stack

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From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”), which per Kroonen (arguing for the controversial Kluge's law) is from *stogʰ-nós, cognate with Ancient Greek στόχος (stokhos), but unclear whether he derives *stogʰ-nós from a Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ- (“pole; rod; stick; stake”). Per Pokorny et al., from PIE *(s)teg- (“stake, pole, rod, stick, beam”) and cognate with Latin tignum ("tree trunk, beam, log"), but not cognate with Ancient Greek στόχος.
The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra.
Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.

der

(programming) A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).

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

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

(computing, often with "the") A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.

A TCP/IP stack is a library or set of libraries or of OS drivers that take care of networking.

(networking) An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).

I've got 107 Golden Branches, but the stack size is 20 so they're taking up 6 spaces in my inventory.

(video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.


dequeue

en-verb

dequeue (third-person singular simple present dequeues, present participle dequeuing or dequeueing, simple past and past participle dequeued)

dequeues (present singular third-person)
dequeuing (participle present)
dequeueing (participle present)
dequeued (participle past)
dequeued (past)

(transitive, computing) to remove an item from a queue


lambda calculus

en-noun

lambda calculus (countable and uncountable, plural lambda calculi)

Coined by Alonzo Church after the use of the Greek letter lambda (λ) as the basic abstraction operator in the calculus.

In the 1930s, while Turing was developing what are now called ‘Turing machines’ as a model for computation, Church and his student Kleene were developing a different model, called the ‘lambda calculus’ [29, 63]. While a Turing machine can be seen as an idealized, simplified model of computer hardware, the lambda calculus is more like a simple model of software.

2009 February 3, John C. Baez with Mike Stay, “Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 50

functionally complete
functionally complete

(computing theory) Any of a family of functionally complete algebraic systems in which lambda expressions are evaluated according to a fixed set of rules to produce values, which may themselves be lambda expressions.


code review

code review (countable and uncountable, plural code reviews)

After several painful episodes, we've decided to adopt code review for all major changes.

How did that get through two separate code reviews?

For small projects, code reviews can be used to ensure that software implementations adhere to the detailed designs.

2008, Anthony J. Lattanze, Architecting Software Intensive Systems: A Practitioners Guide, CRC Press, page 355

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) The practice, or an instance, of identifying and verifying the choice of algorithms, coding styles and compliance with the software design.


code review

en-verb

code review (third-person singular simple present code reviews, present participle code reviewing, simple past and past participle code reviewed)

code reviews (present singular third-person)
code reviewing (participle present)
code reviewed (participle past)
code reviewed (past)

Did anyone code review that class before it went into the shipping version?

These changes are code-reviewed by other team members and merged to the main branch upon approval.

2021, Billy Yuen, Alexander Matyushentsev, Todd Ekenstam, Jesse Suen, GitOps and Kubernetes […], Simon and Schuster, page 11

(transitive, software engineering) To perform a code review on.


stacked

en-adj

stacked (comparative more stacked, superlative most stacked)

more stacked (comparative)
most stacked (superlative)

The addition of Holiday is especially auspicious because while the team is stacked with great offensive players, it is a little lacking on defense, and he fills that gap.

2021 July 23, Eve Peyser, “U.S. Men's Basketball Had a Rocky Tokyo Olympics Start. I'm Still Excited.”, in New York Magazine

(sports, video games, of a team) Having many skilled players.

(title)

2022 January 2, Carvs, “I Killed a Stacked Player Using 117 Ravagers...”, in YouTube

(video games) Having a large advantage as a result of accumulating many items and upgrades.


telegraph

André François Miot de Mélito
Claude Chappe
telegraph
telegraph (disambiguation)

From French télégraphe, equivalent to tele- (“far, distant”) + graph (“writing”), suggested as a new name for Claude Chappe's overland semaphore network by André François Miot de Mélito in place of Chappe's original tachygraphe (“tachygraph, fast writer”).

prefix

(video games) A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.


ACATS

Ada Conformity Assessment Test Suite
w:Ada Conformity Assessment Test Suite

(computing) Initialism of Ada Conformity Assessment Test Suite.


shout

en-verb

shout (third-person singular simple present shouts, present participle shouting, simple past and past participle shouted)

shouts (present singular third-person)
shouting (participle present)
shouted (participle past)
shouted (past)

From Middle English shouten. Further origin uncertain. Possibly related to Middle English shooten (“to shoot (out)”) or from or akin to Old Norse skúta (“to chide, scold”), Old Norse skúti, skúta (“a taunt”). See also the second, rare sense of the verb scout (“to reject with contempt”).

cog

Please don't shout in the chat room.

(Internet) To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case, regarded as the electronic messaging equivalent of oral shouting.


JPEG

/ˈd͡ʒeɪ.pɛɡ/

From Joint Photographic Experts Group, the name of the committee that created the standard.

I'll send you some JPEGs tomorrow.

It's important to note that you cannot interlace a JPEG. However, a technology has been developed to allow JPEGs to progressively render. This is the progressive JPEG format.

1999, Dennis Jones, Neil Randall, Using Microsoft FrontPage 2000, Que Publishing, page 670

Critics of NFTs who don't understand the technology wonder why buyers would pay so much for a JPEG when they could just “right-click save” to their computer and copy the image an arbitrary number of times.

2023, Amanda Cassatt, Web3 Marketing: A Handbook for the Next Internet Revolution, John Wiley & Sons, page 47

Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web.

2023 February 9, Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, in The New Yorker

(computer graphics) An image using the JFIF image file format, containing an image compressed using JPEG compression


JPEG

en-verb

JPEG (third-person singular simple present JPEGs, present participle JPEGging or JPEGing, simple past and past participle JPEGged or JPEGed or JPEG'd)

JPEGs (present singular third-person)
JPEGging (participle present)
JPEGing (participle present)
JPEGged (participle past)
JPEGged (past)
JPEGed (participle past)
JPEGed (past)
JPEG'd (participle past)
JPEG'd (past)

/ˈd͡ʒeɪ.pɛɡ/

(computer graphics) To create or convert an image into a JPEG file.

That image has been jpegged to hell.

(computer graphics, by extension) To lossily compress an image file in such a way that much of the quality is removed.


snap

en-noun

snap (countable and uncountable, plural snaps)

From Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”). (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc., but this is phonetically unsound.) In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip.
Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

gloss

”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse <i class="Latn mention" lang="non">snapa</i> (“to get; scrounge”)

sound-symbolic

expressive

onom

onomatopoeia

cog

By April 2014, over 700 million snaps are shared per day on Snapchat — more than Facebook, WhatsApp, and other social networks.

2014, Newton Lee, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness, page 51

The oldest snaps will be deleted after 24 hours, and to keep the story going you'll have to add new content regularly.

2015, Suse Barnes, Like, Follow, Share: Awesome, Actionable Social Media Marketing to Maximise Your Online Potential, page 238

While Snapchat bases its whole product marketing on the auto-deletion of the snaps (images and videos) so that they are not stored, recent reports indicate otherwise.

2015, Yuval Karniel, Amit Lavie-Dinur, Privacy and Fame: How We Expose Ourselves across Media Platforms, page 120

(social media) Alternative letter-case form of Snap.

A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.

“[…] What’s your snap?” she asks. “Oh here.” He jerks for his phone not trying to test her patience or invitation. They trade info. “Cool,” she comments and memorizes his username.

2017, Coulter, A Night’s Tale, BookVenture Publishing LLC

In addition to compliments (“that’s hot!”) and direct propositions (“please post a full frontal shot”), commenters often leave invitations on users’ posts to direct message them (“DM me!”), follow their account (“follow me”) or exchange usernames for the ephemeral social messaging service, Snapchat (“snap: @readyforyou”, “what’s your snap?”).

2018, Elija Cassidy, Gay Men, Identity and Social Media: A Culture of Participatory Reluctance, Routledge

He asked for my snap one day so I gave it to him, but strictly as friends and he knew that.

2023 August 29, Alexis Sook, chapter 1, in Two Hearts or One, Union City, N.J.: Writers Republic L.L.C., page 4

(colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).

(Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.


snap

en-verb

snap (third-person singular simple present snaps, present participle snapping, simple past and past participle snapped or (obsolete) snapt)

snaps (present singular third-person)
snapping (participle present)
snapped (participle past)
snapped (past)
snapt (obsolete participle past)
snapt (obsolete past)

sound-symbolic

expressive

onom

onomatopoeia

захапвам

to attempt to seize with the teeth or bite

napsauttaa

to cause something to emit a snapping sound

The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.

pompata

computing: to jump to a fixed position relative to another element

As I set myself up the round table, my phone lit up with a few notifications on Snapchat. Gustin snapped me a few pictures of the three boys in the park.

2019, Keertiga Chandran, “Rockhurst”, in The Pebble Fall Theme Park: Welcome to the Pebble Fall Theme Park, Partridge Publishing Singapore

Did you know she just joined Snapchat? Last night, she snapped me a picture of you sitting in a muddy puddle in nothing but your diaper.

2024, Jami Rogers, “Chapter Two: Natalie”, in Always Been Write: A Small Town, Best Friends to Lovers Romance (Lust or Bust; 6)

(social media, ditransitive) Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”).


splat

(computing, slang) The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.

(computing, slang) Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets.

It consists of three dots or periods preceding the last (or only) parameter in the function signature. The splat operator converts the values passed to the function into an array, which can then be used inside the function […]

2019, David Powers, PHP 7 Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, page 64

(programming) An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....


splat

en-verb

splat (third-person singular simple present splats, present participle splatting, simple past and past participle splatted)

splats (present singular third-person)
splatting (participle present)
splatted (participle past)
splatted (past)

Figure 6: Checkerboard rendering using two different screen space surface splatting algorithms.

2003, Thomas Ertl, Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2003: Proceedings, page 491

(computer graphics, transitive) To combine different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.


buzzword compliance

Ironic parallel with standards compliance.

The UDDI-over-Bluetooth support is only in there for buzzword compliance.

(uncountable, software engineering) The practice of ensuring that a product supports a set of features considered important for marketing, regardless of whether they are valuable features.


standards compliant

Other vendors' products may be cheaper, but ours are standards compliant.

(software engineering) Fully supporting all relevant published standards.


buzzword compliant

en-adj

buzzword compliant (comparative more buzzword compliant, superlative most buzzword compliant)

more buzzword compliant (comparative)
most buzzword compliant (superlative)

Our latest release is 100% buzzword compliant.

(software engineering) Supporting all features considered important by marketing, regardless of their actual value.


state machine

This algorithm will produce a state machine for parsing a given context-free grammar.

finite-state machine
finite-state machine#English

(computing theory) Ellipsis of finite-state machine.


trend

en-verb

trend (third-person singular simple present trends, present participle trending, simple past and past participle trended)

trends (present singular third-person)
trending (participle present)
trended (participle past)
trended (past)

From Middle English trenden (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Old English trendan (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *trandijan (“to turn, roll, revolve”), apparently derived from a strong verb Proto-West Germanic *trindan. Cognate with Dutch trent (“circumference”). Akin to Old English trinde (“ball”), Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”). More at trindle, trundle.

inh

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What topics have been trending on social networks this week?

"Puppy Bowl" was even a trending sports topic on Facebook.

2016 February 3, Voice of America, “Trending Today: Puppy Bowl”, in Voice of America, Voice of America

The hashtag #RepublicofThailand trended on Twitter in Thailand on Friday after parliament voted to push back the question of changing the constitution as protesters have demanded.

2020 September 25, Reuters Staff, “Thai republican hashtag trends after constitution change delayed”, in Reuters, Reuters, retrieved 2020-09-25

The platform, founded in 2006, also came along just as TV’s cultural cachet was rising, with a growth in ambitious, talk-about-able appointment series. “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad” premiered during its run; twist-heavy serials like “Scandal” and “Game of Thrones” delivered the kind of OMG moments that got them trending regularly.

2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times

(social media, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.


assembler

en-noun

assembler (countable and uncountable, plural assemblers)

The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.

1982, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 10, page 35

(programming, countable) A program that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code, possibly together with information needed by linkers, debuggers and other tools.

I wrote that program in assembler.

(computer languages, informal, chiefly uncountable) Assembly language.

асемблер

program that converts assembly language to machine code


viral

(computing) Of the nature of an informatic virus; able to spread copies of itself to other computers.

The end game of that is the GoFundMe link posted beneath a viral tweet so they can pay for their health care. Being an influencer sounds fun until it’s ‘keep producing viral content to literally stay alive.’

2021 March 24, Charlie Warzel, quoting Anil Dash, “What Are You Paying for When You Buy a GIF for $25,000?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(social media) Circulated rapidly and widely from one user to another.

(of an image, video, piece of information, etc.) circulating rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another


garbage collect

en-verb

garbage collect (third-person singular simple present garbage collects, present participle garbage collecting, simple past and past participle garbage collected)

garbage collects (present singular third-person)
garbage collecting (participle present)
garbage collected (participle past)
garbage collected (past)

(programming) To reclaim resources which are no longer in use; to run a garbage collector.

(programming, transitive) To destroy (an object that is no longer in use) during the process of garbage collection


SF

(video games) Initialism of Street Fighter.


transition function

en-noun

transition function (plural transition functions)

(computing theory) A function from (state, input symbol) to state describing what state to move to on receiving a given input in a given state.


Backus-Naur form

Backus-Naur form (countable and uncountable, plural Backus-Naur forms)

From the names of computer science pioneers John Backus and Peter Naur. The notation was developed by Backus in 1959 (as Backus normal form) to describe computer languages, specifically ALGOL 58, and expanded and used by Naur in the ALGOL 60 report (the result of a January 1960 meeting). The name change to Backus-Naur form was at the suggestion of Donald Knuth.

While context-free grammars (which, by the way, directly correspond to Backus-Naur forms) define the syntax of declarations, statements, and expressions, etc. (i.e. the structure of a program), the regular grammars define the syntax of identifiers, numbers, strings, etc. (i.e., the basic symbols of the language).

1991, Bernd Teufel, Organization of Programming Languages, Springer, page 26

2004, Jason H. Moore, Lance W. Hahn, Systems Biology Modeling in Human Genetics Using Petri Nets and Grammatical Evolution, Kalyanmoy Deb, et. al. (editors), Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, GECCO 2004, Proceedings, Part 1, Springer, LNCS 3102, page 396,
Here, a Backus-Naur Form (BNF) grammar is specified that allows a computer program or model to be constructed by a simple genetic algorithm operating on an array of bits.

The most common syntactic metalanguage adopted in the computing world is Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF). There are many slightly different variants of EBNF, but all of them are based on Backus-Naur Form (BNF), developed in the 1960s for describing the syntax of the Fortran and Algol 60 programming languages.

2011, Airi Salminen, Frank Tompa, Communicating with XML, Springer, page 215

context-free grammar
context-free grammar

(computing) A formal notation for context-free grammars.

International Organization for Standardization

formo de Backus-Naur

a formal notation for context-free grammars


BNF

Could we write BNF for this instead of trying to describe it in text?

Backus-Naur form
Backus-Naur form#English

(computing) Initialism of Backus-Naur form. (originally Backus normal form).


DFA

finite-state automaton
finite-state machine#English

(computing theory) Initialism of deterministic finite-state automaton.

(machine learning) Initialism of direct feedback alignment.


infra

infra (countable and uncountable, plural infras)

However, as the nations 70% is covered with mountains, gathering of the meteorological information of particular regions (mountains, canyons, islands etc) by wired transmission system is difficult and it costs a lot of money. This is one of the obstacles of the construction of an infra for the prevention of disasters caused by meteorological changes.

2005, Kyung-Bae Chang et al., “Meteorological Phenomena Measurement System Using the Wireless Network”, in Rajiv Khosla, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain, editors, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, →DOI, page 861

In this paper we focus on the context of infra construction and development – the problem being: lack of relevant tools for management of BIM [building information modelling] implementation actions.

2012, T. Mäkeläinen, J. Hyvärinen, J. Peura, “BIM practices and challenges framed – an approach to systemic change management”, in Gudni Gudnason, Raimar Scherer, editors, eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, CRC Press, page 498

Technologies in cloud computing have become mature in the infra systems and cloud server-level service providers, which have kept the infra system technologies as the data centers, server clusters, virtualization, service providers by extending services of Private Cloud.

2014, Yoojin Lim, Eunmi Choi, “Mobile Cloud Computing Architectural Design Taxonomy toward the ‘Cloud Computing in Hand’ Era”, in Young-Sik Jeong et al., editors, Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, →DOI, page 519

(Last year Zuckerberg announced a new engineering slogan: “Move fast with stable infra,” using the hacker shorthand for the infrastructure that keeps the site running.)

2015 April 2, James Somers, quoting Mark Zuckerberg, “Toolkits for the Mind”, in MIT Technology Review

(civil engineering, computing, informal) Clipping of infrastructure.


disown

en-verb

disown (third-person singular simple present disowns, present participle disowning, simple past and past participle disowned)

disowns (present singular third-person)
disowning (participle present)
disowned (participle past)
disowned (past)

(transitive, computing, Unix) To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session.


garbage collection

en-noun

garbage collection (usually uncountable, plural garbage collections)

Java uses a technique known as garbage collection to remove objects that are no longer needed. The garbage collector is Java's grim reaper.]

[2002, Patrick Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen, Learning Java, O'Reilly, page 135

Generational garbage collection has proved to be a highly effective organisation, offering significant performance improvements for a wide range of applications.

2016, Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss, The Garbage Collection Handbook, CRC Press

(programming) An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that are no longer in use.


magic cookie

(computing) A token or short packet of data passed between communicating programs, used to identify a particular event or transaction; the data is typically not meaningful to the recipient program and not usually interpreted until the recipient passes the data back to the sender or another program at a later time.


minicomputer

(computer hardware) A computer smaller than a mainframe, but larger than a microcomputer.


impression

impression (countable and uncountable, plural impressions)

From Old French impression, from Latin impressio.

Publishers are paid for each ad impression their site generates.

2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 329

(Internet) A performance metric representing an instance where a post or ad is shown once.


garbage collector

garbage collector (plural garbage collectors)

Java uses a technique known as garbage collection to remove objects that are no longer needed. The garbage collector is Java's grim reaper.

2002, Patrick Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen, Learning Java, O'Reilly, page 135

(programming) An algorithm, procedure or thread dedicated to garbage collection: reclaiming resources which are no longer in use.


HTTP cookie

(Internet) A packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then returned by the browser each time it accesses that server, used to maintain state between otherwise stateless HTTP transactions, for example, to identify the user.

kaka c (recommended by authorities, but relatively rarely used)


GC

GC (countable and uncountable, plural GCs)

garbage collection
garbage collection#English

(programming)
Initialism of garbage collection.

garbage collector
garbage collector#English

(programming)
Initialism of garbage collector.


GC

(education) Initialism of Google Classroom.


GC

(programming) Initialism of garbage collect.


paddle

paddle (countable and uncountable, plural paddles)

→ Danish: paddel, padle

Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).
Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from πηδός (pēdós, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).

cog

(video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.


crunch

en-verb

crunch (third-person singular simple present crunches, present participle crunching, simple past and past participle crunched)

crunches (present singular third-person)
crunching (participle present)
crunched (participle past)
crunched (past)

From earlier craunch, cranch, of imitative origin.

PackIt will not crunch executables, unless told to do so.

1993, Michael Barsoom, “[comp.sys.amiga.announce] PackIt Announcement”, in comp.archives (Usenet)

(computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.

(software engineering, slang, transitive) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.


crunch

(software engineering, slang) The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.


foobar

Phonetic spelling of FUBAR, which is either an acronym for "Fucked up beyond all recognition", or derived from foo.

metasyntactic variable
metasyntactic variable#English

(programming) A metasyntactic variable name, a place holder for words; compare foo, bar.


algorithm

en-noun

algorithm (countable and uncountable, plural algorithms)

→ Japanese: アルゴリズム (arugorizumu)

→ Korean: 알고리즘 (algorijeum)

/ˈælɡəɹɪðəm/

[ˈæɫɡəɹɪðm̩]

/ˈælɡəˌɹɪðəm/

[ˈæɫɡəˌɹɪðm̩]

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
algorithm

From Middle English algorisme, augrym, from Anglo-Norman algorisme, augrim, from Medieval Latin algorismus, from Arabic الخَوَارِزْمِيّ (al-ḵawārizmiyy), the nisba of Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī and a toponymic name meaning "person from Chorasmia". The spelling change (-s- > -th-) was influenced by unrelated Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós) (whence English arithmo-).

der

الخَوَارِزْمِيّ

Informally, an algorithm is any well-defined computational procedure that takes some value, or set of values, as input and produces some value, or set of values, as output. An algorithm is thus a sequence of computational steps that transform the input into the output.

1990, Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms: page 1. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1999 (23rd printing)

Mark Zuckerberg: No, I need the algorithm you used to rank chess players. / Eduardo Saverin: Are you OK? / Mark Zuckerberg: We're ranking girls.

The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.

2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26

It’s a computer – an algorithm – and if you’ve been in Iran lately, they take you out of the system.

2018 June 25, Sam Jones, “Ex-Nato chief refused visa waiver to US because of Iran trips”, in The Guardian

(countable) A collection of ordered steps that solve a mathematical problem. A precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that possibly begins with an input value and yields an output value in a finite number of steps.

2023, Lee SG, Blood AJ, Cannon CP, Gordon WJ, Nichols H, Zelle D, Scirica BM, Fisher NDL, “Remote cardiovascular hypertension program enhanced blood pressure control during the COVID-19 pandemic”, in J Am Heart Assoc, volume 12, number 6, →DOI, →PMID, page e027296:
This retrospective observational analysis evaluated BP [blood pressure] control in an entirely remote management program before and during the pandemic. A team of pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physicians, and nonlicensed navigators used an evidence‐based clinical algorithm to optimize hypertensive treatment. The algorithm was adapted during the pandemic to simplify BP control.

(uncountable, obsolete) Calculation with Arabic numerals; algorism.

Glover began his acceptance speech by saying, “First, I want to thank the algorithm that put us all here.”

2018 February 26, Tad Friend, quoting Donald Glover, “Donald Glover Can’t Save You”, in The New Yorker

(informal, social media, by extension, usually preceded with "the") The recommendation algorithm used by social media websites to determine the contents of one's feed.

social media; usually preceded with "the"; social media; usually preceded with "the"


formal

en-noun

formal (countable and uncountable, plural formals)

From Middle English formel, borrowed from Old French formel, from Latin fōrmālis, from fōrma (“form”); equivalent to form + -al.


watchdog

/ˈwɑːt͡ʃ.ˌdɑːɡ/

/ˈwɒt͡ʃ.ˌdɒɡ/

(electronics, computing) Ellipsis of watchdog timer.


undefined

The result of division by zero is undefined.

(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.


shell

From Middle English schelle, from Old English sċiell, from Proto-West Germanic *skallju, from Proto-Germanic *skaljō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cleave”).
Compare West Frisian skyl (“peel, rind”), Dutch schil (“peel, skin, rink”), Low German Schell (“shell, scale”), Irish scelec (“pebble”), Latin silex (“pebble, flint”), siliqua (“pod”), Old Church Slavonic сколика (skolika, “shell”). More at shale.
Doublet of sheal.
* (computing): From being viewed as an outer layer of interface between the user and the operating-system internals.

cog

The name "Bash" is an acronym which stands for "Bourne-again shell", itself a pun on the name of the "Bourne shell", an earlier Unix shell designed by Stephen Bourne, and the Christian concept of being "born again".

(computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.


shell

en-verb

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

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

Automenu is a good program to try, and offers a fair amount of protection - but, unfortunately, it's one of those systems that allow users to shell to DOS.

1993, Robin Nixon, The PC Companion, page 115

(computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.


explode

explode (third-person singular simple present explodes, present participle exploding, simple past and past participle exploded)

explodes (present singular third-person)
exploding (participle present)
exploded (participle past)
exploded (past)
explode (infinitive)

First recorded around 1538, from the Latin verb explōdere (“drive out or off by clapping”). The meaning was originally theatrical, "to drive an actor off the stage by making noise," hence meaning to "to drive out" or "to reject". From ex- (“out”) + plaudere (“to clap; to applaud”). In English it used to mean to "drive out with violence and sudden noise" (from around 1660), and later meaning to "go off with a loud noise" (from around 1790). The sense of "bursting with destructive force" is first recorded around 1882.

The third check uses the exploded data stored in the array $parts and the function checkdate() to test if the date is a valid calendar date.

2004, Hugh E. Williams, David Lane, Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL

(computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.

I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work […]

1992, Steve Tibbett, “PKZIP Implode compression/decompression.”, in comp.compression (Usenet)

(transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.


track

track (third-person singular simple present tracks, present participle tracking, simple past and past participle tracked)

tracks (present singular third-person)
tracking (participle present)
tracked (participle past)
tracked (past)

From Middle English trak, tracke, from Old French trac (“track of horses, trail, trace”), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic source, either Old Norse traðk ("a track; path; trodden spot"; > Icelandic traðk (“a track; path; tread”), Faroese traðk (“track; tracks”), Norwegian tråkke (“to trample”)) or from Middle Dutch trec, *trac, treck ("line, row, series"; > Dutch trek (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)), German Low German Treck (“a draught; movement; passage; flow”). See tread, trek.

gloss

"line, row, series"; > Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">trek</i> (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)

проследявам

to observe the (measured) state of an object over time

monitor

observe the state of an object over time

At the time, tracking chiptunes (i.e. using trackers) was the fundamental method of chipmusic-making.

2018, Dafni Tragaki, Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music

(transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).

(computing, transitive or intransitive) To create music using tracker software.


concordance

en-noun

concordance (countable and uncountable, plural concordances)

From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.

computational linguistics
computational linguistics

(computational linguistics) A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.


A numeronym representation of internationalization as i followed by 18 more letters, followed by n.

Don't convert between Unicode and other code pages/character sets. If you follow these two rules, you'll run into few I18N-related security issues; in fact, you can jump to the next chapter if these two rules hold true for your application!

2002, David LeBlanc, Michael Howard, Writing Secure Code, Pearson Education, page 440

After our tour through the translation components we can now make our Python code “i18n-aware”. A typical task is identifying all the places where a (Unicode) string needs to be turned into an i18n message or where the appropriate TAL […]

2008, Philipp Weitershausen, Web Component Development with Zope 3, Springer Science & Business Media, page 145

AngularJS comes with support for I18n and L10n for date, number, and currency. No surprises here!

2015, Chandermani, AngularJS by Example, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 389

(software engineering) Abbreviation of internationalization.


temporary

/ˈtɛmpəɹəɹi/

/ˈtɛmpəˌɹɛɹi/

Borrowed from Latin temporarius, from tempus (“time”).

(programming) A short-term variable used to store an intermediate result.


quantum

quantum (countable and uncountable, plural quantums or quanta)

[ˈkʰwɑ̃ntʰə̃m]

[ˈkʰwɑ̃ɾ̃ə̃m]

From Late Latin quantum, noun use of neuter form of Latin quantus (“how much”).

(computing) The amount of time allocated for a thread to perform its work in a multithreaded environment.

Developing for quantum has never been more accessible.

quantum computing
quantum computing#English

(computing, uncountable) Short for quantum computing.


quantum

→ French: quantum

→ Portuguese: quantum

[ˈkʰwɑ̃ntʰə̃m]

[ˈkʰwɑ̃ɾ̃ə̃m]

(physics) Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics.

(computing theory) Relating to a quantum computer.


representation

representation (countable and uncountable, plural representations)

From Late Middle English representacioun, from Old French representacion, from Latin repraesentātiō. By surface analysis, represent + -ation.

The lack of representation in the British parliament was one of the main factors behind the American Revolution.

(politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.

представителство

politics: ability to elect a representative

(mathematics) An action of some algebraic structure (typically a group or algebra, particularly a Lie algebra) on a vector space, such that each element acts by a linear endomorphism.

kuvaus

mathematics: object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces

A statement; a presentation of opinion or position, or an utterance made to influence the opinions or actions of others


representation

rates of representation to the emergency department

(medicine) An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.


MUD

multi-user dungeon
multi-user dungeon#English

(video games, online gaming) Acronym of multi-user dungeon: an interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games.


temp

That is, r-values include numeric constants, nonaddressable local variables (temps) […]

2014, Andrew W. Appel, Program Logics for Certified Compilers, page 162

(programming, informal) A temporary storage location.


explosive

en-adj

explosive (comparative more explosive, superlative most explosive)

more explosive (comparative)
most explosive (superlative)

From Latin explōs-, stem of the perfect passive participle of explōdō + the suffix -ive.

Notes: A rule set that (very probably) results in explosive growth; certainly in area if not population.

1992 June 2, Dave Boll, “Variations on Conway's LIFE”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

For example, putting a 1 at (0: 1,1) will cause explosive growth in all directions, putting a 1 at (0: 0,2A) will cause pairs of diagonal cells in a 2x2 square to alternate on and off, putting a 1 at (1: 4,4) will cause all solid 1 areas to stay 1 for another cycle, etc.

1994 April 4, Robert Andreen, “CA rules”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

If the rule is further chosen so that active cells can (and must) expand on an inactive background but inactive cells can't do so on an active background (or vice versa), then non-explosive growth becomes possible.

2003 May 12, Ilmari Karonen, “Gliders in 4-neighbor semitotalistic 2D cellular automata”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) Of a specific cellular automaton rule, tending to exhibit infinite and unpredictable growth when starting from finite random patterns.


gibibyte

/ˈɡɪbɪˌbaɪt/

In the example above, it appears that using gigabytes inflates the drive capacity by well over one gigabyte (or gibibyte—take your pick).

2004, Carla Schroder, Linux Cookbook: Practical Advice for Linux System Administrators, O'Reilly

(computing) Strictly, 2³⁰ (1024³, or 1,073,741,824) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) mebibytes, as opposed to a gigabyte.


rehash

en-verb

rehash (third-person singular simple present rehashes, present participle rehashing, simple past and past participle rehashed)

rehashes (present singular third-person)
rehashing (participle present)
rehashed (participle past)
rehashed (past)

преработвам

to rework old material, redo some work, with some variations

(transitive, computing) To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.


rehash

(computing) A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.


daemon

A reference to Maxwell's demon. The putative derivation from "disk and execution monitor" is generally considered a backronym.

(computing, Unix) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.

démon

computing: process with no controlling terminal


internationalization

en-noun

internationalization (countable and uncountable, plural internationalizations)

(software engineering) The act or process of making a product suitable for international markets, typically by making text messages easily translatable and ensuring support of non-Latin character sets, languages, and regions.

國際化

software: act of making something suitable for international markets


smiley face

Enter the smiley face, the computer hacker's version of comic relief.

2002, Lisa Malia McDonough, Lisa, the Brief Life of a Writer, page 136

Two minutes later a reply came back.
Cool, see you tomorrow...x
Campbell sent back a smiley face, did a little dance around the bedroom and flopped back onto his bed wearing a smiley face of his own.

2005, Craig Cornwell, Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood, page 20

Against Mary Jane's wishes, I texted Gavin just to reassure him that I was not going out with his girlfriend. I put a smiley face at the end of the message.

2007, C. N. Barton, The Cambridge Diaries: A Tale of Friendship, Love And Economics, page 94

(rare, Internet) A smiley, a sequence of text characters used to represent a happy mood, e.g. :) or :-).


bus bridge

(computer hardware) A device for connecting two disparate hardware buses.


scriptability

2003: All output of the Subversion command-line client is carefully designed to be both human readable and automatically parseable; scriptability is a high priority. Subversion Home Page

(computing) The ability to be driven programmatically as well as interactively.


productization

productization (usually uncountable, plural productizations)

(computing, business) The act of modifying something, such as a concept or a tool internal to an organization, to make it suitable as a commercial product.

tuotteistaminen

act of modifying something to make it suitable as commercial product


clip

en-verb

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipt or clipped)

clips (present singular third-person)
clipt (participle past)
clipt (past)
clipped (participle past)
clipped (past)

From Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa (“to clip, cut the hair, shear sheep”). Cognate with Icelandic klippa (“to clip”), Swedish klippa (“to clip”), Danish klippe (“to clip”), Norwegian Bokmål klippe (“to clip”).

der

(computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.

The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.

Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns.

Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!

(computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).


readme

Remember, there may be many readmes in many different locations within the patch itself. Search and read all readmes before proceeding.

2004, Barbara Matthews, John Stouffer, Karen Brownfield, Installing, Upgrading and Maintaining Oracle Applications III

(computing) A text file meant to be read before taking any significant action with the items it accompanies.

legumino

a file meant to be read before taking any significant action


edress

If anybody wants to take up a reply to ream me out, my edress is as follows: […]

1993 September 23, "williams" (username), "here's another chance to flame, in rec.pets.herp, Usenet

Baleen’s boardroom lay somewhere out in the virtch, in a deeply encrypted region called the Briarpatch. Only Baleen (and Poole sEcurity) had the edress and key.

2001, Michael Flynn, Lodestar, Macmillan,, page 124

Comcast negotiated a deal for a few months, they're going to pay a lot more to @home for those months, while they try to find a new cable supplier. So your edress will probably change eventually.

2001 December 7, Marilee J. Layman, “Re: @home.com email addys”, in rec.crafts.beads (Usenet)

My edress is […].

2010 April 9, Leslie, “Re: April Phoenix Housfilk - Announcement”, in rec.music.filk (Usenet)


Haskell

* The programming language is named after American logician Haskell Curry (1900–1982).
* As an English surname, from the Middle English personal name Askell, from Old Norse Áskell. Compare Axtell, Askin, Haskin, Hasty, Astin.
* As a surname in the Isle of Man, a variant of Castell, itself related to the above.
* As a Jewish surname, from Khaskl, a Yiddish form of Yeḥezqel, see Ezekiel.

named-after

By default, Haskell uses an execution strategy called lazy evaluation. Under laziness, an expression is never evaluated until it is needed for the evaluation of a larger one.

2014, Alejandro Serrano Mena, Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach, Apress, page 5

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) A general-purpose purely functional programming language with support for recursive functions and pattern matching.


e-dress

As I added my info, one e-dress caught my eye: […]

2001, Andy Anderson, “Ask Doctor Rowing: A tale of three New Yorkers”, in The Independent Rowing News, Volume 9, Number 2 (2001 March 15), ISSN 1548-694X, page 54

Had someone at the paper given out his home e-dress?

2002, Tim Waggoner, All Too Surreal, Prime Books, page 92

Email is so important in Antarctica. Each expeditioner has an e-dress on board and on the station.

2002, Hazel Edwards, Antarctic writer on ice: diary of an enduring adventure, Common Ground, page 31

But he wasn’t responding to her messages on his Lucky Dog e-dress.

2007, Richard Hawke, Cold Day in Hell, Random House

Unmunge my e-dress (I think its self explanatory).

2010 July 29, Adelle, “Re: Formatting replies”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)

An email address, a unique identifier specifying a virtual location to which e-mail can be sent.


APT

(computing) Initialism of automatically programmed tool: a high-level language for numerically controlled machine tools.

automatically programmed tool

(computing) Initialism of advanced packaging tool: a package management system used by Debian and Debian-based distributions, also used by other Linux distributions.


git

Likely chosen for its shortness and pronounceability, but various other explanations and backronyms were offered after its introduction.

(computing) Alternative letter-case form of Git, a distributed VCS.


summon

From Anglo-Norman somoundre, from Old French sumundre, from Latin summonēre, itself from sub + monēre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti, causative from *men- (“to think”).

Conjuration magic in Baldur's Gate 3 allows players to summon a variety of helpful creatures […] These summons can assist players in combat and exploration, providing strategic advantages with their unique abilities.

2023 October 30, Nyah Payne, “Baldur's Gate 3: Best Summons, Ranked”, in Gamerant

(video games) A creature magically summoned to do the summoner's bidding.


mem

(computing theory) A memory access as part of processing.


corruption

en-noun

corruption (countable and uncountable, plural corruptions)

Borrowed from French corruption, from Latin corruptiō, equivalent to corrupt + -ion.

The idea of having a time lag is to allow for situations when a corruption of some type affects the source server. If a corruption occurs, you do not want it to replicate to the copy of the database, so the time lag gives administrators the opportunity to recognize that a problem exists and then to have the ability to switch from the database copy if the corruption is so bad that it renders the original database unusable.

2008, Tony Redmond, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with SP1

(computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.

korruptio

(computing) the destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media


IRA

Internet Research Agency
w:Internet Research Agency

(Internet, politics) Initialism of Internet Research Agency.


gigabyte

/ˈd͡ʒɪɡəbaɪt/

The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage is a disk storage device with a storage capacity of 2.5 gigabytes (billion bytes) per unit, an increase of almost four times the capacity of the IBM 3350 Direct Access Storage.

1981, IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Description and User's Guide, IBM, page 1

(computing, formal) One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes.


squat

en-verb

squat (third-person singular simple present squats, present participle squatting, simple past and past participle squatted)

squats (present singular third-person)
squatting (participle present)
squatted (participle past)
squatted (past)

From Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, escatir (“compress, press down, lay flat, crush”), from es- (“ex-”) + quatir (“press down, flatten”), from Vulgar Latin *coactire (“press together, force”), from Latin coāctus, perfect passive participle of cōgō (“force together, compress”).
The sense “nothing” may be the source or a derivation of diddly-squat.

uder

The old homepage for L2TP, www.l2tpd.org, has been squatted by a domain squatter. A malicious person could reinstate this domain with malicious code on it.

2006, Paul Wouters, Ken Bantoft, Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks with Openswan


iPod

Coined (and trademarked) by Apple, from i- + pod, suggesting a small place to keep things. Inspired by the space shuttles in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the quote, "Open the pod bay doors, Hal."

Britain's twenty-somethings have become iPod-carrying Dick Whittingtons, drawn to London by the prospect of large salaries and hopes of a vibrant social life.

[…] It's like my iPod stuck on replay

(trademark) A portable music player made by Apple.

(by extension) Any portable personal MP3 player or similar device.


pivot

From Middle English pevet, *pivot, from Old French pivot (“hinge pin, pivot”) (12th c.), possibly from Latin pūgiō.

(computing) An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.

(graphical user interface) Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.


angelic non-determinism

With angelic non-determinism, any problem in NP would be solvable in polynomial time.

(computing theory) A notional ability always to choose the most favorable option, in constant time.


simmer

(informal, video games) Someone who plays a sim (a simulation game), particularly The Sims.


cookie

→ Arabic: كُوكِي (kuki)

→ Cantonese: 曲奇 (kuk¹ kei⁴)

→ Mandarin: 曲奇 (qūqí)

→ Catalan: cookie

→ Cebuano: kokis

→ French: cookie

→ Georgian: ქუქი (kuki)

→ German: Cookie

→ Gujarati: કૂકી (kūkī)

→ Hindi: कुकी (kukī)

→ Italian: cookie

→ Japanese: クッキー (kukkī)

→ Kannada: ಕುಕಿ (kuki)

→ Korean: 쿠키 (kuki)

→ Malay: kuki

→ Polish: cookie

→ Portuguese: cookie

→ Russian: куки (kuki)

→ Spanish: cookie

→ Swedish: cookie

→ Tagalog: kuki

→ Telugu: కుకీ (kukī)

→ Thai: คุกกี้ (kúk-gîi)

Borrowed from Dutch koekie, dialectal diminutive of koek (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (compare German Low German Kookje (“biscuit, cookie, cracker”), Low German Kook (“cake”), German Kuchen (“cake”)). More at cake. Not related to English cook.
The computing senses derive from magic cookie.

koekie

small, flat baked good — see also biscuit


cookie

en-verb

cookie (third-person singular simple present cookies, present participle cookieing or cookying, simple past and past participle cookied)

cookies (present singular third-person)
cookieing (participle present)
cookying (participle present)
cookied (participle past)
cookied (past)

We have already discussed the benefits — even the necessity — of cookieing visitors so that we can track their return visits to our Website.

2000, Ralph Kimball, Richard Merz, The Data Webhouse Toolkit: Building the Web-Enabled Data Warehouse

At Oracle, they cookie you before and after you register.

2002, Jim Sterne, Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success

(computing, transitive) To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).


diagram

From French diagramme, from Italian diagramma, from Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma).

(category theory) A functor from an index category to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is J and the codomain is C, then the diagram is said to be "of type J in C".


blogosphere

/ˈblɒɡ.əʊ.ˌsfɪɚ/

From blog + -o- + -sphere, possibly under the influence of biosphere, atmosphere, etc.

2004 Air America Radio http://www.airamericaradio.com/
Regular guest and blogger, Kos of DailyKos.com, provides Sam and Janeane the latest information from the blogosphere.

The blogosphere is relentless: It rightfully hammered Eason Jordan and CNN from day one and refuses to stop.

2005 February 11, Lawrence Kudlow, National Review Online

there's some talk, as you said, on the blogosphere, that this book is controversial, but I think more properly it's a contribution...

2006 October 8, Lee Smolin (interviewee), Steve Paulson (interviewer), To the Best of Our Knowledge, “Future Physics”, Wisconsin Public Radio, program 06-10-08-A, segment 1

(Internet) The totality of blogs, especially the unique jargons, cultures and shared interests created by their interconnection.


greedy

en-adj

greedy (comparative greedier, superlative greediest)

greedier (comparative)
greediest (superlative)

Sranan Tongo: gridi

From Middle English gredy, from Anglian Old English grēdiġ (“greedy, hungry, eager”) (cognate West Saxon form grǣdiġ), from Proto-Germanic *grēdagaz (“hungry”), from Proto-Germanic *grēdaz, *grēduz, *grēdô (“hunger”), from
Proto-Indo-European *gʰrēdʰ (“to be hungry, long for”) or from
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer-.
, equivalent to greed + -y.
Cognate with Old Saxon grādag (“greedy”), Dutch graag (“gladly, willingly”), Old High German grātag (“greedy”), Danish grådig (“greedy”), Norwegian Bokmål grådig (“greedy”) (from Old Norse gráðigr (“greedy”), gráði (“greed, hunger”)), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (grēdags, “hungry”). Non-Germanic cognates include Sanskrit गृद्धि (gṛddhi, “greed”), Albanian ngordh (“to crave for, starve, die”).

cog

This regular expression performs a greedy match.

(regular expressions) Tending to match as much text as possible.

(computer science, of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.


necromancy

en-noun

necromancy (countable and uncountable, plural necromancies)

Circa 1300, from Middle English nigromancye, from Old French nigromancie, from Medieval Latin nigromantia, from Latin necromantia, from Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía), νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”). Medieval Latin spelling, incorporating niger (“black”), influenced by the notion of black art. Modern spelling adopted in mid-1500s. By surface analysis, necro- + -mancy.

der

νεκρομαντεία


reservoir

From French réservoir (“collection place”) (fig.), réservoir (“storehouse”) (lit.). in turn from French réserver (“to reserve, keep”).

(computing) A "black box" component that receives an input signal to be read out and mapped by another process, as part of reservoir computing.


determinism

en-noun

determinism (countable and uncountable, plural determinisms)

Borrowed from French déterminisme, equivalent to determine + -ism.

(computing) The property of having behavior determined only by initial state and input.


e-quaintance

From acquaintance, replacing ac- (ad) with e- (“electronic”), by analogy with e-mail.

(Internet) a person known exclusively online, usually from instant messaging such as AIM, or through internet dating personals.

(Internet) the state of knowing exclusively online


e-quainted

en-adj

e-quainted (comparative more e-quainted, superlative most e-quainted)

more e-quainted (comparative)
most e-quainted (superlative)

People I was thrilled to meet after being e-quainted forever: […]

1997 February 22, Kathleen Swanholt, “Correction and LCC”, in bit.listserv.dorothyl (Usenet)

I'm e-quainted with someone who goes to the VA there and he says he sees Indian groceries when he goes there.

1997 September 12, TJ, “Re: basmati rice”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet)

2000, Russell Merris, Graph Theory, Wiley-IEEE, →ISBN, page 195,
Let’s say two people are e-quainted if, during the past year, they participated together in one or more of the same chat room discussions. Otherwise, call them e-stranged. Then any two people attending the convention’s introductory cocktail party will be either e-quainted or e-stranged.

I am e-quainted with a Catherine who became Cathrin, also for Goff reasons.

2004 December 7, Dave Larrington, “Re: Cynical? moi?”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet)

(Internet) Acquainted by means of online communication.


invariant

invariant (comparative more invariant, superlative most invariant)

more invariant (comparative)
most invariant (superlative)

(programming) Neither covariant nor contravariant.


invariant

(programming) Ellipsis of class invariant.


compute

17th century. Borrowed from French computer, from Latin computō (“calculate, compute”). Doublet of count.

The GPU does not have enough on-chip SRAM memory for the parameters, and doesn't have enough compute for the entire model.

Once you have the total, does it exceed the maximum amount of compute that can be served up in your vCenter environment? It is quite normal for users to consume everything you provide.

2015, J. Powell, Mastering vRealize Automation 6.2, page 41

To change the amount of compute and memory, you can select a different DB Instance class of the database.

2016, Joe Baron, Hisham Baz, Tim Bixler, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam

Compute, in many cases, is decoupled from the storage, making it easy to charge and pay for only what is consumed. It also becomes easy to scale up the compute when needed depending on the type of service.

2020, Prashila Naik, Hands-on Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure Stack, BPB Publications

(chiefly cloud computing, informal) Computational processing power.


oshi

For me, my Oshi is Watame. I find her content very relaxing and calming, it helps bring me a smile whenever I see that wonderful sheep doing anything and it’s sometimes exactly what I need after a stressful day at work. I really admire all the hard work she puts into her music as well as how inclusive she always attempts to be as far as reaching out to overseas fans with everything. Everything about her just makes me feel happy and I really value everything she does here at HoloLive.

2022 April 19, /u/Daniel101773, Who’s your Oshi & why?

(VTuber fandom slang) A person’s favorite VTuber, idol, or character, especially one they actively support and promote.


playground

From play + ground. Compare Middle English playstede (“playground”) from Old English pleġstede.

application programming interface
application programming interface

(programming) A sandbox for testing calls to an application programming interface.


RSS feed

(Internet) An XML document that follows the RSS ("Rich Site Summary") specification, used for syndication.


SN

(computing) Initialism of shared-nothing.


optimistic

optimistic (comparative more optimistic, superlative most optimistic)

more optimistic (comparative)
most optimistic (superlative)

optimistic concurrency

optimistic locking

(computing) Allowing other processes to perform transactions on the same data at the same time, and checking for conflicts only when changes need to be written back.


tipster

Absent from the pages of CRASH for a year, ex-tipster Robin Candy returns and puts finger to key to debate the state of the games software industry.

Those are the two choice words top tipster Rich Pelley used to describe the monthly helpathon that is the one and only COMPLETE CONTROL.

1994, “Amiga Power”, in magazine, number 42

Does anybody know what Jon Riglar is doing now? (SU Tipster for about 6 years - Zapchat!).

1995, Stephen Smith, “Zub - Hidden Game?”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)

(video games, informal) One who provides tips or hints on how to succeed at a game.


extent

From Middle English extente, from Anglo-Norman extente and Old French estente (“valuation of land, stretch of land”), from estendre, extendre (“extend”) (or from Latin extentus), from Latin extendere (See extend.)

der

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 52. Completeness

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 51. Part

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 32. Smallness

Each extent contains one or more contiguous clusters. The file system describes each extent with two numbers: the number of the first cluster in the extent, and the number of clusters in the extent.

2019, Richard E. Smith, Elementary Information Security, page 205

(computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.


bitrate

(computing, telecommunications) The frequency at which bits (binary digits) pass a given physical or metaphorical point, measured in bps (bits per second).


RSI

en-noun

RSI (countable and uncountable, plural RSIs)

relative strength index
relative strength index#English

(finance, cryptocurrencies) Initialism of relative strength index.


NEC

(Internet, Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of new entry created.


sniff

en-verb

sniff (third-person singular simple present sniffs, present participle sniffing, simple past and past participle sniffed)

sniffs (present singular third-person)
sniffing (participle present)
sniffed (participle past)
sniffed (past)

→ Hebrew: הִסְנִיף (hisníf)

→ Italian: sniffare

→ Portuguese: snifar

→ Spanish: esnifar

→ Catalan: esnifar

→ Swedish: sniffa

→ French: sniffer

From Middle English sniffen, of imitative origin.

onomatopoeic

imitative

packet sniffer

(computing) To intercept and analyse packets of data being transmitted over a network.

nuuskia

computing: to intercept and analyse packets of dat


RSA

(cryptography) Initialism of Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (“an encryption algorithm”).


opaque

en-adj

opaque (comparative more opaque or opaquer, superlative most opaque or opaquest)

more opaque (comparative)
opaquer (comparative)
most opaque (superlative)
opaquest (superlative)

From Middle English opake, from Latin opacus (“shaded, shady, dark”) (of unknown origin), later reinforced from Middle French opaque. Doublet of ubac.

(computing) Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.


instance

Borrowed from Middle French instance, from Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence, also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from īnstāns (“urgent”); see instant.

der

Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time.

2000, Dov Bulka, David Mayhew, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques, page 149

(computing) A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.

To collect the messages, we select the mstdn.jp as the target instance. The mstdn.jp is one of the major Mastodon instances that has 123,331 users and connects to the 2415 other instances at 26 Feb 2017.

2017, Masaki Kohana et al., “A Topic Trend on P2P Based Social Media”, in Leonard Barolli, Makoto Takizawa, Tomoya Enokido, editors, Advances in Network-Based Information Systems: The 20th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS-2017), page 1140

In a poll I conducted on Mastodon, 42% of the 674 respondents said that they had reported something, whether it had been a spam account or hateful content, to their instance's moderator.

2022, Derek Caelin, “Decentralized Networks vs The Trolls”, in Hoda Mahmoudi, Kate Seaman, Michael H. Allen, editors, Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security: The Future of Humanity, page 157

Every Mastodon instance (neighborhood) has a code of conduct that you have to agree to before you join (move in).

2023, Chris Minnick, Michael McCallister, Mastodon for Dummies, page 14

(Internet) An independent server on a decentralised social network, such as Mastodon.


ez

LOL too ez. ur so bad

Just use a courier to send your phone/laptop back every once a week it's that ez ¶ /s

2023 February 1, @Dooter18769429, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-17

this game is too ez

2023 November 13, @6klvs, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-17

(text messaging, especially video games) Abbreviation of easy.


assembly

en-noun

assembly (countable and uncountable, plural assemblies)

From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.

assembly language
assembly language#English

(computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.

assembly-kieli

short for assembly language — see also assembly language

(computing, Microsoft .NET) A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.


ripper

(computing) Software that extracts content from files or storage media.


iterate

en-verb

iterate (third-person singular simple present iterates, present participle iterating, simple past and past participle iterated)

iterates (present singular third-person)
iterating (participle present)
iterated (participle past)
iterated (past)

From Latin iterō (“do it for a second time, repeat”), from iterum (“again”), akin to is (“he, that”).

der

The max() function iterates through the data to find the highest value.

(computing) to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set

In mathematics, an iterated function is a function which is composed with itself, possibly ad infinitum, in a process called iteration.

(computing, mathematics) to perform or repeat an action on the results of each such prior action


shift

en-noun

shift (countable and uncountable, plural shifts)

From Middle English schiften, from Old English sċiftan (“to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”), from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną, *skiptijaną, from earlier *skipatjaną (“to organise, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”). Cognate with Scots schift, skift (“to shift”), West Frisian skifte, skiftsje (“to sort”), Dutch schiften (“to sort, screen, winnow, part”), German schichten (“to stack, layer”), Swedish skifta (“to shift, change, exchange, vary”), Norwegian skifte (“to shift”), Icelandic skipta (“to switch”). See ship.

cog

(computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.

(computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.


shift

en-verb

shift (third-person singular simple present shifts, present participle shifting, simple past and past participle shifted)

shifts (present singular third-person)
shifting (participle present)
shifted (participle past)
shifted (past)

Shifting 1001 to the left yields 10010; shifting it right yields 100.

(transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.

(transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.


prelude

From Middle French prélude (“singing to test a musical instrument”), from Medieval Latin preludium, from Latin praelūdere.

der

In the same way that Rust has a general prelude that brings certain types and functions into scope automatically, the std::io module has its own prelude of common types and functions you'll need when working with I/O.

2018, Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, The Rust Programming Language, No Starch Press, page 232

(programming) A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.


clickwrap license

en-noun

clickwrap license (plural clickwrap licenses)

The second example, the so-called “clickwrap” license, is more likely to create an enforceable contract. In this variation, the user is required to view, however fleetingly, the terms of the license and to take some affirmative action to agree to its terms, such as by clicking a button that says “Yes, I have read this license and I agree to its terms,” before accessing the licensed software.

2004, Andrew M. St. Laurent, Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing, O'Reilly Media, page 150

Like the more familiar “clickwrap” license, which we encounter every time we download a software update or buy an item on the Internet, this license employs the law of contract to limit the use of an invention by others.

2012, Kal Raustiala, Christopher Sprigman, The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation, Oxford University Press

(software) A license which is implicitly agreed to when the user clicks on a particular user interface element, such as a button or link.


aggregator

(Internet) An online feed reader used to keep track of updates to blogs, etc.


module

Borrowed from French module, from Latin modulus (“a small measure, a measure, mode, meter”), diminutive of modus (“measure”) (whence mode). Doublet of modulus and mold.

der

Class modules are similar to form modules except they do not have a visible interface (GUI).

2001, Phil Jones, Visual Basic: A Complete Course, page 254

When there is more than one protected module in memory, the rules for accessing the code and data sections of a given module treat all the other modules as if they were unprotected memory.

2013, Helmut Reimer, Norbert Pohlmann, Wolfgang Schneider, ISSE 2013 Securing Electronic Business Processes, page 244

(programming) A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines.

(music, computing) A file containing a music sequence that can be played in a tracker (also called mod or music module).


netsplit

(Internet) A technical glitch encountered when two or more IRC servers lose their connection to each other, dividing the network into a number of isolated groups of users.


netsplit

en-verb

netsplit (third-person singular simple present netsplits, present participle netsplitting, simple past and past participle netsplitted)

netsplits (present singular third-person)
netsplitting (participle present)
netsplitted (participle past)
netsplitted (past)

(Internet, transitive) To leave an IRC server as a result of a netsplit.


Googlish

en-adj

Googlish (comparative more Googlish, superlative most Googlish)

more Googlish (comparative)
most Googlish (superlative)

This is the Googlish way to do directory services.

"Innovation" has become a key word in journalism education, as schools attempt to create a Googlish culture that provides students with the ability to create their own platforms, technologies, and techniques for journalistic reporting and storytelling.

2017, Robert E. Gutsche, Jr., Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control

(Internet, informal) Resembling or in the manner of Google.


deathmatch

/ˈdɛθ.mæt͡ʃ/

There are only eight levels but the varied game modes (including time attacks, survivals, team deathmatches, hunts, and sieges) in both single and multi-player keeps things interesting.

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competitors attempt to assassinate one another.


deathmatch

en-verb

deathmatch (third-person singular simple present deathmatches, present participle deathmatching, simple past and past participle deathmatched)

deathmatches (present singular third-person)
deathmatching (participle present)
deathmatched (participle past)
deathmatched (past)

/ˈdɛθ.mæt͡ʃ/

Doom video game (id Software, 1993): message shown when quitting
If I were your boss, I'd deathmatch ya in a minute!

(video games, transitive) To compete against in a deathmatch.

(video games, intransitive) To take part in deathmatch gaming.


channel

→ Japanese: チャンネル (channeru)

→ Korean: 채널 (chaeneol)

→ Welsh: sianel

From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.

kanal

communication: single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation

kanaal

broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television

The excerpt in Figure 1 below shows a list of some channel names as they appear to an IRC user. The left hand column displays the channel name, the middle column displays how many people are currently on the channel, and the right hand column indicates the theme of the channel or the current topic of conversation: […]

1996, Susan C. Herring, Computer-mediated Communication, page 50

(Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.

Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.

1999, Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide

To access channels in Windows 98, you don't have to go any farther than your desktop.

1999, Margaret Levine Young, Internet: The Complete Reference

(Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.


dialog

en-noun

dialog (countable and uncountable, plural dialogs)

Inherited from Middle English dialog (“A literary discussion or a work written as one”), from Old French dialogue, from Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to converse”), from διά (diá) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).

der

You'll be prompted with the New Project dialog (see Figure 1.11) from which you'll have at least two types of projects from which to choose […]

2002, Christopher Tacke, Timothy Bassett, Embedded Visual Basic: Windows CE and Pocket PC Mobile Applications


item

From Middle English item, from Latin item (“also; in the same manner”). The present English meaning derives from a usage in lists, where the first entry would begin in primis (“firstly”) or imprimis, and the other entries with item (“also, moreover”). Later, the members of lists were referred to as "items".

(by extension, video games) An object that can be picked up for later use.

寶物

video games: object that can be picked up for later use


expunge

en-verb

expunge (third-person singular simple present expunges, present participle expunging, simple past and past participle expunged)

expunges (present singular third-person)
expunging (participle present)
expunged (participle past)
expunged (past)

(transitive, computing) To delete permanently (e-mail etc.) that was previously marked for deletion but still stored.


mon

From Japanese 文 (mon). Cognate to wen, mun and van.

The shimonsen or shimon, originally worth four mon, but debased to two mon.

1902, Walter Del Mar, Around the World Through Japan, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., page 136

(historical) The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen.


mon

From a dialectal variant of man; compare Western Middle English mon (alongside Eastern man).

Ee I'm allus glad to see a mon like thee. That's as welcome lad, as welcome as can be. Fotch thi cheer up t'table. Stop as long as th'art able. Fer I'm allus glad to see a mon like thee.

1974, “A Mon Like Thee”, in Best o't' Bunch, performed by The Oldham Tinkers

I am a Black Country mon. Yow dow know and the Brummies woh understond.

2020, “Black Country Mon”performed by Johnny Cole

(slang) A colloquial means of address of man in places such as Jamaica, and Lancashire, Shropshire and the Black Country in England.


mon

Clipping of monster, via Japanese モン (mon) in Pokémon, Digimon, etc.

Here they are, the fans voted for them, and here they are, the Mons that can...

2000 November 25, Thomas Conner, “Digimon Top Ten Choice List”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet)

When a mon attacks him, he returns the same strike with the world "Reflection" after it, double the original strength.

2003 February 15, sirSTACK, “Digimon #429”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet)

And thus did it come to pass that the boy and the two mons, after a brief final discussion began the training.

2011 June 6, Clayton, “PW! - Training Interlude”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet)

(fandom slang) A creature in a video game, usually one which is captured, trained up and used in battles.

Pokemon, digimon and all other merchandised mons, what good parent will disagree with me that those little invading, mind rotting things should be tolerated... those should be illegal, too...

2001 May 27, Travis Anton, “Cigarette Smoke”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet)

And dont buy Pokemon or Digimon or any other bloody Mons or you will never hear the ned of it :-)

2001 May 24, Horace Wachope, “Kids Toys”, in alt.ozdebate (Usenet)

At any rate Digimon was the best mon/collector series we've seen yet, to the point its popularity was prolly bigger here than its marketing.

2003 December 9, tito, “Main difference between anime and U.S. cartoons?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet)

(fandom slang) A video game or anime in which catching and battling creatures is an important element.


entry

en-noun

entry (countable and uncountable, plural entries)

exit

antonym(s) of “doorway that provides a means of entering a building”

Inherited from Middle English entre, from Old French entree (feminine past participle of the verb entrer, Modern French entrée). From Latin intrō. Doublet of entrada and entrée.

What does the entry for 2 August 2005 say?

A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.


interpolate

en-verb

interpolate (third-person singular simple present interpolates, present participle interpolating, simple past and past participle interpolated)

interpolates (present singular third-person)
interpolating (participle present)
interpolated (participle past)
interpolated (past)

From Latin interpolare, Latin interpolatum, from inter (“between”) and polire (“to polish”).

A macro is invoked in the same way as a request; a control line beginning .xx will interpolate the contents of macro xx.

2007, Joseph F. Ossanna, Nroff/Troff User's manual

In Perl, variable interpolation happens in double-quoted strings and patterns, and list interpolation occurs when constructing the list of values to pass to a list operator or other such construct that takes a LIST.

2000, Wall, Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl, 3rd edition, page 992

(computing) During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data.


render

render (third-person singular simple present renders, present participle rendering, simple past and past participle rendered)

renders (present singular third-person)
rendering (participle present)
rendered (participle past)
rendered (past)

→ Dutch: renderen

From Middle English renderen, rendren, from Old French rendre (“render, give back”), from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere (“make, give back”).

uitsmelten

convert animal fat into liquid form or into a usable byproduct

rendering images

(transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.

渲染

to transform digital information in the form received from a repository into a display on a computer screen, or for other presentation to the user


render

en-noun

render (countable and uncountable, plural renders)

A low-resolution render might look blocky.

(computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.

hahmonnus

a digital image produced by rendering a model


text

text (countable and uncountable, plural texts)

From Middle English text, from Old French texte (“text”), from Medieval Latin textus (“the Scriptures, text, treatise”), from Latin textus (“style or texture of a work”), perfect passive participle of texō (“I weave”). Cognate to English texture.

der

Coordinate term: plain text

(computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.


POTD

(Internet) Initialism of picture of the day.


clipboard

(computing) A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from one place within an application to another or between applications.

حَافِظَة

in computing: buffer for temporary storage


RIP

Routing information protocol, a dynamic routing protocol used in local and wide area networks.


transient

From Late Latin transiēnt- (for classical transeunt-), stem of transiēns, present participle of transire (“to go over, to pass”).

The overhead in loading transients is a big time-waster.

1978, Computerworld, volume 12, number 25, page 26

These areas function to single thread supervisor routines that are loaded as needed. The Logical Transient Area (LTA) processes $$B transients.

1990, Gary A. Stotts, DOS/VSE: Introduction to the Operating System, page 102

Like with setting and getting transients, WordPress packages a delete_transient() function for deleting a transient from the database.

2020, Brad Williams, Justin Tadlock, John James Jacoby, Professional WordPress Plugin Development, page 102

(programming) A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.


social engineering

Coordinate term: conning

Meronyms: smishing, phishing, vishing

TEISME can teach employees on how to recognise a possible social engineering attack.

2005, Charles A. Shoniregun, Impacts and Risk Assessment of Technology for Internet Security, page 157

To attack your organization, social engineering hackers exploit the credulity, laziness, good manners, or even enthusiasm of your staff.

2012, Greg Gogolin, Digital Forensics Explained, page 132

The main reason social engineering takes place is because it is easier to gain access to a trusted source by simply manipulating someone who can give you access instead of breaking in through technological means.

2014, Robert Shimonski, Cyber Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Defense, page 85

(computer security) The practice of tricking a user into giving, or giving access to, sensitive information, thereby bypassing most or all protection.


catalogue

/ˈkæt.əˌlɒɡ/

/ˈkæt.əˌlɔɡ/

/ˈkæt.əˌlɑɡ/

From Middle English cathaloge, from Old French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek κατάλογος (katálogos, “enrollment, register”), from καταλέγω (katalégō, “to recount, make a list”), from κατα- (kata-, “downwards, towards”) + λέγω (légō, “to say, to speak, to tell”).

katalog

a systematic list of names, books, pictures etc.

The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated.

1983, “Helpline”, in Sinclair User, number 21

BBCFiles is a BBC file converter that converts between some of the various types of files used by BBC emulators on Acorn & PC formats. It supports 6502Em style applications & scripts, /ssd dfs disc images (supporting watford double catalogue), vanilla directories, /zip of bbc files with /inf files (with limitations) and directory of bbc files with /inf files.

2001, Michael Foot, “BeebIt 0.32 and BBCFiles 0.29 released”, in comp.sys.acorn.announce (Usenet)

It has two extra options using extended syntax. CAT - an extended catalogue but not as detailed as some I've seen. ( The reason that the Spectrum CAT command is restricted is that it cleverly uses the 512 bytes data buffer of the microdrive channel to sort the filenames - hence the limit of 50 ten-character filenames )

2003, Brotha G, “Repairing Microdrive Cartridges”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)


prompt

From French prompt, from Latin prōmptus (“visible, apparent, evident”), past participle of prōmō (“to take or bring out or forth, produce, bring to light”), from prō (“forth, forward”) + emō (“to take, acquire, buy”).

I filled in my name where the prompt appeared on the computer screen but my account wasn't recognized.

(computing) A sequence of characters that is displayed to indicate that a computer is ready to receive input.

For instance, using the “instruct” mode, I once gave GPT-3 the prompt: “Write an essay discussing the role of metafiction in the work of Italo Calvino.”

2022 April 15, Steven Johnson, Nikita Iziev, “A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(machine learning) Textual input given to a large language model or image model in order to have it generate a desired output.


prompt

en-verb

prompt (third-person singular simple present prompts, present participle prompting, simple past and past participle prompted)

prompts (present singular third-person)
prompting (participle present)
prompted (participle past)
prompted (past)

The script prompted him to enter his credit account number.

(transitive, computing) To request (a user) to provide input or do something on a computer.

I want to prompt this new AI art generator to create an image of a panda riding a bike.

ordinary language
ordinary language#English

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence#English

(transitive, machine learning) To provide textual input in the form of ordinary language to (an artificial intelligence or language model) to have it generate a desired output.

prompter

to give instructions to an artificial intelligence system


nibble

From nibble, punning on the homophony of byte and bite.

That is, the lower nibble (the 4 bits 1010 = A) has been masked to zero.

1993, Richard E. Haskell, Introduction to computer engineering, page 287

(computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bits.


blogophile

A person who is fond of blogs or blogging.


AOT

(computing) Initialism of ahead-of-time (referring to any process that produces a result before it is needed).


UDP

en-noun

UDP (countable and uncountable, plural UDPs)

Usenet Death Penalty
w:Usenet Death Penalty

(Internet, Usenet) Initialism of Usenet Death Penalty.


UDP

user datagram protocol
user datagram protocol#English

(networking) Initialism of user datagram protocol.


robustify

en-verb

robustify (third-person singular simple present robustifies, present participle robustifying, simple past and past participle robustified)

robustifies (present singular third-person)
robustifying (participle present)
robustified (participle past)
robustified (past)

The UI looks nice, but you'll need to robustify it before it goes into production.

(software, statistics) To make more robust, that is, more tolerant of unexpected events.


IANA

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
w:Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

(Internet) Acronym of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.


LART

Acronym of luser attitude readjustment tool

(slang, computing, facetious) luser attitude readjustment tool; something with which a clueless person is struck.


LART

LART (third-person singular simple present LARTs, present participle LARTing, simple past and past participle LARTed)

LARTs (present singular third-person)
LARTing (participle present)
LARTed (participle past)
LARTed (past)

(slang, computing, facetious, transitive) To strike with a LART.


burner

→ Japanese: バーナー (bānā)

From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”).

(computing) A device that allows data or music to be stored on a CDR or CD-ROM.

brander

computing: device that allows data or music to be stored on a CD

(computing) An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.

Internet sleuths later discovered that the username, @SO_blessed1, appeared to be a burner belonging to the Twitter user Incarcerated Bob, who had long been spreading false information.

2021 June 8, Andy Martino, Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →LCCN

(Internet, slang) Ellipsis of burner account.


revert war

(Internet) A dispute on a wiki or in a git repository where two users repeatedly revert one another's changes to an article.


SEO

en-noun

SEO (countable and uncountable, plural SEOs)

Coordinate term: ASO

search engine optimization
search engine optimization#English

(uncountable, Internet) Initialism of search engine optimization.

Several people that I spoke to made a similar point: the best SEOs are the ones that follow Google's rules, which essentially ask you to make amazing websites without even thinking about Google. You are not supposed to make any attempt to artificially boost a website's ranking; you are supposed to be designing websites for human readers, not for the algorithm. And many SEOs do exactly this kind of work: rewriting copy, making a site load more quickly, etc. But the existence of good SEOs does not negate the presence of scammers and idiots and people who get ahead by violating Google's terms of service, just as the mild-mannered teacher's pet in a classroom does not negate the obnoxious shouting of the kids that refuse to behave. A few loud kids can easily drown everyone else out.

2023 November 1, Amanda Chicago Lewis, “The people who ruined the internet”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2024-06-08

(countable, Internet) Initialism of search engine optimizer.


POST

(computing) Acronym of power-on self-test.


POST

en-verb

POST (third-person singular simple present POSTs, present participle POSTing, simple past and past participle POSTed)

POSTs (present singular third-person)
POSTing (participle present)
POSTed (participle past)
POSTed (past)

The computer had a bunch of strange components, but it still POSTed so I assumed everything worked.

(computing) To successfully perform a power-on self-test.


schedule

→ Cebuano: eskedyul

→ Indonesian: skedul

→ Japanese: スケジュール

→ Korean: 스케줄 (seukejul)

→ Tagalog: iskedyul

From Old French cedule (whence French cédule), from Late Latin schedula (“papyrus strip”), diminutive of Latin scheda, from Ancient Greek σχέδη (skhédē, “papyrus leaf”), from Proto-Hellenic *skʰíďďō, from Proto-Indo-European *skid-yé-ti, from *skeyd- (“to divide, split”). Doublet of cedula and cedule.
This word was historically pronounced /ˈsɛdjuːl/, /ˈsɛdʒuːl/; the pronunciations with /ʃ/ and /sk/ are due to the spelling (the latter may have been reinforced by learned influence); compare schism.

atodlen

a table of information forming appendix to a statute, other regulatory instrument or legal contract

menetrend

especially one with times of arrivals and departures

(computer science) An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.

програ́ма

(computing) an ordering or allocating of a set of tasks


home page

From home + page. First attested in 1992.

A computer virus kept changing my home page to a site full of adware.

When you first launch Netscape, it will load your predefined home page. To change Netscape's home page, select Edit, Preferences.

2001, Michael Miller, Using the Internet and Web, special edition, Que Publishing, page 103

The default page set to open in a web browser or hypertext system when it starts up, or when its home function is invoked.


variant

en-adj

variant (comparative more variant, superlative most variant)

more variant (comparative)
most variant (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-variant.wav

Recorded since c.1380, from Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”).

(programming) Covariant and/or contravariant.


variant

(computing) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.

variant-muuttuja

computing: variable that can hold several data types


mud

en-verb

mud (third-person singular simple present muds, present participle mudding, simple past and past participle mudded)

muds (present singular third-person)
mudding (participle present)
mudded (participle past)
mudded (past)

Wizards, in general, have a very different experience of mudding than other players. Because of their palpable and extensive extra powers over other players, and because of their special role in MUD society, they are frequently treated differently[…]

1997, Philip Agre, Douglas Schuler, Reinventing technology, rediscovering community, page 153

(intransitive, Internet) To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.


scaffolding

en-noun

scaffolding (usually uncountable, plural scaffoldings)

Inherited from Middle English scaffaldyng, skaffaldyng, equivalent to scaffold + -ing.

inh+

(programming) Source code etc. that is incomplete and serves as a basis for further development.


hijack

en-verb

hijack (third-person singular simple present hijacks, present participle hijacking, simple past and past participle hijacked)

hijacks (present singular third-person)
hijacking (participle present)
hijacked (participle past)
hijacked (past)

Possibly from a blend of highway + jacker (“one who holds up”) (1915).

blend

(computing) To seize control of a networked computer by means of infecting it with a worm or other malware, thereby turning it into a zombie.

kaapata

computing: to seize control of a computer or browser

to hijack a browser

(computing) To change software settings without a user's knowledge so as to force that user to visit a certain web site.


norm

From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”). Doublet of norma.

norm

math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals

(philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.


ratio

→ Portuguese: rácio

/ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.əʊ/

/ˈɹeɪ.ʃiˌoʊ/

Borrowed from Latin ratiō. Doublet of ration and reason.

(Internet) The number of comments to a post or other expression on social media relative to the number of likes; a high ratio suggests disagreement with the contents of the original post.


ratio

en-verb

ratio (third-person singular simple present ratios, present participle ratioing, simple past and past participle ratioed)

ratios (present singular third-person)
ratioing (participle present)
ratioed (participle past)
ratioed (past)

/ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.əʊ/

/ˈɹeɪ.ʃiˌoʊ/

The politician's post was quickly ratioed due to its controversial nature.

It used to be fun to watch tweets like that get ratioed back into their ugly corner of the internet.

2019, Henry Chisholm, "'Who Cares? It's women's hoops'", Montana Kaimin (The University of Montana), 30 January 2019 - 5 February 2019, page 29

And, just FYI, here's how brutally the public ratioed that tweet.

2021 January 27, Leigh Tauss, “Ghost Roast”, in INDY Week, page 4

It is essential that you ratio anyone who comes for your honour.

2021, @suburbanpoet, "Ratio or be Ratioed: Reluctant notes on Twitter", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 4, Semester 2 (2021), page 16

(transitive, Internet slang) To respond to a post or message on social media in a greater number than the number of likes the post receives, especially to condemn or mock the original poster.


handshake

From hand + shake. See the appendix for the history of the gesture itself.

(computing) An exchange of signals between two devices when communications begin in order to ensure synchronization.

握手

an exchange of signals between two devices


handshake

handshake (third-person singular simple present handshakes, present participle handshaking, simple past and past participle handshaked or handshook)

handshakes (present singular third-person)
handshaking (participle present)
handshaked (participle past)
handshaked (past)
handshook (participle past)
handshook (past)

(computing, intransitive) To perform a handshake with another device.


homograph

/ˈhɒməɡɹɑːf/

/ˈhəʊməɡɹæf/

/ˈhɑːməɡɹæf/

/ˈhoʊməɡɹæf/

(computing) A text character or string that looks identical to another when rendered.


binding

From Middle English byndynge; equivalent to bind + -ing.

(programming) The association of a named item with an element of a program.

sitominen

programming: association of a named item with an element of a program

The Python binding is automatically generated.

(programming) The interface of a library with a programming language other than one it is written in.


cancel

From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).

der

A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.