master

head

master (plural masters, feminine mistress)

Sranan Tongo: masra

→ Catalan: màster

→ Finnish: master

→ French: master

→ German: Master

→ Polish: master

→ Portuguese: máster

→ Spanish: máster

→ Turkish: master

From Middle English maister, mayster, meister (noun) and maistren (verb), from Old English mǣster, mæġster, mæġester, mæġister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Reinforced by Old French maistre, mestre (noun) and maistriier, maister (verb) from the same Latin source. Compare also Saterland Frisian Mäster (“master”), West Frisian master (“master”), Dutch meester (“master”), German Meister (“master”). Doublet of maestro, magister, and meister.

doublet

Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete

use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house

a master wheel

a master database

(engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.

master

engineering: device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source


hub

From earlier hubbe, which has the same immediate origin as hob. Hub was originally a dialectal word; its ultimate origin is unknown.

(networking) A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.

In a break with tradition, these levels are tackled in any order, with the next act chosen from a semi-random selection machine located in the game's hub area.

2014, Julian Hazeldine, Speedrun: The Unauthorised History of Sonic The Hedgehog, page 47

(video games) An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.


raster

From German Raster, from Latin rāster, from rāstrum (“rake”, noun), from rādere (“to scrape”, verb).

(computer graphics) A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.

rastero

computer graphics: a bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines


nonce

Inherited from Middle English nonse, nones, a rebracketing of Middle English to þen anes, for þen anes (to/for the once (i.e., the one occasion or instance)), from the dative singular neuter of þe. The cryptography sense is commonly said to be a contraction of number used once, although this is probably incorrect.

gl

The protocol opens with A communicating in clear to AS his own claimed identity and the identity of the desired correspondent, B, together with A's nonce identifier for this transaction, I_(A1). ("Nonce" means "used only once.")

1978 December 30, Roger M. Needham, “Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers”, in Communications of the ACM, volume 21, number 12

The information gained by the eavesdropper would permit a replay attack, but only with a request for the same document, and even that may be limited by the server's choice of nonce.

1999, Network Working Group, RFC 2617 – HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication, The Internet Society, page 22

Both CCM and GCM require a unique nonce (N used once) value to maintain their privacy and authenticity goals.

2006, Tom St Denis, Cryptography for Developers, page 340

The main idea with the challenge-response type of authentication protocol is that the challenge sent by the server is used only once (referred to as a cryptographic nonce, which means “number used once”).

2012, Steven Anson, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation

(cryptography) A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.


scrim

As a team, the players decided to focus less on streaming (a major source of income) and more on in-house scrims, VOD review and practice, hoping to become a better team.

2016, Blog of Legends, "The Gap hasn’t closed: Comparing the LCS and LCK at Worlds"

(online gaming) A practice match between one or more organized teams usually in preparation for a more competitive format, such as a tournament.


scrim

en-verb

scrim (third-person singular simple present scrims, present participle scrimming, simple past and past participle scrimmed)

scrims (present singular third-person)
scrimming (participle present)
scrimmed (participle past)
scrimmed (past)

Accusations of him drinking instead of scrimming with the team, not attending practices at all and playing guitar instead of scrimming surfaced.

2016, The Inquirer, The EE Blog: EternalEnvy Accuses Former Team, Team Secret, of Delayed Payments and Monetary Indiscretion

(online gaming) To participate in a scrim.


neuron

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”). Doublet of nerve and sinew.

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence) an artificial neuron (mathematical function serving as an essential unit of an artificial neural network)


rooter

In 2002 a new variant of auto-rooters was discovered in the wild: mass-rooters.

2003, Lance Spitzner, Honeypots: Tracking Hackers, page 19

The structure of a rooter is a fixed package: a program that generates fixed shell code with a fixed payload, launching it at a single target chosen by the attacker.

2006, Harold F. Tipton, Micki Krause, Information Security Management Handbook, page 542

(computing) A type of malware that obtains and runs using privileged access, bypassing normal security systems.


shim

Unknown; from Kent. Originally a piece of iron attached to a plow; sense of “thin piece of wood” from 1723, sense of “thin piece of material used for alignment or support” from 1860.

Shims intercept Win32 API calls from legacy applications, as defined by system administrators, and then modify the call before passing the code to Windows for execution.

2010, Russell Smith, Least Privilege Security for Windows 7, Vista and XP

(computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.


shim

shim (third-person singular simple present shims, present participle shimming, simple past and past participle shimmed)

shims (present singular third-person)
shimming (participle present)
shimmed (participle past)
shimmed (past)

(computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.


spline

Mid-1700s East Anglian dialect. Origin uncertain but perhaps from Old Danish splind or North Frisian splinj and ultimately related to the root of splinter.

(mathematics, computing) Any of a number of smooth curves used to join points.


spline

spline (third-person singular simple present splines, present participle splining, simple past and past participle splined)

splines (present singular third-person)
splining (participle present)
splined (participle past)
splined (past)

(mathematics, computing) To smooth (a curve or surface) by means of a spline.


cache

→ Czech: keš

→ Danish: cache

→ German: Cache

→ Italian: cache

→ Norwegian:

Norwegian Bokmål: cache

Norwegian Nynorsk: cache

→ Portuguese: cache

→ Russian: кэш (kɛš)

→ Serbo-Croatian: kȅš, ке̏ш

→ Spanish: caché

From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).

(computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.

cache

computing: fast temporary storage for data


cache

cache (third-person singular simple present caches, present participle caching, simple past and past participle cached)

caches (present singular third-person)
caching (participle present)
cached (participle past)
cached (past)

In this case, it would not be ideal to use the full-page caching that the per-site or per-view cache strategies offer, because you wouldn't want to cache the entire result (since some of the data changes often), but you'd still want to cache the results that rarely change.

2008, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, The Definitive Guide to Django, Apress, page 203

(transitive, computing) To store data in a cache.


cue

From earlier qu, abbreviation of Latin quandō (“when”), marked on actor's play copy where they were to begin.

(electronics, computing) A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.


schema

Borrowed from Latin schēma, from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”). Doublet of scheme.

der

(databases) A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column.

skeema

Formal description of the structure of a database


unary

From Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc.

Negation is a unary operation.

Zadeh’s claim is that if the meaning of an expression (X) can be modeling by a fuzzy membership function variable, then the meaning of an expression such as “very X” is simply a membership function over the same variable determined by applying a unary operator to the membership function for X.

1990, Dominic A. Clark, “Verbal uncertainty expressions: A critical review of two decades of research”, in Current Psychology, volume 9, number 3, →DOI, page 229

On the other hand, blank spaces should not be used for unary operators such as unary minus (−), address of (&), indirection (*), member access (.), increment (++), and decrement (−−).

2011, Robert Green, Henry Ledgard, “Coding Guidelines: Finding the Art in the Science”, in Communications of the ACM, volume 54, number 12, →DOI

(mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter, or input; having domain of dimension 1.

unární

mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument


rotor

From an irregular shortening of rotator. Doublet of rota and ruote.

The following figure shows examples of the most versatile class of these oscillators. The first emulates the p10 shown above; the second has period 62 and a rotor of size 10.

1997 November 30, David Bell, “Day & Night - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 2/5)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

The problem of determining the asymptotic colouring for a cyclic pattern from a given initial black and white pattern is completely solved. The analysis leads to the proposal of the distinction between primary and secondary rotor cells (i.e. a refinement of the classical stator-rotor distinction).

1998 March 18, Gunnar Johnsson, “Genetic aspects of the Game of Life.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

In B37/S23, it goes symmetrical after 10 ticks, and produces a familiar pair of B-heptominoes after 23 ticks (the next generation after this can be found in the rotor of a standard B3/S23 p46 oscillator):

2008 June 25, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) The set of cells within an oscillator that switch between being alive and dead over the course of the oscillator's period.


lazy

en-adj

lazy (comparative lazier, superlative laziest)

lazier (comparative)
laziest (superlative)

Attested since 1540, origin uncertain. Probably from Low German and Middle Low German lasich (“slack, feeble, lazy”), from las, from Proto-Germanic *lasiwaz, *laskaz (“feeble, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *las- (“weak”).
Akin to Dutch leuzig (“lazy”), Old Norse lasinn (“limpy, tired, weak”), Old English lesu, lysu (“false, evil, base”). More at lush.
An alternate etymology traces lazy to Early Modern English laysy, a derivative of lay (plural lays + -y) in the same way that tipsy is derived from tip. See lay.

der

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

a lazy algorithm

(computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.


widget

French: widget (fr)

Spanish: widget (es)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) Any one of the components of a computer application's graphical user interface, such as a Cancel button or text input box that a user interacts with.

giny

component of a graphical user interface that the user interacts with

(graphical user interface) A small applet that can be placed on the desktop or in a sidebar, etc.


rune

→ Mandarin: 盧恩／卢恩 (lú'ēn)

Borrowed from Old Norse rún, which is from Proto-Germanic *rūnō (“letter, literature, secret”), which is borrowed either from Proto-Celtic *rūnā or from the same source as it; compare Dutch rune, German Rune, Raune, Danish rune and Swedish runa. Compare roun.

Go language defines the type rune as an alias for the type int32 to represent a Unicode code point. A string in Go is a sequence of runes.

2016, Shiju Varghese, Go Recipes, Apress, page 12

programming language
programming language

(programming, in the Go programming language) A Unicode code point.


mod

en-noun

mod (countable and uncountable, plural mods)

Since Doom II, thousands of gamers had begun modifying id's products and making them available for free online. Doom fans would communicate entirely over the Internet to create mods of the game—often never even meeting in person or, for that matter, talking on the phone.

2003, David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, Random House

(video games) An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.

Mod

video games: an end user-created package containing modifications for a video game

The mods had a difficult time deciding whether to believe a story about a man who was attracted to his girlfriend only when she was grieving her dead sister, but it stayed up.

2019 October 23, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How Reddit's R/Relationships Subreddit Is Moderated”, in The Atlantic

(Internet) A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.

I'd like to convert some of the arch mods back into Amiga mods since I don't have the original Amiga versions.

1992, Jordan K. Hubbard, “How to convert Amiga mods to Arch?”, in comp.sys.acorn (Usenet)

These mods, while usually having the distinctive bleep and beep quality of transistor-generated tones, are often astonishingly creative and rich in expressive nuances.

2003, Rene T. A. Lysloff, Leslie C. Gay, Jr., Music and Technoculture, page 38

(computing, informal) A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).

(mathematics, programming) Abbreviation of modulus.


mod

en-verb

mod (third-person singular simple present mods, present participle modding, simple past and past participle modded)

mods (present singular third-person)
modding (participle present)
modded (participle past)
modded (past)

Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft.

(video games) To install or create a mod.

Don't break the rules or you'll be modded.

I used to mod that forum.

(transitive, Internet, informal) To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.


wizard

4chan
English Renaissance
Fizban the Fabulous
en:wizard

From Middle English wysard, wysarde, equivalent to wise + -ard. A uniquely medieval Anglo-Saxon word with no known cognates in or outside the Germanic family; did not gain distinct sense of "occultist, magic user" (as opposed to a philosopher or sage) until circa 1500s, aligning roughly with the starting English Renaissance.
The sense of "old (male) virgin" is from a Japanese Internet meme where virgins who are typically friendless, shy, outcasts, and loners who don't fit in anywhere, legendarily gain magical powers upon reaching 30 years of age; popularized ultimately by 4chan and adjacent online incel spaces.

Use the "Add Network Connection" wizard to connect to a network in a series of simple steps.

Figure 10-10 shows a typical wizard. The user enters data in New Employee on each tab and then moves on to the next one. This wizard asks […]

2010 September 17, Bill Evjen, Christian Nagel, Rod Stephens, Robert Vieira, Nick Randolph, .NET 4 Wrox PDF Bundle: Professional ASP.NET 4, Professional C# 4, VB 2010 Programmer's Ref, WPF Programmer's Ref, Professional Visual Studio 2010, John Wiley & Sons, page 169

(computing) A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user.

ghoeroe

computing: program or script used to simplify complex operations

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

1997, Philip Agre and Douglas Schuler, Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community: Critical Explorations of Computing as a Social Practice, page 153

It is certainly easy to believe the stories I hear of MUD wizards who demand deference and severely punish those who transgress […]

1997, Sara Kiesler, editor, Culture of the Internet, page 132

(Internet) One of the administrators of a multi-user dungeon.

mag

internet: administrators of a multi-user dungeon


contention

en-noun

contention (countable and uncountable, plural contentions)

From Middle English contencion, borrowed from Old French contencion, from Latin contentio, contentionem, from contendō (past participle contentus); equivalent to contend + -tion (similar formation to attention).

(computing, telecommunications) Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource.

kamppailu

(computing, telecommunications) Competition for a limited resource.


strop

en-verb

strop (third-person singular simple present strops, present participle stropping, simple past and past participle stropped)

strops (present singular third-person)
stropping (participle present)
stropped (participle past)
stropped (past)

From apostrophe, due to use of apostrophes as single quotation marks to indicate boldface in ALGOL 60. Other methods were used, especially in ALGOL 68, where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common, and the term became used more generally for any such method.

(computing) To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.


assertion

en-noun

assertion (countable and uncountable, plural assertions)

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

From Middle French assertion, from Latin assertio.

The user should be absolutely confident that the error issued is a real design error. In other words, a user should be confident that his assertion code is correct and that the assertion failure is not a false condition.

2006, Srikanth Vijayaraghavan, Meyyappan Ramanathan, A Practical Guide for SystemVerilog Assertions, page 284

(programming) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.

aserto

programming: statement asserting a true condition


shunt

en-verb

shunt (third-person singular simple present shunts, present participle shunting, simple past and past participle shunted)

shunts (present singular third-person)
shunting (participle present)
shunted (participle past)
shunted (past)

From Middle English shunten, schunten, schonten, schounten, shont, shonte, shount, shounten, shunte (“to move rapidly or suddenly, jerk; to swerve, turn away; to avoid, dodge, escape, evade”), either:
* possibly a back-formation from Middle English shǒnen (“to decline to do, refuse; to abandon, forsake; to disdain, dislike, hate; to avoid, escape; to be afraid, fear; to be wary of”), from Old English sċunian, sċyniġan; see shun. Or
* an alteration of Middle English shunden, *schunden, *schinden, from Old English sċyndan, sċendan (“to hasten, hurry”) (as in āsċyndan (“to remove, take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *skundijan, from Proto-Germanic *skundijaną (“to compel, drive, push; to accelerate, rush, speed up”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew(n)t- (“to rattle, shake”).
* from unrecorded Old English *sċunettan, a derivative of sċunian (“to shun, avoid”).
The English word is cognate with Danish skynde (“to hasten, hurry, speed”), Icelandic skynda, skunda (“to hasten”), Middle High German schünden (“to compel; to urge; to irritate”), Norwegian skynde (“to hurry, rush”), Swedish skynda (“to hasten, hurry; to scuttle, scurry”). Outside Germanic, compare Sanskrit स्कन्दति (skándati, “to dart, leap, spring, spurt or burst forth, ejaculate, assail, drop, split”), Albanian shkund (“to shake; to swig”).
As regards the noun sense, compare Middle English shunt (“swerve; sudden jerk”), derived from the verb.

cog

A momentary power spike had caused a blip, forcing the backup system to shunt Carella's current work into a safety file. It was standard operating procedure, a decision made by the online computer itself.

2010, Don Pendleton, Mike Linaker, “Prologue”, in System Corruption (Don Pendleton’s The Executioner), Toronto, Ont.: Gold Eagle

(transitive, computing) To move data in memory to a physical disk.


concatenation

en-noun

concatenation (countable and uncountable, plural concatenations)

Borrowed from Latin concatenātiō. Related to chain.

kroĉo

programming: joining two or more character strings

concaténation

programming: result of joining two or more character strings

(programming) The operation of joining multiple character strings.

(programming) A character string formed by joining multiple character strings.


bifurcation

bifurcation (countable and uncountable, plural bifurcations)

(computer science) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.


assemble

en-verb

assemble (third-person singular simple present assembles, present participle assembling, simple past and past participle assembled)

assembles (present singular third-person)
assembling (participle present)
assembled (participle past)
assembled (past)

From Middle English assemblen, from Old French assembler (“to assemble”), from Medieval Latin assimulāre (“to bring together”), from ad- + simulō (“copy, imitate”), from similis (“like, similar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”). Doublet of assimilate.

der

(computing) To translate from assembly language to machine code.

彙編

computing: to translate from assembly language to machine code


assert

en-verb

assert (third-person singular simple present asserts, present participle asserting, simple past and past participle asserted)

asserts (present singular third-person)
asserting (participle present)
asserted (participle past)
asserted (past)

From Latin assertus, perfect passive participle of asserō (“declare someone free or a slave by laying hands upon him; hence free from, protect, defend; lay claim to, assert, declare”), from ad (“to”) + serō (“join, range in a row”).

(programming) To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).


pug

(online gaming) Alternative letter-case form of PuG (“a group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal such as completing a dungeon or a raid”)


configuration

en-noun

configuration (countable and uncountable, plural configurations)

/kənˌfɪɡ.əˈɹeɪ̯.ʃən/

/kənˌfɪɡ.jəˈɹeɪ̯.ʃən/

/kənˌfɪɡ.əˈɹæɪ̯.ʃən/

From Middle French configuration, from Latin cōnfigūrātiō.
Morphologically configure + -ation

konfigurointi

computing: process of customizing a computing environment

(countable, computing) The way a computing environment (physical or software) is set up or customized to the needs of its users.

konfiguraatio

computing: the way a computing environment is set up

(uncountable, computing) The process of customizing a computing environment in this way.


continuation

continuation (countable and uncountable, plural continuations)

From Middle English continuacion, from Old French continuation, from Latin continuātiō.
Morphologically continue + -ation

Whenever a Scheme expression is evaluated a continuation exists that wants the result of the expression.

1986, “MIT/GNU Scheme 10.1.11”, in The GNU Operating System

(programming) A representation of an execution state of a program at a certain point in time, which may be used at a later time to resume the execution of the program from that point.


compilation

compilation (countable and uncountable, plural compilations)

English compile + -ation, from Middle French, from Latin compilatio (“a raking together, a plundering, a collection of documents”).

uder

(countable, uncountable, computing) Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.

компилиране

translation of source code into object code by a compiler


beacon

From Middle English beken, from Old English bēacn (“sign, signal”), from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną (compare West Frisian beaken (“buoy”), Dutch baken (“beacon”), Middle Low German bāke (“beacon, sign”), German Bake (“traffic sign”), Middle High German bouchen (“sign”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂u-, *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”).

emergency position indicating radio beacon


mort

(Internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.


elaboration

en-noun

elaboration (countable and uncountable, plural elaborations)

From Middle French élaboration.
Morphologically elaborate + -ion

(computing) Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy.


emulation

emulation (countable and uncountable, plural emulations)

From Middle French émulation, from Latin aemulātiō.

(computing) Execution of a program or other software designed for a different system, by simulating parts of the other system.


enumeration

/ɪˌnjuːməˈɹeɪʃən/

/ɪˌnuːməˈɹeɪʃən/

In Ada, enumeration literals are allowed to appear in more than one declaration in the same referencing environment.

2010, Robert W. Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, Addison-Wesley Longman, page 261

(programming) A data type that allows variables to have any of a predefined set of values.


encapsulation

encapsulation (countable and uncountable, plural encapsulations)

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(programming, object-oriented programming) Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods).

zapouzdření

object-oriented programming: grouping together an object's state

(networking) The process of arranging data into packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.


fatality

[feɪ̯ˈtʰælɪɾi]

From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity.

My first enchantment with computers came when I was about six years old, in Montreal in the early nineties, playing Mortal Kombat with my oldest brother. He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent.

2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN

(video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.


crate

From Dutch krat (“crate, large box, basket”), from Middle Dutch cratte (“basketware, mold”), from Old Dutch *kratta, *kratto (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kratjô, *krattijô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gretH- (“plaiting, wicker, basket, cradle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bind, twist, wind”).
Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow”), German Krätze (“basket”), Old English cræt, ceart (“cart, wagon, chariot”), Old Norse kartr (“wagon”), modern English cart. Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”).
Alternatively from Latin crātis (“wickerwork”), perhaps from the same PIE root.

der

And Rust never compiles modules separately, even if they're in separate files: when you build a Rust crate, you're recompiling all of its modules.

2017, Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", page 166

(programming) In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.


evaluation

en-noun

evaluation (countable and uncountable, plural evaluations)

From Middle French évaluation.
Morphologically evaluate + -ion

(computing, programming) Determination of the value of a variable or expression.

evaluaatio

substitution of a variable with its value


ana

Clipping of anorexia; intentionally formed to resemble the given name Ana as form of personification and coded language. Compare mia.

(Internet, slang) Anorexia (used especially by the pro-ana movement).


embed

en-verb

embed (third-person singular simple present embeds, present participle embedding, simple past and past participle embedded)

embeds (present singular third-person)
embedding (participle present)
embedded (participle past)
embedded (past)

The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.

(transitive, computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file.


embed

When you change the content of these embeds, this information will be automatically updated in every page that the embeds are included in.

2006, Richard Rutter, Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Blog Design Solutions

Adding controls, looping, and autoplay to an HTML5 video embed is simple.

2011, Steve Fulton, Jeff Fulton, HTML5 Canvas, page 265

(computing) A digital object embedded within another, which is often a document.

(computing) A piece of computer hardware embedded within another physical object, which is often a larger IT device.


eager

en-adj

eager (comparative more eager, superlative most eager)

more eager (comparative)
most eager (superlative)

From Middle English egre, eger, from Old French egre (French aigre), from Latin acer (“sharp, keen”); see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.

gretig

excited by desire in the pursuit of any object

an eager algorithm

(computing theory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.


hydration

en-noun

hydration (usually uncountable, plural hydrations)

From hydrate + -ion. The programming terms come from the concept of data lake.

(object-oriented programming) The process of populating an object with data loaded from a data source.

(web design) Client-side rendering of pre-rendered static server data, e.g. to make dynamic web pages.


crater

en-verb

crater (third-person singular simple present craters, present participle cratering, simple past and past participle cratered)

craters (present singular third-person)
cratering (participle present)
cratered (participle past)
cratered (past)

First coined 1613, from Latin crātēr (“basin”), from Ancient Greek κρᾱτήρ (krātḗr, “mixing-bowl, wassail-bowl”).


footprint

(computing) The amount of hard drive space required for a program.

levytilavaatimus

(computing) amount of hard drive space required for a program.

(computing) The audit trail left by a crashed program.

jalanjäljet

(computing) the audit trail left by a crashed program


pica

en-noun

pica (countable and uncountable, plural picas)

From Medieval Latin pica (“pica: a service book”), possibly from Latin pīca (“magpie”) after the piebald appearance of the typeset page (cf. pie (“disordered type”)). The relation to the printer's measure is unclear, as no edition of the text in pica type is known. The French pica derives from English rather than vice versa.

der

(typography, countable) A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially ³⁵⁄₈₃ cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) ¹⁄₆ in.


digest

From Latin dīgesta, neuter plural of dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“separate”).

(cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.

resumo

cryptography: the result of applying a hash function to a message


extension

en-noun

extension (countable and uncountable, plural extensions)

From Middle English extensioun, from Old French estension, from Latin extensiō, extensiōnem.

Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.

If you plan to plot data with error bars, you must name them with an. ERR extension. Failure to do so will crash the system, and you will lose your precious work.

1989, PC Mag, volume 8, number 5, page 276

a browser extension

(computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.


hive

From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi (compare Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”) (compare Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”)), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve. The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see https://web.archive.org/web/20150715222122/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/08/54618.aspx.

der

Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives[…]

2006, Jean Andrews, Fixing Windows XP, page 352

For devices built with hive-based registry implementation, the registry data are broken into three different hives — the boot hive, system hive, and user hive.

2011, Samuel Phung, Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.


incantation

From Middle English incantacioun, from Old French incantation, from Latin incantatio. More at enchant.

The appropriate incantation of route is shown below; the gw keyword tells it that the next argument denotes a gateway.

1998, John Purcell, Robert Kiesling, Linux: The Complete Reference: Book 1, page 412

There's more than one command incantation to create an AVI. It's all a question of experimenting with the different audio and video codecs.

2005, Kyle Rankin, Linux Multimedia Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming Images, Audio, and Video

Servers move from being special snowflakes to being disposable numbers on a list that can be created and destroyed without requiring someone to remember the specific incantation to make it work.

2017, James Pogran, Learning PowerShell DSC, page 11

(computing, slang) Any esoteric command or procedure.


greppable

(computing, of a file) In a format suitable for searching with the program grep; able to be grepped.


gimp

Attested in US slang since the 1920s. Maybe influenced by, or cognate with limp.

(video games, slang, derogatory) A character or ability that is underpowered.


gimp

en-verb

gimp (third-person singular simple present gimps, present participle gimping, simple past and past participle gimped)

gimps (present singular third-person)
gimping (participle present)
gimped (participle past)
gimped (past)

(transitive, video games, slang) To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.


crisp

en-adj

crisp (comparative crisper, superlative crispest)

crisper (comparative)
crispest (superlative)

From Middle English crisp (“curly”), from Old English crisp (“curly”), from Latin crispus (“curly”). Doublet of crape and crepe.

(computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.


instrumentation

en-noun

instrumentation (countable and uncountable, plural instrumentations)

bytecode instrumentation

Xcode is Apple's toolkit for developers. It includes an IDE, a design tool (Interface Builder), a compiler, and the iOS emulator, as well as a set of tools for instrumentation and performance analysis.

2012, Dino Esposito, Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise, Pearson Education

(by extension, computing) The dynamic analysis of a program's performance and behaviour, usually by injecting profiling code into it.


hibernation

hibernation (countable and uncountable, plural hibernations)

From Latin hibernātus, from hibernō, from hībernus (“winter”).

إِسْبَات

(biology) state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression during winter

letargo

(biology, space) hypothetical state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in humans

(computing) A standby state which conserves power by writing the contents of the memory to disk and completely power off the computer, in order that one will resume the session from the disk.

إِسْبَات

(computing) standby state which conserves power


flap

en-verb

flap (third-person singular simple present flaps, present participle flapping, simple past and past participle flapped)

flaps (present singular third-person)
flapping (participle present)
flapped (participle past)
flapped (past)

From Middle English flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”), related to Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German Low German flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”), Dutch flabberen (“to flit, flap”). Probably ultimately imitative.

onomatopoeic

imitative

(computing, telecommunications, intransitive, of a resource or network destination) To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.


char

Abbreviation of character, used as the name of a data type in some programming languages, including notably C.

The unit is an 80-column, 30 char. /sec dot matrix printer which uses a 5 by 7 font.

Chars can be considered as integers if need be without an explicit cast.

1997, Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 1.1: Fundamentals

Then since each char occupies one byte, these four bytes represent the three letters 'B', 'y', 'e', and the null character NUL.

1998, John R Hubbard, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Fundamentals of Computing with C++

When a 32-bit int value is stored to a 16-bit char variable, information can be lost if the 16 most significant bits are not zeroes in the int value.

2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C#

Thus string variables are pointer variables to chars.

2000, Ken Brownsey, The essence of data structures using C++

.NET uses the Unicode character set in which each char constant or variable takes up two bytes (16 bits) of storage.

2002, Nell B. Dale, Michael McMillan, Visual Basic .NET: a laboratory course - Page 25

(computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).


iteration

en-noun

iteration (countable and uncountable, plural iterations)

/ɪ.təˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

[ɪ.təˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩]

/ˌɪt.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

[ˌɪɾ.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən]

/ɪ.təˈɹæɪ.ʃən/

[ɪ.ɾəˈɹæɪ.ʃən]

From Latin iterātiō, from iterō.
Morphologically iterate + -ion

(computing) The use of repetition in a computer program, especially in the form of a loop.

The code calculates the appropriate value at each iteration.

(computing) A single repetition of the code within such a repetitive process.


invocation

invocation (countable and uncountable, plural invocations)

From Middle English invocacioun, from Old French invocacion, from Latin invocatio, invocationem.

(programming) The act of invoking, such as a function call.

hívás

(programming) act of invoking, such as a function call


introspection

introspection (countable and uncountable, plural introspections)

From Latin intrōspectiō, noun of action (with -iō) from past-participle (intrōspectus) stem of intrōspiciō (“to look into, look at, examine, observe attentively”), from intro- (“inward”) + speciō, spiciō (“to look at”). By surface analysis, introspect + -ion.

type introspection
type introspection#English

(object-oriented programming) Clipping of type introspection.


insight

insight (countable and uncountable, plural insights)

From Middle English insight, insiht (“insight, mental vision, intelligence, understanding”), equivalent to in- + sight. Perhaps continuing Old English insiht (“narrative, argument, account”), from Proto-Germanic *insahtiz (“account, narrative, argument”). Compare West Frisian ynsjoch (“insight”), Dutch inzicht (“insight, awareness, view, opinion”), German Low German Insicht (“insight”), German Einsicht (“insight, knowledge, perception, understanding”), Danish indsigt (“insight”), Swedish insikt (“insight”), Icelandic innsýn (“insight”).

cog

(artificial intelligence) An extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario.

Verstehen

extended understanding of a subject in artificial intelligence


deck

From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Formed the same: German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Doublet of thatch and thack.

rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic

shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic

The interaction model of WAP, originally developed for mobile phones to interact with information services in a web-like way, was based on Apple's HyperCard, and instead of pages, the user interacted with a deck of cards, which were interlinked by a scripting language.

2008, Johan Hjelm, Why IPTV?: Interactivity, Technologies, Services, page 13

(computing) A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.


fader

(computer graphics) A program or algorithm for fading out colors.


knapsack

From Low German knapzak or Dutch knapzak (older form cnapsack), from Middle Dutch cnappen (“to bite with teeth”), ultimately from knappen (“to eat, crack”), of imitative origin, + sack. German Knappsack is from Dutch.

onomatopoeic

imitative

(cryptography) A set of values from which a subset is chosen.


banner

From Middle English baner, from Old French baniere (Modern bannière), of Germanic origin. More at band.

(Internet, television) A type of advertisement on a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content.


yoke

From Middle English yok, yoke, ȝok from Old English ġeoc (“yoke”), from Proto-Germanic *juką (“yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”), from *yewg- (“to join; to tie together, yoke”). Doublet of yuga, jugum, yoga and possibly yogh.
Senses 3.1 (“area of arable land”) and 3.2 (“amount of work done with draught animals”) probably referred to the area of land that could generally be ploughed by yoked draught animals within a given time.

poikkipuu

linking or supporting object that resembles a yoke

sauva

device with crosspieces used to control an aircraft

iugum

unit of land area notionally equivalent to the area a team of yoked draft animals can work in a day

Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.

(aviation) Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.

(video games) A similar device used as a game controller.


packer

From Middle English pakker, pakkere, packare, equivalent to pack + -er.

Many times, the malware authors will use packers and even encryption tools to disguise their software […]

2009, Harlan Carvey, Windows Forensic Analysis DVD Toolkit

(computing) A software program that compresses code or data.


fatal

From Middle French fatal, from Latin fātālis (“fatal”).

a fatal error; a fatal exception

(computing) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.

fataali

computing: causing a sudden end to the running of a program


fatal

(computing) A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.


incomplete

From Middle English incomplete, incompleet, from Late Latin incomplētus, from in- (“un-; not”) + complētus (“complete”), equivalent to in- (“not”) + complete.

(Usenet) A multipart file posted to a Usenet newsgroup that is incomplete and thus unusable.

(video games, Internet) A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.


racy

en-adj

racy (comparative racier, superlative raciest)

racier (comparative)
raciest (superlative)

From race (“having a characteristic taste (of wines, fruits, etc.)”) + -y.

suffix

These are some common descriptions of badly constructed tests: Tests that sometimes run, sometimes fail (often this is caused by the use of threads, or racy code that relies on specific timing, by reliance on external dependencies, the order of tests being run in the test suite, or on shared state)

2014, Pete Goodliffe, Becoming a Better Programmer: A Handbook for People Who Care About Code

We evaluate the automatic fence insertion procedure by running our tool on a number of different benchmarks containing racy code.

2016, Elvira Albert, Ivan Lanese, Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems

(programming) Involving a data race or a race condition.


growl

en-verb

growl (third-person singular simple present growls, present participle growling, simple past and past participle growled)

growls (present singular third-person)
growling (participle present)
growled (participle past)
growled (past)

From Middle English groulen, grollen, gurlen (“of the bowels: to growl, rumble”), either possibly from Old French groler (variant of croler (“to be agitated, shake”)), grouler, grouller (“to growl, grumble”), from Frankish *grullen, *gruljan or from Old English gryllan, both from Proto-Germanic *gruljaną (“to make a sound; to growl, grumble, rumble”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to make a noise; to mumble, murmur; to rattle; to grind; to rub, stroke”), probably ultimately imitative. The word is cognate with Middle Dutch grollen (“to make a noise; to croak, grumble, murmur; to be angry”) (modern Dutch grollen (“to grumble”)), German grollen (“to rumble; to be angry, bear ill will”), Old English grillan, griellan (“to provoke, offend; to gnash the teeth”). Compare grill.
The noun is derived from the verb.

cog

(intransitive, software) To send a user a message via the Growl software library.


relight

en-verb

relight (third-person singular simple present relights, present participle relighting, simple past and past participle relighted or relit)

relights (present singular third-person)
relighting (participle present)
relighted (participle past)
relighted (past)
relit (participle past)
relit (past)

(transitive, computer graphics) To render again with different simulated lighting conditions.


molly

Brimstone, Viper, and Phoenix's mollies were adjusted during a closed beta patch, changing the damage tick speed so players couldn't avoid damage by bunny hopping. Killjoy's Nanoswarm will likely follow suit.

2020 August 5, Andreas Stavropoulos, “Hiko on Killjoy's Nanoswarm: "I think they do a lot of damage too fast and I think it's hard to even tell you're in a molly sometimes"”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2022-08-11

(video games, slang) A Molotov cocktail.


peek

peek (third-person singular simple present peeks, present participle peeking, simple past and past participle peeked)

peeks (present singular third-person)
peeking (participle present)
peeked (participle past)
peeked (past)

From Middle English *peken, piken, pyken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of Middle English pepen (“to peep”) and keken, kiken (“to keek, look, spy”), equivalent to a blend of peep + keek.

Coordinate term: poke

We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.

2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming, page 279

(computing, transitive, dated) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.

hakea

computing: To retrieve the value from a memory address


isolation

en-noun

isolation (countable and uncountable, plural isolations)

/ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/

First attested in 1800. From French isolation, from isolé, placed on an island (thus away from other people). Equivalent to isolate + -ion.

(databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.

isolamento

computing: visibility of concurrent transactions


latch

From Middle English latche, lacche (“a latch; a trap”), from lacchen (“to seize, catch, grasp”), from Old English læċċan (“to grasp, take hold of, catch, seize”). See above for more.

inh

(databases) A lightweight lock to protect internal structures from being modified by multiple concurrent accesses.


beam

en-verb

beam (third-person singular simple present beams, present participle beaming, simple past and past participle beamed)

beams (present singular third-person)
beaming (participle present)
beamed (participle past)
beamed (past)

German: beamen

Dutch: beamen

Japanese: ビーム

From Middle English beem, from Old English bēam (“tree, cross, gallows, column, pillar, wood, beam, splint, post, stock, rafter, piece of wood”), from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz (“tree, beam, balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow, swell”). Cognate with West Frisian beam (“tree”), Saterland Frisian Boom (“tree”), Dutch boom (“tree”), German Low German Boom (“tree”), German Baum (“tree”), Luxembourgish Bam (“tree”), Albanian bimë (“a plant”). Doublet of boom.
The original English meaning of beam ("tree") is preserved in some compound words such as quickbeam.
The verb is from Middle English bemen, from Old English bēamian (“to shine, to cast forth rays or beams of light”), from the noun.

inh

To beam a file using the File Transfer Protocol.

1996, Eric S. Raymond, Guy L. Steele, The New Hacker's Dictionary, page 208

To beam a file to another Pocket PC, follow these steps: […]

2002, Michael Miller, 10 Minute Guide to Pocket PC 2002, page 74

(transitive, computing) To transmit, especially by direct wireless means such as infrared.


document

Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.


remount

en-verb

remount (third-person singular simple present remounts, present participle remounting, simple past and past participle remounted)

remounts (present singular third-person)
remounting (participle present)
remounted (participle past)
remounted (past)

From Anglo-Norman remunter, Middle French remonter, later also reinforced by re- + mount.

(transitive, computing) To mount (a drive or volume) again.


remount

(computing) The process of mounting a drive or volume again.


grep

From an idiomatic command sequence in the qed and ed text editors: ‘g/re/p’, meaning: globally search for a regular expression and print.

A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.


grep

grep (third-person singular simple present greps, present participle grepping, simple past and past participle grepped)

greps (present singular third-person)
grepping (participle present)
grepped (participle past)
grepped (past)

You can't grep dead trees.

Running netstat and grepping for sshd will give a similar output to this: […]

2019, Kamesh Ganesan, Rithin Skaria, Frederik Vos, Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure […], 2nd edition, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 293

(computing) To use a program such as grep to search in a file.

(by extension) To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).


propagate

propagate (third-person singular simple present propagates, present participle propagating, simple past and past participle propagated)

propagates (present singular third-person)
propagating (participle present)
propagated (participle past)
propagated (past)

/ˈpɹɒpəˌɡeɪt/

/ˈpɹɑpəˌɡeɪt/

From Latin prōpāgātus, perfect passive participle of prōpāgō.

It takes 24 hours for password changes to propagate throughout the system.

(intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

The server propagates the password file at midnight each day.

(transitive, computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.


mesh

From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)) both from Proto-Germanic *maskrǭ, *maskwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).
Akin to Old High German māsca (“mesh”), Old Saxon maska (“net”), Old Norse mǫskvi, mǫskun (“mesh”).

der

single points of failure
single point of failure

(networking) A network topology with each device connected to multiple other devices in lieu of a central switch. Redundancy on a mesh network prevents single points of failure.


sequential

(programming) Executed as a sequence of instructions, without concurrency or parallelism.


repaint

en-verb

repaint (third-person singular simple present repaints, present participle repainting, simple past and past participle repainted)

repaints (present singular third-person)
repainting (participle present)
repainted (participle past)
repainted (past)

To force a window to repaint itself programmatically, you call the inherited Invalidate() method[…]

2010, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, page 1551

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To draw or render again on the display.


repaint

WPF will call your OnRender function when it needs to know what content your visual displays, but the way graphics acceleration works in WPF means that this happens far less often than the equivalent repaints in Win32.

2005, Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths, Programming Windows Presentation Foundation

(computing) The act of drawing or rendering again on the display.


repertoire

/ˈɹɛp.əɹ.twɑɹ/

Unadapted borrowing from French répertoire, from Late Latin repertōrium (“an inventory, list, repertory”). Doublet of repertory.

der

(computing) A processor's instruction set.

ISO Latin 1 repertoire

There is quite a jump from the WGL4 repertoire to the Unicode 2.0 repertoire, but there are few intermediate general purpose repertoires.

2006, Jukka K. Korpela, Unicode Explained, O'Reilly Media, page 39

(computing) An abstract set of characters, independent of their encoding.


node

→ Irish: nód

From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knot, knout, and nodus.

(networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.

(graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.

computational linguistics
computational linguistics

(computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.


scraper

ҡырғыс

an instrument by which anything is scraped

(computing) A program or process that scrapes data, such as a screen-scraper.


rugged

en-adj

rugged (comparative more rugged, superlative most rugged)

more rugged (comparative)
most rugged (superlative)

From Middle English rugged, roggyd, ruggyd, derived from Old Norse rǫgg (“tuft, shagginess”), equivalent to rug (“rough, woollen material”) + -ed. Compare Old Swedish ruggoter (“wrinkled”), Swedish rugga (“to roughen”), Swedish ruggig (“shaggy”), Icelandic rögg (“shagginess”), Old Norse raggaðr (“tufted”), dialectal Danish raggad (“shaggy”).

Psion, which supplies a range of rugged hand held computers, has lost nearly 2% after announcing a plunge into the red.

2011, Nick Fletcher, Psion drops 2% after supply chain issues push it into loss

(computing, of a computer) Designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions.


revert

From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.

We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.

(computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.


react

en-verb

react (third-person singular simple present reacts, present participle reacting, simple past and past participle reacted)

reacts (present singular third-person)
reacting (participle present)
reacted (participle past)
reacted (past)

(Internet, intransitive) To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).


react

Sad reacts only

(Internet) An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.


shader

(computer graphics) A set of software instructions used to calculate rendering effects on graphics hardware.


robust

en-adj

robust (comparative robuster or more robust, superlative robustest or most robust)

robuster (comparative)
more robust (comparative)
robustest (superlative)
most robust (superlative)

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

robust association of massive baryonic objects

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.


primitive

From Middle English primitif, from Old French primitif, from Latin prīmitīvus (“first or earliest of its kind”), from prīmus (“first”); see prime. Doublet of primitivo.

der

(programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.

A write-what-where primitive allows the attacker to write arbitrary data wherever they want in the memory

2021, Arti Noor, Abhijit Sen, Gaurav Trivedi, Proceedings of Emerging Trends and Technologies on Intelligent Systems: ETTIS 2021, page 26

(programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.


gap

en-verb

gap (third-person singular simple present gaps, present participle gapping, simple past and past participle gapped)

gaps (present singular third-person)
gapping (participle present)
gapped (participle past)
gapped (past)

From Middle English gap, gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”); compare English gape.

cog

Honestly K&C could release today with like a bit more SOT buffs and they'd probably still gap a lot of the game

2022 May 4, u/jhawk1117, “Two units that were really ahead of their time”, in Reddit, r/DBZDokkanBattle, archived from the original on 2024-07-18

sometimes dril gets absolutely gapped by average ukraine war reddit comments

2023 May 23, @slime_machine, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18

Imagine street racing someone then suddenly both of you get gapped by a slammed tiger tank 😂 AKA der "Drippenwagen"

2023 December 19, @kommanderkarl, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18

"Not really the reason his team lost" is still not showing up by Chovy's standarts. Like in a way you're downplaying how good this guy has been domestically the last 3-4 years. He is comfortably the best player in the league and is utterly gapping every other midlaner in the league series after series, year after year.

2024 March 9, u/djpain20, “T1 vs. Gen.G / LCK 2024 Spring - Week 7 / Post-Match Discussion”, in Reddit, r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 2024-07-18

My sports car gets gapped by families of 5 in these all the time and they don't even know we're racing

2024 May 14, u/DM-Me-Your_Titties, “Kia reveals mid-life update to EV6.”, in Reddit, r/cars, archived from the original on 2024-07-18

When you avoid getting buffed next patch due to your players gapping

2024 July 6, @Rubiflorid, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18

(transitive, intransitive, slang, especially video games, motor racing) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.


splitter

lumper

antonym(s) of “one who prefers to split categories”

(graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.


grief

en-verb

grief (third-person singular simple present griefs, present participle griefing, simple past and past participle griefed)

griefs (present singular third-person)
griefing (participle present)
griefed (participle past)
griefed (past)

From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.

der

While ban and his pals stand squarely in this tradition, they also stand for something new: the rise of organized griefing, grounded in online message-board communities and thick with in-jokes, code words, taboos, and an increasingly articulate sense of purpose. No longer just an isolated pathology, griefing has developed a full-fledged culture.

2008 January 18, Julian Dibbell, “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World”, in Wired

(online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so.


core

en-noun

core (countable and uncountable, plural cores)

desc

Translingual: core eudicots, core Malvales

From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of obscure and uncertain origin. Possibly of native English origin, from Old English *cor, related to Old English *coruc, *corc (diminutive) (> Middle English cork, crok (“core of a apple or other fruit, heart of an onion”)) and Old English corn (“seed", also "grain”); or alternatively perhaps from Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”), Dutch kern (“core”), German Kern (“core”). See also heart, corpse.

unc

obscure and uncertain

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

сърцеви́на

something that produces a hollow space in a casting

particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:

(computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory.; magnetic data storage.

I wanted to play a particular computer game, which required I buy a new computer, so while the game said it needed at least a dual-core processor, I wanted my computer to be a bit ahead of the curve, so I bought a quad-core.

(computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).

nüvə

one of several parts in a computer processor


landscape

en-noun

landscape (countable and uncountable, plural landscapes)

From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from Old English landsċipe, landsċeap (“region, district, tract of land”), equivalent to land + -ship; in some senses from Dutch landschap (“region, district, province, landscape”), from Middle Dutch landscap, lantscap (“region”), from Old Dutch *landskepi, *landskapi (“region”). Cognate with Scots landskape, landskep, landskip (“landscape”), West Frisian lânskip (“landscape”), Low German landschop (“landscape, district”), German Landschaft (“landscape, countryside, scenery”), Danish landskab (“landscape, countryside”), Swedish landskap (“landscape, scenery, province”), Icelandic landskapur (“countryside”).

cog

(computing, printing, uncountable) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides


mention

From Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).

"I would like Twitter to put some kind of filters in place," suggests Prakash. "At present I can't see troll tweets if I block the user, but others who go into my 'mentions' can do so, and read the graphic abuse, which is disturbing."

2012 November 20, Kavitha Rao, “The Problems With Policing Sexism on Twitter”, in The Atlantic

In response to the flood of replies, Chance returned to Twitter several hours later — presumably, after his mentions calmed down — to request that users format their resumes as "creative decks, pitches or proposals" […].

2017 March 28, Jaleesa M. Jones, “Time to update your resumes: Chance the Rapper is hiring an intern”, in USA Today

I didn’t delete my account — yet! I know! I am full of shame! — but I did change the way I use it (no looking at my mentions; far less tweeting; aiming to highlight the work of people I like rather than criticize the work of those I don’t).

2018 December 3, Bari Weiss, Eve Peyser, “Can You Like the Person You Love to Hate?”, in The New York Times

(Internet, plural only) A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.


reap

en-verb

reap (third-person singular simple present reaps, present participle reaping, simple past and past participle reaped or (obsolete) reapt)

reaps (present singular third-person)
reaping (participle present)
reaped (participle past)
reaped (past)
reapt (obsolete participle past)
reapt (obsolete past)

From Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpaną (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa (“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”).

der

Until a child process is reaped, it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.

(transitive, computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.


splice

en-verb

splice (third-person singular simple present splices, present participle splicing, simple past and past participle spliced)

splices (present singular third-person)
splicing (participle present)
spliced (participle past)
spliced (past)

Circa 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”), German spleißen (“to split, splice”), Spliss (“split ends, hair breakage”), French épisser (also from Dutch). The Dutch word originally referred only to the fraying of the ropes' ends but was then also used for the entire process of fraying and retying; hence the peculiar semantic development from “split” to “join”. The same development occurred in German.

(software engineering) To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.


tractable

en-adj

tractable (comparative more tractable, superlative most tractable)

more tractable (comparative)
most tractable (superlative)

From Middle English tractable, tractabel, from Latin tractābilis (“that may be touched, handled, or managed”), from tractō (“take in hand, handle, manage”), frequentative of trahō (“draw”).

der

(computer science, of a decision problem) Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.


sprite

→ Japanese: スプライト (supuraito)

→ Russian: спрайт (sprajt)

From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spiritus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit.
(computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s.
(meteorology): An acronym for Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification.

doublet

(computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.

精靈圖

a two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene


tracker

追踪器

Trackers have broken out of the demoscene, are are now in use by thousands of professional musicians. It's not uncommon to hear about people using trackers on DJ forums, and electronic music production communities[…]

2004, dilvie, “new.scene.org”, in alt.music.mods (Usenet)

Although there were a few game companies outside the Amiga scene that used a tracker format (Epic Mega-Games, for instance), the majority used the better-supported MIDI.

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

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

(computing) A type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines.

You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.

1999, Adrian Dunn, “Re: Using a scanned picture in your demo”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

(computing) A musician who writes music in a tracker.

(computing) A computer program that monitors something.

(file sharing) Server software that coordinates peers in the BitTorrent protocol.

tracker

server software that coordinates peers in the BitTorrent protocol


splay

en-verb

splay (third-person singular simple present splays, present participle splaying, simple past and past participle splayed)

splays (present singular third-person)
splaying (participle present)
splayed (participle past)
splayed (past)

PIE word
 *dwís
The verb is derived from Middle English splaien, splayen (“to display; to spread out, unfurl (a flag, etc.); (cooking) to cut open (a fish) lengthwise and lay it open; (figurative) to appear; to spread”), an aphetic form of Middle English displaien, displayen (“to display”): see display.
The adjective and adverb are derived from the verb, or from splayfoot (noun) or splayfooted (adjective). The noun is derived from the verb.

(computing theory) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.

siirtää splay-puun juureksi

to rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root


leak

From Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), from Old English *lecan (“to leak”), Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”) or Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”); all from Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg-, *leǵ- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Icelandic leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“I damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake.

inh

resource leak

memory leak

(computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.


unwrap

en-verb

unwrap (third-person singular simple present unwraps, present participle unwrapping, simple past and past participle unwrapped)

unwraps (present singular third-person)
unwrapping (participle present)
unwrapped (participle past)
unwrapped (past)

From Middle English unwrappen, equivalent to un- + wrap.

Use the SHIFT key to unwrap text.

1996, Levi Reiss, The Eudora User's Guide, page 246

(transitive, computing) To remove word wrap from.


raid

From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).

der

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game

(online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.


daemonize

en-verb

daemonize (third-person singular simple present daemonizes, present participle daemonizing, simple past and past participle daemonized)

daemonizes (present singular third-person)
daemonizing (participle present)
daemonized (participle past)
daemonized (past)

From Ancient Greek δαιμονίζομαι (daimonízomai, “to be possessed by a demon”), from δαίμων (daímōn, “demon”).

uder

δαιμονίζομαι

(computing) of a computer program or script, to prepare to go in to the background and become a daemon


scan

en-verb

scan (third-person singular simple present scans, present participle scanning, simple past and past participle scanned)

scans (present singular third-person)
scanning (participle present)
scanned (participle past)
scanned (past)

⇒ Lithuanian: skenuoti

From late Middle English scanne (“to mark off verse to show metrical structure”), from earlier scanden, from Late Latin scandere (“to scan verse”), from Classical Latin scandō (“I climb, rise, mount”), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan”).

مَحَّصَ

to examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely

to scan the hard drive for errors

(transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.

(computing, transitive) To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.

skannata

computing: to inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something

(transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly.

(computing, transitive) To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.

to scan a photograph

to scan internal organs by means of computed tomography

Pencil drawings don't scan very well.

(computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.

مَسَحَ ضَوْئِيًّا

to scan a barcode

to scan a QR code

In the dispute with the RMT about scanning tickets, Jackson said it was the right thing to do to pay conductors something to scan tickets. Northern pays two pence per scan, Jackson noted, adding that ticket scanning helps to cut fraud and increase staff visibility.

2024 February 7, Philip Haigh, “Network News: TPE MD: consider impact of strikes on passengers”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 11

(computing, transitive) To read with an electronic device.


scan

The operators vacated the room during the scan.

The doctors looked at the scans and made a diagnosis.

(computing) The result or output of a scanning process.

functional programming
functional programming

higher-order function
higher-order function

(functional programming) A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.


heap

Sranan Tongo: ipi

From Middle English hepe, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀 (kåfa)).

it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home

(computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.

You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.

(computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.


swipe

en-verb

swipe (third-person singular simple present swipes, present participle swiping, simple past and past participle swiped)

swipes (present singular third-person)
swiping (participle present)
swiped (participle past)
swiped (past)

From earlier swip (with a short vowel), from Middle English swippen, swipen (“to move violently”), from Old English swipian, sweopian, swippan (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), from Proto-West Germanic *swippjan, *swipōn, *swipēn, from Proto-Germanic *swipōną, *swipjaną, *swipāną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, turn, swerve, sway, swing, sweep”). Cognate with German schwippen (“to whip”), Danish svippe (“to smack; crack a whip”), Icelandic svipa (“to whip; move swiftly”). Related to sweep, swoop.

cog

Coordinate term: scroll

Swipe left to hide the toolbar.

This is the iPhone lock screen with its default Earth wallpaper. To unlock your phone, swipe the slider from left to right.

2008, Erica Sadun, Taking Your iPhone to the Max, Apress, page 27

But really, she is just over it all: the swiping, the monotonous getting-to-know-you conversations and the self-doubt that creeps in when one of her matches fizzles.

2022 August 31, Catherine Pearson, “‘A Decade of Fruitless Searching’: The Toll of Dating App Burnout”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(transitive, intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.


swipe

en-noun

swipe (countable and uncountable, plural swipes)

Some New Yorkers are moving beyond the swipe to venture into flirtatious panel discussions and speed dating sessions.

2020 April 18, Alyson Krueger, “Virtual Dating Is the New Normal. Will It Work?”, in The New Yorker

(countable, graphical user interface) An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.


notebook

→ Czech: notebook

→ Portuguese: notebook

→ Spanish: notebook

We have found the use of Jupyter notebooks to be a convenient way of sharing work and code in a compact and reproducible manner. Jupyter notebooks are easy to update and adapt over time compared to a static CD-ROM.

2016, David Ming, David Glasser, Diane Hildebrandt, Attainable Region Theory, page 317

literate programming
literate programming

(computing, sometimes attributive) A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.

Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.

2006, Corey Sandler, Upgrading and Fixing Laptops For Dummies, page 8

notebook computer
notebook computer#English

(computing) Ellipsis of notebook computer. A laptop.


taint

From Middle French teint, from Old French teint (past participle of teindre (“to dye, to tinge”)), from Latin tinctum (past participle of tingere); compare tint.

Using Apache version 1.3.29 and Perl version 5.8.2, we tracked the following sequence of taints […]

2006, Jim Chow, Stanford University. Computer Science Dept, Understanding data lifetime (page 33)

(programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.


taint

en-verb

taint (third-person singular simple present taints, present participle tainting, simple past and past participle tainted)

taints (present singular third-person)
tainting (participle present)
tainted (participle past)
tainted (past)

(transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.


subscribe

subscribe (third-person singular simple present subscribes, present participle subscribing, simple past and past participle subscribed)

subscribes (present singular third-person)
subscribing (participle present)
subscribed (participle past)
subscribed (past)

From Middle English subscriben, subskryben, from Latin subscrībere. Compare its native English equivalent underwrite.

If you subscribe to the MouseClick event, your application can react to the user clicking the mouse.

(intransitive, programming) To register for notifications about an event or similar.


airwall

From air + wall, by analogy with firewall, than which it is more secure.

(computing) The notional part of a network configuration which isolates computers physically from connection to a wider network such as the Internet.

(computing) A secure networking solution that uses Host Identity Protocol to make the network invisible to hackers while still allowing endpoints to communicate with the broader network.


suite

Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.

(computing) A group of related computer programs distributed together.


toot

en-noun

toot (countable and uncountable, plural toots)

Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”) and German tuten (“to blow a horn”).

As for layout, Mastodon feels a little like TweetDeck, with columns for your toots, toots from the people you follow, your mentions, and (unlike Twitter) a timeline of all public posts being shared by every user on the platform.

2017 April 4, Madison Malone Kircher, “What the Heck Is Mastodon, and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?”, in New York Magazine

Interestingly, Mastodon offers a bit more in that aspect for toots can be 500 characters long.

2017 April 5, “Mastodon is here; will you stop tweeting and start tooting?”, in The Indian Express

Mastodon users can send toots with 500 characters as opposed to Twitter's 140. But that's not the only difference. Individual toots can be marked as private, meaning you don't have to choose between a public or a private account like on Twitter.

2017 April 5, Jack Morse, “Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon”, in Mashable Australia

So if I follow Nick, his toots (yep, they're called toots) will show up in wandering.shop's federated timeline.

2018 August 24, Beth Skwarecki, “A Beginner's Guide to Mastodon”, in Lifehacker

(social media) A message on the social networking software Mastodon.


toot

en-verb

toot (third-person singular simple present toots, present participle tooting, simple past and past participle tooted)

toots (present singular third-person)
tooting (participle present)
tooted (participle past)
tooted (past)

(see title)

Only want to toot in the Animal Rights instance? You can create an account there and do that.

One alternative to Fist is Mastodon, which looks and behaves a bit like Twitter (you don’t tweet, you “toot”).

2018 February 8, Marie Boran, “Why tweet when you can toot on Mastodon”, in The Irish Times

Each instance has its own administrator and its own code of conduct, so make sure you read up before you toot.

(Internet) To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).


slime

en-noun

slime (countable and uncountable, plural slimes)

→ French: slime

→ Japanese: スライム (suraimu)

From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognates include Danish slim, Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”).

der

This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.

2006, Lawrence Wright, Character Design for Mobile Devices, Gulf Professional Publishing, page 8

(fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.


vignette

First attested in 1751. From French vignette, diminutive of vigne (“vine”), from Latin vīnea, from vīnum (“wine”). Replaced earlier Middle English vynet.

(computer graphics) A hardware deficiency (even occurring in most expensive models) of a computer display wherein the picture slants towards a colour or brightness towards the edges especially if viewed from an angle.


player

From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), equivalent to play + -er.

inh

The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.

2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, volume 7, →DOI, page 175

(gaming, video games) A gamer; a player of video games or similar.

玩家

video games: gamer, gamester — see also gamer, gamester

(computing) A software application that plays audio and/or video media, such as a media player.


ASIC

(computing) A computer programming language related to BASIC.


assrun

en-verb

assrun (third-person singular simple present assruns, present participle assrunning, simple past assran, past participle assrun)

assruns (present singular third-person)
assrunning (participle present)
assran (past)
assrun (participle past)

From ass + run. First used among gaming communities in the late 1990s.

One of your players assran me at every opportunity.

You were assrunning for the whole game.

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(US, video games, slang) To follow (a player in a first-person shooter game) in order to shoot them from behind.


tweak

From Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian (“to pluck”), from Proto-West Germanic *twekkōn (“to fasten; clamp; pinch”). Related to twitch. The drug-related sense may be a blend of twitch and freak.

inh

(cryptography) An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.


release

en-noun

release (countable and uncountable, plural releases)

From Middle English relesen, relessen, from Old French relaisser (variant of relascher).

отцепване

a device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required

(software) The distribution, either public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product.

вы́пуск

software: distribution of a computer software product


untie

en-verb

untie (third-person singular simple present unties, present participle untying, simple past and past participle untied)

unties (present singular third-person)
untying (participle present)
untied (participle past)
untied (past)

From Middle English untien, unteyen, untyȝen, untiȝen, from Old English untīġan (“to untie”), equivalent to un- + tie.

After you finish with the INI file, all you need to do is untie the hash. Then you really are finished!

2002, Dave Roth, Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions, page 151

(programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.


key exchange

en-noun

key exchange (countable and uncountable, plural key exchanges)

(cryptography) An exchange of peers' keys at the initialization phase of connection.


OMG

/ˌəʊ.ɛmˈd͡ʒiː/

/ˌoʊ.ɛmˈd͡ʒiː/

Object Management Group
w:Object Management Group

(computing) Initialism of Object Management Group.


disassembler

(computing) A computer program that examines another computer program and attempts to generate assembly language source code that would, in theory, reproduce the target program.

disassembler

program that translates machine code into assembly language


Usenet

From USENIX, group of computer programmers using the operating system Unix, from users of Unix. See net (“network”).

And as the Carnegie Mellon study is careful to point out, pornographic image files, despite their evident popularity, represent only about 3% of all the messages on the Usenet newsgroups, while the Usenet itself represents only 11.5% of the traffic on the Internet.

2001 June 24, Philip Elmer-Dewitt, “On a Screen Near You”, in Time, →ISSN

(Internet) A world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject.

يُوزْنِت

a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject


slice

From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīzan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.

der

(programming) A contiguous portion of an array.


spike

From Middle English spike, spyke, spik, from Old Norse spík (“spike, sprig”), from Proto-Germanic *spīkō (“stick, splinter, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“to be pointed; sharp point, stick”). Cognate with Icelandic spík (“spike”), Swedish spik (“spike, nail”), Dutch spijker (“nail”), Old English spīcing (“spike”), and Latin spīca (“ear of corn”), which may have influenced some senses.

An architectural spike is used to prove that a specific technical approach works. Teams will often do an architectural spike when they have a few different options for designing a specific technical solution, or if they don't know if a certain approach will work.

2017, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, Head First Agile […], O'Reilly Media

(software engineering, XP) A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.


assembly language

en-noun

assembly language (countable and uncountable, plural assembly languages)

A skilled programmer can write very fast code in assembly language.

(computer languages) A programming language in which the source code of programs is composed of mnemonic instructions, each of which corresponds directly to a machine instruction for a particular processor.


SFAIK

so far as I know
so far as I know#English

(Internet) Initialism of so far as I know.


kludge

Perhaps from British military slang, possibly based on a Scots word kludge or kludgie (“common toilet”), or perhaps from German klug (“clever”). Alternatively, possibly related to Polish klucz (“a key, a hint, a main point”) and Russian ключ (ključ, “key, clue”).
Alternatively, perhaps from (a form related to) Germanic words such as Dutch Low Saxon klütje (“(little) dumpling, clod”), Dutch kluit(je) or Jutland Danish klyt (“piece of bad workmanship, klud(g)e”); compare and standard Danish kludder (“mess, disorder”). (Compare klutz.)
There is evidence that kluge (which see) was once a separate word with similar meaning but separate derivation, but the spelling kludge was widely popularized in the US by a 1962 Datamation article on "How to Design a Kludge", and since then the two words have often been used as alternative spellings of each other.
According to the OED, an "invented word" influenced by bodge and fudge.

cog

(informal, computing) An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts.

(informal, computing) A badly written or makeshift piece of software; a hack.


decorate

en-verb

decorate (third-person singular simple present decorates, present participle decorating, simple past and past participle decorated)

decorates (present singular third-person)
decorating (participle present)
decorated (participle past)
decorated (past)

From Latin decoratus, past participle of decorare (“to adorn, distinguish, honor”), from decus (“ornament, grace, dignity, honor”), akin to decor (“elegance, grace, beauty, ornament”), from decet (“adorn, befit”).

It makes sure that the field name argument is not empty, and that the field specified there is an actual existing field in the class which declares the method decorated with this attribute.

(programming, transitive) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.


beautify

beautify (third-person singular simple present beautifies, present participle beautifying, simple past and past participle beautified)

beautifies (present singular third-person)
beautifying (participle present)
beautified (participle past)
beautified (past)

From Middle English beutifien, from Old French beaute (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fine”), + -ify, from Latin facio (“make”).


ODT

(computing) Initialism of OpenDocument Text.


span

From Middle English spanne, from Old English spann, from Proto-Germanic *spannō (“span, handbreadth”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with Dutch span, spanne, German Spanne. The sense “pair of horses” is probably from Old English ġespan, ġespann (“a joining; a fastening together; clasp; yoke”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. Cognate with Dutch gespan, German Gespann.

der

We use the term span (also called depth, or dependence depth) to refer to the number of parallel steps assuming an unbounded number of processors.

2017, Ananya Kumar, Guy E. Blelloch, Robert Harper, “Parallel Functional Arrays”, in ACM SIGPLAN Notices, →DOI

(computing) The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.


electronic mail

en-noun

electronic mail (countable and uncountable, plural electronic mails)

Electronic mail is the single most visible application of distributed computing today.

1992, Sara Radicati, Electronic Mail: An Introduction to the X.400 Message Handling Standards, McGraw-Hill, page 1

(uncountable, networking) Email (the system).


pointless

en-adj

pointless (comparative more pointless, superlative most pointless)

more pointless (comparative)
most pointless (superlative)

From Middle English pointles, poynteles, poyntlees; equivalent to point + -less.

(programming, derogatory) Point-free; employing the tacit programming paradigm.


source code

en-noun

source code (usually uncountable, plural source codes)

(programming) Human-readable instructions in a programming language, to be transformed into machine instructions by a compiler, assembler or other translator, or to be carried out directly by an interpreter.

bronkode

human-readable instructions in a programming language


meatspace

From meat + space; by analogy with cyberspace.

The HBO sci-fi blockbuster Westworld has been an inspiring look into what humanlike robots can do for us in the meatspace.

2019 April 7, Rita Liao, “The team behind Baidu’s first smart speaker is now using AI to make films”, in TechCrunch

(Internet, often derogatory) The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.


beastmaster

(video games) A character in video games who fights monsters and other creatures.

role-playing video game
role-playing video game

(video games) A role-playing video game character class that is able to control beasts or draw upon their aspects or powers.


unlike

en-verb

unlike (third-person singular simple present unlikes, present participle unliking, simple past and past participle unliked)

unlikes (present singular third-person)
unliking (participle present)
unliked (participle past)
unliked (past)

From Middle English unliken, unlyken, equivalent to un- + like.

I unliked the post after I found out the author was racist.

Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like button. Toggling off the button results in unliking your previously liked item. Note that this is different from disliking something, since unliking simply returns you to a neutral state.

2009, Ben Zimmer, “On Language: The Age of Undoing”, in The New York Times Magazine, 2009 September 20, page MM8

My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. […] It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking" stern pinball entirely.

2010 June 25, TheKorn, “Re: Pinball: RGP and/or Facebook”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet)

(Internet) To withdraw support for a particular thing, especially on social networking websites.


unlike

Getting an unlike for every 20 likes is common and not something you need to be losing sleep over.

2012, Jesse Cannon, Todd Thomas, Get More Fans, page 552

On Facebook, users can also hide anyone in their network, including companies, from their News Feed, which is worse than an unlike, as brands cannot measure how many people still like them but have hidden their status updates […]

2014, Ekaterina Walter, Jessica Gioglio, The Power of Visual Storytelling, page 13

(Internet) The act of withdrawing one's like from a post on social media.


server

→ Danish: server

→ Dutch: server

→ German: Server

→ Hindi: सर्वर (sarvar)

→ Hungarian: szerver

→ Italian: server m

→ Japanese: サーバー (sābā)

→ Korean: 서버 (seobeo)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: server, sørver

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: server, sørvar

→ Persian: سرور

→ Polish: serwer

→ Romanian: server n

→ Russian: се́рвер (sérver)

desc

→ Thai: เซิร์ฟเวอร์ (sə́əp-wə̂ə)

→ Thai: เซิร์ฟเวอร์ (sə́əp-wə̂ə)

→ Turkish: server

From Middle English servere, equivalent to serve + -er.

(computing) A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network.

خَادِم

computing: a program which provides services to other programs or users

Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18

(computing) A computer dedicated to running such programs.

خَادِم

computing: a computer dedicated to running server programs


route

From Middle English route, from Old French route, from Latin [rupta] via (literally “a path made by force”). Compare Modern French route.

der

(computing) A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.

reitti

(computer) an entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives


route

en-verb

route (third-person singular simple present routes, present participle routing or (UK) routeing, simple past and past participle routed)

routes (present singular third-person)
routing (participle present)
routeing (UK participle present)
routed (participle past)
routed (past)

(Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.

Google Glass has come under fire from privacy advocates because it can record video without subjects being aware of it, and that any video will be routed through Google's servers.

2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian

(computing, transitive) To send (information) through a router.

reitittää

computer: to send information via a router


TDS

tabular data stream
tabular data stream#English

(computing, countable) Initialism of tabular data stream.

transaction data store
transaction data store#English

(computing, countable) Initialism of transaction data store.


tosser

From toss + -er. In the British slang senses, toss refers specifically to the masturbate meaning.

Does anyone have a mail tosser that will work with The Major BBS V6.2?

1995, sysop, “Mail Tosser”, in comp.bbs.majorbbs (Usenet)

FIDOGATE is a Fido-Internet gateway and a Fido tosser.

2000, freshd, “FidoGate 4.4.1 - A Fido-Internet gateway and a Fido tosser.”, in fm.announce (Usenet)

bulletin board system
bulletin board system

(computing) A program that forwards or redirects messages on a bulletin board system.


caustic

From the Latin causticus (“burning”), from Ancient Greek καυστικός (kaustikós, “burning”), from καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”) + -ικός (-ikós).

suffix

(optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.


GOP

Acronym of group of pictures, a collection of successive pictures within a coded video stream.

group of pictures
group of pictures#English

(signal processing, video compression) Acronym of group of pictures.