computing) Initialism of Request for Comments.


RFC

(computing) Initialism of remote function call.


RC

en-noun

RC (countable and uncountable, plural RCs)


CRC

cyclic redundancy check
cyclic redundancy check#English

(computing) Initialism of cyclic redundancy check.


DAT

DATs (plural)
D.A.T. (alternative)
D. A. T. (alternative)

(computing, audio) Digital Audio Tape, a digital data storage tape format using a dual-spooled cartridge and magnetic tape, used for digital audio and data storage.


CERT

(computing) Acronym of computer emergency response team.


CPS

CPS (countable and uncountable, plural CPSes)

cyber-physical system
w:cyber-physical system

(computing) Initialism of cyber-physical system.


FTA

FTA (countable and uncountable, plural FTAs)

(computing) Initialism of filetype association.


MRE

(computing) Initialism of Minimal, Reproducible Example.


WORM

write once, read many
write once, read many#English

(computing, computer hardware) Initialism of write once, read many.


BST

BST (countable and uncountable, plural BSTs)

(computing, graph theory) Initialism of binary search tree.


diagnostic

diagnostics (plural)
diagnostick (alternative)

From Ancient Greek διαγνωστικός (diagnōstikós), adjective from διαγιγνώσκειν (diagignṓskein, “to distinguish, diagnose”).

bor

διαγνωστικός

(computing) Any tool or technique used to find the root of a problem.


retrofit

en-verb

retrofit (third-person singular simple present retrofits, present participle retrofitting, simple past and past participle retrofitted)

retrofits (present singular third-person)
retrofitting (participle present)
retrofitted (participle past)
retrofitted (past)

/ˌɹɛtɹəʊˈfɪt/

/ˈɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ˌfɪt/

/ˌɹɛtɹoʊˈfɪt/

/ˈɹɛtɹoʊˌfɪt/

The verb is derived from retro- (prefix meaning ‘back; backward’) + fit (“to equip, supply”).
The noun, which is first attested later than the verb, is either derived:
* from the verb (see above); or
* from retro- + fit (“act of fitting; conformity of elements one to another”).

modernitzar

(transitive) to supply (a device, structure, etc.) with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed — see also modernize

saada jälkikäteisasennuksena

(intransitive) to supply a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed

The bug was so bad that we had to retrofit our patch to the last three releases, as well as the newest release.

(computing) Synonym of backport (“to retroactively supply a fix or feature to a previous version of a software product at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.”).


BCD

binary-coded decimal
binary-coded decimal#English

(computing, electronics) Initialism of binary-coded decimal.

Boot Configuration Data
w:Boot Configuration Data

(computing) Initialism of Boot Configuration Data.


PPE

en-noun

PPE (countable and uncountable, plural PPEs)

bulletin board system
bulletin board system

(computing, historical) Initialism of PCBoard programming executable: a software component used to extend the features of a bulletin board system.


DP

DP (countable and uncountable, plural DPs)

(computing) Initialism of developer preview.


XR

extended reality
extended reality#English

(computing) Initialism of extended reality.


CR

CR (countable and uncountable, plural CRs)

(computing) Initialism of carriage return.


ABS

acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
anti-lock braking system

(computing) Initialism of Arch build system.


CAM

content-addressable memory
w:content-addressable memory

(computing) Initialism of content-addressable memory.


ODS

OpenDocument Spreadsheet
w:OpenDocument Spreadsheet

(computing) Initialism of OpenDocument Spreadsheet.


UL

en-verb

UL (third-person singular simple present ULs, present participle ULing, simple past and past participle ULed)

ULs (present singular third-person)
ULing (participle present)
ULed (participle past)
ULed (past)


UDS

(computing, automotive) Initialism of Unified Diagnostic Services.


ECL

Embeddable Common Lisp
w:Embeddable Common Lisp

(computing) Initialism of Embeddable Common Lisp.


ACE

en-noun

ACE (countable and uncountable, plural ACEs)

human recombinant soluble angiotensin-converting enzyme 2

(computing) Initialism of arbitrary code execution.

(computing) Initialism of access control entry.

Because the DNS requires that a domain name be in an ACE format, IDNA proposes that client applications, such as a web browser, manage the character conversion internally.

2003, John Yunker, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies, New Riders, →ISBN:

(computing) Initialism of ASCII-compatible encoding.


DHT

DHT (countable and uncountable, plural DHTs)

distributed hash table
distributed hash table#English

(computing) Initialism of distributed hash table.


TPM

Trusted Platform Module
w:Trusted Platform Module

(computing) Initialism of Trusted Platform Module.


DDS

DDS (countable and uncountable, plural DDSs or DDSes)

DDSs (plural)
DDSes (plural)
D.D.S. (alternative)

(computing) Initialism of data distribution service.


PL

programming language
programming language#English

(computing) Initialism of programming language.


BMI

brain–machine interface
w:brain–computer interface

(computing) Initialism of brain–machine interface.


PAC

(computing) Initialism of programmable automation controller.

(computing) Initialism of proxy auto-config (file).


LF

LF (countable and uncountable, plural LFs)


BYOB

This release now supports proper BYOB readers on Fetch and WebTransport, which allows developers to prepare their ArrayBuffer so that it can be reused for read requests and thus saves memory allocation.

2023 August 1, Firefox 116.0 release notes:

(computing) Initialism of bring your own buffer.


flamer

Send a note to the flamer. Tell him that his message was inappropriate. Request that he refrain from posting anything like it again.

1997, Alex J. Packer, Pamela Espeland, How Rude!:

(computing, slang) One who flames, or posts vitriolic criticism.


tactical

The repeat that we use here is called a tactical, or tactic combinator. The behavior of repeat t is to loop through running t, running t on all generated subgoals, running t on their generated subgoals, and so on. When t fails at any point in this search tree, that particular subgoal is left to be handled by later tactics.

2013, Adam Chlipala, Certified Programming with Dependent Types:

(computing) A combinator of proof tactics.


LSM

liquid state machine
liquid state machine#English

(computing) Initialism of liquid state machine.


hacking

hacking (usually uncountable, plural hackings)

From Middle English hackynge, hakkynge, hacckinge, equivalent to hack + -ing.

(computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.

(computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. See also cracker.

hackerství

unauthorized attempts to bypass the IT security mechanisms


XM

For instance, the rhythm-action game Dance Factory used 24-channel XM tracker music, composed by Allister Brimble decades after his Amiga debut […]

(computing) Initialism of extended module: a tracker music file format.


MBR

MBR (countable and uncountable, plural MBRs)

(computing) Initialism of master boot record.


Qt

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing) a free and open-source cross-platform software for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications.


GIS

GIS (countable and uncountable, plural GISs)

geographic information system
w:geographic information system

(computing) Initialism of geographic information system (“computer-based system to analyse and present spatial data”).


MSA

MSA (countable and uncountable, plural MSAs)

A “mail submission agent” (MSA) that accepts outgoing mail from an MUA, grooms it, and submits it to the transport system[.]

2011, Evi Nemeth et al., UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 744:

(computing) Initialism of mail submission agent.


EPS

Encapsulated PostScript
w:Encapsulated PostScript

(computing, publishing, file format) Initialism of Encapsulated PostScript: a typographically set publishing format with vector graphics.


IPS

(computing) Initialism of intrusion prevention system.

Internet Provider Security
w:Internet Provider Security

(computing) Initialism of Internet Provider Security.

(computing) Initialism of instructions per second.


hr

(computing) Initialism of horizontal rule.


DSS

decision support system
w:decision support system

(computing) Initialism of decision support system.


wildcard

1968, Digital Equipment Corporation, VAX/VMS 319(5864), page 751, Section 2.1.2 Using Wildcard Characters
A wildcard character is a symbol that you can use with many DCL commands to apply the command to several files at once, rather than specifying each file individually.

If the character * is acting as a wildcard, then the pattern a*m matches each of the words amalgam, atom and alum.

(computing) A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.


wildcard

en-verb

wildcard (third-person singular simple present wildcards, present participle wildcarding, simple past and past participle wildcarded)

wildcards (present singular third-person)
wildcarding (participle present)
wildcarded (participle past)
wildcarded (past)

The unfortunate consequence is that document elements cannot be wildcarded because a schema needs to provide a closed list of possible document elements.

2002, Eric Van der Vlist, XML Schema, page 183:

(computing) To replace or supplement with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values.


qwertz

(computing, typography) A style of keyboard layout used in some European countries.


OTP

(computing) Initialism of one-time password: a password that is valid for only one login session or transaction.


OTP

Opposite Track Path
w:Opposite Track Path

(computing) Initialism of Opposite Track Path.


FIFO

en-noun

FIFO (countable and uncountable, plural FIFOs)

first in first out
first in first out#English

(accounting, operations, computing) Acronym of first in first out.


CAS

CAS (countable and uncountable, plural CASes)

computer algebra system
w:computer algebra system

(mathematics, computing) Initialism of computer algebra system.

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of compare and swap.


mail merge

mail merges (plural)
mailmerge (alternative)
mail-merge (alternative)

(computing) A software product that uses a file (or database) of names and addresses, together with a template document, to produce multiple copies of a letter, each personally addressed to a different recipient.


massively parallel

(computing) having many individual or distributed processing units and thus able to carry out many simultaneous calculations.


MPP

MPP (countable and uncountable, plural MPPs)

MPPs (plural)
M.P.P. (alternative)
M. P. P. (alternative)

massively parallel
massively parallel#English

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of massively parallel processing.

(computing, countable) Initialism of massively parallel processor.


CMS

CMS (countable and uncountable, plural CMSes or CMSs)

content management system
content management system#English

(computing) Initialism of content management system.

color management system
w:color management system

(computing) Initialism of color management system.

conversational monitor system
w:conversational monitor system

(computing) Initialism of conversational monitor system.


broadcaster

/ˈbɹɔːdˌkɑːstə/

From broadcast (“to transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

suffix

(computing) A piece of equipment used to transmit data over a computer network.


filename

filenames (plural)
file name (alternative)

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Holonyms: filespec, pathname

Meronyms: filename extension, extension

Near-synonym: basename

(computing) The name assigned to a file in a file system.


DOM

The same applies to DHTML. Why can't anyone agree on a single standard? Probably because Micro$oft wants to retain a desktop monopoly in the face of superior technology avaialable on other platforms. Even on Windows, Netscape and IE use different DOMs.

2000 October 8, David Steuber, “Re: Comparing Perl and Java”, in comp.lang.perl.misc (Usenet):

Document Object Model
Document Object Model#English

(computing) Acronym of Document Object Model.

(computing) Initialism of disk on module.


OC

en-noun

OC (countable and uncountable, plural OCs)


exec

en-verb

exec (third-person singular simple present execs, present participle execing, simple past and past participle execed)

execs (present singular third-person)
execing (participle present)
execed (participle past)
execed (past)

(computing, informal) To execute; to run.


checksum

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(mathematics, computing) A number, derived by applying a suitable algorithm to some data, used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission, storage or data entry.


checksum

checksum (third-person singular simple present checksums, present participle checksumming, simple past and past participle checksummed)

checksums (present singular third-person)
checksumming (participle present)
checksummed (participle past)
checksummed (past)

(mathematics, computing) To compute a checksum.


cyclic redundancy check

en-noun

cyclic redundancy check (plural cyclic redundancy checks)

(computing) A type of hash function that produces a checksum used to detect and correct transmission errors in data (abbreviation CRC).


hash function

(computing) An algorithm that generates a numeric, or fixed-size character output from a variable-sized piece of text or other data; used in database table queries, cryptography and in error-checking.


auth

en-verb

auth (third-person singular simple present auths, present participle authing, simple past and past participle authed)

auths (present singular third-person)
authing (participle present)
authed (participle past)
authed (past)

You can't post messages on the site unless you're authed.


DMA

en-noun

DMA (countable and uncountable, plural DMAs)

direct memory access
w:direct memory access

(computing) Initialism of direct memory access.

(computing) Initialism of direct memory addressing.


Small Computer Systems Interface

(computing) A standard interface and command set for transferring data between devices on a bus.


JIT

In JIT compilation, the running program is reflectively modified by an embedded compiler, which only uses two reflective operations […]

2024, Egon Börger, Vincenzo Gervasi, Structures of Computing: A Guide to Practice-Oriented Theory, page 108:

(operations, computing) Initialism of just-in-time.


JIT

(computing) Abbreviation of just-in-time compilation.


JIT

en-verb

JIT (third-person singular simple present JITs, present participle JITing, simple past and past participle JITed)

JITs (present singular third-person)
JITing (participle present)
JITed (participle past)
JITed (past)

(computing) To perform a just-in-time operation (usually compiling).


randomly

en-adv

randomly (comparative more randomly, superlative most randomly)

more randomly (comparative)
most randomly (superlative)

When a file is accessed randomly, the programmer must specify the relative record number.

1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming, page 314:

(computing) By random access; at any point at a given time; not sequentially.


LIFO

last in first out
last in first out#English

(computing, accounting, business) Acronym of last in first out.


TIFF

(computing) A file using TIFF file format


PGA

Professional Graphics Adapter
w:Professional Graphics Controller

(computing) Initialism of Professional Graphics Adapter, a video interface card for computers, made obsolete in 1987 by the VGA adapter.


AMS

en-noun

AMS (countable and uncountable, plural AMSes)

(computing) Initialism of application management software.


isochronous

From Ancient Greek ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) + Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + -ous.

Their entire national telephone network is isochronous, with a clock distribution tree radiating from a single, protected cesium reference clock.

(computing) Of or pertaining to the use of clocks derived from the same clock reference.

These packets belong to an isochronous voice application and need priority handling.

(computing) of or pertaining to data associated with time-sensitive applications.


malware

malware (usually uncountable, plural malwares)

→ Amharic: ማልዌር (malwer)

→ Bengali: মালওয়্যার (malōẇyar)

→ Czech: malware

→ Danish: malware

→ Dutch: malware

→ French: malware; → maliciel (calque)

→ German: Malware

→ Hindi: मैलवेयर m (mailveyar)

→ Italian: malware

→ Japanese: マルウェア (maruwea)

→ Korean: 맬웨어 (maerweeo)

→ Macedonian: малвер m (malver)

→ Portuguese: malware

→ Romanian: malware

→ Serbo-Croatian: malver m

→ Slovak: malvér m

→ Spanish: malware

→ Tagalog: malware

→ Thai: มัลแวร์ (mal-wɛɛ)

In a follow-up attack that hit Kyiv’s power grid a year later, the suspects used a second piece of malware, called Industroyer, to cut power for an hour, the indictment said. The malware, according to experts, posed one of the greatest digital threats to critical infrastructure since Stuxnet, the computer attack by the United States and Israel that took out Iran’s uranium centrifuges in 2009.

2020 October 19, “U.S. Charges Russian Intelligence Officers in Major Cyberattacks”, in New York Times:

(computing) Software which has been designed to operate in a malicious, undesirable manner.

skadelike programmatuur

software developed to cause harm to a computer system


IST

(computing) Initialism of InterSwitch Trunk.


web page

web pages (plural)
Web page (alternative)
web-page (alternative)
webpage (alternative)

Holonym: website

Dave Bishop, an amateur astronomer, operates a supernova web page at www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html, which lists new discoveries, including images.

2007 March, Doug Rich, “How to Search for Supernovae”, in Astronomy, volume 35, number 3, pages 70–72:

(Internet) A single hypertext document (transmitted as HTML) on the World Wide Web, often hyperlinked to others, and intended to be viewed with a web browser.


app

A visual tool can be thought of as a graphics app that generates most of your program's GUI code for you

1999 February, Maximum PC, volume 4, number 2:

So is a spreadsheet app, but I'm not going to put those on a web site any time soon.

1999, Jerry Bradenbaugh, JavaScript application cookbook, page xi:

The Web browser was the killer app that kickstarted the Internet and, in turn, enabled it to be embedded in everything

1999 November, AUUGN, volume 20, number 4, page 9:

Want realtime flight and gate updates? A calorie counter? A remote for your DVD player? Chances are there's an app for it. Smartphones separate themselves in another key area: connectivity

2005 May, Popular Science, volume 266, number 5, page 78:

(computing, mobile telephony) An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.


BO

(business, computing, historical) Initialism of BusinessObjects, a French enterprise software company specializing in business intelligence.


AST

AST (countable and uncountable, plural ASTs)

(computing) Initialism of abstract syntax tree.


XPDL

(computing) Initialism of XML Process Definition Language.


millennium bug

Mr Johnson also said the Northern Irish border row had been blown out of proportion and compared fears over disruption over vital goods coming into the UK to "pure millennium bug stuff".

2018 June 7, Lizzy Buchan, “Boris Johnson says Trump could handle Brexit better and warns of ’meltdown’ in explosive leaked recording”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-07:

(computing) A design flaw in computer systems that represented years as two digits (e.g. 84 for 1984), which could cause date calculations to fail if they involved years later than 1999.

千年蟲 /千年虫

a design flaw in computer systems which which could cause date calculations to fail after 1999


morphing

(computing) The smooth transformation of one image into another using digital tweening.


freezer

→ Macanese: friza

[…] "freezer" cartridges (such as the Action Replay), as a convenient way to take control […]

The execution of the program was suspended with a special hardware expansion, the freezer, and the contents of the memory were saved to disk.

2016, Polgár Tamás, Freax: The Brief History of the Computer Demoscene:

(computing) A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.


SPAN

Switched Port Analyzer
w:Switched Port Analyzer

(computing) Acronym of Switched Port Analyzer, a Cisco technology.


AV

access violation
access violation#English

(computing) Initialism of access violation.


repo

repo (countable and uncountable, plural repos)

(countable, computing, informal) Clipping of repository (“storage location for files”).


DDR

DDR (countable and uncountable, plural DDRs)

(computing) Double-data-rate computer RAM.


SHTML

(computing) Initialism of server-parsed HTML.


IPC

interprocess communication
interprocess communication#English

(computing) Initialism of interprocess communication.


perceptron

an element, analogous to a neuron, of an artificial neural network consisting of one or more layers of artificial neurons


interrogate

en-verb

interrogate (third-person singular simple present interrogates, present participle interrogating, simple past and past participle interrogated)

interrogates (present singular third-person)
interrogating (participle present)
interrogated (participle past)
interrogated (past)

/ɪnˈtɛɹ.əˌɡeɪt/

/ɪnˈtɛɹ.ə.ɡæɪt/

Learned borrowing from Latin interrogātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin interrogō (“to inquire, interrogate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

der

to interrogate a database

(transitive, computing) to query; to request information from.


enabled

en-adj

enabled (comparative more enabled, superlative most enabled)

more enabled (comparative)
most enabled (superlative)

Ajax-enabled

WAP-enabled

(computing) Adapted for use with the specified mechanism or system.


locked

You can't delete a locked computer file.

(computing) Protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.

zárolt

computing: protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource


enable

en-verb

enable (third-person singular simple present enables, present participle enabling, simple past and past participle enabled)

enables (present singular third-person)
enabling (participle present)
enabled (participle past)
enabled (past)

From Middle English enablen, equivalent to en- + able.

да́вам възмо́жност

to give power, sanction or authorization to; to provide with abilities, means, opportunities

umožnit

to allow a way out or excuse for an action

(chiefly electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

aanskakel

to activate a function of an electronic or mechanical device


systolic

a systolic compiler

(computing) Relating to a systolic array


workstation

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All train movements on the Far North Line have been controlled by a Radio Electronic Token Block workstation at Inverness since 1995, having already been introduced on the Kyle Line some 11 years earlier.

2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line: Radio Electronic Token Block”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48:

(computing) A desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics.


SNMP

(computing, networking) Initialism of Simple Network Management Protocol.


strikeout

en-noun

strikeout (countable and uncountable, plural strikeouts)

strikeouts (plural)
strike-out (alternative)

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(computing, wordprocessing) Cancellation of a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.

tāhīpae

computing: cancellation of text items by crossing out rather than deleting


strikeout

en-verb

strikeout (third-person singular simple present strikeouts, present participle strikeouting, simple past and past participle strikeouted)

strikeouts (present singular third-person)
strikeouting (participle present)
strikeouted (participle past)
strikeouted (past)
strike-out (alternative)

(computing, textprocessing) To cancel a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.

tāhīpae

computing: to cancel text items by crossing them out rather than deleting


enclave

Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave (“enclave”), deverbal of enclaver (“to inclose”), from Old French enclaver (“to inclose, lock in”), from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre (“to lock in”), from in + Latin clavis (“key”) or clavus (“nail, bolt”). Compare inlock.

der

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

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

(computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.


open system

(computing) A system allowing hardware and software from different manufacturers to be used together seamlessly.


DL

en-noun

DL (countable and uncountable, plural DLs)

DLs (plural)
D.L. (alternative)
D. L. (alternative)
dl (alternative)
d/l (alternative)
D/L (alternative)


DL

en-verb

DL (third-person singular simple present DLs, present participle DLing, simple past and past participle DLed or DL'd)

DLs (present singular third-person)
DLing (participle present)
DLed (participle past)
DLed (past)
DL'd (participle past)
DL'd (past)
D.L. (alternative)
D. L. (alternative)
dl (alternative)
d/l (alternative)
D/L (alternative)


NMI

non-maskable interrupt
non-maskable interrupt#English

(computing) Initialism of non-maskable interrupt.


sneakernet

en-noun

sneakernet (countable and uncountable, plural sneakernets)

term-label

(computing, humorous, informal, historical)

From sneaker (“running shoe”) + net (“network”), a reference to a person wearing sneakers walking from one computer to another.

compound

Significant advances are occurring to race past sneakernet. But the ideal computer interconnect solution will always be just around the next bend.

1986, Hardcopy, volume 6, Brea, Calif.: Sedlin Pub. Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 143, column 3:

Before complicated networks and E-mail and special-interest bulletin boards, there was Sneakernet. Sneakernet required no special protocol, no special cables and terminal software. To communicate on Sneakernet, all you needed to do was take a disk from your computer to someone else's, stick the disk in that remote drive, and copy some files—instant data transfer. Well, almost instant.

1989 April, David Plotkin, “Compute! Specific”, in Compute!, volume 11, number 4, issue 107, Greensboro, N.C.: COMPUTE! Publications, ABC Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 58, column 2:

Before computer networks came into existence, sneakernet was the only method of file sharing available. Sneakernet is the generally accepted term for the act of loading files that you want to share on removable media (tape, CD, or floppy disk) at one computer, carrying the media to a second computer, and reading the files from that media onto that second computer. [...] Sneakernet is the lowest-tech form of file sharing that has ever been available, and it is still practiced at some sites today.

2001 December, Robin Anderson, Andy Johnston [et al.], “File Sharing”, in Unix Unleashed, 4th edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, part II (Critical Subsystems), page 546:

(uncountable) A method of transferring a computer file from one computer to another by copying it to a floppy disk, thumb drive, or some other external storage device, carrying the device to the other computer, and saving the file there, in contrast to electronic methods used by networked computers to transfer data.

球鞋網絡 /球鞋网络

method of transferring a computer file from one computer to another by copying it to an external storage device, carrying the device to the other computer, and saving the file there


AAR

(computing) Axis2 ARchive file (extension .aar)


test case

test cases (plural)
testcase (alternative)

(computing) Any of a set of conditions and variables used to test an application.


enqueue

en-verb

enqueue (third-person singular simple present enqueues, present participle enqueuing or enqueueing, simple past and past participle enqueued)

enqueues (present singular third-person)
enqueuing (participle present)
enqueueing (participle present)
enqueued (participle past)
enqueued (past)

(transitive, computing) To add an item to a queue. [from 20th c.]


mouse pad

(US, Australia, computing) A pad with surface used to enhance the movement of a computer mouse.


floating point

(computing) Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers.


floating point operation

en-noun

floating point operation (plural floating point operations)

floating point operations (plural)
floating-point operation (alternative)

(computing) Any simple operation, such as addition, multiplication or division, performed on floating point numbers using a single operation.


FLOPS

An acronym for floating-point operations per second.


FLOP

A syllabic acronym from floating-point operation.


megaflop

Back-formation of megaflops in the computing sense – the final ⟨s⟩ is not the plural suffix but stands for “second”.

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floating point operation
floating point operation#English

(computing) megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second)


benchmark

benchmarks (plural)
bench mark (alternative)

From bench + mark. First use appears c. 1842. Originally a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench (from land surveying jargon in the 19th century, meaning a type of bracket), to mount measuring equipment. The figurative sense first appears c. 1884.

(computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.

бенчмарк

computing: program executed to assess performance


systems analyst

systems analyst (plural systems analysts)

(computing) A person whose job is to perform systems analysis by being responsible for researching, planning and recommending software and system choices to meet an organization's business requirements.


carry-out

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A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain. This approach is most common in chip design because the wiring for the carry-lookahead tree is hard to design and area-consuming.

2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design:

(computing) A command that exports a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) from the current column of an addition operation.


systems analysis

systems analysis (countable and uncountable, plural systems analyses)

(computing) A range of techniques used especially in commercial computing in which the needs of a company or its staff are analysed and translated into a technical description of the necessary software - which is then created by programmers.


virtual private network

virtual private network (plural virtual private networks)

Most Chinese users watch HBO through virtual private networks, or VPNs.

(computing) A network set up for use by a limited number of individuals, such as employees of a company, operating over a large area. The network typically uses encryption to keep information secure.


LV

LV (countable and uncountable, plural LVs)

LVs (plural)
L.V. (alternative)
L. V. (alternative)

(computing) Initialism of logical volume.


DoS

DoSs (plural)
DoSes (plural)
DOS (alternative)

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

(computing, Internet) A denial-of-service attack.


DoS

en-verb

DoS (third-person singular simple present DoSes, present participle DoSing, simple past and past participle DoSed)

DoSes (present singular third-person)
DoSing (participle present)
DoSed (participle past)
DoSed (past)
DOS (alternative)

In addition to out-of-spec traffic, malicious packets can contain payloads that cause a system to crash. A packet's payload is taken as input into a service. If the input is not properly checked, the application can be DoSed.

2003, Jack Koziol, Intrusion Detection with Snort, Indianapolis, IN: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 15:

(transitive, computing, Internet) To commit a denial-of-service attack against.


KB

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of kilobyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of kibibyte.


sed

(computing) A noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way.


stanza

From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.

der

Definition of XML Stanza: An XML stanza is the basic unit of meaning in XMPP.

2011, P. Saint-Andre, RFC 6120 - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core:

Whenever an XMPP client generates an XML stanza, it typically constructs the XML of the stanza by building up a structured document […]

2009, Tim Riley, Adam Goucher, Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software:

Technically speaking, federation is the ability for two XMPP servers in different domains to exchange XML stanzas.

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

(computing) An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.

(computing) A section of a configuration file consisting of a related group of lines.


invoke

en-verb

invoke (third-person singular simple present invokes, present participle invoking, simple past and past participle invoked)

invokes (present singular third-person)
invoking (participle present)
invoked (participle past)
invoked (past)
envoke (alternative)

From Middle English *invoken, envoken, borrowed from Old French envoquer, from Latin invocāre (“to call upon”), itself from in- + vocare (“to call”). Doublet of invocate.

Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.

[…]the selling price and cost of a particular item are derived by the system through a table lookup and assigned to the item at invoking time.

1974 August 7, “Wholesalers Gain Basic Facts”, in Computerworld:

C++ lets you invoke an operator function either by calling the function or by using the overloaded operator with its usual syntax.

(transitive, computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.


overloaded

en-adj

overloaded (comparative more overloaded, superlative most overloaded)

more overloaded (comparative)
most overloaded (superlative)

(computing) of a name, used for more than one variable or procedure etc; differentiated by the compiler based on context


dep

en-noun

dep (countable and uncountable, plural deps)

deps (plural)
dep. (alternative)
dép (alternative)
dép. (alternative)

*Abbreviation of several English terms that begin with "dep"
*Clipping of several English terms that begin with "dep"


EB

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of exabyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of exbibyte.


ITIL

(computing) Acronym of IT Infrastructure Library, a set of practices for IT management in business.


peer-to-peer

With the peer-to-peer backup paradigm, each file is copied over to another peer in the system rather than to a central backup site.

2004, Dinesh Verma, Legitimate Applications of Peer-to-Peer Networks, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 98:

(computing, of a network) Connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals; decentralized.

равноправен

of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners

oparty na połączeniach pomiędzy pojedynczymi użytkownikami


palmtop

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From palm + top, as used in one's palm; by analogy with desktop and laptop.

A taxonomy of small computers—laptops, palmtops, and kneetops—was just emerging.

1994, PC Mag, volume 13, number 6, page 4:

personal digital assistant
personal digital assistant

(computing) A personal digital assistant.


Pretty Good Privacy

public-key cryptography
public-key cryptography

(computing) software that encrypts and decrypts messages, for transmission over the Internet, using public-key cryptography


preloaded

(computing) Of software, already installed on a personal computer at the time of purchase.


pull-down

en-noun

pull-down (countable and uncountable, plural pull-downs)

pull-downs (plural)
pulldown (alternative)

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(computing) A dynamic menu; a list of options in a computer application which appears below a heading when it is selected, and remains only as long as the user needs it.


front door

front doors (plural)
frontdoor (alternative)
front-door (alternative)

(computing) The normal portal page to a website.


popup blocker

pop-up advertisement
pop-up advertisement

(computing) a piece of software that prevents pop-up advertisements from being displayed


terabyte

/ˈtɛɹəˌbaɪt/

[ˈtʰɛɹəˌbaɪ̯t]


tebibyte

(computing) Strictly, 2⁴⁰ (1024⁴, or 1,099,511,627,776) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) gibibytes, as opposed to a terabyte.


hard drive

(computing, computer hardware) An electromechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid, rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

hardeskyf

device used for storing large amounts of data

ഹാർഡ് ഡിസ്ക് ഡ്രൈവ്

hāṟḍŭ ḍiskŭ ḍraivŭ


eMac

From e- (educational) + Mac (Macintosh).

(computing) A computer of a line of low-end computers made by Apple Inc.


comparator

(computing) An application or program that compares prices, rates, tariffs of flights, smartphones, cars, etc.

comparateur

computing: application that compares prices


short circuit

en-verb

short circuit (third-person singular simple present short circuits, present participle short circuiting, simple past and past participle short circuited)

short circuits (present singular third-person)
short circuiting (participle present)
short circuited (participle past)
short circuited (past)
short-circuit (alternative)

→ Maltese: xort

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For example, to short-circuit the "LoggedIn()" or "LogIn()" "if" conditional, replace the "Or" with "OrElse" and the statement is interpreted to mean "if not logged in, then log in".

2002, Paul Kimmel, Visual Basic.Net Unleashed:

If you would like to short-circuit, you must replace "And" with the "AndAlso" keyword and "Or" with the "OrElse" keyword, as follows....

2002, Jose Mojico, C# and VB.NET Conversion Pocket Reference:

2006: Jay Hillard & Stephen Teilhet, C# Cookbook
The "Demand" is done to ensure that you have indeed been granted this permission before using the "Assert" to short-circuit the stackwalk.

(transitive, computing) To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.


hosting

en-noun

hosting (countable and uncountable, plural hostings)

(computing) Running and maintaining a computer system on someone's behalf.

寄存服務 /寄存服务

running and maintaining a computer system


implode

en-verb

implode (third-person singular simple present implodes, present participle imploding, simple past and past participle imploded)

implodes (present singular third-person)
imploding (participle present)
imploded (participle past)
imploded (past)

(computing, programming, PHP) The opposite of explode, array to string conversion.

I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work […]

1992, Steve Tibbett, “PKZIP Implode compression/decompression.”, in comp.compression (Usenet):

(transitive, computing) To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.


punch out

punch out (third-person singular simple present punches out, present participle punching out, simple past and past participle punched out)

punches out (present singular third-person)
punching out (participle present)
punched out (participle past)
punched out (past)

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(transitive, intransitive, computing) To extract data from a computer by the use of a keyboard.


MSF

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
w:Microsoft SharePoint Foundation

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.


POS

en-noun

POS (countable and uncountable, plural POSes or POSs)

operating system
operating system#English

(computing) Initialism of proprietary operating system.


socket

From Middle English socket, soket, from Anglo-Norman soket (“spearhead”), diminutive of Old French soc (“plowshare”), from Vulgar Latin *soccus, a word borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (compare modern Welsh swch (“plowshare”)), literally "pig's snout", from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

套接字

computing interprocess communication channel

interprocess communication
interprocess communication

(computing) One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.

(computing) One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.


accelerated graphics port

accelerated graphics port (plural accelerated graphics ports)

(computing) A high-speed port used to attach a display adapter to a personal computer.


crippleware

(computing, chiefly derogatory) A program whose functionality is severely limited beyond that of shareware, often in the interest of its author having the crippleware user make a purchase of the uncrippled program.


demoware

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(computing) A cut-down demonstration version of a computer program so that it can be tried before purchase.


trojan

/ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/

/ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/

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(computing) Malware that appears to perform or actually performs a desired task for a user while performing a harmful task without the user's knowledge or consent.


trojan

en-verb

trojan (third-person singular simple present trojans, present participle trojaning, simple past and past participle trojaned)

trojans (present singular third-person)
trojaning (participle present)
trojaned (participle past)
trojaned (past)

/ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/

/ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/

(computing, transitive) To infect (a system) with a trojan.


openness

en-noun

openness (usually uncountable, plural opennesses)

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From Middle English *opennesse, from Old English openness (“openness, publicity”), equivalent to open + -ness. Cognate with Old High German offannussi (“disclosure, revelation, openness”).

cog

(computing, education) The degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify in a shared environment with legal rights generally held in common and preventing proprietary restrictions on the right of others to continue viewing, using, modifying and sharing.


quiesce

en-verb

quiesce (third-person singular simple present quiesces, present participle quiescing, simple past and past participle quiesced)

quiesces (present singular third-person)
quiescing (participle present)
quiesced (participle past)
quiesced (past)

From Latin quiēscō ("I rest, repose, become quiet").

(computing, transitive) To pause or reduce the activity of (a device or application), for example to prepare it for backups or other maintenance.


SSDD

(computing, of a diskette) Initialism of single-sided, double density.


IDE

en-noun

IDE (countable and uncountable, plural IDEs)

(computing, countable) Initialism of integrated development environment.


NCSA

(US, computing) Initialism of National Center for Supercomputing Applications.


Trojan

Trojans (plural)
Troyan (alternative dated)
Troian (alternative dated)

/ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/

/ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/

From old forms Troyan, Troian, Middle English Troiā̆n, from Old English Trōiān, from Latin Troiānus, from Troia (“Troy”) + -ānus, from Ancient Greek Τροίᾱ (Troíā).


broker

From Middle English broker, brokour, brocour, from Anglo-Norman brocour (“small trader”) (compare also abroker (“to act as a broker”)), from Old Dutch *brokere (“one who determines the usages of trade, manager”), from broke, bruyck, breuck (“use, usage, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkī (“use, custom”), from Proto-Germanic *brūkiz (“use, custom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to use, enjoy”), equivalent to brook + -er.
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Low German brukere (“a broker”), Danish bruger (“a broker, user, handler”), Swedish bruk (“use, custom, trade, business”), Old English broc (“use, profit, advantage, foredeal”). Compare also French brocanter (“to deal in second-hand goods”) from the same Germanic source. More at brook.

cog

(computing) An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.

välittäjä

computing: agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions


NCR

numeric character reference
w:numeric character reference

(computing) Abbreviation of numeric character reference.


ARM

Advanced RISC Machine
w:ARM architecture

(computing) Initialism of Acorn RISC Machine or Advanced RISC Machine.


killer app

(informal, computing) A killer application.