MBE

en-noun

MBE (countable and uncountable, plural MBEs)

molecular-beam epitaxy
w:molecular-beam epitaxy

(technology) Initialism of molecular-beam epitaxy.


digital

digital (countable and uncountable, plural digitals)

/ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtl̩/

Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -alis (“-al”), equivalent to digit + -al. Doublet of digitalis.

He moved to digital for the first time, using a Sony camera.

(uncountable) Digital equipment or technology.


SI

SI (countable and uncountable, plural SIs)

(technology) Initialism of systems integration.


festoon

(technology) A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.


conductor

conductors (plural)
conductour (alternative obsolete)

Borrowed from Middle French conductour, from Old French conduitor, from Latin conductor.

train conductor

tram conductor

"[…] And one of the things that makes me feel safe is when I see the conductor."

2022 April 6, “Network News: Booze ban continues as part of move to prioritise women's safety”, in RAIL, number 954, page 6:

public transportation
public transportation

(rail transport) A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers.


cheese

cheese (countable and uncountable, plural cheeses or (archaic) cheesen)

cheeses (plural)
cheesen (archaic plural)

fill

dummy pattern to increase pattern density

Tok Pisin: sis

Borrowings

→ Abenaki: chiz

→ Cantonese: 芝士 (zi¹ si⁶⁻²)

→ Chichewa: tchizi

→ Coeur d'Alene: chis

→ Dhivehi: ޗީޒު (cīzu)

→ Fijian: jisi

→ Gilbertese: titi

→ Hakka: 起士 (chhí-sṳ̀)

→ Hindi: चीज़ (cīz)

→ Igbo: chiz

→ Japanese: チーズ (chīzu)

→ Korean: 치즈 (chijeu)

→ Malayalam: ചീസ് (cīsŭ)

desc

→ Mandarin: 起士 (qǐshì), 起司, 芝士 (zhīshì), 吉士 (jíshì)

→ Maori: tīhi

→ Marathi: चीझ (cījh)

→ Marshallese: jiij

→ Mohegan-Pequot: cihs; cheehs (obsolete)

→ Nepali: चिज (cij), चीज (cīj)

→ Punjabi: ਚੀਜ਼ (cīz)

→ Samoan: sisi

→ Tokelauan: hihi

→ Sinhalese: චීස් (cīs)

→ Swahili: chizi

→ Thai: ชีส (chíis)

→ Tongan: siisi

→ Tswana: tshise

→ Western Ojibwa: ᒌᐦᐢ (cîhs, jiis) (Saulteaux dialects)

→ Wu: 起司

→ Xhosa: itshizi

→ Zulu: ushizi

Etymology tree
Latin cāseusbor.
Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz
Proto-West Germanic *kāsī
Old English ċīese
Middle English chese
English cheese
From Middle English chese, from Old English ċīese, specifically the Anglian form ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Síes (“cheese”), West Frisian tsiis (“cheese”), Dutch kaas (“cheese”), German Low German Kees (“cheese”), German Käse (“cheese”).

etymon

2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation
It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density.

(technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.


cheese

en-verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

cheeses (present singular third-person)
cheesing (participle present)
cheesed (participle past)
cheesed (past)

(technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.


collar

→ Hausa: kwala

→ Burmese: ကော်လာ (kaula)

→ Swahili: kola

From Middle English coler, borrowed from Old French coler (Modern French collier), from Late Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from collum (“neck”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 (hals, “neck”), Old English heals (“neck”). Compare Spanish cuello (“neck”). More at halse. Doublet of collet.

(technology) Any encircling device or structure.

(rail transport) A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.

Any encircling device or structure.
A ring or cincture.

Any encircling device or structure.
A collar beam.

Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond
w:Rossiter W. Raymond

(mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.

A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath.

In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.

Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to (page 356)


stroke

The noun is derived from Middle English strok, stroke (“blow from a weapon, cut”), from Old English strāc, from Proto-West Germanic *straik, from Proto-Germanic *straikaz (“stroke”), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike”).
Sense 3.6.2.2 (“the oblique, slash, or virgule (‘/’)”) is a contraction of oblique stroke, a variant of oblique which was originally used in telegraphy.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* German Streich (“stroke”)
* Middle Low German strēk (“stroke, trick, prank”)
* Scots strak, strake, straik (“blow, stroke”)

isku

one of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished

ход

single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; length of this movement

For the pistons of a four-stroke engine, the exhaust stroke follows the power stroke.

(technology) A single movement or thrust of a reciprocating device (such as a piston or connecting rod); the length of this movement.

(by extension) A thrust of the penis during sexual intercourse.


stealth

From Middle English stelthe, from Old English stǣlþ, from Proto-Germanic *stēliþō, equivalent to steal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English stalu (“theft, stealth”), Old High German stāla (“theft”), German Diebstahl (“theft”).

(military, aviation, vehicles, technology) Having properties that diminish radar signatures.


hardware

→ Amharic: ሃርድዌር (hardəwer)

From Middle English hardware; equivalent to hard + -ware; attested since the mid-15th century.


CC

en-noun

CC (countable and uncountable, plural CCs)

compact cassette
compact cassette#English

(sound engineering, technology) Initialism of compact cassette.


bleeding edge

bleeding edges (plural)
bleeding-edge (alternative)

Blend of bleed + leading edge, and metaphorically alluding to the cutting edge (“forefront or position of greatest advancement in some field”) as a double-edged sword.

on the bleeding edge of drone technology

They would be the creators of strategy, generators of action and the bleeding edge of the church, ever pushing toward the front lines of conflict.

1968, Scott Francis Brenner, Ways of Worship for New Forms of Mission, page 79:

A few leading edge (some say "bleeding" edge) users have stepped into the arena and their experiences have helped sharpen our perception of what the electronic office can be.

The motion-captured ape characters are the bleeding edge of digital effects, rarely short of impressive.

2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The Ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes Ends Up Surrendering to Formula”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2017-11-27:

(technology, idiomatic) Something too new and untested to be reliable or to have any assurance of safety; the figurative place where such things exist.

bardzo nowoczesna rzecz

something too new and untested to be reliable


circuit

From Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus (“a going round”), from circuire (“go round”), from circum (“around”) + ire.

(theater) A set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.


evangelist

From Old French evangeliste, equivalent to evangel + -ist, from ecclesiastical Latin evangelista, from ecclesiastical Ancient Greek εὐαγγελιστής (euangelistḗs, “bringer of good news”), from εὐαγγελίζεσθαι (euangelízesthai, “to evangelize”), from εὐάγγελος (euángelos, “bringing good news”), from εὖ (eû, “well”) + ἀγγέλλειν (angéllein, “to announce”).

uder

εὐαγγελιστής

developer evangelist

[…] and has worked in multiple roles, including as the C# Product Manager and as a Developer Evangelist in the Mid-Atlantic district.

2007, James Avery, Jim Holmes, Windows Developer Power Tools, page xxii:

(technology) A person hired to promote a particular technology.


noise

en-noun

noise (countable and uncountable, plural noises)

From Middle English noyse, noise, from Old French noise (“a dispute, wrangle, strife, noise”), of uncertain origin. According to some, from Latin nausia, nausea (“disgust, nausea”); according to others, from Latin noxia (“hurt, harm, damage, injury”); but neither explanation is satisfactory in regard to either form or sense.

der

signal-to-noise ratio

On the technical side, the scanning and OCR of texts, in combination with the graphic design of high school text books, introduced a certain level of noise into the corpus which in turn led to a higher tagging error rate than usual and may affect count precision.

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 11:

(technology) Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output.


honeycomb

en-noun

honeycomb (countable and uncountable, plural honeycombs)

Alhambra
Oxford English Dictionary
United States Army

The noun is derived from Middle English hony comb, from Old English huniġcamb, from huniġ (“honey”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂ónks (“honey”)) + camb (“comb”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“peg; tooth; row of teeth”)). The English word is analysable as honey + comb. The Oxford English Dictionary posits that the arrangement of several plates of wax “hanging parallel to each other from the roof of the hive suggests a comb with its teeth”. The verb is derived from the noun.

kennosto

something resembling honeycomb in having numerous cells or small holes

hunaja

something resembling honeycomb in sweetness; something desirable or pleasant

(countable, by extension) Something resembling honeycomb (sense 1) in having numerous cells or small holes.

The texture of the surface of a solar cell, intended to increase its surface area and capture more sunlight.

(archaic) A defect in a material (especially metal) where small holes are present; specifically (construction), a defect in concrete consisting of numerous voids resulting from the failure of mortar to effectively fill the spaces among coarse aggregate particles.

шупла

defect in a material where small holes are present; specifically, a defect in concrete consisting of numerous voids

(chiefly aviation) Material manufactured with small hollow cells, sometimes sandwiched between two flat sheets, which is used to make light, stiff structural components.

kennosto

material manufactured with small hollow cells


compress

en-verb

compress (third-person singular simple present compresses, present participle compressing, simple past and past participle compressed)

compresses (present singular third-person)
compressing (participle present)
compressed (participle past)
compressed (past)

From Middle English compressen, from Old French compresser, from Late Latin compressare (“to press hard/together”), from Latin compressus, the past participle of comprimō (“to compress”), itself from com- (“together”) + premō (“press”).

der

(technology, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.

компримирам

to encode digital information into less bits


antenna

From Latin antenna, antemna (“yard, sailyard; pole”). First used in this sense as a Latin word in the 15th century and as an English word by the end of the 17th century.

bor

aerial

Device to receive or transmit radio-frequency signal

An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.


drop

From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”) [and other forms], from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropō (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to crumble, grind”).

nb...

dropan, droupe, (Northern England) droipe

afval

small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension

piisk

very small quantity of liquid, or of anything

piisk

that which hangs or resembles a liquid globule

langemine

decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate

afgrond

distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level

A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.

A thing which drops or hangs down.
(technology)
Ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press.

A thing which drops or hangs down.
Ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press.


capacitor

From capacity + -or.
Capacitor replaced the term condenser (coined by Alessandro Volta in 1782) to disambiguate it from steam condenser. The coiner is unknown but the change was recommended in 1926 by British Standard Glossary of Terms in Electrical Engineering.

By placing the 0.02μF capacitor on top of the whistle chip, the circuit oscillates at a lower frequency. […] It is possible to pick resistors and capacitors that will make the pitch higher than humans can hear.

2021 December 18, “Snap Circuits Classic”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, page 27:

(electronics) An electronic component capable of storing electrical energy in an electric field; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by a dielectric.


filter

→ Japanese: フィルター (firutā)

→ Korean: 필터 (pilteo)

From Middle English filtre, from Medieval Latin filtrum (compare also Old French feutre (“felt; filter”)), from Frankish *filtir, from Proto-West Germanic *felt. See felt. Doublet of phin.

(photography) A translucent object placed in the light path of a camera to remove certain wavelengths (colors), or a computer program that simulates such an effect.


microcontroller

microcontrollers (plural)
µC (alternative)
uC (alternative)
MCU (alternative)

/ˈmaɪkɹə(ʊ)kənˌtɹəʊlə/

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The microcontroller is a mini computer which can be programmed to perform different tasks, including monitoring things and making things happen. It is pre-programmed for use with the games projects. See project 17 for how to select games on it.

2021 December 18, “Snap Circuits Arcade”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, page 6:

(computing, electronics) A microcomputer on a single chip, used to control some device such as an automobile engine or a toy.


thermistor

(electronics) A resistor whose resistance varies rapidly and predictably with temperature and as a result can be used to measure temperature.


section

From Middle English seccioun, from Old French section, from Latin sectiō (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secāre (“to cut”). More at saw.

разрэ́з

surgery: incision or the act of making an incision

(technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.


inter-

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *ənter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Borrowed from Latin inter- (“between, amid”), a form of prepositional inter (“between”).

bor+

internetted

interblag

(technology) Internet: relating to the internet or computer networking.


biotech

en-noun

biotech (countable and uncountable, plural biotechs)

/ˈbaɪəʊˌtɛk/

Clipping of biotechnology. Analyzable as bio- (“biological”) + tech (“technology”).

affix

I’m planning to work in biotech after college.


bounce

en-verb

bounce (third-person singular simple present bounces, present participle bouncing, simple past and past participle bounced)

bounces (present singular third-person)
bouncing (participle present)
bounced (participle past)
bounced (past)

From Middle English bounsen, bunsen (“to beat, thump”), cognate with Scots bunce, bonce (“to bounce”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps imitative, related to bump, or related to Middle English bonchen (“to pound, beat”) and Dutch bonken (“to bump”).
Compare Saterland Frisian bumzje (“to pound, bang, bounce”), West Frisian bûnzje (“to throb, bounce, pulsate”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb, bounce”), German Low German bunsen, bumsen (“to beat, bounce”), German bumsen (“to thud, bang, pound”).

unc

uncertain

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

bouncing stems

(music, technology) To render multiple tracks to computer storage so that they can be played back and re-recorded with the addition of further material.


automagical

en-adj

automagical (comparative more automagical, superlative most automagical)

more automagical (comparative)
most automagical (superlative)

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/ˈɑtoʊˈmæd͡ʒɪkəl/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

automagisch

automatic, but with an apparent element of magic


cinch

Uncertain; perhaps from Cinch Connectors, a Chicago-based company producing connectors.

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(chiefly Europe, technology) An RCA connector.


diode

→ French: diode (see there for further descendants)

→ Korean: 다이오드 (daiodeu)

→ Spanish: diodo
→ Basque: diodo

From di- (“two”) + -ode. Learned formation, coined by William Henry Eccles in 1919, after Ancient Greek δίοδος (díodos, “passage through”), which however is formed not with δι- (di-, “two”) but with δια- (dia-, “through”).

der

I propose to give the name diode to a tube with two electrodes.

1919 April 18, William Eccles, Electrician, page 475:

If a crystal or a diode is used, the amplifier-voltmeter combination may be used with an amplitude-modulated source; or with a c-w source, the detector may be connected to a microammeter or galvanometer as an indicating device.

1949, Samuel Silver, Microwave Antenna Theory and Design, page 593:

In this circuit when the diode is forward biased, the voltage across the diode remains fairly close to the diode's barrier potential.

2005, Robert Diffenderfer, Electronic Devices: Systems and Applications, page 69:

(electronics) An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.


dynamo

A shortening of dynamo-electric machine. The element dynamo- is ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”).

uder

"As usual, it isn't telling the truth about it or you. But your body is. I can feel its vitality like the pulse of a dynamo."

1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 176:

dynamo-electric machine
dynamo-electric machine

(electromagnetism) An electricity generator; a dynamo-electric machine.


demise

en-noun

demise (countable and uncountable, plural demises)

From Middle English demyse, dimise, dimisse, dymyse, from Middle French démise, the feminine singular past participle of démettre (“to put down, relinquish”); from Latin dēmissa, feminine singular of perfect passive participle of dēmittō. The "death" and "end" senses derive by way of euphemism from the legal sense, as a person's death was a common way that the legal demise could be accomplished.
The verb is from Middle English dimisen, from the noun.

Relocating components to places where they receive more heating effect earlier in the reentry and even triggering a partial break-up of the satellite structure during reentry to aid demise.

(technology) The atmospheric disintegration of a satellite or satellite component upon re-entering Earth's atmosphere.


predecessor

predecessors (plural)
prædecessor (alternative)
prædecessour (alternative)
predecessour (alternative)

From Middle English predecessour, from Old French predecesseor (“forebear”), from Late Latin praedēcessor, from Latin prae- (“pre-”) + Latin dēcessor (“retiring officer”), from Latin dēcēdō (“I retire, I die”) (English decease).

The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.

No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.

1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:

A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.


ODT

(healthcare, technology) Initialism of optical diffraction tomography.


appliance

appliance (countable and uncountable, plural appliances)

Recorded since the 1560s. From the English apply + -ance.

An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end, especially:

An attachment, a piece of equipment to adapt another tool or machine to a specific purpose.


fault

From Middle English faute, faulte, from Anglo-Norman faute, Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita (“shortcoming”), feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Displaced native Middle English schuld, schuild (“fault”) (from Old English scyld (“fault”)), Middle English lac (“fault, lack”) (from Middle Dutch lak (“lack, fault”)), Middle English last (“fault, vice”) (from Old Norse lǫstr (“fault, vice, crime”)). Compare French faute (“fault, foul”), Portuguese falta (“lack, shortage”) and Spanish falta (“lack, absence”). More at fail, false.

cog

A point at which something is divided, interrupted, or disconnected.

(technology) An abnormal connection within an electric circuit.


Iron Age

/ˈʌɪən eɪdʒ/

From iron + age, in the mythological sense a calque of Latin saecula ferrea, aetas ferrea; in the archaeological sense a calque of Danish jernalder.

(archaeology) A level of culture in which humans used iron and the technology of ironworking. (Estimated to have begun in Europe about 1100 BC)


silent

en-adj

silent (comparative silenter or more silent, superlative silentest or most silent)

silenter (comparative)
more silent (comparative)
silentest (superlative)
most silent (superlative)
scilent (alternative)

From Latin silēns (“silent”), present participle of sileō (“be silent”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyl- (“still, windless, quiet, slow”). Related to Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽 (anasilan, “to cease, grow still, be silent”), Old English sālnes (“silence”).

der

My phone was on silent.

(technology) With the sound turned off; usually on silent or in silent mode.

заглушен

in silent mode, on silent, with the sound turned off

The Magnavox Odyssey was a silent console.


phonograph

/ˈfəʊnəˌɡɹɑːf/

/ˈfoʊnəˌɡɹæf/

A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.


cleave

From Middle English cleven, from the Old English strong verb clēofan (“to split, to separate”), from Proto-West Germanic *kleuban, from Proto-Germanic *kleubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (“to cut, to slice”).
Doublet of clive. Cognate with Dutch klieven, dialectal German klieben, Swedish klyva, Norwegian Nynorsk kløyva; also Ancient Greek γλύφω (glúphō, “carve”).

(technology) Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.


baffle

en-verb

baffle (third-person singular simple present baffles, present participle baffling, simple past and past participle baffled)

baffles (present singular third-person)
baffling (participle present)
baffled (participle past)
baffled (past)
baffle (infinitive)
baffle (first-person present singular)
baffled (first-person past singular)
baffle (present second-person singular)
bafflest (archaic present second-person singular)
baffled (past second-person singular)
baffledst (archaic past second-person singular)
baffles (present singular third-person)
baffleth (archaic present singular third-person)
baffled (past singular third-person)
baffle (plural present)
baffled (past plural)
baffle (present subjunctive)
baffled (past subjunctive)
baffle (imperative present)
baffling (participle present)
baffled (participle past)
baffol (alternative)
bafful (alternative)

The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly:
* from French bafouer, baffoüer (“to abuse, revile; to confuse, baffle; to deceive; to flout; to scorn”), imitative of someone making a disdainful sound by expelling air quickly through pouted lips (compare Occitan baf (interjection expressing disdain)); or
* from French befer, beffer, beffler (“(obsolete) to deceive; to mock, ridicule”) (compare Old French befe, beffe, buffe (“deception; mockery”); beferie (“deceit; quibbling”)), possibly from bafouer: see above.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
* Italian beffare (“(verb) to deride, mock”), beffa (“(noun) banter; mockery”)
* Occitan bafar (“(verb) to deride, mock”), bafa (“(noun) banter; mockery”)
* Old Spanish bafa (modern Spanish befa (“(noun) banter; mockery”))
* Spanish befar (“(verb) to deride, mock”)

cog

Fleet ships encountering on the high seas / Who speak, and unto eternity diverge— / These hailed each other, poised on the loud surge / Of one of Mrs. Grundy's Tuesday teas, / Nor trimmed one sail to baffle the driving breeze.

1924 August, John Crowe Ransom, “Good Ships”, in Chills and Fever: Poems, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 54:

(technology) To dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control (a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound).


baffle

en-noun

baffle (countable and uncountable, plural baffles)

→ French: baffle

→ Spanish: bafle

sound baffle

Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.

A device used to dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control the movement of a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound; specifically, a surface positioned inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one place to another without preventing motion altogether.

en:device to restrain or control fluid flow

отразителна преграда

device used to control the movement of a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid

перегоро́дка

разделительная

(US, dialectal, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.


femtoengineering

(technology, physics) Engineering subatomic particles by manipulating quarks.


dumb

en-adj

dumb (comparative dumber, superlative dumbest)

dumber (comparative)
dumbest (superlative)

From Middle English dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, ineffectual”), from Old English dumb (“silent, speechless, mute, unable to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *dumb, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz (“dull, dumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).
The senses of stupid, unintellectual, and pointless, which are found regularly since the 19th century only, probably developed under the influence of German dumm and Dutch dom. Just like the English word, these originally meant "lacking the power of speech", but they developed the mentioned senses early on.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots dumb (“dumb, silent”), North Frisian dom, domme (“dumb, stupid”), West Frisian dom (“dumb, stupid”), Dutch dom (“dumb, stupid”), German dumm (“dumb, stupid”), Danish dum (“stupid”), Swedish dum (“stupid”), Icelandic dumbur (“dumb, mute”). See also deaf.

inh

(of technology) Not equipped with intelligent behavior or processing capabilities of its own.


piston rod

The cylinder barrels are lubricated by non-atomised feeds introduced at top and bottom. The remaining non-atomised feeds are to the piston rod packing and the valve spindle rear bush.

1956 April, “"Merchant Navy" Class Pacific Modified”, in Railway Magazine, page 211:

A rod or bar in an engine that connects a piston to a crosshead.

мотовилка

rod or bar that connects a piston to a crosshead


HTR

en-noun

HTR (countable and uncountable, plural HTRs)

The double-heterogeneity characterising pebble-bed high temperature reactors (HTRs) makes Monte Carlo based calculation tools the most suitable for detailed core analysis.

2009, Bomboni et al.: Comparison among MCNP-based depletion codes applied to burnup calculation of pebble-bed HTR lattices, page 918:

The penetration by light water reactors would be large even if other thermal reactors like the HTR were present, according to our preliminary evaluations, because the LWR is the best plutonium producer.

1972, Vincenti et al.: Spacedependent reactor dynamics, page 131:

Of the nuclear reactors the HTR now produces heat at the highest temperature.

1970, De Beni and Matchetti: Hydrogen, key to the energy market, page 49:

high temperature reactor
high temperature reactor#English

(technology) Initialism of high temperature reactor.


IAM

(technology) Initialism of immobilized artificial membrane.


HUD

An explosion just made us an exit! I'll mark it on your HUD, Chief, go!

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Cortana (Jen Taylor), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Cortana:

(technology, video games) Acronym of head-up display.


machinery

machinery (countable and uncountable, plural machineries)

/məˈʃiːnəɹi/

From machine + -ery. Compare French machinerie.

The working parts of a machine as a group.


mechanize

en-verb

mechanize (third-person singular simple present mechanizes, present participle mechanizing, simple past and past participle mechanized)

mechanizes (present singular third-person)
mechanizing (participle present)
mechanized (participle past)
mechanized (past)
mechanise (alternative)


DL

en-noun

DL (countable and uncountable, plural DLs)

DLs (plural)
D.L. (alternative)
D. L. (alternative)
dl (alternative)
d/l (alternative)
D/L (alternative)

distribution list
distribution list#English

(technology) Initialism of distribution list.


annulus

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ānnulus, a misspelling of Latin ānulus (“ring, especially one worn on a finger”), from ānus (“ring”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂no- (“ring”)) + -ulus (diminutive suffix).
The plural form annuli is a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ānnulī.

lbor

Pressure balance is obtained by the air pressure in the cylinder operating on a supplementary piston in the buffer piston head, transmitting pressure to a small quantity of oil which is ported to an annulus between the buffer piston seals and the cylinder wall, so that the seal is always under opposing pressures; oil on one side and air on the other.

1950 September, “Notes and News: Pneumatic Buffer Stop, E.R.”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 642:

(technology) In a well such as an oil well or water well: the space between a pipe or tube and any pipe, tube, casing, or sides of a hole surrounding it.

環空 /环空

in a well: the space between a pipe or tube and any pipe, tube, casing, or sides of a hole surrounding it


HMI

(technology) Initialism of human-machine interface.


technology transfer

en-noun

technology transfer (countable and uncountable, plural technology transfers)

University licensing offices have at their disposal a number of contractual arrangements to facilitate technology transfer, including secrecy agreements, options, licenses, material transfer agreements, and equity investments.

2004, David Mowery, Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation, page 178:

Technology transfer from the space program has fueled many inventions and innovations, but it was also the excitement of this human accomplishment that drove many young minds (including that of your author) to enter STEM careers.

The movement of (especially new) technology from one field or region to another, especially from a research institution to the marketplace in order to allow commercialization.

трансфер на технологии

movement of technology from one context to another

The use of a concept or product from one technology to solve a problem in an unrelated one.


mechanization

mechanization (countable and uncountable, plural mechanizations)

mechanizations (plural)
mechanisation (alternative)

The use of machinery to replace human or animal labour, especially in agriculture and industry.

مَكْنَنَة

the use of machinery to replace human or animal labour


thimble

The noun is derived from Middle English thymbyll, thimel (“thimble”) [and other forms], from Old English þȳmel (“thimble, thumbstall; fingerstall”), then either:
* from Old English þūma (“thumb”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”)) + -el (suffix forming agent nouns and the names of instruments); or
* from Proto-Germanic *þūmilaz (“thumb-covering, thumb-sheath”), from *þūmô (“thumb”) (ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root mentioned above) + *-ilaz (suffix forming agent nouns).
The English word is analysable as thumb + -le (suffix forming agent nouns), and is cognate with Dutch duimeling (“thumbstall”), German Däumling (“thumbstall”), German Low German Dümelke (“thumbstall”), Saterland Frisian Düümelke (“thumbstall”), Scots thummle, thumble (“thimble”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

nb...

themel, themelle, themyl, themylle, thomble, thomelle, thymbyl, thymbyll, thymelle, thymle, thymyl, thymylle, timmele, þymel

cog

(also attributively) An object which resembles a thimble (sense 1) in shape or size.

(technology) A socket in machinery shaped like a thimble.

муфа

(technology) A ring- or tube-shaped component such as a ferrule.


alpha version

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


pre-alpha version

en-noun

pre-alpha version (plural pre-alpha versions)

A program or application that is not feature-complete and is not usually released to the public. Developers are usually still deciding on what features the program should have at this stage of software development. This stage comes before the alpha version, and is the first software development stage given to a program.


release version

release version (plural release versions)

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


topology

topology (countable and uncountable, plural topologies)

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

topologie

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

(technology) The properties of a particular technological embodiment that are not affected by differences in the physical layout or form of its application.


Coolgardie safe

en-noun

Coolgardie safe (plural Coolgardie safes)

Named after the West Australian town of Coolgardie.

A food storage cabinet keeping its contents cool by evaporation of water from sides made of hessian.


record player

record players (plural)
record-player (alternative)

A device for playing phonograph records.

gramafon

analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records


SOV

(technology) Initialism of shot-on-video.


irradiate

en-verb

irradiate (third-person singular simple present irradiates, present participle irradiating, simple past and past participle irradiated)

irradiates (present singular third-person)
irradiating (participle present)
irradiated (participle past)
irradiated (past)
irradiate (infinitive)
irradiate (first-person present singular)
irradiated (first-person past singular)
irradiate (present second-person singular)
irradiatest (archaic present second-person singular)
irradiated (past second-person singular)
irradiatedst (archaic past second-person singular)
irradiates (present singular third-person)
irradiateth (archaic present singular third-person)
irradiated (past singular third-person)
irradiate (plural present)
irradiated (past plural)
irradiate (present subjunctive)
irradiated (past subjunctive)
irradiate (imperative present)
irradiating (participle present)
irradiated (participle past)

/ɪˈɹeɪdɪeɪt/

From Middle English irradiate (“illuminated, shining”) (more at etymology 1), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

облъчвам

to apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something); to treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens; to treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation

An inherent protection in labeling of the shipping containers will be the prevention of irradiating the commodity again, insuring that the produce has been treated within the safety limits established by the FDA [Food and Drug Administration].

1985 November 18, J. Richard Graves, jr., witness, “Statement of J. Richard Graves, jr., Chairman, Government Relations Committee, United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association”, in Federal Food Irradiation Development and Control Act of 1985: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session on H.R. 696 […] (Serial No. 99-14), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1986, →OCLC, page 100:

(technology) To apply radiation other than visible light to (someone or something).

To treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens.

(medicine) To treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation.


cathead

catheads (plural)
cat-head (alternative)

The noun is derived from cat + head.
Sense 1.1 (“heavy piece of timber projecting from a ship on which an anchor is raised or lowered, and secured”) is from the fact that such a timber traditionally had a cat or lion’s head carved on its end. Sense 4 (“ellipsis of cathead biscuit”) is apparently from the fact that the biscuit is similar in size to a cat’s head.
The verb is derived from the noun.

(technology, chiefly mining) A (small) capstan (“vertical cylindrical machine that revolves on a spindle, used to apply force to cables, ropes, etc.”) or windlass (“type of winch”) forming part of hoisting machinery.


whetted

The inside of a valve has whetted parts constructed of corrosion-resistant material.

(technology) (of a surface) exposed to a working fluid


CRS

en-noun

CRS (countable and uncountable, plural CRSs)

(technology) Initialism of cold-rolled steel, steel that has been processed while remaining relatively cold, often coated in oil to prevent corrosion.


space technology

space technology (countable and uncountable, plural space technologies)

(uncountable) The application of science and engineering to the exploration and utilization of outer space

(countable) Any particular scientific or engineering discipline used in this field


rheostat

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

An electrical resistor, with two terminals, whose resistance is continuously variable by moving a knob or slider.


circulatory system

circulatory system (plural circulatory systems)

(technology) The parts of a machine responsible for the circulation of some fluid.


pressure vessel

pressure vessel (plural pressure vessels)

A container designed to maintain a volume at a significantly different pressure to that of ambient.


telecommunication

telecommunication (countable and uncountable, plural telecommunications)

telecommunications (plural)
telecommunications (alternative)

/ˌteləkəˌmjʉːnɪˈkæɪʃən/

From French télécommunication. Equivalent to tele- + communication.

(uncountable) The science and technology of the communication of messages over a distance using electric, electronic or electromagnetic impulses.

հեռահաղորդակցություն

science and technology of communication over distance


access control

access control (usually uncountable, plural access controls)

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


solid-state device

solid-state device (plural solid-state devices)

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


immunotronics

(sciences, technology) The design of electronic systems inspired by the natural immune system. Related areas include embryonics (embryological electronics), and evolvable hardware. Also known as "immunological electronics."


simmerstat

From simmer + -stat, modelled on thermostat.

An electrical control device that turns a heating element such as a stove, hotplate or grill on and off in a user-selectable duty cycle: for example, five of every 20 seconds.


AIT

(sciences, technology) Initialism of Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria's largest Research and Technology Organization (RTO)).


ecophagy

The consuming of ecosystems by nanotechnology that has gone awry.


total loss

Some rocket engines have a total loss hydraulic system for engine gimbal, using fuel bled from the main turbopumps as the working fluid.

(technology) A system in which the working fluid is used once and then dumped, burned up, etc. rather than being recirculated. By extension, an electrical system that runs on battery power without the means to recharge during operation.


CW

CW (countable and uncountable, plural CWs)

(technology) Initialism of continuous wave.


tech-savvy

en-adj

tech-savvy (comparative more tech-savvy, superlative most tech-savvy)

more tech-savvy (comparative)
most tech-savvy (superlative)

From tech (“(informal) technology”) + savvy (“perceptive, shrewd, and well-informed”); perhaps a contraction of high-tech savvy, or a variant of techno-savvy.

compound

The Tofflers have also recruited as executive partners TV producer Al Burton and the tech-savvy film producer and entrepreneur Jeff Apple.

1996 July 15, Michael Krantz, “Cashing in on Tomorrow”, in Time, volume 148, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2008-03-09:

But as the railways become increasingly digitised, it is these young tech-savvy individuals with knowledge about coding who may well have the skills the industry needs.

2021 August 11, Chris Howe, “Inspire the March of the ‘Mods’”, in RAIL, number 937, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63:

People want to see staff on trains. […] People want ticket offices. […] The danger is that we could end up with a minimalist railway, usable only by those who are fit, tech-savvy, and have an existing knowledge of the network.

2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “Productivity should play no part in pay negotiations”, in RAIL, number 972, page 47:

(informal) Proficient in the use of technology, especially computers.

精通科技的

proficient in the use of technology, especially computers


viewscreen

Kazorr, the weapons officer, sat with his slobbery mouth gaping open at the main view-screen.

2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 19:

(technology) A display screen for a device such as a computer, a camera, or a video recorder.


mechanokinetic

(technology) Of or pertaining to mechanokinetics


mechanokinetics

(technology) The ability to cause movement (of artificial limbs etc) by means of the mind


nanofluidics

(technology) The design and fabrication of nanostructures containing the controlled movement of fluids.


nanomechanics

(physics, technology) The study of the mechanical properties of nanostructures and nanomaterials


cleantech

en-noun

cleantech (countable and uncountable, plural cleantechs)

If I'm getting impatient, one can only imagine the impatience of auto workers who have lost their job, promising cleantech start-ups that can't afford to commercialize their prototype […].

2009 January 19, Tyler Hamilton, “Clean tech programs losing steam”, in Toronto Star:

(manufacturing) Technologies that support increased productivity or profitability while also reducing resource consumption or pollution.


walled garden

A long time ago, back before Al Gore invented the Internet, there were three big kids on the online block, each of which ran its own proprietary online service. America Online, Prodigy and CompuServe each had a "walled garden" of sorts for their customers.

2000 September 4, “AOL's 'Walled Garden'”, in Wall Street Journal:

AOL tried to provide a walled garden for all their subscribers in the early 1990s.

2007, Wes Simpson, Howard Greenfield, IPTV and Internet video, →ISBN, page 39:

When you deal with iPhones and iPads (and the iCloud, iMacs, iTVs, iPods, and all those other iThingies), you're living in a walled garden. Apple controls it from the beginning to end.

2016, Woody Leonhard, Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 885:

The walled garden made AOL money, some of it real, but also hastened the site's loss of allure to the Internet, whose open design was the opposite of AOL's, and which was by now growing a greater variety of things to see and do.

2017, Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

The content sludge is also present in Big Tech’s plans to reimagine search as an interactive, chatbot-powered walled garden.

2023 May 17, Charlie Warzel, “Here’s How AI Will Come for Your Job”, in The Atlantic:

(figurative, media, technology) A closed platform for content or services controlled by a single carrier or service provider, typically requiring subscription to access.


sealed beam

The new Sealed Beam Headlights are designed to maintain substantially their initial efficiency throughout their life.

1940, Ralph A. Richardson, Optics and Wheels, General Motors Corporation, p. 25

(technology) A type of electric lamp for producing a beam of light in which the filament is sealed inside a unit consisting of the reflector and lens so as to ensure the alignment of the beam and to protect the reflector from becoming dirty or tarnished.


microcell

(technology) A small, local cell in a mobile phone network


course authoring tool

course authoring tool (plural course authoring tools)

Course authoring tools are special-purpose tools for creating e-learning courses

2003, Katherine Horton, E-learning tools and technologies, page 280:

(education, computing, technology) Software designed for creating e-learning courses.


brailler

Use pads under braillers to reduce noise and under reading-writing stands to counteract sliding.

2005, Jean E. Olmstead, Itinerant teaching, page 190:

(technology) A typewriter used to emboss paper with braille cells to be read by the visually impaired instead of using a manual stylus.


technopeasant

“You would be able to, if only you′d — ”
Jim cut him off in mid-grumble. “I know. ‘If only I′d stop being a technopeasant and open my eyes.’ OK, I know I′ve been a technopeasant, but now I want to open my eyes, and I need you to help me do it.”

1994, Stewart Wieck, When Will You Rage?, page 86:

Being a technopeasant, I took his word for it and bought the rabbit ears for an additional sum. When I got home and uncrated the set, I discovered it had a built-in antenna and that I did not need the extra one.

1997, Ruth H. Jacobs, Be an Outrageous Older Woman, page 111:

In his vision people will be divided into two classes; “the Knows” and the “Know-Nots,” the digirati and the technopeasants.

1999, William A. Stahl (William Austin), God and the Chip: Religion and the Culture of Technology, page 47:

In his other statements it is clear that he regards computer programmers as technopeasants, and this is how many corporations do treat them with programming outsourced to low-wage countries like India.

2001, Ruth Cohen, Alien Invasion: How The Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario, page 182:

(informal) One who is disadvantaged or exploited within a modern technological society, especially through inability to use computer technology.


Gang of Four

the Gang of Four (canonical)
gang of four (alternative)

Calque from Chinese 四人幫／四人帮 (sìrénbāng).

zh-l

四人幫／四人帮 (sìrénbāng)

(by extension) Any influential (political) group having four members.

(technology) Synonym of Big Four (“four largest corporations of Big Tech”).


SIM card

From SIM (i.e. Subscriber Identity Module) + card.

af

Despite the ongoing health crisis, the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) has ordered phone operators in the country to block SIM cards not linked to a national identity number (NIN), used to bundle together biometric records such as fingerprints and headshots. […] Even when people manage to get a NIN, they must then integrate it with their SIM card by texting their service provider a code, a process that users say is sometimes glitchy.

2021 February 10, Eoin McSweeney, “As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos”, in CNN:

A small, removable card smaller than a credit card which stores mobile phone data such as contact names and numbers, SMSs and security information.

بِطَاقَة SIM

small, removable card which stores mobile phone data


Subscriber Identity Module

en-noun

Subscriber Identity Module (plural Subscriber Identity Modules)

A component on a SIM card that stores information to identify a mobile phone user.


dither

en-verb

dither (third-person singular simple present dithers, present participle dithering, simple past and past participle dithered)

dithers (present singular third-person)
dithering (participle present)
dithered (participle past)
dithered (past)

Variant of didder, from Middle English dideren (“to tremble”). Compare Middle English bididren, bididdren (“to seduce, deceive”), from Old English bedidrian, bedyderian (“to deceive, trick”).
Alternatively, perhaps with expressive voicing from *titeren, from Proto-Germanic *titrōną. If so, then a doublet of teeter and cognate with Old High German zittarōn (German zittern) and Old Norse titra (Faroese titra, Icelandic titra). Alternatively an unrelated reduplicative onomatopoeia.

Look at how pixelly this wall texture is. You almost don't even notice the dithering when driving by quick. Up close though, it's real chunky.

2023, Preston "Pretzel", 4:34 from the start, in Familiar and Unfamiliar Areas in Lego Island:

(electronics, technology, signal processing) To apply an algorithm to digital data to minimize the effects of quantization:

(computer graphics) To use dot patterns in an image or graphic to simulate colors or shades not in the system palette.

koostaa

(computing, graphics) to simulate a color digitally

To intentionally add noise to a signal to remove artifacts caused by digitization.


dither

en-noun

dither (countable and uncountable, plural dithers)

(electronics, technology, signal processing) Any algorithm applied to digital data to minimize the effects of quantization:

A form of noise intentionally added to remove artifacts caused by digitization.

(computer graphics) The use of dot patterns in an image or graphic to approximate colors not available in the system palette.

sirottelu

computer graphics: use of dot patterns to approximate colors


technological singularity

technological singularity (plural technological singularities)

/ˌtɛknəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkl̩ ˌsɪŋɡjəˈlɛɹɪti/

/ˌtɛknəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl̩ ˌsɪŋɡjʊˈlæɹɪti/

Popularized by Vernor Vinge in 1993, by analogy to the gravitational singularity in black holes, where the conventional laws of science are thought to no longer apply, resulting in a breakdown of predictability.

For the consequences for humanity, if a technological singularity did indeed occur, would be seismic. What are these potentially seismic consequences? What sort of world, what sort of universe, might come into being if a technological singularity does occur?

2015, Murray Shanahan, The Technological Singularity, MIT Press, →ISBN, page xx:

A hypothetical future event in human history caused by the ever-increasing ability of new technology to speed up the rate at which new technology is developed.


technopreneur

/ˌtɛknəʊpɹəˈnɜː(ɹ)/

A technopreneur, the author cuts through the fog of highbrow tech-speak and shares in layman terms all you need to know about media and technology...

1993, Hsüan-ming Wang, Wang Xuanming, The practice of effective leadership: six strategies for war:

(informal) An entrepreneur in the field of technology.


nonsmart

Fixed beams are quite easy to form and may be viewed as an extension of older nonsmart antenna systems (where directional selectivity was achieved by the design of propagation patterns from single antenna elements).

2003, George M. Calhoun, Third Generation Wireless Systems: Post-Shannon signal architectures, page 360:

Only a few nonsmart models, primarily newer Razr models and a few Nokia phones, can run Yahoo Go. And once again, no Verizon phones need apply.

2007 May 24, David Pogue, “How to Make Your Cellphone Act Like a BlackBerry”, in New York Times:


screen time

screen time (countable and uncountable, plural screen times)

screen times (plural)
screentime (alternative)

The editorial advised parents of small children to limit their kids' screen time.

In many families, children are getting more screen time than the parents think is good for them, although it's probably less than the children want.

2016, Noël Janis-Norton, Calmer Easier Happier Screen Time, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

Every single parent I know frets about “screen time”, and most are engaged in a struggle with a toddler over how much iPad is allowed.

2018 March 4, Jamie Bartlett, “Will 2018 be the year of the neo-luddite?”, in The Guardian:

And then there is the radical impact that screen time and social media have had on the younger generation, something that previous generations have never experienced.

2023 June 13, Bernie Sanders, “America is facing a mental health crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The amount of time a person spends using screen-accessed technology (such as a television, a computer, a smartphone, etc.).


BAT

BAT (countable and uncountable, plural BATs)

(China, technology) One or more of the Chinese technology companies Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent.


WDM

wavelength-division multiplexing
w:wavelength-division multiplexing

(technology) Initialism of wavelength-division multiplexing.


normally black

From normally (“no voltage”) + black (“opaque”).

com

(technology) for LCD to be opaque and thus black when voltage is not applied to a pixel electrode and transparent and thus white when voltage is applied.


normally white

From normally (“no voltage”) + white (“transparent”).

(technology) for LCD to be transparent and thus white when voltage is not applied to a pixel electrode and opaque and thus black when voltage is applied.


contrast ratio

contrast meaning the difference of white and black + ratio.

(technology) ratio of the luminance of white to that of black of a display. A higher value means a higher contrast of white and black.


λ/4 film

(technology) Film having a retardation of a quarter of a specified wavelength, used with a polarizer film to lower the reflectance of a display significantly.

lame λ/4

film with a retardation of quarter wavelength


qwerty syndrome

Named after the QWERTY keyboard layout, a popular standard despite not necessarily being the most optimal.

Nowhere is the QWERTY syndrome stronger than in computers […]

2000, Jason Kroll, “Readers' Choice Awards”, in Linux Journal:

(idiomatic, computing, technology) The condition of favoring entrenched and inferior technologies or practices over superior ones.


Digital Era

The historical period characterized by the existence of digital technology.

era dixital

the historical period characterized by the existence of digital technology


hydrostat

A mechanism that regulates the amount of water in a boiler.


facemail

It's been said that some high-tech experts think so little of actual conversation that they call it “facemail,” in their minds an inefficient and inferior form of communication.

2001, Andrew Finlayson, Questions that work:

So we had a facemail meeting and took him out to the woodshed, so to speak.

2002, Zack Urlocker, Valley of the Geeks:

That cyberlanguage has become firmly established in language communities can be observed in the practice of turning common, everyday expressions into technical metaphor: [...] talking personally is to use facemail, [...]

2006, Donna Gibbs, Kerri-Lee Krause, Cyberlines 2.0: languages and cultures of the Internet:

(computing, technology) Face-to-face communication, as opposed to other non-personal forms of communication.


thimbled

(nautical, technology) Of a cable or rope, or a piece of machinery or other device: having a thimble (“ring-, thimble-, or tube-shaped component”).


untrust

en-noun

untrust (usually uncountable, plural untrusts)

From Middle English untrust, untrost, untrist, likely from un- + trust. Cognate with Icelandic útraust (“untrust”). Compare also Swedish otro (“lack of faith, disbelief”).

noncog

You have only two zones (admins and untrust), so there are two intra-zone policy contexts (admins to admins and untrust to untrust ) and two inter-zone policy contexts ( admins to untrust and untrust to admins ) .

2011, Walter J. Goralski, Cathy Gadecki, Michael Bushong, JUNOS OS For Dummies, page 219:

The untrust zone is designed typically for the Internet or other undesirable places.

2011, Thomas W Shinder, The Best Damn Firewall Book Period, page 974:

In this example, we enable AppTrack in the trust and untrust zone, along with a syslog server to send the logs to our STRM at 192.168.1.20.

2013, Brad Woodberg, Rob Cameron, Juniper SRX Series, page 872:

(technology) The zone representing everything that originates outside of the firewall.


untrust

en-verb

untrust (third-person singular simple present untrusts, present participle untrusting, simple past and past participle untrusted)

untrusts (present singular third-person)
untrusting (participle present)
untrusted (participle past)
untrusted (past)

From Middle English untrust, untriste, probably from Old Norse útraustr (“untrustworthy”). Cognate with Icelandic útraustur.

To untrust one document, you have to untrust them all.·

2010, Bill Jelen, Rev Up to Excel 2010: Upgraders Guide to Excel 2010, page 27:

[…] to untrust (if delete is not possible) a certificate from macOS using Keychain Access.

2019, Herong Yang, PKI Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples, page 152:

Indeed, when a node catches a malicious one, it will try to untrust it, and so the others who did not identify the malicious nodes as wicked will be more and more suspicious.

2022, Emilien Bourdy, Marwane Ayaida, Hace\ne Fouchal, “Misbehavior Verification on Cooperative Intelligent Transpor System”, in Frank Phillipson, Gerald Eichler, Christian Erfurth, editor, Innovations for Community Services, page 193:

(technology) To mark or flag (something) as untrustworthy.


UHV

(technology) Initialism of ultra-high vacuum.


assistive technology

en-noun

assistive technology (plural assistive technologies)

Umbrella term that includes adaptive, assistive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities.


IPMA

w:de:International Project Management Association

(technology, project management) Initialism of International Project Management Association.


e-governance

From e- + governance or e-govern + -ance.

The use of computer technology in governance.


resender

(technology) That which sends something again.


recleaner

(technology) That which cleans something again.


Big Four

the Big Four (canonical plural)
Big 4 (alternative)

Any group of four major or largest corporations in a given industry, especially when such a small group has oligopoly or near-oligopoly.

(finance, business, technology) The four largest corporations of Big Tech during the 2000s–2020s, usually defined as Alphabet (f.k.a. Google), Meta (f.k.a. Facebook), Amazon, and Apple.


Kardashev scale

Named after Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev (1932–2019).

named-after

Let us think of an ethical scale for civilizations in the same spirit as the Kardashev scale. I'll modestly call it the Hall scale.

2012, John R. Shook, Liz Stillwaggon Swan, Transformers and Philosophy: More than Meets the Mind, Open Court, →ISBN, page 10:

Earth's civilization during the late twentieth century when the Kardashev scale was first proposed, utilizing roughly 15 terawatts globally, would have been defined as approximately K0.71.

2014, Ian Douglas, Dark Matter (Star Carrier, Book 5), HarperCollins UK, →ISBN:

A scale that measures the technological level of a civilization by the extent of its energy consumption.


digital native

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Coined by education consultant Marc Prensky in 2001.

coin

This may potentially have a negative impact on the ultimate utility of this feedback method with present-day students who perceive themselves as ‘digital natives’.

2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1085:

(technology, sociology) A person who has grown up in an environment replete with digital interactions and ways of communicating, thought to increase difficulty with traditional nondigital teaching methods, work practices, etc.


c/w

(technology) Abbreviation of complete with, used to indicate that an extra or additional part is included.


psychotechnology

en-noun

psychotechnology (countable and uncountable, plural psychotechnologies)

The technological application of psychology

psychotechnique

the technological application of psychology


bleeding-edge

en-adj

bleeding-edge (comparative more bleeding-edge, superlative most bleeding-edge)

more bleeding-edge (comparative)
most bleeding-edge (superlative)

As you'd expect from a bleeding-edge tablet, it has plenty of other high-end features as well.

(technology, idiomatic) Of or pertaining to something, such as technology, which is too new and untested to be reliable or to have any assurance of safety; (in a weakened sense) that represents the latest developments in something.

bardzo nowoczesny

pertaining to something too new and untested to be reliable


fintech

en-noun

fintech (countable and uncountable, plural fintechs)

fintechs (plural)
FinTech (alternative)
Fintech (alternative)
fin-tech (alternative)

A wave of financial-technology (or “fin-tech”) firms, many of them just a few years old, are changing the ways in which people borrow and save, pay for things, buy foreign exchange and send money.

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

2016, Laura Sanicola, Will fintech help or hurt traditional advisors?, CNBC
Financial technology, commonly known as fintech, has exploded globally since 2008.

2016, Martin Wolf, Good news — fintech could disrupt finance, Financial Times
Why might one hope that new financial technology, or “Fintech” as it is known, will transform these businesses?

Fintech was every banker’s buzzword at the World Economic Forum.

2016, Michael J Moore, Biggest Global Banks at Davos: We're All Fintech Innovators Now, Bloomberg:

2016, Frank Sorrentino, For Fintech Disruptors, Regulatory Freedom Will Be Fleeting, Forbes
Lacking their size, scope, geography, capital or insurance; fintech companies have established themselves as free, to an extent, from the regulatory scrutiny that governs traditional financial institutions.

information technology
information technology

(uncountable) Financial technology, that is, technology (usually information technology) that is focused on finance.


robopocalypse

It's not about that, Dante. It's about surviving. Pre-emptive measures to make sure we don't even get close to a robopocalypse.

2014, Anissa Belkadi, Miniature Mausoleums, page 279:

(science fiction, technology) An apocalypse (ending of the world) caused chiefly by robots.


SBC

single-board computer
w:single-board computer

(computing, technology) Initialism of single-board computer.


post-singularity

technological singularity
technological singularity#English

(technology) After the technological singularity.


Singularity

technological singularity
technological singularity

(technology) The technological singularity.


IBID

(uncountable, technology) Abbreviation of ion beam-induced deposition.


EBID

(technology) Abbreviation of electron beam-induced deposition.


technosignature

(archaeology, anthropology) A phenomenon indicating that a particular technology is or was used by a particular society; (astrophysics, astrobiology) a phenomenon indicating that a particular technology is or was present in some place (for example, a phenomenon suggesting that a Dyson sphere might exist in a certain region of space).


unzoom

en-verb

unzoom (third-person singular simple present unzooms, present participle unzooming, simple past and past participle unzoomed)

unzooms (present singular third-person)
unzooming (participle present)
unzoomed (participle past)
unzoomed (past)


daily driver

(technology, informal) The computing device or operating system that one uses on a frequent basis, especially as distinguished from those used temporarily or for specific tasks.


technomagic

The demo wowed its audience with its technomagic, leading some audience members to quote Clarke's third law: "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

en:advanced technology seemingly comparable to magic

(informal) The use of technology that is impressive and difficult to understand, especially in the field of computing.

In her thesis paper, she explored the theme of technomagic among cargo cults.

The combination of magic and technology.


smart contract

Coined by American computer scientist Nick Szabo in 1996.

coin

These are only a few examples of ways you can secure your smart contracts. The best thing to do to create a secure smart contract is to find an external auditor.

2019, Kevin Solorio, Randall Kanna, David H. Hoover, Hands-On Smart Contract Development with Solidity and Ethereum, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 240:

Technically speaking a smart contract is a self-enforcing agreement between parties, mutually unknown and otherwise anonymous counterparts, which is capable of executing the rules automatically in satisfying certain conditions.

2020, Miadreza Shafie-khah, Blockchain-Based Smart Grids, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 112:

(technology, cryptocurrencies) A software protocol that is capable of automatically enforcing terms agreed upon in a contract.


juice jacking

Coined by cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs in 2011.

In the Blackhat community, one type of charging attacks is called juice jacking attacks, which can access to a significant amount of personal data without the user's permission and can install hidden malicious software on the device, as long as the device is unlocked.

2016, Zheng Yan, Refik Molva, Wojciech Mazurczyk, Raimo Kantola, Network and System Security, page 201:

Through juice jacking, hackers have found an innovative way to compromise smart technology and potentially steal data or infect devices.

2021 June 24, Dr Thaddeus Eze, ECCWS 2021 20th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, Academic Conferences Inter Ltd, →ISBN, page 453:

(computing, technology) The act of stealing information from mobile devices by placing a data-stealing device that appears to be a charging station in a place where passers-by are likely to plug their devices into it.


SSDL

2009, Hetland et al.: Calibration of reference KAP-meters at SSDL and cross calibration of clinical KAP-meters, title:

The IAEA/WHO network of SSDLs was set up in order to establish links between SSDL members and the international measurement system.

2002, Meghzifene et al.: Calibration factor or calibration coefficient?, abstract:

1996, Aaltonen et al.: The role of SSDL-Helsinki for dosimetry and quality audit in radiotherapy, title:

secondary standard dosimetry laboratory#English

(technology) Initialism of secondary standard dosimetry laboratory.


SSDL

The messages specify the origin and target nodes, and the service invocation in a SYLPH services definition language (SSDL) format.

2010, Corchado et al.: Using heterogeneous wireless sensor networks in a telemonitoring system for healthcare, page 1:

The best known of these is Grow's (1991, 1994) Staged Self-Directed Learning (SSDL) model.

2001, Merriam: Andragogy and self‐directed learning: Pillars of adult learning theory, page 1:

Grow's article Teaching Learners to be Self-Directed (Adult Education Quarterly, Spring 1991), in which he presents his Staged Self-Directed Learning (SSDL) Model...

1992, Tennant: The staged self-directed learning model, page 1:

SYLPH services definition language#English

(technology) Initialism of SYLPH services definition language.


(technology) Initialism of metadata for machines.


deepfake

Blend of deep learning + fake. Coined in 2017 by Redditor u/deepfakes (account created on September 26, 2017), who had created a technique which could convincingly swap someone's face in a video using deep learning. The r/deepfakes subreddit was created on November 2, 2017. The word was first used as a noun and verb around December 2017.

Did you see that leaked sex tape with the actress? It turned out to be a deepfake, but it looked so realistic!

The thing is that normal people might try to use to harass other people, specially women, but I don't think this technology will be so advanced that you won't be able to recognize it's a fake video, so the majority of people who try to say a deep fake is real will be looked as an idiot, a pervert and probably reported.

2017 December 17, u/randint2220, “Is this all even legal?”, in Reddit, r/deepfakes, archived from the original on 2023-01-13:

These deepfakes went in a completely unexpected direction

2018 January 1, u/viperex, “Wall”, in Reddit, r/gifs, archived from the original on 2023-04-18:

I've completed a desktop app /w GUI to create deepfakes. Here is a what it looks like. For anyone unfamiliar with this subreddit, deepfakes are neural network-generated faceswap videos created with a machine learning algorithm designed by /u/deepfakes.

2018 January 8, u/deepfakeapp, “FakeApp: A Desktop Tool for Creating Deepfakes”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 2018-01-25:

For example, images of the actress Scarlett Johansson have been used to create a number of deepfake pornographic videos, one of which had been viewed over 1.5 million times on a popular SEIM site by the end of 2018 (Harwell, 2018).

2019, Richard Joseph Behun, Eric Owens, Youth and Internet Pornography: The impact and influence on adolescent development, Routledge, →ISBN:

By banning deepfakes before the technology becomes widespread, Facebook is trying to calm lawmakers, academics and political campaigns who remain frustrated by how the company handles political posts and videos about politics and politicians.

2020 January 7, David McCabe, Davey Alba, “Facebook Says It Will Ban ‘Deepfakes’”, in New York Times:

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(technology) A convincingly realistic but fake image, video, or audio created with the use of artificial intelligence, especially one that imposes the face of one person onto the body of someone else.

diepvervalsing

photograph or video created using artificial intelligence


FAANG

en-noun

FAANG (countable and uncountable, plural FAANGs)

(technology) One or more of the technology companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google.


satinet loom

A loom used for heavy goods, such as twills and satinets.


taskable

a taskable intelligent agent; a taskable sensor

(technology) To which tasks can be assigned.


cognitive estrangement

Coined by Yugoslav-born academic, writer and critic Darko Suvin in his 1979 book Metamorphoses of Science Fiction.

In his book Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1979), Suvin introduced a number of ideas that remain central in sf criticism: cognitive estrangement, the novum and sf's genetic link with utopia. In the notion of cognitive estrangement, Suvin conflate two distinct, but related, ideas of estrangement from earlier literary theory: ostranenie (de-familiarization) from the Russian Formalists, and Berthold Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt (alienation effect).[…]Even more influential in sf theory than cognitive estrangement is Suvin's concept of the novum.

2003, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., “7: Marxist theory and science fiction”, in Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, editors, The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, Cambridge University Press, page 118:

Cognitive estrangement can therefore be seen as defining the textual effects of such work: the text faces its audience with something that will not fit into the existing patterns of verisimilitude, yet is being asserted and explored as fact.

2005, Jan Johnson-Smith, American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate and Beyond, I.B. Tauris, page 26:

Darko Suvin, the eminent theorist of science fiction, defined science fiction as a literature of cognitive estrangement, a genre in which the reader enters an imaginative world different or estranged from his or her empirical world, but different in a way that obeys rational causation or scientific law: thus, it is estranged cognitively.

2011, Roger Luckhurst, “1: In the Zone: Topologies of Genre Weirdness”, in Sara Wasson, Emily Alder, editors, Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010, Liverpool University Press, page 21:

(literature, narratology) A narrative logic, characteristic of science fiction, whereby devices used in the story are afforded plausibility by their being placed in the context of the fictional setting, which is envisioned to be scientifically consistent.

spoznajnog očuđenja

narrative logic characteristic of science fiction


femtech

From fem- (“feminine/female”) + tech, coined by Danish internet entrepreneur and author Ida Tin in 2016.

coin

As well as companies selling menstrual protection, the femtech sector includes fertility apps, maternal health and sexual wellbeing products.

2018 November 9, Nina Jones, “Women's health start-ups bloom with no blushes”, in Financial Times:

The current major players in the femtech industry - period apps - have demonstrated that it is profitable to target women and gather their data.

2019 November 27, Maria Mellor, “Fitness trackers and wearables are ignoring a $50bn market: women”, in Wired:

With $800m of funding going to the femtech startups in 2019 alone, there couldn’t be a better time for ohne to enter the market.

2020 February 20, Bianca Barratt, “Period Product Brand Ohne Takes Femtech To New Heights - Can Investors Do The Same?”, in Forbes:

The scientific study of perimenopause has been going on for decades, and the cultural discussion of this mind and body shift has reached something of a new fever pitch, with several books on the subject coming out this spring and a gaggle of “femtech” companies vowing to disrupt perimenopause.

2021 April 29, Jessica Grose, “Why Is Perimenopause Still Such a Mystery?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Mr. Thiel, who once suggested women’s suffrage was bad for America, did not seem like a natural investor in femtech.

2025 March 21, Katie J. M. Baker, “The Conservative Women’s Magazine With Big Ambitions, and Sex Tips for Wives”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(neologism) Technology oriented towards women, especially reproductive health technology.


EEE

(technology, law) Initialism of electrical and electronic equipment.


printed circuit

en-noun

printed circuit (plural printed circuits)

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

An electronic circuit constructed on a printed circuit board.


technoparanoid

en-adj

technoparanoid (comparative more technoparanoid, superlative most technoparanoid)

more technoparanoid (comparative)
most technoparanoid (superlative)

Cronenberg made a technoparanoid movie about Americanization while the NVLA sensationalized horror movies as agents of Americanization, but that very similarity ironically made Videodrome unwelcome in the United Kingdom.

2013, Caetlin Benson-Allott, Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship From VHS to File Sharing:

Exhibiting an unreasonable fear of modern technology.


paytech

en-noun

paytech (countable and uncountable, plural paytechs)

(uncountable) Payment technology, that is, technology (usually information technology) that is focused on processing payments.


charging case

(technology) A removable protective outside layer for an electronic device that contains a battery for the purpose of charging the device contained inside it.

latauskotelo

removable layer outside an electronic device for charging the device inside it


martech

martech (countable and uncountable, plural martechs)

martechs (plural)
MarTech (alternative)
Martech (alternative)

Clipping of marketing technology, modeled on fintech etc.

This chapter draws on the expertise of martech heavyweights to provide a practical guide to assembling a marketing technology stack and planning a martech strategy.

2020, Christine Bailey, Customer Insight Strategies: How to Understand Your Audience and Create Remarkable Marketing, Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 185:

(uncountable) Marketing technology; technology (usually information technology) used for marketing.


HMD

HMD (countable and uncountable, plural HMDs)

head-mounted display
w:head-mounted display

(countable, technology) Initialism of head-mounted display.


arbitrary unit

(sciences, technology) A relative unit of measurement to show the ratio of amount of substance, intensity, or other quantities, to a predetermined reference measurement.


doomscroll

en-verb

doomscroll (third-person singular simple present doomscrolls, present participle doomscrolling, simple past and past participle doomscrolled)

doomscrolls (present singular third-person)
doomscrolling (participle present)
doomscrolled (participle past)
doomscrolled (past)

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From doom + scroll, probably a back-formation from doomscrolling.

You doomscroll about all kinds of things including pandemics, racial injustice, natural disasters, wars, and political unrest.

2020, Robert West, chapter 1, in Stop Doomscrolling: How to Break the Cycle to Relieve Stress, Decrease Anxiety, and Regain Your Life, Annus Mirabilis Publishing:

“Why are you doomscrolling?” I ask. ¶ “I’m not doomscrolling.” Swipe, swipe...

2021, Jesse Gordon, “We’re All in This Together”, in El Cassetto, Cream-Colored Coffee Cup:

Keep a book in your bag to avoid the temptation to doomscroll.

2022 January 1, “100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying”, in The Guardian:

(transitive, intransitive, social media, technology, neologism) To engage in the act of doomscrolling.


FAAMG

en-noun

FAAMG (countable and uncountable, plural FAAMGs)

(technology) One or more of the technology companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google.


xenofeminism

From xeno- + feminism. Coined by the collective Laboria Cuboniks in their 2015 manifesto The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation.

Even if they were to incorporate feminist perspectives, however, tensions remain between the desire to use technology for change, as in feminist posthumanism and xenofeminism, and the recognition of its embeddedness within both militarism and capitalism.

2018, Emily Jones, Sara Kendall, Yoriko Otomo, “Gender, War, and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the Twenty-First Century”, in Australian Law Journal, volume 44, number 1, page 5:

Xenofeminism sees the rising wave of technocracy but instead of searching for a buoy, it wants to catch the surf.

2019, Bogna M. Konior, “Automate the Womb: Ecologies and Technologies of Reproduction”, in Parrhesia, number 31, page 232:

Rejecting the claim that science and technology are inherently masculine or patriarchal, Xenofeminism looks at attempts to repurpose technology to liberate women.

2019, Jordi Vallverdú, Sarah Boix, “Ectogenesis as the Dilution of Sex or the End of Females?”, in Janina Loh, Mark Coeckelbergh, editors, Feminist Philosophy of Technology, page 113:

(neologism) A branch of feminism which rejects naturalism and posits the abolition of gender and/or gendered oppression through the posthumanist embrace of technology.


xenofeminist

Rather, the xenofeminists note the need to politicise the techno. Technology, to the xenofeminists, is a tool for revolution: […]

2019, Emily Jones, "Feminist Technologies and Post-Capitalism: Defining and Reflecting Upon Xenofeminism", Feminist Review, Issue 123, Issue 1, page 128

These accelerationists, xenofeminists, and inhumanists take up Landian ideas and concepts in various ways, but there is minimal textual exegesis of Land’s own writings.

2019, Vincent Le, "Slave, Sister, Sexborg, Sphinx: Feminine Figurations in Nick Land's Philosophy", Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Spring 2019

This impulse to simultaneously dismantle and build the world can also be found in the anti-naturalist work of xenofeminists and trans and queer activists—those who want to disrupt futurities that are based on heteronormative reproduction, […]

2020, Jilly Boyce Kay, Gender, Media and Voice: Communicative Injustice and Public Speech, pages 182–183:

(neologism) A proponent of xenofeminism.


solid-state drive

solid-state drive (plural solid-state drives)

(computing, technology) A solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies to store data persistently, typically using flash memory, and functioning as secondary storage in the hierarchy of computer storage.


GPS system

How do you all feel about GPS systems in your personal vehicles? Would you pay the extra to have one?

2000 April 10, Susan, “Personal vehicles with GPS systems - Opinions, please”, in novell.community.chat (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-29:

I prefer to use a map and a compass that is in my Jeep. I have made it to all of my clients on time using that method. I feel it would be like a calculator, I can no longer do large mathematical problems in my head due to lack of practice. I am afraid of what would happen if that was the case with GPS systems.

2000 April 10, Timothy A. Leerhoff, “Personal vehicles with GPS systems - Opinions, please”, in novell.community.chat (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-29:

In the GPS systems I've seen, it tells you what it's measuring.

2006 July 14, Larry Bud, “Golf cart GPS systems Accurate?”, in rec.sport.golf (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-29:

Now, is there any way to know where the chopper flew last night? Is there a flight recorder? GPS system?

2012, Christine Roum, “Secret Santa” (19:13 from the start), in Castle, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Kate Beckett (Stana Katic):

The GPS system sends the data of all sats. The receivers need to know that. Probably you can ask your receiver.

2022 June 11, Gerhard Hoffmann, “gps sattelites”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-29:

So, Ohio State University and all the others who explain how the GPS system works are just "a bunch of fanatics idiots"? Only YOU know the "truth"?

2022 June 21, det...@outlook.com, “Time Dilation Experiments”, in sci.physics.relativity (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-29:


branded app

An application developed by a business to market its brand.


digital immigrant

digital immigrant (plural digital immigrants)

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(technology, sociology) A person who was born or raised before the widespread use of digital technology.


digital electronics

(electronics, technology) A field of electronics involving the study of digital signals and the engineering of devices that use or produce them.


DPV

dependent pressure vessel
dependent pressure vessel#English

(technology) Initialism of dependent pressure vessel.


MAMAA

"Bye-bye FAANG, hello MAMAA," the "Mad Money" host said on Thursday's show. "What really matters here, as I always say about MAMAA, is that the secret of their valuation is that they're all in the habit of reinvention. That's why I love them so much."

2021 October 29, Kevin Stankiewicz, quoting Jim Cramer, “'Bye-bye FAANG, hello MAMAA' — Cramer reveals a new acronym after Facebook's name change”, in CNBC, archived from the original on 2022-11-03:

While two big components of the MAMAA acronym, Apple and Amazon, both saw declines in their stock price on Thursday and Friday, Cramer said investors should focus on the bigger picture.

[2021 October 29, Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, “Not FAANG but MAMAA: Jim Cramer reveals new acronym for the 5 largest tech giants”, in Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Fortune Media Group Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-23:

Nevertheless, a number of tech stocks have returned handsomely this year and outperformed MAMAA's returns. These stocks have benefited from the stay-at-home trend that has driven demand for web-based services like e-commerce, contactless payment and delivery.

2021 December 22, Aniruddha Ganguly, “5 Tech Stocks That Have Crushed MAMAA in 2021”, in Nasdaq, Zacks Investment Research, archived from the original on 2023-03-06:

With MANAMANA we capture an enormous swath of the American technology industry. With the addition of Adobe and Nvidia, this bellwether gains exposure to two segments of the technology that FANG, FAANG, FANAMA and MAMAA miss: creation and publication, and the power behind graphics processing units.

[2021 November 5, Bill Mann, “FAANG is Dead. Long Live MANAMANA”, in The Motley Fool, archived from the original on 2022-08-07:

Whether it's FANG, FAANG, MAMAA, MANAMANA or something else, the idea is to serve as a proxy to track something larger.

[2021 November 17, Kevin Theissen, “What is MAMAA?”, in The Mountain Times, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-28:

Instead in 2019, 7 out of the top 8 companies are digital platforms: all the USA GAFAM/MAMAA plus the two Chinese digital platforms.

2022 March 10, Antonio Manganelli, Antonio Nicita, Regulating Digital Markets: The European Approach, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 10:

These competitive advantages can make the FAANG (or MAMAA) stocks great potential investments. Still, investors may want to examine each stock’s valuation relative to its own historical value and that of comparable competitors before buying.

2022 July 21, Adam Levy, “Investing in FAANG or MAMAA Stocks”, in The Motley Fool, archived from the original on 2023-02-16:

Why won't MAMAA companies *disclose* how many employees they have in the Greater Philadelphia region?

2023 February 27, Sarah Huffman, “How many Big Tech employees live in Philly?”, in Technical.ly, archived from the original on 2023-02-27:

The five MAMAA stocks have a combined market cap of more than $6.6 trillion.

2023 March 1, Wayne Duggan, “What Happened To FAANG Stocks? They Became MAMAA Stocks”, in Benjamin Curry, editor, Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-01:

(technology) Acronym of Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet.


micro-retailing

From micro- + retailing. Grew in popularity as ecommerce merchants experiment with opening lower-risk physical retail spaces.

Micro-retailing helps create unique, in-person customer experiences. It can drive your brand’s convenience and make the most of the modern omnichannel shopping world. It even makes it easier for retailers to create physical human connections (all while staying within budget).

2020 November 11, “What Is Micro-Retailing? Why & How Retailers Are Going Small”, in Shopify:

(economics, marketing, business, finance, technology, neologism) A retail model including things like small-scale pop-up shops and boutique storefronts that leverage a variety of innovative downsized activities.


prompt engineering

Likely coined in 2020 by AI researcher Gwern Branwen.

Practice prompt engineering and measure your progress in time. Prompt engineering is a new skill that will take you to the next level of AI.

2022, Denis Rothman, Antonio Gulli, Transformers for Natural Language Processing […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 426:

PromptBase’s sixth-most-popular seller, a prompt creator from Spain who goes by Imagineer, told me that prompt engineering is still a side hustle, having earned them just over 800 euros since September.

2023 February 8, Charlie Warzel, “The Most Important Job Skill of This Century”, in The Atlantic:

The latter skill has become known as “prompt engineering”: the technique of framing one’s instructions in terms most clearly understood by the system, so it returns the results that most closely match expectations – or perhaps exceed them.

2023 March 16, James Bridle, “The stupidity of AI”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Now that you’ve learnt the basics of prompt engineering, you should be able to use AI chatbots more efficiently and get the desired results.

2023 May 29, Zohaib Ahmed, “Want to make the most of ChatGPT? Try these prompt engineering basics”, in Indian Express, Mumbai:

generative AI
generative artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence, technology, neologism) The technique of formulating instructions (prompts) for a generative AI, in order that it produce the expected output.


prompt engineer

prompt engineer (plural prompt engineers)

The primary role of an AI specialist will require linguistic skills to show, not just tell, the GPT-3 engines how to accomplish a task. Showing, for example, involves working on the context of the input. This new task is named prompt engineering. A prompt engineer has quite a future in AI!

2022 March, Denis Rothman, Antonio Gulli, Transformers for Natural Language Processing, Packt Publishing, page 17:

An online marketplace called Promptbase has already sprung up, where prompt engineers can sell their carefully crafted instructions for image-generation tools such as Midjourney.

2022 December 13, Tim Bradshaw, “Is becoming a ‘prompt engineer’ the way to save your job from AI?”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-23:

Some pundits are proclaiming that we will need to train humans in how to write good prompts, for which they will have the vaunted title of a prompt designer or prompt engineer.

2022 December 29, Lance Eliot, “Twenty-Five Eye-Opening 2023 Predictions About Generative AI And ChatGPT Including A Splash Of AI Ethics And AI Law Tossed In”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-23:

With each request, [Riley] Goodside said, the prompt engineer should be instilling in the AI a kind of "persona" — a specific character capable of winnowing down hundreds of billions of potential solutions and identifying the right response.

2023 February 25, Drew Harwell, “Prompt engineers can make ChatGPT and Bing AI do what you want”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-24:

[Simon] Willison spoke with Day 6 guest host Peter Armstrong about whether skepticism is warranted over how much control prompt engineers have — and whether it's a real science, or just learned intuition.

2023 March 24, Paul Hantiuk, “These engineers are being hired to get the most out of AI tools without coding”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:

(artificial intelligence, technology, neologism) Someone who designs prompts to be given to an artificial intelligence.


super-app

super-apps (plural)
super app (alternative)
superapp (alternative)

From super + app. Attested from a 2010 speech by BlackBerry founder Mike Lazaridis at Mobile World Congress (see quotations below).

We think these applications are so compelling that we just don't call them apps. We call them super apps. Super apps are integrated with other apps, giving you a seamless experience across the device.

2010 February, 10:25, in Mobile World Congress 2010 Keynotes: Mike Lazaridis, President, Co-CEO, RIM, spoken by Mike Lazaridis:

However, despite increased interest from tech players, it is the financial sector that strongly gravitates towards the super app approach. In particular, the newly-emerged digital banks and FinTech players are at full speed ahead into transforming their ecosystem of services into open banking marketplaces.

2019 October 18, “Introducing Super App: a New Approach to All-in-One Experience”, in Infopulse:

LINE and the regional convergences of super apps in East Asia are a potent reminder of the need to analyze platforms outside of the bi-polar hegemony of the United States versus Chinese tech world—which increasingly frames journalistic discourse and academic research—and of the need to attend to the historical and regional particularities of platforms and their cultural impacts.

2020 June 19, Marc Steinberg, “LINE as Super App: Platformization in East Asia”, in Social Media + Society, volume 6, number 2, →DOI:

The Tata super app, due to be launched on April 7, will bring about a potential 10-fold increase in the number of customers for Westside, which is the group's retail store chain, Tata Trusts director Noel Tata has said.

2022 April 5, Chaitali Chakravarty, “Super App may Grow Westside Reach by 10x”, in The Economic Times, New Delhi:

He could well be eyeing something along the lines of the hugely successful Chinese app WeChat. That's a kind of "super app" which incorporates a lot of different services including messaging, social media, payments and food orders—there is as yet no such thing in the west.

2022 October 5, Zoe Kleinman, “Elon Musk, Twitter and the mysterious X app”, in BBC News:

(technology, Internet) A mobile or web application that can provide multiple services.


do-ocracy

do-ocracy (countable and uncountable, plural do-ocracies)

do-ocracies (plural)
doocracy (alternative)
do-acracy (alternative)

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We'll make it a 'do-ocracy.' That is, you will be rewarded for actually achieving results.

2014, Aneesh Chopra, quoting John Halamka, Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 151:

"Wikipedia is a do-ocracy," said Dr. James Heilman, an emergency room doctor from British Columbia, Canada, who leads the Wikiproject Medicine that keeps close watch on the most important public health articles, like Ebola Virus Disease. "Those who do the most, do have a greater influence."

2014 October 27, Noam Cohen, “Wikipedia Emerges as Trusted Internet Source for Ebola Information”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

The Anonymous do-ocracy was already in place, but it was radically different from the other do-ocracies of the Internet era (think Wikipedia or Linux).

2021 July 3, Quinn Norton, “How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

Communities form around software applications to trouble-shoot code, giving rise to 'do-ocracies' – systems of merit that privilege active positive contributions for the benefit of the community.

2023 January, Susan Carter, Cecily Andersen, Adrian Stagg, Lorraine Gaunt, “An exploratory study: Using adapted interactive research design and contributive research method”, in The Journal of Academic Librarianship, volume 49, number 1, Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

(neologism, technology) An organization in which power and responsibility are held by those who do the most work.


do-ocratic

en-adj

do-ocratic (comparative more do-ocratic, superlative most do-ocratic)

more do-ocratic (comparative)
most do-ocratic (superlative)

Specifically, I propose that frictions in hacker- and makerspaces relate to competing values such as inclusivity and fairness versus "do-ocratic" tendencies. The notion of "do-ocracy" refers to the (explicit or implicit) assumption that expertise is decisive for agency within a community. In examining how hacker-/makerspaces negotiate values and rules, I shed light on tensions emerging between two main sets of values and related dynamics: efforts aimed at facilitating inclusivity and ultimately diversity are negotiated and occasionally collide with do-ocratic principles.

2022, Aagje Swinnen, Amanda Kluveld, Renée van de Vall, editors, Engaged Humanities: Rethinking Art, Culture, and Public Life, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 109:

(neologism, technology) Relating to or involving do-ocracies ("an organization in which power is held by those who do the most work").


do-ocratically

en-adv

do-ocratically (comparative more do-ocratically, superlative most do-ocratically)

more do-ocratically (comparative)
most do-ocratically (superlative)

Citizen engagement occurs do-ocratically in an environment without economic and administrative limitations to encourage creative productions that are interactive and gifted for public enjoyment.

2013 May, Kerry D. Rohrmeier, Welcome Home to Black Rock City: Urban Geography of the Burn (thesis), Reno, N.V.: University of Nevada, Reno, page i:

(technology, neologism) In the manner of a do-ocracy ("an organization in which power is held by those who do the most work").