cybersoul

CompuServe is battling for your cybersoul. The Columbus, Ohio-based company's flagship CompuServe Information Service is the world's #2 online service (after America Online).

But is this communion of cybersouls a sound foundation for religion? It flies in the face of the decidedly more social realities of religious life as it has been known for centuries […]

2004, Peter Antes, Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches, page 398

The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.


instagib

en-verb

instagib (third-person singular simple present instagibs, present participle instagibbing, simple past and past participle instagibbed)

instagibs (present singular third-person)
instagibbing (participle present)
instagibbed (participle past)
instagibbed (past)

(video games, transitive) To immediately gib (with no damage beforehand necessary).


doorhanger

I can basically do whatever I want in Gmail without that hidden doorhanger icon disappearing. Also, if a user simply uses the post-login page as a launching pad for opening links in new tabs or windows, then the doorhanger still remains in its hidden state.

2010, wmarcello, “Re: Doorhanger behaviour concerns”, in mozilla.dev.apps.firefox (Usenet)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A visual notification that drops down from another element such as a toolbar icon.


websmith

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) links websmiths, the users who actually write Web pages, back to the operating system.

1996, Ed Dille, Exploring Moving Worlds: Discovering Virtual Motion on the Web

It's not at all unusual for a prolific Websmith to have 5, 10, or even 20 different pages!

1998, Paul McFedries, The complete idiot's guide to creating an HTML 4 Web page, page 51

Apple handed amateur Websmiths a mixed blessing with iWeb. On the one hand, iWeb '08 makes it dead simple to set up your personal online emporium, chock-full of photos, videos, heartfelt blog ramblings, and now Google Maps and Ads […]

(Internet) A person who creates web pages.


inner join

(databases) A join yielding a set of records that combines only the matching records from a set of tables.


outer join

(databases) A join yielding a set of records that combines every record from a set of tables.


T-piece

(video games) The tetromino in the shape of a T, as used in the video game Tetris.


unadvise

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


superfolder

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

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

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

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


superdirectory

(computing) A directory that contains other directories.


sigilless

(computing, programming, rare) Without sigils.


dedentation

A new code block is recognized when the amount of indentation has increased, and its termination is signaled by a "dedentation," or a reduction of indentation matching a previous level's.

2011, Understanding FOSS Version 3.0i revised

Again, as with every code subblock, indentation (and dedentation) are used to delimit blocks of code as well as to indicate which block of code statements belong to […]

2006, Wesley Chun, Core Python Programming

(programming, informal, rare) The reversal of indentation, moving the text cursor back out from its indented position.


quasiquotation

(computing) The process of quasiquoting.


quasiquoter

(computing) A software mechanism that quasiquotes.


cargo culting

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


quasiquote

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

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

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


paddable

Under a weaker assumption, that some problem in BQP is hard on average for P/poly, we show that every paddable language outside BPP is sculptable in this way.

2015, Scott Aaronson, Shalev Ben-David, “Sculpting Quantum Speedups”, in arXiv

(computing theory) Capable of being padded; said of a set whose strings can be transformed into infinitely many further strings in the set.


vaguebook

vaguebook (third-person singular simple present vaguebooks, present participle vaguebooking, simple past and past participle vaguebooked)

vaguebooks (present singular third-person)
vaguebooking (participle present)
vaguebooked (participle past)
vaguebooked (past)

Coordinate term: subtweet

While watching that video of the 2012 New Year’s Eve party, both the president and first lady realize they have something to hold over their rival’s head. What it is, exactly, remains unclear. Which is maddening; these two talk to each other the way some people “vaguebook” on Facebook.

2016 March 8, Jen Chaney, “‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 7: Rock Star Candidate”, in New York Times

There. You’ve just had a taste of VAGUEBOOKing, a fabulous word that has been around for a while, but which makes its New York Times Crossword debut today as VAGUEBOOKS. If you have an active Facebook account, you undoubtedly have at least one friend who tends to do this.

2017 July 6, Deb Amlen, “Intentionally Mysterious Update”, in New York Times

A less subtle way of navigating the relationship between the public and the obscure is found in subtweeting or vaguebooking (vague facebooking), the art of posting elliptically about a social situation without naming names.

2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 6, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books

(Internet slang, intransitive) To post deliberately cryptic statements on social media (particularly Facebook) so as to elicit attention or requests for detail.


triconnected

(graph theory) Of a connected graph: needing three vertices removed for it to become disconnected.


Pravda

Borrowed from Russian Правда (Pravda, literally “The Truth”).

bor+

These figures indicate that there must have been considerable wastage in the past; indeed Pravda said that “no deviation from these standards is to be permitted, however slight, and it is the duty of Party workers in factories to exercise their rights of supervision to eliminate waste.”

1949 April, John Baker White, “How's Business in Russia?”, in The Atlantic

The official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and successor papers.


identicon

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

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

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


crayon license

Crayon licenses show a lack of understanding of copyright law, license structure, and most important: what would happen if the license were to be interpreted in court.

(computer science, derogatory) A copyright public license written by nonprofessionals.


polypaint

From poly- + paint; name of a feature in the ZBrush digital sculpting software.

Using polypaint with HD allows you to completely overcome the texture resolution limitations in previous versions of ZBrush.

2011, Scott Spencer, ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting

The reason I do not create a texture from polypaint is simply because I want to show what you can generate without going through the texturing process.

2012, Paul Gaboury, ZBrush Professional Tips and Techniques, page 268

(computer graphics) A feature allowing the user to "paint" color directly onto the polygons of a three-dimensional model without first creating a texture map.


tracee

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


runlevel

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


spoetry

Irreverent poetry constructed from the subject lines of spam e-mail messages.


userlist

If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.

1999, Jonny Durango, “IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!!”, in alt.hackers.malicious (Usenet)

(Internet, IRC) A list of users, typically for the purpose of authorization on IRC.


supervoxel

(computer graphics) A polyhedral part of a three-dimensional digital image, larger than a normal voxel, that is rendered in the same colour and brightness.


oversegmentation

en-noun

oversegmentation (countable and uncountable, plural oversegmentations)

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


undersegmentation

undersegmentation (countable and uncountable, plural undersegmentations)

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

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

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


tivoize

en-verb

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

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

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


string substitution

en-noun

string substitution (plural string substitutions)

(programming) The semantics-free search and replacement of one sequence of text characters with another.

computational linguistics
computational linguistics

(computational linguistics) A mapping of letters to sets of strings, which creates a closed operation for regular and context-free languages.


FaceSpace

A blend of the names of the well-known social networks Facebook and Myspace.

He could contact the administrators of FACEspace to have the page removed and he could also contact the police to have them deal with the situation.

2010, Bullying in a Cyber World :-), volume 4, R.I.C. Publications, page 24

This fast-paced video gives you a glimpse of office workers using smartphones, computers, and other technologies on the job.[…] Who is using “FaceSpace” and why?

2012, Mary Ellen Guffey, Dana Loewy, Essentials of Business Communication, Cengage Learning, 9, pages 136-137

Like everyone else, I’ve been on FaceSpace for a while. Seems like everyone’s having fun.

2013, Adrian Chamberlain, FaceSpace: Orca Currents, Orca Book Publishers, page 1

No more facespace. No more texting or tweeting.

2014, Elisabeth Sheffield, Helen Keller Really Lived, University of Alabama Press, page 201

social networking
social networking#English


browserify

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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


attract screen

(video games) The screen displayed during the attract mode, intended to attract potential players to an arcade game.


newless

en-adj

newless (comparative more newless, superlative most newless)

more newless (comparative)
most newless (superlative)

This is an example of newless instantiation.

(programming, not comparable) Not containing or using an operator new.


AHCI

Advanced Host Controller Interface
w:Advanced Host Controller Interface

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


Kurzweil singularity

en-noun

Kurzweil singularity (plural Kurzweil singularities)

From Kurzweil + singularity, after the futurist Ray Kurzweil, who used the term singularity in his works to describe this event.

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence) The point, resulting from ever-accelerating technological progress, when a sufficient threshold of self-evolving artificial intelligence is reached to result in a superintelligence beyond human conception.


noob tube

From the sense that an overpowered weapon might make it easier for "noobs" (newcomers to the game) to succeed against experienced players.

(video games, slang) A very overpowered firearm, especially a grenade launcher.


notwork

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

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

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

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

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


softwarily

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

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

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


snippage

2001, User: invisible ink <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Subject: [chat] Sweet baby jebus, the snippage!
"Please remember that every time you send an email to the SLUG lists, it is multiplied out to everyone on the list, *including* people who subscribe on digest mode. Lack of snippage is particularly annoying for them."

(Internet) removal of the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message


eraser dust

The handwritten, chalkboard type is called eraser dust.

2004, Maria Nerius, Digital Scrapbooking, page 75

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

2011, James Michael Floyd, Composers in the Classroom, page 238

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

2011, Scrapbook Tips & Techniques - Book 2, page 80

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


superadministrator

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


HSQLDB

database management system
database management system#English

(databases, software) Initialism of Hyper SQL Database (a relational database management system written in Java.)


Transact-SQL

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


Nakamoto

Nakamoto consensus

Nakamoto protocol

(cryptocurrencies) Of, or pertaining to, the blockchain technologies promulgated by Satoshi Nakamoto.


Wallace tree

Devised by Australian computer scientist Chris Wallace in 1964.

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


snap-in

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A plug-in.


superspike

From super- + spike, because of the resulting shape of the histogram.

(computer graphics) An algorithm for image segmentation that averages pixels based on the peaks in a histogram.


backchain

en-verb

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

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

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


OOL

(computing) Initialism of object-oriented language.


free-roaming

en-adj

free-roaming (comparative more free-roaming, superlative most free-roaming)

more free-roaming (comparative)
most free-roaming (superlative)

While Metroid introduced multiple endings to a linear game, other more recent designs have presented free-roaming worlds incorporating multiple gameplay paths.

2009, Wendy Despain, Writing for Video Game Genres: From FPS to RPG, page 49

Let the player trigger these in any order she chooses; this is vital because the game ceases being static and takes on the illusion of a free-roaming game.

2009, Michael Duggan, Wii Game Creation for Teens, page 294

Its free-roaming world was a departure for both the programmer and for console gamers, and in retrospect it was an ambitious undertaking that could have all gone horribly wrong.

(video games) Allowing the player to move freely through a virtual world or choose the game narrative and objectives at will; an open world.


lock screen

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

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

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


unsend

en-verb

unsend (third-person singular simple present unsends, present participle unsending, simple past and past participle unsent)

unsends (present singular third-person)
unsending (participle present)
unsent (participle past)
unsent (past)

To unsend a piece of mail, highlight the mail you wish to unsend and click the Unsend button.

1997, Tom Lichty, Jennifer Marx, Jennifer Watson, The Official America Online Tour Guide - Page 61

(transitive, messaging, email, text messaging) To undo, cancel, or reverse the transmission of a message


unsend

(messaging, email, text messaging) The functionality or ability to reverse a message transmission


file server

(computing) Alternative form of fileserver


event loop

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


MGCC

(databases, programming) Synonym of MVCC (multigenerational concurrency control)


MVCC

multiversion concurrency control
w:multiversion concurrency control

programming language
programming language#English

transactional memory
transactional memory#English

(databases, programming) Initialism of multiversion concurrency control (a concurrency control method commonly used by database management systems to provide concurrent access to the database and in programming languages to implement transactional memory.)


JSE

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

(computing) Initialism of Java Servlet Engine.


podcastable

en-adj

podcastable (comparative more podcastable, superlative most podcastable)

more podcastable (comparative)
most podcastable (superlative)

(Internet, neologism, rare) Capable of being podcasted.


nanocode

(computing) The microcode used in a nanoprocessor


nanocode

en-verb

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

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


thrackle

Scots term for a fouled fishing line, which Conway heard when visiting Scotland.

We prove that a thrackle drawing containing a standard musquash (standard n-gonal thrackle) cannot contain any other cycle of length three or five.

2016, Grace Misereh, Yuri Nikolayevsky, “Thrackles containing a standard musquash”, in arXiv

(graph theory) An embedding of a graph in the plane, such that each edge is a Jordan arc and every pair of edges meet once.


webfolio

(Internet) An e-portfolio published on the World Wide Web.


ARPG

roleplaying game
roleplaying game#English

(video games) Initialism of action roleplaying game.


nanoinstruction

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


nanoprocessor

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


affzer

Initialism of alt.fan.frank-zappa + -er.

(Internet slang) A member of the alt.fan.frank-zappa newsgroup, for fans of the musician Frank Zappa.


multidesktop

a multidesktop environment

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


fakemail

The most common misuses of e-mail are fakemail and spam. Fakemail is the act of sending an e-mail that appears to be from another individual.

2001, Chris Prosise, Kevin Mandia, Incident Response: Investigating Computer Crime, page 451

Fakemail is any e-mail that has been falsely created or altered in some manner. It is often used as a method to hide the source address in spamming.

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

(Internet) Email whose sender or other information has been faked.


autopopulation

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


autopopulate

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

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

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


photoblogging

One common trend in image tagging research is to focus on visually relevant tags, and this tends to ignore the personal and social aspect of tags, especially on photoblogging websites such as Flickr.

2016, Amandianeze O. Nwana, Tsuhan Chen, “QUOTE: "Querying" Users as Oracles in Tag Engines - A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach to Personalized Image Tagging”, in arXiv

(Internet) The use of a blog to showcase photographs.


antipacket

For lossless data delivery, we show that the buffer occupancy can be significantly reduced via fully antipacket dissemination.

2016, Pin-Yu Chen, Meng-Hsuan Sung, Shin-Ming Cheng, “Buffer Occupancy and Delivery Reliability Tradeoffs for Epidemic Routing”, in arXiv

(networking) A record indicating that a previously transmitted packet of data was successfully received, and preventing it from being sent again to the same recipient.


cardware

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


BBEG

(roleplaying games, video games) Initialism of big bad evil guy.


IGM

Blood Pitᵀᴹ — an “In-Game Module” (IGM) quest for the Adventures of Renownᵀᴹ Gaming System.

2016, Stephen Gose, Making Multiplayer Online Games, page 268

(software) Initialism of in-game module.


multiaddressing

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


linklist

However, other issues, such as quality control, authenticity and authorship are often not as clearly defined as with traditional sources, so that linklists compiled by tutors for their courses are a way to ensure the quality of at least the initial access to information on the Internet.

2003, Nicolae Nistor, Toward the Virtual University, page 207

In addition, they usally also contain very useful annotated linklists that help to bushwack through the WWW.

2000, Klaus Robering, Information Technology for the Virtual Museum

Consists of a system for managing one's blog. In other words, blogroll is a linklist manager. It allows bloggers to add or delete favorite links in a list at the side of their blog page.

2009, Lawrence A. Tomei, Lexicon of Online and Distance Learning, page 33


storeback

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

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

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


extended ASCII

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


stack machine

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


disocclusion

en-noun

disocclusion (countable and uncountable, plural disocclusions)

(computer graphics) The situation where a previously occluded object becomes visible.


Jensen's device

Devised by Danish computer scientist Jørn Jensen.

(programming) A particular programming technique that exploits call-by-name to change the value of an index variable during execution of a loop.


REPL

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

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

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

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


dehaze

en-verb

dehaze (third-person singular simple present dehazes, present participle dehazing, simple past and past participle dehazed)

dehazes (present singular third-person)
dehazing (participle present)
dehazed (participle past)
dehazed (past)

DehazeNet adopts Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) based deep architecture, whose layers are specially designed to embody the established assumptions/priors in image dehazing.

2016, Bolun Cai, Xiangmin Xu, Kui Jia, Chunmei Qing, Dacheng Tao, “DehazeNet: An End-to-End System for Single Image Haze Removal”, in arXiv

(transitive, computer graphics) To remove the haze from (an image).


cybersquat

cybersquat (third-person singular simple present cybersquats, present participle cybersquatting, simple past and past participle cybersquatted)

cybersquats (present singular third-person)
cybersquatting (participle present)
cybersquatted (participle past)
cybersquatted (past)


multiselect

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

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

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


multiselect

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


cloudify

cloudify (third-person singular simple present cloudifies, present participle cloudifying, simple past and past participle cloudified)

cloudifies (present singular third-person)
cloudifying (participle present)
cloudified (participle past)
cloudified (past)

(computing) To convert and/or migrate data and application programs in order to make use of cloud computing.


anti-index

(databases) A listing of records used to prune them during requests.


unacquire

unacquire (third-person singular simple present unacquires, present participle unacquiring, simple past and past participle unacquired)

unacquires (present singular third-person)
unacquiring (participle present)
unacquired (participle past)
unacquired (past)

If you forget to unacquire the input devices you've been using, when your game ends those devices may still be locked by the system and may be unable to be used.

2011, Allen Sherrod, Wendy Jones, Beginning DirectX 11 Game Programming - Page 197

(computing, transitive) To lose or get rid of; reverse the possession or acquisition of; unget


XAP

(computing) Initialism of Extensible Application Package. (Windows file container format for mobile apps and Silverlight Web apps)


OFN

(Internet, text) Initialism of old fucking news.


NewSQL

(computing, databases) A class of relational database management systems that seek to provide the scalability of NoSQL for online transaction processing (OLTP) read-write workloads while still maintaining the ACID guarantees of a traditional database.


growth hacker

Josh Elman, a growth hacker at Twitter, recognized early on that it was possible to "focus on understanding your users and how they discover and adopt your products [and to] build features that help you acquire and retain more users, rather than just spending marketing dollars."

2013 July 8, Ryan Holiday, “The Secret That Defines Marketing Now”, in Fast Company

(Internet, marketing) Someone who is skilled in both marketing and programming, and utilises these skills to grow the userbase of a startup.


memescape

A notional landscape of memes, or units of cultural information.


smart pointer

(programming) A form of pointer with additional features such as automatic memory management or bounds checking.


lambda function

en-noun

lambda function (plural lambda functions)

(programming) An anonymous function; a function that is defined in an inline, ad-hoc manner, and often doesn't have a name (not bound to an identifier).


computer core

(science fiction, computing) a computer processing center or central computer


memory core

Tali'Zorah nar Rayya: I tracked a patrol of geth to an uncharted world. I waited for one to become separated from its unit. Then I disabled it and removed its memory core.
Captain Anderson: I thought the geth fried their memory cores when they died. Some kind of defense mechanism.
Shepard: How did you manage to preserve the memory core?[…]

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel

Tali'Zorah nar Rayya: According to the memory core, the Reapers were a hyper-advanced machine race that existed 50,000 years ago.

(science fiction, computing) A (semi-)permanent computer memory storage device that may be extracted, and may or may not be separate from the computer core.


rocket jump

(video games) A jump performed by blasting a rocket launcher in close proximity to one's character.


rocket jump

en-verb

rocket jump (third-person singular simple present rocket jumps, present participle rocket jumping, simple past and past participle rocket jumped)

rocket jumps (present singular third-person)
rocket jumping (participle present)
rocket jumped (participle past)
rocket jumped (past)

Be advised that rocket-jumping is very painful. It's inadvisable to attempt it […]

2003, Doug Radcliffe, Halo - Combat Evolved: Sybex Official Strategies and Secrets

Ideally, we don't want to test for rocket jumping directly, instead letting the evolution discover rockets as the best approach […]

2004, Alex J Champandard, AI Game Development

This technique now arrives almost subliminally for Quake players, but rocket jumping has long been recognized as one of Quake's key skills.

(video games) To perform a jump by blasting a rocket launcher in close proximity to one's character.


submirror

(Internet) A secondary or subsidiary mirror.


stringy floppy

en-noun

stringy floppy (plural stringy floppies)

(computing, dated) An early computer storage medium, a cartridge of looped tape.


e-currency

e-currency (countable and uncountable, plural e-currencies)

digital currency
digital currency#English


EDO

(computing) Abbreviation of extended data-out.


core memory

core memory (countable and uncountable, plural core memories)

* (sense 1): From being a type of computer memory consisting of magnetic cores.
* (sense 2): A reference to the 2015 Pixar film Inside Out, in which the character Riley has five "core memories", each forming the foundation of a "personality island" which represents an aspect of Riley's personality.

NVRAM

non-volatile random access memory; erasable memory

Wilkes, on his visit to America in summer and fall 1950 had witnessed the core memory being implemented on the Whirlwind at MIT—and as in the case of seeing the control matrix in the same machine, this made a strong impression on him.

2014, Subrata Dasgupta, It Began with Babbage, Oxford University Press

(computing, historical, countable, uncountable) A type of non-volatile random-access rewritable electronic memory using ferrite cores to magnetically store binary digits (bits).


cyberpessimism

The belief that computer technology and the Internet will have negative effects on society.


cybercurrency

cybercurrency (countable and uncountable, plural cybercurrencies)

Remember electronic cash, digital dollars or cybercurrency? The conventional wisdom three years ago was that consumers would never use their credit card numbers on the Internet. So in order for electronic commerce to thrive, highly secure digital money schemes were needed.

1999, Network World, volume 16, number 15, page 47

The emergence of cybercurrency as a future medium of exchange raises a number of new enforcement issues as well as questions of whether reporting requirements would need to be redesigned […]

2000, Delbert Rounds, International Criminal Justice: Issues in a Global Perspective, page 36


visible Web

(computing, Internet) Synonym of Surface Web


lambda abstraction

lambda abstraction (plural lambda abstractions)

(computing theory) A lambda term of the form (λx.t) where x is a variable and t another lambda term. Any free instance of x within t (considered by itself) then becomes bound by the λx. prefix. It is meant to represent an anonymous function.


eta conversion

(computing theory) One of the three rewrite rules of lambda calculus, which expresses a sort of tautology about function application. The rule says that a lambda abstraction of the form (λx.(fx)) may be rewritten as simply f, provided that x does not occur freely in f (considered by itself).


lambda term

A lambda term can have one of these three forms: (1) a variable by itself, (2) a lambda abstraction, (3) an application of one lambda term to another one.

(computing theory) A well-formed formula in the language of a lambda calculus.


tweetless

The senator has been tweetless since last weekend […]

2009 September 10, Gail Collins, “So Much for Civility”, in New York Times


alpha conversion

alpha conversion (countable and uncountable, plural alpha conversions)

(computing theory) One of the three rewrite rules of lambda calculus, in which a bound variable of a lambda term is replaced by another variable across its entire scope. So if there is a lambda term of the form (λx.t) and it is desired to have x replaced with y, then the rewritten lambda term would have the form (λy.t[y/x]) where t[y/x], "t with y instead of x", has had all free instances of x in t replaced with y.


midclick

Should it come down to the final hole, as two of the three playoff tournaments have, that could very well stop some channel surfers in midclick.

2009 September 21, Larry Dorman, “This Year, Golf’s FedEx Cup Finale Promises Some Excitement”, in New York Times

(computing) A point in time when the user is clicking something.


midclick

This behavior makes it easy for users to change their minds midclick.

2003, Eric Eaton, Designing Web Site Interface Elements, page 77

(computing) While the user is clicking something.


MCSD

(Microsoft, software) Initialism of Microsoft Certified Solution Developer.


calltip

(programming) A pop-up reminder of the signature of a function or method, to aid the programmer while writing code.


plabic

Of course, as illustrated in the example above, merely reordering the face variables of a fixed plabic graph by an odd permutation will change the orientation of the resulting volume-form.

2016, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Grassmannian Geometry of Scattering Amplitudes, page 116


desk check

(computing) A test of an algorithm by a human, who runs through its operations in sequence to verify the result.


XDK

Xbox Development Kit
w:Xbox Development Kit

(development, software) Initialism of Xbox Development Kit.


platform-specific

en-adj

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

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

(software) Written specifically for a software platform that obstructs the layer below.


application-specific

application-specific (comparative more application-specific, superlative most application-specific)

more application-specific (comparative)
most application-specific (superlative)

(hardware, software) created or written for a specific application/usage


code base

(computing) Alternative form of codebase


physical unclonable function

en-noun

physical unclonable function (plural physical unclonable functions)

An integrated circuit with a randomized physical structure, used in cryptography.


bindless

(computer graphics) Not having the limitation of requiring textures to be bound by the CPU to a particular slot in a fixed-size table before the GPU can use them.


HTMLer

As they did with me, these tags fascinated many new HTMLers creating their first Web pages.

2010, Bradley J. Dilger, Jeff Rice, From A to A: Keywords of Markup, page 99

Adding alternative text (often referred to by HTMLers as “alt text”) is a good practice […]

2010, Ed Tittel, Jeff Noble, HTML, XHTML and CSS For Dummies, page 110

(computing, informal) A person who writes HTML markup.


LHA

Abbreviation
* (data compression): Short for Lempel-Ziv Huffman archiver, after the mathematicians on whose work it was based.

(computing) A particular data compression format.


multiposter

But then there were requests from the Group to show the posters in alphabetical order. This made sense as it made weeding out any new multiposters a lot easier.

2002, Reg Hems, “Xmas Roundup Group”, in argonet.zfc (Usenet)


ground truthing

(computing) In machine learning, the process of gathering objective (provable) data in order to test the system.


TypeScript

Blend of type (“value constraint”) + JavaScript.

blend

programming language
programming language

(scripting language) A scripting programming language that is a strongly-typed superset of JavaScript.


docstring

From doc + string; see doc (“documentation”).

(programming) A string literal specified in source code that is used, like a comment, to document a specific segment of code, but remains available at run-time.


GCM

Google Cloud Messaging
w:Google Cloud Messaging

(cloud computing, historical) Initialism of Google Cloud Messaging, superseded by FCM.

Galois/Counter Mode
w:Galois/Counter Mode

(cryptography) Initialism of Galois/Counter Mode.


qumix

(quantum computing) A mixed state in a quantum computing system.


quregister

In these logics formulas are supposed to denote pieces of quantum information (qubits, quregisters or mixtures of quregisters), while logical connectives correspond to (quantum logical) gates that transform quantum information in a reversible way.

2016, Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Roberto Giuntini, Roberto Leporini, Giuseppe Sergioli, “Holistic logical arguments in quantum computation”, in arXiv

(quantum computing) The equivalent of a register in a quantum computing system.


command-line interface

en-noun

command-line interface (plural command-line interfaces)

command line interface
command line interface#English

(computing) Alternative form of command line interface


HAXM

(computing) Initialism of hardware-accelerated execution manager.


googology

According to googology, Prince Charles is the anti-christ. Look it up.

2001 August 23, Edvins Augusts, “Pete Phoenix, are you English?”, in alt.astrology (Usenet)

Scroll down to 'googology 101' and 'googology 201', searching and advanced searching.

2003 May 21, Chakolate, “Dr. Phil and Menopause”, in alt.support.menopause (Usenet)

and now for some comparative googology […]

2006 May 29, kurt wismer, “Re: Rootkit?”, in alt.comp.virus (Usenet)

(humorous, colloquial) The Internet search engine Google, or the use of it to find out information.


LTV

LTV (countable and uncountable, plural LTVs)

(computing) Initialism of long-term validation.


remirror

en-verb

remirror (third-person singular simple present remirrors, present participle remirroring, simple past and past participle remirrored)

remirrors (present singular third-person)
remirroring (participle present)
remirrored (participle past)
remirrored (past)

(computing, transitive) To mirror again.


headless browser

en-noun

headless browser (plural headless browsers)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(Internet) A web browser without a graphical user interface.


RAG

retrieval-augmented generation
w:retrieval-augmented generation

large language model
large language model

(machine learning) Initialism of retrieval-augmented generation: a method of augmenting performance of LLMs (large language models) by serving them a curated selection of data input, via a combination of relevant data libraries and on-the-fly but relevant search results.


minilanguage

The success of Logo in general and turtle graphics in particular stimulated the development of the mini-language approach to teaching the principles of programming.

1997 March, Peter Brusilovsky et al., “Mini-languages: A Way to Learn Programming Principles”, in Education and Information Technologies, →DOI

domain-specific language
domain-specific language

(programming) A relatively small and simple domain-specific language.


supertablet

(computing) A high-performance tablet computer


falsiness

(computing, programming) The property of being falsy, i.e. evaluating to false in a Boolean context.


VLT

Very Large Telescope
Virtual Link Trunking

(networking) Initialism of Virtual Link Trunking, 2 proprietary networking protocols.


single-user

(computing, telecommunications) Of an operating system, etc., only capable of serving one user at a time, not many users simultaneously.


chunklet

(statistics, computer science) A group of data points belonging to the same constraint cluster.


constraint cluster

constraint cluster (plural constraint clusters)

(statistics, computer science) a cluster of data points in a set conforming to the must-link and cannot-link constraints specified for each pair of data points


cannot-link

(statistics, computer science) the property of data points that must not be clustered into the same chunklet


must-link

(statistics, computer science) Of data points: having the property that they must be clustered into the same chunklet.


sysplex

When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave.

2010, Mike Ebbers, Dino Tonelli, Jason Arnold, Co-locating Transactional and Data Warehouse Workloads on System z, page 245

(computing) A group of connected IBM mainframe systems that share resources.


bogosort

(computing theory, informal) An intentionally poor sorting algorithm that operates by randomly permuting the elements repeatedly until they happen to fall into the correct order.


selection sort

(computing theory) A sorting algorithm that divides the input list into two sublists — items already sorted, and items not yet sorted — and gradually transfers elements from one list to the other.


no-CD

Some NO-CDs will replace your Game.exe, which sucks. I can entirely understand how he lost his game.exe, and why he needs it back.

2000, Sean, “CD-Key Generator and Game.exe”, in alt.games.diablo (Usenet)

I have one little problem with no cds, not insurmountable. Sometimes when I click to start up the game I get a message about not being abole to find the right DirectX driver or soemthing ( I forget exactly because I no longer actually read it ) and I have to reboot the computer then it's ok.

2008, kat, “Re: Speedy skilling”, in alt.games.the-sims (Usenet)

I know you said you were talking about real DOS, but I have this game setup to run in DOSbox with no-CDs and it plays great, better than it did in DOS 6.22 in fact. :)

2008, Matt v3.2, “Re: Daemon tools - best virtual drive choice?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg (Usenet)

(computing, video games, informal) A software crack for a program that usually requires the presence of the original compact disc (to prove that it is a legally-acquired copy), allowing it to run without the disc.


tarbomb

(computing, slang) A tarball (archive file) containing numerous files that are extracted into the working directory, potentially causing inconvenience by overwriting other files or mixing up files from different sources.


murderhobo

murderhobo (plural murderhobos or murderhoboes)

murderhobos (plural)
murderhoboes (plural)

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

Know that you're not going to be the only group of murderhobos out there though, and there's an increasing chance that you may run into others the more dungeons you explore.

2017, Jason Paul McCartan, Through Dungeons Deeper: A Survival Guide for Dungeoneers as Written by a Survivor, page 99

Grab some stone, craft a sword and go on, be a murderhobo.

2019, Drew Sleep, “Minecraft”, in Retro Gamer UK, number 200, page 100

Maybe you joined a new group expecting a heavy role-playing experience, just to discover the rest of the party was a group of murderhobos with their hearts set on loot and plunder.

2021 September 16, Brenden Bobby, “Roll d20 for consent”, in Reader, Sandpoint, Idaho, page 14

(roleplaying games, derogatory or humorous) A character who wanders the gameworld, unattached to any community, indiscriminately killing and looting.


murderhobo

en-verb

murderhobo (third-person singular simple present murderhobos, present participle murderhoboing, simple past and past participle murderhoboed)

murderhobos (present singular third-person)
murderhoboing (participle present)
murderhoboed (participle past)
murderhoboed (past)

(roleplaying games, derogatory slang, intransitive) To act like a murderhobo: to wander a gameworld indiscriminately killing and looting.


Shellsort

From Shell + sort, after Douglas Shell, who published the first version in 1959.

(computing theory) A sorting algorithm that starts by sorting pairs of elements that are far apart from each other, then progressively reduces the gap between elements to be compared.


pastebin

For example, if you're stuck with a piece of code or you just want to show off how awesome something you wrote is, then you can paste it into the pastebin and it will give you a link to share with other people. Pastebins usually have built-in […]

2013, Callum Macrae, Learning from jQuery, page 100

Some pastebins even include syntax highlighting for common programming languages. This can be an appealing advantage when constructing an email with source code in it, or multiple attached log files, […]

2015, Ernesto Damiani, Fulvio Frati, Dirk Riehle, Open Source Systems: Adoption and Impact

(Internet) A website allowing users to store plain text, so that they can refer to it with a simple hyperlink rather than having to paste the entire text elsewhere.


pentadecathlon

X! Produces a westward stream of lightweight spaceships representing prime numbers: a LWSS escapes past the pentadecathlon around generation 120n+100 if and only if n is prime.

1993 March 16, David Bell, “Life program (part 6/18)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

The speed was very dependent on the number of live cells, but it ran the pentadecathlon at 92 gen/sec in the last version I measured.

2002 July 23, Owen Rees, “Wolfram and "general 2D simulators"”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) A particular oscillator that returns to its initial state after 15 generations.


navbox

The editor created a navbox containing links related to football.

The general architecture allows for such a constraint to be validated from any source which mentions the two entities, including tables, list pages, navboxes, and perhaps wikified newswire articles [5,6].

2009, Iustin Dornescu, "Semantic QA for Encyclopaedic Questions: EQUAL in GikiCLEF" in Peters, C. et al., Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I: Text Retrieval Experiments, p. 330

The page analyzer then extracts existing data in Navboxes.

2015, Sedigheh Khalatbari, Seyed Mirroshandel, Automatic Construction of Domain Ontology Using Wikipedia and Enhancing it by Google Search Engine, page 252

We introduce a novel dataset capturing the visual position of all links between articles of the English Wikipedia (including also templates, infoboxes/sidebars, and navboxes) based on their fine-grained screen coordinates […]

2016, D. Dimitrov, P. Singer, F. Lemmerich, “Visual Positions of Links and Clicks on Wikipedia”, in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, page 27

(wiki jargon) A navigation box; a template placed on a page, outputting a box containing links to other, related articles.


offlineable

(Internet, software, very rare) Capable of being used offline to some degree.


feudal rush

(video games) The strategy of assaulting the enemy with feudal age units very early.


openSUSE

From open (as in open-source) and the name of its sponsor, SUSE S.A., originally an acronym of German Software- und System-Entwicklung (“Software and Systems Development”).

der

(computing) A free and open-source Linux distribution.


accelerator card

en-noun

accelerator card (plural accelerator cards)

(computing) A graphics card with its own GPU and memory, for greater performance.


series of tubes

Coined by US Senator from Alaska Ted Stevens in 2006 to describe the Internet in the context of opposing network neutrality, the phrase was widely ridiculed and began to be used satirically.

coin

(Internet slang, humorous) The Internet.


single-platform

(computing) Of software, etc., designed to work on only one operating system.


widgetize

en-verb

widgetize (third-person singular simple present widgetizes, present participle widgetizing, simple past and past participle widgetized)

widgetizes (present singular third-person)
widgetizing (participle present)
widgetized (participle past)
widgetized (past)

(computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To adapt to work with user-interface widgets.


S.M.A.R.T.

w:self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology

(computer hardware) Acronym of self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology; also SMART: a monitoring system included in computer HDDs and SSDs in order to detect and report various indicators of drive reliability with the intent of anticipating imminent hardware failures.


typechecking

(computing) The process of verifying whether a given value belongs to a certain data type.


bootblock

(computing) A block of storage on disk that holds the code for booting the operating system.


Twitterdom

(Internet slang) The world or sphere of Twitter (the microblogging service).


Gosper island

(computer graphics) The space filled by the Gosper curve.


flowsnake

From flow + snake, describing its movements, and as a spoonerism for snowflake.


Gosper curve

(computer graphics) A particular fractal object, a space-filling curve that can tile the plane.


vblog

vblog (third-person singular simple present vblogs, present participle vblogging, simple past and past participle vblogged)

vblogs (present singular third-person)
vblogging (participle present)
vblogged (participle past)
vblogged (past)


Internet famous

en-adj

Internet famous (comparative more Internet famous, superlative most Internet famous)

more Internet famous (comparative)
most Internet famous (superlative)

(informal) Famous in the context of the Internet.


fraglet

(computing) A fragment of distributed code in a bio-inspired network.


power creep

(collectible games, video games, roleplaying games) The situation where successive updates or expansions to a game introduce more powerful units or abilities, leaving the older ones underpowered.

collectible games; roleplaying games; collectible games; roleplaying games


single-tasking

(computing) Of an operating system, etc., only capable of execution of one task (program or app) at a time, not many tasks simultaneously.


tabber

OmniWeb has a reputation for fast browsing, but if you're a card-carrying member of TA (Tabbers Anonymous), you need the 5.0 beta version to get that feature.

2004, Sarah Milstein, Rael Dornfest, Google: The Missing Manual, page 172

(computing) A user who switches between tabs.


ReDoS

regular expression
regular expression#English

denial of service
denial-of-service attack#English

(regular expressions, computer security) Abbreviation of regular expression denial of service: the use of a maliciously constructed regular expression that takes a very long time to evaluate

regular expressions; computer security; regular expressions; computer security


plussed

I think the only good form of email address munging is a plussed email address as I have in this message. While I am not automatically bitbucketing email addressed in this way, it does keep it from hitting my inbox and demanding my immediate attention.

1997, Matthew N. Dodd, “anti-spam e-mail addresses”, in comp.os.vms (Usenet)

(computing, informal) Containing a plus sign.


chunkserver

Each chunk at the time of storage is replicated and stored in multiple chunkservers which provides enhanced reliability to the data stored in the GFS.

2015, Pethuru Raj, Anupama Raman, Dhivya Nagaraj, High-Performance Big-Data Analytics: Computing Systems and Approaches, page 141

(computing) A specialized server that retrieves chunks of data.


framee

(Internet) A person whose web pages are misleadingly embedded in another person's site by means of HTML frames.


PeeCee

A respelling along the lines of eye dialect, perhaps further intensified by spelling association with peewee.

personal computer
personal computer#English

(Internet, derogatory) PC (personal computer)


TWENEX

Blend of twenty + TENEX, the latter (derived from ten extended) being an earlier operating system for the same machine.

(computing, informal) The TOPS-20 operating system for the PDP-10 mainframe computer.


crypto-anarchism

The rise of crypto-anarchism might be good news for individual users – and there are plenty working on ways of using this technology for decent social purposes – but it’s also bad news for governments.

2017 June 4, Jamie Bartlett, “Forget far-right populism – crypto-anarchists are the new masters”, in The Observer

(computing, political science) The belief that cyberspace should exist decentralized and without authority, achievable through cryptography.

Krypto-Anarchismus

discipline concerned with communication security


PDL

(computing) Initialism of pushdown list.

page description language
page description language#English

(computing) Initialism of page description language.


macroparameter

(computing) Any parameter of a macro (normally written as macro parameter)


DBI

(computing, languages) Initialism of Database Interface (module of the Perl 5 language)


ODBC

(databases) Initialism of Open Database Connectivity.


DBD

(computing, languages) Initialism of Database Driver (database driver of Perl DBI)


full binary tree

en-noun

full binary tree (plural full binary trees)

(mathematics, computing) A binary tree in which each node has exactly two or zero children.


snapchat

en-verb

snapchat (third-person singular simple present snapchats, present participle snapchatting, simple past and past participle snapchatted)

snapchats (present singular third-person)
snapchatting (participle present)
snapchatted (participle past)
snapchatted (past)

(Internet) Alternative letter-case form of Snapchat


Chomsky Normal Form

Named after Noam Chomsky (b. 1928), American linguist and philosopher, who first described it.

Any ε-free Context Free Grammar can be converted (through an algorithm) into one in Chomsky Normal Form, and there is an algorithm that can parse formulas in the language of such a grammar in polynomial time; it is called the CYK algorithm.

context-free grammar
context-free grammar

(computing theory) A context-free grammar in which the right hand side of any production rule consists of either one terminal symbol or two non-terminal symbols.

(computing theory) A context-free grammar in which the right hand side of any production rule consists of either one terminal symbol or two non-terminal symbols (neither of which is the start symbol) or the epsilon (i.e. null string) symbol, but only if the left hand side is the start symbol. (Note: this is the full-fledged version, whereas the previous definition may be said to be defining Chomsky reduced form.)


Snapchat

(Internet, social media) A mobile photo-messaging application, introduced in 2011.


Snapchat

(Internet, social media) A user account on Snapchat.

“I just got out of the shower,” I explained. Will pointed down, asking playfully, “Pics or it didn't happen.” “No pics,” I snorted. “No Snapchats, no video. Sorry.”

2014, Jessa Holbrook, While You're Away, Penguin

(Internet, social media) A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.


Snapchat

Snapchat (third-person singular simple present Snapchats, present participle Snapchatting, simple past and past participle Snapchatted)

Snapchats (present singular third-person)
Snapchatting (participle present)
Snapchatted (participle past)
Snapchatted (past)

She Snapchatted me all the details from the hairdresser, including a selfie of her crying when the job was totally done.

2017, Norah Olson, “5/6, afternoon”, in Before Now, New York, N.Y.: Katherine Tegen Books, HarperCollins Publishers, page 162

He was probably still awake up there, Snapchatting by the light of the silvery moon.

(Internet, social media, ditransitive, intransitive) To send a message on Snapchat.


malvertisement

(computing) An advertisement, published on the Internet, that is infected with malicious code aiming to hijack the viewer's computer.


ATX

(computing) Initialism of advanced technology extended: a motherboard configuration for computers.


auto-away

(computing) Alternative form of autoaway


candlestick chart

en-noun

candlestick chart (plural candlestick charts)

(finance) A style of financial chart used to describe price movements of a security, derivative, or currency.


raw data

Coined in the 1910s, from raw (“unprocessed”) + data.

Do their speakers semantically align supposedly raw data with supposedly raw text (that is, ASCII) and supposedly raw footage (unedited film or video) the way that English speakers do?

2013, Lisa Gitelman, editor, Raw Data Is an Oxymoron, MIT Press, page 11

(data management, statistics) Data that has not been analyzed or processed.


autogreet

An example of a more subtle indiscretion is using an "autogreet". This involves automatically sending a 'hello' message to everyone on a channel whenever you join (the IRC Primer warns against creating an autogreet, stating that "even if you think you are being polite, you are actually sounding insincere and also interfering with the personal environment of the recipient" (Pioch 1993:2)).

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

DON'T use autogreets, or automatic messaging, to say "Hello" and "Goodbye" automatically as people enter or leave the channel. They get old, and you may not really mean what you say.

1997, Noel Estabrook, Bill Vernon, Teach Yourself the Internet in 24 Hours, page 136

(Internet) A greeting issued automatically in a chat room, etc. when a user joins.


Web Ontology Language

Web Ontology Language (plural Web Ontology Languages)

(computing, Internet) A formal language (or family of languages) used to draw inferences from a large data set, especially from the Semantic Web


Chaitin's constant

(computing theory) A real number that informally represents the probability that a randomly-constructed program will halt.


Hoare logic

Hoare logic (countable and uncountable, plural Hoare logics)

Proposed in 1969 by the British computer scientist and logician Tony Hoare.

(computing theory) A formal system of rules for reasoning about the correctness of computer programs, based on Hoare triples, which describe the state of the system before and after various operations.


Hoare triple

Part of the Hoare logic proposed in 1969 by the British computer scientist and logician Tony Hoare.

(computing theory) A formal description of how the execution of a piece of code changes the state of the computation in Hoare logic, consisting of a command to be run, a precondition that holds true beforehand, and a postcondition that holds true afterwards.


WAI

Web Accessibility Initiative
w:Web Accessibility Initiative

(Internet) Initialism of Web Accessibility Initiative (effort to improve the accessibility of the World Wide Web for people with disabilities)


WAI

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Acronym of works as intended; current situation is what was intended and thus not subject to change.


LPWAN

wide-area network
wide-area network#English

(networking) Acronym of low-power wide-area network.


wide-area network

wide-area network (plural wide-area networks)

wide area network
wide area network#English

(computing) Alternative form of wide area network


transload

en-verb

transload (third-person singular simple present transloads, present participle transloading, simple past and past participle transloaded)

transloads (present singular third-person)
transloading (participle present)
transloaded (participle past)
transloaded (past)

You may have transloaded the image file to the same server as your Web page, or you may be linking directly to its location in a graphics collection.

2000, Brad Hill, WebTV For Dummies, page 235

(transitive, Internet, rare) To download, upload, or copy a file from one location to another.


Y10K bug

Abbreviation of year 10 and 000 (10k) bug. Based on the Y2K bug.

abbreviation of

(computing, often humorous) A bug like the millennium bug, that arises when a 4‐digit year system — from "0000" to "9999" — fails to display, store or calculate the year 10,000 or any later year.


callback hell

However, the use of callbacks can lead to a maintainability issue known as callback hell. We will now write a real-life example to showcase what a callback hell is and how easily we can end up dealing with it.

2015, Remo H. Jansen, Learning TypeScript

(programming, colloquial) (mostly of the JavaScript language) The situation where callbacks are nested within other callbacks several levels deep, potentially making it difficult to understand and maintain the code.


high order bit

most significant bit
most significant bit


dependency hell

(computing, colloquial) The situation when installed software packages have conflicting, incompatible dependencies on specific versions of other software packages.


Microsoft minute

en-noun

Microsoft minute (plural Microsoft minutes)

A derogatory reference to the slow performance of Microsoft software.

(humorous, rare) A unit of time longer than one minute.


JAR hell

(computing, informal) Of the Java language, problems caused by incompatible versions of a JAR (Java archive).


Heartbleed

Blend of heartbeat (“periodic signal generated to indicate normal operation of hardware or software”) + bleed

blend

(computing) A security bug in OpenSSL, where more data can be read than should be allowed, which was disclosed and fixed in April 2014.


double kill

(video games) The killing of two targets or enemies in a single hit, or with one magazine. This can also refer to killing two enemies in quick succession.


minifier

(computing) A program that minifies, or removes unnecessary characters to make a document smaller.


spritesheet

(computer graphics) A single image used to store multiple sprites.


pseudoalgorithm

(computing theory) A description of a process that resembles, but is not in fact, an algorithm, as for example by being written in vague pseudocode.


disocclude

en-verb

disocclude (third-person singular simple present disoccludes, present participle disoccluding, simple past and past participle disoccluded)

disoccludes (present singular third-person)
disoccluding (participle present)
disoccluded (participle past)
disoccluded (past)

(transitive, dentistry, computer graphics) To cause to be no longer occluded.


Kadane's algorithm

Devised by Jay Kadane of Carnegie-Mellon University.

(computing theory) An algorithm for finding the contiguous subarray within a one-dimensional numeric array which has the largest sum.


CCR

condition code register
condition code register#English

(computing) Acronym of condition code register.


echoback

(computing) A test where data is transmitted from one system to another system and back again.


AI winter

By analogy to the idea of a nuclear winter.

A lot of people are talking about — actually have been talking about — a particular scenario of the artificial intelligence industry known as the "AI Winter."

Their products offered little business value at the time, and so the commercial enthusiasm ended in disappointment, leading to a period now referred to as the “A.I. Winter.”

2016 July 17, John Markoff, “Artificial Intelligence Swarms Silicon Valley on Wings and Wheels”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence, economics) A period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research.


MTA

message transfer agent
w:message transfer agent

(Internet) Initialism of message transfer agent.


Ubuntero

From Ubuntu and Spanish -ero (“forming occupations from nouns”).

uder

(computing, informal) A user of the Ubuntu operating system.


self-hosting

A self-hosting compiler can compile its own source code.

(computing) Of software: capable of generating new versions of itself.


self-hosting

(Internet) Web hosting on one's own servers, without the use of a third party.


MeFi

(Internet, informal) MetaFilter, a general-interest community weblog featuring links to content that users have discovered on the World Wide Web.


two-factor authentication
two-factor authentication#English

(computer security) Initialism of two-factor authentication.


query string

The site works when we visit example.com/q, but fails when we visit example.com/q?name=Smith. There must be a problem processing the query string.

(Internet) A sequence of data appended to a URL to supply input parameters in the form of name-value pairs.


nroff

en-verb

nroff (third-person singular simple present nroffs, present participle nroffing, simple past and past participle nroffed)

nroffs (present singular third-person)
nroffing (participle present)
nroffed (participle past)
nroffed (past)

Name of the program, short for new roff; an earlier similar program was called roff, a shortening of runoff.

The user either selects a new filename, edits the default file, nroffs it to the screen, or to a printer, or logs out.

1985, Eric Foxley, UNIX for super-users, page 158

You could contrive macro sets that nroffed a document onto a printer […]

1991, Computer Language, volume 8, page 18

(transitive, computing) To format (text) using the nroff program, which produces output suitable for simple fixed-width printers and terminal windows.


cryptovirology

(cryptography, computer security) The use of cryptography to design powerful malicious software such as ransomware and asymmetric backdoors.


modpack

(video games) A predefined collection of mods (end user-created packages that modify game behavior) for a video game.


concrete method

en-noun

concrete method (plural concrete methods)

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) A method of a concrete class.


concrete class

concrete class (plural concrete classes)

(object-oriented programming) A class that can be instantiated and may have concrete methods.

konkreettinen luokka

in software - a class that can be instantiated


concrete interface

concrete interface (plural concrete interfaces)

The more concrete interface extends the more abstract interface; the more concrete class implements the more abstract interface.

2008 February 4, Jaime Niño, Frederick A. Hosch, Introduction to Programming and Object-Oriented Design Using Java, Wiley

(object-oriented programming) An interface that extends another.

interface concrète

an interface that has a one-to-many relation


unfollower

(Internet) One who unfollows another user.


linkification

From link + -ification or linkify + -cation.

(Internet, informal) The conversion of (something in a body of text) to one or more internal links or hyperlinks.


minipalette

Although only six tools, six inks, and a minipalette are displayed at any one time in the toolbox, right clicking on any of these objects brings up an appropriate dialog box from which you can pick substitutes.

If you use AutoShapes a lot, you can keep a minipalette (bottom) of them open by choosing Insert → Picture → AutoShapes.

2001, Nan Barber, David Reynolds, Office 2001 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual, page 588

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A small palette.


Mealy machine

Named after George H. Mealy, who presented the concept in a 1955 paper.

finite-state machine
finite-state machine

(computing theory) A finite-state machine whose output values are determined by both its current state and its current inputs.


Moore machine

Named after Edward F. Moore, who presented the concept in a 1956 paper.

(computing theory) A finite-state machine whose output values are determined solely by its current state.


laceability

(graph theory) The property of being laceable.


coclass

(programming) A class that implements a COM (Common Object Model) interface.


laceable

(graph theory) Of a bipartite graph: having a possible Hamiltonian path between any two vertices from different partite sets.


pagewide

Applying styles to the <body> tag using the body selector enables you to apply pagewide settings.

2015, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Jennifer Kyrnin, HTML, CSS & JavaScript Web Publishing in One Hour a Day


Photoshop

(software, trademark) A raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc.


Photoshop

en-verb

Photoshop (third-person singular simple present Photoshops, present participle Photoshopping, simple past and past participle Photoshopped)

Photoshops (present singular third-person)
Photoshopping (participle present)
Photoshopped (participle past)
Photoshopped (past)

Almost as if the building has been Photoshopped for greater sharpness while the rest of the block retains a fuzzier contrast.

2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 184

(transitive, Internet) Alternative letter-case form of photoshop (“To digitally edit or alter a picture or photograph.”)


autoclick

Rather than hire hordes of people to click banner ads, some website operators run automated programs known as autoclick software.

2006, Wally Wang, Steal this Computer Book 4.0

When you hover the mouse cursor over an item that has the autoclick feature enabled, the feature is automatically clicked after a second or two.

2012, John Paul Mueller, Windows 8 For Dummies Quick Reference

(computing) A software feature that simulates the click of a mouse button.


autoclick

autoclick (third-person singular simple present autoclicks, present participle autoclicking, simple past and past participle autoclicked)

autoclicks (present singular third-person)
autoclicking (participle present)
autoclicked (participle past)
autoclicked (past)

Push the Freakin' Button, a little freeware program to autoclick on annoying Windows buttons

2002 August 12, David Ripton, “MTGO works in Linux with Win4Lin”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc (Usenet)

(computing, of a program) To simulate a click without direct user input.


hogel

Coined in a 1994 paper by Mark Lucente, from holographic element; compare earlier pixel, voxel, etc.

(computer graphics) A small portion of a computer-generated light-field hologram, representing the direction and intensity of light rays from many perspectives.


CUA

IBM Common User Access
w:IBM Common User Access

(computing, graphical user interface) Initialism of IBM Common User Access: a standard describing how user interfaces should look and function.


outprogram

outprogram (third-person singular simple present outprograms, present participle outprogramming, simple past and past participle outprogrammed)

outprograms (present singular third-person)
outprogramming (participle present)
outprogrammed (participle past)
outprogrammed (past)

Mr Dupree continued, 'But I knew something the robot didn't.'
'What?' asked Molly. 'What did I teach you to do when you're outmatched, outwitted and outprogrammed?'
'You bring the crazy,' said everyone except Alice.

2014, Michael Fry, The Odd Squad: King Karl

It's like trying to outprogram the greatest programmer of them all. No matter how sophisticated we get, he's light years ahead of us.

computer programming
computer programming

(transitive) To surpass in computer programming ability.


scamware

(computing) Software that fraudulently fails to do what it is claimed to do.


webstore

(Internet) A sales outlet which supplies goods or services over the World Wide Web.

webwinkel

a sales outlet which supplies goods or services over the World Wide Web


Hollerith code

Named after American inventor Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), who patented machine-readable punch card devices in 1889.

named-after

(computing, historical) A standard code defining the patterns of holes on punch cards that represent various text characters.


object-based programming

(programming) A programming paradigm that encapsulates states and operations inside "objects" to design applications and computer programs.

基于對象編程

programming paradigm that uses objects to design application and computer programs


zigamorph

(computing, slang, dated, rare) The text character with hexadecimal value 0xff, when used as a string separator or terminator.


multiperforation

en-noun

multiperforation (usually uncountable, plural multiperforations)

(computing, dated) Synonym of multipunch


multipunch

en-verb

multipunch (third-person singular simple present multipunches, present participle multipunching, simple past and past participle multipunched)

multipunches (present singular third-person)
multipunching (participle present)
multipunched (participle past)
multipunched (past)

(computing, dated) To punch more than one hole in one column of a punch card, allowing a greater number of unique values to be represented per column.


multipunch

(computing, dated) An instance of more than one hole being punched in one column of a punch card.


SPICE

electronic circuit
electronic circuit#English

(software engineering) Acronym of Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (a general-purpose, open-source analog electronic circuit simulator)


LOD

en-noun

LOD (countable and uncountable, plural LODs)

We have worked hard to tweak the weights on the first LOD until Kila deforms accurately as she moves.

2004, Antony Ward, Game Character Development with Maya, page 687

The paper proposes a time-controlling algorithm for large-scale terrain rendering, which can't be efficiently dealt with by LOD technique.

2006, Hongbin Zha, Interactive Technologies and Sociotechnical Systems

Graphical level of detail (LOD) is a set of techniques for coping with the issue of limited computational resources by reducing the graphical detail of the scene far from the observer. Simulation LOD reduces quality of the simulation at the places unseen. Contrary to graphical LOD, simulation LOD has been almost unstudied.

2007, Cyril Brom, Ondřej Šerỹ, Tomáš Poch, “Simulation Level of Detail for Virtual Humans”, in Intelligent Virtual Agents

(computer graphics) Initialism of level of detail.

While most LOD metadata employs multiple vocabularies and metadata schemas for description, for the sake of simplicity this exploration of RDF will use only a single metadata schema, Dublin Core.

2013, Erik T. Mitchell, Library Linked Data: Research and Adoption, page 15

LOD (Linked Open Data) is an international endeavor to interlink structured data on the Web and create the Web of Data on a global level. In this paper, we report about our experience of applying existing LOD frameworks, most of which are designed to run only in European language environments, to Korean resources to build linked data.

2013, Hideaki Takeda, Yuzhong Qu, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Semantic Technology

The LOD Cloud is a collection of the available datasets of the Semantic Web.

2014, Janusz Sobecki, Veera Boonjing, Suphamit Chittayasothorn, Advanced Approaches to Intelligent Information and Database Systems

(Internet) Initialism of linked open data.


genoless

(video games, roguelikes) Without genociding any type of monster.


polyless

(video games, roguelikes) Without any polymorphs (magical transformations).


Mozillian

It's a way for us to allow Mozillians in our community to associate themselves to product, project and technology groups […]

2011, Aakash Desai, “Re: Mozillians and "Groups"”, in mozilla.mozillians (Usenet)

In addition to new products and initiatives, we've worked hard this year to get programs and infrastructure in place that support Mozillians.

2012, Jono Bacon, The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation, page 512

(computing) A member or supporter of Mozilla, a community that develops and supports free software.


Internetphobia

As to the Internetphobia from your shop owner, I wonder if it is a fear of losing business to Internet merchants? OTOH, it could be just an extension of the computerphobia many people have.

1996 April 24, OneMTHead, “Re: Local Store Upset”, in rec.crafts.textiles.needlework (Usenet), message-ID <4llq1q$hse@newsbf02.news.aol.com>


SLO

service-level objective
w:service-level objective

(computing) Initialism of service-level objective.


case mod

(computing, informal) A modification to the outer case of a computer or video game console, to change its appearance or improve its performance.


Ctrl-Alt-Delete

Key combination of Ctrl, Alt and Delete.

Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to reboot.

(computing) The simultaneous key combination of Ctrl, Alt, and Delete.


Ctrl-Alt-Delete

en-verb

Ctrl-Alt-Delete (third-person singular simple present Ctrl-Alt-Deletes, present participle Ctrl-Alt-Deleting, simple past and past participle Ctrl-Alt-Deleted)

Ctrl-Alt-Deletes (present singular third-person)
Ctrl-Alt-Deleting (participle present)
Ctrl-Alt-Deleted (participle past)
Ctrl-Alt-Deleted (past)

(computing, literal, transitive, intransitive) To press Ctrl, Alt, and Delete simultaneously to restart.


buddy list

(Internet) A user's list of contacts on an instant messaging system.


DBCS

(computing) Initialism of double-byte character set.


PWS

en-noun

PWS (countable and uncountable, plural PWSs)

(computer security) Abbreviation of password stealer.


preinitialization

(computing) A phase prior to initialization, when something is preinitialized.


preinitialize

en-verb

preinitialize (third-person singular simple present preinitializes, present participle preinitializing, simple past and past participle preinitialized)

preinitializes (present singular third-person)
preinitializing (participle present)
preinitialized (participle past)
preinitialized (past)

(transitive, computing) To preprepare (a data structure, etc.) so that it is ready to be initialized.


derived class

(object-oriented programming) Synonym of subclass


empty constructor

en-noun

empty constructor (plural empty constructors)

(object-oriented programming) Constructor with no argument.


member class

(object-oriented programming) An inner class declared outside a function (hence a "member") and not declared as static.


sharenting

desc

Russian: ше́рентинг m (šérenting, “sharenting”)

Blend of share + parenting, coined by researchers at the University of Michigan.

Others feel that the advantages of sharenting far outweigh any negatives. In an increasingly fragmented society, social media allows us to stay connected to friends and family, and get support that for many is not easily accessible.

2013 May 18, Nione Meakin, “The pros and cons of 'sharenting'”, in The Guardian

Then there’s “sharenting.” Today, many children’s social media presence starts with a sonogram, posted, obviously, without consent.

2019 June 5, Anya Kamenetz, “The Problem With ‘Sharenting’”, in The New York Times

On a philosophical level, sharenting exposes children to the larger digital world without their consent, robbing them of a kind of agency.

2019 September 11, Hua Hsu, “Instagram, Facebook, and the Perils of 'Sharenting'”, in The New Yorker

(neologism) The practice of parents documenting their child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photographs, anecdotes, etc.

the practice of parents documenting their child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photographs, anecdotes, etc.

szülői túlposztolás (from túl- and posztol)


superpackage

(object-oriented programming) A package situated hierarchically above another package.


Diffie-Hellman

Named after Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman.

(cryptography) A particular mechanism for key exchange in cryptographic communications.


generic class

A generic class is a class with one or more type parameters.

2015 January 30, Cay S. Horstmann, Core Java for the Impatient, Addison-Wesley Professional

(object-oriented programming) A class defined with at least one generic type in its parameters.


generic function

en-noun

generic function (plural generic functions)

(object-oriented programming) Entity made up of all methods having the same name.


generic type

We call generic type a parametrized specification defining a family of types. Each member of that family is characterized, in a defining occurrence, by its generic name and its actual parameters.

1977, Jacques André, Implementation and Design of Algorithmic Languages

A generic type is a type that is parameterized by one or several other types.

2006, Patrick Smacchia, Practical .NET2 and C#2, Paradoxal Press

(object-oriented programming) A type which can be instantiated with any other type.


Kerckhoffs's principle

(cryptography) The idea that a cryptosystem should be designed to be secure even if everything about the system, except the secret key, is public knowledge.

Auguste Kerckhoffs
Kerckhoffs's principle


nanocarpet

In this paper, a plasmonic absorber consisting of a metal-dielectric-metal stack with a top layer of Sierpinski nanocarpet is theoretically investigated.

2016, Ali Eshaghian, Sajjad AbdollahRamezani, Ata Chizari, Khashayar Mehrany, “Broadband, Polarization-insensitive and Wide-angle Optical Absorber based on Fractal Plasmonics”, in arXiv

(nanotechnology) A carpet of carbon nanotubes used to enhance the flow of heat at a critical point where computer chips connect to heat sinks.


ZUI

(graphical user interface) Acronym of zooming user interface.

zero user interface
zero user interface#English

(graphical user interface) Acronym of zero user interface.


unassembly

unassembly (usually uncountable, plural unassemblies)


unassembler

The unassembler works only in hex, for both input and output.

1984, David J. Bradley, Assembly Language Programming for the IBM Personal Computer, page 144


seam carving

(computer graphics) A technique for resizing images so as to preserve the main contents by selectively removing less important regions, as defined by "seams" (approximately horizontal or vertical paths of pixels).


half-op

(Internet) An IRC channel operator with limited privileges, unable for example to promote other users to operator status.


trixel

(computer graphics) A triangle assigned a single color based on the colors of the pixels inside it, used in medical imaging systems.


dixel

(computer graphics) The time-activity curve associated with a single pixel in a medical image.


captureless

en-adj

captureless (comparative more captureless, superlative most captureless)

more captureless (comparative)
most captureless (superlative)

(computing, by extension) (of a lambda function) That has an empty capture list.


Comet

Coined by software engineer Alex Russell in March 2006. After the Comet brand of cleaning products, as a pun on Ajax, which is also both a Web programming technique and a brand of cleaning products.

(programming) A web application model in which a long-held HTTP request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it.


Slashdot effect

en-noun

Slashdot effect (plural Slashdot effects)

After Slashdot, a web site that commonly links to other, smaller sites, which can cause the eponymous effect.

(Internet) The phenomenon whereby a site is overwhelmed by traffic after being linked to by a site with a larger audience.


netcode

(video games) The program code that handles interactions over a network.


data record

/ˈdeɪtə ˈɹɛkɔːd/

(databases) A section of the database consisting of several uniquely named components known as data fields.


BFILE

(databases) LOB datatype accessible directly from the operating system, without using the DBMS.


mini tower

(computing) A relatively small tower case for a computer system.


pseudocolumn

(databases) A column that yields a value when selected, but is not an actual column of the table.


Stormfronter

Somebody who frequents the white supremacist web site Stormfront.


A/B testing

(marketing, software, testing) The use of a randomized experiment with two variants (termed A and B) which differ in a single particular.


mediary

This tape becomes the system mediary input tape and is in turn processed by the system.

1959, Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, page 155

Many applications, however, require the use of mediary, or scratch files.

This converted data is written on the mediary output tape immediately behind the absolute program which is going to read it. In this manner, separate jobs are processed one after another and written onto the mediary output tape for later execution.

1964, F. Peter Fisher, George F. Swindle, Computer programming systems, page 564

(computing, dated) Storing data that is written by one process so that it can be read by another process.


tracelet

(computing theory) A short fragment of the trace of execution of a computer program, used in automated systems that attempt to understand and optimize source code.


display list

(computer graphics) A sequence of commands that define a graphical output.


BDRF

w:bidirectional reflectance distribution function

(computer graphics) Initialism of bidirectional reflectance distribution function.


Sass

style sheet language
style sheet language#English

(web design) Initialism of Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets (a style sheet language)


XGA

(computer graphics) Extended Graphics Array, a computer display standard of the 1990s, offering various resolutions and palettes and using a 4:3 aspect ratio.


data plane

(computing) The part of a network that carries user traffic, as opposed to those parts handling network topology and signalling.


natural join

(databases) A join between two tables on a field which has the same name.


multifont

(computing, typography) Involving multiple fonts or typefaces.


drawmetric

SUIS is categorized as both a cognometric and drawmetric system.

2016, Shahid Alam, “SUIS: An Online Graphical Signature-Based User Identification System”, in arXiv

(computing) Relating to authentication schemes where the user has to recall and reproduce a drawing or image.


RAML

(computing) Initialism of RESTful API Modeling Language (a YAML-based language for describing RESTful APIs)


man-in-the-browser

(attributive, Internet) A form of Internet security threat, a proxy Trojan horse that infects a web browser and covertly modifies web pages or transactions.


twistie

(graphical user interface) Alternative form of twisty


borken

en-adj

borken (comparative more borken, superlative most borken)

more borken (comparative)
most borken (superlative)

(chiefly computing, slang) Broken; wrongly designed or configured.


robot chess

(computer games, chess) The game of chess involving a robot able to play with physical pieces autonomously, i.e. without human guidance.


walktrap

We show that fastgreedy and walktrap community detection methods on weighted label co-occurence graphs are 85-92% more likely to yield better F1 scores than random partitioning.

2016, Piotr Szymański, Tomasz Kajdanowicz, Kristian Kersting, “How is a data-driven approach better than random choice in label space division for multi-label classification?”, in arXiv

(graph theory) An algorithm for identifying communities in large networks using random walks.


ANSEL

(computing) Initialism of American National Standard for Extended Latin.


dank meme

Born too late to explore the Earth; born too soon to explore the galaxy; born just in time to browse dank memes

I should warn you that I could not identify a ‘dank meme’ if the fate of the working class depended on it and that I shall not be ‘shipping’ Lenin and Trotsky. If I tried to speak your marvellous language, I would produce sentences like, […]

2017, Helen Razer, Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young, Allen & Unwin

(Internet, slang, often ironic) An Internet meme with a humorously tongue-in-cheek tone derived from gaudy or surreal aesthetics.

(Internet, slang, derogatory) A usually overused meme, especially one which is overly ironic or offensive; a meme which is popular among unfavorable circles.


batch job

(computing) A series of instructions executed by the operating system.


farkled

(computing, slang) Not working correctly; ruined; broken; hosed.


superstabilization

(computing) The self-correcting behaviour of a superstabilizing algorithm.


superstabilizing

(computing) Of a distributed algorithm: able to be started in any arbitrary state and then to converge to a legitimate state, and additionally to recover rapidly from changes in the network topology.


CIDT

(computing) Abbreviation of cluster independent data collection tree: the cluster and tree topology-based routing protocol for MWSN.


VELCT

mobile wireless sensor networks
mobile wireless sensor networks

(computing) Abbreviation of Velocity Energy-efficient and Link-aware Cluster-Tree. It is cluster and tree based topology management protocol for mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs).


DCT

en-noun

DCT (countable and uncountable, plural DCTs)

mobile wireless sensor network
mobile wireless sensor network

(computing) Abbreviation of data collection tree. It is a tree topology in mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs) to collect and aggregate the information from the cluster head, and then forward that aggregated data to the sink (or) base station.


cutwidth

(graph theory) The minimum number of edges that cross any cut between lower-numbered and higher-numbered vertices in an optimal linear arrangement of the vertices of a graph.


Tumblrina

From Tumblr with feminine suffix as in ballerina.

Coordinate term: Tinderella

social justice warrior
social justice warrior

(derogatory, Internet slang, neologism) A female user of the Tumblr microblogging service, typically stereotyped as a social justice warrior.


unghost

en-verb

unghost (third-person singular simple present unghosts, present participle unghosting, simple past and past participle unghosted)

unghosts (present singular third-person)
unghosting (participle present)
unghosted (participle past)
unghosted (past)

(transitive, computing) To restore from a ghosted state.


micropost

This prevents userless microposts from being stranded in the database when admins choose to remove users from the system.

2013, Michael Hartl, Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, page 443


WAL

In HBase, logs are appended to the WAL before any edit operations (put and increment) are persisted to disk.

2012, Eric Redmond, Jim Wilson, edited by Jacquelyn Carter, Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, Pragmatic Bookshelf

write-ahead logging
write-ahead logging#English

(databases) Acronym of write-ahead logging or write-ahead log.


walking simulator

en-noun

walking simulator (plural walking simulators)

In a walking simulator game, the player usually spends a good deal of time walking around, having conversations, seeking clues, and following a predetermined narrative.

2018, Daniel Muriel, Garry Crawford, Video Games as Culture: Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society, Routledge

(video games, sometimes derogatory) An adventure game focused on gradual exploration and discovery through observation, with little in the way of action.


inlink

(Internet) A hyperlink to a webpage from an external website.


outlink

(Internet) A hyperlink from a webpage to an external website.


pentesting

Nevertheless, the most predominant term is penetration testing, more commonly referred to as pentesting.

2016, James S. Tiller, CISO's Guide to Penetration Testing: A Framework to Plan, Manage, and Maximize Benefits

(computing, informal) The act of conducting a pen test.


Gamergater

He credits GamerGaters with organizing a revolt against a deeply unsatisfying marketplace by loyal consumers who deserve better.

2016, Alison Novak, Defining Identity and the Changing Scope of Culture in the Digital Age

Gamergaters have hurt people, and they've driven people out of games.

2016, Dan Golding, Leena van Deventer, Game Changers

"But the cultural conflict between these two post-revolutionary styles — between frat guys and feminist bluestockings, Gamergaters and the diversity police, alt-right provocateurs and 'woke' dudebros, the mouthbreathers who poured hate on the all-female 'Ghostbusters' and the tastemakers who pretended it was good — is likely here to stay."

2016 August 14, Ross Douthat, “A Playboy for President”, in The New York Times

Harassment campaigns using the hashtag #GamerGate claimed, in part, to be a response to ethical shortcomings in games journalism; many Gamergaters criticized what they call “social justice warriors” in the gaming industry […]

2016, Rebecca Ann Lind, Race and Gender in Electronic Media: Content, Context, Culture

(neologism) A person involved in the Gamergate harassment campaign.


biconnectivity

(graph theory) The property of being biconnected.


semiclairvoyant

(computing) Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given approximate advance information about the problem, but not fully clairvoyant.


backstore

The most recent control units (3 GB cache size) provide a much better performance although the cache/backstore ratio is similar.

2004, Journal of Computer Resource Management, Issues 113-116

(computing) A back end data storage; a backing store device.


multitable

en-adj

multitable (comparative more multitable, superlative most multitable)

more multitable (comparative)
most multitable (superlative)

Involving multiple tables (in various senses).

(databases) Encompassing or affecting multiple tables.


multitable

en-verb

multitable (third-person singular simple present multitables, present participle multitabling, simple past and past participle multitabled)

multitables (present singular third-person)
multitabling (participle present)
multitabled (participle past)
multitabled (past)

(Internet poker) To play in multiple tables simultaneously.


freemail

Blend of free + email, or the compound free + mail.

Employees might start a freemail account to exchange off-color jokes or distribute their resumes.

1999, Microtimes, numbers 199-201, page 57

In theory, you can establish a freemail account that will endure whether you change jobs or Internet service providers. But most freemail sites limit the amount of mail you can store, so delete old and unwanted messages […]

1999, Michael Shapiro, Internet Travel Planner: How to Plan Trips and Save Money Online

Even if you have no intention of ever using a freemail account with Yahoo or Hotmail, it's worth opening one for this reason alone.

2004, Samantha Cook, Greg Ward, The Rough Guide to Travel Online, page 94

(Internet, chiefly attributive) An email service provided free of charge to the public.


cryptofunction

(cryptography) A mathematical function used to carry out cryptography.


cryptovariable

(cryptography) The key used for encryption and decryption.


block cipher

(cryptography) Any deterministic cipher that operates on fixed-size groups of bits (binary digits), called blocks, with an unvarying transformation specified by a symmetric key.


zero out

zero out (third-person singular simple present zeroes out or zeros out, present participle zeroing out, simple past and past participle zeroed out)

zeroes out (present singular third-person)
zeros out (present singular third-person)
zeroing out (participle present)
zeroed out (participle past)
zeroed out (past)

to zero out an array

(computing, transitive) To fill with zeros, replacing any previous contents.