dot matrix

dot matrix (plural dot matrices or dot matrixes)

dot matrices (plural)
dot matrixes (plural)

On most terminals, hardware-generated characters are displayed as dot matrixes inside rectangular envelopes[…]. The exact manner in which this is done depends on the kind of terminal.

1980 December (updated 1984 September), “Picture-description Subroutines”, in Richard A. Salisbury, editor, Integrated Graphics System (MTS [Michigan Terminal System]; 17), Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Computing Center, →OCLC, page 24:

Press the SHIFT and the asterisk (*) keys. An 8 by 16 dot matrix is displayed in the upper left corner of the display.

1983 November 21, “Maintenance Instructions”, in Operator’s, Organizational, and Direct Support Maintenance Manual: Satellite Communications Set: AN/USC-28(V) (NSN 5895-01-089-7518) [Change No. 2] (Army Technical Manual; 11-5895-808-13-2; Navy NAVELEX; 0967-LP-640-9020; Air Force; 31R2-2USC28-1-2), Washington, D.C.: Departments of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, published 1991, →OCLC, section 4-39 (Interface Unit Troubleshooting), page 4-154, column 2:

Dot matrix printers make up a letter in the same manner as a CRT display. The fully formed-character printers (which are also referred to as letter quality printers) are generally slower and more expensive, but they produce higher quality output than dot matrix printers.

1984 March, Myron Hecht, Herbert Hecht, Laurence Press, “Overview of Microcomputers”, in Microcomputers: Introduction to Features and Uses (Computer Science and Technology; NBS Special Publication; 500-110), 8th edition, Washington, D.C.: National Bureau of Standards, United States Department of Commerce, →OCLC, section 2.2.6 (Printers), page 18:

As Dudley Simpson's unusual electronic march begins, the first image on view is of a highly detailed dome, a massive Federation city. From the dome's center, a computerized dot matrix representation of a human eye blossoms outward, rapidly revealing dissident Blake's tortured face.

2000, John Kenneth Muir, “Season Overview, Series A (1978)”, in A History and Critical Analysis of Blake’s 7: The 1978–1981 British Television Space Adventure, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN; republished Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2006, →ISBN, part II (The Series), page 30:

At close range, the painting [Georges Seurat's Le Cirque] is like a dot matrix of color: individual reds and blues and yellows perched side by side, giving the illusion of blending from a distance.

2014, Prudence Shen, Do Not Touch: A Tor.com Original, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN:

I feverishly wrote for Mrs. Comfort first using a notebook, then an old Mac that printed on dot matrix paper (the kind with a series of small holes used for grasping the edges as it printed onto a roll of mint green and white paper).

2015, Bobbi Button, “Writing Connections: The Not-so-secret Mission of Parental Involvement”, in Nanci Werner-Burke, editor, Beyond the Classroom: Collaborating with Colleagues and Parents to Build Core Literacy (Eye on Education Book), New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 43:

A dot matrix is a 2-dimensional patterned array, used to represent characters, symbols and images. Every type of modern technology uses dot matrices for display of information, including cell phones, televisions, and printers. They are also used in textiles with sewing, knitting, and weaving.

2016, “Dot matrix”, in Tomorrow’s Technology and You: Introductory: e-Study Guide (Just the Facts101: Textbook Key Facts), [s.l.]: Cram101 Textbook Reviews, →ISBN:

(computing, also attributively) A two-dimensional array or pattern of dots used (for example, by a display device or a printer) to represent alphanumeric characters and pictures.

點矩陣 /点矩阵

Jed S., the MIT student who took my poetry class at Wellesley and presented his poems on long scrolls of computer paper, the all-capitals dot matrix lines nearly unreadable.

2011, Robert Pinsky, “An Alphabet of My Dead [from Jersey Rain, (2000)]”, in Selected Poems, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 52:

The earliest reports were typewritten or stippled by a dot-matrix; then smudged, the result of being whipped too quickly from the mouth of an inkjet.

2014 September, Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman, chapter 20, in The Golem of Hollywood, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, 2015 August, →ISBN, page 197:

dot matrix printer
dot matrix printer#English

(computing) Clipping of dot matrix printer.


demultiplexer

(computing, electronics) A device or piece of software used to separate signals that were previously combined using a multiplexer.


toeprint

Total toeprint including keyboard for the miniature workstation is 83 square inches […]

The tiny, shall we say, "toeprint" of the machine is due to a remarkable feat of miniaturization by Intel […]

(computing, informal) A very small footprint (amount of physical surface taken up by equipment).


CCSI

(computing) Initialism of certified Cisco Systems instructor.


access control list

en-noun

access control list (plural access control lists)

The hackers broke through the B security model, so no more role-level security: all critical data must use access control lists from now on.

(computing) A security scheme for file-level security (as opposed to traditional user, group levels, or the somewhat stricter role levels). Abbreviated ACL.


macrocode

macrocode (countable and uncountable, plural macrocodes)

macrocodes (plural)
macro code (alternative)


macroinstruction

macroinstructions (plural)
macro instruction (alternative)
macro-instruction (alternative)

From macro- + instruction, due to their being often quite long.


microcode

microcode (usually uncountable, plural microcodes)

(computing) The collective microprograms in a CPU, used to run machine instructions.


microcode

en-verb

microcode (third-person singular simple present microcodes, present participle microcoding, simple past and past participle microcoded)

microcodes (present singular third-person)
microcoding (participle present)
microcoded (participle past)
microcoded (past)

(computing, transitive) To write or rewrite (program instructions) in microcode, typically to optimize performance.


microprogram

(computing) a set of microinstructions in a CPU, used to implement machine instructions


microprogram

microprogram (third-person singular simple present microprograms, present participle microprogramming, simple past and past participle microprogrammed)

microprograms (present singular third-person)
microprogramming (participle present)
microprogrammed (participle past)
microprogrammed (past)

(computing) to manually write a microprogram


microinstruction

(computing) A hardware instruction in the CPU of a microprocessor; a software instruction in a microprogram


unlimited register machine

en-noun

unlimited register machine (plural unlimited register machines)

(computing theory) A particular type of theoretical computer, with infinitely many memory cells, called registers, and formal rules to determine the machine's behavior based on their contents.


WAD

(computing, humorous) Acronym of works as designed.

(computing, gaming) Acronym of where's all the data?, commonly used when referring to the video game Doom.


uninstall

en-verb

uninstall (third-person singular simple present uninstalls, present participle uninstalling, simple past and past participle uninstalled)

uninstalls (present singular third-person)
uninstalling (participle present)
uninstalled (participle past)
uninstalled (past)

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(computing) To completely remove hardware or software from a computer system.


uninstall

But what happens if the uninstall does not work, is corrupt, or is accidentally deleted? Then, a manual uninstall is necessary […]

2004, Ron Ben-Natan, Richard Gornitsky, Tim Hanis, Mastering IBM WebSphere Portal:


unzip

unzip (third-person singular simple present unzips, present participle unzipping, simple past and past participle unzipped)

unzips (present singular third-person)
unzipping (participle present)
unzipped (participle past)
unzipped (past)

(computing, transitive) To restore (compressed data) to its original form, from a zip file.


key set identifier

en-noun

key set identifier (plural key set identifiers)

(computing, Internet) A value that is used to identify a key set.


letter bomb

(computing) A virus contained within an email or similar file.


harden

en-verb

harden (third-person singular simple present hardens, present participle hardening, simple past and past participle hardened)

hardens (present singular third-person)
hardening (participle present)
hardened (participle past)
hardened (past)

From Middle English hardenen, equivalent to hard + -en. Cognate with Danish hærdne (“to harden; cure”), Swedish hårdna (“to harden”), Norwegian herdne (“to harden”), Icelandic harðna (“to harden”).

(transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.

vahvistaa suojausta

computing: to modify to make resistant to malicious attacks


unbox

unbox (third-person singular simple present unboxes, present participle unboxing, simple past and past participle unboxed)

unboxes (present singular third-person)
unboxing (participle present)
unboxed (participle past)
unboxed (past)

When a boxing or unboxing operation occurs in code, whether it was implicit or explicit, the IL generated includes the box or unbox command.

2004, Stephen Teilhet, Jay Hilyard, C# Cookbook:

(transitive, computing) To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed.


save as

save as (third-person singular simple present saves as, present participle saving as, simple past and past participle saved as)

saves as (present singular third-person)
saving as (participle present)
saved as (participle past)
saved as (past)

(computing) To enter a dialog box where the user can specify a new filename to save the current document under.


check-in

en-noun

check-in (countable and uncountable, plural check-ins)

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(computing) The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.


cypherpunk

cypherpunks (plural)
cipherpunk (alternative rare)

/ˈsʌɪfəpʌŋk/

Blend of cipher + cyberpunk, coined by American hacker and author Jude Milhon (St. Jude) in 1992.

coin

(computing) A person with an interest in encryption and privacy, especially one who uses encrypted email.


tarball

(computing) A file that is an archive of several other files, created using the Unix tar utility.


tarball

en-verb

tarball (third-person singular simple present tarballs, present participle tarballing, simple past and past participle tarballed)

tarballs (present singular third-person)
tarballing (participle present)
tarballed (participle past)
tarballed (past)

(transitive, computing) To archive into a tarball.


hijacker

/ˈhaɪˌd͡ʒækəɹ/


speedup

en-noun

speedup (countable and uncountable, plural speedups)

speedups (plural)
speed-up (alternative)

(chiefly computing) The relationship between time taken and number of processors used.


just-in-time

Taking place at the time when it is needed, and not in advance.

(computing) Performing compilation of code on the client machine immediately before execution.


run time

run time (countable and uncountable, plural run times)

run times (plural)
runtime (alternative)

(computing) The stage during which a program is executing.

(computing) The amount of time during which a program is executing.

نَظْمَة

You need to install the .NET runtime before you can run this application.

(computing) A software component designed to support the execution of computer programs.


run-time

a run-time error

(computing) Of, relating to, or happening during run time.


run-time

run-time (countable and uncountable, plural run-times)

run-times (plural)
runtime (alternative)

(computing) Alternative form of run time.


crontab

Shortening of cron table, where cron is the name of the system program that handles these tasks, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).

The purpose of /etc/crontab is different from that of individual users' crontabs. With /etc/crontab, root may specify which user will run a particular command.

2008, Michael Lucas, Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD:

(computing, Unix) A table of commands to be executed periodically.


IRQ

interrupt request
interrupt request#English

(computing) Initialism of interrupt request.


access control

access control (usually uncountable, plural access controls)

(computing, technology) Permitting or denying the use of a particular resource.


predictive

en-adj

predictive (comparative more predictive, superlative most predictive)

more predictive (comparative)
most predictive (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin praedictivus, from praedico. Equivalent to predict + -ive.


tagline

taglines (plural)
tag line (alternative)

(computing) A pithy quotation habitually appended to a signature in email, newsgroups, etc.


time-serving

(computing) The functionality of a timeserver.


time slice

time slices (plural)
timeslice (alternative)

(computing) The period of time for which a process is allowed to run in a preemptive multitasking system.


functional requirement

en-noun

functional requirement (plural functional requirements)

(computing) Any of the functions of a software system, described formally.

funkční požadavek

description of any of the functions of a software system


redistributable

(computing) (of a software component) Allowable to be redistributed by a third party as part of its own software


redistributable

This ensures that the source gets compiled before the redistributables are built, and that the redistributable is built before the remote deployment.

2003, Erik Hatcher, Steve Loughran, Java development with Ant, page 6:

(computing) A software component that can be redistributed.


ATA

(computing) Advanced Technology Attachment; a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. (Renamed PATA when SATA came into existence to more clearly distinguish the two.)


windowed

full screen

antonym(s) of “occupying a graphical window”

From Middle English wyndowed, wyndowid, equivalent to window + -ed.

This game can be played both in windowed mode and in full-screen mode.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) Occupying only a part of the screen (in a window.)


procedural

en-adj

procedural (comparative more procedural, superlative most procedural)

more procedural (comparative)
most procedural (superlative)

/pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəl/

a procedural texture

procedural terrain

(computing) Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.


faulted

When a page is read in, a few pages surrounding the faulted page are typically loaded as well in the same I/O operation in an effort to head off future page faults.

2002, Æleen Frisch, Essential system administration:

(computing) Having experienced a page fault.


supplementary character
supplementary character

(computing) Unicode Transformation Format-16; a Unicode encoding scheme which uses two-byte (16-bit) code units (singly for characters in plane 0, and in four-byte [32-bit] surrogate pairs for supplementary characters in planes 1 through 16).


convolve

en-verb

convolve (third-person singular simple present convolves, present participle convolving, simple past and past participle convolved)

convolves (present singular third-person)
convolving (participle present)
convolved (participle past)
convolved (past)

Borrowed from Latin convolvere (“roll together”), from con- (“together”) + volvō (“roll”); see voluble, volute, and compare involve, evolve, revolve.

(computing) To compute the convolution function


headshell

(computing) A component of a Sun server, used to connect a console between two Sun machines. It is made up of a DB-25 male connector with a normal Cat-5 ethernet cable connecting to another DB-25 male connector.


initialize

initialize (third-person singular simple present initializes, present participle initializing, simple past and past participle initialized)

initializes (present singular third-person)
initializing (participle present)
initialized (participle past)
initialized (past)
initialise (alternative)

/ɪˈnɪʃəlaɪz/

(computing) To assign an initial value to a variable.

инициализирам

to assign an initial value to a variable

(computing) To format a storage medium prior to use.

(computing) To prepare any hardware (such as a printer or scanner) for use.


tetradecimal

(mathematics, computing) Based on the number 14; using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C and D.


pentadecimal

Kleene [13] uses a similar approach, based on Turing machine encodings over an alphabet of fifteen symbols, which are then translated into pentadecimal numbers.

1980 April, Norman H Cohen, “Gödel numbers: a new approach to structured programming”, in ACM SIGPLAN Notices:

(computing, mathematics) Based on the number 15; using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D and E.


containerize

containerize (third-person singular simple present containerizes, present participle containerizing, simple past and past participle containerized)

containerizes (present singular third-person)
containerizing (participle present)
containerized (participle past)
containerized (past)

1. First and foremost, containerize or dockerize the Spring Boot app using a Dockerfile.

2017, Ajitesh Shukla, Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 115:

(computing, transitive) To run an application in a software container.

conteneuriser

(computing) to run an application in a container


paywall

→ German: Paywall

→ Polish: paywall

→ Portuguese: paywall

desc

→ Norwegian Bokmål: betalingsmur (calque)

→ Swedish: betalvägg (calque)

From pay + wall, by analogy with firewall.

Techdirt got wind of a secret meeting by newspaper execs, complete with antitrust lawyers, to discuss how to proceed on the issue of implementing paywalls going forward.

2009 May 29, ScuttleMonkey, “Newspaper Execs Hold Secret Meeting To Discuss Paywalls”, in Slashdot:

Scores of other newspapers started selling digital subscriptions in 2011, either with a paywall on their sites or by charging for mobile access with an e-reader app. […] Time magazine also set up a paywall in 2011, its second attempt in two years, […]

2012, Dennis F. Herrick, Media Management in the Age of Giants: Business Dynamics of Journalism. Second Edition., UNM Press, →ISBN, page 332:

As for the larger general-interest dailies, Long Island's Newsday was the first to erect its paywall, in October 2009. It allowed full access for subscribers to the print edition of the paper or the parent company Cablevision, or for people willing to pay $5 per week.

2015, Brian Gorman, Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 140:

(informal, computing) A system that restricts access to content with a purchase or a paid subscription.

付費牆 /付费墙

system that restricts access to paying subscribers


paywall

en-verb

paywall (third-person singular simple present paywalls, present participle paywalling, simple past and past participle paywalled)

paywalls (present singular third-person)
paywalling (participle present)
paywalled (participle past)
paywalled (past)

(informal, computing, transitive) To restrict access to (a website or other resource) by means of a paywall.


resend

From re- + send. Attested since the 1550s.

EtymOnLine

Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “resend”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

If the BS reaches its maximum number of resends, it initiates another full authentication or drops the SS.

2007, Yang Xiao, WiMAX/MobileFi: Advanced Research and Technology, page 99:


UDF

en-noun

UDF (countable and uncountable, plural UDFs)

(computing) Initialism of Universal Disk Format.

(computing) Initialism of user-defined function.


error message

(computing) A message displayed when a failure condition occurs, usually on a computer or device.


FSB

(computing) Initialism of front-side bus.


Commie

(computing, slang) A Commodore computer.


keygen

/ˌkiːˈd͡ʒɛn/

A key generator, or keygen, is a mini program that generates a product key or serial number that unlocks or activates software. Keygens are usually standalone executables, but some are command-line programs that you run in Command Prompt (Windows) or Terminal (OS X).

2013, Chris Fehily, Cancel Cable: How Internet Pirates Get Free Stuff:

(computing) A small program used to generate a license key used to unlock a trial version of software illegitimately.


pentagraph

pentagraphs (plural)
pantograph (alternative)

(computing) A five-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.


USB token

(computing) A hardware device serving as a user identity credential that one can connect to a standard computer interface such as a USB jack; often used in addition to or instead of a password.


underflow

underflow (countable and uncountable, plural underflows)

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From under- + flow, modelled on overflow.

(computing) A condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored; usually treated as an error condition.

podtečení

computing: a condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored

(computing) The error condition that results from an attempt to retrieve an item from an empty stack.


underflow

en-verb

underflow (third-person singular simple present underflows, present participle underflowing, simple past and past participle underflowed)

underflows (present singular third-person)
underflowing (participle present)
underflowed (participle past)
underflowed (past)

(computing) To trigger the condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored.

Upon an attempt to pop an empty stack, the stack underflows […]

2022, Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms, fourth edition, page 255:

(computing) To trigger the error condition resulting from attempting to retrieve a value from an empty stack.


bisection

en-noun

bisection (countable and uncountable, plural bisections)


wedged

The server seems to be wedged: it's not even responding to pings.

(computing, slang) Stuck; incapable of proceeding without help, though not having crashed.


antibot

If a bunch of bots all follow an account at the same time, or report the account as spam, this can trigger an account suspension. In this way Twitter's antispam and antibot tools are weaponized to create additional friction for the legitimate use of the service by targeted users.

2019, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media, page 172:

(computing) Working to combat or defend against bots, especially malicious or disruptive ones.


gimped

en-adj

gimped (comparative more gimped, superlative most gimped)

more gimped (comparative)
most gimped (superlative)

(informal, computing) Modified by means of the GIMP image editor.


solid-state device

en-noun

solid-state device (plural solid-state devices)

(computing, technology) Any device which employs the electric, magnetic or optical properties of a solid, especially of semiconductors.


BSP

BSP (countable and uncountable, plural BSPs)

binary space partitioning
w:binary space partitioning

(computing) Initialism of binary space partitioning.

(computing) Initialism of board support package (“device driver”).


PCL

Printer Command Language
w:Printer Command Language

(computing) Initialism of Printer Command Language.


POM

POM (countable and uncountable, plural POMs)

(computing) Initialism of Program Operation Mode.

(computing, Java) Initialism of Project Object Model.


ladder logic

(computing) A technique for describing and drawing electrical logic schematics.


unsaved

I lost my unsaved work in the power cut.

(computing) Not saved (stored in a file).


output device

(computing) Any device that formats and presents data for display to a user; examples include printers and video monitors


address of record

address of record (plural addresses of record)

(computing, Internet) The SIP or SIPS URI that points to a domain with a location service that can map the URI to another URI where the user might be available, frequently thought of as the "public address" of the user.


printable

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(computing) Of a text character: having a visual representation, unlike the control characters.


beachball

en-verb

beachball (third-person singular simple present beachballs, present participle beachballing, simple past and past participle beachballed)

beachballs (present singular third-person)
beachballing (participle present)
beachballed (participle past)
beachballed (past)

Is Xcode “beachballing” forever on you when we try to open a project that was working fine the day before?

2015, Magno Urbano, Troubleshooting Xcode, Apress, →ISBN, page 54:

(computing, slang, intransitive) To hang; to stop responding to user input; (used of Mac computers, where this is indicated by a spinning coloured cursor like a beach ball).

rantapalloilla

slang, Mac computing: to stop responding to user input


OAS

(computing) Initialism of OpenAPI Specification, a specification for machine-readable interface files for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful Web services.


chunking

en-noun

chunking (countable and uncountable, plural chunkings)

(computing) The division of memory or data etc. into smaller units for easier processing.


idempotence

Latin roots, idem (“same”) + potence (“the quality of having power”) – literally, “the quality of having the same power”. Coined by 19th century American mathematician Benjamin Peirce in context of algebra.

compound

(mathematics, computing) A quality of an action such that repetitions of the action have no further effect on the outcome; the state of being idempotent.

idempotenssi

quality of an action such that repetitions of the action have no further effect on outcome – being idempotent


MR

en-noun

MR (countable and uncountable, plural MRs)

(computing) Initialism of mixed reality.


readout

readouts (plural)
read-out (alternative)

The computer readout was inaccurate.

(computing) The information output from a computer in a readable form.


VPC

virtual private cloud
w:virtual private cloud

(cloud computing) Initialism of virtual private cloud.


noarch

RPM Package Manager
w:RPM Package Manager

(computing) Used by the RPM Package Manager to mark software packages that contain only content, such as graphics, documentation or similar data that can be used on any architecture.


eventing

eventing (usually uncountable, plural eventings)

The concept behind eventing is fairly simple. With eventing, you have two pieces of code. For example, you might have a script that is running based on a scheduled task. That script might encounter some condition and can raise (or signal) an event, perhaps that it has completed its work. A second bit of code, perhaps a second script running on that same system, can register for events.

2011, Thomas Lee, Karl Mitschke, Mark E. Schill, Windows PowerShell 2.0 Bible:

(computing) The ability of one system or part of a program to send notifications to another, by raising events.


privatize

en-verb

privatize (third-person singular simple present privatizes, present participle privatizing, simple past and past participle privatized)

tlb

(American spelling, Oxford British English)

privatizes (present singular third-person)
privatizing (participle present)
privatized (participle past)
privatized (past)
privatise (alternative)

If the compiler allocates a privatized variable to a register, it must examine whether the variable is live after the termination of the while-loop.

1997, David Sehr, Utpal Banerjee, David Gelernter, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 9th International Workshop, page 184:

(computing, transitive) To render (a variable, etc.) private in scope.


logon

Using the same logon for different systems can be a security risk.

(computing) credentials: the combination of a user's identification and password used to enter a computer.

The user's desktop is displayed shortly after logon.


computational design

(computing) The development of a computational theory of design.

(computing) The design of products and processes through the use of digital means, integrating digital technology.


ternary computer

en-noun

ternary computer (plural ternary computers)

(computing) Any computer that uses ternary logic instead of binary


subdirectory

(computing) A directory located inside another directory.


pasteboard

pasteboard (countable and uncountable, plural pasteboards)

(computing, countable) A widget allowing multiple users to paste and share text or other items.


clickprint

(computing) The unique pattern of a person’s Internet browsing activity.


mapper

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Throughout the Famicom's life span, Nintendo produced several ASIC mappers, which grew in capability and specialty, allowing the Famicom to break many of its own hardware rules.

2015, Nathan Altice, I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer/Entertainment System Platform:

(computing, electronics) A software or hardware component that performs a mapping.


cyberterrorism

cyber-terrorism (alternative)
cyber terrorism (alternative)

Youths from California, Michigan and Israel were also found to have discussed cyberterrorism in some chat rooms and are suspected of trying to inject a malicious computer code into the Web servers that form the communications backbone of the Internet, Mr. McLaughlin said.

2001 January 15, Victoria Shannon, quoting Matt McLaughlin, “Internet Conspiracy”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:

(computing) The deliberate, large-scale disruption of networks of computers, especially of computers attached to the Internet, by means of viruses etc.


plex

Ultimately from -plex, from Latin plectere

Striped volumes of mirrored plexes can survive failure of up to half of their disks.

2002, Paul Massiglia, Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers, page 60:

(computing) A designated portion of a disk, usually set up to mirror some of the contents.

If a child in a data relationship has more than one parent, the relationship cannot be described as a tree or hierarchical structure. Instead it is described as a ... plex structure.

1975, James Martin, Computer Data-Base Organization, pages 89-99:

(computing) A tree-like structure in which each child can have multiple parents.


flippy

Practical experience has shown the flippies are not a flawless or long-term solution. When a disk is flipped over, it turns in the opposite direction. In doing so, it bends the nap of the liner in the disk shell in the opposite direction […]

1989, Winn L. Rosch, The Winn Rosch Hardware Bible, page 512:


justifier

When the operator starts typing the third line, the justifier goes to work on the second.

1955, Book Production, volumes 61-62, page 43:

(computing, typography) A machine, program or algorithm that justifies text by aligning it.


config

en-verb

config (third-person singular simple present configs, present participle configing, simple past and past participle configed)

configs (present singular third-person)
configing (participle present)
configed (participle past)
configed (past)

(computing, informal, transitive) To configure.


chipset

(computing) A group of integrated circuits that are designed to work together, and are usually marketed as a single product.


object code

(computing) The output of a compiler or assembler; it is not necessarily executable directly without linking to other modules


badware

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RCS

(computing) Initialism of revision control system.


autocomplete

autocomplete (third-person singular simple present autocompletes, present participle autocompleting, simple past and past participle autocompleted)

autocompletes (present singular third-person)
autocompleting (participle present)
autocompleted (participle past)
autocompleted (past)


autocomplete

Tools like spellcheck, autocomplete, and speech-to-text impose someone's ideas of the rules of English automatically—invisible authorities that we can defy but not avoid.

2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 2, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:

(computing) A software feature that predicts the rest of a word a user is typing.


indeterminism

en-noun

indeterminism (countable and uncountable, plural indeterminisms)

Borrowed from French indéterminisme, equivalent to in- + determinism.

In detail, an inference strategy has to deal with the following three kinds of indeterminisms: 1. the selection of the initial path, 2. the selection of the next branch B to be expanded, 3. the selection of the next linking step to be performed on B.

2003, Robert Nieuwenhuis, Andrei Voronkov, Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning:

These indeterminisms confuse a regular bus arbiter in deciding whether a transaction should be aborted or resumed.

2008, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, Behrooz Parhami, Seyed-Ghasem Miremadi, Advances in Computer Science and Engineering:

This parallelism brings in conflicts and directional indeterminisms which cannot be solved by the CU.

2014, M.B. Zaremba, Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Technology:

(countable, computing) A situation in which there are multiple valid options for next step in a process.


unstring

en-verb

unstring (third-person singular simple present unstrings, present participle unstringing, simple past and past participle unstrung)

unstrings (present singular third-person)
unstringing (participle present)
unstrung (participle past)
unstrung (past)

It is also possible to save the delimiters (this might prove useful if the delimiters were also some sort of text identifier) and to count the length of the data items we are unstringing.

1980, Norman R. Lyons, Structured Cobol for Data Processing:

(transitive, computing, programming, COBOL) To split (a text string) into smaller strings by separating on a delimiter.


redraw

Redraws need to be synchronised with the screen refresh to avoid a flickery display.

(computing, graphical user interface) An update to the screen display.


algorithmics

(mathematics, computing) The subdiscipline of informatics or computer science that studies algorithms.


newsreader

(computing) A program for reading and posting to newsgroups.


round robin

round robins (plural)
round-robin (alternative)

/ˌɹaʊnd ˈɹɒbɪn/

From round (adjective) + robin. Sense 1 (“senses relating to something with a round shape, or which goes around”) is connected with the word round, while sense 2 (“senses relating to people, animals, or plants”) is connected with some English regional senses of the word robin where it is used in the names of various fish and plants which are not related to the red-breasted bird. However, apart from the alliteration, it is not clear why the two words came to be linked together in compounds. It is possible that the term was first used to refer to sense 1.13.1 (“consecrated host”) which appears to be the earliest attested sense, and then extended to other senses either having the sense of round or robin.
Alternatively, it has been suggested that the term is a corruption of French ruban rond (literally “round ribbon”), referring to the practice in 17th-century France of signing on ribbons which were then attached to petitions of grievances in a circular manner: see sense 1.1. However, this etymology does not explain the senses of the term unrelated to a signed document.

der

(also attributive) Senses relating to something with a round shape, or which goes around.

(computing) A method of making use of several similar subsystems, assigning tasks to each of them in turn (for example, sending data to a destination down several communication links in turn to achieve greater combined speed).


spray

en-noun

spray (countable and uncountable, plural sprays)

→ Esperanto: spraji

→ Turkish: sprey

From Middle Dutch sprāien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sprēwijaną (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to sow, scatter”).
Cognate with Middle High German spræjen, spræwen (“to squirt, spray, dust, splash, straw”), Danish dialectal språe (“to open up, burst forth”), Swedish dialectal språ (“to sprout, shoot forth, burst”), Norwegian dialectal spra, spræ (“to splash, splatter, spout, burst forth”), Dutch sproeien (“to spray, sprinkle”), German sprühen (“to spray, sparkle”).

der

This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.

2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium:

(computing, countable) The allocation and filling of blocks of memory with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.


spray

en-verb

spray (third-person singular simple present sprays, present participle spraying, simple past and past participle sprayed)

sprays (present singular third-person)
spraying (participle present)
sprayed (participle past)
sprayed (past)

to spray the heap of a target process

(transitive, computing, computer security) To allocate blocks of memory from (a heap, etc.), and fill them with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.


formatted

(computing, of a storage medium) That has been physically arranged to be in a state ready for the storage of data


macrosystem

(computing) A programming system in which small constructs (macros) represent groups of machine instructions.


inlining

(computing, programming) An instance of in-line expansion.


cast away

cast away (third-person singular simple present casts away, present participle casting away, simple past and past participle cast away)

casts away (present singular third-person)
casting away (participle present)
cast away (participle past)
cast away (past)

If you want to change a class member inside a const member function, the traditional approach is to cast away constness by saying (X*)this.

1995, Embedded Systems Programming, volume 8, page 180:

(computing, programming, transitive) To eliminate by means of a cast operation.


full screen

Most computer games are played in full screen mode.

(computing, graphical user interface) Of a window occupying all the available display surface of a screen.

plná obrazovka

occupying all the available displayable surface


fullscreen

fullscreen (third-person singular simple present fullscreens, present participle fullscreening, simple past and past participle fullscreened)

fullscreens (present singular third-person)
fullscreening (participle present)
fullscreened (participle past)
fullscreened (past)

(computing, graphical user interface) To make a window occupy the entire screen.


session data

(computing) The set of session variables held on a server that allow the continuation of a conversation with the client without the need to continually reinput data.


batch process

(computing) A series of commands or programs that are executed without human intervention; the execution of such a series.


magnetologic

(physics, computing) Describing a device that uses magnetism to perform the logical operations normally performed using electronics


NDP

Neighbour Discovery Protocol
w:Neighbour Discovery Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Neighbour Discovery Protocol

Nortel Discovery Protocol
w:Nortel Discovery Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Nortel Discovery Protocol


committer

(computing) A person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository.


speed loader

speed loaders (plural)
speedloader (alternative)

(computing, dated) A software technique for loading programs (e.g. from cassette tape) more quickly than normally possible.


exponentiate

exponentiate (third-person singular simple present exponentiates, present participle exponentiating, simple past and past participle exponentiated)

exponentiates (present singular third-person)
exponentiating (participle present)
exponentiated (participle past)
exponentiated (past)

Ultimately from exponent. Perhaps from exponentiation.

(computing) To apply a mathematical exponentiation function.


file system

file systems (plural)
filesystem (alternative)

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(computing) A method of organizing blocks of data on a storage device into files and directories.

(computing) A set of blocks that are organized in this way.


desktop picture

en-noun

desktop picture (plural desktop pictures)

(computing) A picture displayed on a computer's desktop as a background behind windows and other user interface elements.


tunable

If you are working with TCP, some specific tunables are also available. By default, some TCP tunables have a value that is too low.

2013, Sander van Vugt, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Administration: Real World Skills for Red Hat Administrators:

(computing) A setting that can be configured.


data flow

data flow (countable and uncountable, plural data flows)

data flows (plural)
dataflow (alternative)

(computing) The route between origin, via nodes, to a destination taken by a packet of data

(computing) The transfer of data between the components of a computer


wall clock

In recent years a consensus has been reached among many scientists in the field that the most relevant measure of run time is actual wall-clock elapsed time.

1996, Roger W. Hockney, The Science of Computer Benchmarking, SIAM, →ISBN, pages 19–20:

(computing) The measure of wall time, the actual amount of time taken from the start to the end of an operation.


parity bit

(computing) A bit (binary digit) used to indicate whether the number of bits in a given set with value of one is even or odd. Parity bits are used as a simple error detection code.


main memory

main memory (countable and uncountable, plural main memories)

central processing unit
central processing unit

(computing) Volatile memory forming most of a computer’s primary storage, not including cache memory (central processing unit cache) and secondary storage (mass storage).


repopulate

en-verb

repopulate (third-person singular simple present repopulates, present participle repopulating, simple past and past participle repopulated)

repopulates (present singular third-person)
repopulating (participle present)
repopulated (participle past)
repopulated (past)

to repopulate a grid

(computing) To fill with data again; to refresh.


RPN

reverse Polish notation
reverse Polish notation#English

(computing) Initialism of reverse Polish notation.


LSA

en-noun

LSA (countable and uncountable, plural LSAs)

latent semantic analysis
latent semantic analysis#English

(computing) Initialism of latent semantic analysis.


interoperable

From interoperate + -able; alternatively inter- + operable.

Patents exist as incentive for inventors to reveal the workings of their inventions; to receive a patent, you must provide the patent office with a functional description of your invention, which is then published. Even though others may not copy your invention during the patent period, they can study your patent filings and use them to figure out how to do the same thing in different ways, or how to make an interoperable add-on to your invention.

2020 September 7, Cory Doctorow, “IP”, in Locus Magazine:

2022, October 13, Binyamin Applebaum, "It Shouldn’t Matter So Much Whether Elon Musk Buys Twitter", The New York Times
A person with a Gmail account can send messages to a person with a Yahoo account because email systems are interoperable.

(computing) (of a system or device) Able to communicate, and exchange data with another system or device.


roll over

en-verb

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

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

In this task, you'll revisit the button symbol so that it reacts when the user rolls over it.

2004, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, Macromedia Studio MX 2004:

(transitive, computing) To move the cursor over.


raster graphics

(computing) A data file or structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of colour, on a computer monitor, paper, or other display medium.


FIOA

(computing) Initialism of fetch instruction operand address.


playlist

/ˈpɫæɪ̯ˌɫɪst/

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When you collect a group of MIDIs into an album, you can play them much like a CD, with repeat mode, random mode, and a programmed playlist.

1998, Judi N. Fernandez, WAVs, MIDIs & RealAudio: Enjoying Sound on Your Computer:

Strangers constructed playlists that pulled from artists and albums you’d never heard of, but without the performative high/low-ness that afflicts so much online music talk.

2015 November 17, Robinson Meyer, “A Eulogy for Rdio”, in The Atlantic:

I hadn't spoken to her in a year, but she could still see my listens on the music platform we both used. I still went to those playlists for solace. A sense of collective understanding. We had stockpiled our youth.

2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:

No past, just traces / Nowhere to play, just playlists

2021, “Skyline”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon:

When users would select the most immediately visible “dinner playlist” or ”workout mix,” they might have unknowingly clicked through to a list owned and operated by a major label.

2025, Liz Pelly, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, 1st edition, New York: Atria Books, →ISBN:

(computing) A list of tracks or videos to be played in a particular sequence, as from an audio CD or a streaming service.


compilate

compilate (third-person singular simple present compilates, present participle compilating, simple past and past participle compilated)

compilates (present singular third-person)
compilating (participle present)
compilated (participle past)
compilated (past)

Semantically from Old French compiler (early 14c.), equivalent to Latin compīlō + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

af

(rare, computing) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.


compilate

From Latin compīlō + -ate (noun-forming suffix).

(rare, computing) An act of compiling code.


blanker

These screen blankers prevent phosphor burn on your screen, which is always a danger when you leave the screen on too long.

1987, Howard Bornstein, Under the Apple, page 221:

(computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.


slot-loading disc drive

en-noun

slot-loading disc drive (plural slot-loading disc drives)


feed drive

(computing) A drive mechanism for CD-ROMs etc in which no tray is used; the medium is inserted in a slot and is pulled in


learning content management system

learning content management system (plural learning content management systems)

learning content management systems (plural)

(computing) A software system for the creation, management and transfer of learning content.


petaflop

...a better machine is a petaflop machine. A petaflop is a quadrillion flops, a quadrillion floating-point operations per second, so a petaflop machine is a thousand times as fast as a teraflop machine, or a million times as fast as a Cray Y-MP8. The petaflop machine will exist by the year 2000, or soon afterward.

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

units of measure
units of measure#English

floating point operations
floating point operation#English

(computing) Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer:

a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operations per second.

First computer to surpass the 1 Petaflop (2⁵⁰ FLOPS) barrier [in 2008]

2012 Fall, Edgar Gabriel, COSC 6374 — Parallel Computation: Introduction and Organizational Issues, slide 20: “IBM Roadrunner”

1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second.


teraflop

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. One such design for teraflop machine, by Monty Denneau at I.B.M., will be a parallel supercomputer in the form of a twelve-foot wide box. You want to have at least sixty-four thousand processors in the machine, each of which has the power of a Cray. And the processors will be joined by a network that has the total switching capacity of the entire telephone network in the United States. I think a teraflop machine will exist by 1993. Now, a better machine is a petaflop machine. A petaflop is a quadrillion flops, a quadrillion floating-point operations per second, so a petaflop machine is a thousand times as fast as a teraflop machine, or a million times as fast as a Cray Y-MP8. The petaflop machine will exist by the year 2000, or soon afterward.

floating-point operation
floating-point operation

(computing) A unit of computing power equal to one trillion (10¹²) floating-point operations per second.


machine-readable

en-adj

machine-readable (comparative more machine-readable, superlative most machine-readable)

more machine-readable (comparative)
most machine-readable (superlative)

machine-readable dictionary

An ASCII text file may not be considered machine-readable if its contents do not follow a predictable, well-defined structure.

(computing) Organised or formatted in a way that permits unambiguous interpretation by a program.


autoformat

en-verb

autoformat (third-person singular simple present autoformats, present participle autoformatting, simple past and past participle autoformatted)

autoformats (present singular third-person)
autoformatting (participle present)
autoformatted (participle past)
autoformatted (past)

(computing, transitive) To format (a document, etc.) automatically.

(computing, transitive) To automatically prepare (a mass storage medium) for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process, without requiring a prompt from the user to do so.


tombstoning

(computing) The process of (automatically) initiating software sleep mode on an app.


hyperinnovation

(computing) A state of multidimensional interconnections (as in hyperlink or hypertext).


teleprocessing

(dated, computing) The exchange of data between computers, or between a central computer and terminals, via telecommunications links; data communications


PIT

en-noun

PIT (countable and uncountable, plural PITs)

(computing) Initialism of programmable interval timer.


dirty code

That software has dirty code and we should not use it.

(computing, derogatory) Software code that has had many editors with conflicting styles, making it nearly impossible to maintain.


third-party

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

Not all of my vibecoding experiments have been successful. I've been struggling for weeks to build an "inbox autopilot" tool capable of responding to my emails automatically, in my writing style. I've encountered roadblocks when trying to integrate A.I. work flows into apps like Google Photos and iOS Voice Memos, which aren't designed to play well with third-party add-ons.

2025 February 27, “Not a Coder? With A.I., Just Having an Idea Can Be Enough.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2025-03-14:

(computing, hardware, software) Of products, created or published by an independent publisher or manufacturer or its internal development teams, as opposed to first-party and second-party.


B-tree

(computing) An indexed data structure suitable for storage of a large number of items in a balanced fashion, with very few disk accesses required for locating the correct record block.


Mbps

(computing) megabit per second, a measure of data transfer rate


jack in

en-verb

jack in (third-person singular simple present jacks in, present participle jacking in, simple past and past participle jacked in)

jacks in (present singular third-person)
jacking in (participle present)
jacked in (participle past)
jacked in (past)

(music recording, computing, electronics) To insert an electronic coupling into a receptacle; to connect to something, whether involving a physical medium or not.


edgeware

en-noun

edgeware (countable and uncountable, plural edgewares)

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(software, computing, uncountable) Computer software that is noticeably cutting-edge, that is, significantly innovative, either by taking a totally new approach to a task or by creating a completely new class of application or completely new class of software.


'bot

For mudders like myself (an AI researcher), ’bots and their associated likely behavior patterns are old hat. I tend to expect that random characters on a mud might be ’bots, and tend to know how to tell (generally, even the best ’bots or other AI programs fall victim to very simple conversational gambits, such as topical conversation, slang, or a conversation requiring a complicated discourse model such as reference to subjects more than a couple exchanges in the past).

1993, Leonard N. Foner, “What's an Agent, Anyway? A Sociological Case Study”, in MIT Media Lab, archived from the original on 2022-12-09:

Sumo ’bots also tend to have very low ground clearance since they operate on dohyos, which have a very smooth rubberized running surface; […]

2000 June, Robert Nansel, “Amateur Robotics Notebook: Robot City, USA”, in Nuts & Volts, volume 21, number 6, Corona, Calif.: T & L Publications, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 53, column 1:


canonicalization

canonicalization (countable and uncountable, plural canonicalizations)

(mathematics, computing) standardization, normalization


cloud computing

In the long run, full embrace of “cloud computing” will require some kind of convenient always/everywhere internet access different from what we have now. But this is an interesting step.

2008 March 18, James Fallows, “Another step toward the online “cloud computing” life”, in The Atlantic:

(informal, computing) Computing services provided over the Internet (or the “cloud”), whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand.

حَوْسَبَة سَحَابِيَّة

computing services provided over the Internet


utility computing

(computing) A form of computing in which the computer resources are consumed like a traditional utility (water, electricity, gas).


hypothesizer

hypothesizers (plural)
hypothesiser (alternative)

(computing) Any of several systems that attempt to make educated guesses from incomplete information.


arithmetic operation

arithmetic operation (plural arithmetic operations)

Although Equation 2.45 looks simple, it involves more arithmetic operations as compared to Equations 2.36 and 2.38.

2000, Chang Shu, Differential Quadrature and Its Application in Engineering, Springer, page 38:

A key feature of the IEEE standard is that it requires correctly rounded operations, specifically:
• correctly rounded arithmetic operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide);
• correctly rounded remainder and square root operations;
• correctly rounded format conversions.

2001, Michael L. Overton, Numerical Computing with IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic, SIAM, page 31:

PHP enables you to do arithmetic operations on numbers. You indicate arithmetic operations with two numbers and an arithmetic operator. For instance, one operator is the plus (+) sign, so you can indicate an arithmetic operation like this:
1 + 2

2013, Steve Suehring, Janet Valade, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript & HTML5 All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 289:

(arithmetic, computing) Any one of the four basic operations in arithmetic: addition, subtraction, multiplication or division; any one of said operations as implemented on a computer.

аритметична операция

any one of the four basic operations in arithmetic


trackball

(computing) A pointing device consisting of a ball housed in a socket


atrous

Atrous convolution allows us to explicitly control the resolution.

The new approach is executed by using atrous and gabor wavelets that work effectively on image and video.

2008, Sharon Priya, A. Srinivasan, “Image and Video Denoising by Sparse 3-D Transform Domain Using Atrous and Gabor Wavelets”, in Proceedings Second International Conference on Information Processing, page 87:

In order to further illustrate the effect of "atrous" convolution, we compare it with standard convolution using a simple example in Figure 4.

2019, Qi Wang, Learning to Understand Remote Sensing Images, page 158:

As the frameworks based on atrous convolution and ASPP module have proved their success, we implement an encoder with similar structure of [5], using a pretrained ResNetV2 as backbone network.

2019, Guanhong Zhang, Muyi Sun, Xiaoguang Zhou, “Sub-pixel Upsampling Decode Network for Semantic Segmentation”, in Artificial Intelligence, page 18:

(computing, uncommon) dilated (used when describing convolutions) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.00915.pdf


block dump

(computing) An image that contains the sectors read from an original floppy disk or optical disc.


sporge

en-verb

sporge (third-person singular simple present sporges, present participle sporging, simple past and past participle sporged)

sporges (present singular third-person)
sporging (participle present)
sporged (participle past)
sporged (past)

On September 19'th of last year the crooks started sporging other news groups with neo-Nazi and White Supremist text farmed from other news groups.

1999 June 25, Fredric L. Rice, “WHAT IS THIS STRANGE LANGUAGE ?!”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

(intransitive, transitive, computing) To engage in sporgery; to post a flood of articles to a Usenet newsgroup, the article headers having been falsified so as to make the articles appear to have been posted by people other than the true poster.


unprotect

unprotect (third-person singular simple present unprotects, present participle unprotecting, simple past and past participle unprotected)

unprotects (present singular third-person)
unprotecting (participle present)
unprotected (participle past)
unprotected (past)

Nobody can edit the accounting spreadsheet until you unprotect it.

Caution: When you successfully open a protected file, you’ve just unprotected it. After working with that document and closing it again, you must re-protect it if you still consider it confidential.

2000, David Pogue, “Icon Management”, in Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual, Sebastopol, Calif.: Pogue Press/O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., published 2002, →ISBN, page 50:

(computing, transitive) To remove protection from.


underrun

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(computing) A condition in which the read/write buffer is fed with data at a slower rate than required; a buffer underrun.


soft redirect

I decided to leave a soft redirect explaining why the website had been moved.

(computing) An indication to a user that what they requested may be found elsewhere.


unary operator

(algebra, computing) A symbol representing unary operation; an operator taking one operand.


binary operator

en-noun

binary operator (plural binary operators)

The "four rules" +, -, × and ÷ are examples of binary operators.

(algebra, computing) A symbol representing binary operation; an operator taking two operands.


lerp

(mathematics, computing) Abbreviation of linear interpolation.


lerp

en-verb

lerp (third-person singular simple present lerps, present participle lerping, simple past and past participle lerped)

lerps (present singular third-person)
lerping (participle present)
lerped (participle past)
lerped (past)

(mathematics, computing) To interpolate linearly.


script editor

This script editor allows you to edit and run macros to extend the environment using either VB Script or JavaScript.

2007, Bill Evjen, Kent Sharkey, Thiru Thangarathinam, Professional XML, page 46:

(computing) A software program or feature for editing source code.


lemmatiser

lemmatisers (plural)
lemmatizer (alternative)

(computing) A program or function that attempts to find the lemma that corresponds to an inflected word


lemmatisation

en-noun

lemmatisation (countable and uncountable, plural lemmatisations)

lemmatisations (plural)
lemmatization (alternative)

(computing, lexicography) The process of finding the lemma that corresponds to an inflected form of a word.


emulable

en-adj

emulable (comparative more emulable, superlative most emulable)

more emulable (comparative)
most emulable (superlative)

...these processes are emulable in principle...

1988, Ian Graham, Peter Llewelyn Jones, Expert Systems: Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Decision:

On the other hand, this evidence may provide grounds for hope that higher-level processes may be measurable (in part, at least) and, hence, emulable.

1994, Daniel S Levine, Manuel Aparicio, Neural Networks for Knowledge Representation and Inference:

(computing, nonstandard) That can be emulated.


passkey

Based on FIDO standards, passkeys are a replacement for passwords that provide faster, easier, and more secure sign-ins to websites and apps across a user's devices. Unlike passwords, passkeys are always strong and phishing-resistant. Passkeys simplify account registration for apps and websites, are easy to use, work across most of a user's devices, and even work on other devices within physical proximity. Why passkeys? Passwords are a problem.

2023, FIDO Alliance, “Passkeys: accelerating the availability of simpler, stronger passwordless sign-ins”, in FIDO Alliance, retrieved 2023-05-03:

Sign in with passkeys on iPhone / Passkeys give you a simple and secure way to sign in without passwords by relying on Face ID (supported models) or Touch ID (supported models) to identify you when you sign in to supporting websites and apps. / Intro to passkeys / Based on industry standards for account authentication, passkeys are easier to use than passwords and far more secure. A passkey is a cryptographic entity that's not visible to you, and it's used in place of a password. A passkey consists of a key pair, which—compared to a password—profoundly improves security. One key is public, registered with the website or app you're using. The other key is private, held only by your devices.

2023, Apple Inc., iPhone User Guide, retrieved 2023-05-03, iOS 16:

Google is starting to nudge users to try out passkeys, a replacement for traditional passwords that can stop phishing attacks and make sign-ins easier.

2023 May 3, Michael Kan, “Go passwordless: Google accounts now support passkey sign-ins”, in PCMag, retrieved 2023-05-03:

en:login credential instead of passwords

(computing, especially since the 2020s) A cryptographic key that is tied to specific devices or cloud accounts and is meant to be used instead of a password.

avainkoodi

cryptographic key used in lieu of a password

The router then generates a random numeric passkey and delivers it to the user […]

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

en:login credential synonymous with password


preflight

a CORS preflight request

(computing) Serving to confirm that requests can be accepted, before sending an actual request.


query processing

(computing) Processing of a specific set of instructions for extracting particular data.


multitasking

(computing) The simultaneous execution of multiple tasks (programs) under the control of an interrupt-driven operating system.

multitasca

simultaneous execution of multiple tasks (computing)


paging

en-noun

paging (countable and uncountable, plural pagings)

(computing) A transfer of pages between main memory and an auxiliary store, such as hard disk drive.


multitask

en-verb

multitask (third-person singular simple present multitasks, present participle multitasking, simple past and past participle multitasked)

multitasks (present singular third-person)
multitasking (participle present)
multitasked (participle past)
multitasked (past)
multi-task (alternative)

From multi- + task. The adjectival sense in computing first appears c. 1965 in the publications of B.I. Witt. The verbal sense first appears c. 1986 in the Daily Telegraph.

(computing) To schedule and execute multiple tasks (program) simultaneously; control being passed from one to the other using interrupts.

realizar múltiples tareas simultáneamente


JBOD

(computing, humorous) Acronym of Just a Bunch of Disks, a collection of hard disks that are not configured according to RAID.

Just a Bunch of Disks

(computing, by extension) A hard disk enclosure for several disks, especially one lacking a RAID controller.


scroll wheel

(computing) A hard plastic or rubbery disc on a computer mouse, used for scrolling.


WIA

W.I.A. (alternative)
W. I. A. (alternative)

Windows Image Acquisition
w:Windows Image Acquisition

(computing) Initialism of Windows Image Acquisition.


reseed

reseed (third-person singular simple present reseeds, present participle reseeding, simple past and past participle reseeded)

reseeds (present singular third-person)
reseeding (participle present)
reseeded (participle past)
reseeded (past)

The game reseeded its random number algorithm with a time-based value each time the game was restarted.

(computing) To reset the input of an algorithm so as to ensure different results.


mks

(computing) Initialism of mouse, keyboard, screen.


markdown

Deverbal from mark down. The computing sense is a pun on markup (language).

By using markdown, you can get other non-tech savvy contributors to easily write posts for your blog.

2020, Antonio Melé, Django 3 By Example […] , 3rd edition, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 74:

(computing) Alternative letter-case form of Markdown, a lightweight markup language.


data communications

(computing) The movement of data between computers, or between central computers (especially mainframes) and remote terminals.


data compression

(computing) Any of several techniques for reducing the number of bits needed to represent an item of digital data, either to save storage or to use less bandwidth when transmitting it

компреси́ране на да́нни

a technique for reducing the number of bits


primary key

(computing, databases) In the design of a database table, the primary key (abbreviated PK) is selected among the non-empty set of candidate keys. The PK is a column (or an irreducible group of columns) able to identify every row of the table.


DEP

en-noun

DEP (countable and uncountable, plural DEPs)

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of data execution prevention.


spearphishing

From spear + phishing, modeled on spearfishing.

(computing, Internet) Phishing against a small group of selected targets who are more likely to be attracted.


Caps Lock

Caps Lock (countable and uncountable, plural Caps Locks)

Caps Locks (plural)
caps lock (alternative)

(computing) A lock key on a computer keyboard, which, when pressed, causes all subsequently typed letters to be capitalised except those typed while holding the shift key.


bugged

en-adj

bugged (comparative more bugged, superlative most bugged)

more bugged (comparative)
most bugged (superlative)

The latest version of the software is extremely bugged.

(computing) Affected by a bug (computer error).


mouse wheel

He was a mouse-wheel virtuoso, scrolling and zooming with ease.

(computing) A hard plastic or rubbery disc on a computer mouse, rotated by the user in order to scroll the display.


slab

(computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.


reenter

en-verb

reenter (third-person singular simple present reenters, present participle reentering, simple past and past participle reentered)

reenters (present singular third-person)
reentering (participle present)
reentered (participle past)
reentered (past)
re-enter (alternative)
re-entre (alternative obsolete)
reentre (alternative obsolete)
reënter (alternative)

We had to reenter a day's worth of data into the system.

(transitive, computing) To enter again; retype, reinput.


WPA

Windows Product Activation
w:Windows Product Activation

(computing) Initialism of Windows Product Activation.


Num Lock

Num Locks (plural)
num lock (alternative)

(computing) A key on a standard extended keyboard which, when pressed, toggles the keys of the numeric keypad between cursor control functions and numeric digits.

num lock

a key that toggles the function of the numeric keypad


clinching

en-noun

clinching (countable and uncountable, plural clinchings)

This “clinching” can distort the tape by causing a series of creases or folds in the surface and may produce read errors.

1985, Alvin C. Larson, Computer Operator (AFSC 51150), page 87:

Computer magnetic tape is designed primarily for its storage capacity, speed, and capacity to be repeatedly erased and written over. […] Bad binder can cause holes in the oxide, loose particles, or clinching of tape.

1987, Conservation Administration News, numbers 28-35, page 29:

(computing, historical) The distortion of computer tape by wrinkling.


hashing

hashing (usually uncountable, plural hashings)

(computing) The computation of a hash value.


cheminformatics

information technology
information technology

(chemistry, computing) Any of many applications of information technology to chemistry

Chemoinformatik

application of information technology to chemistry


verifier

(historical, computing) A device used to verify that a punched card had been punched correctly.


bit bucket

en-verb

bit bucket (third-person singular simple present bit buckets, present participle bit bucketing, simple past and past participle bit bucketed)

bit buckets (present singular third-person)
bit bucketing (participle present)
bit bucketed (participle past)
bit bucketed (past)

The noun is derived from bit (“small amount of something; smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit”) + bucket. Bit in this context originally referred to small pieces of paper punched out from paper tape or punch cards (see sense 1), but came to be regarded as the unit of data storage (sense 2).
The verb is derived from the noun.

compound

This DSC receives all inputs and performs all computations in synchronization with the online computer; however, the DSC outputs are "bit bucketed."

1970, 1970 WESCON Technical Papers: Western Electronic Show and Convention: Papers Presented at the Western Electronic Show and Convention in Los Angeles, California, August 25–28, 1970, Los Angeles, Calif.: WESCON, →OCLC, page [unknown], column 1:

When the program is pressed into heavier duty it simply can't hold the entire list in memory, so someone else has to "open up the code" and perform major, instead of minor, surgery. This only increases the chances that the program will be bitbucketed rather than updated.

1996, Lou Grinzo, Software Development, volume 4, San Francisco, Calif.: Miller Freeman, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 1:

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

1997 September 30, Matthew N. Dodd, “Anti-spam e-mail addresses”, in comp.os.vms (Usenet):

(transitive, computing, humorous, slang) To delete.


portation

(computing) The act of porting software between hardware or operating system platforms.


clock generator

en-noun

clock generator (plural clock generators)

(computing, electronics) a circuit that produces a timing signal for use in synchronizing a circuit's operation.


profiler

[…] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications.

(computing) A software program that measures the performance of different portions of another program in order to locate bottlenecks.


pseudocolouring

(computing) The assignment of arbitrary colours to the grey levels of a monochrome image; used especially in thermography


init

Clipping of initialize or initialization.

After the sixth successive system init he had to concede that the database was corrupt.


init

en-verb

init (third-person singular simple present inits, present participle initing, simple past and past participle inited)

inits (present singular third-person)
initing (participle present)
inited (participle past)
inited (past)

It actually only requires a few bytes to be zeroised to init the drive.


I/O bound

(computing) Of total system throughput, being limited by the input/output rate, rather than by processing speed of the CPU.


toolset

(computing) A set of utility programs, subroutines or similar software.


hydrocode

(computing) Any of several computer programs that model the behaviour of fluid flow systems by breaking down the system into a three-dimensional matrix of cells and calculating the forces etc. affecting each one


compound symbol

en-noun

compound symbol (plural compound symbols)

(computing, in several programming languages) A symbol made by joining two or more others with punctuation (normally a period/full stop).


BOINC

(sciences, computing) Acronym of Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing.


fast Fourier transform

fast Fourier transform (plural fast Fourier transforms)

discrete Fourier transform
discrete Fourier transform

A member of a certain family of algorithms for efficiently computing the discrete Fourier transform of data.


command line interface

command line interface (plural command line interfaces)

command line interfaces (plural)
command-line interface (alternative)

(computing) A user interface in which the user interacts with the computer through lines of text instead of graphical images.


clicko

From click + -o, by analogy with typo, as if this were formed a similar way from type.

(Internet, computing, slang) The inadvertent depressing of a computer mouse button on a wrong selection.


macrolanguage

Much of the emphasis in spatial decision-support research continues to focus on developing tools, typically using macrolanguage scripting exclusively or scripting linked to compilable programming and commercial geographic information system software, such as workstation Arc/Info and desktop ArcGIS.

2006, G. Brent Hall and Michael G. Leahy, "Internet-Based Spacial Decision Support Using Open Source Tools", Chapter XIII of Shivanand Balram and Suzana Dragićević, Collaborative Geographic Information Systems, Idea Group Inc., page 238

(computing) Alternative spelling of macro language (“system for defining and processing macros”).


natively

This is a Microsoft Windows application, so you can't run it natively on an Apple Mac.

(computing, of software) Pertaining to the computer or architecture in question; without the use of emulation, etc.


patch panel

(computing) a series of network cable connection sockets.


nontrivial

en-adj

nontrivial (comparative more nontrivial, superlative most nontrivial)

more nontrivial (comparative)
most nontrivial (superlative)
non-trivial (alternative)

(computing) Needing significant computing power to solve; intractable.

epätriviaali

computing: needing significant computing power to solve — see also intractable


interfix

LOCANT, n. A number used in the Dyson cipher system for coding the position of substituents of carbon chain, i.e. an interfix.

1959, Frank S. Wagner, Jr., A Dictionary of Documentation Terms, page 19:

(computing, information retrieval, dated) An association link.


downloadable

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But when you're talking about digital products and downloadables, the average product online digitally allows you to get a 50 percent commission.

2011, Carrie Wilkerson, The Barefoot Executive, page 159:

(computing) Something that can be downloaded.


ECC

en-noun

ECC (countable and uncountable, plural ECCs)

(computing) Initialism of error correcting/correction code.


canonical form

canonical form (countable and uncountable, plural canonical forms)

A canonical form is an element of a set of representatives of equivalence classes of forms such that there is a function or procedure which projects every element of each equivalence class onto that one element, the canonical form of that equivalence class. The canonical form is expected to be simpler than the rest of the forms in some way. For example, for cubic polynomials acted upon by the group of translations along the abscissa, the canonical forms are cubic polynomials without a quadratic term.

(mathematics, computing) A standard or normal presentation of a mathematical entity or a text string, etc.


well-formed

en-adj

well-formed (comparative better-formed or more well-formed, superlative best-formed or most well-formed)

better-formed (comparative)
more well-formed (comparative)
best-formed (superlative)
most well-formed (superlative)

If the parser says it is good, then it must be well-formed and is part of the language.

(linguistics, computing) Correctly written; syntactically correct; expressed in a way that obeys rules for constructing formulas in a certain language.


Common Lisp

programming language
programming language

(computing) A multiparadigm, general-purpose programming language.


type system

OCaml’s big selling point is its “type system,” which is something like Microsoft Word’s grammar checker, except that instead of just putting a squiggly green line underneath code it thinks is wrong, it won’t let you run it.

2015 April 2, James Somers, “Toolkits for the Mind”, in MIT Technology Review:

(computing) A way programming language classifies values and expressions into types, how it can manipulate those types and how they interact.


lexer

From lex + -er, ultimately from lexical.

(computing) A computer program that performs lexical analysis.


lexical analyzer

en-noun

lexical analyzer (plural lexical analyzers)


nonassignable

Constants, unlike variables, are nonassignable.

(computing, programming) That cannot be assigned to.


read-only

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

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

(computing) Unalterable, capable of being read but not written.


Infobahn

While a recent EU report recommended adopting the Californian free enterprise model to build the ‘infobahn’, cutting-edge artists and academics have been championing the ‘post-human’ philosophy developed by the West Coast's Extropian cult.

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

information superhighway
information superhighway

(dated, computing) The information superhighway.


flower box

flower boxes (plural)
flowerbox (alternative)

1988, Computer Partners, Inc, Handbook of COBOL techniques and programming standards
To make this easier to do, set up an empty flower box and copy it into your program...

[…] you might have several lines of comments enclosed in a "flower box".

1989, Cary N. Prague, James E. Hammitt, dBase IV programming:

To end the flower box, type / to specify the end of a multiple line comment.

2001, Danny Ryan, Tommy Ryan, ASP.NET: your visual blueprint for creating Web applications on the .Net:

I then modified the code we had written earlier to include a flower box […]

2002, John Smiley, Learn to program with Visual Basic.NET:

(computing, programming) A comment in source code that spans several lines, serving to introduce the source code that follows, and bordered by asterisks.


bubble sort

A metaphor, suggesting the way that elements gradually bubble to the top of the array after consecutive comparisons.

(computing) A sorting algorithm in which pairs of neighboring values are compared and swapped into the right order if necessary in the innermost loop.


supercomputing

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(computing) The design and use of supercomputers.


MRP

MRP (countable and uncountable, plural MRPs)

material requirements planning
w:material requirements planning

application software
application software#English

(computing, operations, supply chain) Initialism of material requirements planning (a type of application software system used to schedule and monitor the use of components and other materials in a manufacturing operation).

operations; supply chain; operations; supply chain

material requirements planning

manufacturing resource planning
w:manufacturing resource planning

(computing, operations) Initialism of manufacturing resource planning (a type of application software system used to schedule and monitor the full range of resources required for a manufacturing operation, sometimes called MRP II).


MRP II

application software
application software

(computing, operations) Acronym of manufacturing resource planning, a type of application software system used to schedule and monitor the full range of resources required for a manufacturing operation.


application software

(computing) A set of computer programs that work together to solve a particular problem or to be used for a particular user-defined application.


presentation software

(computing) A computer software package used to display information, normally in the form of a slideshow.


reprogram

en-verb

reprogram (third-person singular simple present reprograms, present participle reprogramming or reprograming, simple past and past participle reprogrammed or reprogramed)

reprograms (present singular third-person)
reprogramming (participle present)
reprograming (participle present)
reprogrammed (participle past)
reprogrammed (past)
reprogramed (participle past)
reprogramed (past)
reprogramme (alternative)

Installing a new hard drive would require a modchip that can reprogram or bypass the hard drive lock.

2003, Andrew Huang, Hacking the Xbox: an introduction to reverse engineering:

(transitive, computing) To program anew or differently.


SMLT

Split Multi-Link Trunking
w:Split Multi-Link Trunking

(computing) Initialism of Split Multi-Link Trunking: a link aggregation protocol.


spell checker

spell checkers (plural)
spell-checker (alternative)
spellchecker (alternative)

(computing) A software application that attempts to verify spelling in a document.


upgradation

(computing, nonstandard, proscribed, chiefly India) Upgrade; upgrading.


Siri

From Norwegian Siri, a variant of Sigrid, whence also English Sigrid.

(computing) A speech recognition and intelligent personal assistant application developed by Apple Inc. for its iOS operating system.


unencrypted

The hackers appeared to have used standard phishing and email attachments, some apparently directed at employees with high-level network access, to obtain unencrypted customer data that could complete a fullz.

2015, Aaron Wheeler, Michael Winburn, Cloud Storage Security: A Practical Guide:

(computing) Of something that has been decrypted successfully, or of something that should have been encrypted, but was not.


information superhighway

en-noun

information superhighway (plural information superhighways)

From information + superhighway. The high-speed access to information is likened to fast travel on a superhighway.

Developed nations also are moving at high speed toward the information superhighway being spearheaded by telephone technology. Britain, France, Germany, and other European nations are experimenting with high-tech phonery.

1994 May, Gary Turbak, “The Phone Phenomenon”, in The Rotarian, volume 164, number 5, page 32:

Internet technologies and various software platforms make it much easier to communicate and find information about others' online communication. a For many – especially the younger generation – the “sacred precincts” of private life have extended onto the information superhighway.

2011, Bryce Clayton Newell, “Rethinking Reasonable Expectations of Privacy in Online Social Networks”, in Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, volume 17, number 4, page 2:

(dated, computing) The Internet and all other computer networks in the 1990s.


nondeterminism

nondeterminism (countable and uncountable, plural nondeterminisms)

nondeterminisms (plural)
non-determinism (alternative)

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Moving from a single-processor to a multi-processor system often exposes hidden nondeterminism due to invalid assumptions about scheduling.

(computing) Dependence on factors other than initial state and input.


FORML

(computing) Acronym of formal object role modeling language.


quiche-eater

The idiom derives from the book on stereotypes about masculinity, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, by Bruce Feirstein, published in 1982. The computer circle version was popularised by an 1983 article Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, that specifically accuses the creator of Pascal language, Niklaus Wirth, of being a "quiche eater" due to the nature of Pascal.

get their hands dirty
get one's hands dirty

(computing, idiomatic, humorous) In computer programming circles, a person far removed from practice and concerned only with academic matters, unwilling to "get their hands dirty".


kpm

(computing, typing, data entry) Initialism of key per minute.


hyperconnectivity

hyperconnectivity (countable and uncountable, plural hyperconnectivities)

(computing) The state of a network in which the number of nodes is far in excess of the number of users.


typedef

From type and definition; originally a keyword in the C programming language.

(computing) A statement that declares a name for a data type.

(computing) A name that has been declared by such a statement.


remote desktop

remote desktop (countable and uncountable, plural remote desktops)

(computing) A real-time network mirroring of one computer's graphical display onto another computer (with or without knowledge of the mirrored computer's user, with or without shared mouse and keyboard interaction).

(computing) A specific software program that accomplishes that mirroring.


MLT

multi-link trunking
multi-link trunking#English

(computing) Initialism of multi-link trunking.


reprogramming

reprogramming (countable and uncountable, plural reprogrammings)

(computing) The process of changing the programming of a system or device


geofence

geofences (plural)
geo-fence (alternative)

To make the location data more useful to its customers, uLocate has developed some enhancements. For instance, users can set up "geofences" around specific locations; when a phone enters or leaves that area, an alert is triggered. This could be used to let parents know, by e-mail or SMS, when a child reaches school.

1986, PC Magazine: The Independent Guide to IBM-standard Personal Computing, volume 23, New York, N.Y.: PC Communications Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82, column 2:

A company like PetsMobility produces the "PetsCell," a "revolutionary waterproof A-GPS CDMA cell phone for your Pet" (as the company puts it). PetsMobility declares that / there's no hiding with the PetsCell™. […] Establish a remote programmable geofence around a yard or campus, and use handy notification features that alert your cell phone when a breach occurs.

2009, Mark J. Lacy, “Designing Security: Control Society and MoMA’s SAFE: Design Takes on Risk”, in François Debrix, Mark J. Lacy, editors, The Geopolitics of American Insecurity: Terror, Power and Foreign Policy (PRIO New Security Studies), Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 101:

A geofence could be a mile or more around a store or it could be fifty feet from the front door, whatever the business decides.

2011, Chuck Martin, The Third Screen: Marketing to Your Customers in a World Gone Mobile, Boston, Mass.: Nicholas Brealey, →ISBN, page 144:

In the event that the secured lot and locking systems emplaced fail to keep a load from being stolen, by emplacing a geofence (or electronic boundary) around the stationary load, the user or a control center can be notified immediately when the load begins to move and crosses the electronic boundary, which allows for an immediate response protocol, which can enhance the chances for recovery exponentially.

2013, Dan Burges, “In-transit Security”, in Cargo Theft, Loss Prevention, and Supply Chain Security, Waltham, Mass., Kidlington, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, →ISBN, page 207:

(computing) A virtual perimeter around a geographic area, typically enforced by monitoring the positions of trackable mobile devices inside or outside the area, and determining if they cross the "fence".


geofence

en-verb

geofence (third-person singular simple present geofences, present participle geofencing, simple past and past participle geofenced)

geofences (present singular third-person)
geofencing (participle present)
geofenced (participle past)
geofenced (past)

In this adventure you have built the hardware and software for a fully functional passenger lift, just like the lifts inside real buildings. By doing this, you have used many of the skills you learnt by working through all of the adventures in this book, including sensing the players' position, geo-fencing the lift shaft, moving the player, building blocks automatically, sensing when a block has been hit, interfacing with electronic circuits, using Python lists, developing and testing a program one step at a time, and many more amazing things!

2015, Martin O'Hanlon, David Whale, “Adventure 10: The Minecraft Lift”, in Adventures in Minecraft, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page BC20:

The practice, called fingerprinting, is prohibited by Apple. To prevent the company from discovering the practice, Uber geofenced Apple headquarters in Cupertino, changing its code so that it would be hidden from Apple Employees.

2017 April 23, Andrew Liptak, “Uber tried to fool Apple and got caught: Uber geofenced Apple’s Cupertino headquarters to hide that it was tracking iPhones”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2018-02-12:

In this case, you could use the GPS to "geo-fence" the area, and implement access control measures that track where devices are located within the facility, alerting you when mobile devices enter unapproved areas.

2018, Dawn Dunkerley, CompTIA Security+ Exam SY0-501 (Mike Meyers’ Certification Passport), 5th edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 414:

Two of them said this was because Mr. Musk had “geofenced” the service so that it was available only in certain areas.

2022 October 26, Cade Metz, Adam Satariano, Chang Che, “How Elon Musk Became a Geopolitical Chaos Agent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(transitive, computing) To provide a geofence around (an area).


ESB

enterprise service bus
enterprise service bus#English

(computing) Initialism of enterprise service bus.


serial port

(computing) A serial communication physical interface through which data is transferred in or out one bit at a time.


curlies

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Some keywords, such as {abstract}, show up in curly brackets. It's never really clear what should technically be in guillemets and what should be in curlies.

2004, Martin Fowler, UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language:

Doing it manually can be a real drag and messy, but you can use a short macro to change all curlies to straights throughout an entire document.

1994, Woody Leonhard, The Underground Guide to Word for Windows, page 245:


autotype

en-noun

autotype (countable and uncountable, plural autotypes)

(uncountable, computing) A function that completes the typing of a field using a prediction based upon the characters entered so far.


unpin

en-verb

unpin (third-person singular simple present unpins, present participle unpinning, simple past and past participle unpinned)

unpins (present singular third-person)
unpinning (participle present)
unpinned (participle past)
unpinned (past)

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to unpin a program from the Taskbar

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(transitive, computing, graphical user interface) To detach (an icon, application, etc.) from the place where it was previously pinned.


unsearchable

en-adj

unsearchable (comparative more unsearchable, superlative most unsearchable)

more unsearchable (comparative)
most unsearchable (superlative)

From Middle English unserchable, equivalent to un- + searchable.

"Having a band name like that makes me totally unsearchable," says Rhode Island artist Λ, explaining that his name is pronounced "arc", "but I like how using symbols means favouring an aesthetic choice over a more practical one.[…]"

2010 August 11, Sian Rowe, quoting Λ, “Meet the bands whose /\/ /\ /\/\ € $ are made out of $¥ /\/\ ß 0 \ $”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(computing, Internet) Not capable of being searched; on which one cannot perform a search.


enterprise service bus

en-noun

enterprise service bus (plural enterprise service buses)

(computing) A layer in the abstract architecture of the message system of an organization.


prefetch

en-verb

prefetch (third-person singular simple present prefetches, present participle prefetching, simple past and past participle prefetched)

prefetches (present singular third-person)
prefetching (participle present)
prefetched (participle past)
prefetched (past)

(computing) To load data or instructions in anticipation of their need


LLP

laser light plane
laser light plane#English

(computing) Initialism of laser light plane.


puter

I love my puter. All my friends are inside it.

(childish, Internet slang, often endearing) Clipping of computer


uniquify

uniquify (third-person singular simple present uniquifies, present participle uniquifying, simple past and past participle uniquified)

uniquifies (present singular third-person)
uniquifying (participle present)
uniquified (participle past)
uniquified (past)

(transitive, computing) To eliminate duplicates from a list, especially when using the *nix command/function uniq.

(transitive, computing) To turn an instance of a type into an instance of a new unique copy of the original type.


RSMLT

Routed Split Multi-Link Trunking
w:RSMLT

(computing) Initialism of Routed Split Multi-Link Trunking, a Layer-3 link aggregation protocol designed by Nortel (now Avaya).


software package

en-noun

software package (plural software packages)

The office software package includes a wordprocessor, a spreadsheet, and a database.

(computing) A suite of programs that function as a single entity to accomplish a task, or group of related tasks.


media player

(computing) A software application for the playback of audio and video files.

(computing) A hardware device that performs the same function, often also acting as a data storage device.


polyalgorithm

(mathematics, computing) A set of algorithms together with rules for choosing when to use each one.


Cupertino effect

Named for the fact that some older computer spellcheckers did not include the form cooperation and would automatically replace it not with co-operation, but with Cupertino, a name of a city in northern California and headquarters of Apple Inc.

Although computer dictionaries have improved, the Cupertino effect still creates havoc.

2015, Arhlene A. Flowers, Global Writing for Public Relations, Routledge, →ISBN:

(computing, software, originally) The replacement, by a spell checker, of words that are real (such as proper nouns or alternate spellings), but missing from its internal dictionary, with words that are starkly incorrect in context.


(computing) An early form of Ethernet cable


(computing) An early thin form of Ethernet cable


fall over

en-verb

fall over (third-person singular simple present falls over, present participle falling over, simple past fell over, past participle fallen over)

falls over (present singular third-person)
falling over (participle present)
fell over (past)
fallen over (participle past)

(intransitive, idiomatic, informal, computing) Of a computer program or system, to crash.


stemmer

(computing, linguistics) Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.


quasilinear

en-adj

quasilinear (comparative more quasilinear, superlative most quasilinear)

more quasilinear (comparative)
most quasilinear (superlative)
quasi-linear (alternative)


parameterization

en-noun

parameterization (countable and uncountable, plural parameterizations)

parameterizations (plural)
parametrization (alternative)
parameterisation (alternative)
parametrisation (alternative)

(design, engineering) The representation of physical characteristics or properties by parameters rather than as sui generis instances; usually and especially:

(computing) Such parameterized representation in a computer model.


white hat

(computing, computer security, slang) A well-meaning hacker who hacks for a good cause or to aid a company, organization, or government without causing harm (for example, to identify security flaws).


allocator

[ˈæl.əˌkeɪ.ɾɚ]

(computing) A utility that allocates and deallocates a dynamic resource (usually memory).


STML

(computing) Initialism of Synchronous Telop Mark-up Language: a telop adding language for mobile-device content, developed in Japan.


uptime

uptime (countable and uncountable, plural uptimes)

From up (“(computing) functional, working”, adjective) + time.

af

(computing) The period of time a computer has functioned since last requiring a reboot.


autosuggestion

en-noun

autosuggestion (countable and uncountable, plural autosuggestions)

autosuggestions (plural)
auto-suggestion (alternative)

(computing, uncountable) An autosuggest feature.