error

en-verb

error (third-person singular simple present errors, present participle erroring, simple past and past participle errored)

errors (present singular third-person)
erroring (participle present)
errored (participle past)
errored (past)
errour (alternative obsolete)

The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.

Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there.

This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.

(computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.


LCD

LCD monitors offer higher resolution and take up far less space than traditional PC displays.

2001 May 23, James Connell, “Apple to Drop CRT Monitors”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:

liquid crystal display
liquid crystal display#English

(electronics, computing) Initialism of liquid crystal display.


tool

From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw (“to prepare”) + -le (agent suffix). Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").

mjet

mechanical device intended to make a task easier

The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools.

a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk

(computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.


generic

en-adj

generic (comparative more generic, superlative most generic)

more generic (comparative)
most generic (superlative)
generick (alternative obsolete)

gendered

antonym(s) of “neither masculine nor feminine”

/d͡ʒɪˈnɛɹɪk/

From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic; thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, general.

(computing, of procedures) Written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.

generisch

(computing) written so as to operate on any data type


tile

→ Bengali: টালি (ṭali)

→ Japanese: タイル (tairu)

→ Korean: 타일 (tail)

→ Nepali: टाइल (ṭāil)

→ Odia: ଟାଇଲ୍ (ṭāil)

→ Welsh: teils

From Middle English tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tieġle, tiġle, tiġele (“tile; brick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā, from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile”), from Latin tēgula. Doublet of tegula.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tichel (“tile”), West Frisian teil, tegel, tichel (“tile”), Dutch tichel, tegel (“tile”), German Ziegel (“brick; tile”), Danish tegl (“brick”), Swedish tegel (“brick; tile”), Icelandic tigl (“tile; brick”).

Each tile within the map consists of 256 × 256 pixels.

Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.


real

UK

US

From Middle English real, from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”). Doublet of realis.

der

There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these problems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts and Cauchy Sequences, named respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine Cauchy (1789 - 1857). We will not discuss these constructions here, but will use a more modern one developed by Gabriel Stolzenberg, based on "interval arithmetic."

2007, Mark Bridges, REAL ANALYSIS: A Constructive Approach, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, page 11:


intelligent

en-adj

intelligent (comparative more intelligent or (rare, proscribed) intelligenter, superlative most intelligent or (rare, proscribed) intelligentest)

more intelligent (comparative)
intelligenter (comparative proscribed rare)
most intelligent (superlative)
intelligentest (proscribed rare superlative)
entelligent (alternative)

/ˈɪɳʈəlɪd͡ʒəɳʈ/

From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intellegēns (“discerning”), present active participle of intellegō (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + legō (“choose, pick out, read”).

an intelligent network or keyboard

(computing) Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.


expose

en-verb

expose (third-person singular simple present exposes, present participle exposing, simple past and past participle exposed)

exposes (present singular third-person)
exposing (participle present)
exposed (participle past)
exposed (past)

Borrowed from Middle French exposer (“to lay open, set forth”), from Latin expōnō (“set forth”), with contamination from poser (“to lay, place”). Doublet of expound, via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”), from the same Latin term.

der

In the OO world, the word is to hide the structure of the data, and expose only functionality. OO designers expose an object to the world in terms of the services it provides.

2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ Gems, page 266:

(computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.


online

en-verb

online (third-person singular simple present onlines, present participle onlining, simple past and past participle onlined)

onlines (present singular third-person)
onlining (participle present)
onlined (participle past)
onlined (past)
on-line (alternative)

The output in Listing 8-2 shows your disk group status prior to onlining the disks, the commands to online your disks, and the status after onlining.

2013, John Clarke, Oracle Exadata Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 219:

(computing, transitive) To bring (a system, etc.) online; to promote to an active or running state.


manifest

From Middle English manifest, manifeste, from Latin manifestus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from manus (“hand”) + *infestus, participle of *infendō (“strike”) (from the root of dēfendō, offendō, etc.), or from Proto-Indo-European *dʰers-. Doublet of manifesto.

(computing) A file containing metadata describing other files.


Boolean

From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864).

named-after

boolean (alternative)
Boolian (alternative)

Oh, Boolean operators! "Blue and ones"! Good idea!

2005 May 9, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Bug In Mouth Disease”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Sad (Matthew Chapman):

(logic, computing) Pertaining to data items that can have “true” and “false” (or, equivalently, 1 and 0 respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values.

booleà

logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”


Boolean

Booleans (plural)
boolean (alternative)
Boolian (alternative)

(logic, computing) A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.


developer

More important, when we looked at who worked in that industry, we noticed that programmers were in the minority. They’re dwarfed by, among other occupations, the software developers. The two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but the jobs follow very different trajectories. Nationwide, software developers haven’t struggled nearly as much as their programming brethren — few other computer-related occupations have. So what makes programmers different? To answer that, we need to dive forehead first into everybody’s favorite part of any analysis: arcane occupation definitions! Upon perusing the fine print, we saw that while programmers do in fact program, they “work from specifications drawn up by software and web developers or other individuals.” That seems like a clue. In the real world, “developer” and “programmer” can seem almost interchangeable. But in the world of government statistics, where we have legal permanent residency, there’s a clear distinction. In the [US] government’s schema, programmers do the grunt work while the much more numerous — and much faster-growing — software developers enjoy a broader remit. They figure out what clients need, design solutions and work with folks such as programmers and hardware engineers to implement them. Their pay reflects this gap in responsibilities. The median programmer earned $99,700 in 2023, compared with $132,270 for the median developer. And while 27.5 percent of programming jobs vanished, jobs for developers have only fallen 0.3 percent, similar to the broader industry.

2025 March 14, Andrew Van Dam, “Department of Data: More than a quarter of computer-programming jobs just vanished. What happened? Learning to code was supposedly the salvation of millions of liberal art majors. But now programming jobs are plummeting. The Post’s Department of Data tries to figure out what’s going on”, in Washington Post:

(computing) A software developer; a person or company who creates or modifies computer software.


fork

en-verb

fork (third-person singular simple present forks, present participle forking, simple past and past participle forked)

forks (present singular third-person)
forking (participle present)
forked (participle past)
forked (past)

From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork, forked stake; gallows, beam, stake, support post, yoke”), of uncertain origin. The Middle English word was later reinforced by Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French forque (= Old French forche whence French fourche), also from the Latin. Doublet of fourche and furcate. Cognate also with North Frisian forck (“fork”), Dutch vork (“fork”), Danish fork (“fork”), German Forke (“pitchfork”). Displaced native gafol, ġeafel, ġeafle (“fork”), from Old English.
In its primary sense of “fork”, Latin furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).

der

A parent process forks a child process, which in turn can fork other processes.

2008, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Pearson Education, →ISBN:

It appears that the shell forks a copy of itself and that this copy then forks to make each of the previous processes in the pipeline.

2013, W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 304:

(ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.

(ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.

разклонявам

computer science: to spawn a new child process

fork bomb

computer science: spawn a new child process


pager

From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).

more is a pager. The basic purpose of a pager is that it lets you view the contents of a file without actually having to open the file.

2006, James Duncan Davidson, Jason Deraleau, Running Mac OS X Tiger, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 73:

(computing) A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time.


transparent

en-adj

transparent (comparative more transparent, superlative most transparent)

more transparent (comparative)
most transparent (superlative)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspārēns, trānspārēntis (“transparent”), present participle of transpareō, from Latin trans + pareō. Displaced native Old English þurhsīene.

bor

In order to make that transparent to the user, browsers usually cache the usernames and passwords and retransmit them automatically each time they contact the server.

2003, Rolf Oppliger, Security Technologies for the World Wide Web, page 34:

(computing) Not noticeable because it happens automatically or in the background; invisible.


trash

en-noun

trash (countable and uncountable, plural trashes)

From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).
Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).

cog

one man's trash is another man's treasure

Drag the unwanted message to the trash.

en:temporary storage on disk for deleted files

(computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.


launch

en-verb

launch (third-person singular simple present launches, present participle launching, simple past and past participle launched or (obsolete) launcht)

launches (present singular third-person)
launching (participle present)
launched (participle past)
launched (past)
launcht (obsolete participle past)
launcht (obsolete past)
lanch (alternative obsolete)

⇒ Irish: lainseáil

⇒ Welsh: lansio

From Middle English launchen (“to throw as a lance”), Old French lanchier, another form (Old Northern French/Norman variant, compare Jèrriais lanchi) of lancier, French lancer, from lance.

inh

Double-click an icon to launch the associated application.

(transitive, computing) To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.

After clicking the icon, the application will launch.

(intransitive, computing, of a program) To start to operate.


own

en-verb

own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)

owns (present singular third-person)
owning (participle present)
owned (participle past)
owned (past)

A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.

"TH15 5Y5T3M 15 0WN3D"

1996 June 21, The Happiest Dragon Alive!!, “Re: An unusual situation”, in (Usenet), retrieved 2016-09-24, message-ID <4qe8pc$8ti@nerd.apk.net>:

(transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system.


pop

en-noun

pop (countable and uncountable, plural pops)

From Middle English pop, poppe (“a blow; strike; buffet”) (> Middle English poppen (“to strike; thrust”, verb)), of onomatopoeic origin – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions. The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.

cog

Pushes and pops change the stack; indexing just accesses it.

2011, Mark Lutz, Programming Python, page 1371:

(computing) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.


pop

en-verb

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

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

Once the callee (the called function) terminates, it cleans the stack that it has been locally using and pops the next value stored on top of the stack.

2010, Enrico Perla, Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core, page 55:

The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed:

(transitive, computing) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.

vetää

computing: to remove a data item from the top of a stack


plane

→ Irish: plána

From Latin plānum (“flat surface”), a noun use of the neuter of plānus (“plain”). The word was introduced in the 17th century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain. Doublet of llano, piano, and plain.

հարթություն

geometry: flat surface extending infinitely in all directions

(computing, Unicode) Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.


arrow

arrow (third-person singular simple present arrows, present participle arrowing, simple past and past participle arrowed)

arrows (present singular third-person)
arrowing (participle present)
arrowed (participle past)
arrowed (past)

From Middle English arwe, from Old English earh (oblique form ēarw-), from Proto-West Germanic *arhu, from Proto-Germanic *arhwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érkʷo- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with Faroese ørv (“arrow”), Icelandic ör (“arrow”), örvar (“arrows”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌶𐌽𐌰 (arƕazna, “dart”), Latin arcus (“bow”).

der

Arrow left until you reach the start of the text you want to delete.

(computing, intransitive) To navigate using the arrow keys.


forest

en-noun

forest (countable and uncountable, plural forests)

forests (plural)
foreste (alternative obsolete)

forced (US, sometimes especially in fast speech)

Inherited from Middle English forest, from Old French forest, from Early Medieval Latin forestis, likely from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *furhisti (“forest, fir-grove, wooded land”), equivalent to fir + hurst. Related to Old English fyrhþe (“forested land”), Old High German forst, forsti (“forest”), Old Norse fýri (“pine forest”). Doublet of frith.
In this sense, mostly displaced the native Middle English wode, from Old English wudu (modern English wood) and Middle English wold, wald, wæld, from Old English weald (modern English wold, weald).

der

Forests are considered the security boundary in Active Directory; by this we mean that if you need to definitively restrict access to a resource within a particular domain so that administrators from other domains do not have any access to it whatsoever, you need to implement a separate forest instead of using an additional domain within the current forest.

2008, Laura E. Hunter, Robbie Allen, Active Directory Cookbook, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 17:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A group of domains that are managed as a unit.


crash

From Middle English crasshen, crasschen, craschen (“to break into pieces”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier *crasken, from crasen (“to break”) + -k (formative suffix); or from earlier *craskien, *craksien, a variant of craken (“to crack, break open”) (for form development compare break, brask, brash).

suffix

My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.

(computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.


crash

en-verb

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

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

разбивам

to severely damage or destroy by causing to collide with something else

If the system crashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop.

(computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.

Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.

(computing, hardware, software, transitive) To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.


dash

From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dwǣsċan (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also dush.

noncog

(typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).


hash

From French hacher (“to chop”), from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache (“axe”), from Frankish *happjā (“axe”). Compare also Old English ġehæċċa (“sausage meat”, literally “that which is hacked or chopped up”).

ncog

(computing) The result generated by a hash function.

hajautusarvo

for distributing values in a data structure

(computing, cryptocurrencies) One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.


hash

en-verb

hash (third-person singular simple present hashes, present participle hashing, simple past and past participle hashed)

hashes (present singular third-person)
hashing (participle present)
hashed (participle past)
hashed (past)

(computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function.

tiivistää

to transform according to a hash function


micro

en-noun

micro (countable and uncountable, plural micros)

From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”), or shortened form for modern words formed from its derivative micro-.

If you can possibly afford to spend a few more pounds then you should move up into the next price bracket, where the potential of the home micro starts to be realised.

1984, Mike Gerrard, Bryan Skinner, Mr Chips comes home: micros and home education, page 23:

So what sort of hero is this bounding, bomb collecting midget? The answer is an arcade hero - and now he's let loose in your micro courtesy of conversion kings, Elite.

1986, Rachael Smith, Bomb Jack (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 5, May 1986

(computing, dated, countable) short form of microcomputer


switch

→ Gulf Arabic: سويچ (swīč)

→ German: Switch

Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”), first attested in c. 1592. The mechanical device for altering the direction of something sense is first attested in c. 1797, pertaining to pivoted rails on minecart railways, which were once wooden.

камута́тар

system allowing the interconnection of telephone lines

2004, Curt, “Can I use IF statements, and still use switches?”, in microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields (Usenet):

(computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.

(computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.


address book

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(computing) A computerized storage area for contact information such as e-mail addresses.


closed

Make sure that all files are closed before you switch off the computer.

Not available for operation, participation, interaction, etc.

(computing, of a file, document, etc.) Not in current use; not connected to as a resource.


chop

en-verb

chop (third-person singular simple present chops, present participle chopping, simple past and past participle chopped)

chops (present singular third-person)
chopping (participle present)
chopped (participle past)
chopped (past)

From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly onomatopoeic, or a variant of chap (“to become cracked”).
Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare also Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *ċippian (in forċippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.

cog

(computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).


destructive

en-adj

destructive (comparative more destructive, superlative most destructive)

more destructive (comparative)
most destructive (superlative)

From Middle French destructif, from Latin destructivus, from past participle of destruere (“to tear down, destroy”) + -ivus.

Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.

(computing) Lossy; causing irreversible change.


recycle bin

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First sense appears c. 1971, in the Arizona Daily Sun. Computing sense appears in 1995 with the Windows 95 operating system.

trash

sense 2, on other operating systems and emails

(computing) In Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files, from which they can be retrieved or permanently deleted.

سَلَّة الْمَحْذُوفَات

(computing) in Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files


pdf2txt, i.e. conversion from PDF to plain text

(computing) Abbreviation of to; designating conversion from one format to another.


attribute

From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.

This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.

A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.

atribut

computing: the applicable option selection


pair

en-verb

pair (third-person singular simple present pairs, present participle pairing, simple past and past participle paired)

pairs (present singular third-person)
pairing (participle present)
paired (participle past)
paired (past)

From Middle English paire, from Old French paire, from Latin paria (“equals”), neuter plural of par (“pair”). Related to pār (“equal”, adjective). Compare Saterland Frisian Poor (“pair”), West Frisian pear (“pair”), Dutch paar (“pair”), German Paar (“pair”), Italian paio (“pair”)

It was not possible to pair my smartphone with an incompatible smartwatch.

If your computer has a built-in, non-Microsoft transceiver, you can pair the device directly to the computer by using your computer’s Bluetooth software configuration program but without using the Microsoft Bluetooth transceiver.

2015, Microsoft, “How-to: Keyboards”, in http://www.microsoft.com, retrieved 2015-02-21:

(computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth.


operation

en-noun

operation (countable and uncountable, plural operations)

→ Japanese: オペレーション (operēshon)

→ Scottish Gaelic: opairèisean

/ˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

/ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

From Middle French operation, from Old French operacion, from Latin operātiō, from the verb operor (“I work”), from opus, operis (“work”). Equivalent to operate + -ion.

عَمَلِيَّة

The number of operands associated with an operation is called its arity; an operation of arity 2 is called a binary operation.

(computing, logic, mathematics, countable) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).

(mathematics, more formally, countable) A function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.


associative

en-adj

associative (comparative more associative, superlative most associative)

more associative (comparative)
most associative (superlative)

AWK's associative arrays may be indexed by strings.

Associative memories were once given considerable attention.

(computing) Addressable by a key more complex than an integer index.


machine translation

en-noun

machine translation (countable and uncountable, plural machine translations)

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(computing, programming) The production of instructions in a computer language that are equal in meaning to that in another language.


whiteboard

→ German: Whiteboard

→ Swedish: whiteboard

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From white + board, modelled on blackboard.

(by extension, computing) A collaborative tool allowing several users to write and draw on the same shared display.


constant

en-adj

constant (comparative more constant, superlative most constant)

more constant (comparative)
most constant (superlative)

From Middle English constant, from Old French constant, from Latin constantem, accusative of constans, from cōnstāre (“to stand firm”). Displaced native Old English singal.

constant time   constant space

(computing, complexity theory) Bounded above by a constant.


constant

(computing) An identifier that is bound to an invariant value; a fixed value given a name to aid in readability of source code.


matrix

matrices (plural)
matrixes (plural)
matrice (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English matris, matrice, matrix, from Old French matrice (“pregnant animal”), or from Latin mātrīx (“dam, womb”), both ultimately from māter (“mother”). Doublet of mother from Indo-European ancestor.
Slang usage coined with the 1999 sci-fi action film The Matrix.

基質 /基质

analytical chemistry: sampling environment


operand

From Late Latin operandum. Doublet of operandum.

When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.

1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47:

(mathematics, computing) A quantity to which an operator is applied (in 3-x, the operands of the subtraction operator are 3 and x).


vector

Learned borrowing from Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“I carry, I transport, I bear”), also ultimately the root of English vehicle.
The “person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme” sense derives from the disease sense.
The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.

coin

Computers store many types of data as vectors for ease of processing.

A row vector is a matrix whose M dimension is 1. In fact, a row vector is a matrix consisting of a single row, and a column vector a matrix consisting of a single column.

2003 February 26, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, The PC Graphics Handbook, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 62:

Color is stored as a vector attribute (R, G, B).

2011 March 8, Lee Lanier, Advanced Maya Texturing and Lighting, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 97:

GPU cores are essentially vector-processing units, capable of applying the same instruction on a large collection of operands.

2022 February 9, Gerassimos Barlas, Multicore and GPU Programming: An Integrated Approach, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 398:

(mathematics, physics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.

(mathematics, computing) An ordered tuple, originally one representing a directed quantity, but by extension any one-dimensional matrix.

(programming) A kind of dynamically resizable array.

(computing, operating systems) A memory address containing the address of a code entry point, usually one which is part of a table and often one that is dereferenced and jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.


vector

en-verb

vector (third-person singular simple present vectors, present participle vectoring, simple past and past participle vectored)

vectors (present singular third-person)
vectoring (participle present)
vectored (participle past)
vectored (past)

(computing) To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.


operator

en-noun

operator (countable and uncountable, plural operators)

/ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtə/

/ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɚ/

Borrowed from Latin operātor, from operor (“work, labour”). Equivalent to operate + -or.

en:kind of administrator, or instance thereof, on Internet Relay Chat

(computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.

διαχειριστής

the administrator of a channel or network on IRC

en:kind of symbol, or instance thereof, in computer programming

programming language
programming language

(computing) A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.


slave

Inherited from Middle English sclave, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), traditionally assumed to be because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos); see that entry and Slav for more. Displaced native Old English þēow. Thrall and bondsman/bondswoman, however, remain common synonyms. Doublet of ciao and Slav.
An alternative hypothesis derives sclavus from Ancient Greek σκῡλεύω (skūleúō), σκῡλάω (skūláō, “to strip or despoil a slain enemy”).

If you administer your own reverse DNS zones, remember to include them in your slave configuration.

2011, Roderick W. Smith, LPIC-2 Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(engineering, computing, photography) A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).

slave

device that is controlled by another device


user

From Middle English usere, equivalent to use + -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”).

parasite

one that unfairly takes advantage of or exploits

(computing) A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.


share

→ Thai: แชร์ (chɛɛ)

From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (“a share in a communal pasture”), Dutch schare (“share in property”), German Schar (“band, troop, party, company”), Icelandic skor (“department”). Compare shard, shear. Doublet of eschel.

cog

Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.

(computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.

Freigabe

computing: configuration enabling sharing of resources


share

en-verb

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

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

(computing, Internet) To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network

teilen

(computing, Internet) to allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network


DML

(computing) Initialism of Dimensional Markup Language.


nice

nice (third-person singular simple present nices, present participle nicing, simple past and past participle niced)

nices (present singular third-person)
nicing (participle present)
niced (participle past)
niced (past)
nyc (alternative)
noice (alternative slang)

Name of a Unix program used to invoke a script or program with a specified priority, with the implication that running at a lower priority is "nice" (kind, etc.) because it leaves more resources for others.

(transitive, computing, Unix) To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.


import

import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)

imports (present singular third-person)
importing (participle present)
imported (participle past)
imported (past)

From Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin importō (“bring in from abroad, import”, verb), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + portō (“I carry, bear; convey”).

der

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

How can I import files from older versions of this application?

(transitive, computing) To load a file into a software application from another version or system.

зареждам

to load files into a computer from another source


skin

en-noun

skin (countable and uncountable, plural skins)

skins (plural)
skinne (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), from which derives hide.
Cognate with Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish cenn (“covering, shell”), Irish scáin (“to tear, burst”), Latin scindō (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “to split”).

hinasuna

outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal

don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear

You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(countable, computing, graphical user interface) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.

面板

image used as the background of graphical user interface


skin

en-verb

skin (third-person singular simple present skins, present participle skinning, simple past and past participle skinned)

skins (present singular third-person)
skinning (participle present)
skinned (participle past)
skinned (past)
skinne (alternative obsolete)

een skin gebruiken

to use a replacement image for the graphical user interface of

Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?

(transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).


translator

translators (plural)
tr. (alternative)
trans. (alternative)
transl. (alternative)
translater (alternative)
translatour (alternative)
translatoure (alternative)
traunslatour (alternative)
translacttor (alternative)
translature (alternative)
translatar (alternative)
translatare (alternative)

[ˌtʰɹænzˈleɪtʰɚ]

[ˌtʰɹænzˈleɪɾɚ]

Directly from Latin trānslātor and French translator, and also from Middle English translatour, from Old French translatour, translateur, etc., from Latin trānslātor, from trānslātus (“carried across”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from trānsferō (“carry across”), from trans (“across”) + ferō (“bear, carry”), q.v. Equivalent to translate + -or.

vertaler

someone or something that translates meaning from one language to another

A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly

(computing, chiefly historical) A machine that converts inputs into a pattern of holes on a punch card.

(computing) A program that converts commands from one computer language into another.


snowflake

snowflake (third-person singular simple present snowflakes, present participle snowflaking, simple past and past participle snowflaked)

snowflakes (present singular third-person)
snowflaking (participle present)
snowflaked (participle past)
snowflaked (past)
snow-flake (alternative)

From snow + flake. Compare Saterland Frisian Sneeflokke (“snowflake”), Dutch sneeuwvlok, Luxembourgish Schnéiflack, German Schneeflocke.

cog

(computing, databases) To arrange (data) into a snowflake schema.


interpreter

interpreters (plural)
interpretour (alternative)
enterpretour (alternative)
enterpretor (alternative)

/ɪnˈtɝpɹɪɾɚ/

/ɪnˈtɝpɹɪtɚ/

/ɪnˈtɜːpɹɪtə/

From Middle English interpreter, interpretour, etc., from Old French interpreteur, interpreteeur, etc., from Late Latin interpretātōr, from classical Latin interpretātus (“explained, translated”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from interpretārī (“to explain, to translate”), from interpres (“go-between, translator”) + -ārī (“to be ~ed”), q.v. In reference to divine emissaries, a calque of Mercury's Latin epithet interpres divum (“go-between of the gods”). In reference to the rhetorical device, a calque of Latin interpretatio. Equivalent to interpret + -er.
Displaced native Old English wealhstod.

der

A person or thing that interprets the meaning of something for another, particularly:

(computing, historical) A machine that reads the pattern of holes on a punch card and prints its meaning along the top of the card.

Programs written in BASIC are usually run through an interpreter rather than a compiler.

(computing) A program that converts commands into machine language in real time rather than compiling it in advance.

tolk

one who interprets a language — see also dragoman


terp

So, I'm writing a Z-Machine terp. It is not done. It's getting there. Now, I have some ideas of things I would like this terp to do, but I thought it might be a nice idea to find out if there are any features that other people on this newsgroup would like in a Z-Machine terp.

2001 July 23, Fillmore, “Z-Machine terp”, in rec.arts.int-fiction (Usenet), message-ID <6j177.12538$Iz3.3461071@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>:

As far as I know all the TADS terps are just ports of the original.

2009 September 15, Dannii, “IF System Idea”, in rec.arts.int-fiction (Usenet), message-ID <15cd3135-0302-421e-be03-d40a5dbb1645@m7g2000prd.googlegroups.com>:

(computing, slang) An interpreter (program that parses and executes another program).


element

From Middle English element, from Old French element, from Latin elementum (“a first principle, element, rudiment”) (see further etymology there).
The verb is from Middle English elementen, from the noun.

element

simplest or essential part or principle of anything

The div element was introduced into HTML as a solution to the layout problem.

2011, Richard Wagner, Creating Web Pages All-in-One For Dummies:

(computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.

elementti

computing: conceptual object in a markup language


font

→ Thai: ฟอนต์ (fɔ́n)

From Middle French fonte (“act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”) (modern French fonte), either:
* from fondre (“to melt, melt down; to smelt”), from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere, the present active infinitive of fundō (“to pour out; to make by smelting, found”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”); or
* from Late Latin *fundita, a noun use of funditus, a perfect passive participle form of Latin fundō (see above; the classical Latin form is fūsus).

They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.

en:computer file encoding a typeface or subset thereof

(computing, typography, metonymic) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.


shadow

en-verb

shadow (third-person singular simple present shadows, present participle shadowing, simple past and past participle shadowed)

shadows (present singular third-person)
shadowing (participle present)
shadowed (participle past)
shadowed (past)

From Middle English schadowen, from Old English sċeadwian, from sċeadu (“shadow; shade”) + -ian (suffix forming verbs).

(transitive, computing) To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).

varjostaa

computing: to apply the shadowing process to


worker

From Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.

This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.

(computing) A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.


glyph

First attested in 1727. Borrowed from French glyphe, from Ancient Greek γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carving”), from γλύφω (glúphō, “I carve, engrave”).

глиф

carved relief representing a sound, word or idea

The grid column header displays a sort glyph indicating an ascending or descending ordering.

(typography, computing) A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style.


giga-

From Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”); cognate to giant.

(computing, sometimes proscribed) Multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 2³⁰ or 1,073,741,824.


nipple

nipples (plural)
neple (alternative obsolete)
nypil (alternative obsolete)
nyppell (alternative obsolete)
neapel (alternative obsolete)
neaple (alternative obsolete)
neble (alternative obsolete)

→ Dutch: nippel

→ German: Nippel

→ Danish: nippel

→ Norwegian: nippel

From earlier neple, nypil, neble, believed to be a diminutive of nib, neb (“tip, point”), equivalent to nib + -le. Compare Old English nypel (“elephant trunk”), formed analogously as "a protuberance from one's neb" .

nänni

pointing stick — see also pointing stick


spam

en-noun

spam (countable and uncountable, plural spams)

spams (plural)
Spam (alternative)
SPAM (alternative)

The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of either "spiced ham" or "shoulder of pork and ham" but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case.
The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python sketch (Flying Circus, Episode 25). In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in a newsgroup post dated March 31, 1993.
The term appears to have been used earlier in a different sense in relation to "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs), a kind of multi-user computer gaming environment before widespread use of the Internet, in the 1980s.

I get far too much spam.

I received 58 spams yesterday.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.

2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:

(uncountable, rarely countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.

An Act to provide for the control of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Long title, Spam Control Act (Cap. 311A, R. Ed. 2008)

(uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.


spam

en-verb

spam (third-person singular simple present spams, present participle spamming, simple past and past participle spammed)

spams (present singular third-person)
spamming (participle present)
spammed (participle past)
spammed (past)
Spam (alternative)
SPAM (alternative)

(intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)

(transitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.

(transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.

Stop spamming that special attack!

Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.

(transitive, by extension, computing, video games) To do something rapidly and repeatedly.


grid

Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.

(computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).

شَبَكَة حَاسُوبِيَّة

computing: a system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis


prototype

[ˈpɹoʊɾəˌtaɪp]

[ˈpɹoʊɾəˌtʌɪp]

[ˈpɹəʉɾətɑep]

[ˈpɹɐʉɾətɑep]

[ˈpɹɐʉɾətaɪp]

From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek πρωτότυπος (prōtótupos, “original; prototype”), from πρωτο- (prōto-, “first”) (from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + τῠ́πος (tŭ́pos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from τύπτω (túptō, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- + -type.

der

Like any variable in a C program it is necessary to prototype or declare a function before its use, if it returns a value other than an int. It informs the compiler that the function would be referenced at a later stage in the program. / For example, / In program 1, the statement / void display_message(); / is a function prototype or declaration. Here void specifies that this function does not return any value, and the empty parenthesis^([sic – meaning parentheses]) indicate that it takes no parameters (arguments).

2005, J. B. Dixit, “Unit-5: Functions and Pointers”, in Sangeeta Dixit, editor, Fundamentals of Computing, new edition, New Delhi: Laxmi Publications, →ISBN, page 355:

(computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.


backslash

backslashes (plural)
back slash (alternative)

From back + slash, because it is a slash going back against the direction of writing, in contrast to the common slash / (“slash, solidus, oblique, forward slash”).

[…] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).

2001, James T. Bretzke, Bibliography on East Asian Religion and Philosophy, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 455:

“So, do what I tell you. Open a browser window and type this in the menu^([sic]) bar: F-T-P colon backslash backslash euronews dot net backslash...”
I pecked carefully at the keyboard as he dictated a URL that was about fifty characters long, […]

2010, Lee Vance, The Garden of Betrayal, Random House, published 2011, →ISBN, page 25:

Also, avoid submenus^([sic]) that can confuse the audience—if you're giving lengthy Web site addresses full of backslashes, shorten it so only the Web site's home page is given.

2010, Frank Barnas, Ted White, Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Fifth Edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 114:

(computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.


backslash

en-verb

backslash (third-person singular simple present backslashes, present participle backslashing, simple past and past participle backslashed)

backslashes (present singular third-person)
backslashing (participle present)
backslashed (participle past)
backslashed (past)
back slash (alternative)

(computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.


signal

From Old French segnal, seignal or Medieval Latin signāle; noun use of the neuter of Late Latin signālis, from Latin signum; verb use from 1805, as a shortened from signalize (1650s).

(computing, Unix) A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.

сигна́л

computing: simple interprocess communication


moniker

monikers (plural)
monacer (alternative)
monicker (alternative)
monniker (alternative)

Online Etymological Dictionary
Saturday Review (London newspaper)

Unknown; first attested in 1849. Suggested derivations are:
* Backslang for ekename (compare nickname);
* From Shelta munik, munika;
* From monk;
* Partridge (A Dictionary of Historical Slang) suggests a corruption of monogram, which is suggestive of the sense signature.
* From monarch in the sense 'king or No. 1, and thus with frank egotism, "I, myself".' (The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 281, pg. 349.)
Online Etymological Dictionary's entry cites the Saturday Review (London newspaper) of 1857, which noted, "the word has a certain Coptic or Egyptian twang".

Monikers are often composed from other monikers to allow object hierarchies to be navigated based on a textual description of a path.

The GetObject function can also be used to access objects via monikers. A moniker is itself an object that acts as an intermediary between VBScript and the actual object to be accessed. Monikers are typically used when the objects to be accessed exist in a namespace other than the file system.

1999, Tim Hill, Windows 2000: Windows Script Host, page 186:

There are different types of monikers, but the one that deals with object instantiation is the class moniker. A class moniker portrays a class factory.

2011, Thuan L. Thai, Learning DCOM, O'Reilly, page 121:

(computing) An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location.


event

From Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.

(computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.

събитие

computing: action which triggers an event handler


lock

Tok Pisin: lok

→ Hawaiian: laka

From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”).
The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Related to luxe via Latin.

der

[T]he application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.

2005, Karl Kopper, The Linux Enterprise Cluster:

(computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.


wheel

we'll (one pronunciation along with the wine–whine merger)

From Middle English whel, from Old English hwēol, from Proto-West Germanic *hwehwl, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą, *hweulō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷlóm, *kʷékʷlos, *kʷékʷléh₂, reduplication of *kʷel- (“to turn”) and a suffix (literally "(the thing that) turns and turns"). See also West Frisian tsjil, Dutch wiel, Danish hjul; also Tocharian B kokale (“cart, wagon”), Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “cycle, wheel”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬑𐬭𐬀 (caxra), Sanskrit चक्र (cakrá); and Latin colō (“to till, cultivate”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B käl- (“to bear; bring”), Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō, “to come into existence, become”), Old Church Slavonic коло (kolo, “wheel”), Albanian sjell (“to bring, carry, turn around”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (caraⁱti, “it circulates”), Sanskrit चरति (cárati, “it moves, wanders”). Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cycle, and cyclus.

агьежь

a circular device facilitating movement or transportation

peix gros

(slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.

(computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.


operating time

en-noun

operating time (countable and uncountable, plural operating times)

käyttöaika

time interval between input/request for service and completion of task

(computing, telecommunications) The time interval between the instant a request for service is received from a user and the instant of final release of all facilities by the user or either of two users.


offspring

offspring (plural offspring or offsprings)

genitor

antonym(s) of “daughter(s) and/or son(s)”

From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.

inh

(computing) A process launched by another process.


hybrid

From Latin hybrida, a variant of hibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”). Attested since 1601, but rare before c. 1850.

mulard

of a domestic variety of mallard × female muscovy

Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.

(computing) A computer that is part analog computer and part digital computer.


flag

en-verb

flag (third-person singular simple present flags, present participle flagging, simple past and past participle flagged)

flags (present singular third-person)
flagging (participle present)
flagged (participle past)
flagged (past)

From Middle English flag, flagge (“flag”), further etymology uncertain. Perhaps from or related to early Middle English flage (name for a baby's garment) and Old English flagg, flacg (“cataplasm, poultice, plaster”). Or, perhaps ultimately imitative, or otherwise drawn from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”), referring to the shape.
Germanic cognates include Saterland Frisian Flaage (“flag”), West Frisian flagge (“flag”), Dutch vlag (“flag”), German Flagge (“flag”), Swedish flagga (“flag”), Danish flag (“flag, ship's flag”). Compare also Middle English flacken (“to flutter, palpitate”), Swedish dialectal flage (“to flutter in the wind”), Old Norse flögra (“to flap about”). Akin to Old High German flogarōn (“to flutter”), Old High German flogezen (“to flutter, flicker”), Middle English flakeren (“to move quickly to and fro”), Old English flacor (“fluttering, flying”). More at flack, flacker.

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

The compiler flagged three errors.

Flag the debug option before running the program.

(computing) To set a program variable to true.

aanzetten

computing: to set a programming variable to true


dynamic

en-adj

dynamic (comparative more dynamic, superlative most dynamic)

more dynamic (comparative)
most dynamic (superlative)
dynamical (alternative)
dynamick (alternative)

From French dynamique, from Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós, “powerful”), from δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”), from δύναμαι (dúnamai, “I am able”).

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dynamic allocation

dynamic IP addresses

the dynamic resizing of an array

(computing) Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.

dynamický

computing: happening at runtime instead of at compile time


Python

From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).
The programming language is named after Monty Python.

(computing) An interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language invented by Guido van Rossum.


erase

From Latin erasus, past participle of eradere (“to scrape, to abrade”), from ex- (“out of”) + radere (“to scrape”). Compare Middle English arasen, aracen (“to eradicate, erase”). Displaced native Old English dilegian.

This subsystem is waiting to become Exclusive after having issued an erase.

2000, Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, Gurindar S. Sohi, Readings in Computer Architecture, page 603:

(computing) The operation of deleting data.


template

Alteration of templet, probably from French templet, diminutive of temple (“a weaver's stretcher”), variant of tempe, from Latin tempora (“temple”). Alteration of second syllable due to analogy with plate. Cognate with Faroese tamba (“to stretch out, relax”), Icelandic þamb (“a stretched, bloated, or extended belly”).

cog

(computing) A file or document serving as a basis for others.


type

→ Japanese: タイプ

→ Korean: 타입 (taip)

From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).

tyyppiyksilö

biology: individual representative of its taxonomic group

(computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.

tipu

computing theory: tag indicating data type


sort

From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (cognate Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Swedish sort), borrowed from Old French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sortem, accusative form of sors (“lot, fate, share, rank, category”).

Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.

The fastest general algorithm we have considered that sorts keys in a stable manner is the list merge sort, but it does not use minimum storage

2014, Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming. Sorting and Searching, →ISBN:

(computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.


demo

→ Portuguese: demo

Clipping of demonstration and various other words beginning with "demo-".

The game's developers released a demo version to the public 3 months before the full release.

(computing, informal) An edition of limited functionality to give the user an example of how the program works.

Effect 6: Gouraud spacecut - Probably the worst effect in the demo - has been done miles better before!

1995, dro...@vnet.ibm.com, “Demo review - Killing time by oxyron”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet):

This party will have it all for the Amiga scener: demos, competitions, dealers, and huge projection screen and sound system to entertain you.

1996, John Bus, “Amiga Domain - An Aussie Scene Party!”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet):

Though the idea of procedural textures has been around for years, they have primarily been exploited by the demo scene, made famous by impressive demos like kkrieger, and haven't hit it big in the game industry yet[…]

A very successful PC demo from 1993, Second Reality from Future Crew[…]

2008, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1:

(computing, demoscene, informal) A non-interactive audiovisual computer program developed by enthusiasts to demonstrate the capabilities of the machine. See demoscene.


spool

From Middle English spole (possibly via Old Northern French spole, espole), from Middle Dutch spoele, from Old Dutch *spōla, *spuola, from Proto-Germanic *spōlǭ (“spool”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to cleave, split”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Spoule (“spool”), Dutch spoel (“spool”), German Spule (“spool”), Swedish spole (“spool”), Icelandic spóla (“spool; reel”). The aviation usage is based on the visual similarity of one of the spools of a turbine engine to a spool used for thread (especially in cross-section). See also spill.

(computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.


spool

en-verb

spool (third-person singular simple present spools, present participle spooling, simple past and past participle spooled)

spools (present singular third-person)
spooling (participle present)
spooled (participle past)
spooled (past)

(computing) To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time).

lähettää jonoon

to send files to some device or program that puts them in a queue for later processing of some kind


defenestration

en-noun

defenestration (countable and uncountable, plural defenestrations)

Holy Roman Emperor
Johann Philipp Abelin
Theatrum Europaeum

From New Latin defenestratio, from dē (“from; out”) + fenestra (“window”) + -atio (suffix indicating an action or process); compare Middle French défenestrer (modern French défenestrer), défenestration, Italian defenestrazione and
German Fenstersturz. The verb defenestrate was formed later.

Defenestration might be an option too. May I recommend Linux?

1998 November 1, “Dorian Bliss”, “He’s dead, Jim”, in rec.humor.oracle.d (Usenet), message-ID <363DA726.C27FA5F@spamfree.land>:

It's defenestration day in Redmond today. A clearly stunned Microsoft did what it could to pretend that Judge Jackson's findings of fact were "just one step", as [Bill] Gates put said in the prepared statement that he read at a press conference last night, but it was hopeless.

1999 November 6, Graham Lea, “Stunned MS vows to fight on for freedom: ‘Integrity, partnership, quality … giving’ – (takes out onion)”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2014-08-19:

No defenestration here. Ask questions about all aspects of Windows programming, get help on Microsoft technologies covered in Apress books, or provide feedback on any Apress Windows book.

2002, John Kilburn, Palm Programming in Basic, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →ISBN, page 392:

What's needed is defenestration – throwing out the Windows mindset along with Microsoft's licenses and software – but that's not as simple as changing a boot CD or even migrating a whole raft of servers. What's involved is fundamental change both in how IT operates and in what it does.

2004 February 12, Paul Murphy, “What does Linux cost?”, in LinuxInsider: Linux News & Information from around the World, archived from the original on 2016-03-11:

Traditionally, the verb defenestrate means to throw out of a window. But as Australian companies take their first timid steps towards installing non-proprietary software on corporate desktops, defenestration is starting to be linked to the throwing out of Windows software.

2005 December 1, D. Braue, P. Gray, L. Colquhoun, J.-V. Douglas, “Leaders of the pack”, in MIS Asia: Managing Information Strategies, archived from the original on 2007-10-07:

(computing, humorous) The act of removing the Microsoft Windows operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.


shelf

→ Czech: šelf

→ Irish: seilf

→ Serbo-Croatian: šȅlf, ше̏лф

→ Welsh: silff

From Middle English schelfe, probably from Old English sċylfe, sċilfe (“shelf, ledge, deck of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *skilfijā, from Proto-Germanic *skelfō (“shelf, ledge, cliff”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), distantly related to sculpt, carve and shell. Cognate with Dutch schelf (“hay loft, haystack”), German Low German Schelf (“haystack”), Old Norse skjalf (“bench”).

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This is where the Visual Studio Shelving function can help. A shelf is a place on the server in source control that is separate from the main code line so it will not affect other developers.

A shelveset allows you to store a changeset on the server without adding it to the current codebase and sharing it with team members directly. Each team member has his own “shelf,” where he can store as many shelvesets as he wants.

2016, Wouter de Kort, DevOps on the Microsoft Stack, page 114:

(computing) The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored.


process

→ Japanese: プロセス (purosesu)

From Middle English proces, from Old French procés (“journey”), from Latin prōcessus (“course, progression”), nominalization of prōcēdō (“proceed, advance”).

(computing) An executable task or program.

proses

(computing) an executable task or program


code

en-verb

code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)

codes (present singular third-person)
coding (participle present)
coded (participle past)
coded (past)

From Middle English code (“system of law”), from Old French code (“system of law”), from Latin cōdex, later form of caudex (“the stock or stem of a tree, a board or tablet of wood smeared over with wax, on which the ancients originally wrote; hence, a book, a writing.”). Doublet of codex.

I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.


virtual

vertual (alternative)
virtuall (alternative)
vertuall (alternative)

/ˈvɜːt͡ʃʊəl/

/ˈvɜɹt͡ʃuəl/

/ˈvɵːt͡ʃuəl/

PIE word
 *wiHrós
The adjective is derived from Middle English vertual, virtual [and other forms], from Old French vertüal, vertüelle (modern French virtuel), or from their etymon Medieval Latin virtuālis (“of or pertaining to potency or power; having power to produce an effect, potent; morally virtuous”), from Latin virtūs (“goodness, virtue; manliness, virility”) (from vir (“adult male, man”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“man”), possibly from *weyh₁- (“to chase, hunt, pursue”)) + -tūs (suffix forming collective or abstract nouns)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship), modelled after virtuōsus (“good, virtuous”).
Sense 4 (“pertaining to a theoretical infinitesimal velocity in a mechanical system that does not violate the system’s constraints”) is borrowed from French virtuel, from Middle French virtuel, from Old French vertüal, vertüelle: see above.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Cognates
* French virtuel
* Italian virtuale
* Spanish virtual

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a virtual assistant    a virtual personal trainer

In recent months, hospitals around the country, looking for ways to free up beds for coronavirus patients, began expanding their virtual offerings, launching video doctors' visits and virtual therapy sessions, and rolling out programs to remotely monitor vulnerable patients, like those in nursing homes.

2020 August 10, Abigail Abrams, “Tech Companies are Transforming People’s Bedrooms into ‘Virtual Hospitals.’ Will It Last Post-COVID?”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-28:

Operating using a computer and/or online rather than physically present.

etä-

operating using a computer and/or online rather than physically present

virtual machine    virtual memory    virtual private network

The virtual world of his computer game allowed character interaction.

(computing)
Simulated in a computer and/or online.

(object-oriented programming) Of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass.

virtual

of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass


carry

From Middle English carien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin.

On paper, simply add the carry to the next addition; that is, $B2 + $9C + 1. That’s fine for paper, but how is it done by computer?

1988, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor, page 45:

(computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.


farm

Hawaiian Creole: farm

→ Danish: farm

→ Dutch: farm

→ Finnish: farmi

→ German: Farm

→ Portuguese: farme, farma

→ Yiddish: פֿאַרם (farm)

→ Spanish: farmear

→ Swedish: farm

→ Thai: ฟาร์ม (faam)

Inherited from Middle English ferme, farme (“rent, revenue, produce, factor, stewardship, meal, feast”), influenced by Anglo-Norman ferme (“rent, lease, farm”), from Medieval Latin ferma, firma. There is debate as to whether Medieval Latin acquires this term from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *fermō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhwō (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”), or from Latin firmus (“solid, secure”), from Proto-Italic *fermos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”). If the former etymology is correct, the term is related to Old English feorh (“life, spirit”), Icelandic fjör (“life, vitality, vigour, animation”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃 (fairƕus, “the world”). Compare also Old English feormehām (“farm”), feormere (“purveyor, supplier, grocer”). Cognate with Scots ferm (“rent, farm”).

cog

a render farm

a server farm

(computing, countable) A group of coordinated servers.


preferences

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(computing) The user-specified settings of parameters in interactive computer software

ayar

user-specified settings of parameters in computer software


random

en-adj

random (comparative more random, superlative most random)

more random (comparative)
most random (superlative)

→ Armenian: ռանդոմ (ṙandom)

→ French: random

→ German: random

→ Hungarian: random

→ Polish: random

→⇒ Russian: рандо́мный (randómnyj)

→ Spanish: random

→ Turkish: random

→ Vietnamese: random

From earlier randon, from Middle English randoun, raundon, from Old French randon, from randir (“to run, gallop”) (whence French randonnée (“long walk, hike”)), from Frankish *randiju (“a run, race”) or Old Norse rend (“a run, race”), both from Proto-Germanic *randijō, from *rinnaną (“run”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)r̥-nw- (“to flow, move, run”). Cognate with Middle Low German uprinden (“to jump up”), Danish rende (“to run”). See run.

cog

The rand function generates a random number from a seed.

(computing) Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.


reference

en-noun

reference (countable and uncountable, plural references)

From Middle French référence, from Medieval Latin referentia, nominative neuter plural of referēns, present participle of referō (“return, reply”, literally “carry back”). Morphologically refer + -ence.

verwysing

academic writing: identification of a source

(computing) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.

отправка

computing: object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere


form

form (countable and uncountable, plural forms)

→ Korean: 폼 (pom)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: form

From Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreement, etc.”), borrowed from Old French forme, from Latin fōrma (“shape, figure, image, outline, plan, mold, frame, case, etc., manner, sort, kind, etc.”).
In sense "division grouping school students" (now dated), derived from public school nomenclature later adopted by state schools. It is sometimes said to be from the sense of "bench", where students of certain ages would sit together, though this is disputed, or alternatively from the sense of "established method of expression or practice".

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imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

While it is quite amazing how much one can do with Visual Basic with the code attached to a single form, to take full advantage of VB you'll need to start using multiple forms and having the code on all the forms in your project interact.

1998, Gary Cornell, Visual Basic 6 from the ground up, page 426:

Throughout this chapter we will work with a form in a new project.

(computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.


potato

en-noun

potato (countable and uncountable, plural potatoes)

potatoes (plural)
potatoe (alternative obsolete)
p'tater (alternative dialectal informal)
tater (alternative dialectal informal)

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).

When most people refer to their computers as a potato they're being hyperbolic, but not Ethan. He plays Overwatch at 800x600 resolution with all settings on low and is excited when he gets 30 fps.

2017 March 17, Steven Messner, “Overwatch community donates PC parts to fan who could barely run it at 800x600”, in PC Gamer:

If you want to have a go right now, then Famitracker will let you compose songs for the NES and it'll run on a Windows-operated potato.

2019 September 22, Benjamin Burns, “Meet the people making music with Mega Drives, Game Boys and gAtaris”, in Eurogamer:

Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.

(humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.


history

history (countable and uncountable, plural histories)

histories (plural)
Hx (alternative)
hx (alternative)
historie (alternative obsolete)
hystory (alternative nonstandard)
hystorie (alternative obsolete)

Pitcairn-Norfolk: histrei

From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”), from ἱστορέω (historéō, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ἵστωρ (hístōr, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey.
Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin.

der

I visited a great site yesterday but forgot the URL. Luckily, I didn't clear my history.

When you do that, the browser window has no browser history, so it doesn't report a referrer page to the first site you visit.

2006, Todd Stauffer, Kirk McElhearn, Mastering Mac OS X, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 344:

(countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.

geskiedenis

computing: record of previous user events


flip-flop

flip-flops (plural)
flip flop (alternative)
flipflop (alternative)

→ Japanese: フリップフロップ (furippu-furoppu)

Onomatopoeic. Most probably an imitation of the sound produced when walking in them.

Ten two-state flip-flops […] were formed into ten-stage ring counters representing each decimal digit in the ten-digit accumulators […]

2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 72:

(computing, electronics) A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.


guest

From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Cognate with German Gast (“guest”), Norwegian gjest (“guest”). Doublet of host, from Latin.

(computing) A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.


concatenate

en-verb

concatenate (third-person singular simple present concatenates, present participle concatenating, simple past and past participle concatenated)

concatenates (present singular third-person)
concatenating (participle present)
concatenated (participle past)
concatenated (past)

From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).

uder

Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".

(transitive, computing) To join (text strings) together.


service

en-noun

service (countable and uncountable, plural services)

services (plural)
seruice (alternative obsolete)

→ Dutch: service

→ Indonesian: servis

→ German: Service

→ Hindustani

Hindi: सर्विस (sarvis)

Urdu: سروس (sarvis)

→ Hungarian: szerviz

→ Japanese: サービス (sābisu)

→ Korean: 서비스 (seobiseu)

→ Persian:

Dari: سرویس (sarwīs)

→ Russian: сервис (servis)

→ Ukrainian: сервіс (servis)

From Middle English servise, from Old English serfise, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo-s (“guardian”), possibly from *ser- (“watch over, protect”). Displaced native Old English þeġnung.

This machine provides the name service for the LAN.

(computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.

服務 /服务

computing: function provided by one program or machine for another


trust

trust (countable and uncountable, plural trusts)

From Middle English trust (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), itself from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, and so it is considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”). Akin to Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic trausti (“alliance, pact”). Doublet of tryst. More at true, tree.

cog

(computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.


BBS

en-noun

BBS (countable and uncountable, plural BBSes or BBSs)

BBSes (plural)
BBSs (plural)
B.B.S. (alternative)
B. B. S. (alternative)

(computing) Initialism of BIOS boot sequence.

(computing) Initialism of BIOS boot specification.


ADO

ActiveX Data Objects
w:ActiveX Data Objects

(computing) Initialism of ActiveX Data Objects.


AGP

AGP (countable and uncountable, plural AGPs)

accelerated graphics port
accelerated graphics port#English

(countable, computing) Initialism of accelerated graphics port, a type of motherboard expansion slot.


ASCII art

Japanese: AA (AA)

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(computing, art) A form of letter art that uses only ASCII characters.

ASCII藝術 /ASCII艺术

(computing, art, by extension) Letter art in general, even that which uses non-ASCII characters.


roman

(of text, typography, computing) Of or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.


UAE

(computing, obsolete) Initialism of unrecoverable application error (the standard Microsoft Windows error message in Win16)


UAE

(computing) Initialism of Unix Amiga emulator.


mote

Clipping of remote, with allusion to the other sense of mote (“a speck of dust”).

A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.


evergreen

Chrome and Firefox are evergreen browsers: they update automatically and version numbers are only used for internal reference.

2014, Peter Gasston, Book of CSS3, 2nd Edition: A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 257:

(often figuratively) Continually fresh or self-renewing.

(computing) Of a document, a piece of software, or a data set: kept continually up to date (as opposed to being published at regular intervals and outdated in the meantime)


ghost

ghost (countable and uncountable, plural ghosts)

ghosts (plural)
ghoast (alternative obsolete)
gost (alternative obsolete)

→ Japanese: ゴースト (gōsuto)

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Inherited from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst, gǣst (“breath, spirit, soul, ghost”) (compare modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, derived from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäist, Jeest, West Frisian geast, Dutch geest, German Low German Geest, Geist, German Geist, Swedish gast.
The ⟨h⟩ in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton's Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the ‘Holy Ghoost’, likely introduced by Caxton's assistant, Wynkyn de Worde, as a result of Flemish influence, where it was spelled gheest at the time. Doublet of geist.

彁 is a ghost character from the Japanese JIS X 0208 character set.

(computing, linguistics, attributive) A formerly nonexistent character that was at some point mistakenly encoded into a character set standard, which might have since become used opportunistically for some genuine purpose.


ghost

en-verb

ghost (third-person singular simple present ghosts, present participle ghosting, simple past and past participle ghosted)

ghosts (present singular third-person)
ghosting (participle present)
ghosted (participle past)
ghosted (past)
ghoast (alternative obsolete)
gost (alternative obsolete)

ghostol

computing: to copy a file or record — see also copy


informatics

[ˌɪnfɚˈmæɾɪks]

Coined 1967 from information + -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic.
German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.

(computing) A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of information processing, particularly with respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.


pool

pools (plural)
poole (alternative obsolete)

→ German: Pool

→ Japanese: プール (pūru)

→ Swedish: pool c

From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-West Germanic pōl, from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bōlos (“bog, marsh”).
Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), German Low German Pohl, Pool, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“puddle”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”).
For the meaning development to a supply of resources compare typologically Russian пруд пруди́ (prud prudí) (< пруд (prud)).

cog

pull (accents with FOOT-GOOSE merger or full-fool merger)

(by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.

varanto

computing: set of resources kept ready to use


lexeme

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -eme, a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure, on the model of phoneme.

لِكْسِيم

linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma

Near-synonym: token

en:token or similar entity, in computing

(computing) An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis.

詞素 /词素

computing: continuous character sequence without spaces


lexical

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.

(chiefly computing) Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.


paginate

en-verb

paginate (third-person singular simple present paginates, present participle paginating, simple past and past participle paginated)

paginates (present singular third-person)
paginating (participle present)
paginated (participle past)
paginated (past)

From Medieval Latin paginare, from Latin pagina.

(transitive, computing) To separate (data) into batches, so that it can be retrieved with a number of smaller requests.


pagination

en-noun

pagination (countable and uncountable, plural paginations)

/ˌpæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/

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(computing) The separation of data into batches, so that it can be retrieved with a number of smaller requests.


recent

Borrowed from Latin recēns (genitive recentis).

Obviously, the first time you launch this app, your Recents list is empty.

2012, Jason R. Rich, Your iPad 2 at Work, page 308:

(computing, graphical user interface) A recently viewed or accessed item.


RPG

Initialism. When applied to a "rocket-propelled grenade" it derives from Russian РПГ (RPG), initialism of ручной противотанковый гранатомёт (ručnoj protivotankovyj granatomjót, “hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher”), of which "rocket-propelled grenade" is a backronym (though an accurate description of the weapon system).

Report Program Generator
w:Report Program Generator

(computing) Initialism of Report Program Generator.


leaf

leaf (countable and uncountable, plural leaves)

Tok Pisin: lip

From Middle English leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (“leaf, rind”)
See also West Frisian leaf, Low German Loov, Dutch loof, German Laub, Danish løv, Swedish löv, Norwegian Nynorsk lauv, Icelandic lauf; also Irish luibh (“herb”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Lithuanian lúoba (“bark”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Latvian luba (“plank, board”), Russian луб (lub, “bast”).
(Internet slang: Canadian): In reference to the maple leaf as national symbol.

flat-leaf parsley

Petroselinum crispum neapolitanum group; syn. Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum

The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed:

(computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.

blad

computing, mathematics: tree node without descendants


label

→ Danish: label

→ Dutch: label

→ French: label

desctree

→ Japanese: ラベル (raberu)
→ Korean: 라벨 (rabel)

→ Korean: 레이블 (reibeul)

→ Malay: label

→ Polish: label

→ Welsh: label

From Middle English label (“narrow band, strip of cloth”), from Old French label, lambel (Modern French lambeau), from Frankish *lappā (“torn piece of cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *lappǭ, *lappô (“cloth stuff, rag, scraps, flap, dewlap, lobe, rabbit ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“blade”). Cognate with Old High German lappa (“rag, piece of cloth”), Old English læppa (“skirt, flap of a garment”). More at lap.

cog

Storage devices can be given by label or ID.

(computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.

(computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.


local

en-adj

local (comparative more local, superlative most local)

more local (comparative)
most local (superlative)

From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”).
The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior.

der

local disk drive

local file

The panel shows both local and remote sites.

(computing, of a resource) Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.

(computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.


curry

en-verb

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

curries (present singular third-person)
currying (participle present)
curried (participle past)
curried (past)

Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.

named-after

The easiest way to curry parameters is to create a function that takes a parameter block and returns a function that will call the original function with the presupplied parameters as defaults […].

2011, Zachary Kessin, Programming HTML5 Applications: Building Powerful Cross-Platform Environments in JavaScript, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 21:

Next, we curry the avg function to 3 arguments and put it into an option.

2015, Leonardo Borges, Clojure Reactive Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 194:

(transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.


defunct

en-adj

defunct (comparative more defunct, superlative most defunct)

more defunct (comparative)
most defunct (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”).

(computing) Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.


system

en-noun

system (countable and uncountable, plural systems)

→ Japanese: システム (shisutemu)

Partly borrowed from Middle French sisteme, systeme, partly directly from its etymon Late Latin systēma (“harmony; musical scale; set of celestial objects; set of troops; system”), from Ancient Greek σύστημα (sústēma, “musical scale; organized body; whole made of several parts or members”), from σῠνίστημῐ (sŭnístēmĭ, “to combine, organize”) + -μᾰ (-mă, resultative suffix). σῠνίστημῐ is from σῠν- (sŭn-, “with, together”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”).
Cognate with Dutch systeem, modern French système, German System, Italian sistema, Portuguese sistema, Spanish sistema. Doublet of systema.

sisteem

WIPO [the World Intellectual Property Organization] reported that China had 17 of the top 20 academic organizations filing for AI-related patents. It noted China was especially strong in the fast-growing area of "deep learning." This is a machine learning method that includes speech and facial recognition systems.

2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2019-02-07:

A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.

(computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.

ছিষ্টেম

(computing) set of hardware and software operating in a computer


focus

en-verb

focus (third-person singular simple present focuses or focusses, present participle focusing or focussing, simple past and past participle focused or focussed)

focuses (present singular third-person)
focusses (present singular third-person)
focusing (participle present)
focussing (participle present)
focused (participle past)
focused (past)
focussed (participle past)
focussed (past)

Borrowed from Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”); see there for more. Doublet of fuel.
Kepler introduced the term into mathematics and the sciences in describing elliptical orbits of planets (quote from Nicholas Mee) :
"One of the interesting properties of an ellipse is that if there were a light bulb at one focus, then all the light that it emits would reflect off the ellipse and converge at the other focus. This is why Kepler originally used the name focus for these points."

bor+

The text box won't receive the user's keystrokes unless you explicitly focus it.

(computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so that it receives subsequent input.

kohdistaa

(computing, graphical user interface) to transfer the input focus to


stratum

Borrowed from Latin strātum (“a spread for a bed, coverlet, quilt, blanket; a pillow, bolster; a bed”), neuter singular of strātus, perfect passive participle of sternō (“spread”). Doublet of estrade.

bor

Computers that synchronize themselves to the stratum 1 time servers are known as stratum 2 time servers if they allow others to synchronize to them, and so on.

2006, Roderick W. Smith, Linux Samba Server Administration:

(computing) The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.


pattern

From earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patrōnus (“patron”). Doublet of padrone, patron, Patronus, and patroon.

skemo

intelligible arrangement which has a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship

There were no files matching the pattern *.txt.

(computing) A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.

Pattern 10 is open in figure 3.9, showing the 64 notes in the pattern (each pattern in this song has 64 beats).

2008, Karen Collins, Game Sound, page 59:

A MOD file contains a number of short audio samples, and instructions or a “pattern” for how and when those samples are to be played.

2017, Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland, The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories, page 444:

(computing, music) A sequence of notes, percussion etc. in a tracker module, usable once or many times within the song.


table

tables (plural)
tyebble (alternative Geordie)

→ Assamese: টেবুল (tebul)

→ Bengali: টেবিল (ṭebil)

→ Gujarati: ટેબલ (ṭebal)

→ Japanese: テーブル (tēburu)

→ Korean: 테이블 (teibeul)

→ Maori: tēpu

→ Nepali: टेबुल (ṭebul)

→ Odia: ଟେବଲ୍ (ṭebal)

→ Sylheti: ꠐꠦꠛꠥꠟ (ṭebul)

→ Telugu: టేబులు (ṭēbulu)

Inherited from Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavla.

der

(computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.


trailer

→ Armenian: թրեյլեր (tʻreyler)

→ Czech: trailer

→ Danish: trailer

→ Dutch: trailer

→ Indonesian: trailer

→ Estonian: treiler

→ Finnish: traileri

→ Galician: tráiler

desc

→ Georgian: თრეილერი (treileri), ტრეილერი (ṭreileri)

→ German: Trailer

→ Greek: τρέιλερ (tréiler)

→ Japanese: トレーラー (torērā)

→ Korean: 예고편 (yegopyeon)

→ Malay: treler

→ Polish: trailer

→ Portuguese: trailer

→ Romanian: treiler

→ Russian: тре́йлер (tréjler)

→ Spanish: tráiler, trailer

→ Swahili: trela

→ Swedish: trailer

From trail + -er. The film sense derives from the fact that previews were formerly shown after the main feature, rather than before as is usual today.

תווית סוף

in computing: value used to signal the end of a list of data

The linked list terminates with a trailer record.

(computing) The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise invalid value that sorts last alphabetically (e.g., “ZZZZZ”) or numerically (“99999”); especially common in the context of punched cards, where the final card is called a trailer card.


collapse

en-verb

collapse (third-person singular simple present collapses, present participle collapsing, simple past and past participle collapsed)

collapses (present singular third-person)
collapsing (participle present)
collapsed (participle past)
collapsed (past)

From Latin collāpsus (past participle of collābor).

(transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to hide the subentries of (an entry).

plegar

computing: to hide additional directory (folder) levels


abend

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If the programmer can determine the particular file that was being accessed and that caused the Abend, or was in core at the time of the Abend, the solution would be closer at hand.

1974 August 7, Harmon R. Feig, “Files Can Be Found Through Dump, Register Reviews”, in Computerworld, page 12:

(computing) The abnormal termination of a program.


abend

abend (third-person singular simple present abends, present participle abending, simple past and past participle abended)

abends (present singular third-person)
abending (participle present)
abended (participle past)
abended (past)
ABEND (alternative)

The nightly invoicing job abended at 3 a.m.


lex

lex (third-person singular simple present lexes, present participle lexing, simple past and past participle lexed)

lexes (present singular third-person)
lexing (participle present)
lexed (participle past)
lexed (past)

Once this is done, each processor parses and lexes its own documents, using conventional programming techniques.

1994, Donna K Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2):

SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree.

2004, Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis:

Lexing and parsing do not have to be separated, and there are often convenient .NET methods for extracting information from text in particular formats...

2007, Don Syme with Adam Granicz and Antonio Cisternino, Expert F#:

(computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.