muffin

→ Chinese: 瑪芬 /玛芬 (mǎfēn)

→ Danish: muffin

→ Esperanto: mafino

→ Finnish: muffini, muffinssi, muffinsi

→ French: muffin

→ German: Muffin

→ Japanese: マフィン (mafin)

→ Korean: 머핀 (meopin)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: muffins

→ Polish: muffin

→ Portuguese: muffin

→ Russian: ма́ффин (máffin)

→ Swedish: muffins

→ Yiddish: מאָפֿין (mofin)

From earlier moofin, probably a diminutive of Low German Muffe ("small cake"; Muffen (plural)), from Middle Low German muffe (“small pastry”). An alternative, and phonologically less plausible theory suggests a connection to Old French (pain) moflet (“roll”, literally “soft (bread)”).

gl

"small cake"; <i class="Latn mention" lang="nds">Muffen</i> (plural)

ncog

The name/value pairs provided by the PersistenceService are similar to browser cookies. The Java Web Start implementation honors this legacy by naming the pairs "muffins."

2001, JNLP and Java Web Start, Sun Developer Network, Technical Articles and Tips, 30 May 2001

(computing) A mechanism used in the Java Network Launching Protocol analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine.


selector

The ID selector targets just one element per page, making it much more specific than a class selector that might target many.

2007, Craig Cook, David Schultz, Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML, Apress, →ISBN, page 28:

The selector indicates the query expression to run over the DOM; the context indicates the portion of the DOM from which to run the query.

2009, Dino Esposito, Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX, Microsoft Press, →ISBN, page 140:

(computing) A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style.

Phar Lap executables […] provide a protected-mode selector, 34h, that maps to the first megabyte of physical memory.

1990, Byte, volume 15, numbers 11-13, page 256:

You will only have to be concerned with DPMI, selectors, and such, if you use Borland C++ in DOS.

1995, Lary L. Myers, Keith Weiskamp, Amazing 3-D games adventure set, page 235:

(computing) A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory.


RAID

(computing) Acronym of Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks.


redundant array of independent disks

en-noun

redundant array of independent disks (plural redundant arrays of independent disks)

redundant arrays of independent disks (plural)
redundant array of inexpensive disks (alternative)
RAID (alternative)

(computing) A system using multiple hard drives for the sharing or replication of data in order to increase data integrity, fault-tolerance or throughput.

pleonázousa systoichía anexártiton dískon

πλεονάζουσα συστοιχία ανεξάρτητων δίσκων


rasterize

en-verb

rasterize (third-person singular simple present rasterizes, present participle rasterizing, simple past and past participle rasterized)

rasterizes (present singular third-person)
rasterizing (participle present)
rasterized (participle past)
rasterized (past)
rasterise (alternative)

(transitive, computing) To convert (an image) into a grid of points, such as a bitmap, for display or printing.


bitmap

bitmaps (plural)
bit map (alternative)
bit-map (alternative)

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Using the hardware blitter to move bitmaps from VRAM to VRAM is much faster than moving them from system memory to VRAM.

2002, André LaMothe, Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, page 315:

(computing) A series of bits that represents a rasterized graphic image, each pixel being represented as a group of bits.


reverse engineering

afkykontwerp

The process of analyzing the construction and operation of a product in order to manufacture a similar one.

(computing) Such analysis of an executable or other system in order to recreate its workings.


rollover

en-noun

rollover (countable and uncountable, plural rollovers)

rollovers (plural)
roll-over (alternative)

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(computing) A keyboard feature where each key is scanned independently, so that multiple simultaneous keypresses always register correctly.

samanaikaisten painallusten tunnistus

computing: a keyboard feature where each key is scanned independently, so that multiple simultaneous keypresses always register correctly


scrollable

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(computing) of text or images on a screen, that may be moved by the user to bring other parts of them into view


scroll bar

scroll bars (plural)
scrollbar (alternative)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A graphical widget in the form of a horizontal or vertical bar, on the edges of a personal computer screen, that is used to move scrollable text or images.


IS

information system
information system#English

(computing) Initialism of information system(s).


link farm

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(computing) A website containing many hyperlinks, especially one designed to increase the index ranking of other websites to search engines.


shininess

shininess (usually uncountable, plural shininesses)

(computing) The coefficient of specular reflectivity associated with the surface of an object being displayed.


SPD

SPD (countable and uncountable, plural SPDs)

serial presence detect
w:serial presence detect

(computing) Initialism of serial presence detect.


collator

(computing) A program or algorithm that collates.

(computing, historical) A machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards.


collation

collation (countable and uncountable, plural collations)

From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō (“to bring together”).

(computing, databases) The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.


decollate

en-verb

decollate (third-person singular simple present decollates, present participle decollating, simple past and past participle decollated)

decollates (present singular third-person)
decollating (participle present)
decollated (participle past)
decollated (past)

First attested in 1967; from de- + collate.

(transitive, computing) To separate the copies of a multipart computer printout.


decollator

(computing) a machine that decollates (separates) the parts of multipart computer printout and discards the carbon paper


multipart

(computing) of computer printout that is printed in multiple copies on paper having two or four continuous sheets rolled together with interleaving carbon paper; after printing it is separated on a decollator


JCR

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Java Content Repository.


elevate

elevate (third-person singular simple present elevates, present participle elevating, simple past and past participle elevated)

elevates (present singular third-person)
elevating (participle present)
elevated (participle past)
elevated (past)

From Middle English elevaten (“to raise up, erect; to elate, inflate (e.g. with pride); (alchemy) to vaporize; (of a bone, excressence, blood vessel) to protrude”), from elevat(e) (“(in physical elevation, in rank, in altitude above the horizon) high”, also used as the past participle of elevaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), further from Latin ēlevātus, the perfect passive participle of ēlevō (“to raise, lift up”), from ē- (“out”) + levō (“to make light, to lift”), from levis (“light”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see levity and lever.

af

Did you forget that all programs that modify the registry need to be elevated?

(transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.

(computing) To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's request).


gfx

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of graphics.


sleep mode

en-noun

sleep mode (usually uncountable, plural sleep modes)

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random access memory
random access memory

hibernation

a mode that completely powers off and restores from [[hard disk]]

(computing) the state of a computer system in which the drives and interfaces are switched off, and the only task running is monitoring external activity, particularly a key press which restores the system to its active state from the random access memory.


one-liner

one-liners (plural)
one liner (alternative)

(computing) A command or small program consisting of a single line of input.


streamer

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

(computing) A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.


null pointer

(computing) A pointer that does not point to any data object.


trapdoor

trapdoors (plural)
trap door (alternative)
trap-door (alternative)

(computing) A secret method of obtaining access to a program or online system; a backdoor.


SIMD

Coined by American computer scientist (*1934) Michael J. Flynn in 1966. See Flynn's taxonomy.

coin

single instruction, multiple data
w:single instruction, multiple data

(computing) Acronym of single instruction, multiple data.


autodialer

autodialers (plural)
autodialler (alternative)

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(computing) malicious software, embedded in a website, that routes dial-up Internet connections to a different telephone number charged at a premium rate


god-king

devaraja

Southeast Asian, Hindu-Buddhist divine monarch

(derogatory, computing) A tyrannical maintainer of a collaborative project.


desktop

Laptops are often more expensive than desktops.

(computing) A personal computer, as opposed to computers for business or server purposes.

I installed a new application and it added its icon to my desktop.

Important menus, such as the root menu or Workspace menu, are "pinnable," which means that you can pin them up and keep them on your desktop […]

1994, Linda Mui, Valerie Quercia, X User Tools, page 312:

(computing, graphical user interface) The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:desktop.

(computing, graphical user interface, synecdochically) The wallpaper of this interface.


desktop

desktop browser

(computing) Of an application or website, designed to be run or viewed on a personal computer.

asztali

computing: of an application or website, designed to be run or viewed on a personal computer


isosynchronous

(computing) of a communications system in which the source and target are each synchronized but each transmission contains a start bit and a stop bit.


NFS

Network File System
w:Network File System

(computing) Initialism of Network File System.


upgradability

(computing, of electronic equipment) Capability of being improved in functionality by the addition or replacement of components.


upload

en-verb

upload (third-person singular simple present uploads, present participle uploading, simple past and past participle uploaded)

uploads (present singular third-person)
uploading (participle present)
uploaded (participle past)
uploaded (past)

→ Chinese: 上載 /上载 (calque)

→ Danish: uploade

→ Dutch: uploaden

→ German: uploaden; hochladen (calque)

desc

→ Greek: αναφορτώνω (anafortóno) (calque)

→ Icelandic: hlaða upp (calque)

→ Indonesian: aplod

→ Irish: uaslódáil, lódáil suas (calque)

→ Japanese: アップロード (appurōdo)

→ Malay: muat naik (calque)

→ Portuguese: upload

→ Scottish Gaelic: luchdaich a-nìos (calque)

→ Swedish: ladda upp (calque)

→ Welsh: llwytho i fyny (calque)

You will have to convert your photograph to a jpg format if you wish to upload it.

(transitive, intransitive, computing) To transfer data to a computer on a network, especially to a server on the Internet.


workgroup

workgroups (plural)
work group (alternative)

/ˈwəːkɡɹuːp/

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When you set up a network, Windows creates a workgroup and gives it a name automatically[…]

2008, Chris Fehily, Microsoft Windows Vista:

(computing) A computer network created for use by such groups.

työryhmäverkko

a computer network created for use by such groups


write once

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(computing, computer hardware) Of a type of storage technology in which data, once written, cannot be erased or modified.


mapping

en-noun

mapping (countable and uncountable, plural mappings)

(computing) Assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network.

mappage

computing: assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network


search box

search boxes (plural)
searchbox (alternative)

(computing) A text box for the input of text to be searched for in a database, on the Internet, etc.

søgefelt

computing: A text box for the input of text to be searched for in a database, on the Internet, etc.


converter

converters (plural)
convertor (alternative)

time stretch analog-to-digital converter

units of measurement
unit of measurement

(computing) A program that converts one file format to another one, or which converts between different units of measurement, such as miles to meters.


LEO

I got the impression he’d been in the military somewhere in his past. But then at least a third of all LEOs were estimated to be veterans.

2022, Ben Aaronovitch, Winter’s Gifts, Orion Fiction, page 62:


LEO

Lyons Electronic Office
w:Lyons Electronic Office

Acronym of Lyons Electronic Office, an early British computer.


screenname

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Women “absolutely love playing the victim” a man using the screenname michael2222 vehemently claims, asserting that women have taken a men’s issue, Incel, and made it about themselves (through the creation of femcels) because “they feel the need to be victimized by absolutely everything” (November 12, 2019).

2020, Lee Williams, "Inside the Incelosphere: Tracing the Origins and Navigating the Contradictions", thesis submitted to the University of Regina, pages 93-94

(computing) a string of characters used to identify a user of a bulletin board, e-mail etc.


bundler

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(computing) One who bundles software, etc. with another product.


antiviral

(computing) Eliminating or inhibiting the action of a computer virus.


antivirus

(computing) A piece of software that is used to detect, delete and or neutralize computer-based viruses.


dumb terminal

(computing) A computer terminal consisting of a monitor (usually in monochrome) and keyboard, but (unlike a personal computer) having almost no processing capability, used to provide input to and receive output from a remote server, minicomputer, or mainframe.

啞終端 /哑终端

computer terminal consisting of a monitor and keyboard


wonky

en-adj

wonky (comparative wonkier, superlative wonkiest)

wonkier (comparative)
wonkiest (superlative)

From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).

inh

(informal, computing) Suffering from intermittent bugs.


chomp

chomps (plural)
chump (alternative dated)

U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash”).
(computing storage unit): An allusion to byte, which sounds like bite.

An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps.

The Timico engineering team has started to use the word chomp to represent two bytes or the 4 Hex character block in IPv6.

2011 March 22, Trefor Davies, “Bit Nibble Byte Chomp – a call to action”, in trefor.net:

(computing, rare) A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.


chomp

en-verb

chomp (third-person singular simple present chomps, present participle chomping, simple past and past participle chomped)

chomps (present singular third-person)
chomping (participle present)
chomped (participle past)
chomped (past)
chump (alternative dated)

(computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).


elevated

en-adj

elevated (comparative more elevated, superlative most elevated)

more elevated (comparative)
most elevated (superlative)

Install all the required tools from an elevated console.

(computing) Running with administrator rights.


encoding

(computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.


goto

Overall, experience in the two decades that followed the publication of Dijkstra's letter showed the folly of producing goto-laden code.

(computing) Alternative letter-case form of GOTO.


convolution

en-noun

convolution (countable and uncountable, plural convolutions)

Borrowed from Latin convolutus (“to roll together”), past participle of convolvere, from con- + volvere (“to roll”), with the suffix -tion. Equivalent to convolute + -ion. The mathematical sense is a semantic calque from Faltung.

(computing) A function which maps a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples.

конволюция

computing: function that maps a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples


overflow

overflow (countable and uncountable, plural overflows)

/ˈəʊvəˌfləʊ/

/ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ/

From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, equivalent to over- + flow.

(computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.

přetečení

computing: situation where a value exceeds the available range


overflow

en-verb

overflow (third-person singular simple present overflows, present participle overflowing, simple past overflowed, past participle overflowed or (sometimes proscribed) overflown)

overflows (present singular third-person)
overflowing (participle present)
overflowed (past)
overflowed (participle past)
overflown (participle past proscribed sometimes)

/ˈəʊvəˌfləʊ/

/ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ/

Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.

Some programs, especially online games, tend to have coding problems that leave them with memory holes - in other words, they don't delete information from your PC's memory once they're finished with it, they just keep adding and adding until everything overflows. Eventually, this can cause the game to crash to desktop, but adding more memory can help prevent this.

2008, Adam Oxford, Windows Vista - Autumn 2008, Future US, →ISSN, page 67:

(intransitive) To exceed limits or capacity.

(computing, ambitransitive) To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range.

aiheuttaa ylivuoto

computing: to exceed the available numeric range


gulp

From Middle English gulpen, probably from West Flemish or Middle Dutch gulpen, golpen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps of imitative origin, or related to Dutch galpen (“to roar, squeal”), English galp, gaup (“to gape”).
Related to German Low German gulpen (“to gush out, belch, gulp”), West Frisian gjalpe, gjalpje, gjealpje (“to gush, spurt forth”), Danish gulpe, gylpe (“to gulp up, disgorge”), dialectal Swedish glapa (“to gulp down”), Old English galpettan (“to gulp down, eat greedily, devour”). More at galp.

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

(rare, computing) An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.


SSI

en-noun

SSI (countable and uncountable, plural SSIs)

Server Side Include
Server Side Include#English

(computing) Initialism of Server Side Include.


dotted

en-adj

dotted (comparative more dotted, superlative most dotted)

more dotted (comparative)
most dotted (superlative)

The dotted name java.util.Scanner is the fully qualified name of the Scanner class.

2012, Barry A. Burd, Michael Burton, Donn Felker, Java and Android Application Development For Dummies eBook Set:


circuit rider

circuit riders (plural)
circuit-rider (alternative)

circuit rider (Religious)
circuit rider (Technology)

(computing) A computer consultant who advises non-profit organizations.


ragged

ragged (comparative more ragged, superlative most ragged)

more ragged (comparative)
most ragged (superlative)

From Middle English ragged, from North Germanic. Compare with Old Norse rǫgvaðr (“tufted”) and Norwegian ragget (“shaggy”).

a ragged hierarchy

a ragged array, consisting of a number of arrays of varying size

(computing) Of a data structure: having uneven levels.


file sharing

(computing) The process of making files available to others to download from the Internet.

(computing) The use of a file sharing network, or peer-to-peer software.


(computing) Unicode Transformation Format-8, a variable-width encoding scheme for Unicode characters, using sequences of one to four one-byte (eight-bit) code units per character.


softy

(computing, slang) A software expert who is ignorant of the workings of hardware.


semantic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σημαντικός (sēmantikós). Compare French sémantique.

(software design, of code) Reflecting intended structure and meaning.


stepping

en-noun

stepping (countable and uncountable, plural steppings)

From Middle English steppynge; equivalent to step + -ing.

The 80386's early steppings have quite a lot of bugs, so some software specifically tests to make sure that the processor isn't one of those old versions.

central processing unit
central processing unit

(computing) A specific iteration of a model of central processing unit, often distinguished by the addition or removal of features compared to earlier examples of the same processor, or the presence, or lack thereof, of specific bugs.


/ˈfɔːɹəʊˌfɔː(ɹ)/

From the HTTP error status code 404, meaning Not Found, returned by a web server responding to a request for a URL at which no resource exists.

Bill was 404 all morning.

(computing, slang) Not found, especially of a web page on the Internet.


/ˈfɔːɹəʊˌfɔː(ɹ)/

Return 404s for all deleted pages. Some search engine marketers suggest redirecting old products to semantically related products instead of 404ing. This preserves link equity, whereas a 404 does not.

2007, Cristian Darie, Jaimie Sirovich, Professional Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET: A Developer's Guide to SEO, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 113:

(computing) An error indicating that a web page could not be found.


en-verb

404 (third-person singular simple present 404s, present participle 404ing, simple past and past participle 404ed or 404'd)

/ˈfɔːɹəʊˌfɔː(ɹ)/

(computing) To return an error indicating that a web page could not be found.


hardened

en-adj

hardened (comparative more hardened, superlative most hardened)

more hardened (comparative)
most hardened (superlative)
harden'd (alternative obsolete)

a hardened air base

a hardened server

(computing, military) Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.


formalism

en-noun

formalism (countable and uncountable, plural formalisms)

/ˈfɔɹml̩ˌɪzm̩/

(computing) One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory.

Dirac approaches quantum mechanics by means of a so-called symbolic method, the bracket formalism. Although this formalism has a mathematical flavour, in fact, it is based upon bold claims which lack mathematical foundation.

1986, S. J. L. van Eijndhoven, J. de Graaf, A Mathematical Introduction to Dirac's Formalism, Elsevier (North-Holland), page ix:

1992, tuart M. Shieber, Constraint-based Grammar Formalisms, The MIT Press, page 51,
It is this abstraction that justifies considering these methods as characterizing constraint-based formalisms in general, rather than an individual formalism.

(linguistics, computing, mathematics) A formal expression of a grammar; a formal grammar; a set of rules of syntax that, without reference to semantics, determine whether a sequence of symbols is a well-formed sentence in a given formal language.


access time

access time (countable and uncountable, plural access times)

quote-web

access time

1948, in the meaning defined above

(Can we date this quote?), “access time”, in Merriam-Webster:
1948, in the meaning defined above

Random access files have a fast access time, but they cannot easily produce sequential lists.

1986, Roger R Flynn, An Introduction to Information Science:

(computing) The time interval between the issuing of a request to read data from or write data to a storage device and the completion of this action.

atingotempo

time interval between requesting and completing

It is difficult to monitor both the access time and the change time, because monitoring the file attributes resets the access time […]

2005, Brian Wotring, Bruce Potter, Marcus J Ranum, Rainer Wichmann, Host Integrity Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain:

(computing) An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed.


WASD

(computing) A set of four keys on a keyboard used as directions to control player characters in certain video games. (W, A, S and D represent up, left, down and right, respectively.)


QWERTY

en-noun

QWERTY (countable and uncountable, plural QWERTYs)

QWERTYs (plural)
qwerty (alternative)
Qwerty (alternative)

Christopher Latham Sholes
Henry Holt and Company

From the first six letters on one of the upper rows of such a keyboard.

It was the Monotype model D keyboard introduced in 1907 which became the standard for printers, with a "qwerty" typewriter lay and removable keybars which made the keyboard independent of the matrix case arrangement.

1978, Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E[lwood] Daily, editors, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, volumes 24 (Printers and Printing to Public Policy, Copyright), New York, N.Y., Basel: Marcel Dekker, →ISBN, page 109:

The older children we came to know had had a great deal of experience with written language, and they certainly had a firm grasp of the alphabetic sequence. They were annoyed with the arrangement of letters on the typewriter keyboard, which begins at the second from the top row and proceeds left to right with the letters, "Q," "W," "E," "R," "T," and "Y." Computer professionals, who refer to this arrangement as the "QWERTY keyboard," have pointed out that, although it originated in order to avoid jam-ups of frequently used keys on the manual typewriter, the QWERTY arrangement is now completely obsolete but apparently here to stay. Third and fourth graders knew only that QWERTY had no logic that they could discern, and, until they developed basic keyboard familiarity, it greatly delayed their attempts at finding the keys they needed.

1991, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Cynthia L. Paris, Jessica L. Kahn, “Hunting, Pecking, and Checking: Learning to Write with Word Processing”, in Learning to Write Differently: Beginning Writers and Word Processing (Language and Educational Processes), Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing, →ISBN, page 137:

[…] The Dvorak typewriter keyboard is, it has been claimed, ergonomically superior to the standard "Qwerty" arrangement. But having settled on the current standard keyboard, largely by historical accident, now manufacturers are supposedly reluctant to produce Dvorak keybboards so long as almost all typists are trained on Qwerty, while typists don't want to train on Dvorak when almost all keyboards are Qwerty. Even the inferior keyboard as a matched choice is superior to failing to coordinate at all.

1992, Jack Hirshleifer, John G. Riley, “Strategic Uncertainty and Equilibrium Concepts”, in The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information (Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, section 9.1 (Nash Equilibrium), page 330:

The ‘QWERTY’ layout of keyboards is also a cause for concern. The design means that the fingers of the left hand (the less dominant hand for most Westerners) do 57 per cent of the work in typing English text. RSI symptoms are often found to be more intense in the left hand of keyboard users.

1993 September 11, John Ballard, “RSI on Trial: More People Suffering from Repetitive Strain Injury are Seeking Compensation in Court as Fresh Evidence Comes to Light about the Symptoms and Causes of this Crippling Disorder”, in New Scientist, London: New Scientist Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-13:

The typewriter using separate characters on type bars striking on a cylinder soon dominated the market. Because adjacent striking bars tended to jam when struck rapidly, manufacturers abandoned the alphabetical placement of letters on the keyboard in favor of the left-to-right "qwerty" disposition that takes into account the frequency and sequence of letters in English.

1994, Henri-Jean Martin, “Beyond Writing”, in Lydia G. Cochrane, transl., The History and Power of Writing, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 465:

(uncountable, computing, typography, chiefly attributive) A standard layout of keys on a keyboard for typing, in which the leftmost keys of the top lettered row are Q-W-E-R-T-Y.

كويرتي

If you need to get a grip on a remote workstation, remote-control software can put your fingers on the pearly white QWERTYs of any computer, even half a world away.

1995 February 20, “Windows remote-control software: Reaching beyond your grasp”, Product Comparison, in InfoWorld, volume 17, number 8, San Mateo, Calif.: InfoWorld Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 66:

(countable, computing, typography) A keyboard with such a layout.


navigate

en-verb

navigate (third-person singular simple present navigates, present participle navigating, simple past and past participle navigated)

navigates (present singular third-person)
navigating (participle present)
navigated (participle past)
navigated (past)

First attested in 1588; borrowed from Latin nāvigātus, the perfect passive participle of nāvigō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from nāvis (“ship”) + -igō, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”).

It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.

(transitive, computing) To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.


boink

(computing, slang) A real-world social gathering of computer users.


WSS

(computing) Initialism of Web Security Service.

(computing) Initialism of Windows Search Service.

Windows Server System
w:Windows Server System

(computing) Initialism of Windows Server System.

(computing) Windows SharePoint Services, former name of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation

Windows Storage Server
w:Windows Storage Server

(computing) Initialism of Windows Storage Server.

Windows Sound System
w:Windows Sound System

(computing) Initialism of Windows Sound System.

(computing) Initialism of WS-Security (meaning Web Services Security).


suffix tree

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(computing) (of a string) a radix tree containing all suffixes of the string


descending

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تَنَازُلِيّ

ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element

We used a descending sort.

Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element. (of a sequence)

(computing) Causing a sequence to follow a descending order.

تَنَازُلِيّ

causing a sequence to follow an descending order


ascending

We used an ascending sort.

Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (e.g. of a sequence)

(computing) That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.

تَصَاعُدِيّ

computing: that causes a sequence to follow an ascending order


evict

evict (third-person singular simple present evicts, present participle evicting, simple past and past participle evicted)

evicts (present singular third-person)
evicting (participle present)
evicted (participle past)
evicted (past)

From Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.

(computing, transitive) To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.


emacs

(computing) Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.


road map

road maps (plural)
roadmap (alternative)

→ French: roadmap

→ German: Roadmap

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CPU speeds continue to increase with no end in sight. For instance, Sun's UltraSPARC processor roadmap, shown in Figure 16-2, show CPU speed increasing from 143 MHz in 1995 to 1.5 Ghz in 2002, roughly doubling every year as predicted by Moore's Law.

1999, Marc Hamilton, Software Development: Building Reliable Systems, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 236:

In the software business, a product roadmap gives an overview how a product is going to develop over the strategic timeframe of up to 5 years in terms of new releases or versions, their schedules and major themes.

2008, Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Peter N. Clough, Software Product Management and Pricing, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 77:

(originally computing, computer hardware) A structured representation of objects to display a development plan, used in business for strategic planning and communications.


buffer

Agent noun from obsolete verb buff (“make a dull sound when struck”) (mid-16c.), from Old French buffe (“blow”).
The “boatswain's mate” sense is said to be popularly explained by the mate being a “buffer”, that is intermediary, between officers and men, but various other explanations have also been proposed.

bufro

anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another

Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

(computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.


buffer

buffer (third-person singular simple present buffers, present participle buffering, simple past and past participle buffered)

buffers (present singular third-person)
buffering (participle present)
buffered (participle past)
buffered (past)

inperken

to isolate, to minimise the impacts of (one thing on another)

(transitive or intransitive, computing) To store (data) in memory temporarily while it is awaiting processing.


doco

From documentary + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

- Can you use asterisks in a filename?
- I don't know. Check the doco.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of documentation.


OSS

en-noun

OSS (countable and uncountable, plural OSSes or OSS's or OSSs)

OSSes (plural)
OSS's (plural)
OSSs (plural)

(computing) Initialism of open-source software.


bitty box

(computing, derogatory, informal) A computer of limited memory and computing power.


casing

The replacement string should have the same casing as the matched text.

(uncountable, computing) The state of letter case across a whole phrase or whole lines of text; the collective state/arrangement of uppercase and lowercase letters.


postcardware

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(computing) A software product whose author requests as payment a postcard from the user's hometown.


adoption

adoption (countable and uncountable, plural adoptions)

Borrowed from French adoption, from Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”).

Our company is considering the adoption of a four-day week.

(computing) The transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.


hork

en-verb

hork (third-person singular simple present horks, present participle horking, simple past and past participle horked)

horks (present singular third-person)
horking (participle present)
horked (participle past)
horked (past)

Onomatopoeia or imitative. For “cough up” sense, compare hawk/hock (16th century), which are almost homophonous in non-rhotic accents. For “throw” sense, compare huck. The “foul up” sense is presumably influenced by bork (late 1990s), from broken. The “steal” sense may be related to hook, which has the same slang meaning.

I downloaded the program, but something is horked and it won't load.

(computing) To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.


IDS

en-noun

IDS (countable and uncountable, plural IDSs or IDSes)

intrusion detection system
w:intrusion detection system

(computing) Initialism of intrusion detection system.


HT

HT (countable and uncountable, plural HTs)

(computing) Initialism of hyperthreading.


BB

BB (countable and uncountable, plural BBs)

BBs (plural)
B.B. (alternative)
B. B. (alternative)
bb (alternative)

(computing) Initialism of bulletin board.


PSB

PSB (countable and uncountable, plural PSBs)

(computing, IBM) Initialism of program specification block.


SFC

System File Checker
w:System File Checker

(computing) Initialism of System File Checker.


spammer

(computing, Internet) Someone who sends spam.


outliner

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(computing) A software system for organizing text into a hierarchy.


endian

From end + -ian (suffix meaning ‘one from, belonging to, like, or relating to’ forming nouns, and meaning ‘from, like, or related to’ forming adjectives), originally in the noun Big-Endian coined by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) in his novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726). Swift wrote of an emperor of Lilliput who, after his son cuts his finger when opening an egg at the large end, commands his subjects to open them at the small end; those who rebel by opening their eggs at the large end are called “Big-Endians”.
The term was applied in the computing context by the Israeli-American computer scientist Danny Cohen (1937–2019) in 1980.

nb...

A Conversation between the Author and a Principal Secretary Concerning the Affairs of that Empire: The Author’s Offers to Serve the Emperor in His Wars.

In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships

at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-street

endian-neutral code

In Ken Turkowski's article on the big and little endian addressing used on the 68020 he commented that Motorola's approach "proved" that a machine with consistant^([sic]) bit addressing (e.g., all little or big endian) was impossible. I assume that he was joking.

1984 August 25, Ian Kaplan, “Inconsistent bit addressing in the 68020: big- AND little-endian”, in net.micro.68k (Usenet):

most significant byte
most significant byte

(computing) Preceded by a qualifying word: of a computer: storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a particular memory address; for example, at the smallest address (big-endian) or the largest address (little-endian).


multibyte

The computer stored the number in a multibyte location: it took 32 bits or four entire bytes to store so large a value.

(computing) Contained in more than one byte.


big-endian

pezkomenca

computing: storing the most significant byte at a lower address

Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian.

1999, W. Curtis Preston, Unix Backup and Recovery, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 132:

least significant byte
least significant byte

(computing) Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a lower address than the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.


little-endian

(computing) Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a higher address than the least significant byte; that is, "little end" first.


instant messaging

(communication, computing) A form of realtime communication where two or more people exchange text messages, usually short, using computers or other devices with communications capabilities.


blinkenlights

Mock German from blink and lights; see the Wikipedia article for history.

blinkenlichten (alternative)
blinklichter (alternative)

The back of the NIRT truck was crowded with consoles and flashing panels of blinkenlights, battered laptops plastered with security inventory stickers...

2007, Charles Stross, The Merchants' War:

I am talking about — of course — LED blinkenlights, the usually-blue glowing pimples that pepper routers, speakers, computers and even USB hubs.

2011 June 6, Charlie Sorrel, “LightDims: Tiny Sunglasses for Blinkenlights”, in Wired, archived from the original on 2011-06-08:

Through a friend at hswaw [Warsaw Hackerspace], I have obtained a launchpad mini while working on this project (thanks drozdziak1!). ar jokingly suggested that I should velcro it to the [computer's] case and use it as blinklichter, and.. that was too good of an idea not to.

2023 August 27, sdomi, “Building a luggable computer (for absolutely no reason)”, in sdomi's webpage (weblog), archived from the original on 2023-09-03:

(computing, slang) The flashing lights on an electronic device such as a modem, router, or network hub (originally the front-panel lights on old computers).


replication

en-noun

replication (countable and uncountable, plural replications)

/ɹɛplɪˈkeɪʃən/

Inherited from Middle English replicacioun, replicacion, from Anglo-Norman replicacioun and Old French replicacion (“reply, answer”), from Latin replicātiō, replicātiōnem. By surface analysis, replicate + -(at)ion.

surf

(computing) The process of frequent electronic data copying a one database in one computer or server to a database in another so that all users share the same level of information. Used to improve fault tolerance of the system.


backspace

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(computing) A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards.

(computing) A non-printable text character representing a backspace.


backspace

en-verb

backspace (third-person singular simple present backspaces, present participle backspacing, simple past and past participle backspaced)

backspaces (present singular third-person)
backspacing (participle present)
backspaced (participle past)
backspaced (past)

So once you hit 'E', just backspace.

2024 April 17, SMii7Y, 1:20 from the start, in Content Warning Footage That Should Never Be Uploaded, spoken by SMii7Y:

(computing) To remove a character behind a cursor.

(computing) To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.


endianness

en-noun

endianness (countable and uncountable, plural endiannesses)

When reading and writing data a byte at a time, it is necessary to know the endianness of the computer you are working on.

The Unicode standard does not specifically does not require a particular endianness of text written in Unicode; both big- and little-endian encodings are allowed.

1999, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java Input/Output:

Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little.

2006, Michael Barr, Anthony Massa, Programming Embedded Systems, page 99:

An endianness difference can cause problems if a computer unknowingly tries to read binary data written in the opposite format from a shared memory location or file.

2012, Albert J. Marcella, Cyber Forensics, page 116:

(computing) The property of being either big-endian or little-endian.

位元組順序 /位元组顺序

the property of being either big-endian or little-endian


(computing) Old abbreviation for JavaME.


least significant byte

least significant byte (plural least significant bytes)

(computer science) The byte of a multibyte number with the least importance: that is, the byte stored last on a big-endian system or first on a little-endian system.


MSB

most significant bit
most significant bit#English

(computing) Initialism of most significant bit.

most significant byte
most significant byte#English

(computing) Initialism of most significant byte.


LSB

least significant bit
least significant bit#English

(computing) Initialism of least significant bit.

least significant byte
least significant byte#English

(computing) Initialism of least significant byte.


LSB

Linux Standard Base
w:Linux Standard Base

(computing) Initialism of Linux Standard Base.


Winchester

French: Bicêtre

Hungarian: vincseszter

Russian: винчестер (vinčester)

From Middle English Wynchester, Winchestre, from Old English Wintanċeaster, from Latin Venta Belgārum (literally “Venta of the Belgae”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Celtic *wentā (“town, place”), Proto-Indo-European *h₁wen- (“place (?)”) + Old English ċeaster, from Latin castra (“camp”).
The bottle is named for the former customary units of the English city. The rifle is named named after American businessman Oliver Winchester (1810–1880). The computer disk is named for the rifle.

named-after

And besides, Winchesters of the nonremovable sort work fine—why bother complicating things with cartridges[…]

1984 February 7, PC Mag, volume 3, number 2, page 234:


in-line

BBC BASIC allows the programmer to write in-line assembly language.

(computing, of source code) Of a different language than the outer enclosing code.

nội tuyến

of a different language than the outer enclosing code


data synchronization

(computing) The establishment of equivalence between data collections (typically on different servers, and sometimes between trading partners), where each data element in one item maps to a data item in the other, and their data is equivalent.


bombe

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(computing) An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.


PAE

Physical Address Extension
w:Physical Address Extension

(computing) Initialism of Physical Address Extension.


PAM

en-noun

PAM (countable and uncountable, plural PAMs)

pluggable authentication module
w:pluggable authentication module

(computing) Initialism of pluggable authentication module.


network topology

network topology (plural network topologies)

(computing) The physical arrangement of a network; the way in which cables are arranged in order to connect computers in a network.


EIA

Electronic Industries Alliance
w:Electronic Industries Alliance

(computing) Initialism of Electronic Industries Alliance.


DLL

(computing) Initialism of Data Link Layer.

(computing) Initialism of doubly-linked list.

dynamic-link library
dynamic-link library#English

(computing, file format) Initialism of dynamic-link library.


MOS

operating system
operating system#English

(computing) Initialism of maintenance operating system.

(computing) Initialism of mobile operating system.


VDL

(computing) Initialism of virtual digital library.


VDL

(computing) Initialism of View Design Language.

(computing) Initialism of Vienna Definition Language.


CSMA

(computing) Initialism of carrier sense, multiple access.


Ethernet

Originally a trademark of Xerox, apparently composed of ether + net (“network”).

A set of network cabling and network access (CSMA/CD) protocol standards for bus topology computer networks invented by Xerox but now controlled by the 802.3 subcommittee of the IEEE.


real-time

The projects, which are due to start in November, are: Real-time prediction and mitigation of disruption through personalised passenger communications - [...]

2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23:

(computing) Of a system: that responds to events or signals within a predictable time after their occurrence; specifically the response time must be within the maximum allowed, but is typically synchronous.

в реа́льном вре́мени

производи́мый


back end

back ends (plural)
back-end (alternative)
backend (alternative)
backen' (alternative)
back-en' (alternative)

Together, the MathDocument and PaperController classes comprise the MathPaper application's front end, while the Evaluator makes up the application's back end. This technique of having separate front and back ends is a common […]

2002, Simson Garfinkel, Michael K. Mahoney, Building Cocoa Applications: A Step-by-step Guide, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 295:

(computing) That part of a hardware or software system that is farthest from the user; the internals rather than the user interface.

後端 /后端

computing: part of a system that is farthest from the user


DVMT

dynamic video memory technology
w:dynamic video memory technology

(computing) Initialism of dynamic video memory technology.


nouse

Our noses are no longer just for smelling things, but can be used for moving things too in operating a nouse, a device which has the same pointing function as a computer mouse but is controlled by movements of the nose.

2007, Kerry Maxwell, Brave New Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the 21st Century, page 128:

(computing, neologism) A form of computer mouse operated with the nose.


CWD

CWD (countable and uncountable, plural CWDs)

(computing, countable) Initialism of current working directory.


ADB

(computing, Android) Initialism of Android Debug Bridge.

(computing, legacy Apple hardware) Initialism of Apple Desktop Bus.


RMS

R.M.S. (alternative)
R. M. S. (alternative)

Richard M. Stallman
w:Richard M. Stallman

(computing) Initialism of Richard M. Stallman.


EDP

EDP (countable and uncountable, plural EDPs)

(computing) Initialism of electronic data processing.


ISF

Ink Serialized Format
w:Ink Serialized Format

(computing) Initialism of Ink Serialized Format.


OWA

(Internet, computing) Initialism of Outlook Web Access.


beta version

(computing) An early version of a program or application that contains most of the major features, but is not yet complete. Sometimes these versions are released only to a select group of people, or to the general public, for testing and feedback. This is the second major stage of development following the alpha version, and comes before the release candidate.


alpha version

(computing, technology) An early version of a program or application, typically unstable, but useful to show what the product will do. Sometimes this stage is referred to as a preview version. Sometimes no more features are added after this release, but bug fixes continue. This release comes after a pre-alpha version and before a beta version. As opposed to a beta version an alpha version is usually not feature complete.


training

training (usually uncountable, plural trainings)

(computing) The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.


HW

HW (countable and uncountable, plural HWs)


release version

release version (plural release versions)

(computing, software) A version label given to packaged computer software that has been made available to one or more target audiences.


linked

en-adj

linked (comparative more linked, superlative most linked)

more linked (comparative)
most linked (superlative)

(computing) having links (between modules, records etc)


NLA

(computing) Initialism of network location awareness.


RPC

remote procedure call
remote procedure call#English

(computing) Initialism of remote procedure call.


ICS

Ice Cream Sandwich
w:Android Ice Cream Sandwich

(computing, Android) Initialism of Ice Cream Sandwich.


ICS

en-noun

ICS (countable and uncountable, plural ICSs)

(Internet, computing) Initialism of Internet connection sharing.


topology

topology (countable and uncountable, plural topologies)

From Late Latin topologia, from Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place, locality”) + -(o)logy (“study of, a branch of knowledge”).

topologie

study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.

(computing) The arrangement of nodes in a communications network.


holy war

(computing, Usenet) A long-running and acrimonious debate or flame war over personal preferences in technical matters, such as the choice between little-endian and big-endian representation.

luftë e shenjtë

a type of war — see also war of religion


descriptor

That which describes; a word, phrase, etc. serving as a description.

(computing, information science) A name associated with certain data or documents in an information storage and retrieval system; an index term.


root kit

(computing) Alternative spelling of rootkit.


peripheral

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Ancient Greek περί (perí)
Ancient Greek περῐ- (perĭ-)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō
Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō)
Ancient Greek περιφέρω (periphérō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek περιφερής (peripherḗs)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.
Ancient Greek -ια (-ia)
Ancient Greek περιφέρεια (periphéreia)bor.
Latin peripheriabor.
Middle French peripheriebor.
English periphery
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English peripheral
From peripher(y) + -al.

etymon

Check your peripheral's manual for the information you'll need.

1984, Human Connection, Making MS-DOS & PC-DOS work for you:

Check your peripheral's owners' manual to see at what speed your peripheral transmits or receives information, and then record this on the DIP Switch Information chart in the column at the left.

1986, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Turn on the Mac, and check your peripheral. Since you've already installed your device driver, it should be available where you need it....

1994, Steve Birchall, Upgrading and repairing Macs:


MAU

(computing) Initialism of media/multiple attachment unit: a connectivity device for a token ring network.


token ring

(computing) A network standard invented by IBM and later defined by the 802.5 subcommittee of the IEEE which provides for a network with a star ring topology, and which operates by passing a token frame around the logical ring.


ring topology

(computing) A network topology in which, in the physical case, every node of a network is connected to exactly two other nodes: one node designated as upstream and the other as downstream. A given node receives data from its upstream node and sends data to its downstream node.

toipeolaíocht fháinneach

a network topology in which every node of a network is connected to exactly two other nodes


punch card

punch cards (plural)
punchcard (alternative)

перфокарта

card with have holes or notches used for storing data

Programming by typing C++ or Python yourself might eventually seem as ridiculous as issuing instructions in binary onto a punch card.

2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:

A card that can have holes or notches cut in it, especially one for storing data, that can be sorted according to combinations of holes present or absent.

(computing, historical) Such a card, the size of a US dollar bill and having 80 columns of 12 rows, used in early mainframe computers.


meridiem

en-noun

meridiem (countable and uncountable, plural meridiems)

Back-formation from the phrases ante meridiem and post meridiem (more commonly a.m. and p.m.), from Latin merīdiem, accusative of merīdiēs (“midday, noon”).

The terminal responds N HH MM CR where N, HH, and MM are the meridiem, hour, and minutes, as above.

1986 March, “Operation”, in Ampex 230 plus: Video Display Terminal: Operation Manual, section 10 (Setting the Time), page 3-42:

If a 12-hour clock is specified, the eighth field (the meridiem indicator) is required.[…]If this input string is entered, the parse still recognizes “feb” as the month name and “am” as the meridiem indicator, even though the format string specified both of these fields as uppercase, and the month name as unabbreviated.

1994 March, “System Time Operations”, in OpenVMS Programming Concepts Manual, Maynard, Mass.: Digital Equipment Corporation, section 6 (Date/Time Formatting Routines), subsection 2 (Selecting a Format), subsubsection 3 (Specifying Input Formats at Run Time), pages 5–25:

if (hour < 12) { meridiem = 'am'; } else { meridiem = 'pm'; }

2008 July, David Sawyer McFarland, “Working with Words, Numbers, and Dates”, in JavaScript: The Missing Manual, Pogue Press, →ISBN, part one (Getting Started with JavaScript), chapter section “Dates and Times”, subsection “Getting the Time”, page 143:

To the right of the radio buttons, complete the Start Time and End Time fields and select the meridiem from the AM/PM menu to define the time during which the schedule is in effect.

2014 December, “Customize Firewall Protection”, in ProSAFE Dual WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall: Model FVS336Gv3: Reference Manual, Netgear, section “Manage Firewall Objects”, subsection “Define a Schedule”, page 295:

Ensure the meridiem (AM/PM) specification is set accordingly.

2015, “IP Environment Setup”, in STB-3000: HD Commercial Interface Set-top Box: Commercial Mode Setup Guide, LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc., section “Pro:Centric Setup”, page 56:

Finally, we’ll write the method to render the appointment slot radio buttons. To do this we first have to filter the slots by availabity and by whether AM or PM is selected. Both are simple checks; for the first we see if it exists in state.schedule, for the later, we check the meridiem part with moment().format('a').

2020 March 13, Tony Spiro, “Build an Appointment Scheduler Using React, Twilio and Cosmic JS”, in HackerNoon:

The meridiem for a DateTime can be accessed by the "a" format token: DateTime.local().setZone(z).toFormat("a") //=> "PM" The Luxon Info methods are for finding out what the meridiems are called in different human languages.

2021 June 24, snickersnack, “How to get the actual meridiems in luxonjs?^([sic])”, in Stack Overflow, archived from the original on 2024-12-05:

The digital clock has four parts: hour, minute, second, and meridiem.[…]Assigning the Current Meridiem (AM/PM) / Since the Digital Clock is in a 12-hour format, you need to assign the appropriate meridiem according to the current hour.

2021 June 27, Yuvraj Chandra, “How to Create a Digital Clock Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript”, in MUO:

(countable, computing) The property of a timestamp of being either a.m. or p.m.


Defined by collaboration among five major computer companies in Taiwan.

(computing) A character encoding method for Traditional Chinese characters.


punched card

(computing) A punch card (especially one that has had holes punched in it).

hulkort

punch card, especially one that has had holes punched in it


plug-in

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(computing) A module or device that interacts with another to add a specific feature or function.


minimize

en-verb

minimize (third-person singular simple present minimizes, present participle minimizing, simple past and past participle minimized)

minimizes (present singular third-person)
minimizing (participle present)
minimized (participle past)
minimized (past)
minimise (alternative)

I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.

նվազեցնել

(computing) to cause a window to disappear


Lisa

Diminutive of Elisabeth in several European languages. The computer is named after Lisa Brennan-Jobs, officially explained as an acronym for “Locally Integrated Software Architecture”.

Both Macs and Lisas, along with Imagewriter printers, are part of the convention network organized by Sytek of Mountain View, California.

1984 July 23, Peggy Watt, “Democrats Computerize Politics”, in InfoWorld, volume 6, number 30, page 24:

(computing, historical) Ellipsis of Apple Lisa.


photoshop

photoshop (third-person singular simple present photoshops, present participle photoshopping, simple past and past participle photoshopped)

photoshops (present singular third-person)
photoshopping (participle present)
photoshopped (participle past)
photoshopped (past)
Photoshop (alternative)

/ˈfəʊ.təʊ.ʃɒp/

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Genericized trademark of Adobe Photoshop, a widely-used graphics editor. This may in turn have been derived from its usage to refer to the camera room in the offset lithography process, where laid up pages could be extensively retouched before being transferred to the printing plates.

She charged that the prosecutor had photoshopped the image to incriminate her.

Photographs can be manipulated, too; while a "Photoshopped" image may look beautiful, it might not give a correct impression of a place (this is a whole other column).

1995 September 24, “Some surf the Net, others quiver on the shore”, in The Record, Hackensack, New Jersey, page 167:

Ned Shaw, a former illustrator for PC Magazine, has gathered a huge collection of classic examples from such artists and illustrators as Maxfield Parish and Edmund Dulac. He then Photoshopped it (a new verb; you heard it first here) and produced two volumes of fantastic art. The cool part is that the product comes in two resolutions.

1997 May 6, PC Magazine, New York: Ziff Davis, page 89:

The feisty brunette star of The Mummy [sc. Rachel Weisz] boasts: "I really did hold that snake. People thought it was Photoshopped in, but it was the real thing. I had to stay relaxed." What about the snake?

2004 May 20, “PS...”, in The Times (People section), number 68080, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

(trademark, media, computing, usually transitive) To digitally edit or alter (a picture or photograph).


SR

en-noun

SR (countable and uncountable, plural SRs)

speech recognition
speech recognition#English

(uncountable, computing) Initialism of speech recognition.


BSAA

w:Business Software Association of Australia

(Australia, computing) Initialism of Business Software Association of Australia.


digitization

digitization (countable and uncountable, plural digitizations)

digitizations (plural)
digitisation (alternative)

(computing) The conversion of data or information from analog to digital or binary.

(computing) Hence, the transformation of a process or system from mainly analogue form to digital form


showstopper

showstoppers (plural)
show-stopper (alternative)
show stopper (alternative)

Any impediment that prevents all further progress.

(computing) A software bug that must be fixed before any further development is possible.


NWS

(computing) Initialism of not work safe.


word wrap

(computing) A word processing feature which automatically adjusts lines of text to fit within the page margins. Words exceeding the margins are set to begin a new line.


word wrap

en-verb

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

word wraps (present singular third-person)
word wrapping (participle present)
word wrapped (participle past)
word wrapped (past)
wordwrap (alternative)

(computing) To adjust lines of text in this manner.


deadlock

en-noun

deadlock (countable and uncountable, plural deadlocks)

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If synchronization is always performed in least-first order with respect to object tags, then situations can never arise in which one thread has the synchronization lock for x while waiting for y and another has the lock for y while waiting for x. Instead, they will both obtain the locks in the same order, thus avoiding this form of deadlock.

2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 88:

(computing) An inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation.

死鎖 /死锁

computing: inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation


dumper

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Protected programs implement various measures of counteraction against debuggers, disassemblers, dumpers, and other hacker tools.

2005, Kris Kaspersky, Hacker Debugging Uncovered, page 51:

(computing) A program that outputs the contents of storage or a data structure.


molly-guard

From Molly (female given name) + guard.
Originally a Plexiglas cover improvised for the Big Red Switch on an IBM 4341 mainframe after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) tripped it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.

There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.

The radial heat losses are minimized by the Molly Guard foil which establishes a linear temperature profile between the hot heater housing and the water cooled base plate.

1978, Proceedings of the 13th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, volume 3, Society of Automotive Engineers, page 1948:

1998 August 10, kensmark, “Vi versus Word. The pros and cons (or why does Vi remiond me of a bigger version of notepad?)”, rec.arts.sf.composition, Usenet,
Therefore, we have many "molly guards," which are kludged covers that protect the on/off switch and keep you from hitting it by accident.

To include switch, cut-out and molly guard, you'll probably need to order at least two, probably three components.

2008 September 6, Simon Slavin, “Manual on/off switch with electrical off-trip?”, in uk.comp.sys.mac (Usenet):

A physical barrier to protect something from unwanted contact, especially a shield to prevent accidental tripping of an emergency shutdown or power switch.


jukebox

jukeboxes (plural)
juke box (alternative)

1939, juke (“roadside café”) + box, replacing older collocational terms such as nickel-in-a-slot phonograph, coin-in-the-slot phonograph, and coin-operated phonograph.

Before you export a movie to tape, double-check the following: Make sure all unnecessary programs are closed, including your e-mail program, MP3 jukebox, and Web browser.

2011, Keith Underdahl, Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies:

(computing, by extension) A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection.

(computing) An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.


federated

(computing, telecommunications) Interconnected, as a federation or supernetwork of independent and interoperable services.


distributed

en-adj

distributed (comparative more distributed, superlative most distributed)

more distributed (comparative)
most distributed (superlative)

distributed computing

distributed ray tracing

(computing) Involving numerous separate computers or entities, rather than the traditional one.


folio

From Middle English folio (“leaf of a book”), borrowed from Medieval Latin foliō, Late Latin foliō, Latin foliō, the ablative singular form of Late Latin folium (“leaf or sheet of paper”), Latin folium (“leaf of a plant”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“bloom, flower”). Doublet of foil and folium, and distantly related to phyllo and phyllon.
Senses 1, 2, 3.1, 5, and 6 relating to a leaf or page are derived from Medieval Latin foliō in references; sense 5 (“page in an account book”) may be derived from Italian foglio (“rectangular sheet of paper”), from Latin folium. Senses 3.2 and 3.3 relating to a paper size are from Italian in foglio or its etymon Latin in foliō.

der

(computing) A protective case with a flap that folds to cover the screen of a mobile device.


PCI

(computing) Initialism of Peripheral Component Interconnect, a type of expansion slot on a motherboard.


compressor

From compress + -or, or from New Latin compressor.

(computing) A program or algorithm for compressing data.

pakkausohjelma (program)

computing: program or algorithm for compressing data


ghost image

After the Norton Ghost disk-cloning and backup software tool, itself an initialism of general hardware-oriented system transfer.

(computing) A copy of all the contents of a hard drive, used as a backup.


instantiate

en-verb

instantiate (third-person singular simple present instantiates, present participle instantiating, simple past and past participle instantiated)

instantiates (present singular third-person)
instantiating (participle present)
instantiated (participle past)
instantiated (past)
instanciate (alternative)

From Latin instāntia + -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, instance + -ate.

af

To see and test the result of one's CSS for any particular HTML element, one must instantiate that element in a document.

In the eighteenth century, this was instantiated in writings which developed the view that ‘savages’ exhibited more virtue and moral nobility than their conquerors.

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 195:

(transitive) To represent (a concept, theme, or principle) by an instance.


plotter

(computing) An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.


minesweeper

en-noun

minesweeper (countable and uncountable, plural minesweepers)

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(uncountable, computing, video games) A logic-based computer game in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on numerical hints.


reverse configure

en-verb

reverse configure (third-person singular simple present reverse configures, present participle reverse configuring, simple past and past participle reverse configured)

reverse configures (present singular third-person)
reverse configuring (participle present)
reverse configured (participle past)
reverse configured (past)

(transitive, computing) To determine an item's characteristics solely based on an identifier such as material number, catalog code, or part number.


printed

The output of this sample program is simply some printed lines such as "Hello, World; my name is [Name]."

(of information or a document, by extension, computing) Written to a data file.


synchicity

(computing) The degree of synchronization between multimedia elements, e.g. between audio and video or between audio and subtitles.


CCA

en-noun

CCA (countable and uncountable, plural CCAs)

continuous configuration automation
w:continuous configuration automation

(computing) Initialism of continuous configuration automation.


NaN (countable and uncountable, plural NaNs)

(computing) Acronym of not a number, applied to numeric values that represent an undefined or unrepresentable value, such as zero divided by itself.


(computing) Alternative form of NaN (not a number)


repartition

(computing) The formatting of a hard drive, a database, etc. into different partitions.


repartition

en-verb

repartition (third-person singular simple present repartitions, present participle repartitioning, simple past and past participle repartitioned)

repartitions (present singular third-person)
repartitioning (participle present)
repartitioned (participle past)
repartitioned (past)

(transitive, computing) To format (a hard drive, a database, etc.) into different partitions.


close out

close out (third-person singular simple present closes out, present participle closing out, simple past and past participle closed out)

closes out (present singular third-person)
closing out (participle present)
closed out (participle past)
closed out (past)

(computing) To terminate a computer program.


paper tape

en-noun

paper tape (usually uncountable, plural paper tapes)

(computing, historical) An early sequential digital storage medium originally used with teletype machines, consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being encoded as a pattern of punched holes.

ponsband

early sequential digital storage medium consisting of a long roll of paper


punched tape

punched tape (usually uncountable, plural punched tapes)

ref

From the collection of The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, in the United Kingdom.

Train positions and speeds were established by a track magnet at each milepost, which produced a suitable mark on the punched recording tape whenever a train passed.

1960 December, “Talking of Trains: Recording Electric Operation”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 707:

paper tape

(computing, historical) Synonym of paper tape (“an early sequential digital storage medium originally used with teletype machines, consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being encoded as a pattern of punched holes”).

Bletchley Park
The National Museum of Computing


computerization

en-noun

computerization (countable and uncountable, plural computerizations)

computerizations (plural)
computerisation (alternative)

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The act of computerizing something, or something computerized.


computerize

en-verb

computerize (third-person singular simple present computerizes, present participle computerizing, simple past and past participle computerized)

computerizes (present singular third-person)
computerizing (participle present)
computerized (participle past)
computerized (past)
computerise (alternative)

(transitive, computing) To convert a manual function or system into a computer system.

(transitive, computing) To equip with a computer or a computer system.

камп'ютарызава́ць

(transitive, computing) To enter data into such a system.


ALUA

(computing) Initialism of asymmetric logical unit access.


AVVID

(computing) Initialism of architecture for voice, video, and integrated data.


file size

en-noun

file size (countable and uncountable, plural file sizes)

(computing) The length of a file, often specified in bytes.


addressability

addressability (countable and uncountable, plural addressabilities)

64-bit addressability means that a single machine instruction can operate on a value stored in eight bytes.

(computing) The capability of a microprocessor etc. to deal with values of a certain size using a single instruction.

bitness

capability to deal with values of certain size


blue screen of death

blue screen of death (plural blue screens of death)

First use appears c. 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. See cite below.

The only remaining problem is--NT still locks up the machine at exactly the same point. The only difference is that I don't get the blue screen of death--NT just freezes.

1993 October 10, tay...@saturn.brooks.af.mil, “NT Patch--doesn't fix Services for Macintosh”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup (Usenet):

A Blue Screen of Death is like an encrypted message from your computer telling you there's a problem. We're going to help you make sense of the gobbledygook so you can fix whatever's ailing your PC!

2007, Paul Lilly, “BSOD Crash Course”, in Maximum PC, page 40:

(computing, informal) An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes the system to shut down.


tweener

Trailing a little behind that in hype are the ’tweeners: the larger-format Windows CE Palm Pro portables. They’re not quite notebooks or subnotebooks, but they’re bigger than handhelds.

1999 January 4, Cathy Gagne, “Flashback ’98 Tech review: Handheld Dandies”, in Computerworld, volume 33, number 1, Framingham, Mass.: Computerworld, Inc., →ISSN, page 106:

(informal) A person or thing that is between two categories, classes or age groups.

(computing) A computing device that is smaller than a traditional laptop, but larger than a PDA.


collocation

collocation (countable and uncountable, plural collocations)

Learned borrowing from Latin collocātiō (“a putting together”). By surface analysis, col- (“together”) + location. The technical sense in linguistics was established in 1951, although it may actually be earlier. First attested in 1605.

surf

As usual, nothing of significance will be asked, and most certainly, answered, but do expect the dollar (and, inversely, ES) to go up, then down, then up, and so forth as random vacuum tubes blow in NYSE's ultramodern Mahwah collocation facility.

2011, "Tyler Durden", Zero Hedge, Watch Bernanke's Q&A With FOMC Approved Sycophants Live Here

(computing) A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.


containerization

en-noun

containerization (countable and uncountable, plural containerizations)

containerizations (plural)
containerisation (alternative)

These cloud deployments become simple due to well-defined and matured cloud technologies such as containerization, virtual infrastructure, orchestration, CI/CD, etc.

2022, Pethuru Raj, Anupama C. Raman, Harihara Subramanian, Cognitive Internet of Things: Enabling Technologies, Platforms, and Use Cases, CRC Press, →ISBN:

(computing) Software virtualization at the level of the operating system.


TSO

Time Sharing Option
w:Time Sharing Option

(computing) Initialism of Time Sharing Option.

TCP segmentation offload
TCP segmentation offload


pop out

en-verb

pop out (third-person singular simple present pops out, present participle popping out, simple past and past participle popped out)

pops out (present singular third-person)
popping out (participle present)
popped out (participle past)
popped out (past)

In the menu that then pops out, select the number of degrees you want to rotate the image (90° if the image is lying on its left side, 180° if the image is upside down, or 270° if the image is lying on its right side).

2005, Rickford Grant, Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 182:

(computing, intransitive) To appear on the screen as a temporary window or menu.


bulletin board

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Some bulletin board subscribers can now dial up displays for their IBM PC or PC XT in living color—and see the results in less than a second.

1984 September 3, Judith Walters von Alten, “Color for Bulletin Boards”, in InfoWorld, volume 6, number 6, InfoWorld Media Group, →ISSN, page 35:

bulletin board system
bulletin board system#English

(computing) Ellipsis of bulletin board system.


metalanguage

en-noun

metalanguage (countable and uncountable, plural metalanguages)

programming language
programming language

(computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language


modal

en-adj

modal (comparative more modal, superlative most modal)

more modal (comparative)
most modal (superlative)

From Middle French modal, from Medieval Latin modālis (“pertaining to a mode”), from Latin modus (“mode”). Compare to French, Spanish, and Portuguese modal and Italian modale. By surface analysis, mod(e) + -al.

der

(computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.


unsigned

We use an unsigned variable to store the employee's salary, since it will never be less than zero.

(computing) Not accepting negative numbers; having only a positive value (or zero).

無符號 /无符号

not accepting negative numbers; having only a positive value


unsigned

For compilers which produce two-byte unsigneds, the maximum cumulative frequency is 16,383 if we wish to avoid the use of long arithmetic.

1999, Steve Heller, Optimizing C++, page 107:

(computing) A numeric value or variable that has no sign and can only be positive.


sign off

en-verb

sign off (third-person singular simple present signs off, present participle signing off, simple past and past participle signed off)

signs off (present singular third-person)
signing off (participle present)
signed off (participle past)
signed off (past)

disconnettersi

to sign off e.g. a radio or computer connection

He finished the conversation and signed off.

(idiomatic) To log off; to stop using a computer, radio, etc.; especially, to stop talking.


turbo

From turbocharged (“increased power”). Also figurative, from the action of a turbocharger, which increases the speed of an automobile through the increase in power of an engine.

a turbo button on a controller; a PC equipped with a turbo mode

(computing, video games) Causing or relating to increased speed.


posting

[…] Internet postings, speeches, heckling, cartoons, faxes, composites, noises, threats, incitements, videos, ads, prayers, classes, live and filmed nudity (frontal, sideal, backal), defamation, blasphemy, and digital communication [...]

2013, Alan M. Dershowitz, Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law, Crown, →ISBN, page 106:

(computing) A message posted to a computerized bulletin board, a newsgroup, a blog, etc.


middleware

en-noun

middleware (usually uncountable, plural middlewares)

database management system
database management system

(computing) Software that functions at an intermediate layer between applications and operating system or database management system, or between client and server.

(computing) Networking software or hardware that is deployed in the middle of, as opposed to serviced by, a packet network to enhance or provide some network function, such as caching, filtering, or firewall functionality.


grammar checker

grammar checker (plural grammar checkers)

I ran the grammar checker on my novel, but the strange names confused it.

(computing) A software application, like a spell checker, that attempts to verify the grammar in a document.


deprecated

en-adj

deprecated (comparative more deprecated, superlative most deprecated)

more deprecated (comparative)
most deprecated (superlative)

From Latin dēprecātus, past participle of dēprecor (“to pray against (a present or impending evil), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from de (“off”) + precor (“to pray”).

Foo() has been deprecated; it outputs a debug message and then calls Foo2()

Note that deprecated functions are not removed yet.

A deprecated element or attribute is one that has been outdated by newer constructs.

1999, Dave Raggett, et. al., “Conformance: requirements and recommendations”, in HTML 4.01 Specification, W3C:

Just because an element or attribute is deprecated doesn't mean that it can't be used on a webpage.

2002, Steven E. Callihan, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example:

(computing) Said of a function or feature planned to be phased out, but still available for use.


thrashing

(computing) Excessive paging within virtual storage.


unload

en-verb

unload (third-person singular simple present unloads, present participle unloading, simple past and past participle unloaded)

unloads (present singular third-person)
unloading (participle present)
unloaded (participle past)
unloaded (past)

When you unload a DLL, the memory and other system resources it is using will become available for use by other applications.

1993, Tony Martin, Lisa C Towell, The NewWave agent handbook:

(transitive, computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.


locality

en-noun

locality (countable and uncountable, plural localities)

From French localité, from Late Latin localitas, equivalent to local + -ity.

This shows temporal locality of reference in action because the CPU accesses i at three points in a short time period. This program also exhibits spatial locality of reference.

2004, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine, page 154:

(uncountable, mathematics, computing) The condition of being local.

paikallisuus

maths, computing: condition of being local


tombstone

tombstones (plural)
tomb-stone (alternative archaic)

If you attempt to restore a backup that is older than the tombstone lifetime, it may introduce objects that were deleted […]

2008, Laura E. Hunter, Robbie Allen, Active Directory Cookbook, page 739:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A marker that takes the place of deleted data, allowing for replication of the deletion across servers etc.

This actually results in a crash dump, which is written to the log and to a tombstone file.

2014, Joshua J. Drake, Zach Lanier, Collin Mulliner, Android Hacker's Handbook, page 186:


tombstone

en-verb

tombstone (third-person singular simple present tombstones, present participle tombstoning, simple past and past participle tombstoned)

tombstones (present singular third-person)
tombstoning (participle present)
tombstoned (participle past)
tombstoned (past)
tomb-stone (alternative archaic)

One of the many improvements in Windows 2000 WINS (and NT4 SP4) is the capability to selectively delete or tombstone records.

2000, William Boswell, Inside Windows 2000 Server, page 211:

(transitive, computing, Microsoft Windows) To replace (an object or data) with a tombstone marker.


combining form

As far as possible this specification uses non-combining characters, however, in the cases tdot, TripleDot and DotDot Unicode only has combining forms of the accents, and so the entity replacement text starts with a space, to avoid the possibility that the expansion of the entity combines with preceding text.

2014 April 10, “XML Entity Definitions for Characters (2nd Edition)”, in David Carlisle, Patrick Ion, editors, w3.org, World Wide Web Consortium, retrieved 2015-03-22:

(computing, typography) A character encoded from a sequence of other characters instead of a precomposed character.


workaround

workarounds (plural)
work-around (alternative)

(computing) A procedure or a temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows a user to continue working until a better solution can be provided.

väliaikainen korjaus

(computing) a procedure or a temporary fix


compression

en-noun

compression (countable and uncountable, plural compressions)

Borrowed from Middle French compression, from Latin compressiō.

Due to the presence of long-range correlations in language [21], [22] it is not possible to compute accurate measures of the entropy by estimating block probabilities directly. More efficient nonparametric methods that work even in the presence of long-range correlations are based on the property that the entropy of a sequence is a lower bound to any lossless compressed version of it [15]. Thus, in principle, it is possible to estimate the entropy of a sequence by finding its length after being compressed by an optimal algorithm. In our analysis, we used an efficient entropy estimator derived from the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm that converges to the entropy [19], [23], [24], and shows a robust performance when applied to correlated sequences [25] (see Materials and Methods).

2011, Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damián H. Zanette, “Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families”, in PLoS ONE, retrieved 2012-09-26:

(computing) The process by which data is compressed.

компресиране

(computing) the process by which data is compressed


skype

en-verb

skype (third-person singular simple present skypes, present participle skyping or skypeing, simple past and past participle skyped)

skypes (present singular third-person)
skyping (participle present)
skypeing (participle present)
skyped (participle past)
skyped (past)
Skype (alternative)

(transitive, computing) To make (a telephone call) using Skype software.

(transitive, computing) To send (a message or file) with Skype.

I'll skype you tomorrow. We can skype for a couple of hours.

While spatial mobility does cause discontinuity in social relationships and result in losing the support system from their home country (Rangaswamy 2000), yet the social ties of our participants have not dissolved as they have been able to maintain supportive networks in India through physical visits, e-mails, ‘skypeing’ to contacts in foreign places.

2013, S. Irudaya Rajan, editor, India Migration Report 2013: Social Costs of Migration, Routledge, →ISBN:

‘Where’s 007? He invited too?’ ‘He’s skypeing his mum. He’ll meet us down there.’

2015, Alan Carter, Bad Seed, Fremantle: Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 123:

And so Andy went home, still on a caffeine high, feeling excited about life as a graduate student, and instead of skypeing with Anja or going for a beer, he went online and read up on some of the relevant particle physics.

2015, Denis O’Sullivan, The Anthropist: A Curious Tale of Parallel Monogamy, Sex, Religion, Quantum Mechanics and Volleyball, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 21:

(ambitransitive, computing) To contact (a person) via Skype.


blacklist

The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.

(law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.


whitelist

(law, computing) A list or collection of people or entities that are known, trusted, or explicitly permitted.


doublet

doublets (plural)
doubtlet (alternative)

From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et.

zeke

(historical in English) a man’s waistcoat

(computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.


target language

en-noun

target language (plural target languages)

(computing) The machine language into which source code is to be compiled.


source language

source language (plural source languages)

(computing) The language of the source code to be compiled.


decode

This version includes more than 400 decodes that cover everything from legacy decodes to popular decodes and new or updated decodes for such protocols as voice over IP H.323, Server Message Block, Border Gateway Protocol Version 4, and Internet Inter-ORB Protocol

1999, Laura Wonnacott, “Sniffer Pro sees some switches”, in Info World, page 37:

(computing) Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols


plain text

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(computing) Data which consists only of human-readable unformatted text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatted/structured text. In this sense, the character data in between XML tags may be called "plain text".

raakateksti

data that consists only of human-readable text


plain text

(cryptography, computing) Alternative spelling of plaintext.


-ware

From software. See also ware and warehouse.

(computing) Used to form mass nouns denoting specific classes of computer software, based on use, function, or method of distribution.


laptop

→ Dutch: laptop

→ Hungarian: laptop

→ Indonesian: laptop

→ Malay: laptop

From lap (“upper legs of a seated person”) + top, modeled after desktop.

com

Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.

2006, Corey Sandler, Upgrading and Fixing Laptops For Dummies, page 8:

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

ܚܲܫܘܼܒ݂ܵܐ ܡܙܝܼܥܵܢܵܐ

ḥašūḇā mzīˁānā

hordozható számítógép

scarcely used, chiefly when talking to non-english speakers who tend not to understand the two loanwords


footer

→ Malay: pengaki (calque)

From Middle English footer, equivalent to foot + -er.

(computing) A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)

zápatí

line of information at the bottom of a page


corrupted

en-adj

corrupted (comparative more corrupted, superlative most corrupted)

more corrupted (comparative)
most corrupted (superlative)

It proved impossible to recover any data from the corrupted disk.

(chiefly computing, software) Containing errors.


PCMCIA

w:Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

(computing) Initialism of Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, a plug and play peripheral device interface, typically for laptop computers.


PCMCIA

(computing, humorous, from the above) Initialism of people can't memorize computer industry acronyms.


PowerPoint

Proficiency in PowerPoint continues to be required for almost every office job.

Can I be candid? I think I am on this group because none of you can do PowerPoint. I am literally going to draw some rectangle shapes for the pillars. We won’t be having feathers or whatever. And there’s a limit to how many pillars will fit on a single slide.

2024 February 22, "Bartleby", “The making of a PowerPoint slide”, in The Economist:

(trademark) A software package from Microsoft used to make slideshow presentations.


crossover

Of an electrical cable, having connector pins at one end wired to different pins at the other; for example, pin 1 to pin 2, pin 2 to pin 4 etc.; contrasted with straight-through.

(in particular, computing, of an Ethernet cable) Configured so that the transmit signals at one end are connected to the receive signals at the other.


nonet

From Italian nonetto, from nono (“ninth”).

The 9-bit nonet is a much more sensible representation.

2005, Mark R. Crispin, RFC 4042: UTF-9 and UTF-18:


graphical

(computing) Of, related to, or using graphics.


speller

But Word's spelling program still isn't fully integrated into the word processor. For one thing, any changes and corrections you make from the speller's menus don't appear on-screen until you get back to your original file.

1987, PC Mag, volume 6, number 17, page 358:


brouter

(computing) A network device that acts as both a bridge and a router by routing packets for known protocols and forwarding all others, as a bridge would.


desktop computer

en-noun

desktop computer (plural desktop computers)

A computer of a size designed to be used on a desk or table, as opposed to larger machines, such as mainframes, and smaller machines, such as laptops and palmtops.

桌上電腦 /桌上电脑

a computer of a size designed to be used on a desk


WML

(computing) Initialism of wireless markup language: an XML-based document description language for creating content and user interfaces targeted at narrow-band devices implementing WAP such as mobile telephones and pagers.


crufty

en-adj

crufty (comparative cruftier, superlative cruftiest)

cruftier (comparative)
cruftiest (superlative)

From cruft + -y. Arose after 1959, presumably mid-1960s. Perhaps influenced by cruddy, crusty.

(computing, informal) Relating to or containing cruft.

(computing, informal) Poorly built and overly-complex, and unpleasant.


killer poke

killer + poke (“the storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a computer program”).

killer poke n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped control register; used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and crash analog electronics in the monitor.

[1996, Eric S[teven] Raymond, comp., The New Hacker's Dictionary, 3rd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 270:

[F]rom what I recall the "killer poke" was POKE 59458,62 […] [W]hat it did was change an I/O line from input to output. The line connected to a signal related to vertical sync. The ROM routines that wrote to the display would wait until it was in vertical blank to avoid the "video snow" that otherwise resulted. The killer POKE would fool it into seeing the display always in vertical blank so it would write whenever. […] That this stressed the electronics was clear from the fact that the brief stint in the "killer" mode (a fraction of a second) often produced a bright flash followed by a dimmed and shrunk video display that would re-expand to its former self over the course of two seconds or so. Of course the later hardware also had the video snow thing fixed and the ROM no longer checked for vertical retrace, so the killer POKE disappeared.

1999 November 9, Markus Wandel, “Blowing Processors”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet), message-ID <809ej1$2ip$1@bcarh8ab.ca.nortel.com>:

Is frying someone's laptop remotely with a killer poke even possible? Even if it is, it may not achieve the desired effect, says Dave Dittrich, a computer specialist at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory, who is a specialist in the topic. "How expensive is it to buy a new one? $500? Cyber is not the same as physical when it comes to disabling 'weapons' to remove a threat."

2015 March 9, Danny Bradbury, “Should we hack the hackers?: Western companies are being fleeced for hundreds of millions by cybercriminals. Is it time to give them a dose of their own medicine?”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-03-06:

(computing) Any method of inducing physical harm to a computer or peripheral by software means, especially by inserting invalid values into a control register or by building up harmonic oscillations in a hard disk, etc.


genned in

[…] a special set of console vectors is patched over the genned-in set to handle the PMMI modem instead of the normal horizon drivers.

1982, Lifelines, the Software Magazine, volume 3, page 27:

(informal, computing) Having had certain characteristics generated or installed.


STR

en-noun

STR (countable and uncountable, plural STRs)

(computing) Initialism of suspend to RAM.


DSO

(computing) Initialism of dynamic shared object.


occlusion

occlusion (countable and uncountable, plural occlusions)

Borrowed from Late Latin occlūsiō, occlūsiōnis (“occluding, obstruction”), from the Classical Latin occlūdō (“I shut up or close up; I restrain”), from ob + claudō (“I shut or close”).

der

(computing) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.


time bomb

time bombs (plural)
timebomb (alternative)
time-bomb (alternative)

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

Donald Gene Burleson was prosecuted on felony charges for planting a time bomb that, shortly after he was fired, deleted more than 168,000 brokerage records of USPA & IRA in Fort Worth, Texas.

1994, Peter G. Neumann, Computer-Related Risks, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN:

(computing) A malicious program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date or time.

aikapommi

computing: program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date and/or time


supervisor

supervisors (plural)
supervisour (alternative obsolete)

Attested since the 15th century C.E.; from Middle English supervisor, supervisour, supervysor, supervysour, from Latin supervīsor, from supervideō, in turn from super + videō. By surface analysis, supervise + -or.

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

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

(computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.


timeserver

timeservers (plural)
time-server (alternative)

/ˈtʌɪmˌsəːvə/

(computing) A device, node or program that transmits the correct time to clients in a network.


time-share

en-verb

time-share (third-person singular simple present time-shares, present participle time-sharing, simple past and past participle time-shared)

time-shares (present singular third-person)
time-sharing (participle present)
time-shared (participle past)
time-shared (past)
timeshare (alternative)

timesharen

(transitive, computing) To use (a computer or communications band) by time-sharing.


time-sharing

(computing) A technique that allows many users to use a central computer simultaneously through remote terminals.

osituskäyttö

computing: technique to allow multiple users share a computer resource