relative

From Middle French relatif, from Late Latin relātīvus, from Latin relātus, perfect passive participle of referō (“to carry back, to ascribe”), from re- (“again”) + ferō (“to bear or carry”).

The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http://example.com/index.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.

(computing, of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.


simplex

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Henri Poincaré
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
Pieter Hendrik Schoute

The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin simplex (“plain, simple; single”). The first part, sim-, comes from Proto-Indo-European *sem-, *sm̥- (“one; together”). The second part, -plex, may be from *pleḱ- (“to weave”).
The noun is derived from the adjective. The plural forms simplices and simplicia are learned borrowings from Latin simplicēs (masculine or feminine) and simplicia (neuter), respectively plural forms of simplex.
Noun sense 1 (“generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension”) was apparently coined by the Dutch mathematician Pieter Hendrik Schoute (1846–1913) as a short version of Simplicissimum in Mehrdimensionale Geometrie (in German, 1902). (In his pioneering works on algebraic topology, the French mathematician Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) had previously introduced the concept, but not the actual term simplex.)

lbor

(computing, telecommunications) Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.

симплекс

of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time — see also unidirectional


kit

en-noun

kit (countable and uncountable, plural kits)

From Middle English kyt, kytt, kytte, from Middle Dutch kitte (“a wooden vessel made of hooped staves”). Related to Dutch kit (“tankard”) (see below). The further etymology is unknown. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kitjō-, *kut-, which would be related to the root of Dutch kot (“ramshackle house”), itself of non-Indo-European origin.
The transfer of meaning to the contents of a soldier's knapsack dates to the late 18th century, extended use of any collection of necessaries used for travelling dates to the first half of the 19th century.
The further widening of the sense to a collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble emerges in US English in the mid 20th century.

der

(computing, informal) A full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade.


barf

en-verb

barf (third-person singular simple present barfs, present participle barfing, simple past and past participle barfed)

barfs (present singular third-person)
barfing (participle present)
barfed (participle past)
barfed (past)

Dutch: barfen

bath (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)

Uncertain. Probably of imitative origin.

The program barfed as a result of the invalid input.

(computing, slang, intransitive, by extension) Of a system: to fail.


reboot

reboot (third-person singular simple present reboots, present participle rebooting, simple past and past participle rebooted)

reboots (present singular third-person)
rebooting (participle present)
rebooted (participle past)
rebooted (past)

We need to reboot the system after installing these updates.

The system reboots every weekend after updates are installed.

NASA is once again trying to reboot the Hubble Space Telescope, agency officials said. The telescope’s instruments have been shut down since the end of September, when a router that formats science data for transmission to the ground had an electrical failure.

2008 October 24, Dennis Overbye, “Another Effort to Reboot Telescope”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(computing, ambitransitive) To execute a computer's boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, possibly after a system failure.

أَعَادَ تَشْغِيل

To execute a computer's boot process and reload the operating system

ʔaʕāda tašḡīl


fold

fold (third-person singular simple present folds, present participle folding, simple past folded, past participle folded or (obsolete) folden)

folds (present singular third-person)
folding (participle present)
folded (past)
folded (participle past)
folden (obsolete participle past)

⇒ Czech: foldovat

The verb is from Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-West Germanic *falþan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”).
The noun is from Middle English folde,falde, itself derived from the verb.

(transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.


data

→ Turkish: data

dater (non-rhotic, except some South Asian accents)

Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“I give”). Doublet of date.

Data can be sent through email.

en:information, mass sense, especially structured info

(collective, computing) A representation of information in a computer (as symbols, quantities, sound, images or videos) which is stored, processed or transmitted in the form of electrical signals, records on magnetic tape or punched cards, etc.


baud

en-noun

baud (countable and uncountable, plural bauds)

Borrowed from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

To reach the Backroom Bulletin Board, call (718) 849-6699 with a computer, using either the 300 or 1200 baud setting on the modem.

1985 April 13, Stephanie Poggi, “Queer Hackers”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

(computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.

بَاوْد

A rate defined as the number of signalling events per second

(computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.


enter

From Middle English entren, from Old French entrer, from Latin intrō (“enter”, verb), from intrā (“inside”). Has been spelled as "enter" for several centuries even in the United Kingdom, although British English and the English of many Commonwealth Countries (e.g. Australia, Canada) retain the "re" ending for many words such as centre, fibre, spectre, theatre, calibre, sombre, lustre, and litre.

(computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”).

(computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”).


POSIX

Icelandic: POSIX-staðall

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Operating System
operating system#English

(computing) Acronym of Portable Operating System Interface, a set of IEEE standards designed to provide application portability between UNIX variants.

可移植操作系統接口 /可移植操作系统接口

computing: set of standards providing application portability between UNIX variants


boilerplate

boilerplate (countable and uncountable, plural boilerplates)

The Star (1788)
boilerplate
boilerplate (spaceflight)

From boiler + plate. First use appears c. 1793 in the periodical Star.

(computing) A standard piece of program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor.


delete

From Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from dēlēvī, originally perf. tense of dēlinere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”). Original sense first appears c. 1495. In common use for ordering the absence of features of products (such as automobiles) in the 1960s. The computing sense, including the noun form, first appears c. 1977 in Software: Practice & Experience. Not related to deleterious.

Cascading updates and cascading deletes are useful features of the SQL Server database engine.

2003, Jeffrey P. McManus, Jackie Goldstein, Kevin T. Price, Database Access with Visual Basic .NET, page 30:

(computing) The delete character (U+007F or %7F).


Uniform Resource Locator

Uniform Resource Locator (plural Uniform Resource Locators)

(computing, Internet) A universal address for resources on the internet, which is most commonly used for websites.

ΟΕΠ

ομοιόμορφος εντοπιστής πόρων (omoiómorfos entopistís póron)


format

Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“I shape, fashion”).


format

en-verb

format (third-person singular simple present formats, present participle formatting, simple past and past participle formatted)

formats (present singular third-person)
formatting (participle present)
formatted (participle past)
formatted (past)

I lost weeks of work when I inadvertently formatted my hard drive.

(computing) To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.

форматирам

computing: prepare a mass storage medium for initial use


dismount

dismount (third-person singular simple present dismounts, present participle dismounting, simple past and past participle dismounted)

dismounts (present singular third-person)
dismounting (participle present)
dismounted (participle past)
dismounted (past)

From dis- + mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.

The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.

PROBLEM: A volume periodically dismounts. There are two drives with one volume on each. From time to time, the second volume dismounts and the drive shuts down.

1995, Rick Sant'Angelo, NetWare unleashed, page 1130:

(computing, ambitransitive) To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.

卸下

(computing) to make a mounted drive unavailable for use


octet

octets (plural)
octett (alternative rare)
octette (alternative rare)

(computing) A byte of eight bits. Abbreviation: o

This is done by breaking down each set of permissions (user, group, and other) to represent an octet.

2003, Nitesh Dhanjani, Linux and UNIX security portable reference:

(computing, rare) A group of three bits, representing any of eight possible values.


hover

hover (third-person singular simple present hovers, present participle hovering, simple past and past participle hovered)

hovers (present singular third-person)
hovering (participle present)
hovered (participle past)
hovered (past)
hover (infinitive)
hover (first-person present singular)
hovered (first-person past singular)
hover (present second-person singular)
hoverest (archaic present second-person singular)
hovered (past second-person singular)
hoveredst (archaic past second-person singular)
hovers (present singular third-person)
hovereth (archaic present singular third-person)
hovered (past singular third-person)
hover (plural present)
hovered (past plural)
hover (present subjunctive)
hovered (past subjunctive)
hover (imperative present)
hovering (participle present)
hovered (participle past)

Welsh: hofran

Royal Canadian Air Force
United States Coast Guard

The verb is derived from Middle English hoveren (“to float in the air, hover; to stay”), probably from hoven (“hover; of a bird: to fly high in the air, soar”) (which it displaced) + -er- (frequentative suffix). Hoven is probably derived from Old English *hōfian, from hōfon, the plural past indicative form of hebban (“to lift, raise”), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift; to heave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to hold, seize”). The English word is analysable as hove (“(obsolete) to remain suspended, float, hover; to linger, wait”) + -er (frequentative suffix).
The noun is derived from the verb.

suffix

A tooltip appears when you hover over this link.

(computing) Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).

懸停 /悬停

to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over (something on a screen) without clicking, so as to produce a result

placer le curseur au-dessus d'un hyperlien


virus

en-noun

virus (countable and uncountable, plural viruses or (rare) virusses or (rare) vira or (proscribed) viri or (proscribed) virii)

viruses (plural)
virusses (plural rare)
vira (plural rare)
viri (plural proscribed)
virii (plural proscribed)

→ Amharic: ቫይረስ (vayräs)

→ Bengali: ভাইরাস (bhairaś)

→ Burmese: ဗိုင်းရပ်စ် (buing:rapc)

→ Dhivehi: ވައިރަސް (vairas)

→ Hindi: वायरस (vāyras)

→ Japanese: バイラス (bairasu)

→ Kannada: ವೈರಸ್ (vairas)

→ Korean: 바이러스 (baireoseu)

→ Lao: ໄວຣັສ (wai ras)

→ Malay: virus

→ Malayalam: വൈറസ് (vaiṟasŭ)

→ Maltese: vajrus

→ Sinhalese: වෛරස (wairasa)

→ Telugu: వైరస్ (vairas)

→ Thai: ไวรัส (wai-rát)

desc

→ Urdu: وائرس

→ Urdu: وائرس

From Middle English virus, from Latin vīrus (“poison, slime, venom”), via rhotacism from Proto-Italic *weizos, from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“fluidity, slime, poison”). First use in the computer context by David Gerrold in his 1972 book When HARLIE Was One.

der

Wait a minute! Is this one of those virus emails?!

2004 November 15, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #118: virus”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

(computing) A type of malware which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks, often causing damage to systems and data; also computer virus.

(computing, proscribed) Any type of malware.


default

en-noun

default (countable and uncountable, plural defaults)

→ Russian: дефо́лт (defólt)

From Middle English defaut, defaute, from Old French defaute (“fault, defect, failure, culpability, lack”), ultimately from Latin de- (“away”) + fallo (“deceive, cheat, escape notice of”).

der

(electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory

լռելյայն

electronics, computing: original settings

configuración original f ajustes por defecto


default

en-verb

default (third-person singular simple present defaults, present participle defaulting, simple past and past participle defaulted)

defaults (present singular third-person)
defaulting (participle present)
defaulted (participle past)
defaulted (past)

If you don't specify a color, it defaults to red.

It defaults your application to Windows authentication mode, and if you want to use forms mode, you can just change it in the authentication section of the file.

2002, Tony Martin, Dominic Selly, Visual Basic .NET at Work: Building 10 Enterprise Projects, page 346:

(ambitransitive, computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.

käyttää oletusarvona

computing: to assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard


gate

From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English ġeat (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).
See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.

(computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.


byte

An alteration of the word bite so it would not be accidentally misspelled as bit. Coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM 7030 Stretch computer.

(computing) A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.

The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.

If you look at the photograph of the interior of the Spectrum[…], you will see that there is one ROM chip, and 16 smaller RAM chips. These chips give the Spectrum its memory. The memory consists of 65536 storage units that each contain one byte (a number from 0 to 255).

1984, Neil Ardley, “The ZX Spectrum+ Memory Map”, Learn About Your ZX Spectrum+ (3), in Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ User Guide, Dorling Kindersley, →ISBN, page 48:

With a varchar, the storage is always the actual number of characters you have stored plus 2 bytes. So a varchar(20) with a 5-character word will take up 7 bytes, with the extra 2 bytes holding a size reference for SQL Server.

2008, Eric Johnson, Joshua Jones, A Developer's Guide to Data Modeling for SQL Server:

(computing, most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.


select

select (third-person singular simple present selects, present participle selecting, simple past and past participle selected)

selects (present singular third-person)
selecting (participle present)
selected (participle past)
selected (past)
select (infinitive)
select (first-person present singular)
selected (first-person past singular)
select (present second-person singular)
selectest (archaic present second-person singular)
selected (past second-person singular)
selectedst (archaic past second-person singular)
selects (present singular third-person)
selecteth (archaic present singular third-person)
selected (past singular third-person)
select (plural present)
selected (past plural)
select (present subjunctive)
selected (past subjunctive)
select (imperative present)
selecting (participle present)
selected (participle past)

From Latin sēlēctus, perfect passive participle of sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“without; apart”) + legō (“gather, select”).

(databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.


option

option (third-person singular simple present options, present participle optioning, simple past and past participle optioned)

options (present singular third-person)
optioning (participle present)
optioned (participle past)
optioned (past)

From French option, from Latin optiō (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from optō (“I choose, select”). Equivalent to opt + -ion.

der

The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.

1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy:

(computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.


fragment

From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangō (“I break”) + -mentum.

(computing) An incomplete portion of code.


fragment

en-verb

fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)

fragments (present singular third-person)
fragmenting (participle present)
fragmented (participle past)
fragmented (past)

(transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.


parity

en-noun

parity (countable and uncountable, plural parities)

From Middle French parité, from Late Latin paritas, from Latin pār (“equal”). Equivalent to pari- + -ty.

parita

math: classification into one set or the other

Senses related to classification into two sets.

(computing) The count of one bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.


native

en-adj

native (comparative more native, superlative most native)

more native (comparative)
most native (superlative)
natiue (alternative obsolete)
natyf (alternative obsolete)

foreign

born or grown in the region in which it is found

Inherited from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive and neif.

This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.

The native integer size is sixteen bits.

cloud native, crypto native

(computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.

nativo

computing: pertaining to a particular system


block

→ Dutch: block

→ German: Block

→ Irish: bloc

→ Manx: block

→ Maori: poraka

→ Norwegian: blokk

→ Polish: blok

desctree

→ Russian: блок (blok)
→ Armenian: բլոկ (blok)
→ Yakut: блок (blok)

→ Spanish: block

→ Vietnamese: lốc

From Middle English blok (“log, stump, solid piece”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old Frisian blok, Old Saxon blok, Old High German bloh, bloc (“block”), Old English bolca (“gangway of a ship, plank”), Old Norse bǫlkr (“divider, partition”). More at balk. See also bloc, bulk.

طَابُوقَة

substantial often approximately cuboid piece

թաղամաս

group of buildings demarcated by streets

After one disk is mapped, the next block starts at address 0 on the next disk.

2003, Dilip M. Ranade, Shared Data Clusters, page 79:

A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.

(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.

The "Specials" block comprises the sixteen codepoints from U+FFF0 through U+FFFF.

(computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).


logic bomb

The disgruntled programmer's logic bomb would wipe files from the network if he had not logged in within the past six weeks.

(computing) A piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met.

digital weapon

a weapon composed of software used in cyberwarfare


computer virus

en-noun

computer virus (plural computer viruses or (proscribed) computer viri or (rare, chiefly non-native speakers’ English) computer vira)

computer viruses (plural)
computer viri (plural proscribed)
computer vira (English plural rare)

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(computing) A program which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks and USB drives, often causing damage to systems and data.


character

character (countable and uncountable, plural characters)

→ Scottish Gaelic: caractar

From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”), from χαράσσω (kharássō, “I engrave”). Doublet of charakter.

der

(countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.

karakter

(computing) basic element in a text string


monitor

monitors (plural)
monitour (alternative)

desc

→ Thai: มอนิเตอร์ (mɔɔ-ní-dtəə)

→ Thai: มอนิเตอร์ (mɔɔ-ní-dtəə)

From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.

The information flashed up on the monitor.

(computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.

a machine code monitor

(computing) A program for viewing and editing.

computerskærm

computing: program for viewing and editing


shortcut

shortcuts (plural)
short cut (alternative)
short-cut (alternative)

There are shortcuts to some of my favourite applications on my desktop.

(computing, in the Microsoft family of operating systems) A file that points to the location of another file and serves as a quick way to access it.

keyboard shortcut
keyboard shortcut#English

(computing) Ellipsis of keyboard shortcut.


story

desctree

Sranan Tongo: tori
Aukan: toli
→ Dutch: tori

→ Welsh: stori

→ Persian: استوری (estori)

→ Portuguese: estória

From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie by aphesis. The Anglo-Norman word itself comes from Latin historia, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”). Doublet of history and storey.


inclusive or

(logic, computing) A logical connective joining two or more predicates that yields the logical value "true" when at least one of the predicates is true.

(computing) A bitwise operator that yields 1 when any of its operands is 1.


exclusive or

exclusive ors (plural)
exclusive-or (alternative)
XOR (alternative)
xor (alternative)
EOR (alternative)
eor (alternative)

Exclusive disjunction
exclusive disjunction

(logic, computing) Exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two predicates, one is true and one is false (without specifying which is which); contrasted with inclusive or, which does not imply that one must be false.

(logic, computing, more generally) Exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two or more predicates, an odd number are true (without specifying which or how many); contrasted with inclusive or, which indicates only that one or more is true.

exclusive disjunction
exclusive disjunction

(logic, computing) An exclusive disjunction; the result of applying the above-described exclusive or to two or more predicates; contrasted with an inclusive or, which is the result of applying an inclusive or.


EPIC

w:explicitly parallel instruction computing

(computing) Acronym of explicitly parallel instruction computing.


hypercube

(computing) A data cube with more than three dimensions.

computer architecture
computer architecture

(computing) A computer architecture in which each processor is connected to n others, by analogy with a hypercube of n dimensions.


page

→ Hindi: पेज (pej)

→ Japanese: ページ (pēji)

→ Korean: 페이지 (peiji)

Borrowed from Middle French [Term?], from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.

To view man pages for a command: Type man followed by the name of the command (for example, man ls), and press Return. […] To view the next page: Press Spacebar. The manual advances one page […].

2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced, page 44:

(computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.

(computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.


parse

en-verb

parse (third-person singular simple present parses, present participle parsing, simple past and past participle parsed)

parses (present singular third-person)
parsing (participle present)
parsed (participle past)
parsed (past)

Possibly from Middle English pars (“parts, shares; parts of speech, grammar”), from Old French pars (plural of part (“part, portion, share”)), from Latin pars (“part, piece, share”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; to sell”).

разобра́ть

синтакси́чески OR граммати́чески

(computing, ambitransitive) To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.

(computing, transitive) To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.

解析

(computing) to resolve (a string) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar

This sentence doesn't parse.

(computing, linguistics, intransitive) Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid.

jäsentyä

(computing, linguistics) to conform to rules of grammar


parse

The parse will fail if the program contains an unrecognised keyword.

(computing, linguistics) An act of parsing; a parsing.

ана́лиз

граммати́ческий OR синтакси́ческий

разбо́р

граммати́ческий OR синтакси́ческий

This parse is incorrect and indicates a fault in the parser.

(computing, linguistics) The result of such an act; a parsing.


patch

From Middle English patche, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of earlier Middle English placche (“patch, spot, piece of cloth”), from Old English *plæċċ, *pleċċ (“a spot, mark, patch”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”). For the loss of l compare pat from Middle English platten. Germanic cognates would then include Middle English plecke, dialectal English pleck (“plot of ground, patch”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, piece, patch”), Dutch plek (“spot, place, stain, patch”), Dutch plak (“piece, slab”), Swedish plagg (“garment”), Faroese plagg (“cloth, rag”).
Or, possibly a variant of Old French pieche, dialectal variant of piece (“piece”). Compare also Old Occitan petaç (“patch”).

tilkku

small piece of material used to clean a gun barrel

flejtuch

piece of greased cloth used to fit a rifle ball to the bore

Immediately following the incident Siemens commissioned a software patch that will allow units which protectively shut down below 49Hz to recover themselves without the need of a reboot or laptop when the frequency rises to 49.5Hz. At the beginning of September, this patch was being verified by Siemens software engineers at Erlangen in Germany.

2019 October, Roger Ford, “Power failure highlights specification confusion”, in Modern Railways, page 28:

(computing) A piece of data intended to modify a computer file by replacing a part of it.

ъпде́йт

computing: piece of data for modifying a file


patch

en-verb

patch (third-person singular simple present patches, present participle patching, simple past and past participle patched)

patches (present singular third-person)
patching (participle present)
patched (participle past)
patched (past)

fliki

computing: update source code with a patch

(computing) To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:

To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.

To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.


vanilla

en-adj

vanilla (comparative more vanilla, superlative most vanilla)

more vanilla (comparative)
most vanilla (superlative)
vanille (alternative archaic)

Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”). "Plain" senses derive from the perceived plainness of vanilla ice cream.

vanilla JavaScript

BBCFiles is a BBC file converter that converts between some of the various types of files used by BBC emulators on Acorn & PC formats. It supports 6502Em style applications & scripts, /ssd dfs disc images (supporting watford double catalogue), vanilla directories, /zip of bbc files with /inf files (with limitations) and directory of bbc files with /inf files.

2001, Michael Foot, “BeebIt 0.32 and BBCFiles 0.29 released”, in comp.sys.acorn.announce (Usenet):

(colloquial, chiefly computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.


paste

en-verb

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

pastes (present singular third-person)
pasting (participle present)
pasted (participle past)
pasted (past)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kweh₁t-der.
Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
Late Latin pasta
Old French pastebor.
Middle English paste
English paste
From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). Doublet of pasta. The verb is from the noun. Middle English had pasten (“to make a paste of; bake in a pastry”), also from the noun; compare Latin pistō and Medieval Latin pastillātus.

etymon

(transitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.


giant

giants (plural)
giaunt (alternative obsolete)

/ˈd͡ʒʌɪ.ənt/

[ˈd͡ʒəɪ̯(ə)nt]

From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”) Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Displaced native Old English ent. Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”).

(computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.


palette

Borrowed from French palette. Doublet of pallet.

It would be extremely beneficial to have the right subassemblies with the parameters already set available on your tool palette.

2011, James Wedding, Dana Probert, Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009, page 394:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.


golf

en-verb

golf (third-person singular simple present golfs, present participle golfing, simple past and past participle golfed)

golfs (present singular third-person)
golfing (participle present)
golfed (participle past)
golfed (past)

The word is first known in English from the 17th century as a borrowing from Middle Scots golf, gouff. Although the etymology is uncertain, the most likely origin is that it comes from the Middle Dutch colve, colf (“club”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“club”), related to German Kolben (“piston, rod”), Swedish kolv (“piston, rod”), Old English clopp (“rock; cliff”).

(computing) To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)


mirror

mirrors (plural)
mirrour (alternative obsolete)

mur (all in some North American accents only)

From Middle English mirour, from Old French mireor (“mirror”, literally “looker, watcher”), from mirer (“look at”), from Latin mīror (“wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Displaced native Middle English schewere, schawere, from Old English sċēawere (“mirror”, literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "spy".

ncog

Although the content had been deleted from his blog, it was still found on some mirrors.

(computing, Internet) A website or server that contains replicated data from another site.


mirror

en-verb

mirror (third-person singular simple present mirrors, present participle mirroring, simple past and past participle mirrored)

mirrors (present singular third-person)
mirroring (participle present)
mirrored (participle past)
mirrored (past)
mirrour (alternative obsolete)

(transitive, computing, Internet) To create something identical to (a website, etc.).

tükröz

computing: to create a replica of another site


skeleton

skeletons (plural)
skeleta (plural)
sceleton (alternative)

From New Latin sceleton, from Ancient Greek σκελετόν (skeletón), the neuter of σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκέλλω (skéllō, “dry, dry up, make dry, parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, wither”); compare Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”).

der

In remote method invocation, the client helper is a ‘stub’ and the service helper is a ‘skeleton’.

(computing, middleware) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.


driver

desctree

→ Japanese: ドライバー (doraibā)
→ Hakka: 多拉把 (tô-lai-pá, tô-lai-pà, tò-lái-pà)
→ Hokkien: 螺賴把 /螺赖把 (lo͘-lài-bà)

→ Hokkien: 嚦峇 /呖峇 (lē-bā)

→ Scottish Gaelic: draibhear

From Middle English drivere, dryvere, dryvare, equivalent to drive + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drieuwer (“driver”), Dutch drijver (“driver”), German Low German Driever (“driver”), German Treiber (“driver”).

(computing) A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.

դրայվեր

program acting as interface between an application and hardware


alchemy

en-noun

alchemy (countable and uncountable, plural alchemies)

From Old French alkimie, arquemie (French alchimie), from Medieval Latin alchēmia, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā, “art of alloying metals”), from χύμα (khúma, “ingot, bar”). Compare Spanish alquimia and Italian alchimia.

der

اَلْكِيمِيَاء

Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)

(computing, slang, countable) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.


metaverse

From meta- + (uni)verse. Analyzable as meta- + -verse. In the sci-fi sense coined by American science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in 1992.

coin

It is closer, in other words, to another science fiction vision, the “metaverse” Neal Stephenson envisioned in his 1992 Snow Crash. That particular moniker has not caught on, but many of Stephenson's ideas about what the on-line world can look like are driving a new generation of entrepreneurs to try to match it.

1997 July 7, Zina Moukheiber, “The geeks have inherited the earth”, in Forbes, →ISSN, pages 354–356:

But now, with 350 million players who are used to hanging out in a vibrant, ridiculous online world filled with dancing bananas and cartoon skirmishes, Party Royale could be the experience that finally realises the idea of a playful, mass participation online metaverse.

2020 May 15, Keith Stuart, “Fortnite Party Royale is the most fun you can have in the metaverse”, in The Guardian:

Video games like Roblox and Fortnite and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, in which players can build their own worlds, have metaverse tendencies, as does most social media. If you own a non-fungible token or even just some crypto, you’re part of the metaversal experience. Virtual and augmented reality are, at a minimum, metaverse adjacent.

2021 July 10, John Herrman, Kellen Browning, “Are We in the Metaverse Yet?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In the world of Snow Crash, the metaverse is not viewed as particularly cool—it is necessary, because the real world has become so unbearable.

2021 July 30, Brian Merchant, “The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea”, in VICE:

The metaverse is the convergence of two ideas that have been around for many years: virtual reality and a digital second life.

2022 January 18, Brian X. Chen, “What’s All the Hype About the Metaverse?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(science fiction, Internet, computing) A hypothetical future (counterpart or continuation of the) Internet, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space.


nest

From Middle English nest, nist, nyst, from Old English nest, from Proto-West Germanic *nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestą, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”), literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of *ni (“down”) (whence also English nether) + the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“to sit”) (whence also English sit).

it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest

Subroutine 4 cannot jump out of the subroutine nest in one step. Each return address must be popped from the stack in the order in which it was pushed onto the stack.

1981, Donnamaie E. White, Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALU's, Garland STPM Press, →ISBN, page 49:

Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest, we are only parallelizing a single loop.

1993 August, Bwolen Yang et al., "Do&Merge: Integrating Parallel Loops and Reductions", in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (workshop proceedings), Springer (1994), page 178

(computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.


joystick

joysticks (plural)
joy-stick (alternative)
joy stick (alternative)

From joy + stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear.

unk

unclear

If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important.

A mechanical control device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer, or other equipment.

She playing with my joystick
 All in my two seater

2015, “Gamez”, performed by Maejor ft. Keri Hilson:


silo

From Spanish silo, of unclear origin. See Spanish silo for more.

(computing) In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.


mnemonic

Noun sense 1 (“something used to help in remembering a thing”) is borrowed from Latin mnēmonicum (“something used to help in remembering a thing”), from Ancient Greek μνημονικόν (mnēmonikón, “something used to help in remembering a thing”), a noun use of the neuter form of μνημονῐκός (mnēmonĭkós, adjective): see etymology 1. Noun sense 3 (“synonym of mnemonics”) is borrowed from Late Latin mnemonica, a noun use of the feminine form of mnemonicus: see etymology 1.
Cognates
* French mnémonique (noun)
* German Mnemonik
* Italian mnemonica
* Portuguese mnemónico

crib

collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort

(computing) The human-readable, textual form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands.


beep

(computing) Synonym of bell (“bell character”).


exploit

From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).

One of the more publicized cases that involved a zero-day exploit concerned the compromise of some U.S. military web servers. The attack involved exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability in a core Windows component; […]

2004, Rob Shein, Zero-Day Exploit: Countdown to Darkness, Syngress, →ISBN, page xxi:

For example, you can create PE files that are valid PDF exploits or valid ZIP files, valid JPG files, and so on.

2015, Joxean Koret, Elias Bachaalany, The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook, page 148:

(computing) A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.


inflate

en-verb

inflate (third-person singular simple present inflates, present participle inflating, simple past and past participle inflated)

inflates (present singular third-person)
inflating (participle present)
inflated (participle past)
inflated (past)

From Latin īnflātus, perfect passive participle of īnflō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of inblow.

надувам се

(intransitive) to become enlarged by being filled with gas

напо́лниться

to be filled with gas, air - га́зом, во́здухом

(transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.


deflate

deflate (third-person singular simple present deflates, present participle deflating, simple past and past participle deflated)

deflates (present singular third-person)
deflating (participle present)
deflated (participle past)
deflated (past)

From de- + (in)flate. Coined in 1891, in reference to balloons. Equivalent to Latin dē- (“away, from”) + Latin flō (“blow”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

af

Never had a problem, guess I've never had to deflate multiple files!

2003, Alan D Johnson, “unzip utility on HPUX”, in comp.sys.hp.hpux (Usenet):

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


database

databases (plural)
data base (alternative dated)
data-base (alternative dated)

→ Danish: database

→ Dutch: database

→ Hindi: डेटाबेस (ḍeṭābes)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: database

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: database

[ˈdæɾəˌbeɪs]

/ˈɖeːʈaːˌbeːs/

The "books" database will have three tables, and the "customers" database will have two tables.

(computing) A set of tables and other objects (queries, reports, forms) in the form of a structured data set.

Which database do you use: MySQL or Oracle?

(computing, loosely, metonymic) A software program (application) for storing, retrieving and manipulating such a structured data set.

(computing, loosely, metonymic) A combination of such data sets and the programs for using them.


whack

Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken, from Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack). Sense 6 of the verb is likely a semantic loan from Malay hentam (“to strike; to do something carelessly”).

sl

del c:\docs\readme.txt
Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text.

(slang, computing, typography) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.


chatty

en-adj

chatty (comparative chattier, superlative chattiest)

chattier (comparative)
chattiest (superlative)

From chat (“informal conversation”) + -y.

Chatty error messages may help attackers to compromise your server.

(computing) Supplying more information than necessary; verbose.


sysop

(computing, Internet) A system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board.


oblique

en-verb

oblique (third-person singular simple present obliques, present participle obliquing, simple past and past participle obliqued)

obliques (present singular third-person)
obliquing (participle present)
obliqued (participle past)
obliqued (past)

From Middle French oblique, from Latin oblīquus (also spelled oblīcus) (“slanting, sideways, indirect, envious”).

uder

(transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.


puck

→ Danish: puck

→ German: Puck

→ Swedish: puck

From or influenced by Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”). Compare poke (1861).

(computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.


messenger

From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message + -er. Doublet of messager.
Displaced native Old English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and ǣrendraca (“messenger, ambassador”).
For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).

The 4 primary messengers include ^([sic]) AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, and MSN Messenger.

2006, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Sexual exploitation of children over the Internet, page 395:

Have them meet you on your favorite messenger program. IMs provide a means of instant chat without waiting on someone to respond back to you.

2010, Tim Collins, A Woman's Guide to Internet Dating, A Male Perspective, page 49:

(computing) An instant messenger program.


protocol

en-noun

protocol (countable and uncountable, plural protocols)

/ˈpɹəʊtəˌkɒl/

Borrowed from Middle French protocolle, protocole (“document, record”), from Late Latin protocollum (“the first sheet of a volume (on which contents and errata were written)”), from Byzantine Greek πρωτόκολλον (prōtókollon, “first sheet glued onto a manuscript”), from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Doublet of collage, collagen, and colloid.

doublet

Moloch passed the message to the Behemoth / Whose master passed it on to Zebedee / It was sent by Internet, by obscure protocols / To its recipient, the delicious Miss Gee

2001, “More Shopping”, in Discosis, performed by Bran Van 3000 ft. Momus:

An exception is Jabber, which is designed based on an open protocol called the extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP).

2006, Zheng & Ni, Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing, p. 444

Founders of those kinds of platforms argue that they are just building a “protocol” ultimately led by a community of users, with the computer code effectively running the show.

2021 September 5, Eric Lipton, Ephrat Livni, “Crypto’s Rapid Move Into Banking Elicits Alarm in Washington”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.


dispatch

en-verb

dispatch (third-person singular simple present dispatches, present participle dispatching, simple past and past participle dispatched)

dispatches (present singular third-person)
dispatching (participle present)
dispatched (participle past)
dispatched (past)
depeche (alternative)
despatch (alternative)

Cuthbert Tunstall
Samuel Johnson
dispatch

From Spanish despachar or Italian dispacciare, replacing alternate reflex depeach, which is from French dépêcher. Further, several steps omitting, from Latin dis- + impedicō (whence impeach). The first known use in writing (in the past tense, spelled as dispached) is by Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall in 1517. This would be unusually early for a borrowing from a Romance language other than French, but Tunstall had studied in Italy and was Commissioner to Spain, so this word may have been borrowed through diplomatic circles. The alternative spelling despatch was introduced in Samuel Johnson's dictionary, probably by accident.
Compare typologically deliver (for the meaning to bring or transport) (< Latin dē- + līberō).

These handlers perform any additional checking and processing that may be necessary before and after a message is dispatched to an object. In addition, some message types are handled internally by the kernel[…]

2004, Peter Gutmann, Cryptographic Security Architecture: Design and Verification, page 102:

(transitive, computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).


dispatch

en-noun

dispatch (countable and uncountable, plural dispatches)

dispatches (plural)
depeche (alternative)
despatch (alternative)

(computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.


frame

→ Korean: 프레임 (peureim)

→ Swahili: fremu

From Middle English frame (“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also from Old Norse frami (“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); and frame (“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rare Anglo-Norman and Old French frame, fraine (“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately from Frankish *hramu (“frame”) related to Dutch raam (“window frame”).

der

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.


IM

en-noun

IM (countable and uncountable, plural IMs)

information management
w:information management

(computing) Initialism of information management.


zombie

zombies (plural)
zombi (alternative)
zomby (alternative rare)
zumbi (alternative uncommon)

First attested in 1871.
From a Bantu language. Compare Kongo nzambi (“god”), zumbi (“fetish”), and Kimbundu nzumbi (“ghost”) (see Portuguese zumbi, Sranan Tongo dyumbi), and Caribbean folklore's jumbee (“a spirit or demon”).
Origin from Spanish sombra (“shadow, phantom”) has also been suggested.
May have come through Louisiana Creole [Term?]. See also French zombi (1832).

1986, Maurice J. Bach, The Design of the Unix Operating System, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, See "Process States and Transitions," p. 147.
9. The process executed the exit system call and is in the zombie state. The process no longer exists, but it leaves a record containing an exit code and some timing statistics for its parent process to collect. The zombie state is the final state of a process.

(computing) A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.

(computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.


relocatable

en-adj

relocatable (comparative more relocatable, superlative most relocatable)

more relocatable (comparative)
most relocatable (superlative)

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

(computing, of a machine code routine) That functions identically at any address in memory.

færanlegur

computing: that functions identically at any address in memory


garbage

From late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”).
Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear

cog

garbidge (alternative obsolete pronunciation-spelling)

(computing) Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.

(computing) Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.


bleep censor

(computing) A software module, manually operated by a broadcast technician, putting a five-second broadcast delay on the live content, providing time to censor the audio (and video) feed, and used to censor out what many consider "inappropriate" audio content during a live broadcast signal and replace it with a bleep signal.


load

The sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning of Middle English lode, loade, which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, from Old English lād (“course, journey; way, street, waterway; leading, carrying; maintenance, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“leading, way”), Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to go, go forth, die”).
Cognate with Middle Low German leide (“entourage, escort”), German Leite (“line, course, load”), Swedish led (“way, trail, line”), Icelandic leið (“way, course, route”)). As such, load is a doublet of lode, which has preserved the older meaning.
Most likely, the semantic extension of the Middle English substantive arose by conflation with the (etymologically unrelated) verb lade; however, Middle English lode occurs only as a substantive; the transitive verb load (“to charge with a load”) is recorded only in the 16th century (frequently in Shakespeare),
and (except for the participle laden) has largely supplanted lade in modern English.
For the meaning development from PIE, compare Latin carrus (whence carry) akin to currō.

cog

All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load.

This description represents a form of delay slot: the load operation takes some time to complete, say n cycles. Thus, the value loaded only becomes valid n cycles after the load seems to have executed and can therefore only be read after then.

2009, Daniel Page, A Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture, page 614:

(computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.


load

en-verb

load (third-person singular simple present loads, present participle loading, simple past loaded, past participle loaded or (archaic) loaden)

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

Click OK to load the selected data.

(transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.

This program takes an age to load.

(intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

yüklənmək

intransitive: to transfer from a storage medium into memory


rank

en-noun

rank (countable and uncountable, plural ranks)

From Middle English rank (“line, row”), from Old French ranc, rang, reng (“line, row, rank”) (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”).
Akin to Old High German (h)ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg (“ring”), Old Norse hringr (“ring, circle, queue, sword; ship”). Doublet of ring and rink.

cog

(mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.


cooked

en-adj

cooked (comparative more cooked, superlative most cooked)

more cooked (comparative)
most cooked (superlative)

more than someone has had cooked dinners

(computing, slang, of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.


cooked mode

(computing) The mode of a device driver in which input data is processed or preprocessed.


support

en-noun

support (countable and uncountable, plural supports)

From Middle English support, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French support. Displaced Old English wraþu.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

This game has no mouse support.

(computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.

-tuki (e.g. onko siinä hiirituki?)

compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature


population

Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus, equivalent to populate + -ion. Doublet of poblacion.

bor+

invånarantal (often expressed as "har X invånare" instead)

John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.

(computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.


resident

en-adj

resident (comparative more resident, superlative most resident)

more resident (comparative)
most resident (superlative)

From Middle English resident, from Anglo-Norman resident, from Latin residēns, present participle of resideō (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), equivalent to reside + -ent, from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“I sit”). Doublet of resiant and rezident. The espionage sense is a semantic loan from Russian резиде́нт (rezidént).

semantic loan

(computing, of memory) Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.


store

From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.

The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.


store

en-verb

store (third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored)

stores (present singular third-person)
storing (participle present)
stored (participle past)
stored (past)

This operation stores the result on the stack.

(transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.

һаҡлау

computing: write (something) into memory or registers


tag

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

cog

The <title> tag provides a title for the Web page.

The <sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.

(computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.

I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.

(computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.

таг

computing: keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information


tag

en-verb

tag (third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged)

tags (present singular third-person)
tagging (participle present)
tagged (participle past)
tagged (past)

I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.

(transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).


affinity

en-noun

affinity (countable and uncountable, plural affinities)

From Middle English affinite, from Old French affinité. Ostensibly equivalent to affine + -ity.

(computing) A tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses.


flop

A variant capitalization of FLOP, a syllabic acronym of floating-point operations.

The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8.

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

(computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.

The Correlator can perform 750 billion ‘flops’, or simple calculations, per second.

floating-point operation
floating-point operation#English

(computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.


diskette

diskettes (plural)
discette (alternative)
disquette (alternative)

→ Portuguese: disquete

From disk + -ette, by analogy with cassette.

(computing) A small, flexible, magnetic disk for storage and retrieval of data.


slot

From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.

The game offers four save slots.

(computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.


deprecate

en-verb

deprecate (third-person singular simple present deprecates, present participle deprecating, simple past and past participle deprecated)

deprecates (present singular third-person)
deprecating (participle present)
deprecated (participle past)
deprecated (past)

Borrowed from Latin dēprecātus, perfect active participle of dēprecor (“to pray against (a present or impending evil) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from dē- (“off”) + precor (“to pray”).

The 'bold' tag has been deprecated in favour of the 'strong' tag.

It is still supported but strongly deprecated.

A deprecated function works in the currently released version of Perl 5 but may not be supported in future releases of Perl 5.

2003, Dave Evans et al., Perl, CGI, and JavaScript Complete, Sybex, →ISBN:

(transitive, chiefly computing) To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.


resolve

resolve (third-person singular simple present resolves, present participle resolving, simple past and past participle resolved)

resolves (present singular third-person)
resolving (participle present)
resolved (participle past)
resolved (past)

From Middle English resolven, from Old French resolver, a learned borrowing of Latin resolvō (“loosen, thaw, melt, resolve”), equivalent to re- + solve. Piecewise doublet of re-solve.

sulattaa

to melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften

(computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.


bin

en-noun

bin (countable and uncountable, plural bins)


fabric

fabric (countable and uncountable, plural fabrics)

→ Irish: fabraic

Borrowed from French fabrique, from Latin fabrica (“a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric”), from faber (“artisan, workman”). Doublet of forge, borrowed from Old French.

der

The Internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers.

(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.

verkko

computing: interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed


soft

en-adj

soft (comparative softer, superlative softest)

softer (comparative)
softest (superlative)

hard

antonym(s) of “giving way under pressure”

firm

antonym(s) of “lacking strength or resolve”

From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte, alteration of earlier sēfte (“soft”), from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (“level, even, smooth, soft, gentle”) (compare *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *semptio-, *semtio-, from *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with West Frisian sêft (“gentle; soft”), Dutch zacht (“soft”), German Low German sacht (“soft”), German sanft (“soft, yielding”), Old Norse sœmr (“agreeable, fitting”), samr (“same”). More at seem, same.

inh

Press the red button on the soft phone to hang up.

(computing) Emulated with software; not physically real.


soft

en-noun

soft (countable and uncountable, plural softs)

Sega and third-party licensees are set to release an abundance of softs that range from intense shooters to sports to reflex-testers.

December 1989, Electronic Gaming Monthly

(countable, computing, dated, nonstandard, rare) A piece of software.


station

→ Hindi: स्टेशन (sṭeśan)

→ Irish: stáisiún

→ Malay: stesen

desc

ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ (sṭeśan)

→ Punjabi: سٹیشن/ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ (sṭeśan)

→ Scottish Gaelic: stèisean

→ Swahili: stesheni

→ Urdu: سْٹیشَن (sṭeśan), اِسْٹیشَن (isṭeśan)

From Middle English stacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman estation, from Latin statiōnem, accusative of statiō (“standing, post, job, position”), whence also Italian stazione. Doublet of stagione. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi), στάσις (stásis), Old English standan (whence English stand).

An Econet network is made up of a number of stations.

When entering a LOAD/SAVE/FORMAT, etc command you not only had to identify the destination of the data (ie, microdrive, network or RS232), but the number of the drive or station too.

2012, Colin Woodcock, The ZX Spectrum on Your PC, page 16:

(computing) A device communicating over a network; a host.


sticky

en-adj

sticky (comparative stickier, superlative stickiest)

stickier (comparative)
stickiest (superlative)

We should make the printing direction sticky so the user doesn't have to keep setting it.

(computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.

predeterminado

persistent across multiple incarnations of a widget

(computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.


non-maskable interrupt

en-noun

non-maskable interrupt (plural non-maskable interrupts)

non-maskable interrupts (plural)
NMI (abbreviation)

(computing) A hardware-level interrupt that cannot be masked by software, such as a memory parity error.


nugatory

en-adj

nugatory (comparative more nugatory, superlative most nugatory)

more nugatory (comparative)
most nugatory (superlative)

(computing) Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.


roll

en-verb

roll (third-person singular simple present rolls, present participle rolling, simple past and past participle rolled)

rolls (present singular third-person)
rolling (participle present)
rolled (participle past)
rolled (past)

From Middle English rollen, partly from Old French roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”), from Latin rotula (“a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”); partly from Anglo-Latin rollāre, from the same ultimate source.

rol

to move, or cause to be moved, upon rollers or small wheels

(dice games, intransitive) To throw dice.

(computing) To generate a random number.

To throw dice.
To generate a random number.


verbose

en-adj

verbose (comparative more verbose, superlative most verbose)

more verbose (comparative)
most verbose (superlative)

From Latin verbōsus (“prolix, wordy, verbose”) + English -ose (suffix meaning ‘full of; like’). Verbōsus is derived from verbum (“word”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, overly, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). Equivalent to verb + -ose.

der

You should use verbose logging sparingly. Turning on verbose logging for every process would result in log files so large they would become useless.

2001, Richard Blum, “Common Postfix Problems”, in Postfix, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, part III (Advanced Postfix Server Topics), page 532:

Verbose logging adds extra detail and increases the descriptiveness of the log entries made. Verbose logging also adds one additional client log file that is specific to DCM, SmsClrHost.log, and one management point log file, MP_GetSdmPackage.log.

2009, Kerrie Meyler, Byron Holt, Greg Ramsey [et al.], “Desired Configuration Management”, in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Unleashed, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, part III (Configuration Manager Operations):

For troubleshooting purposes, enable verbose logging for the WUA by following these steps: [...]

2015, Andre Della Monica, Chris Shilt, Russ Rimmerman, Rushi Faldu, “Understanding Software Update Architecture: Client Side”, in Mitch Tulloch, editor, Microsoft System Center: Software Update Management Field Experience, Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, →ISBN, page 19:

(computing) Producing detailed output for diagnostic purposes.

ausführlich

(computing) producing detailed output for diagnostic purposes


acknowledgment

en-noun

acknowledgment (countable and uncountable, plural acknowledgments)

acknowledgments (plural)
acknowledgement (alternative)

(telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).

ontvangstbevestiging

indication of a successful receipt of a transmission


editor

editors (plural)
ed. (alternative abbreviation)
edit. (alternative abbreviation)
Ed. (alternative)
editour (alternative obsolete rare)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-editor.wav

From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).

The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor.

(computing) A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.


screenshot

→ Dutch: screenshot

→ German: Screenshot

→ Italian: screenshot

desc

→ Japanese: スクリーンショット (sukurīnshotto), スクショ (sukusho)

→ Korean: 스크린샷 (seukeurinsyat), 스샷 (seusyat)

→ Portuguese: screenshot

→ Russian: скриншо́т (skrinšót), скри́ншот (skrínšot)

→ Thai: สกรีนช็อต (sà-griin-chɔ́t)

→ Ukrainian: скріншот (skrinšot), скрін (skrin)

From screen + shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”).

compound

I grabbed a screenshot of my desktop.

(computing) An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.

صورة الشاشة

ṣūrat aš-šāša


screenshot

en-verb

screenshot (third-person singular simple present screenshots, present participle screenshotting, simple past and past participle screenshotted or (less common) screenshot)

screenshots (present singular third-person)
screenshotting (participle present)
screenshotted (participle past)
screenshotted (past)
screenshot (participle past uncommon)
screenshot (past uncommon)

To help to improve the software, make sure to screenshot any bugs you find.

Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use.

2023 February 22, “Network News: Northern thwarts barcode cheats”, in RAIL, number 977, page 25:

It was one of the funnier, somewhat surprising screw-ups we’d seen from Gemini, which like all publicly available artificial intelligence tools is prone to what the tech industry calls “hallucinations.” He screenshot the answer so that we could have a laugh about it, and then scrolled down to find the first non-sponsored, non-AI search result: an entry from one of the most reliable places on the internet, Wikipedia.

2025 January 14, Allison Morrow, “In a minefield of glitchy AI search and social media, Wikipedia becomes one of the most reliable places on the internet”, in CNN:

(computing, transitive) To take a screenshot of something.


porter

From Middle English porter, portere, portier, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French porteor, from Late Latin portātor, from past participle of Latin portāre (“to carry”). By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -er.

surf

[…] useful only if you are a Perl porter or implementor and you want to check the efficiency of the hashing algorithm.

1998, Michael McMillan, Perl from the Ground Up, page 45:

(computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).


record

→ Portuguese: recorde

From Middle English recorde, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder. See record (verb).

Pull up the record on John Smith. What's his medical history?

(computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.

سِجِلّ

computing: set of data relating to a single individual or item


jail

en-noun

jail (countable and uncountable, plural jails)

jails (plural)
gaol (alternative Australia Ireland UK dated)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: जेल (jel)

Urdu: جیل (jel)

→ Punjabi: ਜੇਲ੍ਹ (jelh)

→ Welsh: jêl, jael

From Middle English gayole, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, from Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, from Late Latin caveola (“small cage, cell”), a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). Doublet of caveola and related to cage. More at cajole.
Fully displaced native Middle English quartern (“prison, jail, cell”), from Old English cweartern (“jail, prison”).
Partially displaced native Middle English lok, from Old English loc (“enclosure, pen; jail, prison”), whence lock; and Middle English carcern, from Old English carcern, from Latin carcer (“prison, jail”).
Compare these Old English words, all meaning “jail”: heaþor, heolstorloca (means also “jail cell”), clūstorloc, dung (also “dungeon”), hlinræced, nirwþ, nīedcleofa, hearmloca, and nearu.

ncog

(computing, FreeBSD, usually uncountable) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.


stripe

From Middle English stripe, strype, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German strîpe, from Proto-West Germanic *strīpā, *strīpō, from Proto-Germanic *strīpô. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Striepe (“stripe, strip”), West Frisian stripe (“stripe”), Dutch streep (“stripe”), German Low German Striepe, Striep, Streep (“stripe”), German Streifen (“stripe, strip, band”), Danish stribe (“stripe”).

cog

(computing) A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.


stripe

en-verb

stripe (third-person singular simple present stripes, present participle striping, simple past and past participle striped)

stripes (present singular third-person)
striping (participle present)
striped (participle past)
striped (past)

(transitive, computing) To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.


prepend

prepend (third-person singular simple present prepends, present participle prepending, simple past and past participle prepended)

prepends (present singular third-person)
prepending (participle present)
prepended (participle past)
prepended (past)

From pre- + (ap)pend, back-formation from append.

The final cleaned assemblies in GenBank were downloaded, and the contig identifiers were pre-pended with the sample name and haplotype integer (where 1 = paternal and 2 = maternal).

2023 May 11, Wen-Wei LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI:

(computing, linguistics, transitive) To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix.

antaŭglui

to attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix


delegation

en-noun

delegation (countable and uncountable, plural delegations)

/dɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən/

Borrowed from Latin dēlēgātiō, dēlēgātiōnis, from dēlēgō: compare French délégation.

(computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.

delegointi

(computing) a method dispatching technique


style

style (countable and uncountable, plural styles)

styles (plural)
stile (alternative)
stylee (alternative)
stile (alternative obsolete)

→ Finnish: staili

→ Scottish Gaelic: stoidhle

→ Iban: stail

→ Japanese: スタイル (sutairu)

→ Korean: 스타일 (seutail)

→ Malay: stail

→ Portuguese: style

→ Swahili: staili

The noun is derived from Middle English stile, stel, stele, stiel, stiele, stil, still, stille, styele, style, styill, styll, styyl (“writing tool, stylus; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression, particularly one regarded as high quality; demeanour, manner, way of life; person's designation or title; stem of a plant; period of time”), from Old French style, estile, stil, stile (modern French style), or from Medieval Latin stylus, both from Latin stilus (“pointed instrument, pale, spike, stake; writing tool, stylus; act of setting down in writing, composition; characteristic mode of expression, style; stem of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to pierce, prick, puncture, stab; to goad”). Doublet of stylus.
The English word is cognate with Catalan estil (“engraving tool, stylus; gnomon; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace”), German Stiel (“handle; stalk”), Italian stilo (“needle, stylus; fountain pen; beam; gnomon; part of pistil, style”), Occitan estil, Portuguese estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style”), Spanish estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace; part of pistil, style”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

styl

manner of expression in writing or speech

styl

applying styles to text in a wordprocessor  Cascading Style Sheets

In today's assignment, you need to: [...] Right justify your heading in 12 point Helvetica font and plain text style.

2001, Dee L. Fabry, Sally A. Seier, “Speaking, Technology, Analysis, and Reading through Research”, in Opening Doors to Reading: Building School-to-work Skills, Englewood, Colo.: Teacher Ideas Press, Libraries Unlimited, →ISBN, page 64:

The concept of creating styles has been around since long before the Web. Desktop publishing programs, such as Adobe InDesign, and even word processing programs, such as Microsoft Word, have long used styles to manage the formatting and editing of text on printed pages.

2011, Janine Warner, “Cascading Style Sheets”, in Dreamweaver CS3 for Dummies, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.

(computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as boldface or italics.

kāhua

visual or other modification to text or elements of a document


BOM

balm (some speakers with the father-bother merger)


wrap

en-verb

wrap (third-person singular simple present wraps, present participle wrapping, simple past and past participle wrapped or (archaic) wrapt)

wraps (present singular third-person)
wrapping (participle present)
wrapped (participle past)
wrapped (past)
wrapt (archaic participle past)
wrapt (archaic past)
wrop (alternative)

From Middle English wrappen (“to wrap, fold”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to North Frisian wrappe (“to press into; stop up”), dialectal Danish vrappe (“to stuff, cram”), Middle Low German rincworpen (“to envelop, wrap”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch the face”), all perhaps tied to Proto-Indo-European *werp-, *werb- (“to turn, twist, bend”).
Compare also similar-sounding and similar-meaning Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, lap, envelop, fold”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap”) (from Germanic). Doublet of lap; related to envelop, develop. Also compare Latin verber (“whip, lash”).

cog

(computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.


structure

en-noun

structure (countable and uncountable, plural structures)

/ˈstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/

[ˈstʃɹɐktʃə]

From Middle French structure, from Latin structūra (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.

der

This structure contains both date and timezone information.

(computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.

struktur

computing: several pieces of data treated as a unit


property

en-noun

property (countable and uncountable, plural properties)

properties (plural)
propretie (alternative)

From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté (“propriety, fitness, property”), from Latin proprietās (“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”), from proprius (“special, particular, one's own”). Equivalent to proper + -ty. Doublet of propriety.

خَاصَّة

attribute or abstract quality associated with an object, individual or concept

characteristic

attribute or abstract quality of an object

You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class; especially (object-oriented programming) one that encapsulates an underlying variable.

propietat

computing: an editable parameter associated with an application

egenskab c (property often used untranslated)


target

en-verb

target (third-person singular simple present targets, present participle targeting or targetting, simple past and past participle targeted or targetted)

targets (present singular third-person)
targeting (participle present)
targetting (participle present)
targeted (participle past)
targeted (past)
targetted (participle past)
targetted (past)

From Middle French targette, targuete, diminutive of targe (“light shield”), from Old French, from Frankish *targa (“buckler”), akin to Old Norse targa (“small round shield”) (whence also Old English targe, targa (“shield”)) from Proto-Germanic *targǭ (“edge”), from Proto-Indo-European *derǵʰ- (“fenced lot”). Akin to Old High German zarga (“side wall, rim”) (German Zarge (“frame”)), Spanish tarjeta (“card”).

cog

This cross-platform compiler can target any of several processors.

(transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.


orphan

orphans (plural)
orphane (alternative obsolete)

Late Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “without parents, fatherless”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos.
 PIE word
 *h₃órbʰos
Cognate with Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old High German erbi, arbi (German Erbe (“heir”)), Old English ierfa (“heir”). More at erf.

weeskind

person whose (parent or) parents have died

anak yatim (who has lost father, literally means orphan child)

An orphan isn't harmful in a language that has garbage collection, such as Java. However, reducing the number of orphans can be expected to improve code performance.

2003, David D. Riley, The Object of Data Abstraction and Structures Using Java, page 234:


orphan

en-verb

orphan (third-person singular simple present orphans, present participle orphaning, simple past and past participle orphaned)

orphans (present singular third-person)
orphaning (participle present)
orphaned (participle past)
orphaned (past)
orphan (infinitive)
orphan (first-person present singular)
orphaned (first-person past singular)
orphan (present second-person singular)
orphanest (archaic present second-person singular)
orphaned (past second-person singular)
orphanedst (archaic past second-person singular)
orphans (present singular third-person)
orphaneth (archaic present singular third-person)
orphaned (past singular third-person)
orphan (plural present)
orphaned (past plural)
orphan (present subjunctive)
orphaned (past subjunctive)
orphan (imperative present)
orphaning (participle present)
orphaned (participle past)
orphane (alternative obsolete)

When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.

Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.

(transitive, computing) To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.


layer

Appears at first glance to be from Middle English leyer, leyare (“a layer of stones or bricks”), equivalent to lay + -er. In which case, ultimately identical to etymology 2 below. For the pronunciation compare prayer.
However, this word layer (referring to a thickness of a material covering a surface) has also been argued to be from a respelling of an obsolete sense of the word lair that was once used by farmers, which had to do with soil. The connecting sense between the usual meaning of lair and the specialised farming meaning was: an area where cows typically rest, the ground being fertilised by their waste. Related to lie, ledger.

пцум

single thickness of some material covering a surface

(computing) An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle.


hacker

From Late Middle English hackere, hakker, hakkere (“one who cuts wood, woodchopper, woodcutter; (rare) tool for cutting wood”), from hakken, hacke (“to cut (something) with a chopping action, hack; to make a chopping action”) + -er(e) (suffix forming agent nouns). Hakken is derived from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; a handle; a hook; a peg”). The English word may be analysed as hack (“to chop or cut down in a rough manner”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

hacker

one who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems

ха́кер

one who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer

hakkuri

something that hacks; device or tool for hacking

The Electrical Engineering Department, J. McKenzie in particular, for allowing me to use the PDP-1 computer to do the extensive computations, draw graphs, and even type this thesis. In this connection Charles Landau did some of the programming, Luella Thompson did most of the typing, and W. B. Ackermann helped when the machine would not cooperate. Many other computer hackers also willingly offered advice.

1968 September, Rory [Jack] Thompson, Louis N[orberg] Howard, thesis supervisor, “Acknowledgments”, in Instabilities of Some Time-dependent Flows (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-09-23, page 107:

A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled. Three "diskzines" – magazines on floppy disks – started cheaply by entrepreneurs who placed ads in obscure computer journals […]

1984, Venture: For Entrepreneurial Business Owners and Investors, volume 6, part 1, New York, N.Y.: Venture Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 142:

While most hackers are people who simply love playing with computers and who break security measures in a network only for fun or to point out flaws, there is a malicious subset of hackers known as "crackers," who intrude on computer networks to cause damage, commit fraud, or steal data.

1995 May 22, Joe Chidley, “Cracking the Net”, in Maclean’s, volume 108, Toronto, Ont.: Maclean-Hunter Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 54–56; quoted in “Bibliography”, in Suzanne Elizabeth Kender, editor, Crime in America (The Reference Shelf; volume 68, number 5), New York, N.Y.: H[alsey] W[illiam] Wilson Company, 1996, →ISBN, page 197:

(computing, dated) One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.

food hacker

growth hacker

(by extension) One who applies a novel method, shortcut, skill, or trick to something to increase ease, efficiency, or productivity.

hakkeri

one who applies a novel method, etc., to something to increase ease, efficiency, or productivity


res

Can I get that in a higher res?

(computing) Clipping of resolution (of a computer display or image).


rich

en-adj

rich (comparative richer or more rich, superlative richest or most rich)

richer (comparative)
more rich (comparative)
richest (superlative)
most rich (superlative)

From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source.

inh

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God

A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages.

2002, David Austerberry, The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming:

Some rich text email messages contain formatting information that's best viewed with Microsoft Word.

2003, Patricia Cardoza, Patricia DiGiacomo, Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003:

But what did matter was that the new web platform provided a rich experience.

2008, Aaron Newman, Adam Steinberg, Jeremy Thomas, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation:

(computing) Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.


tray

From Middle English treye, from Old English trēġ, trīġ (“wooden board, tray”), from Proto-West Germanic *trauwi, from Proto-Germanic *trawją (“wooden vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *drewo-, *dóru (“tree; wood”). Cognate with Old Norse treyja (“carrier”), Old Swedish trø (“wooden grain measure”), Low German Treechel (“dough trough”), Ancient Greek δροίτη (droítē, “tub, vat”), Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “trough”). Related to trough and tree.

cog

[…]some developers try to use it that way for some reason (some applications inexplicably minimize to the tray rather than to the taskbar as they should).

2007, Brian Livingston, Paul Thurrott, Windows Vista Secrets:

(computing, graphical user interface, informal) A notification area used for icons and alerts.

ilmaisinalue

notification area in a computer's graphical user interface

(computing, business) A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.


quark

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

Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
Oxford English Dictionary

Sense 1 (“subatomic particle”) was coined by the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) in 1963, apparently an arbitrary word. Subsequently, in a letter dated 27 June 1978 to the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement, Gell-Mann associated the word with the sentence “Three quarks for Muster Mark!” from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939) and indicated that he pronounced the word /kwɔɹk/, reasoning that the sentence referred to a call in a pub for “three quarts”. However, the context in the book indicates that quark is probably a variant of quawk (“harsh call of a bird”) and was intended by Joyce to be pronounced /kwɑːk/, the modern pronunciation.

coinage

Two functions are provided to convert between strings and quarks: XrmStringToQuark and XrmQuarkToString […] The second takes a quark as its parameter and returns a pointer to its associated string; it is used primarily for debugging and runtime error messages.

1992, Keith D. Gregory, “Resources Revisited”, in Programming with Motif, New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag New York, →DOI, →ISBN, page 453:

(by extension, computing, X Window System)

An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.

quark-luku

(slang) A nonsense, trivial text string.


pump

en-verb

pump (third-person singular simple present pumps, present participle pumping, simple past and past participle pumped)

pumps (present singular third-person)
pumping (participle present)
pumped (participle past)
pumped (past)

→ Czech: pumpovat

Tok Pisin: pamim

→ Thai: ปั๊ม (bpám)

→ ǃXóõ: pàmpa

→ ǃXóõ: pòmpa

From Middle English pumpe, possibly from Middle Dutch pompe (“pipe, water conduit”) or Middle Low German pumpe (“pump”), probably ultimately imitative.
Compare Dutch pompen, German pumpen, and Danish pompe; also Spanish bomba (“pump”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

Sure enough, rather than pumping a message to the Console window, you will now see a message box displaying your message

2006, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform:

The CLR pumps messages automatically during a wait, reducing the likelihood of this but it can show up in native code.

2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows:

c. 2012, Microsoft, .NET Framework 4.5 documentation for Marshal.CleanupUnusedObjectsInCurrentContext
The interop system pumps messages while it attempts to clean up RCWs.

(computing) To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.


click

en-verb

click (third-person singular simple present clicks, present participle clicking, simple past and past participle clicked)

clicks (present singular third-person)
clicking (participle present)
clicked (participle past)
clicked (past)

Imitative of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s. Compare Saterland Frisian klikke (“to click”), Middle Dutch clicken (Modern Dutch: klikken (“to click”)), Old High German klecchen (Modern German: klecken, klicken (“to click”)), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”), Norwegian klikke (“to click”), Norwegian klekke (“to hatch”).

onomatopoeic

Imitative

(computing) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).

نَقَرَ

transitive: press and release (button on a mouse)

Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.

(transitive, computing, advertising) To visit (a website).


cracker

From Middle English craker (“a boaster”), equivalent to crack (“to break, snap, utter, make a sound”) + -er. From crack (verb), the sound made when one is broken. The hard "bread" and "biscuit" sense is first attested in 1739. The computing senses of cracker, crack, and cracking were promoted in the 1980s as an alternative to hacker, by programmers concerned about negative public associations of hack, hacking (“creative computer coding”). See Citations:cracker. Various theories exist regarding the term's application to poor white Southerners. One theory holds that it originated with disadvantaged corn and wheat farmers (corncrackers), who cracked their crops rather than taking them to the mill. Another theory asserts that it was applied due to Georgia and Florida settlers (Florida crackers) who cracked loud whips to drive herds of cattle, or, alternatively, from the whip cracking of plantation slave drivers. Yet another theory maintains that the term cracker was in use in Elizabethan times to describe braggarts (see crack (“to boast”)); a letter from 1766 supports this theory.

suf

It stated to one of the company's operators, “The Phantom, the system cracker, strikes again . . . Soon I will zero (expletive deleted) your desks and your backups on System A. I have already cracked your System B.

1984, Richard Sedric Fox Eells, Peter Raymond Nehemkis, Corporate Intelligence and Espionage: A Blueprint for Executive Decision Making, Macmillan, page 137:

Likewise, early software pirates and "crackers" often used phrases like "information wants to be free" to protest the regulations against the copying of proprietary software packages and computer systems.

2002, Steve Jones, Encyclopedia of New Media, page 1925:

A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).

(computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.


greeking

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:

Designers have long worked with a concept known as greeking. Greeking is a method of drawing gray bars to represent blocks of text rather than taking the time to image them all on the screen. […] Unless you really want to see every character of every word at every size, there's hardly any reason to turn greeking off.

2007, David Blatner, Gene Gable, Real World QuarkXPress 7, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, →ISBN:

The use of greeking (also called dummy text) allows page designers to place text on a page without the actual content acting as a distraction. The history of greeking is unclear, but it was first used in the middle of the 20th century. The text was based on the words of Cicero, a Roman leader whose writings are admired. The language he spoke and wrote was Latin rather than Greek, so the naming of this dummy text is misleading.

2007, Susan E. L. Lake, Karen Bean, “Using Other Design Tools”, in The Business of Technology: Digital Desktop Publishing, Mason, Oh.: Thompson/South-Western, →ISBN, page 109:

(computing, typography) Nonsense text or graphics inserted into a document as a placeholder to create a dummy layout, or to demonstrate a type font; the practice of using such placeholder text or graphics.


fibre

en-noun

fibre (countable and uncountable, plural fibres)

tlb

(British, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa spellings)

From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.

(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.


smelly

en-adj

smelly (comparative smellier, superlative smelliest)

smellier (comparative)
smelliest (superlative)

above board

antonym(s) of “having a quality that arouses suspicion”

That smelly code needs to be refactored.

(figuratively, computing, slang, in extreme programming) Having signs that suggest a design problem; having a code smell.


fiber

en-noun

fiber (countable and uncountable, plural fibers)

From French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra.

We've seen how to create a new fiber and convert the current thread into a fiber (which continues to run after the conversion), but we have yet to focus on how to schedule a new fiber onto the current thread.

2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows, Pearson Education, →ISBN, unnumbered page:


automagical

en-adj

automagical (comparative more automagical, superlative most automagical)

more automagical (comparative)
most automagical (superlative)

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

/ˈɑtoʊˈmæd͡ʒɪkəl/

Throughout this text we will emphasize the employment of a systems approach to the practice of analysis and design. In it we attempt to present this portion of the software lifecycle as a discipline rather than an "automagical" (automated magic) process.

1987, Lawrence J. Peters, Advanced Structured Analysis and Design, Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 2:

"How're we paying you, actually?" I asked.
 "Certain automagical manipulations."

1993, Colin Harrison, Bodies Electric: A Novel, Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 186:

It is hoped that, over time, new e-mail list management tools will become available for users which can "automagically" determine who and how to do these…

1994, Daniel P. Dern, The Internet Guide for New Users, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 490:

In the more florid cases, where the diagnosis is unmistakeable, several anatomical studies (especially with automagical computerized devices, such as positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging) have shown clear though subtle differences in the brains of schizophrenic patients…

1995, István Raskó, C. Stephen Downes, Genes in Medicine: Molecular Biology and Human Genetic Disorders, Springer, →ISBN, page 277:

These result [sic] indicate that the more complex the system, and the less the human feels aware of how the system is operating (i.e. to what degree it seems ‘automagical’) the less effective the operator becomes in correctly identifying problematic situations and taking the necessary corrective action.

2006, Stefan Axelsson, David Sands, Understanding Intrusion Detection Through Visualization, Springer, →ISBN, page 6:

(computing, technology, informal) Automatic, but with an apparent element of magic. Commonly referring to complex technical processes hidden from the view of users or operators, resulting in technology that "just works".

automagisch

automatic, but with an apparent element of magic