pointing device

pointing device (plural pointing devices)

(computing) Any device, such as a mouse or trackball, used to control an on-screen pointer or cursor.


program trading

But the controversy over program trading, the sophisticated investment strategy responsible for the upheavals that have sometimes marked “witching” Fridays, is far from over.

1986 September 21, James Sterngold, “Wall Street rethinks its latest trading fad”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-31:

When program trading came into vogue in the mid-1980s, it was at the forefront of Wall Street's computer revolution—and its practitioners included the Street's largest and most luminous brokerages.

1992 May 17, “Program Traders: They're Back, Without The Bad Vibes”, in Businessweek, retrieved 2014-05-31:

A more bewildering development is the array of complex, computer-assisted trading techniques that, in taking the stock exchanges by storm, have become a major cause of the market's extraordinary peaks and valleys. The most controversial is known as program trading, in which computers, for example, launch massive buy and sell orders.

2001 June 24, George Russell, “Manic Market”, in Time, retrieved 2014-05-31:

I’ll say it again: program trading, now known as “high-frequency” trading, serves no purpose but to line the pockets of the program-trading firms at the expense of the millions of other investors participating in the market.

2010 May 8, Sy Harding, “Program Trading Needs To Be Banned”, in Forbes, retrieved 2014-05-31:

(business, finance, computing) High-volume and high-speed buying and selling of investment securities, such as stocks and bonds, which is initiated and executed by brokerage firms' computer programs that continually monitor market conditions.


decrunch

en-verb

decrunch (third-person singular simple present decrunches, present participle decrunching, simple past and past participle decrunched)

decrunches (present singular third-person)
decrunching (participle present)
decrunched (participle past)
decrunched (past)

Several phone calls and a borrowed Mac later, I found that the single disk sent me wouldn't in any case decrunch (uncompress its data) without a sister disk — which had gone astray across the Atlantic. Such hitches are always irritating […]

1993, The New York Times Book Review, volume 98, page 2:

The executable is still decrunched in memory, so it will _use_ some extra memory but _save_ disk space.

1996, Marcus Alanen, “Re: Exe Crunchers”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet):

Dear Dr. Destiny, my dictionary on CD-ROM won't decrunch, what do you recommend?

1998, Sandra Martz, Shirley Coe, Generation to generation, page 123:

(ambitransitive, computing) To decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.


comparand

From Latin comparandum; By surface analysis, compare + -and.

(linguistics, computing) A thing to which something is compared.


mumblage

As to the mumblage on "race", since there exists no well defined meaning of the word, depending on how one defines it, one can imagine a group which will prove one's point, whichever one wishes to prove.

2001 April 18, KPJ (kpj@sics.se), "Re: Made in China," mail archive at extropians.weidai.com (retrieved 10 June 2014)

Mostly idiotic mumblage about how Paul McCartney was dead and had been replaced by a robot.

2005 May 8, Citizen Arcane, ""Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine"," CitizenArcane.com (retrieved 10 June 2014)

We are in the cross-hairs of a customer who has accepted our original flawcharts and mumblage (which I pursued with bewilderment), so for my own conscience I would like to complete the project with something that is 'right.'

2006 Jan. 16, Richard Cleis (rcleis at mac.com), "[plt-scheme] Diagrams," lists.racket-lang.org (retrieved 10 June 2014)

If all you've been given is some mumblage about "portability", ask the dipstick who's telling you to do this to provide you with solid numbers.

2007 Sept. 20, John Bode, "C/C++ guidelines," velocityreviews.com (retrieved 10 June 2014)

Most of the other legalese mumblage is about patent protection and so on.

2008 January 3, Richard Teer, “RE: avr-lib-c-extentions^([sic]) library”, in Discussion of development of avr-libc / comments.gmane.org, retrieved 2014-06-10:

I get some vague mumblage about charging more for folks who major in things that aren’t something such as anthropology, arts or theater.

2012 December 15, “Cheap Sheepskin”, in Blog: Simple Country Physicist, retrieved 2014-06-10:

(slang, often computing) Mumbled or imprecise remarks, especially remarks which are trivial or unreliable.


glitchfest

glitchfests (plural)
glitch-fest (alternative)
glitch fest (alternative)

(computing) A situation involving numerous glitches or bugs.


underfeatured

en-adj

underfeatured (comparative more underfeatured, superlative most underfeatured)

more underfeatured (comparative)
most underfeatured (superlative)

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Why are so many client/server projects late, over budget, and underfeatured? It must be the technology.

1996 May 20, InfoWorld, volume 18, number 21, page 73:

[…] companies tend to lose their leadership positions to companies that enter the market with a disruptive technology or market change. These new companies introduce products that are initially underfeatured […]

2005, Karl D. Schubert, CIO Survival Guide, page 222:


shift register

Shift registers, as Leibniz had demonstrated 260 years earlier, could perform binary arithmetic simply by shifting an entire row of binary digits one position to the right or left.

2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 137:

(computing) A register designed to subject data to a shift.


copy-paste

en-noun

copy-paste (countable and uncountable, plural copy-pastes)

copy-pastes (plural)
copy/paste (alternative)
copypaste (alternative)
copy and paste (alternative)
copy-and-paste (alternative)

Etymology tree
Middle English copien
English copy
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kweh₁t-der.
Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
Late Latin pasta
Old French pastebor.
Middle English paste
English paste
English copy-paste

etymon

Paragraphs, images or diagrams are frequently assembled manually by copy-paste actions.

2007, Katrien Herbert, Erik Duval, "Evaluating the ALOCOM Approach for Scalable Content Repurposing", Creating New Learning Experiences on a Global Scale (), Springer →ISBN, page 364

Optimizing your META Keywords field is remarkably easy, especially if you have just optimized your page titles. All you need to do is a simple copy-paste.

2009, Stephen Woessner, The Small Business Owner's Handbook to Search Engine Optimization: Increase Your Google Rankings, Double Your Site Traffic... in Just 15-Steps - Guaranteed, Atlantic Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 114:

It also has disadvantages; for one thing, the lack of focus on program structure leads to lots of copy-paste programming and poorly structured programs. Language workbenches support developing new kinds of programming platforms like this.

2010, Martin Fowler, Domain-Specific Languages, Pearson Education, →ISBN:

(computing) The action of duplicating (text, an object, etc.) by copying it and later pasting somewhere else.

copienganxar

action of duplicating by copying and later pasting

The interesting fact, however, is that the Regulation takes as a model, or better to say it is mostly a copy-paste of the text, of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods rather than being adjusted to the needs of Kosovo.

2013, Ronald A Brand, D Wes Rist, The Export of Legal Education, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 101:

(chiefly computing, informal) Material incorporated into another work with minimal or no changes.

copienganxa

material incorporated into another work with minimal or no changes


copy-paste

en-verb

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

copy-pastes (present singular third-person)
copy-pasting (participle present)
copy-pasted (participle past)
copy-pasted (past)
copy/paste (alternative)
copypaste (alternative)
copy and paste (alternative)
copy-and-paste (alternative)

It can be useful to copy-paste frames to transfer a sequence from the main timeline to the timeline of a clip symbol.

2004, Corinne Hervo, Straight to the Point: Flash 5, Firewall Media, →ISBN:

(computing, transitive) To copy (text, an object, etc.) and later paste it somewhere else.


voice command

It can take pictures or video from a front-facing camera, controlled by a voice command or a swipe on the right-hand armature, and is designed to display at-a-glance information on its screen which is visible only to the user.

2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian:

(computing) A spoken instruction to a computer.


goshwow

en-adj

goshwow (comparative more goshwow, superlative most goshwow)

more goshwow (comparative)
most goshwow (superlative)

From gosh + wow. Derived from a caption ("Gosh! Wow! Boyohboy! The mosta and the besta!") used in the July 10, 1939 issue of Time magazine, reprinted from a letter in the August 1939 issue of science fiction pulp magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories, in an article about the first World Science Fiction Convention, aka Nycon I, held in New York in July 1939.

You have been told how easy it is to write useful programs on your new $200 Goshwow personal computer. Being a good person who always brushes after every meal, you dutifully worked your way through the Basic instruction book—maybe two of them.

1983 December, Stephen Kimmel, “The First Program”, in Creative Computing, volume 9, number 12, page 156:

Yet Mondo is so enamored of the gee-whizbang neatness, the goshwow sense of wonder inspired by such technical "innovations" as virtual reality—the understandable dream of finding a universe in a grain of silicon—that I often wonder if they're not showing just a little unseemly haste to leave this stinkin' cesspit of a world behind their television snow and mirror shades.

1991 Winter, D. S. Black, “Mondo Reality High”, in Processed World, number 28, page 55:

My 33mhz 486 is no longer a goshwow machine, Dell having done their usual trick of waiting until I bought it before dropping the price hugely.

1992 July 5, Terry Pratchett, “Hi, people”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet), message-ID <memo.507923@cix.compulink.co.uk>:

Overall, you seem enraputered^([sic]) with all the really neat goshwow technology that is still near the edge of sci-fi wishful thinking.

1999 September 30, Bev Clark/Steve Gallacci, “Re: Orbital kills”, in rec.aviation.military (Usenet), message-ID <7t0e3m$35t@dfw-ixnews21.ix.netcom.com>:

(dated, fandom slang and computing) Of or pertaining to a sense of wonder; awe inspiring; amazement causing.


AIIM

(computing) Initialism of Association for Information and Image Management.


EDMS

(computing, dated) Initialism of electronic document management system.


transcompilation

programming language
programming language

(computing) The translation of source code in one programming language into source code for another programming language.


Multics

Acronym of Multiplexed Information and Computing Service.

acronym

(computing) An influential early time-sharing operating system.


scatter/gather

(computing) Being or relating to a form of I/O by which a single procedure call sequentially writes data from multiple buffers to a single data stream, or reads data from a stream into multiple buffers.


mimic function

(computing) A function that modifies a file to make it assume the statistical properties of another file.


Fisher-Yates shuffle

en-noun

Fisher-Yates shuffle (plural Fisher-Yates shuffles)

Named after Ronald Fisher and Frank Yates.

(computing) A particular algorithm for generating an unbiased random permutation of a set. It selects elements randomly from the initial set until none remain.


IoT

Internet of Things
Internet of Things#English

(computing) Initialism of Internet of Things, a self-configuring wireless network between objects.


unportable

en-adj

unportable (comparative more unportable, superlative most unportable)

more unportable (comparative)
most unportable (superlative)

(computing) Not portable; not (easily) transferred or converted between different systems.


Mbit

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of megabit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of mebibit.


diagrammer

(computing) A software program for constructing diagrams.


softbot

The Internet Softbot (software robot) is a fully implemented AI agent developed at the University of Washington. […] For example, the softbot but use netfind to determine David McAllester's email address.

1998, Michael N. Huhns, Readings in Agents, page 77:

(computing) A computer program that acts on behalf of a user or another program.


gater

Optimizing the selection of clock gaters based on activity is known as power-driven clock gating.

2012, Rakesh Chadha, J. Bhasker, An ASIC Low Power Primer: Analysis, Techniques and Specification, page 118:

With more clock buffers instead of gaters in the clock distribution, the power is significantly reduced based on Table 4-4.

Patrick Lee, Introduction to Low-Power Design in VLSIs (page 125)

A mechanism that saves power in a circuit by removing the clock signal while the circuit is not in use.


Unix time

en-noun

Unix time (countable and uncountable, plural Unix times)

Unix times (plural)
UNIX time (alternative)

(computing, uncountable) A widely used date and time representation that measures time by the number of nonleap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970.

(computing, countable) An individual timestamp using this system.


POSIX time

POSIX time (countable and uncountable, plural POSIX times)

From POSIX, a set of standards designed to provide portability between Unix variants.


LWUIT

Lightweight User Interface Toolkit
w:Lightweight User Interface Toolkit

(computing) Initialism of Lightweight User Interface Toolkit, a toolkit for cross-platform app development.


dogcow

As all Mac wizards know, "moof" is the preferred statement for dogcows.

Although all dogcows look the same, this is probably the very one that appeared in that stack, in which case his name is Clarus.

1994, Sharon Zardetto Aker, The Mac almanac, page 469:

Mac creators dropped the dogcow in later OS versions, but online petitions and press coverage designed to "bring back the dogcow" have made Apple executives aware of the tremendous cult following of this hybrid icon.

2002, Erin Jansen, Vincent James, NetLingo: The Internet Dictionary, page 138:

(computing, humorous) A creature resembling a dog and a cow, used as a placeholder image in early Macintosh operating systems.


generify

en-verb

generify (third-person singular simple present generifies, present participle generifying, simple past and past participle generified)

generifies (present singular third-person)
generifying (participle present)
generified (participle past)
generified (past)


unshar

unshar (third-person singular simple present unshars, present participle unsharring, simple past and past participle unsharred)

unshars (present singular third-person)
unsharring (participle present)
unsharred (participle past)
unsharred (past)

(computing, Unix) To extract data from a file in the shar (shell archive) format.


watchdog timer

An electronic or software timer used to detect and recover from computer malfunctions by generating a timeout signal if it is not periodically reset by the system.


gatewaying

(computing, networking) The action or use of a gateway or access point; the connection or transmission using one or more gateways.


Otway-Rees protocol

Named after D. Otway and O. Rees, who developed it.

(computing) A network authentication protocol allowing individuals communicating over an insecure network to prove their identity to each other while also preventing eavesdropping and replay attacks and allowing for the detection of modification.


self-documenting

(computing, programming, of source code) Written and structured in such a way that it can be understood without consulting separate documentation.


autoaway

You should notice that the whole session is reproduced, and nobody ever noticed you were away (unless you enabled the autoaway module).

2004, Paul Mutton, IRC Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools, page 382:

Also, ERC, like Emacs, is extremely modular and flexible. It is, of course, a free software program, but there are also many existing modules from nick highlighting to autoaway that you can use.

2014, Josh Datko, BeagleBone for Secret Agents:

(computing) An instant messaging feature that automatically marks a user as being away if the user does not interact with the computer or device in a set period of time.


sidegrade

(computing) A form of upgrade involving a switch to a different but equivalent product, e.g. another manufacturer or another operating system.


sidegrade

sidegrade (third-person singular simple present sidegrades, present participle sidegrading, simple past and past participle sidegraded)

sidegrades (present singular third-person)
sidegrading (participle present)
sidegraded (participle past)
sidegraded (past)

(computing, ambitransitive) To switch to a different but equivalent product.


bogotify

bogotify (third-person singular simple present bogotifies, present participle bogotifying, simple past and past participle bogotified)

bogotifies (present singular third-person)
bogotifying (participle present)
bogotified (participle past)
bogotified (past)

You little muSoft goons should learn about FAQs before you bogotify yourselves in front of large audiences.

1996, Jonny Llama, “Re: New hacker”, in alt.hacker (Usenet):

In theory, this might bogotify the end-of-tape detection (and dump's prompting for a new tape), but in practice the end-of-tape signalling of the st(4) driver is broken anyway.

1998 March 15, J Wunsch, “Re: CTT8000-S problems solved”, in mpc.lists.freebsd.scsi (Usenet):

It was a quick fix for the author's Ali motherboard or BIOS but it is obviously wrong in general since it bogotifies the comment preceding it (the point of the "generic" support is to assume that everything is already set up correctly; any hardware programming risks disturbing the setup).

1999 July 24, Nick Hibma, “kern/8875: Patch to allow DMA IDE with generic chipset + UDMA drives (fwd)”, in muc.lists.freebsd.bugs (Usenet):

SA9 Deluxe's screens and printed output were so ugly and the lack of backward compatibility with SA8 and before bogotified it so thoroughly that I sent it back for a refund, and got SA9 non-deluxe instead.

2002 January 23, John Wilson, “Re: Street Atlas 9.0 colors”, in misc.transport.rail.americas (Usenet):

(computing, slang, transitive) To make bogus, incorrect, or broken.


chroot

chroot (third-person singular simple present chroots, present participle chrooting, simple past and past participle chrooted)

chroots (present singular third-person)
chrooting (participle present)
chrooted (participle past)
chrooted (past)

From the name of the Unix command, short for “change root”.

Running a server in a chrooted environment greatly enhances overall system security on a Unix system.

2004, Jeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling, High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, Load Balancing & More, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 235:

(computing, Unix) To change the apparent root directory for a running process, affecting whether or not it can access certain files etc.


SMAC

en-noun

SMAC (countable and uncountable, plural SMACs)

(computing, uncountable) social, mobile, analytics, cloud: a group of technologies


subinstruction

(computing) An instruction making up part of a larger instruction.


suboperation

(computing) An operation making up part of a larger operation.


superpipelined

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superpipelining

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(computing) A technique for improving the performance of a processor by splitting instructions into many separate "pipelines" that can be executed more or less in parallel.


depacker

(computing) A software program that decompresses code or data.


decruncher

(computing) A program or algorithm that performs decrunching.


depack

en-verb

depack (third-person singular simple present depacks, present participle depacking, simple past and past participle depacked)

depacks (present singular third-person)
depacking (participle present)
depacked (participle past)
depacked (past)

(transitive, computing) To decompress (data).


pseudointerface

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In IPv4, the node has a single node address, but in IPv6, a node will typically have more than one IPv6 address — one for the physical interface and addresses for the virtual or pseudointerfaces as well.

2011, William Panek, MCTS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Complete Study Guide:

(computing) A software component that acts like a network interface but is not a true interface.


pretty-printer

(computing) A computer program that performs pretty-printing.


desklet

(computing) A visual widget or small application that can be placed on the desktop.


respring

respring (third-person singular simple present resprings, present participle respringing, simple past resprang or resprung, past participle resprung)

resprings (present singular third-person)
respringing (participle present)
resprang (past)
resprung (past)
resprung (participle past)

(transitive, computing) To restart (usually by crashing) SpringBoard on (a mobile device running iOS) without rebooting the device.


HCF

Halt and Catch Fire
w:Halt and Catch Fire (computing)

(computing, humorous) Initialism of Halt and Catch Fire (an instruction that locks up a processor).


tabbable

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) Capable of being navigated or focused by means of the Tab key.


UIID

(computing) Initialism of unique instrument interface document.


platform-independent

en-adj

platform-independent (comparative more platform-independent, superlative most platform-independent)

more platform-independent (comparative)
most platform-independent (superlative)

(computing) Of computer software or computing methods and concepts: implemented such that they can operate on any of various computer platforms.


message-oriented middleware

(computing) Hardware or software infrastructure supporting sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems


message-oriented

message-oriented (comparative more message-oriented, superlative most message-oriented)

more message-oriented (comparative)
most message-oriented (superlative)

(computing) Depending mainly on messaging.


hotplug

en-verb

hotplug (third-person singular simple present hotplugs, present participle hotplugging, simple past and past participle hotplugged)

hotplugs (present singular third-person)
hotplugging (participle present)
hotplugged (participle past)
hotplugged (past)

(transitive, computing) To plug in (a device) while the system is turned on and running.


kiddiot

(computing, slang, derogatory) script kiddie


lazyload

lazyload (third-person singular simple present lazyloads, present participle lazyloading, simple past and past participle lazyloaded)

lazyloads (present singular third-person)
lazyloading (participle present)
lazyloaded (participle past)
lazyloaded (past)

(computing, transitive) To load (data) only at the point where it is needed.


Gutmann method

Devised by Peter Gutmann and Colin Plumb.

(computing) An algorithm for securely erasing the contents of a hard drive by writing a number of different patterns over the existing data.


AJAJ

(computing) Initialism of asynchronous JavaScript and JSON, a data model for authoring and publishing that followed AJAX.


JNA

(computing) Initialism of Java Native Access, an API that provides Java programs easy access to native shared libraries without using the Java Native Interface.


undervolted

en-adj

undervolted (comparative more undervolted, superlative most undervolted)

more undervolted (comparative)
most undervolted (superlative)

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(computing) Having the voltage reduced from that originally supplied by the manufacturer.


eigenhead

(mathematics, computing) One of a set of eigenvectors used in visual recognition systems to represent a person's head.


XPointer

The XPointer specification was designed for use with XML's linking technology, but it can also be used independently of the XLink specification.

2004, Dick R. Miller, Putting XML to Work in the Library:

(computing, XML) A system designed to address structural and positional aspects of XML.


XLink

(computing, XML) XML markup language specified by W3C that provides methods for creating internal and external links within XML documents, and associating metadata with those links.


freeboot

en-verb

freeboot (third-person singular simple present freeboots, present participle freebooting, simple past and past participle freebooted)

freeboots (present singular third-person)
freebooting (participle present)
freebooted (participle past)
freebooted (past)

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He freebooted our video.

intellectual property
intellectual property

(transitive) To rehost (online media) without legal authorization, a form of intellectual property theft.


craplication

(computing, slang, vulgar) A poor-quality application


undistort

undistort (third-person singular simple present undistorts, present participle undistorting, simple past and past participle undistorted)

undistorts (present singular third-person)
undistorting (participle present)
undistorted (participle past)
undistorted (past)

(transitive, computing) To remove the distortion from (an image, sound, or other signal).


line number

(computing) The sequential number indicating a particular line of text in a text file.


keyboardable

en-adj

keyboardable (comparative more keyboardable, superlative most keyboardable)

more keyboardable (comparative)
most keyboardable (superlative)

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In addition, WinAmp is highly keyboardable, and most features can be activated via hotkeys.

2000, Scot Hacker, MP3: The Definitive Guide, page 63:

(computing, of software) Usable with a keyboard as the only input device.


user-unfriendly

user-unfriendly (comparative more user-unfriendly, superlative most user-unfriendly)

more user-unfriendly (comparative)
most user-unfriendly (superlative)

Does the [rail] industry really want customers? If so, why does it make the whole ticketing experience so user-unfriendly?

2022 September 21, Barry Doe, “Errors continue as journey break rules aren't explained”, in RAIL, number 966, page 63:

(chiefly computing) Not helpful to users; difficult for an untrained person to use.


accountless

accountless (comparative more accountless, superlative most accountless)

more accountless (comparative)
most accountless (superlative)

(business, finance, computing) Not possessing an account.


dehighlight

en-verb

dehighlight (third-person singular simple present dehighlights, present participle dehighlighting, simple past and past participle dehighlighted)

dehighlights (present singular third-person)
dehighlighting (participle present)
dehighlighted (participle past)
dehighlighted (past)

(transitive, computing) To remove a selection highlight from.


unhighlight

unhighlight (third-person singular simple present unhighlights, present participle unhighlighting, simple past and past participle unhighlighted)

unhighlights (present singular third-person)
unhighlighting (participle present)
unhighlighted (participle past)
unhighlighted (past)


Joliet

The city in Illinois was probably named after 17th-century explorer Louis Jolliet.

(computing) A file system specification that extends ISO 9660 to relax restrictions on filenames.


multiextent

For a multiextent file, all extents on one physical device must use the same logical unit number; the definition of the extents must be in consecutive, ascending order.

1994, H. Frank Cervone, VSE/ESA JCL: Utilities, Power, and VSAM, page 107:

(computing) Consisting of more than one extent.


tagset

In fact, these specifications, if stable enough and agreed and harmonized across languages, make different physical tagsets compatible and mappable on each other.

1999, H. van Halteren, Syntactic Wordclass Tagging, page 154:

(corpus linguistics, computing) A collection of tags.


mobile device

An item of hand-held electronic equipment, especially a smartphone or tablet computer.


preparser

(computing) A software component that performs parsing in advance.


year 2038 problem

(computing) A time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable to represent times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.


Deep Web

Attributed to Computer Scientist Michael K. Bergman, 2001.

deep Web (alternative)
deep web (alternative)
deep-web (alternative)

In contrast, most data in the deep Web are structured data records stored in backend database systems and there are usually no hyperlinks among these data records. Due to the existence of extensive links among Web pages in the surface […]

2012, Eduard C. Dragut, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, Deep Web Query Interface Understanding and Integration, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN, page 3:

(computing, Internet) The portion of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by conventional search engines.

(computing, Internet, proscribed) The Dark Web (the part of the Web only accessible via restricted networks).


surface Web

(computing, Internet) The portion of the World Wide Web that is indexed by conventional search engines.


bare metal

A hypervisor is a thin, guest OS—independent Virtualization layer that is loaded onto bare metal, which interacts with the hardware directly and creates virtual machines in which operating systems, either enlightened or not, can run.

2007, Barb Goldworm, Anne Skamarock, Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 98:

In 1998 virtualization was "rediscovered" for the x86 platform by VMWare, but due to instruction translation the approach taken was slow when compared to bare metal performance.

2009, Latifa Boursas, Mark Carlson, Wolfgang Hommel, Michelle Sibilla, Kes Wold, Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and New Technologies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 61:

SoftLayer is focused on bare metal servers. Bare metal servers provide a higher level of freedom for the businesses in choosing their virtual servers.

2014, S. Srinivasan, Cloud Computing Basics, Springer, →ISBN, page 75:

(computing) Physical hardware, as opposed to virtualised.


Real Programmer

en-noun

Real Programmer (plural Real Programmers)

Real Programmers (plural)
real programmer (alternative)

Everyone working at LucasFilm is a Real Programmer. (It would be crazy to turn down the money of fifty million Star Trek fans.) The proportion of Real Programmers in Computer Graphics is somewhat lower than the norm, mostly because ...

1995, Andrew Davison, Humour the Computer, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 50:

Julian Templeman first touched fingers to keypunch in 1972, punching Fortran code onto cards at college in London. Soon after, he moved on to Macro- 11 programming on PDP-11s. This qualifies him as a Real Programmer, and until recently, he had a PDP-11 in his garage to remind him of better times.

2002, Julian Templeman, Andy Olsen, Microsoft Visual C++.NET Step by Step, →ISBN, page 618:

Interdicted Real Programmer. Not someone you want to get in the way of, he's usually the best programmer on a project, and he's usually annoyed because management has stuck yet another stupid wall between him and getting his job done.

2003, John Ray, William Ray, Mac OS X Maximum Security, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:

The Real Programmer wants a “you asked for it, you got it” text editor; one that is complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, and dangerous. TECO, to be precise.

2011, Kevin B. Bennett, John M. Flach, Display and Interface Design: Subtle Science, Exact Art, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 110:

(computing, slang) An archetypal highly skilled programmer, who eschews abstractions and convenient modern tools and methods of programming, instead preferring to use a manually-optimised low-level language or program directly in machine code for maximum performance.


detokenize

en-verb

detokenize (third-person singular simple present detokenizes, present participle detokenizing, simple past and past participle detokenized)

detokenizes (present singular third-person)
detokenizing (participle present)
detokenized (participle past)
detokenized (past)

(transitive, computing) To convert (a tokenized representation) back to the original form.


retokenize

retokenize (third-person singular simple present retokenizes, present participle retokenizing, simple past and past participle retokenized)

retokenizes (present singular third-person)
retokenizing (participle present)
retokenized (participle past)
retokenized (past)

(transitive, computing) To tokenize again.


RAW

R.A.W. (alternative)
R. A. W. (alternative)

(computing) Initialism of read after write, a kind of data hazard.


carputer

(computing) A form of personal computer or similar device designed to be installed in the dashboard of a car


metacompiler

(computing) A compiler used to construct compilers for other programming languages.


typeover

(computing) overtype (wordprocessing feature)


PWI

Public Windows Interface
w:Public Windows Interface

(computing) Initialism of Public Windows Interface.


RTMP

Real Time Messaging Protocol
w:Real Time Messaging Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Real Time Messaging Protocol.

Routing Table Maintenance Protocol
w:Routing Table Maintenance Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Routing Table Maintenance Protocol.


blocksize

blocksizes (plural)
block size (alternative)

(computing) The size of a block of data (in a file or a transmission)


autonomics

(computing) The use of self-correcting software systems that automatically detect and fix certain types of error without intervention by a software engineer.


hardwarily

(computing, slang, humorous, rare) In terms of hardware.


e-content

Finally, some e-content must first be downloaded to a computer before being transferred to a tablet or other mobile device for viewing.

2012, Rebecca K. Miller, Carolyn Meier, Heather Moorfield-Lang, Rethinking Reference and Instruction with Tablets, page 38:

(computing) resources offered in computerized form


GTID

(computing, databases) Initialism of global transaction identifier.


candidate key

(computing, databases) In the design of a database table, a column (or an irreducible group of them) able to identify every row of the table. One of the candidate keys (abbreviated CKs) will be the primary key.


virtual piano

(music, computing) An online software application designed to simulate playing a piano (or other keyboard instrument) on a personal computer, mobile device or a tablet computer.


Flasher

JavaScript is an appealing solution for Flashers because it operates in the same client-side environment […]

2001, P. S. Woods, Macromedia Flash 5 Developer's Guide, page 184:

(computing, informal) A software developer who uses the Flash multimedia technology.


corpus linguistics

ESP, using the tools of corpus linguistics, has advanced the methodologies for investigating discipline-specific language, yet there has been little cross-fertilization so far with disciplinary literacy in secondary education.

2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 2:

(computing, linguistics) A branch of linguistics that studies large samples (corpora) of real-world text, usually with the aid of computer software.

korpuslinguistiek

a branch of linguistics that studies large samples


file handle

file handles (plural)
filehandle (alternative)

(computing) The descriptor used to access a file in a file system.


RESTafarian

The RESTafarians — or REST zealots — are probably right that a RESTful approach is best for retrieving information, but it is obviously inappropriate whenever the remote procedure call has side effects.

2005, David Paul Megginson, Imperfect XML: Rants, Raves, Tips, and Tricks, page 124:

(computing, slang) A programmer who uses REST (Representational State Transfer).


iOS

From i- + OS. Many Apple products have an i- prefix in their names.

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

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

(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile operating system (OS) created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware.


first-class continuation

en-noun

first-class continuation (plural first-class continuations)

Bruce F. Duba, David Macqueen (1991 January) “Typing First-Class Continuations in ML”, in Journal of Functional Programming, volume 3, number 4, →DOI: “First-class continuations are a simple and natural way to provide access to the flow of evaluation in functional languages.”

(computing) A continuation that can be used like any other value in a programming language, giving a powerful ability to control flow of execution.


lagfest

The only place I ever seriously lagged was at the blacksmith shop. Now all of Britain is a lagfest.

1998 January 28, Spatch [username], “Re: *Please Read*”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games (Usenet):

Cities are lagfests if there are a lot of other players nearby.

2009 July 27, cryptoguy [username], “Re: Intermittent FPS drops”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet):

Full screen is a lagfest. I don't think you're going to be gaming on these, unless the technology got heaps better whilst I wasn't looking.

2011 June 15, HarpingOn [username], “Re: OT: USB graphics "cards"”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):

(computing, informal) Something prone to lagging, or network delays.


JQL

(computing) Initialism of JIRA Query Language.


dropbox

dropboxes (plural)
drop box (alternative)
drop-box (alternative)

A desktop computer leaves changes in a dropbox on the network.

1997, Alison Balter, Alison Balter's Mastering Access 97 Development, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 696:

(computing) A computer folder to which files may be dragged and dropped and from which users of other computers on the network can access those files.


riskware

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(computing, rare) Software that may pose a risk to a computer on which it is installed.


Itanic

Blend of Itanium + Titanic, suggesting commercial failure, in reference to the sunken ship Titanic.

(computing, slang, derogatory) The Intel Itanium processor.


cruftiness

Regardless of one's opinions on Sendmail's cruftiness, it's unquestionably a powerful and well-supported piece of software.

2002, Michael D. Bauer, Building Secure Servers with Linux, page 205:

(computing, slang) Quality of being crufty.


object-based language

object-based language (plural object-based languages)

In practice, the term "object-based" is usually applied to those object-based languages that are not also object-oriented, although all object-oriented languages are also object-based, by definition. Instead, the terms "object-based" and "object-oriented" are normally used as mutually exclusive alternatives, rather than as categories that overlap.

(computing) Any programming language that encapsulates the state and operations inside objects that may or may not support inheritance.


macro language

macro languages (plural)
macrolanguage (alternative)

(computing) A system for defining and processing macros.

(computing, specifically) An extension to an assembly language in which macroinstructions, containing a series of instructions, may be written.


aspect-oriented language

aspect-oriented language (plural aspect-oriented languages)

separation of cross-cutting concerns
separation of concerns

(computing) A programming language that aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns.


aspect-oriented programming language

aspect-oriented programming language (plural aspect-oriented programming languages)

aspect-oriented programming languages (plural)

aspect-oriented language
aspect-oriented language#English

(computing) Synonym of aspect-oriented language.


delegation language

delegation language (plural delegation languages)

prototype-based programming
prototype-based programming

(computing) A programming language that supports prototype-based programming.


prototype-based language

prototype-based language (plural prototype-based languages)

(computing) A programming language in which behaviour reuse (or inheritance) is performed via cloning existing objects that serve as prototypes.


role-oriented language

role-oriented language (plural role-oriented languages)

(computing) A programming language that uses a paradigm aiming at expressing things in terms analogous to human conceptual understanding of the World by using roles.


(computing) Initialism of ECMAScript for XML (“the ECMA-357 standard”).


Pythonist

Pythonists and Perlers probably doesn't feel that Ruby (on or off Rails) is sufficiently different from what they're currently doing to warrant stepping down the expert ladder.

2005 February 7, David Heinemeier Hansson, “Re: Is compatibility important for us?”, in comp.lang.ruby (Usenet):

We Pythonists have always prided ourselves in being the best example of an end-to-end, batteries-included delivery system that could create anything imaginable for the desktop user.

2008, Dana Moore, Professional Python Frameworks: Web 2.0 Programming with Django and Turbogears:

If you're a Python guru, you can look for ideas to apply your craft to penetration testing, or if you are a newbie Pythonist with some penetration testing chops, then this module serves as a perfect ending to your search for some hands-on experience in pentesting.

2016, Christopher Duffy, Mohit,, Cameron Buchanan, Terry Ip, Andrew Mabbitt, Benjamin May, Dave Mound, Python: Penetration Testing for Developers, Packt Publishing Ltd

(computing, informal) A programmer who uses the Python programming language.


FHS

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
w:Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

(computing) Initialism of Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.


NAC

(computing) Initialism of network access control.


click of death

(computing, informal) A clicking sound produced by the unexpected movement of the read-write actuator in a Zip drive or hard drive, associated with hardware failure.


SID

If the call to this function fails, you can assume the SID was invalid — even if it's a well-known SID.

2003, John Mueller, .NET development security solutions:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Abbreviation of security identifier.

(computing) Sound Interface Device, a sound chip used in some early computers.


VRAM

random access memory
random access memory#English

graphics processing unit
graphics processing unit

(computing) Initialism of video random access memory (“random access memory used by graphics processing units”).

video random access memory

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

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

Video RAM
wikipedia:Video RAM (dual-ported DRAM)

(computing) Initialism of Video RAM, a variant of DRAM invented in 1980 and used to store the framebuffer in some graphics adapters.


ill-formed

en-adj

ill-formed (comparative more ill-formed, superlative most ill-formed)

more ill-formed (comparative)
most ill-formed (superlative)

(linguistics, computing) Not well-formed.


UAC

User Account Control
w:User Account Control

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of User Account Control: a technology that limits application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes further privileges.


forecolour

forecolours (plural)
forecolor (alternative)

This marking is often done by setting the forecolour of the control.

2009, David Harrison, ated Functional Testing for Java-Swing:

(computing) A prominent colour, especially one that is superimposed and visible over other colours.


dot release

From dot (the decimal point in a version number) + release.

(computing, programming) Synonym of point release.


multitenancy

(computing) The situation in which a single instance of software, running in a server, serves multiple tenants


hard reset

(computing, computer hardware) The reinitialization of the core hardware components of a computer system, ending any software processes and restarting the operating system.


JSTL

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library.


adlet

5 Merging of Adlets
Adlets move from sites to sites to seek out new adlets or active documents, announce its own presence and collect information. In its movement adlets behave like magnets. An adlet or a collection of adlets can attract other ...

1998, IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing, Information Technology Research Institute (Dayton, Ohio), IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Data Engineering, IW-MMDBMS ...

In our example, an adlet is created to perform the airline reservation. Such an adlet is equipped with the capability to interact with the airline reservation system and issue transactions to obtain available flights, seats and prices.

1999, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Leszek Maciaszek, Proceedings, ... International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering, IEEE, →ISBN:

The specific mobile agents of interest are called adlets, which are mobile agents carrying the metadata of various kinds of multimedia documents. Adlets autonomously travel from site to site on the Internet, advertising its contents and ...

2000, Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering:

(computing) A small app or active document that can be embedded in a Web page.


split key

As with B+-trees, records with keys greater than or equal to the split key go to a new current node, records with keys less than the split key remain in the original node.

1990, Hector Garcia-Molina, H. V. Jagadish, Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data., page 353:

The region is split into two logical daughter regions. The split is not done physically at this point to make the splitting process fast. The split is maintained as a split key, which is a key in the middle of the key range maintained for the region.

2014, Jason Venner, Sameer Wadkar, Madhu Siddalingaiah, Pro Apache Hadoop, →ISBN, page 310:

Take the key in the parent node that splits the left sibling and the leaf, the split key, and insert it into the leaf.

2016, Christopher G. Healey, Disk-Based Algorithms for Big Data, →ISBN:

(computing) A key value used to identify where to split the children of a parent node in a B-tree or similar data structure.


minidisk

Standard digital recording techniques are used with floppy disks rather than audio recording techniques. A smaller 5-inch-diameter disk, referred to as a minidisk, is also available. Data-storage capacity is typically 70,000 to 100,000 bytes.

1978, Louis E. Frenzel, Getting Acquainted with Microcomputers, page 239:

From minidisks, floppy disks, all the way to high-capacity hard disks, the flexibility of CP/M 2.0 makes it a truly universal operating system.

(computing, dated) A 5.25-inch floppy disk.


hot-pluggable

(computing) That can be safely plugged in while the system is turned on and running.


hot folder

(computing) A file system directory which is monitored by software so that any new files arriving in it can be processed.


spam killer

(computing, informal) A program that automatically deletes spam (unsolicited commercial email).


smartmodem

From the trade name of a product, the Hayes Smartmodem; from smart + modem.

Finally, some modems, and most smartmodems, come equipped with a row of status lights on the front of the modem, which make it easy to see what it is doing.

1989, Patrick R. Dewey, Email for Libraries:

In the previous section, we discussed the two basic types of modems, smartmodems and acoustic coupled modems. Remember that smartmodems require they be plugged directly into the phone line.

1992, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Technical papers, page 259:

The M2DM system comprised a Web access^([sic]), a CTI service based on an Interactive Voice response system and a smartmodem located at home. The Web pages were optimized for different access modalities, including mobile devices.

2007, Tomaz Jarm, Peter Kramar, Anze Zupanic, 11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2007, page 16:

(computing) A modem controlled through a simple command language, rather than by manual switches.


longword

(computing) A type of unsigned integer variable that is longer than a word (with the specific number of bits depending upon the system architecture).


pentester

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This book is suitable for the following readers: ... Web security pentesters who need to communicate secure coding techniques to developers they are working with

2014, Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications, →ISBN, page xvii:

penetration test
penetration test#English

(computing) Someone who performs a pentest (a penetration test)


sociometer

Capable of sensing subtle movements as well as other unconscious and nonconscious signals, the sociometer creates, in effect, a feedback loop between consciousness and other levels of neuronal responses.

2012, N. Katherine Hayles, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 102:

(computing) A wearable sensor device to measure face-to-face interactions of people.


diamond bracket

en-noun

diamond bracket (plural diamond brackets)

From the diamond shape when two are placed together.


system operator

system operator (plural system operators)

(computing) A person who oversees the day-to-day operation of a computer system


macro expansion

macro expansion (plural macro expansions)

(computing) The source code (assembler or other language) created by interpretation of a macro


SAA

(computing) Initialism of Systems Application Architecture (“an IBM technology”).


ifdef

A keyword in various programming languages, short for if defined.

(computing, programming) A construct in source code that allows another part of the code to run only if a specified identifier is defined in the program.


postpend

en-verb

postpend (third-person singular simple present postpends, present participle postpending, simple past and past participle postpended)

postpends (present singular third-person)
postpending (participle present)
postpended (participle past)
postpended (past)

Recall that if asterisks are pre- and postpended they designate semantic information in f-structures.

1991, Kenneth Goodman, The KBMT Project, →ISBN:

In each run a random sequence is generated, prepended and postpended with short primers to separate the initiation and termination tasks from the reconstruction task.

2003, Algorithms in Bioinformatics, →ISBN, page 398:

A hybrid attack is used to find passwords that are a dictionary word with combinations of characters prepended or postpended to it.

2011, Dave Kleiman, The Official CHFI Study Guide (Exam 312-49), →ISBN:

(computing, transitive) To append at the end of a text string.


nontrusted

In such an environment, a participant site is classified as, trusted or nontrusted node.

1998, Recovery Mechanisms in Database Systems, →ISBN, page 395:

Do not run nontrusted tools that you find on the subject system to collect evidence.

2013, Cameron H. Malin, Linux Malware Incident Response, →ISBN:


audioboard

Just slide the daughtercard onto the audioboard connectors and plug the audio card into your computer.

(computing) A circuit board used for audio processing.


access violation

en-noun

access violation (plural access violations)

muistialueen ylitys

access violation — see also segmentation fault


unfavourited

(computing) Alternative form of unfavorited (“not marked as a favourite”).


malformatted

SpamAssassin works by assigning scores to characteristics of suspected spam mail. These range from malformatted headers to the use of embedded code meant to identify the recipient.

(chiefly computing) Poorly or incorrectly formatted.


trackwheel

(computing) A small wheel, incorporated into a mouse or smartphone, that controls scrolling.


input method editor

input method editor (plural input method editors)

(computing) A program that facilitates the input of foreign scripts or exotic symbols on a computer or similar device.


drillable

To indicate to the business user of the report that more detailed information is available behind the summary group level, the mouse pointer turns into a magnifying glass icon when it floats over a drillable section (for example, the yellow count field of customer contacts, located in the Group Header #1 section).

2006, Neil FizGerald, James Edkins, Annette Jonker, Michael Voloshko, Crystal Reports XI Official Guide, page 188:

If a report has a pivot table with drillable elements, then the report should make the pivot table available through a view selector that also contains a tabular view.

2009, Amy Mayer, Kevin McGinley, Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Dashboard and Report Best Practices, page 19:

We spent some time discussing the notion of 'drillable' experiments, which can be introduced to students at an early age, then periodically revisited and explored in greater detail as students progress through their educational careers.

2015, Vânia Zuin, Liliana Mammino, Worldwide Trends in Green Chemistry Education:

Although spreadability and drillability often work in opposing directions, with spreadable media generally reaching a larger, less engaged audience, and drillable media typically reaching a smaller, yet more engaged one, the possibility exists for a text to be simultaneously spreadable and drillable (Mittell, “Forensic Fandom”).

2017, Matt Yockey, Make Ours Marvel: Media Convergence and a Comics Universe, page 237:

Lost became a bit of a cultural sensation and has inspired a wide range of drillable TV series such as Mr. Robot, Westworld, and Severance. Each of these shows teased the audience with the nature of its basic reality yet had deeply loyal fans who scoured episodes for possible theories concerning the uncertain storylines.

2023, Charles Soukup, Christina R. Foust, Popular Culture in Everyday Life, page 127:

(computing, education, media studies) Supporting a drilldown action in which one can discover more details about a topic or text.


multilicence

3 September) â€“ means the Guardian is now advocating stealing software rather than paying what can only be described as a very meagre multilicence upgrade fee.

2009 September 9, “Letters and blogs”, in Guardian:

(computing) A licence to have the same software on multiple devices


shapefile

Any shapefiles created during analysis will be created in decimal degrees.

(geography, computing) A computer file in the Shapefile format, used in geographic information systems.


megahack

The megahack is widely considered to have been initiated by North Korea, upset at the portrayal of Kim Jong-un in Sony’s then-imminent comedy The Interview.

2015 July 10, Graeme Virtue, “Friday’s best TV”, in The Guardian:

(computing) A massive hack of a computer system.


kiloword

(computing) A unit of storage capacity, equal to 1024 words.


Deep Net

the Deep Net (canonical)
Deepnet (alternative)


pseudospoofing

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killbit

killbits (plural)
kill bit (alternative)

From kill + bit; see bit (“binary digit”), i.e. an on/off setting.

It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash and to ask the browsers to set killbits on the same day.

2015 July 14, Samuel Gibbs, “Facebook calls for end to Flash as Firefox blocks it over hacking holes”, in The Guardian:

(computing) A setting that disables a specific web browser plug-in, typically to prevent a security vulnerability from being exploited.


macrosimulation

The macrosimulation model employed has been used previously to undertake similar analyses for the UK [26 ,37 –39 ], Ireland [40 ], France [41 ] and Canada [42 ], and the relative risks to parameterise changes in nutritional risk factors and mortality as a result of changes in diet were sourced from high quality meta-analyses [29 –36 ].

2015 July 9, “Effects of Health-Related Food Taxes and Subsidies on Mortality from Diet-Related Disease in New Zealand: An Econometric-Epidemiologic Modelling Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(mathematics, computing) simulation of a system as a whole, without simulating the behaviour of its individual components


webtool

We took advantage of our large amount of data and on machine learning to set-up ^([sic]) a fast webtool combining all existing taxonomies including the newly proposed consensual “expert” one.

2015 July 9, “Genomics and Machine Learning for Taxonomy Consensus: The Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Paradigm”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(computing, Internet) Any software tool that operates over the Internet


input method

(computing) A set of mnemonics for inputting a foreign script or exotic symbols not found on a physical keyboard.

입력 방법

(computing) By extension, a program that facilitates input using these mnemonics.

入力システム (nyūryoku shisutemu, literally “input system”)

入力 (nyūryoku, literally “input”) (used in the names of such programs)


friend-to-friend

(computing) Describing a restricted type of peer-to-peer network in which only persons who know each other participate.


Grosch's law

Attributed to computer scientist Herb Grosch in 1965, though previously stated by Seymour Cray.

(computing) The observation that computing power increases as the square of the cost, e.g. a computer that costs twice as much ought to be four times as fast.


hyperdata

From hyper- + data; compare hypertext, hypermedia.

The appointment is a something of a coup for the start-up, one of those in the vanguard of the so-called hyperdata movement that collects scores of data points by harnessing new technology like smartphones and sophisticated analytics software.

2015 July 15, Michael J. De La Merced, “Lawrence Summers to Join Board of ‘Hyperdata’ Start-Up”, in New York Times:

(computing) interconnected data, sometimes with semantics attached to the links between items


featurization

featurization (countable and uncountable, plural featurizations)

From feature + -ization or featurize + -ation.

(linguistics, computing) The development of additional features.


MCU

memory controller unit
memory controller unit#English

(computing) Initialism of memory controller unit.


priv

Do you have admin privs on the server?

(chiefly computing, informal, usually in the plural) Clipping of privilege.


sudoer

(computing, Unix) A user who is permitted to run programs with the security privileges of another user.


microservice

We concluded that microservices is not a one-fit-all solution as it introduces new complexities to the system, and many factors, such as distribution complexities, should be considered before adopting this style.

2015, Armin Balalaie, Abbas Heydarnoori, Pooyan Jamshidi, “Migrating to Cloud-Native Architectures Using Microservices: An Experience Report”, in arXiv:

(computing) A small independent process that communicates with other processes, used to break down a complex task into many simpler components.

mikroszolgáltatás

a small, independent process in computing


upcode

Upcode includes the mental codes that shape human thought and behavior from within and the cultural codes that operate on us, often invisibly, from without: personal morality, religious rituals, social norms, legal rules, corporate policies, professional ethics, website terms of service. Downcode is run by computers, upcode by humans.

2023, Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks, pages 12-13:

(computing) The behavioral norms which influence how software (or "downcode") is produced.


ecoinformatics

Although there are difficult challenges associated with building these integrated datasets, these same challenges provide substantial opportunities, especially for early-career ecologists, for interdisciplinary training in ecoinformatics and database management, and classical ecology; thus pushing the ecological boundary to answer important macrosystems ecology questions.

2015 July 1, Patricia A. Soranno et al., “Building a multi-scaled geospatial temporal ecology database from disparate data sources: fostering open science and data reuse”, in GigaScience, volume 4, →DOI:

(ecology, computing) The use of computing and information science in ecology


printer-friendly

en-adj

printer-friendly (comparative more printer-friendly, superlative most printer-friendly)

more printer-friendly (comparative)
most printer-friendly (superlative)

a printer-friendly version of a Web page

(computing, of a document or layout) Suitable for printing, without any extraneous formatting, images, etc.


NeXTSTEP

(computing) An object-oriented, multitasking operating system developed by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, based on UNIX.


salami attack

Referring to the thin slices in which salami is usually served.

(computing) An attack against a system that consists of many minor actions (such as stealing small amounts of funds from multiple bank accounts) and is thus relatively difficult to detect.


PETSCII

Why is the order of graphical characters in the PETSCII table so seemingly haphazard? The answer is that arrangement was dictated by the PET keyboard design, a hardware-driven decision.

2014, Nick Montfort et al., 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 225:

(computing, historical) The character set used by the Commodore PET and related computers.


supercompiler

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(computing) A program that performs supercompilation.


linting

en-noun

linting (usually uncountable, plural lintings)

(computing, programming) The process of using a software tool to analyse source code and identify possible programming problems.


(computing) Abbreviation of machine to machine, technologies that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same type.


(computing) Eclipse' implementation of the OMG QVT standard.


OpenXPS

Open XML Paper Specification
w:Open XML Paper Specification

(computing) Abbreviation of Open XML Paper Specification.


DCOM

(computing) Initialism of Distributed Component Object Model.


PCI DSS

(computing, payment) Initialism of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, a proprietary information security standard for organizations that handle branded credit cards from the major card schemes.


ASVS

(computing, security) Initialism of Application Security Verification Standard, a standard to performing application-level security verifications.


block length

block lengths (plural)
blocklength (alternative)

(computing) The length (in bytes, characters, etc.) of a block of data.


stringology

From string + -ology, coined in 1984 by computer scientist Zvi Galil.

(computing, informal) The study of algorithms and data structures used for processing text strings.


metaclassifier

Several classifiers are tested on the extracted features, the best method being metaclassifier bootstrap aggregating (Bagging) based on alternating decision trees (ADTree).

2015 July 21, Diego Alvarez-Estevez, Vicente Moret-Bonillo, “Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of the Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome: A Review”, in Sleep Disorders, volume 2015, →DOI:

(computing) A classifier that operates on other classifiers.


unmunged

This is theoretical for me, since I've posted with an unmunged address on mailing lists and newsgroups for many years, and as a result get a couple of dozen spam messages a day.

2002, Alan Winston, OpenVMS with Apache, WASD, and OSU: The Nonstop Webserver:


monoprogramming

(computing) Running a single program at a time within a single address space


alternate action

(computing) A feature of certain computer keyboards where a pressed key remains depressed and actuated until it is pressed again.


wormable

en-adj

wormable (comparative more wormable, superlative most wormable)

more wormable (comparative)
most wormable (superlative)

Operating system vendors react quickly to wormable exploits, typically releasing out-of-sequence patches, because of the scale of the damage they can do.

2020, Ross Anderson, Security Engineering, page 232:

(computing) (of a computer flaw or a bug) Capable of being turned into a network worm.


butterfly keyboard

en-noun

butterfly keyboard (plural butterfly keyboards)

* (keyboard with separate halves): From the resemblance to a butterfly with outstretched wings.
* (keyboard with scissor switches): From the approximately resemblance of each (X-shaped) switch to a butterfly.

(computing) A kind of computer keyboard consisting of two separate halves, intended to facilitate typing with two hands.

(computing) A kind of computer keyboard where each key is activated by means of a scissor switch.


postamble

postambles (plural)
post-amble (alternative)

Modelled on preamble, with post- replacing pre-.

(computing) Closing statements of a computer program; final or closing part of data.


pixeler

You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.

1999, Adrian Dunn, “Re: Using a scanned picture in your demo”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

(computing, slang, rare) A graphic artist who works at the pixel level.


human interface device

human interface device (plural human interface devices)

(computing) Any hardware device allowing a user to interact with a computer, such as a keyboard or mouse.


long long

(computing, programming) A kind of integer variable, allowing a greater range of possible values than a long.


zero day

(computing) Alternative spelling of zero-day.


AJDT

(computing) Initialism of AspectJ Development Tools.


NKRO

(computing) Initialism of n-key rollover: a keyboard feature that prevents ghosting and blocking.


Numpad

Use NumPad (0-9) for better control. [written on a sign at the beginning of the game]

(computing) Abbreviation of numeric keypad.


overtravel

(computing) The distance a pressed switch on a keyboard continues to move after its actuation.


From retro- + bright with 0 for o as in leetspeak. See retrocomputing.

Keep me busy this weekend! In between blowing power supplies and running all my cases through a bath of retr0bright! Hah!

2009 April 15, capknight, “Re: Apple Power Supply Questions”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet):

retr0bright works well but the plastic does indeed need to be ABS.

2012 March 9, JC, “Re: Cleaning my routed STTNG - how to restore the ships?”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet):

If you want to try this method, you can find Retr0bright recipes and instructions online.

2020, Greg Farrell, Game Boy Modding: A Beginner's Guide to Game Boy Mods, Collecting, History, and More!, page 51:

(computing) A chemical mixture, mainly hydrogen peroxide, used to remove yellowing from ABS plastic computer and electronics cases.


en-verb

Retr0bright (third-person singular simple present Retr0brights, present participle Retr0brighting, simple past and past participle Retr0brighted)

These are four different machines I've been restoring over time (cleaning, retrobrighting all the cases, new capacitors on cards and motherboards […]

2009 October 13, atfphot...@gmail.com, “Re: What's in your Apple?”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet):

This IIc is cleaning up really nice. Going to Retrobright it soon!

2017 June 28, cb meeks, “Re: Yet another IIc in my collection”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet):

Do you need to retrobright your machine if it has some yellowing?

2021, Jamie Lendino, Faster Than Light: The Atari ST and the 16-Bit Revolution, page 270:

(computing) To remove yellowing from ABS plastic computer or electronics cases via this method.


tenkeyless

(computing, of a keyboard) Lacking a numeric keypad.


paravirtual

Compared to the best-known paravirtualization interfaces, our paravirtual interface supports up to 2x higher throughput, and is closer in performance to device passthrough.

2015, Piyus Kedia, Sorav Bansal, “A Software-only Mechanism for Device Passthrough and Sharing”, in arXiv:

(computing) approximately virtual (in terms of paravirtualization)


glitchless

Although many players set personal bests to beat the previous world record it was Xiae who smashed the competition with his scintillating glitchless run.

2020 July 31, James Busby, “Doom Eternal speedrunning world record smashed at Break the Record: LIVE”, in Dexerto:

There are mainly three types of Only Up speedruns, Any%, Bedless, and All Collectibles. Any% is the most popular one, with two categories found under this label, glitchless and unrestricted.

2023 July 26, Jeremy Gan, “Only Up speedrun records: Fastest completion, Any% glitchless, unrestricted, more”, in Dexerto:


autosuggest

Alternatively, an Amazon-like interface filters the list of molecules by specifying type (Nuclear receptor, coregulator, ligand) or by typing GO Terms or Diseases in autosuggest text boxes.

2015 September 2, “Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas: Opening Access to the Biology of Nuclear Receptor Signaling Pathways”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(computing) Any feature that makes automatic suggestions to the user.


autosuggest

autosuggest (third-person singular simple present autosuggests, present participle autosuggesting, simple past and past participle autosuggested)

autosuggests (present singular third-person)
autosuggesting (participle present)
autosuggested (participle past)
autosuggested (past)

I typed "xary" and the spell checker autosuggested "X-ray".

(computing, transitive) To suggest automatically.


destring

destring (third-person singular simple present destrings, present participle destringing, simple past and past participle destringed)

destrings (present singular third-person)
destringing (participle present)
destringed (participle past)
destringed (past)

I require some help with destringing my variables.

(computing, transitive) to convert a variable that is of a string type to some other, usually numeric data type


zettaflop

The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop.

2008 June 9, John Markoff, “Military Supercomputer Sets Record”, in New York Times:

(computing) 10²¹ floating-point operations per second.


self-elevation

en-noun

self-elevation (countable and uncountable, plural self-elevations)

User self-elevation occurs when mobile, remote, or power users need to run software that is usually run by only users with administrator-level permissions.

(computing) elevation of one's own user privilege level (usually to run software that requires a higher privilege level)


autoclassification

In the current era of large surveys and massive data sets, autoclassification of astrophysical sources using intelligent algorithms is becoming increasingly important.

2015, Sean A. Farrell, Tara Murphy, Kitty K. Lo, “Autoclassification of the Variable 3XMM Sources Using the Random Forest Machine Learning Algorithm”, in arXiv:


cp

cp437, cp737, cp1253, etc.


pivot table

Introduced by Microsoft in 1994 as "PivotTable" (though the concept was older); their trademark was active until 2020.

(computing) A summary table used for automatic sorting, counting and averaging of the data in another table or spreadsheet.


BIXen

Humorous modern use of -en from Middle English; compare VAXen.

The same thoughts go for BIXen. That used to be quite possibly the best place in the world to hang out.

2014, Bruce Hoult, “Re: Mill CPU public talk 6:00 to 8:30PM September 22 at NNUG, Oslo, Norway”, in comp.arch (Usenet):

Some BIXen, as we call ourselves, wonder where we will go. We are the virtual dispossessed, cybernetic nomads on the cusp of searching for a niche for ourselves.

2000, Kevin J. Cheek, “[PLAQUE]: BIX - Byte Information Exchange [LONG]”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):

(computing, slang) Users of the Byte Information Exchange (BIX) system, which ran from the mid-1980s until 2001.


honeyword

In this paper we have proposed a new honeyword generation approach, identified as Paired Distance Protocol (PDP) which overcomes almost all the drawbacks of previously proposed honeyword generation approaches.

2015, Nilesh Chakraborty, Samrat Mondal, “A New Storage Optimized Honeyword Generation Approach for Enhancing Security and Usability”, in arXiv:

(computing) An incorrect password published as part of a honeypot, so that any user attempting to log in with the password may be assumed to be an attacker.


hyperloop

If Hal finds a value of x such that fun(x), Hal sends a signal to Dave (perhaps a light-beam). Dave carries a receiving device with him, which stores a variable, xFound, initialised to a default value of 0; this receiver sets xFound to 1 on (and only on) receipt of a signal from Hal. Once Dave reaches point r, Hal's entire infinite history lies in Dave's past, and any signal that Hal might have sent to Dave will have arrived. So from Dave's perspective, by point r, Hal has completed a hyperloop.

2009, Klaus Ambos-Spies, Benedikt Löwe, Wolfgang Merkle, Mathematical Theory and Computational Practice, →ISBN, page 70:

(computing) A control structure in which a loop repeats until either a stopping condition is met or all possible values of the looping index have been checked.


fontology

(computing, informal) The study of fonts, or electronic typefaces.


peekable

en-adj

peekable (comparative more peekable, superlative most peekable)

more peekable (comparative)
most peekable (superlative)

Peekable streams also have an internal record of their current position and can look ahead in the stream for information.

2012, John Hunt, Smalltalk and Object Orientation: An Introduction, page 130:

(computing) Of a stream or other sequence: from which the next value can be retrieved without advancing the pointer from its current position.


laplet

convertible laptop

a type of notebook computer or ultraportable which has a swivel screen that is swiveled around and folded down to cover the keyboard, with the screen facing outwards, becoming a tablet computer

(computing) A type of tablet computer that includes a (removable) keyboard which may double as a screen cover.

(computing) A type of netbook or ultrabook that has a removable keyboard and where the internals are hidden behind the screen instead of below the keyboard.


hosts file

(computing, networking) A plain text file used by an operating system to map hostnames to IP addresses.


SRE

en-noun

SRE (countable and uncountable, plural SREs)

site reliability engineering
w:site reliability engineering

(computing) Initialism of site reliability engineering.

(computing, countable) Initialism of site reliability engineer.


deadstart

en-verb

deadstart (third-person singular simple present deadstarts, present participle deadstarting, simple past and past participle deadstarted)

deadstarts (present singular third-person)
deadstarting (participle present)
deadstarted (participle past)
deadstarted (past)

(computing, dated, transitive) To boot up.


resilver

resilver (third-person singular simple present resilvers, present participle resilvering, simple past and past participle resilvered)

resilvers (present singular third-person)
resilvering (participle present)
resilvered (participle past)
resilvered (past)

To get back to our RAID 0 +1 configuration, disk volume A will be “resilvered” up to disk B, which runs at the current point in time.

2010, Robert G. Freeman, Matthew Hart, Oracle RMAN 11g Backup and Recovery:

(computing, transitive) To synchronize the mirror disk of the RAID array with the master disk.


laser card

Debit card: a genericized trademark, from Laser.

(computing, historical) A software storage medium resembling a credit card and read by a laser.


home directory

en-noun

home directory (plural home directories)

On Unix-like operating systems, the home directory is usually /home/<user name>.

(computing) A directory that contains a user's files.

kotihakemisto

a directory that contains a user's files


FreeBSD

(computing) A Unix-like operating system that is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), notable for having the largest following in the BSD community.


OpenBSD

(computing) a Unix-like operating system that is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)


pseudodirectory

pseudodirectories (plural)
pseudo-directory (alternative)

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"Mountpoint caution special /proc filesystem (page 497), which maps useful Linux kernel information to a pseudodirectory."

2010, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux:

(computing) A virtual directory entry that does not represent a directory on the underlying file system on disk, instead being automatically generated to represent some other objects in the form of files (for example '/proc' in Linux).


pseudofile

pseudofiles (plural)
pseudo-file (alternative)

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(computing) A file that does not represent a file on the underlying file system on disk, but instead is automatically generated to represent some other object in the form of a file (for example '/proc/cpuinfo' in Linux).


PC-BSD

(computing) A Unix-like operating system that is derived from FreeBSD.


mount point

mount points (plural)
mountpoint (alternative)

The following example mounts a CD-ROM drive on a mount point named /hsfiles.

2003, Janice Winsor, Solaris Operating Environment System Administrator's Guide, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 194:

(computing) The directory in a file system used as an entry point for another file system, often representing the content of a physical or virtual storage device.


CBM

Commodore Business Machines
w:Commodore Business Machines

(computing) Initialism of Commodore Business Machines.


microsoftware

Although the current microsoftware market has evolved into a two-tiered system (using distributors to reach retail stores), there are five roles in the distribution chain […]

1984, Small Systems World, volume 12, page 12:

These data were analyzed with Excel microsoftware and plotted.

2015 November 5, “Genome-Wide Analysis of Microsatellite Markers Based on Sequenced Database in Chinese Spring Wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(computing, dated) software for a microcomputer


noncomputing

A similar challenge is now facing many of world’s largest noncomputing technology companies.

2015 November 6, John Markoff, “Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in U.S.”, in New York Times:


mispatch

en-verb

mispatch (third-person singular simple present mispatches, present participle mispatching, simple past and past participle mispatched)

mispatches (present singular third-person)
mispatching (participle present)
mispatched (participle past)
mispatched (past)

Make sure you have a good boot disk in case anything goes wrong, as your computer probably won't boot with a mispatched COMMAND.COM.

When someone mispatches a cable, the subsequent repair job or hasty "What's wrong with this?" debugging often causes additional failures in short order.

2000, Network World, volume 17, number 50, page 82:

(transitive, computing) To patch wrongly.


lapheld

Lapheld computers weigh less than 15 pounds and are usually no larger than a hardcover dictionary. Fortunately, more and more lapheld computers have internal batteries which allow them to be used just about anywhere.

1985, New Accountant, volumes 1-3, page lxvi:

(computing, dated, rare) Held on one's lap; being a laptop computer.


lapheld

A few portables, particularly the small laphelds, go one step further and come with software built into the computer.

1985, New Accountant, volumes 1-3, page lxvii:

(computing, dated, rare) A laptop computer.


backpropagational

(computing, neurology) Relating to backpropagation.


adbot

(computing) A bot (automated software agent) that displays advertisements.


diskspace

(computing) storage space available on a computer disk


exfil

en-noun

exfil (countable and uncountable, plural exfils)

(computing) Clipping of exfiltration (“covert extraction of data”).


holddown

holddowns (plural)
hold-down (alternative)

(computing) A period during which a network router ignores messages about a currently unreachable route, giving it time to become reachable again.


spearphisher

From spear + phisher, modeled on spearfisher.

(computing, Internet) One who engages in spearphishing.


UWP

(computing) Initialism of Universal Windows Platform, a framework for applications that run on multiple Windows OS devices.


WinJS

Equivalent to Win (shortening of Windows) + JS (shortening of JavaScript).

compound

shortening of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Windows</i>

shortening of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">JavaScript</i>

(computing) Initialism of Windows Library for JavaScript, an open source JavaScript library developed by Microsoft.


programming interface

en-noun

programming interface (plural programming interfaces)

(computing) Ellipsis of application programming interface.


tenkey

From ten + key; the numeric keypad includes keys for the ten digits.

(computing) The numeric keypad portion of a computer keyboard.


spin down

en-verb

spin down (third-person singular simple present spins down, present participle spinning down, simple past and past participle spun down)

spins down (present singular third-person)
spinning down (participle present)
spun down (participle past)
spun down (past)

(computing, intransitive, of a disk drive) To reduce its spinning speed from that required for reading and writing.


CoAP

(computing) Initialism of Constrained Application Protocol (protocol specialized for use with constrained nodes and networks).


message queue

interprocess communication
interprocess communication

(computing) A queue onto which messages may be placed for delivery between components as part of interprocess communication.


GPIO

(computing) Initialism of general-purpose input/output, a pin on an integrated circuit whose behavior can be controlled by the user at run time.


HWB

en-noun

HWB (countable and uncountable, plural HWBs)

(computing) Initialism of Hardware Write Block device (specialized type of computer hard disk controller).

Hardware Write Block device

(computing) Initialism of Hue Whiteness Blackness, a cylindrical-coordinate representation of points in an RGB color model.


(computing) Initialism of Simple Logging Facade for Java device (a Java logging API by means of a simple facade pattern.)


softwire

(computing, networking) A type of tunnelling protocol that creates a virtual "wire" that transparently encapsulates another protocol as if were an anonymous point-to-point low-level link.


WMI

(computing) Initialism of Windows Management Instrumentation (in the Microsoft Windows operating systems, a set of extensions to the Windows Driver Model)


MSRPC

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft RPC.


WRP

(computing) Initialism of Windows Resource Protection (for system files and the registry).

(computing) Initialism of Winsock Redirect Protocol.

(computing) Initialism of Wireless Routing Protocol, a protocol for mobile ad hoc networks.

(computing) Initialism of Workflow Resource Planning, a class of the ERP system.


ProgID

(computing, Windows) Abbreviation of programmatic identifier (string that represents the underlying Clsid).


Clsid

(computing, Windows) Abbreviation of class identifier.


Yandex

The name initially stood for “Yet Another iNDEXer”. The Russian word я (ja) corresponds to the English personal pronoun “I”, making Яndex a bilingual pun on index.

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

يَانْدِكْس

Yandex (in other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters)


Chromebox

You can view a complete list of supported Chromebooks, Chromeboxes and Chromebases below: (followed by a list of devices from various manufacturers)

2016 May 19, Dan Graziano, “These are the Chromebooks that support Android apps”, in CNET:

The first Chromebooks shipped in 2011, and have since been joined by Chromeboxes and Chromebits headless clients that connect to a keyboard, mouse and display and a small number of all-in-ones.

2017 November 23, Nik Rawlinson, “Should I roll out Chrome OS across my business?”, in IT PRO:

Chrome OS tablets may be the new hotness, but the vast majority of devices that have shipped with Google’s Chrome operating system over the years have been laptops… also known as Chromebooks. But a few years ago we also saw the introduction of a few other categories including Chromeboxes (mini desktop computers), Chromebits (PC-on-a-stick devices), and Chromebases (all-in-one, iMac-like desktops).

2019 February 4, Brad Linder, “Chromebases are still a thing”, in Liliputing:

(computing) a generic ChromeOS-based network-terminal-style personal computer (this style of PC is the size of a home modem or home network router)


Chromebit

There are a lot of Chromebooks and Chromeboxes and Chromebits and what-nots out in the wild, but almost all of them are lower spec cheaper models.

2020 January 18, Jerry Hildenbrand, “Steam for Chrome OS would make Chromeboxes even more awesome”, in Android Central:

a generic ChromeOS-based network-terminal-style picocomputer (a stick that plugs into a screen, the size of a highlighter pen)


Gbps

We measure bandwidth by Gbps.

(computing) gigabits per second, a measure of data transfer rate equal to 1,000 megabits per second.


unadvise

en-verb

unadvise (third-person singular simple present unadvises, present participle unadvising, simple past and past participle unadvised)

unadvises (present singular third-person)
unadvising (participle present)
unadvised (participle past)
unadvised (past)

The result of the advise method is an advise object called objAdviseTextbox1 that you can use later if you need to unadvise for the event.

1998, Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Programmer's Guide, page 309:

The code required for advising or unadvising is equally straightforward: […]

2003, Juval Löwy, Programming .NET Components, page 116:

(computing, rare) To instruct the system to cease providing internal notifications of some kind.


superfolder

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The software project should be organized around a superfolder, the file that contains the title screen, the names of the developers and other important data, a table of contents and, if needed, an instruction page. All other folders should contain subject content and activities for the user.

1995, Gertrude W. Abramson, Learning with LinkWay: Tutorial & Applications, page 10:

You can view the content of each subfolder in the same way—that is, by clicking the + symbols of the corresponding book and all superfolders of that folder. The Index window shows an alphabetically sorted sequence of each.

2005, Dusan Petkovic, Microsoft SQL Server 2005: A Beginner's Guide, page 24:


superdirectory

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(computing) A directory that contains other directories.


sigilless

(computing, programming, rare) Without sigils.


quasiquotation

(computing) The process of quasiquoting.


quasiquoter

(computing) A software mechanism that quasiquotes.


quasiquote

quasiquote (third-person singular simple present quasiquotes, present participle quasiquoting, simple past and past participle quasiquoted)

quasiquotes (present singular third-person)
quasiquoting (participle present)
quasiquoted (participle past)
quasiquoted (past)

(transitive, computing) To enclose (a text fragment within source code) in a special markup that allows it to be separately parsed to yield a computed output value.


cargo culting

(chiefly computing) An approach that copies an existing successful approach without properly analysing and understanding it.


identicon

These images are sometimes known as identicons and can be used to identify users by providing a unique image generated from their username or IP address.

2015, Adrian Mouat, Using Docker: Developing and Deploying Software with Containers:

(computing) A graphical symbol, usually automatically generated, representing some entity for easy visual identification.


tracee

(computing) A program or a process that is being traced.


runlevel

(computing) Any of a set of modes of operation in certain operating systems, defining the state of the machine after boot.


undersegmentation

en-noun

undersegmentation (countable and uncountable, plural undersegmentations)

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They all perform well in terms of segmentation accuracy, but vary in regard to the other desiderata: GBH captures object boundaries best; SWA has the best potential for region compression; and TSP achieves the best undersegmentation error.

2015, Chenliang Xu, Jason J. Corso, “LIBSVX: A Supervoxel Library and Benchmark for Early Video Processing”, in arXiv:

(computing) A division into too few segments, as when attempting to recognize parts of an image.


oversegmentation

oversegmentation (countable and uncountable, plural oversegmentations)

(computing) A division into too many segments, as when attempting to recognize parts of an image.


tivoize

en-verb

tivoize (third-person singular simple present tivoizes, present participle tivoizing, simple past and past participle tivoized)

tivoizes (present singular third-person)
tivoizing (participle present)
tivoized (participle past)
tivoized (past)

(computing, transitive) (of a hardware system) To use software under the terms of a copyleft software license, but at the same time to impose a hardware limitations to prevent users from running the modified versions of this software on that hardware, which should be allowed under the terms of the same license.


browserify

browserify (third-person singular simple present browserifies, present participle browserifying, simple past and past participle browserified)

browserifies (present singular third-person)
browserifying (participle present)
browserified (participle past)
browserified (past)

Now, when you change the files in the application, the application is automatically browserified, and you can have faster feedback on your development.

2014, Patrick Mulder, Full Stack Web Development with Backbone.js:

(computing, transitive) To adopt (a script or screen element, etc.) to work inside the web browser.


AHCI

Advanced Host Controller Interface
w:Advanced Host Controller Interface

(computing) Initialism of Advanced Host Controller Interface: a hardware standard that exposes SATA's advanced capabilities such as hot-swapping of hard drives.


notwork

Getting your network past the "notwork" stage can be a tough nut to crack.

1997, Network World, volume 14, number 17, page 4:

The last time I bought a Dull (surprisingly, I'm still happy with it - I properly did my research on everything except the wireless notwork), it was $300 cheaper the next day […]

2008, TimC, “Re: the net is falling and I want my mommy again”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet):

(computing, colloquial, humorous) A computer network that is not functioning correctly.


softwarily

Anyone who buys a computer lacking a standard operating system may find himself in the isolation unit, softwarily speaking.

1984, James E. Balmer, The Portable Computer Book, page 57:

(computing, slang, humorous, rare) In terms of software.


superadministrator

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(computing) A user having permissions beyond those of an administrator.


eraser dust

The handwritten, chalkboard type is called eraser dust.

2004, Maria Nerius, Digital Scrapbooking, →ISBN, page 75:

He is also known for designing dozens of graphic fonts during the early 1990s such as Dragonwick, Dupuy, Eraser Dust, Pixie Font, Polo Semi-Script, Rabbit Bars, and Hosting, to name only a few.

2011, James Michael Floyd, Composers in the Classroom, →ISBN, page 238:

The moment Kelly noel saw the eraser dust font at Dafont.com, she knew it would be perfect for a page about her sons playing with chalk on the driveway.

2011, Scrapbook Tips & Techniques - Book 2, →ISBN, page 80:

(computing, typography) A font that simulates wide hand-drawn letters with a slightly mottled appearance and irregular edges.


Transact-SQL

(computing, databases) Acronym of Transact-Structured Query Language.


Wallace tree

Devised by Australian computer scientist Chris Wallace in 1964.

(computing) An efficient hardware implementation of a digital circuit that multiplies two integers.


snap-in

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A plug-in.


backchain

backchain (third-person singular simple present backchains, present participle backchaining, simple past and past participle backchained)

backchains (present singular third-person)
backchaining (participle present)
backchained (participle past)
backchained (past)

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(computing, artificial intelligence) To perform inferences, starting with a list of goals (or a hypothesis) and working backwards from the consequent to the antecedent.


betaware

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OOL

(computing) Initialism of object-oriented language.


lock screen

Take down any pictures, change your lock screen, and put all your cute couple selfies in a “do not open” folder. Then, you know…actually don’t open it.

2023 October 23, Rachel Varina, “How to Get Over a Breakup So You Can *Actually* Move On and Heal”, in Cosmopolitan:

A screen displayed by a computer or mobile device left unattended, requiring the user to perform a certain action to regain access.


file server

(computing) Alternative form of fileserver.


event loop

(computing) programming construct that waits for and dispatches events or messages in a program


nanocode

(computing) The microcode used in a nanoprocessor


nanocode

nanocode (third-person singular simple present nanocodes, present participle nanocoding, simple past and past participle nanocoded)

nanocodes (present singular third-person)
nanocoding (participle present)
nanocoded (participle past)
nanocoded (past)


JSE

Which JSEs are certified with the Progress OpenEdge Web Services Adapter?

(computing) Initialism of Java Servlet Engine.


nanoinstruction

(computing) A hardware instruction in the CPU of a nanoprocessor; a software instruction in a nanoprogram.


nanoprocessor

(computing) The processor (CPU) of a nanocomputer.


multidesktop

a multidesktop environment

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) Having or supporting more than one desktop.


autopopulation

(computing) automatic population (of a database with data, a form with text, etc.)


autopopulate

autopopulate (third-person singular simple present autopopulates, present participle autopopulating, simple past and past participle autopopulated)

autopopulates (present singular third-person)
autopopulating (participle present)
autopopulated (participle past)
autopopulated (past)

(computing, ambitransitive) To populate (a database with data, a form with text, etc.) automatically.


cardware

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

Two of the programs are "cardware" — the authors would be pleased to receive just a postcard.

1994, Peter M. Ridge, Sound Blaster: The Official Book:

Other forms of freeware/shareware are cardware/postcardware/emailware - instead of paying, you send the programmer a card or an email saying thanks.

2005, James Moran, Victoria Hull, Brilliant ECDL, page 29:

Detailed experience from other economic sectors as well as some partial data for the health sector allows us to calculate a factor the cardware costs have to be multiplied with to get total costs […]

1997, Laurens van den Broek, Annet J. Sikkel, Health Cards '97, page 95:

(computing) The software and hardware supporting a smart card system.


multiaddressing

(computing) The availability of different addresses at the same network endpoint.


storeback

If this option is chosen, the processor must write the starting address for DMA to a special controller register before issuing the storeback instruction. Multiple storeback instructions can be issued for a single packet to scatter it to memory.

1993, Proceedings of the ... ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles & Practice of Parallel Programming: PPOPP, ACM Press:

(computing) The storage of a previously retrieved value back into memory.


extended ASCII

(computing) Any of various 8-bit character sets that are supersets of ASCII.


stack machine

(computing) A real or emulated computer that uses a pushdown stack rather than individual machine registers to evaluate each subexpression in a program.


REPL

As the name suggests, this command sends the expression immediately preceding point to the REPL, which then evaluates the expression.

2015, Daniel Higginbotham, Clojure for the Brave and True, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 26:

read-eval-print loop
read-eval-print loop#English

(computing) Acronym of read-eval-print loop.


multiselect

multiselect (third-person singular simple present multiselects, present participle multiselecting, simple past and past participle multiselected)

multiselects (present singular third-person)
multiselecting (participle present)
multiselected (participle past)
multiselected (past)

(computing, graphical user interface) To select multiple items as part of a single selection.


multiselect

(computing, graphical user interface) A control or widget that allows multiple items to be selected.