English word senses marked with topical category "Computing"
Parent categories: Technology
Subcategories: Apple Inc., Compilation, Computer graphics, Computer hardware, Computer science, Computer security, Data modeling, Databases, Demoscene, File formats, Graphical user interface, IBM, Internet, Microsoft, Networking, Programming, Quantum computing, Regular expressions, Software, Video compression, Visualization
Total 17120 word senses
- A* … Cyrus–Beck algorithm (637 senses)
- D … FOUT (410 senses)
- FP … Julius Caesar cipher (611 senses)
- K … Ousterhout's dichotomy (680 senses)
- P … SCTP (488 senses)
- SD … VFS (597 senses)
- VG … answer back (596 senses)
- ant … bixie (604 senses)
- bk … clutron (767 senses)
- cmd … coyote time (405 senses)
- cp … dixel (732 senses)
- dl … extreme programming (498 senses)
- ez … gzip (768 senses)
- h … iconless (390 senses)
- id … level up (580 senses)
- lex … mixin (715 senses)
- mks … nouse (559 senses)
- np … pill (527 senses)
- pin … raytraced (706 senses)
- re … rvalue reference (469 senses)
- rvv … solution stack (602 senses)
- son … survival horror (586 senses)
- svr … uint (673 senses)
- ul … zorkmid (900 senses)
- μP (Noun) Abbreviation of microprocessor.
- $DEITY (Noun) A generic deity; the listener's or reader's god of choice.
- % (Suffix) Suffix forming speedrunning categories requiring a given percentage to qualify.
- % (Suffix) Suffix forming speedrunning categories related to the suffixed element, or subject to constraints based on it.
- 'bot (Noun) Alternative form of bot
- 'gram (Noun) Clipping of Instagram.
- *band (Noun) A game of this genre.
- *nix (Noun) Unix and various other similar and/or compatible operating systems.
- ++ (Suffix) Indicates a product with additional features or functionality.
- +1 (Interjection) Used to signify agreement with the comment to which one is replying.
- -Tok (Suffix) Combined with a noun or adjective to create a word for a specific community of users or a genre of videos on the social media platform TikTok.
- -Tube (Suffix) A suffix combined with a noun or adjective to create a word for a specific community of users or a genre of videos on the social media platform YouTube.
- -adic (Suffix) Having a specified adicity.
- -blr (Suffix) Combined with a noun or adjective to create a word for a specific community of users on the social media platform Tumblr.
- -post (Suffix) Denotes a type of Internet post.
- -twt (Suffix) A suffix combined with a noun or adjective to create a word for a specific community of users on the social media platform Twitter.
- -vac (Suffix) Used in the naming of computer systems and computer models, due to the use of vacuum tubes as the functional elements of computers of the time.
- .NET (Proper name) A set of Microsoft products and services – primarily the .NET Framework, which permits the development of software for a virtual machine in any CLI-compliant programming language.
- .com (Noun) Alternative form of dotcom
- .dat (Noun) An extension for a data file.
- .ovl (Noun) An overlay file. From the extension for an overlay file. A file used in memory limited systems to overwrite portions of program execution space (code and data) to enable other operations; such as found in 8-/10-/12-/16-bit systems.
- .txt (Noun) An extension for a text file
- /b/tard (Noun) A habitual poster on the /b/ - Random board on 4chan; a member of the /b/ community.
- /d/egenerate (Noun) A habitual poster on the /d/ - Hentai/Alternative board on 4chan; a member of the /d/ community.
- /dev/null (Proper name) A device file, present in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, that discards all data written to it and yields no output.
- /me (Pronoun) I (the person writing)
- /pol/lack (Noun) A habitual poster on the /pol/ - Politically Incorrect board on 4chan; a member of the /pol/ community.
- /pol/tard (Noun) A habitual poster on the /pol/ - Politically Incorrect board on 4chan; a member of the /pol/ community.
- 0-day (Adjective) Alternative spelling of zero-day.
- 0-day (Noun) Alternative spelling of zero-day.
- 1-up (Noun) An item that grants the player an extra life in the game, staving off game over by one more try.
- 1-up (Noun) In a game with multiple players, an indicator or identifier of player 1.
- 10-foot user interface (Noun) A graphical user interface designed for televisions and thus requiring much larger visual elements than those used on computers and smartphones, as well as the ability to be operated by a simple remote control.
- 100% (Noun) A category in speedrunning whose goal is fully completing a game and unlocking all of its features.
- 10BASE2 (Noun) An early thin form of Ethernet cable
- 10BASE5 (Noun) An early form of Ethernet cable
- 10x developer (Noun) A software developer who is ten times as productive as peers.
- 1ANCP (Noun) Number 1A network control point.
- 1ASES (Noun) Number 1A service evaluation system.
- 1CC (Noun) Initialism of one-credit (or coin) clear: the feat of playing through an arcade game from start to finish without having to insert further coins or tokens.
- 1FTR (Noun) Initialism of one for the road.
- 1GL (Noun) Initialism of first-generation language, i.e. machine language.
- 1LC (Noun) Initialism of one-life clear: the feat of playing through a video game from start to finish without ever losing a life.
- 1MM (Noun) Initialism of one megabyte modem.
- 1MMS (Noun) Initialism of one megabyte modem system.
- 1NCP (Noun) Number 1 network control point.
- 1TBS (Proper name) Initialism of one true brace style.
- 1v1 (Noun) A style of player versus player gaming in which one player is pitted against one other player.
- 1v1 (Verb) To compete as one player pitted against one other player.
- 2 (Preposition) Abbreviation of to; designating conversion from one format to another
- 2-3 tree (Noun) A tree data structure whose every node with children (internal node) has either two children and one data element, or three children and two data elements; a B-tree of order 3.
- 2-3-4 tree (Noun) A tree data structure whose every node with children (internal node) has either two, three or four child nodes: a 2-node has one data element, and if internal has two child nodes; a 3-node has two data elements, and if internal has three child nodes; and a 4-node has three data elements, and if internal has four child nodes.
- 2-in-1 (Noun) A laplet computer.
- 2-up (Noun) An item that grants the player two extra lives in the game.
- 2-up (Noun) In a game with multiple players, an indicator or identifier of player 2.
- 2.5D (Adjective) Halfway between two-dimensional and three-dimensional; typically limited to a two-dimensional plane with only limited access to the third dimension.
- 2FA (Noun) Initialism of two-factor authentication.
- 2GL (Noun) Initialism of second-generation language, i.e. assembly language.
- 2PL (Noun) Initialism of two-phase locking.
- 3-Lisp (Proper name) A procedurally reflective dialect of Lisp that uses an infinite tower of interpreters
- 360 (Noun) A Microsoft Xbox 360, a video game console.
- 360 noscope (Noun) A kill with a sniper rifle performed without scoping in after doing a 360-degree turn, often but not always while jumping down from a height.
- 360 noscope (Verb) To perform a 360 noscope.
- 3D scanner (Noun) A device that analyzes a real-world object or environment to collect data on its shape and possibly its color.
- 3DES (Noun) Abbreviation of Triple DES, a cipher formed from the Data Encryption Standard (DES) cipher by using it three times.
- 3DML (Noun) Initialism of 3D Markup Language: a file format used to develop three-dimensional multimedia representations of documents to be presented on the World Wide Web.
- 3DNow! (Proper name) An enhancement of the MMX extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture, allowing for enhanced performance with 3D-graphics-heavy applications; rendered obsolescent by later versions of the SSE instruction-set extensions.
- 3GL (Noun) Initialism of third-generation language.
- 3RR (Noun) Initialism of three-revert rule.
- 3arabizi (Noun) Arabic chat alphabet
- 404 (Adjective) Not found, especially of a web page on the Internet.
- 404 (Noun) An error indicating that a web page could not be found.
- 404 (Verb) To return an error indicating that a web page could not be found.
- 404 page (Noun) The result of trying to follow a broken link within a website.
- 4GL (Noun) Initialism of fourth-generation language, characterized by having its own operating environment (e.g., Foxpro, Mathematica, AMPL).
- 4X (Noun) genre of strategy game in which the player attempts to grow an empire.
- 4ktro (Noun) An intro that can be stored in four kilobytes of memory (intended to challenge the programmer, who must write compact and efficient code to achieve this).
- 50 cent army (Noun) Alleged Internet users who are paid by the authorities of the People's Republic of China to spread propaganda and disinformation on their behalf.
- 5GL (Noun) Initialism of fifth-generation language: a high-level, constraint-based programming language (e.g. Prolog).
- 5K (Noun) A display device or item of content with approximately 5,000 pixels in the horizontal axis.
- 6in4 (Proper name) An Internet transition mechanism for migrating from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6.
- 7-bit (Adjective) Represented using 7 bits (ASCII).
- 8-bit (Adjective) Represented using units of 8 bits (1 byte)
- 8-bit (Adjective) Originating from or resembling the art or music of the 8-bit computer era.
- 8.3 (Proper name) A naming convention in older MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems, restricting filenames to a maximum of eight characters followed by a period and a three-character file extension.
- 802.11e (Proper name) An IEEE standard, IEEE 802.11e-2005, that adds QoS (Quality of Service) features and multimedia support to the existing 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11a wireless networks.
- 802.11i (Proper name) An IEEE standard specifying security mechanisms for 802.11 networks. 802.11i makes use of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) block cipher. The standard also includes improvements in key management, user authentication through 802.1X and data integrity of headers.
- 8514/A (Noun) 8514/Adapter, a video interface card and 4:3 display standard for computers, made obsolete in 1990 by the XGA video standard.
- 8514/Adapter (Noun) Alternative spelling of 8514/A
- 8N1 (Noun) shorthand for "eight data bits, no parity, one stop bit", the most common configuration for serial lines, e.g. EIA-232.
- @ party (Noun) An informal private party held as part of a convention, giving Internet users the chance to meet in person.
- ^H (Symbol) Delete that last character.
- ^W (Interjection) Delete that last word.
- ~ (Symbol) approximately
- ~ (Symbol) Indicating joy, elation, excitement, or a playful tone.
- 🔙 (Symbol) Backspace.
- 🔝 (Symbol) An icon which directs the user to the top of a webpage or application (sometimes represented by just an arrow).
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