folding

en-noun

folding (countable and uncountable, plural foldings)

(computing, programming) Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.


transducer

1924, Latin trānsdūcō + -er. By surface analysis, transduce + -er.

(computing theory) A state machine that generates output based on a given input.


transcriber

(computing) A device or program that transcribes data.


SCSI

Small Computer Systems Interface#English

(computing) Initialism of Small Computer Systems Interface.


optical character recognition

optical character recognition (uncountable)

Texts were scanned, converted via optical character recognition, and part of speech tagged using CLAWS 7.

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 4

(computing) The electronic identification and digital encoding of printed or handwritten characters by means of an optical scanner and specialized software.

光學字符識別

electronic identification and digital encoding of characters


transcribe

en-verb

transcribe (third-person singular simple present transcribes, present participle transcribing, simple past and past participle transcribed)

transcribes (present singular third-person)
transcribing (participle present)
transcribed (participle past)
transcribed (past)

Learned borrowing from Latin trānscrībere (“to write again in another place, transcribe, copy”).

lbor

(computing) To transfer data from one recording medium to another.

siirtää

computing: to transfer data from one media to another


legendary

From legend + -ary; from Medieval Latin legendārius. Earlier it was a noun meaning "a collection of legends" (1510s) (Medieval Latin legendārium, Old French legendier), from Latin legenda. In English, both the noun and the adjective first appeared in the 16th century.


frame rate

The measurement of how quickly an imaging device can produce unique consecutive images called frames, most often expressed in frames per second (often abbreviated "fps") or, equivalently, hertz (Hz).

幀率

measurement of how quickly an imaging device can produce frames


crib

en-noun

crib (countable and uncountable, plural cribs)

From Middle English crib, cribbe, from Old English crib, cryb, cribb, crybb (“couch, bed; manger, stall”), from Proto-West Germanic *kribbjā, from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ (“crib, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *grebʰ-, *gerbʰ- (“bunch, bundle, tuft, clump”), from *ger- (“to turn, twist”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kräbbe, Krääb, Krääf (“crib”), West Frisian krêbe (“crib”), Dutch krib (“crib, manger”), German Krippe (“rack, crib”), Danish krybbe (“crib”), Icelandic krubba (“crib”). Doublet of crèche. The sense of ‘stealing, taking notes, plagiarize’ seems to have developed out of the verb.
The criminal sense may derive from the 'basket' sense, circa the mid 18th century, in that a poacher could conceal poachings in such a basket (see the 1772 Samuel Foote quotation). The cheating sense probably derives from the criminal sense.

преписване

(obsolete in English) petty theft or plagiarism

пищов

notes concealed by a student to aid him/her in test or examination

(cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.


comment out

en-verb

comment out (third-person singular simple present comments out, present participle commenting out, simple past and past participle commented out)

comments out (present singular third-person)
commenting out (participle present)
commented out (participle past)
commented out (past)

If you do not want to run this line of code, just comment it out!

(programming, transitive) To disable a section of source code by converting it into a comment.


mung

mung (third-person singular simple present mungs, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)

mungs (present singular third-person)
munging (participle present)
munged (participle past)
munged (past)

Often doubtfully explained as mash until no good, or a self-referencing (recursive) acronym, mung until no good. Rumored to have originated from one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer groups in the 1970s or 1980s.

(computing, informal) To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.


roundtrip

roundtrip (third-person singular simple present roundtrips, present participle roundtripping, simple past and past participle roundtripped)

roundtrips (present singular third-person)
roundtripping (participle present)
roundtripped (participle past)
roundtripped (past)

In the colorimetric intents only the values within the gamut of the data encoding can be roundtripped accurately[…]

2010, Phil Green, Michael Kriss, Color Management: Understanding and Using ICC Profiles, page 284

In some cases, roundtripping can involve repeated conversions of the file from one format to another and back. Frequent roundtripping may be a concern because each conversion has the potential to introduce unwanted changes to the file.

2010, Ramesh Bangia, Dictionary of Information Technology, page 449

(computing, transitive) To export (a file, data, etc.) and eventually import it again without loss of fidelity.


deforestation

en-noun

deforestation (countable and uncountable, plural deforestations)

/dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/

/ˌdiːfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/

From deforest + -ation. First attested in 1870.

(computing theory) A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.


scroll

From Middle English scrowle, scrolle, from earlier scrowe, scrouwe (influenced by Middle English rolle), from Old French escroe, escrowe, escrouwe (“scroll, strip of parchment”), from Frankish *skrōda (“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, from *skrew- (“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow.

[…] the computer sends orders, via electrical impulses, to recompose the liquid crystal structure inside the cells quickly which results in the familiar smooth scroll of the pointer on your screen.

2005, Alberto de Lózar Muñoz, Liquid Crystal Dynamics: Defects, Walls and Gels, page 1

(computer graphics) The incremental movement of graphics on a screen, removing one portion to show the next.


scroll

en-verb

scroll (third-person singular simple present scrolls, present participle scrolling, simple past and past participle scrolled)

scrolls (present singular third-person)
scrolling (participle present)
scrolled (participle past)
scrolled (past)

→ Danish: scrolle

→ Icelandic: skrolla

→ German: scrollen

Coordinate term: swipe

She scrolled the offending image out of view.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(transitive, computing, graphical user interface) To change one's view of data on a computer's display by moving in gradual increments, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel..

滾動

to change one's view of data on a computer's display

Hey, stop scrolling!

It's cool but i know why I prefer newsgroups : I just got banned for scrolling or summat : i was typing one word in each message so pppl could read it cos it was going so fast - geez.

1998, rOOth, “Brain's chat”, in alt.music.queen (Usenet)

If you want to join this riot, we urge you to! You wont have to worry about being TOSed or reported because there will be no Guides online! So do whatever you want—punt, scroll, tos, just turn AOL into a war zone!

2003, Michael Newton, The Encyclopedia of High-tech Crime and Crime-fighting, AOL Riot on June 1, 1998, page 21

(Internet, intransitive, dated) To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read.


refactor

refactor (third-person singular simple present refactors, present participle refactoring, simple past and past participle refactored)

refactors (present singular third-person)
refactoring (participle present)
refactored (participle past)
refactored (past)

The code works, but I must refactor it before it is production quality.

(programming) To rewrite existing source code in order to improve its readability, reusability or structure without affecting its meaning or behaviour.

重構

(computing) to rewrite existing source code in order to improve its readability, reusability or structure without affecting its meaning or behaviour


refactor

We don't have time for a major refactor: we're shipping in two weeks.

(programming) The process by which source code is refactored.


DA

en-noun

DA (countable and uncountable, plural DAs or DA's)

(Internet) Initialism of domain administration.


round trip

From round (“complete, entire"; "forming a circle or cycle”) + trip (“journey”).

compound

(computing) The export and eventual reimport of a file, data, etc. without loss of fidelity.


trampoline

From Spanish trampolín and/or Italian trampolino; in English, a genericized trademark based on the Spanish word trademarked in 1936.

programming language
programming language

(programming) Any of a variety of looping or jumping instructions in specific programming languages.

(programming) Any of a variety of indirection techniques in specific programming languages.


trampoline

en-verb

trampoline (third-person singular simple present trampolines, present participle trampolining, simple past and past participle trampolined)

trampolines (present singular third-person)
trampolining (participle present)
trampolined (participle past)
trampolined (past)

trampolined code

(transitive, programming) To rewrite (computer code) to use trampoline instructions.


portrait

en-noun

portrait (countable and uncountable, plural portraits)

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin prōtrahō.

(computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

κατακόρυφος προσανατολισμός

εκτύπωσης-χαρτιού


touch screen

(computer hardware) An input/output device that allows the user to interact with the computer by touching the display screen.


sample

en-verb

sample (third-person singular simple present samples, present participle sampling, simple past and past participle sampled)

samples (present singular third-person)
sampling (participle present)
sampled (participle past)
sampled (past)

From Middle English saumple, sample, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example and exemplum.

It means that a larger image field can be sampled from a lower resolution copy without much loss in comparative data, only the number of data points to be manipulated.

2006, Translation of Digital Process to Architectural Program, page 6

(transitive, computer graphics) To make or show something similar to a sample.

tehdä samanlainen

to make or show something similar to a sample


convertible

From Old French convertible, from Late Latin convertibilis (“interchangeable”), from Latin convertere (“to turn back, to turn over, to turn around, to turn upside down”), from con- (“with, together”) + vertere (“to turn”), + -ibilis (“-ible: able to”). Equivalent to convert + -ible.

der

(computing) A computer able to convert from laptop to tablet and back again.


transputer

One of the most intriguing advances has been the development of the transputer, a single-chip computer developed by Inmos Ltd.

1991, Ronald S. Cok, Parallel programs for the transputer

(computing) A single chip with CPU, memory and communications capability, used in grids to form parallel processing computers.


transformer

/tɹɑːnsˈfɔːmə/

Transformer is a deep machine learning model based on the encoder–decoder network architecture and is used primarily in the field of NLP.

2021, Lei Chen, Deep Learning and Practice with MindSpore, Springer Nature, page 116

The transformer helped machine-learning systems improve at a much faster pace, leading directly to last year’s release of ChatGPT and the attendant boom in interest around AI. (Transformers are the “T” in ChatGPT.)

2023 January 31, Casey Newton, “Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text”, in The Verge

(machine learning) A neural network architecture that relies on self-attention mechanisms.


applistructure

(computing) The amalgamation of applications and technological infrastructure.


thread necromancy

Comes from the word thread, the flow of a discussion in a forum, and the word necromancy, the raising of the dead.

(Internet, slang) On an Internet forum, the act of posting in a thread that is already considered dead and/or out of discussion.


forward slash

A retronym coined to distinguish the slash from the backslash, particularly in computing contexts.


STP

en-noun

STP (countable and uncountable, plural STPs)

(networking) Initialism of spanning tree protocol.


loop

From Middle English loupe (“noose, loop”), earlier lowp-knot (“loop-knot”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlaup (“a run”), used in the sense of a "running knot", from hlaupa (“to leap”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to leap, run”). Compare Swedish löp-knut (“loop-knot”), Danish løb-knude (“a running knot”), Danish løb (“a course”). More at leap. The verb is derived from the noun.

der

(programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.

(graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.

silmukka

edge that begins and ends on the same vertex of a graph


copyvio

en-noun

copyvio (countable and uncountable, plural copyvios)

My suggestion is to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations to see our mechanism that deals with copyvios.

2005 January 3, ta bu shi da yu, “Re: Wikipedia - Check pages for copied articles”, in misc.transport.road (Usenet)

These are the edits made to this article before the deletion of versions that included copyvio.

2005 June 24, “TheoClarke” (username), in “Gun Quarter, Birmingham/Deleted history”, Wikipedia, quoted in Deleting: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases, ICON Group International (2008), page 44

Despite gazillions of copyvios, there are still valid and legitimate groups there which are not harmed in the least by this.

2007 February 1, cpghost, “Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server”, in list.freebsd.questions (Usenet)

2009 June 19, Jon Dowland <[email removed]>, “new freedoom packages for stable and oldstable to fix copyvio”, in linux.debian.devel.release (Usenet):

copyright infringement
copyright infringement

(wiki jargon, originally Wikimedia jargon) A violation of copyright laws: copyright infringement.


setup

You still have to run the setup and select the display driver after restarting Windows. Installing Windows NT drivers was tedious (but we could back up system files), and OS/2 was tiresome; […]


toolbox

(computing) A set of pre-existing routines for use in writing new programs.


privilege

privilege (countable and uncountable, plural privileges)

From Middle English privilege, from Anglo-Norman privilege and Old French privilege, from Latin prīvilēgium (“ordinance or law against or in favor of an individual”), from prīvus (“private”) + lēx, lēg- (“law”).

der

(computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users.


polling

en-noun

polling (countable and uncountable, plural pollings)

(computing) A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral or service to see if it has data to transfer.

kiertokysely

technique of interrogating a peripheral device


top-level domain

top-level domain (plural top-level domains)

generic top-level domain
generic top-level domain

(computing, Internet) The last component of a domain name, such as .com, .edu, .gov, .net, .org, .mil, .mobi or any of the newer generic top-level domains, or any of the ccTLDs.


bloated

en-adj

bloated (comparative more bloated, superlative most bloated)

more bloated (comparative)
most bloated (superlative)

For large firms, the SketchUp Workflow for Architecture will fit in where a bloated, overfeatured software suite is not necessary.

2018, Michael Brightman, The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture, page 5

(computing, of software) Excessively overloaded with features, like bloatware.


pipeline

en-verb

pipeline (third-person singular simple present pipelines, present participle pipelining, simple past and past participle pipelined)

pipelines (present singular third-person)
pipelining (participle present)
pipelined (participle past)
pipelined (past)

(computing, transitive) To design (a microchip etc.) so that processing takes place in efficient stages, the output of each stage being fed as input to the next.


domain name

Another potentially problematic category of domain name disputes involves domain names that correspond to more miscellaneous subjects, such as culturally and geographically significant words and phrases.

2010, Jacqueline D. Lipton, Internet Domain Names, Trademarks and Free Speech, Edward Elgar Publishing, page 235

(Internet) A unique, case-insensitive name that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet.


(computing, retronym) 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.


subdomain

A domain is a subdomain of another domain if it is contained within that domain. This relationship can be tested by seeing if the subdomain's name ends with the containing domain's name. For example, A.B.C.D is a subdomain of B.C.D, C.D, D, and " ".

1987 November, P. Mockapetris, Domain Concepts and Facilities, RFC1034, also known as STD0013

BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Copyright © 2004, 2005 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC"), Copyright © 2000-2003 Internet Software Consortium, https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains. Every subdomain is a domain and every domain except the root is also a subdomain.

(computing, Internet) A domain name that has been prefaced with additional parts separated with periods.

sous-domaine

domain name prefaced with additional parts separated by a period

In en.wiktionary.org, en is a subdomain.

(computing, Internet) An additional part prefaced to a domain name.


substring

The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on".

(computing) A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.


substring

substring (third-person singular simple present substrings, present participle substringing, simple past and past participle substringed)

substrings (present singular third-person)
substringing (participle present)
substringed (participle past)
substringed (past)

If an existing character-based column is increased in size and your program does not need the extra characters, the view can be changed to force the smaller size by substringing the existing column.

2015, Nadir K. Amra, Hernando Bedoya, Tony Cairns, Modernizing IBM i Applications from the Database up to the User Interface and Everything in Between

(computing, transitive) To extract a substring from.

In this example, knowing that MY_SOUNDEX returns at most six characters, we are substringing the first six characters.

2010, Thomas Kyte, Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g

(computing, transitive) To take as a substring.


listwashing

(computing) The removal of nonproductive addresses from a mailing list.


listener

→ Japanese: リスナー (risunā)

(computing, programming, chiefly Java) A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.

kuuntelija

(computing) a function that runs in response to an event


com

(Internet) Abbreviation of commercial; as in .com (the most known Internet top-level domain).


FPO

Coordinate term: FP

(programming) Initialism of frame pointer omission.

Coordinate term: FP

(computing) Initialism of floating point operation.


script

en-noun

script (countable and uncountable, plural scripts)

From Middle English scrit, borrowed from Old French escrit, from Latin scriptum (something written), from scrībō (“write”).

(computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.


rolling

(video games, NES Tetris) A technique in which players rhythmically tap the underside of the controller with one hand while holding the thumb of the other on the d-pad so as to perform several button presses a second.


ob-

ObGoth: Uh, well, it's like this you see, <searches in random file o' obgoth things> anyone out there got the new CoX album on Tess? If so which album is it *most* like?

1998, Haydn Black, “lesbian goths”, in alt.gothic (Usenet)

Aren't Newcastle's chairman Sunderland supporters? (From the way they acted?) Erm...obspeccy? Tynesoft, eh? What happened to them?

1998, Peter Thomas, “FAQ: more info request”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)

ObLinux: SAP were giving away a free development environment for use with RedHat v6.1 recently, a distinctly non-free complete system has been available for a while. This offers another example of a commercial application where the vendors now have sufficient confidence in Linux to release a port (even if it is distribution-specific).

2000, Dan Glover, “Introduction to Linux article for commentary”, in alt.linux (Usenet)

(Internet, informal, humorous) Obligatory; prepended to the name of a topic being mentioned to avoid accusations of being off-topic.


debug

en-verb

debug (third-person singular simple present debugs, present participle debugging, simple past and past participle debugged)

debugs (present singular third-person)
debugging (participle present)
debugged (participle past)
debugged (past)

It ranged from the pre-design development of essential components, through the stage of type test and flight test and "debugging" right through to later development of the engine to higher powers and efficiency.

1945, The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, volume 49, page 183

It debugs all program errors, including those that are hardware initiated.

1970, Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, volume 2, page 36

Additionally, it's up to you to remember to remove this cron entry when you've debugged the firewall.

2015, Steve Suehring, Linux Firewalls: Enhancing Security with nftables and Beyond, page 140

(computer science) To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.

Typical fees: $75 to check a particular telephone, $125 to debug one room, $500 to debug a suite of offices— all plus expenses and transportation.

1969, John Millar Carroll, The Third Listener: Personal Electronic Espionage, page 30

It conducts background investigations of new CIA employees and CIA contractors, administers polygraph tests to employees and agents, debugs offices at Langley and overseas stations, patrols the buildings and grounds, protects the director and other key CIA officials, and investigates security problems.

2012, Ronald Kessler, Inside the CIA, page 172

It is good to acquire information about how to perform the debugging operation and the type of tools that will be used, from which you may already have an idea of the technical and instrumental skills, having acquired a plenty of technical information after reading this chapter.

2013, F. Garzia, Handbook of Communications Security, page 620

(electronics) To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere).

拆除竊聽器

to remove a hidden electronic surveillance device

Mr. Moses started out his garden this year with only two toads. As they were differently marked, they soon became known as "Henry" and "Frank." Henry was strong in the pursuit of "ants." Every morning he is seen perched on his favorite hill "anting" for breakfast. Frank's occupation is that of debugging the roses and beating up the paths for miscellaneous insects.

1905 June 15, A. J. R., “With the Long Bow”, in The Minneapolis Journal, Minneapolis, Minn., retrieved 2017-02-15, page 14

You can debug yourself at home with various over-the- counter medications.

1999, Stephen E. Goldstone, The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex: A Medical Handbook for Men, page 59

If you find nits, it's time for some serious debugging.

2011, Jay Heinrichs, Home Remedies from a Country Doctor

Before we moved into our new quarters we, and our belongings, had to be deloused and debugged.

2013, Peter Jackson, Sacrifice, Captivity and Escape: The Remarkable Memoirs of a Japanese POW, page 165

MK2 has said that its theatres have been de-bugged and that “there is no more risk in our rooms than in any other public place in Paris”.

2023 September 4, “Coming soon to a cinema near you? The return of the bed bug”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

(US) To remove insects from (somewhere), especially lice.


lightweight

en-adj

lightweight (comparative more lightweight or lighterweight, superlative most lightweight or lightestweight)

more lightweight (comparative)
lighterweight (comparative)
most lightweight (superlative)
lightestweight (superlative)

From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + weight (noun).

com

(computing) Having a small footprint or performance impact.

abgespeckt

having a small footprint or performance impact


MMORPG

massively multiplayer online role-playing game#English

(online gaming) Initialism of massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

MMORPG

abbreviation of video game type — see also massively multiplayer online role-playing game


authoring program

en-noun

authoring program (plural authoring programs)

(computing) Software that can combine text with other multimedia to make an integrated package.


brushing

brushing (countable and uncountable, plural brushings)

(uncountable, Internet) A fraudulent technique in which an online seller sends out fake orders (such as empty boxes) and adds positive reviews about those orders, ostensibly from the recipient.


antialiasing

(computer graphics) any technique that reduces the appearance of jagged edges in digital images caused by high-contrast borders between pixels.


YGM

(Internet) Initialism of you've got mail: used to inform someone that an e-mail message has been sent to them.


tenant

From Middle English tenaunt, from Anglo-Norman tenaunt and Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”), from Latin tenēre, present active infinitive of teneō (“hold, keep”).

مُسْتَأجِر

one who pays a fee in return for the use of land, etc.

(in the Middle Ages, serf or villein) jobbágy

multi-tenant hosting

(computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.


unquote

en-verb

unquote (third-person singular simple present unquotes, present participle unquoting, simple past and past participle unquoted)

unquotes (present singular third-person)
unquoting (participle present)
unquoted (participle past)
unquoted (past)

From un- + quote; possibly an eggcorn of end quote.

(transitive, computing) To convert (a quoted expression) back to its original form.


CGI

Common Gateway Interface
Common Gateway Interface#English

(Internet, networking) Initialism of Common Gateway Interface.


ROTFLMAO

Contraction of ROTFL + LMAO. Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass/Arse Off.

(Internet) Used to express great amusement.


QPR

(computing) Initialism of quarterly platform release.


CAP

en-noun

CAP (countable and uncountable, plural CAPs)

(computing theory) Initialism of consistency, availability, partition-tolerance, three irreconcilable guarantees in distributed systems, a result known as Brewer's theorem.


downgrade

en-verb

downgrade (third-person singular simple present downgrades, present participle downgrading, simple past and past participle downgraded)

downgrades (present singular third-person)
downgrading (participle present)
downgraded (participle past)
downgraded (past)

(computing) To revert software back to an older version.


kibibyte

The computer's operating system and applications all fit with within 32 kibibytes of read-only memory (ROM); much of the code in the ROM was personally written by Bill Gates.

2018, Simson L. Garfinkel, Rachel H. Grunspan, The Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, New York: Sterling

(computing) Strictly, 2¹⁰ (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte.


egosurfing

From ego + surfing, coined by Sean Carton in 1995.

One offshoot of this new narcissism is “egosurfing,” in which one searches the Internet for information about oneself. A company—egoSurf—was created especially to do this.

2009, John Freeman, The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox, Simon and Schuster, page 168

(Internet) The act of using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the Internet.

mise-scimeáil

using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the web


mebibyte

At a minimum, a textual (command-line) system requires 256 mebibytes of RAM and a graphical (desktop) system requires 384-512 mebibytes of RAM.

2012, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Prentice Hall, page 29

(computing) Strictly, 2²⁰ (1024², or 1,048,576) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) kibibytes, as opposed to a megabyte.


GFX

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of graphics.


e-mail address

en-noun

e-mail address (plural e-mail addresses)

A unique identifier of the form user name@domain name specifying a virtual location to which e-mail can be sent.

ímélcím

now officially endorsed but still less common

ທີ່ຢູ່ອີແມລ

thī yū ʼī mǣn


header

The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry.

(computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.

capçalera

(computing) the first part of a file or record that describes its contents

The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.

(networking) the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.


performant

en-adj

performant (comparative more performant, superlative most performant)

more performant (comparative)
most performant (superlative)

From perform + -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, and adjectives from verbs with the senses of ‘doing (the action of the verb’)), possibly modelled after informant.

performant

capable of or characterized by a high or excellent level of performance or efficiency

The program ALGOLOG is highly performant: it generated 259 linear subproblems, instead of 2²³.

1977, J[ohn] Rose, C[onstantin] Bilciu, editors, Modern Trends in Cybernetics and Systems: Proceedings of the Third International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems, Bucharest, Romania, August 25–29, 1975, volume 1, Blackburn, Lancashire: World Organisation of General Systems and Cybernetics, page 735

Recently, a pure view-based object recognition approach was proposed, that is surprisingly performant.

2000, Luc Van Gool, Reinhard Koch, Theo Moons, “New Techniques for 3D Modeling … … and for Doing Without”, in Peter Corke, James Trevelyan, editors, Experimental Robotics VI: The Sixth International Symposium, Sydney, Australia, March 26–28, 1999 (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences; 250), London, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, abstract, page 79

There are strong arguments that some features of J2EE, such as entity beans, can never be as performant in many situations as some alternatives.

2003, Rod Johnson, Expert One-on-One: J2EE Design and Development (Programmer to Programmer), Birmingham: Wrox Press, page 5

Yahoo uses YUI in their products, and as a result it is highly performant and well-tested.

2013, Thomas Valentine, Jonathan Reid, “JavaScript in Action”, in JavaScript Programmer’s Reference, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, page 117

While we can run a plethora of tools against our code to check its quality in advance, there really is no substitute for running that code within a web browser to ensure not only that it runs correctly but also that it is performant and memory-efficient.

2014, Den Odell, “Browser Developer Tools”, in Pro JavaScript Development: Coding, Capabilities, and Tooling, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, page 423

To keep the computational requirements within the reach of even aged and low-performant personal computers, computationally intensive operations are avoided.

2015, Paweł Cichosz, “Case Studies”, in Data Mining Algorithms Explained Using R, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley, section 20.1 (Introduction), page 602

Capable of or characterized by a high or excellent level of performance or efficiency.

(computing) Characterized by a level of performance or efficiency that is adequate for or exceeds the expectations of end users.

performantan

characterized by a level of performance or efficiency that is adequate for or exceeds the expectations of end users


DWH

(computing) Initialism of data warehouse.


VBA

Visual Basic for Applications
w:Visual Basic for Applications

(computing) Initialism of Visual Basic for Applications.


(computing) Acronym of Post Office Protocol version 3 standard for receiving Internet email.


EDI

electronic data interchange
electronic data interchange#English

(computing) Initialism of electronic data interchange.


SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
w:Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

(Internet) Initialism of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (a de-facto standard for email transmission.)


OLAP

en-noun

OLAP (countable and uncountable, plural OLAPs)

online analytical processing
w:online analytical processing

(computing) Acronym of online analytical processing.


SOA

SOA (countable and uncountable, plural SOAs)

search-oriented architecture
search-oriented architecture#English

(computing, architecture) Initialism of search-oriented architecture.

service-oriented architecture
service-oriented architecture#English

(computing, architecture) Initialism of service-oriented architecture.

(computing, networks) Initialism of start of authority, a record that identifies the authoritative name server for a specific DNS database segment.


texture

texture (countable and uncountable, plural textures)

/ˈtɛkʃt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Borrowed from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textūra (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere (“to weave”). See text. Doublet of tessitura.

der

The videocard is responsible for drawing every polygon, texture, and particle effect in every game you play.

2004, Will Smith, Maximum PC Guide to Building a Dream PC (page 97)

(computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.

textura

computer graphics: image applied to a polygon


meta

en-noun

meta (countable and uncountable, plural metas)

Clipping of metagame. Folk etymology also suggests an initialism of most efficient tactic available.

I don't think the character will be part of the meta even with the recent buffs.


meta

en-adj

meta (comparative more meta, superlative most meta)

more meta (comparative)
most meta (superlative)

I don't think the character will be meta even with the recent buffs.

(video games) Prominent in the metagame; effective and frequently used in competitive gameplay.


interpreted

/ɪnˈtɜːpɹɪtɪd/

(of computer languages or code) Executed directly, rather than via a compiled binary representation.


EA

en-noun

EA (countable and uncountable, plural EAs)

enterprise architecture
enterprise architecture#English

(computing) Initialism of enterprise architecture.

evolutionary algorithm
evolutionary algorithm#English

(computing, biology) Initialism of evolutionary algorithm.


EA

(video games) Initialism of Electronic Arts.


LAMPP

(computing) Initialism of Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl: an interoperable group of open-source software for serving websites.


yahoo

en-verb

yahoo (third-person singular simple present yahoos, present participle yahooing, simple past and past participle yahooed)

yahoos (present singular third-person)
yahooing (participle present)
yahooed (participle past)
yahooed (past)

Ah! You mean you have been 'yahooing'? I'm dead!

I searched, Yahooed, Googled and everything else I could.

2008, Frederick Thomas, Buddha's Bones, Buddha's Bones, page 46

In other words, none of our googling and yahooing is private (you knew that, right ?).

2017, Rajendra Pillai, Unearthed: Discover Life as God's Masterpiece, New Hope Publishers

(Internet, informal, transitive, intransitive) To search using the Yahoo! search engine.


stats

Those items he bought really boosted his stats.

(roleplaying games, video games slang) Attributes of a unit in a game (e.g. health, damage output)


layout

→ German: Layout

→ Dutch: lay-out

→ Polish: layout

→ Portuguese: layout

→ Russian: лейаут (lejaut)

→ Swedish: layout

(Internet) The customizable features of a user's profile (such as profile picture, screen name, and bio) collectively.


MSFC

(computing) Initialism of multilayer switch feature card.


preamble

From Middle English preamble, from Old French preambule (French préambule), from Medieval Latin praeambulum, from praeambulō (“I walk before”).


multimedia

(computing) of, or relating to an application that can combine such media into an integrated package

multimèdia

(computing) of, or relating to an application that can combine such media into a package


ADT

en-noun

ADT (countable and uncountable, plural ADTs)

(computing) Initialism of acknowledged data transfer.

advanced DRAM technology
advanced DRAM technology#English

(computing) Initialism of advanced DRAM technology.

abstract data type
abstract data type#English

(programming) Initialism of abstract data type.

algebraic data type
algebraic data type#English

(programming) Initialism of algebraic data type.


megabyte

/ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/

The IBM 2301 Drum Storage (Figure 20) provides random access storage of approximately 4 million bytes at a data rate of 1.2 megabytes per second.

1964, System/360 System Summary, IBM, page 27

This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.

1973, Reference Manual for IBM 3340/3344 Disk Storage, IBM, page 3

(computing, formal) One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.

One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.

2003, Michael Meyers, Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, page 933

Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).

2004, Kerry Cox, Christopher Gerg, Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools, page 92

By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.

2006, Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed, page 290


SSL

Secure Sockets Layer
w:Secure Sockets Layer

(Internet) Initialism of Secure Sockets Layer (cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet).


ASL

Apache Software License
w:Apache License

(software, copyright law) Initialism of Apache Software License.


ASL

(programming) Initialism of arithmetic shift left, a type of bitwise operation.


cancelbot

(Internet) A bot that sends messages to Usenet newsgroups to remove certain postings, especially spam.


shopping bot

(computing) a bot that searches the Internet for the best price of some retail product


knowbot

(computing) a bot that roams a distributive network (especially the Internet) to gather or distribute information


spambot

(more generally) A bot that sends any type of spam content on the Internet.


annoybot

(computing, slang) A bot within an IRC channel that sends annoying messages to online participants.


client-server

(computing) describes computer software usually comprising a number of client modules, and a server module to which they are connected in some way. The clients make requests of the server; the server processes the requests and returns the results to the appropriate client.


hunk

Probably borrowed from West Flemish hunke (“hunk; chunk”), of obscure origin. Probably from an earlier *humke, *humpke, a diminutive related to Dutch homp (“hunk; lump”), English hump, equivalent to hump + -kin. The sense of an attractive man is recorded in Australian slang in 1941, in jive talk in 1945.

(computing) A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.


warwalking

From war + walking, modelled on war-dialing.

(Internet, computing) The act of walking around with a wireless device to find an access point for a wireless network.


cut and paste

en-verb

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

cuts and pastes (present singular third-person)
cutting and pasting (participle present)
cut and pasted (participle past)
cut and pasted (past)

(computing) To delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or a different one.


authentication

Coordinate term: identification

(computing) proof of the identity of a user logging on to some network


change management

(computing) the controlled implementation of required changes to some system; includes version control and planned fallback


cherry-pick

cherry-pick (third-person singular simple present cherry-picks, present participle cherry-picking, simple past and past participle cherry-picked)

cherry-picks (present singular third-person)
cherry-picking (participle present)
cherry-picked (participle past)
cherry-picked (past)

A metaphor, from the idea of picking through a bowl of cherries and seeking the best for oneself, or the idea of picking off the cherries for oneself from a cake or dessert.

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) In source control, to commit selected changes from one branch to another.


gotcha

A potential problem or source of trouble.

(computing) A feature of a system or a program that works in the way it is documented but is counter-intuitive and almost invites mistake or non-function.

pillada

(computing) a feature that is counter-intuitive


snippet

(computing) A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.

snippet

a textfile containing a relatively small amount of code


snippet

snippet (third-person singular simple present snippets, present participle snippeting or (nonstandard) snippetting, simple past and past participle snippeted or (nonstandard) snippetted)

snippets (present singular third-person)
snippeting (participle present)
snippetting (nonstandard participle present)
snippeted (participle past)
snippeted (past)
snippetted (nonstandard participle past)
snippetted (nonstandard past)

We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.

(transitive, often computing) To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.


number sign

(computing) The character # used to represent the word number.


synchronize

synchronize (third-person singular simple present synchronizes, present participle synchronizing, simple past and past participle synchronized)

synchronizes (present singular third-person)
synchronizing (participle present)
synchronized (participle past)
synchronized (past)

From Ancient Greek συγχρονίζω (sunkhronízō), equivalent to syn- + chrono- + -ize.

sincronizar

cause two events to have coordinated timing

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To cause (a set of files, data, or settings) on one computer or device to be (and try to remain) the same as on another.


hybrid computer

en-noun

hybrid computer (plural hybrid computers)

A computer that features the best characteristics of the analog computer and digital computer.


interpret

en-verb

interpret (third-person singular simple present interprets, present participle interpreting, simple past and past participle interpreted)

interprets (present singular third-person)
interpreting (participle present)
interpreted (participle past)
interpreted (past)

From Middle English interpreten, from Old French enterpreter, (French interpréter), from Latin interpretor (“to explain, expound, interpret”), past participle interpretatus, from interpres (“an agent, broker, explainer, interpreter, negotiator”), from inter (“between”) + -pres, probably the root of pretium (“price”); -pres is probably connected with Ancient Greek φράζειν (phrázein, “to point out, show, explain, declare, speak”), from which φραδή (phradḗ, “understanding”), φράσις (phrásis, “speech”); see phrase.

cog

(computing, transitive) To analyse or execute (a program) by reading the instructions as they are encountered, rather than compiling in advance.


asl

JanEdoeSN87: asl
SumLAguy19: 18/m/California

(Internet, slang) Initialism of age, sex, location. Used mainly in chat rooms to request this information from the person with whom one is communicating.


varying

Another consideration to the relationship between vertex and fragment shaders is that adding too many additional varyings can be a drag on performance since they must all be interpolated […]

2012, Patrick Cozzi, Christophe Riccio, OpenGL Insights

(computer graphics) A kind of variable, used by a fragment shader, that interpolates values across a primitive, so as to produce gradient effects etc.


gadget

Unknown. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come from French gâchette or gagée, or from the French family name Gaget, an industrialist who produced promotional gadgets in collaboration with the project to build the statue of Liberty.

A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.

Security > Red Hat > CVE Database > CVE-2019-1125

(computing) A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.

We reduce an instance of 3-SAT to an instance of bird-flock-optimization, using a gadget that converts each conjunctive Boolean clause to a group of birds.

(computer science) A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.


jagged

en-adj

jagged (comparative more jagged, superlative most jagged)

more jagged (comparative)
most jagged (superlative)

(computing) Of an array, having a different cardinality in each dimension, such that a representation on paper would appear uneven.


pigpen

[ˈpʰɪɡˌpʰɛn]


partition

en-noun

partition (countable and uncountable, plural partitions)

/pɑɹˈtɪ.ʃən/

/pɑɹˈtɪ.ʃɪn/

Recorded c.1430, "division into shares, distinction," from Middle English particioun, from Old French particion (modern partition), from Latin partitio, partitionem (“division, portion”), from partitus, the past participle of partire (“to split (up), part(ition)”).

der

The epicenter of the disturbance is the partition currently housing a [personality construct array] retrieved from Contender AI 05-032 <+> 0816.

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Three (Legendary)

(computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.

পার্টিশন

(databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.


tutorial

/tʊˈtɔɹijəɫ/

/tʃʉˈtoːɹiəɫ/

The adjective is from tutor (noun) + -ial, ultimately from Latin tūtor (“watcher, protector, defender”). The noun is transferred from the adjective.

(computing) A video or text guide or instruction about a specific topic (generally a how-to)

tutorial

computing: video that is basically a how-to


introspect

en-verb

introspect (third-person singular simple present introspects, present participle introspecting, simple past and past participle introspected)

introspects (present singular third-person)
introspecting (participle present)
introspected (participle past)
introspected (past)

From Latin intrōspectus, past participle of intrōspiciō. By surface analysis, intro- + -spect.

DynamicMBeanFacade uses Java's reflection API to introspect the managed resource and discover data type information for attributes.

2002, Java Enterprise Best Practices, O'Reilly

(transitive, programming) To examine by means of type introspection.


flic

From flick in the cinematographic sense.

(computing) A data file containing computer animations.


parsable

en-adj

parsable (comparative more parsable, superlative most parsable)

more parsable (comparative)
most parsable (superlative)

Well-formed XML is an example of parsable text.

The regular languages are also efficiently parsable and used extensively in computing for string matching.

2019, Hannes Hapke, Cole Howard, Hobson Lane, Natural Language Processing in Action, Simon and Schuster


hax

OMG, hax! That player just ran through a solid wall.


text link

(Internet) An element of text on a web page, used to access other web pages.


JHOVE

(computing) JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment: a format-specific digital object validation API written in Java.


genericize

en-verb

genericize (third-person singular simple present genericizes, present participle genericizing, simple past and past participle genericized)

genericizes (present singular third-person)
genericizing (participle present)
genericized (participle past)
genericized (past)

/dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪˌsaɪz/

(programming, transitive) To make more generic: usable in more contexts.


biter

The first microprocessor was a 4-bit device called the 4004. Today you can buy 1-bit machines, 4-biters, 8-biters, 12-biters and 16-biters. Which one should you buy, and why?

1978, Product Engineering, volume 49, page unknown

Didn't know it was an 8-biter first, cool. The ST Star Raiders is pretty cool - my fav one yet & worth any $5.

1994 July 22, Jonathan T. Hunt, “ST Star Raiders”, in rec.games.video.atari (Usenet)

(in combination, computing) Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits.


indirect

indirect (third-person singular simple present indirects, present participle indirecting, simple past and past participle indirected)

indirects (present singular third-person)
indirecting (participle present)
indirected (participle past)
indirected (past)

/ˌɪndɪˈɹɛkt/

/ˌɪndəˈɹɛkt/

From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus.

The X operations access the data fields by indirecting through the _rep pointer.

1997, Cay S. Horstmann, Practical Object-Oriented Development in C++ and Java, page 385

These correspond to an indirected parallel write and an indirected parallel read operation respectively.

2012, Geerd-R. Hoffmann, Dimitris K. Maretis, The Dawn of Massively Parallel Processing in Meteorology

(programming, transitive) To access by means of indirection; to dereference.


SCO

sharable content object
sharable content object#English

(Internet) Abbreviation of sharable content object. (a standardized learning object that can communicate to learning management and content management systems)


postfix

Two, or three at the very most, of the prefixes or postfixes are quite sufficient for one day's lesson.

1843, George Moody, The English journal of education, volume 1, page 69

An example of a postfix operator is the ++ notation used in the C programming language to increment the value of a variable.

2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §9.4


VM

When the Java VM executes the switch statement, it determines the value of the target expression.

2005, Jeff Langr, Agile Java: Crafting Code with Test-Driven Development, Pearson Education

(computing) Initialism of virtual machine.

(computing) Initialism of virtual memory.

(software engineering) Initialism of view model.


codimension

(computing) A scope that indicates another variable of the same name and type is assigned to the local memory of each image.


honeypot

From Middle English hwny pott; equivalent to honey + pot.

Computer experts install honeypots to trick hackers.

2007 October 12, “Data leak: Cyber sherlocks outwit hackers”, in The Economic Times, retrieved 2008-06-29

(figuratively) Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing, particularly:

(computer security) A trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorized use of information systems.

hunajapurkki

a trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorized use of information systems


NAK

(computing): A negative ACK; a response indicating that a message was not fully received, or that there was a problem with the message.


HD

en-noun

HD (countable and uncountable, plural HDs)

(computing) Initialism of Hard Disc/Hard Disk/Hard Drive.


ACK

(networking) An acknowledgement either of a packet or a message received from a network.


ACK

en-verb

ACK (third-person singular simple present ACKs, present participle ACKing, simple past and past participle ACKed)

ACKs (present singular third-person)
ACKing (participle present)
ACKed (participle past)
ACKed (past)

Yet, with full ECN nonce functionality and totally unreliable behaviour, ACKing individual packets only would require the receiver to maintain state that could theoretically grow without bounds.

2005, Michael Welzl, Network Congestion Control: Managing Internet Traffic, page 150

(networking) To acknowledge a packet or a message received from a network.


copro

Oddly enough, a copro in a 286 is slower than one in an XT, due to the connections.

2001, Phil Croucher, The BIOS Companion, page 48

(computer hardware, informal) Clipping of coprocessor.


bleg

Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting (bleg)

4 July 2007, Jack Melton, “Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem”, in Sunderland Echo

Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting (blegs) on squid.

7 November 2007, “Sea Angling latest”, in Sunderland Echo

The only report on boat fishing last week was on Tuesday when the Wanderer managed to get out and took about a dozen codling to three pounds plus a few blegs.

29 May 2008, “Sea Angling: Wear in doldrums, Tyne and Tees looking up”, in Sunderland Echo

Saturday saw just three Seahan SAC juniors fishing for the J.T. Jacobs Cup, with two weighing in three coalies, a codling and a bleg.

10 December 2010, “Fishing: Pier marks look favourite for Big Open”, in Sunderland Echo

Trisopterus luscus
Trisopterus luscus#Translingual

(Northumbria) A pouting (Trisopterus luscus).


bleg

Blend of blog + beg. British-born American far-right political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer John Derbyshire claims to have coined the verb in 2002, although earlier usage may have occurred.

coin

I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.

Here's a bleg: can anyone direct me to any statement she [Sarah Palin] has ever made about foreign policy?

2008 August 29, Andrew Sullivan, “The Utter Arrogance Of It”, in The Atlantic

Last time I looked, The QOR Club was a shuttered ghost town, and Jeff Goldstein is still doing monthly blegs to pay for the capital letters required to proclaim OUTLAW! at the end of his sporadic posts.

2010 September 9, James Wolcott, “A Grammar of Motives*”, in Vanity Fair, archived from the original on 2013-01-14

This book was crowdsourced among many friends, who helped me to new insights about love in the twenty-first century and into Jane Austen; answered frantic Facebook blegs for sources of quotations I couldn't find; […]

2012, Elizabeth Kantor, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, Regnery Publishing, Inc., acknowledgments section, page 267

(Internet slang) An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.


bleg

en-verb

bleg (third-person singular simple present blegs, present participle blegging, simple past and past participle blegged)

blegs (present singular third-person)
blegging (participle present)
blegged (participle past)
blegged (past)

That guy will bleg on the most unusual topics.

The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.

2008 May 18, “Strange looks and funny lines from the past week”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution

About ten days ago, I blegged for comments about great conservative novels — NRO readers now have posted more than 200 entries here [hyperlink redacted].

2009 November 30, John J. Miller, “Novels of the Right, cont.”, in National Review Online

Zimmer had "blegged" (that’s right, begged on his blog) his readers to help him compile a number of book and article titles for inclusion in that list, and they "did not disappoint."

2009 August 7, Curtis Brainard, “It’s Tanking; I’m Teaching…”, in Columbia Journalism Review

Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.

2010 April 15, Iain Murray, “Chicagoan Voting System!”, in National Review Online

(Internet slang) To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.


reflection

en-noun

reflection (countable and uncountable, plural reflections)

/ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/

From Middle French reflexion, reflection, and its source Late Latin reflexio, from the participle stem of reflectō. The current spelling is influenced by reflect.

відобра́ження

representative manifestation or outcome of a condition, trend or trait

DynamicMBeanFacade uses Java's reflection API to introspect the managed resource and discover data type information for attributes.

2002, Java Enterprise Best Practices, O'Reilly

(computing) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.

reflektio

(computing) process of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time


link whoring

(Internet, informal, derogatory) The practice of going out of one's way to place links to one's website on someone else's web page.


brittle

en-adj

brittle (comparative brittler or more brittle, superlative brittlest or most brittle)

brittler (comparative)
more brittle (comparative)
brittlest (superlative)
most brittle (superlative)

From Middle English britel, brutel, brotel (“brittle”), from Old English *brytel, *bryttol (“brittle, fragile”, literally “prone to or tending to break”); equivalent to brit + -le.

(engineering, computing, of a system) Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.


pessimistic

pessimistic (comparative more pessimistic, superlative most pessimistic)

more pessimistic (comparative)
most pessimistic (superlative)

pessimistic concurrency; pessimistic locking

(computing) Taking out exclusive locks on data to prevent conflicts with other processes that might modify it.


hallucinate

en-verb

hallucinate (third-person singular simple present hallucinates, present participle hallucinating, simple past and past participle hallucinated)

hallucinates (present singular third-person)
hallucinating (participle present)
hallucinated (participle past)
hallucinated (past)

From Latin hallūcinātus, alternative form of alūcinātus, from alūcināri (to dream).

Despite maintaining plausible general linguistic capabilities, dialogue models are still unable to fully discern facts and may instead hallucinate factually invalid information.

2021 September 14, Nouha Dziri, Andrea Madotto, Osmar Zaiane, Avishek Joey Bose, “Neural Path Hunter: Reducing Hallucination in Dialogue Systems via Path Grounding”, in arXiv:2104.08455 [cs], →DOI

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence, of a model) To produce information that is not supported by the model's training data.


hose

hose (third-person singular simple present hoses, present participle hosing, simple past and past participle hosed)

hoses (present singular third-person)
hosing (participle present)
hosed (participle past)
hosed (past)

From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).
Cognates:
Compare West Frisian hoas (“hose”), Dutch hoos (“stocking, water-hose”), German Hose (“trousers”). Compare Tocharian A kać (“skin”), Russian кишка́ (kišká, “gut”), Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), Sanskrit कोष्ठ (koṣṭha, “intestine”). More at sky.

cog

There aren't any tricky hexadecimal calculations to snare your brain, nor is there a need to worry about hosing the registry for all eternity.

2006 Spring, Joel Durham Jr., “Pimp Out Win XP with TweakUI”, in Maximum PC, Future US, Inc., →ISSN, page 63

(transitive, computing, slang) To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content.


pitfall

First recorded use in the 14th century from pit + fall in the sense of "pit trap, pit snare", from Old English fealle (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *fallą, *fallaz (“a fall, trap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pōl-. Cognate with German Falle (“trap, snare”).


overhead

en-noun

overhead (countable and uncountable, plural overheads)

From Middle English owerheved, over-hed, over hede (adverb), from Old English oferhēafod (adverb), equivalent to over- + head. Compare German Low German overhoopt, överhoopt, German überhaupt.

computational overhead| digital overhead

Network overhead is the header data that is required to route and transport data over the network, whereas fork overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within the operating system.

(computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.

Overhead

data or steps of computation used only to facilitate computation


scrape

en-verb

scrape (third-person singular simple present scrapes, present participle scraping, simple past and past participle scraped)

scrapes (present singular third-person)
scraping (participle present)
scraped (participle past)
scraped (past)

From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skrebʰ- (“to engrave”). Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”), Danish skrabe (“to scrape”), Icelandic skrapa (“to scrape”), Walloon screper (“to scrape”), Latin scribō (“dig with a pen, draw, write”).

škrábat

cause to be in a certain state by scraping

They didn't provide an API, so I simply scraped their website.

The threat of the impending axe horrified Scott. He and his supporters hastily “scraped” as many Geocities pages as they could, creating a 641-gigabyte archive that initially circulated on file-sharing networks.

2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist

(computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.


tether

en-verb

tether (third-person singular simple present tethers, present participle tethering, simple past and past participle tethered)

tethers (present singular third-person)
tethering (participle present)
tethered (participle past)
tethered (past)

From Middle English tether, teder, from Old English *tēoder and/or Old Norse tjóðr ( > Danish tøjr, Swedish tjuder); both from Proto-Germanic *teudrą (“rope; cord; shaft”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dewtro-, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to tie”), or from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Cognate with North German Tüder (“tether for binding the cattle”), Swedish tjuder (“tether for binding cattle”).

inh

(transitive) To connect to something else.

(Internet, transitive) To connect (a smartphone) to a personal computer in order to give the phone access to the computer's Internet connection.


FORTRAN

The brothers wrote the machine’s application software in FORTRAN, a programming language that is “a dinosaur from the late fifties,” Gregory said, adding, “There is always new life in this dinosaur.”

1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker

Alternative letter-case form of Fortran, particularly its early forms.


e-zine

After reading the submission guidelines for various e-zines and print markets, I've found a wide variety of "rights" listed.

2003, Tina Morgan, Know Your Rights, Fiction Factor: The online magazine for fiction writers

(computing) A magazine published in electronic form, especially on the World Wide Web.


nybble

From nibble (“a small bite”), with the i changed to y by analogy with byte.

(computing) Half of a byte; i.e., four bits.


mixed initiative

en-noun

mixed initiative (plural mixed initiatives)

(computing) A computer-human interaction in which either the computer or the human can take initiative and decide what to do next.


twiddle

en-verb

twiddle (third-person singular simple present twiddles, present participle twiddling, simple past and past participle twiddled)

twiddles (present singular third-person)
twiddling (participle present)
twiddled (participle past)
twiddled (past)

Unknown. Perhaps a blend of twirl, twist, or twitch + fiddle.

blend

Coordinate term: diddle

(transitive, computing) To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits).


distro

en-noun

distro (countable and uncountable, plural distros)

(Internet, software, countable) A set of software components, often open source, that have been packaged into a larger product or component for distribution to end-users.


datestamp

(computing) The date on which an event occurred, often included in a log to track the sequence of events.


browser

A program which provides access to the hypertext world we call a browser.]

[1990 November 12, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)


Wiki

Wiki is where I go to research facts about Asian culture.


completion

termination

antonym(s) of “making complete, accomplishment”

Borrowed from Latin completio, completionem, from complere (“to fill up, complete”); comparable to English complete + -ion.

tab completion


Ajax

Short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by…

2005, Jesse James Garrett, Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

(computing) A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.


Ajax

THE road north took us to Ajax, Louisiana, more of a crossroads than an actual town. The RV park sat just a minute or so from the interstate and miles from much else; a saw mill near the highway and a diner across the road were the only...

2016, Suzi Parron, Following the Barn Quilt Trail, Ohio University Press

Natchitoches Parish
Natchitoches Parish#English

An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.


Alt

Abbreviation of alternate or alternative.

(computing) A modifier key used to change (alternate) the function of other pressed keys.


polymorphism

polymorphism (countable and uncountable, plural polymorphisms)

polimorfisme

crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) The feature pertaining to the dynamic treatment of data elements based on their type, allowing for an instance of a method to have several definitions.

պոլիմորֆիզմ

computer science: feature of object-oriented programming


Basic

Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

Many programs were written for the Sinclair Spectrum computer in BASIC.

A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on).


Bash

Short for Bourne-again shell, a pun on the name of the Bourne shell, an earlier Unix shell designed by Stephen R. Bourne, and the Christian concept of being "born again".

Baŝo

computing: command interpreter for operating systems

Bash stands for “Bourne-again shell”.

(computing) The Free Software Foundation's command interpreter (the "shell") for UNIX-like operating systems.

(computer languages) The scripting language provided with this interpreter.


Blowfish

(computing) A symmetric block cipher encryption algorithm used in modern cryptographic software, designed by Bruce Schneier in 1993.


Alpha

(computing) A RISC CPU instruction set architecture developed and marketed by Digital Equipment Corporation (then later by Compaq and then Hewlett-Packard) from 1992 until 2004.


Android

(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile operating system currently developed by Google.


Android

Both Androids and iPhones have a timer that can delay taking a photo by up to 10 seconds.

2016, Technology Made Easy: Simple Ways to Use Your Computer, Phone, and Other Electronic Devices, Peachtree City, Ga.: FC&A Publishing, page 317

(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile phone running on Android OS.


Bliss

programming language
programming language

(computing) a programming language used for systems programming primarily on computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Bliss is a parallel language to C, both being derived from B and BCPL


CamelCase

camel + case from the appearance of the humps of a camel.

(typography, often used in programming) The style of writing by concatenating multiple component words (i.e. writing without any space between them), while capitalizing the first letter of each word, starting with the first or the second word.


Cocoa

(computing) an object-oriented programming API for macOS

A city in Brevard County, Florida, United States.


Apple

en-proper noun

Apple (countable and uncountable, plural Apples)

From apple. As a surname, also an Americanized form of Appel or Apfel.

The company Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices, and sells and produces multimedia content.

(rare, countable) A female given name from English.


Apple

A computer produced by the company Apple Inc.


planar

en-adj

planar (comparative more planar, superlative most planar)

more planar (comparative)
most planar (superlative)

From Late Latin plānārius (“relating to a plane”), derived from Latin plānus (“flat”, “level”), equivalent to plane + -ar, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).

bor

A complete graph with more than four nodes is never planar.

(graph theory, of a graph) Able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting.


Cedar

(computing) A programming language, adding various features to the earlier language Mesa.


DSL

domain-specific language
domain-specific language#English

(programming) Initialism of domain-specific language.


Ada

Short form of Germanic names beginning with adal (“noble”), such as Adelaide. Also Latinized form of Hebrew Adah. The programming language takes its name from Ada Lovelace.

If anything, Ada is actually fairly easy to learn. The syntax is so explicit, that it is much more difficult to misunderstand what the code is doing than in C/C++.

2019, Andrew T. Shvets, Beginning Ada Programming: From Novice to Professional, Apress, page 11

(computer languages) An object-oriented programming language extended from Pascal and other languages.


Doom

Origin […] have used the canvas of a Doom-like first-person 3-D engine to paint a master work of their own in this comic-book action game.

1996 May 1, Jeffrey Adam Young, “CyberMage: Darklight Awakening Review”, in GameSpot

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(video games) A popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the progenitor of the genre.


Doge

(informal, cryptocurrencies) Clipping of Dogecoin (“a unit of the cyptocurrency”).


Elm

Elm as a language can be seen from different angles. The main purpose of the language and the platform is to create web applications.

2018, Wolfgang Loder, Web Applications with Elm […], Apress, page 42

(computer languages) A functional programming language for creating web applications.


Fortran

A variant capitalization of FORTRAN (formally adopted with Fortran 90 in 1991), a blend of formula + translator or formula + translation.

He was the defiant homesteader, the crusty senior member of a research team who understood Algol and Fortran but couldn't read the secrets of his own heart.

In addition to the Fortran operators that are intrinsic (built in), there may be user-defined operators in expressions.

1997, Jeanne C. Adams, Walter S. Brainerd, Jeanne T. Martin, Brian T. Smith, Jerrold L. Wagener, Fortran 95 Handbook: Complete ISO/ANSI Reference, MIT Press, page 192

(computer languages) A high-level programming language first developed in the 1950s for scientific, engineering, and numerical computation.


Ether

Coordinate term: gas

After more than 30 bids, the auction ended at 12:32 p.m. Eastern time, with a winning bid of 350 Ether, or about $560,000.

2021 March 26, Kevin Roose, “Why Did Someone Pay $560,000 for a Picture of My Column?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(cryptocurrencies) A unit of the Ethereum digital currency, ETH.


Excel

“Do you know Excel?” ¶ “No.” ¶ “Could you learn?” ¶ “Probably not. I find it very difficult to learn things I don't already know.” Then, remembering the advice that I try to sell myself, I added, “But I'm sure I'd pick it up eventually.”

2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, page 9

(computing, software) A spreadsheet application software program written and distributed by Microsoft.


Forth

Forth
Forth programming language
River Forth

From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.

PostScript is another concatenative language similar to the Forth family of languages.

An imperative, stack-based high-level concatenative programming language, used mostly in control applications.


Gopher

From the gopher, mascot of the University of Minnesota, where the Gopher protocol was developed.

(Internet, historical) An Internet protocol for document search and retrieval.

gopher-protokolla

an Internet protocol for document search/retrieval


Gram

Very good,” the store owner said, eyeing the slits on the side of the dress that exposed Naeema's cinnamon brown skin. “Makeup?” she asked. “Do it for the Gram!” the woman said holding up a cell phone. Naeema held up one finger, blocking ...

2015, Meesha Mink, All Hail the Queen: An Urban Tale, Simon and Schuster, page 95


Go

From go, likely with reference to the first two letters of Google.

Despite the lower priority placed on features, Go isn't a static, unchanging language. New features are adopted slowly, after much discussion and experimentation. Since the initial release of Go 1.0, there have been significant changes to the patterns that define idiomatic Go.

2021, Jon Bodner, Learning Go, O'Reilly, page 327

(computer languages) A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.


Home

(computing) A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or in a web browser to the top of the web page.


Bob

Probably from a medieval hypocorism of Rob.

The key that Alice and Bob are to share cannot be transmitted in the clear. Either it must be enciphered when sent, or Alice and Bob must derive it without an exhange of data from which the key can be derived.

2003, Matt Bishop, Computer Security: Art and Science, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 247

(cryptography, physics) The person or system receiving a message or signal from a source conventionally known as Alice.


Kappa

From English kappa, borrowed from Japanese 河童 (kappa, “water imp”). Included as an Easter Egg by an early Twitch employee.

(Internet) Used to indicate sarcasm in imitation of Kappa as used on Twitch.tv


Lintel

(computing) The computing environment of the Linux operating system running on an Intel CPU; mostly in a server.


ISO

Officially from Greek ίσος (ísos, “equal”). However, a participant in the initial meetings disputes this etymology, claiming that the link to ίσος was decided on after the name ISO was set.

I downloaded the ISO but got an error when trying to burn it to disc.

(file format) A disk image of an ISO 9660 file system (such as a CD or DVD); also used as the file extension for such a file.


Lisp

A functional programming language with a distinctive parenthesized syntax, much used in artificial intelligence.


Logo

A programming language that uses turtle graphics to teach children the elements of programming.


designer

→ Dutch: designer

→ Finnish: designer

→ French: designer

→ Italian: designer

→ Japanese: デザイナー (dezainā)

→ Korean: 디자이너 (dijaineo)

→ Portuguese: designer

→ Russian: диза́йнер (dizájner) (see there for further descendants)

→ Swedish: designer

a font designer

a level designer for a video game

(computing) A software tool for designing things.


Life

Basically, I'm looking for a fast (the fastest?) way of updating grids, where each cell has to look at an arbitrary number of its neighbors. I've seen some fast life-programs, but often they took advantage of particular quirks of the rules of Life.

1988 January 26, David Hiebeler, “Fast way to update grids”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Is there a known 3D totalistic or semi-totalistic automaton (Life is the latter sort - state at time t+1 depends on state at time t and count of neighbours) which exhibits the same sort of behaviour as Life (that is, a reasonable range of naturally-occuring still lives and short-period oscillators)?

1999 May 13, Thomas Womack, “3D automata with Life-style objects”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Maybe the RolfLife algorithm could be of value to someone implementing life i.e. in the vertex shader of a (DirectX 9) graphics card, where few lines of code and no LUT are favoured.

2003 February 20, Rolf Wilms, “Fast implementation of core algorithm for Conway's Game of Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) Conway's Game of Life.


Lua

A lightweight programming language with dynamic typing.

لُوَا

a programming language (transliterations)


Mallet

Cryptographic scenarios use archetypal characters with standard names chosen to remember their role: Mallet was derived from "malicious" and "man-in-the-middle attack", as well as the tool mallet.

Even if Alice and Bob's public keys are stored on a datavase, this attack will work. Mallet can intercept Alice's database inquiry, and substitute his own public key for Alice's. He can do the same to Bob.

1994, Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography, page 44

(cryptography) Often the malicious party in examples of threat scenarios. See Alice and Bob.


Mastodon

However, the underlying design of platforms within [The Free Network] such as Mastodon, Diaspora and others ... opens the door to security and harassment problems.

2020, Kevin Veale, Gaming the Dynamics of Online Harrassment, Springer International Publishing, page 113

Since Musk bought the bird app last month, users are looking for ways to access Mastodon, the open source microblogging platform that isn’t quite Twitter but seems to be the closest thing to it, and they’re signing up for its many servers in droves.

2022 November 9, Amanda Hoover, “Twitter Users Have Caused a Mastodon Meltdown”, in Wired, →ISSN

(social media) A decentralized microblogging platform, part of the Fediverse.


Me

Alternative form: ME

(computing) Windows Me (Millennium Edition).


Net

The Web is just part of the Net.


Mac

Informal diminutive of Macintosh, later adopted by Apple as a trademark.

Although our Macs served us well, in those early, dark years Macintosh users were effectively excommunicated by the computer establishment.

1987, InfoWorld, volume 9, number 37, page 46

Built by Matthew Weed, a blind political science and history major, and Victor Grigorieff, a computer science and psychology major, the system is based on a Macintosh IIfx, although it can run on earlier models, since each Mac program has a similar interface.

1991, “Breaking Communications Barriers”, in Compute!, volume 13, number 9, pages 28–31

Apple, IBM, and Motorola have teamed up to produce this 32-bit chip that will be used in future Apple Macintoshes and IBM PCs. PowerPC systems will run Mac or Unix programs, and possibly Windows software in the future.

1993, “The New Microprocessors Powerchips”, in Popular Science, volume 243, number 1, page 58

If you invest the time to learn one Windows or Mac program, you'll automatically have mastered the basic skills to use hundreds of others.

1993, “The Newest Appliance”, in U.S. News & World Report, volume 115, number 21, page 90

As this shift accelerates, finding software that works with a particular operating system will be less of a concern. People will be able to base decisions about which OS to use strictly on merit, and on personal preference. For me, if the choice is between struggling to configure every feature and being able to boot up and get to work, at long last I choose the Mac.

2007, “Uninspiring Vista”, in Technology Review, volume 110, number 1, pages 72–4

Oddly, the big difference didn't come in our user ratings, where we expected the famously friendly Mac interface to shine.
Apple's popular commercials have painted the picture in stark terms: There are two types of people, Mac people and PC people.

2008, Glenn Derene, “Mac VS. PC”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 185, number 5, page 86

A Macintosh computer (made by Apple Inc.).


Macintosh

From Scottish Gaelic Mac-an-tòisich, meaning "son of the thane (Old Irish toísech (“leader”))".

(computing) A brand of personal computer manufactured by Apple Inc.


POH

(computing) Initialism of powered-on hours.


Peach

* As an English surname, from French péché (“sin”). Compare Peachey, Petch.
* As a German surname, Americanized from Pietsch.

(video games) The princess in the Mario franchise.


PH

en-noun

PH (countable and uncountable, plural PHs)

polynomial hierarchy
polynomial hierarchy#English

(computer science) Initialism of polynomial hierarchy.


Pong

A good lunar lander or Pong-type game was all you needed to strike it rich!

2002, André LaMothe, Tricks of the Windows game programming gurus, page 10

If the US invades Iraq, we'll see action all right, much more than we witnessed with the primitive Pong-ish effects delivered during Gulf War 1.0,

2003 March 1, “Gulf War 2.0: The Son Strikes Back”, in Toronto Star

The paddle controllers are necessary for playing Pong-style contests, and since two paddles share one controller input you can easily play doubles Pong with an extra set of paddles.

2006, Chris Kohler, Retro gaming hacks, page 10

(video games) An early video game from Atari, resembling ping-pong, in which two players control paddles and attempt to intercept a ball.


Eve

(cryptography) A conventional name for an agent attempting to intercept a message sent by Alice that is intended for Bob.


Linda

Latinised short form of Germanic compound names ending in -lind, -linde (“tender, soft”) (English -inda), such as Sieglinde and Dietlinde, and earlier names such as Old High German Irmilinda and Old Dutch Frithelind, from Proto-Germanic *linþaz (“gentle, mild”), whence also Old English līþe (“gentle, mild, pliable, limber”) (English lithe). Later misassociated with unrelated Spanish linda (“beautiful”). The name became known through 19th century literature and the opera Linda di Chamounix (1842). More at lithe.
The coordination language is named after Linda Lovelace, a reference to the programming language Ada, itself named after Ada Lovelace.

cog

The aim of this paper is to analyse the concept of extending the parallel logic programming paradigm with Linda-like operations, thus facilitating distributed data storage, access and management.

2012, Evan Tick, Giancarlo Succi, editors, Implementations of Logic Programming Systems, Springer Science & Business Media, page 43

(computer languages) A coordination language for parallel computing environments.


Genesis

From Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “creation, beginning, origin”).

der

(Canada, US, video games) A video game console, the Sega Genesis.


Pascal

en-proper noun

Pascal (countable and uncountable, plural Pascals)

From Latin Paschālis, from paschālis (“Paschal; of or pertaining to Easter”), from pascha (“Easter”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives), for birth on Easter, or in honor of the 9th-century pope Paschal I (died 824). Doublet of Paschal. The programming language was named after French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).

(computer languages) An imperative procedural programming language intended to encourage good programming practices through the use of structure.


Scheme

A programming language, one of the two major dialects of Lisp.


Ruby

The female name derives from ruby in the 19th century.

(computer languages) A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.


Google

Misspelling of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.

(trademark) A particular Internet company.

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


Google

en-verb

Google (third-person singular simple present Googles, present participle Googling or Googleing or Google-ing, simple past and past participle Googled)

Googles (present singular third-person)
Googling (participle present)
Googleing (participle present)
Google-ing (participle present)
Googled (participle past)
Googled (past)

Eventually, I found myself surfing the web, Google-ing the names of former boyfriends.

2005, Pari Noskin Taichert, The Belen Hitch, Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, page 33

Trying to be helpful, he told Lenzin that he could get most of the information by Googleing Ashley.

2008, Jerry Langton, Rage: The True Story of a Sibling Murder, John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., page 133

I did quite a bit of research by Google-ing a lot of the costume websites.

2008, Carol Adams, Douglas Buchanan, Kelly Gesch, quoting Anne Timmons, “Northanger Abbey: The Graphic Novel”, in The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen, New York, N.Y., London: The Continuum International Publishing Group, page 92, column 1

There are several film festivals going on all over the world at any one time. Do some creative Google-ing and start sending your film out.

2009, Lloyd Kaufman with Sara Antill and Kurly Tlapoyawa, Direct Your Own Damn Movie!, Burlington, Mass., Abingdon, Oxon: Focal Press, published 2013

Googleing the name of your counterpart will most likely tell you even more: Facebook and the like will tell about hobbies, family etc. and hence give you valuable information on the motivational set of the person.

2010, Michael Schneider, “Companies and Airlines: Negotiation Positions – Negotiation Options”, in Roland Conrady, Martin Buck, editors, Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2010, Springer, page 211

Rainwater harvesting guidance and products can be found in abundance by Googleing “rainwater-harvesting”.

2011, Trevor Linsley, Basic Electrical Installation Work, 6th edition, Newnes, page 479


Swift

If anyone outside Apple saw Swift coming, they certainly weren't making any public predictions.

2014 June 5, John Timmer, “A fast look at Swift, Apple’s new programming language”, in Ars Technica

Apple has made its Swift programming tools open source, Google opened up its TensorFlow machine-learning software, and IBM did the same with its SystemML.

2015 December 14, Steve Lohr, “Stephen Wolfram Aims to Democratize His Software”, in New York Times

Unlike some children’s apps, which employ drag-and-drop blocks to teach coding, the Apple program uses Swift, a professional programming language that the company introduced in 2014.

2016 September 13, Natasha Singer, “Apple Offers Free App to Teach Children Coding (iPads Sold Separately)”, in New York Times

(computing) A general-purpose multi-paradigm compiled programming language introduced by Apple Inc. in 2014.


Telex

Central Telegraph Office
General Post Office
Telex (input method)
Western Union

From Telex Printergram, a service offered beginning 15 Aug. 1932 by the British General Post Office's Central Telegraph Office, derived as a blend of tele- (“telegraph, teletype, teleprinter, etc.”) + exchange. Subsequently branded in the United States by Western Union and then similarly genericized. In reference to the Vietnamese conventions, a borrowing of Vietnamese Telex, from French télex, from the English term.

blend

(computing) Input method for Vietnamese text based on this convention.


Tux

Coined by James Hughes as a short form of Torvalds Unix (after Linus Torvalds), perhaps also influenced by tux, referring to the tuxedo that penguins are sometimes humorously said to be wearing.

A cuddly cartoon penguin, the official Linux mascot.


PK

en-noun

PK (countable and uncountable, plural PKs)

(computing, databases) Initialism of primary key.

(video games, roleplaying games) Initialism of player kill(er/ing).


Whetstone

The benchmark is named after the Whetstone compiler built at a English Electric Company division in Whetstone, Leicestershire.

Coordinate term: Dhrystone

Developed in the early 1970s by Harold Curnow and Brian Wichmann, Whetstones was originally released in Algol and Fortran versions but was later translated into several other languages.

2016, Joseph D. Dumas II, Computer Architecture: Fundamentals and Principles of Computer Design, second edition, CRC Press

Whetstone reflects mostly numerical computing, using a substantial amount of floating-point arithmetic.

2018, Sajjan G. Shiva, Advanced Computer Architectures, CRC Press, page 67

(computing) A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.


Whetstone

The Prodigy 4 does 500,000 Whetstones.

1994, Binod C. Agrawal, Larry R. Symes, Future of Computerisation in Institutions of Higher Learning, Concept Publishing Company, page 92

(computing) A single instruction of the Whetstone benchmark, often expressed as a value per second.


np

(text messaging, Internet) Abbreviation of no problem.


COD

"Let's go over to my house and play some CoD," he said.


TC

This is the best Total Conversion we have seen of any game. Given that it is a TC of Gorefest, the reigning blockbuster, this means that Skullpulper is now the best 3D game in the world. Period.

1999 August, Marc Laidlaw, “Total Conversion”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, page 85

It may have started its existence as a TC, but the final product is as inspired and as polished as anything you could hope for.

2000 November, “Gunman Chronicles”, in PC Zone, page 80

One of the more interesting is Speed Island - a TC that turns Vice City into a stunt island.

2004 October, “Community Chest: Grand Theft Auto”, in PC Zone, page 114

total conversion
total conversion#English

(video games) Initialism of total conversion.


TC

(Internet) Initialism of topic closed: indicating that no further replies are allowed in a discussion thread.


Victor

From a Late Latin personal name Victor, borne by several saints, from victor (“conqueror”). Doublet of victor.

Coordinate term: Peggy

(cryptography) Placeholder name for the party that verifies a proof.


gg

/d͡ʒiːd͡ʒiː/

(online gaming slang) Initialism of good game.

Nature's Prophet going to get the last hit in as well. It's the entire team down for EHOME. This is GG.

2014 March 19, Free to Play (Film), spoken by Announcer

(online gaming slang, by extension) loss, defeat, game over


tl

Meanwhile, others just begged James to "PLEASE STOP" with his "oversharing," with some people on Twitter also asking other users to "stop putting James Charles tucking himself on my tl."

2022 May 27, “James Charles Loses Over 100K Followers After Posting His Tuck”, in Paper

(Internet) Abbreviation of timeline; also TL.


electromechanical computer

electromechanical computer (plural electromechanical computers)

In 1937, Howard Aiken, a mathematician at Harvard University, developed the idea for a general-purpose electromechanical computer, the Harvard Mark I.

(computer hardware) An early type of computer that used electromagnetic relays.


C

The programming language is so named because it followed on from an earlier language called B.

1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine
The PDP-11, from the Digital Equipment Corporation, was a coveted machine. It was the original computer to run a new programming language called C, which was on its way to becoming the hackers' standard. Gregory, as it happened, didn't have any spare PDP-11s at his disposal. But the repairman took the opportunity to question some of Nelson's blithe predictions in Computer Lib, and Nelson, in response, unleashed his glib and bitter tirade against the conservative ignoramuses in the computer business.

(programming) A particular high-level programming language from which many others are derived.

(British) Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).


C

Uncertain. Possibilities include:
* Hainanese 鮮／鲜 (si²³, “fresh”).
* From the first letter of Carnation, an evaporated milk brand.

(Singapore, colloquial, after kopi (“coffee”) or teh (“tea”)) With sugar and evaporated milk added.


greek

en-verb

greek (third-person singular simple present greeks, present participle greeking, simple past and past participle greeked)

greeks (present singular third-person)
greeking (participle present)
greeked (participle past)
greeked (past)

Probably from Greek (“unintelligible speech or text”).

You can specify the type size below which text will be greeked in the Preferences dialog box. Designers often prefer to use greeked text in rough layouts because it helps the client focus on the design rather than on the words.

1991, Ronnie Shushan, Don Wright, Desktop Publishing by Design, 2nd edition, Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, →OCLC

If text gets smaller than this value, [Adobe] Illustrator shows the text blocks as gray bars, an operation called greeking. Both type size and view size figure into the equation, so that 6-point type greeks at 100-percent view size and 12-point type greeks at 50 percent. Greeking speeds the screen display because gray bars are easier to draw than individual characters.

2002, Deke McClelland, “The Interface”, in Real World Adobe Illustrator 10, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, pages 46–47

(transitive, computing) To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.

(transitive, computing) To fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form can be focused on instead of content.


Tor

(computing) Abbreviation of The Onion Routing, an implementation of second-generation onion routing.


MAC

en-noun

MAC (countable and uncountable, plural MACs)

mandatory access control
w:mandatory access control

(computer security) Initialism of mandatory access control.

(networking) Initialism of media access control: the portion of Ethernet, Wi-Fi 802.11 wireless, Bluetooth, FDDI, ATM, and Fibre Channel networks that controls which hardware devices have access to the media over which signals are sent.

media access control

message authentication code
w:message authentication code

(cryptography) Initialism of message authentication code.

(computing) Initialism of multiply and accumulate, a hardware module found in digital signal processors which performs a multiplication and adds the result of that operation to an accumulator in the same cycle, used extensively in implementations of digital filters, transforms, and codecs.


BOFH

bastard operator from hell
bastard operator from hell#English

(slang, computing, Internet) Initialism of bastard operator from hell.


B

From abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’.
* (billion): abbreviation of billion
* (cricket): abbreviation of balls
* (bitch): abbreviation of bitch


B

Possibly a contraction of BCPL (“Basic Combined Programming Language”), the name of a programming language from which B was derived. Dennis Ritchie (a coworker of B’s designer, Ken Thompson) speculated that B might be based on Bon (the name of an earlier, but unrelated, programming language that Thompson designed for use on Multics), itself either from Bonnie (the name of Thompson’s wife) or “(according to an encyclopedia quotation in its manual), after a religion whose rituals involve the murmuring of magic formulas”.

(computer languages) A programming language from which C is derived.


personal digital assistant

personal digital assistant (plural personal digital assistants)

The device, about the size of a fat paperback book, represents the most ambitious attempt yet by computer and communications companies to pool their resources in hopes of finally creating a market for what the industry calls "personal digital assistants."]

[1994 September 28, Lawrence M. Fisher, “Personal Digital Assistant, Part III”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Already, Sharp owns at least 60 percent of the market for personal digital assistants, or P.D.A.'s, with its Wizard line, ranking far ahead of Hewlett-Packard, Casio, Apple Computer and other competitors past and present.

1994 December 18, Laurie Flynn, “Sharp Unveils a New Breed of Personal Digital Assistant”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(dated) A hand-held electronic organizer or computer.

个人数位助理

kò-jîn sò͘-ūi chō͘-lí, kò-lîn sò͘-ūi chō͘-lí

携帯情報端末

けいたいじょうほうたんまつ


D

From the position (4) of the letter D in the English alphabet.

(computer languages) A programming language inspired from C++.


shell out

en-verb

shell out (third-person singular simple present shells out, present participle shelling out, simple past and past participle shelled out)

shells out (present singular third-person)
shelling out (participle present)
shelled out (participle past)
shelled out (past)

(computing, especially Unix) To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.


CDT

(computing) initialism of C/C++ Development Toolkit of Eclipse