data terminal equipment

data terminal equipment (plural data terminal equipments)

(computer hardware) an end instrument that converts user information into signals or reconverts received signals.


Data Communications Equipment

en-noun

Data Communications Equipment (plural Data Communications Equipments)

Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment

(computer hardware) Synonym of Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment


Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment

Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (plural Data Circuit-Terminating Equipments)

Data Circuit-Terminating Equipments (plural)

data terminal equipment
Data Terminal Equipment

(computer hardware) a device interconnecting data terminal equipment (DTE) and a data transmission circuit.


DTE

DTE (countable and uncountable, plural DTEs)

Data Terminal Equipment
Data Terminal Equipment

(computer hardware) Data Terminal Equipment


DCE

data circuit-terminating equipment
w:data circuit-terminating equipment

(computer hardware) Initialism of data circuit-terminating equipment.

dead-code elimination
w:dead-code elimination

(software compilation) Initialism of dead-code elimination.


postback

(computing, Internet) The transmission of data back to the same web page by means of HTTP POST.


tileset

The imp-infested streets of London get repetitive, but new tilesets are introduced later in the plot.

2007, PC Gamer, volume 14, numbers 10-12

Next you need to load a tileset containing isometric tiles.

2011, Steffen Itterheim, Learn iPhone and iPad Cocos2D Game Development, page 241

(computer graphics) A collection of rectangular images, or tiles.


videoblogger

From video + blogger or videoblog + -er.

(Internet) A contributor to a videoblog.


videoblog

A weblog using video as its primary presentation format.


OODL

(computing) Object-Oriented Dynamic Language


nom de Web

Friedberg — whose nom de Web is StinkE — is an 18-year-old, hip hop-loving Hiero fan who started his site in August, 1995 as a tribute to his favorite crew.

1996, Vibe, volume 4, numbers 7-10, page 378

On the same day, Barista of Bloomfield Avenue, the nom de Web of Debbie Galant, who lives in a suburban town in New Jersey and is one of the most esteemed "hyperlocal bloggers" in the country, led with a picture from her recent vacation in the Berkshires.

2006, The New Yorker, volume 82, numbers 20-28, page 48

We are smitten with Nemo Wolfe. That's the charming nom de Web of Mercantile Library executive director Albert Pyle (our own Dr. Know) when he posts on their delightfully omnivorous blog.

2009 December, Cincinnati Magazine, page 93

(informal) A pseudonym used when publishing on the World Wide Web.


garageware

From garage + -ware, suggesting development by amateurs in a domestic garage.

People who spend real money on real servers aren't in the habit of running shareware or garageware.

1997, vak, “Lack of Free Software for PP...”, in alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot (Usenet)

The ones which cause me the most trouble are various garageware sound file editors. One of them will crash Win2K if I run it and run an ascii editor at the same time.

2001, Bob, “Zone Alarm 3.6 True Vector”, in comp.security.firewalls (Usenet)

[…]the simple fact is that most native Linux games are rubbish garageware and that the industry simply doesnt care about the Linux community at large because they are generally not gamers but more serious "hackers" and hobbyists.

2007, Walter Mitty, “Help! Upgraded to XP”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet)

(computing, slang, derogatory) Shoddy, amateurish software.


PNP

PNP (countable and uncountable, plural PNPs)


PEP

PEP (countable and uncountable, plural PEPs)

PEPs are design documents that provide information to the Python community, describing new features (or proposed new features) for Python, its processes, or its environment.

2018, Cody Jackson, Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja: Over 70 recipes that uncover powerful programming tactics in Python, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 282

(programming, countable) Initialism of Python enhancement proposal.


pumping lemma

pumping lemma (plural pumping lemmas or pumping lemmata)

pumping lemmas (plural)
pumping lemmata (plural)

There is a pumping lemma for CFLs similar to the one for regular sets. It can be used in the same way to show that certain sets are not context-free.

1997, Dexter Kozen, Automata and computability, page 148

In the literature one finds many pumping lemmas which describe the ability to repeat (pump) certain words repeatedly in some languages, under different circumstances.

2002, Alejandro Maass, Servet Martínez, Jaime San Martín, Dynamics and randomness, page 174

String-language hierarchies are usually proven using formalism-specific pumping lemmata.

2010, Marco Kuhlmann, Dependency Structures and Lexicalized Grammars: An Algebraic Approach, page 107

(computer science) A lemma which states that for a language to be a member of a language class any sufficiently long string in the language contains a section that can be removed or repeated any number of times with the resulting string remaining in the language, used to determine if a particular language is in a given language class (e.g. not regular).

dælusetning

lemma stating that a section of a string can be removed or repeated with the resulting string remaining in the language


do loop

From the keyword do used in some programming languages for this purpose.

(computing) A section of computer code in which an instruction or group of instructions is executed repeatedly depending on the value of a Boolean condition.


avalanche effect

avalanche effect (plural avalanche effects)

(cryptography) A property of some cipher systems in which a small change in the input results in a very large change in the output.


autoinstallation

SUSE splits the autoinstallation process into three phases: preparation, installation, and configuration.

2006, Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Linux administration handbook, page 230


autoinstall

Next, you'll need to create an autoinstall diskette. When the potential client machines are booted with this diskette, the process of downloading their image begins.

2005, Joseph Donald Sloan, High performance Linux clusters with OSCAR, Rocks, openMosix, and MPI


ERM

enterprise relationship management
w:enterprise relationship management

(computing) Initialism of enterprise relationship management.


DRY

The general principle here is DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself (HTOO). If you duplicate information in two or more places, sooner or later, you'll forget to update one of the copies […]

2005, Greg Wilson, Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and More

software engineering
software engineering

don't repeat yourself
w:Don't repeat yourself

(software engineering) Acronym of don't repeat yourself (“software development principle aimed at reducing repetition”).


DRY

en-adj

DRY (comparative DRYer, superlative DRYest)

DRYer (comparative)
DRYest (superlative)

(software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.


DRY

en-verb

DRY (third-person singular simple present DRYs, present participle DRYing, simple past and past participle DRYed)

DRYs (present singular third-person)
DRYing (participle present)
DRYed (participle past)
DRYed (past)

(software engineering) To cause code to become DRY; to remove repetition from code.


hackee

On the other hand, the absence of identifying marks such as online or offline names and information is crucial when hacking, because the goal is to be unnoticed, not real, nonexistent from the point of view of the other (i.e., the hackee).

1998, Annette N. Markham, Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space, page 185

Fortunately for the "hackee" company, its computer security professionals found "electronic fingerprints" left by the other firm's personnel during the hacker attack, which led, in turn, to the discovery of the stolen e-mail.

2003, Michael Chris Knapp, E-commerce: Real Issues and Cases, page 220

She had a hacker. The tables had been turned and she was the hackee.

2011, Frederick Ramsay, The Eye of the Virgin, page 139

(computing) The victim of a hacking attack; one whose computer system is broken into.


multihomed

(computing) Having network reliability increased by means of multihoming.


jump list

(computing theory) A kind of sorted linked list with additional pointers to connect data items that are various distances apart.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, Microsoft Windows) A pop-up list of tasks or documents associated with an application in the taskbar.


tweetable

en-adj

tweetable (comparative more tweetable, superlative most tweetable)

more tweetable (comparative)
most tweetable (superlative)

(Internet, neologism) Capable of, or deserving of being tweeted (“sent as a message on the Twitter microblogging service”).


tabify

en-verb

tabify (third-person singular simple present tabifies, present participle tabifying, simple past and past participle tabified)

tabifies (present singular third-person)
tabifying (participle present)
tabified (participle past)
tabified (past)

A common use of this program is to tabify text files which you've loaded in over the phone from a computer system (like UNIX) that tends to turn all tabs into spaces for 300 baud DEC writers.

1985, Terry A. Ward, Applied programming techniques in C

You can only tabify source code

1999, Michael Amundsen, Practical Visual InterDev 6

(transitive, computing) To reformat (text) by converting spaces into tab characters.


untabify

untabify (third-person singular simple present untabifies, present participle untabifying, simple past and past participle untabified)

untabifies (present singular third-person)
untabifying (participle present)
untabified (participle past)
untabified (past)

The untabify command works on a region.

1996, Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, Eric S. Raymond, Learning GNU Emacs, page 221

The macro expands the command to untabify an entire document, and not just selected text.

1998, Microsoft Visual Studio Core Reference Set, volume 2

(transitive, computing) To reformat (text) by converting tab characters into spaces.


subnamespace

Remember that there are subnamespaces that we need as well, but by default this setting will only apply to the current namespace, so setting these permissions is not enough.

2011, Timothy Mullen, Microsoft Security Bible, page 204

(computing) A namespace within another namespace.


hyperthreading

From hyper- + threading, coined as a trademark (Hyper-Threading Technology) by Intel.

The scope of hyperthreading instructions is not covered in this book.

2005, James Leiterman, 32/64-Bit 80x86 Assembly Language Architecture, page 457

There are some cases where hyperthreading actually degrades CPU performance, especially when CPU utilization is high.

2010, Mike Laverick, VMware VSphere 4 Implementation, page 307

(computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.


tabification

You can see that tabification can greatly reduce the length of such strings, hence the length of text files. For that reason, Blaise Computing Inc. source code files are tabified.

I'd like to call your attention to four of them: check for accessibility, markup preservation, simplified tabification and indentation, and target schema validation.

2006, Dino Esposito, Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 core reference


hyperthreaded

A more sophisticated and subtle example of some of the changes that have occurred between older and newer WinTel systems involves hyperthreaded CPUs on Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases.

2007, Bert Scalzo, Claudia Fernandez, Mike Ault, Database Benchmarking: Practical Methods for Oracle and SQL Server, page 93

There are also hyperthreaded processors that generally provide two execution threads for each processor or core.

2009, Tim Cerling, Jeffrey Buller, Chuck Enstall, Mastering Microsoft Virtualization, page 237


untabification

It makes untabification a bit easier, since you can do it all at once with the simple sequence C-x h ESC x untabify RETURN.

Well, _if_ you're going to do untabification, I guess it's best to keep it separate, but ... I think in general it's a very bad idea to make widespread source changes for purely cosmetic reasons[…]

2007, Miles Bader, “untabify Lisp sources”, in gnus.ding (Usenet)


superexpression

en-noun

superexpression (countable and uncountable, plural superexpressions)

(countable, mathematics, programming) An expression that contains multiple subexpressions.


applicationwide

For example, you may wish to maintain an applicationwide connection string that can be used by all pages, a common DataSet used by multiple pages, or any other piece of data that needs to be accessed on an applicationwide scale.

2007, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# with .NET 3.0, page 898

(programming) Throughout an application (software program).


roll one's own

en-verb

roll one's own (third-person singular simple present rolls one's own, present participle rolling one's own, simple past and past participle rolled one's own)

rolls one's own (present singular third-person)
rolling one's own (participle present)
rolled one's own (participle past)
rolled one's own (past)

From cigarettes, which are available commercially rolled (i.e., with the paper around the substance being smoked) but which some prefer to roll.

My custom wordprocessor? Yeah, I could have just installed Word or OpenOffice, but I always prefer to roll my own.

(computing, informal) To create something of which an analogue is commercially available.


versionitis

This helps companies maintain an honest relationship with the software publisher and protects against versionitis.

1992, InfoWorld, volume 14, number 33, page 92

Versionitis exists when the team is using multiple versions of the same software[…] Integration of modules can be a nightmare when a project catches versionitis.

2004, Joel Henry, Software project management: a real-world guide to success

The Handbook can suffer from versionitis; at this writing, the Handbook is one release behind the current version of the software, making it out of date in parts.

2011, Bud E. Smith, Michael McCallister, WordPress in depth, page 455

(computing, informal) A situation in which there are many different (and possibly incompatible) versions of the same software, file or document.


nondithering

(computer graphics) Not employing the technique of dithering.


Twitterverse

Ashton Kutcher who has more than 3.4 million followers is not a real influencer except as a celebrity within the Twitterverse[…]

2009, Paul Greenberg, CRM at the Speed of Light, page 328

At this point I see people outside of the Twitterverse furrow or roll their eyes at how their message is reduced to a cutesy term.

I can continue to build my following on Twitter, but my request for a major favor in the Twitterverse will surely be ignored.

2011, Mike Thompson, The Anywhere Leader

(Internet, informal) The world of users of the Twitter microblogging service.


bitsquatting

(Internet) A form of cybersquatting that involves the registration of domain names likely to be the result of a random memory error in a user's computer, e.g. excmple.com or exaeple.com for example.com.


Nintendocore

From Nintendo (“Japanese multinational video game company”) + -core (suffix denoting a music genre, especially one influenced by hardcore music), with reference to the simplistic sound effects of early video game consoles. The word was coined by the American musician Nathan Winneke, the frontman of the metalcore band Horse the Band, as a joke; the band posted the word on the Internet and also printed it on a label on the compact disc of their first demo I Am a Small Wooden Statue on a Patch of Crabgrass Next to a Dried Up Riverbed (2001).

coinage

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to mix the theme song from the original Mario Bros. games with chugging guitars and the vocal stylings of someone who wasn't hugged enough as a child? You're not alone. In fact, there's an entire genre of music devoted to this sound – it's called nintendocore. Growing out of metalcore – a fusion of heavy metal and punk – nintendocore derives its distinctive sound from the use of synths reminiscent of mid-eighties video games.

2009 November 2, Amy Plachta, “You Never Knew You Loved … Nintendocore a Unique Sound Worth Exploring”, in Interrobang: Fanshawe College’s Student Voice, volume 42, number 11, London, Ont.: Fanshawe College Student Union, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-31

In the ever-changing landscape of music, that's given way to such genres as emo, screamo, nu metal and Nintendocore, one question remains! Does anyone play rock music anymore?

2010 May, Jake Brown, Alice in Chains: In the Studio, Nashville, Tenn.: Rock ’N’ Roll Books

At the time of writing, Spotify currently lists over 4,000 online categories and sub-categories of music ranging from Nintendocore – a genre delineated solely by the overlay of bludgeoning, bowel-stewing grunge riffs on old-school videogame soundtracks – to Pornogrind, a maximum security subgenre of Grindcore (a convulsing fusion of rawboned, buzz-sawing death metal and tightly coiled hardcore punk).

2020, Kevin Dutton, Black and White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World, London: Bantam Press

In the US, a well-known Brooklyn music venue hosted a Minecraft concert featuring much loved bands[…]. The sprawling nightclub was painstakingly recreated and featured performances from the popular emo act American Football, "Nintendocore" videogame musicians Anamanaguchi and electronic artist Baths[…].

2020, Larissa Hjorth, Ingrid Richardson, Hugh Davies, William Balmford, “Playing during and post COVID-19 Pandemic”, in Exploring Minecraft: Ethnographies of Play and Creativity (Palgrave Games in Context), Cham, Zug, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, page 171

(music, video games) An aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes (“music that samples or emulates the audio capabilities of older sound chips”) and video game music.

Nintendocore

aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music


e-safety

On one hand, many of the children in our study clearly saw e-safety as an important issue that they thought needed addressing in schools.

2010, Neil Selwyn, John Potter, Sue Cranmer, Primary schools and ICT: learning from pupil perspectives, page 125


data bus

en-noun

data bus (plural data buses or data busses)

data buses (plural)
data busses (plural)

(computing) A hardware subsystem that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers.


demomaking

1998, SwooN, “free unlimited webspace for coding/demomaking sites”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet):

Demomaking was not only about discovering new tricks and effects any more, but also pushing existing ones to the machines limit.

2008, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene, volume 1, page 66


KIF

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

Knowledge Interchange Format
Knowledge Interchange Format#English

(computing, artificial intelligence) Acronym of Knowledge Interchange Format.


Knowledge Interchange Format

It is exemplified by the Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF)¹⁵, part of an approach described in the paper by Tenenbaum.

1992, Charles J. Petrie, Enterprise Integration Modeling: Proceedings of the First International Conference, Introduction, page 7

The Knowledge Interchange Format is a proposed standard for the specification and interchange of ontologies.

2000, William J. Raynor, Jr., The International Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence, page 155

The Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) is an example of a convenient formalism to describe these ontologies, and XML can serve as an implementation technology in the way similar to that outlined briefly in this paper.

2000, Petr Kotásek, Jaroslav Zendulka, “An XML Approach to Knowledge Discovery in Databases”, in Tomáš Hruška, Masa-aki Hashimoto, editors, Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Conference, page 148

Common Logic Common Logic (CL) evolved from two projects to develop parallel ANSI standards for conceptual graphs and the Knowledge Interchange Format [9].

2008, Frank van Harmelen, Vladimir Lifschitz, Bruce Porter, editors, Handbook Of Knowledge Representation, page 217

(computing, artificial intelligence) A computer language designed for communicating knowledge between independently running computer programs.


Turing jump

computability theory
computability theory

(computing theory) In computability theory, an operation that assigns to each decision problem X a successively harder decision problem X′ with the property that X′ is not decidable by an oracle machine with an oracle for X.


Macolyte

So long as Macolytes keep paying Apple's high prices, its 28% gross margins should far exceed PC rivals — especially if it keeps expanding its portfolio with non-PC products such as the iPod MP3 music player.

2002, Business Week, numbers 3814-3826, page 288

Will anyone beyond deep-pocketed Macolytes fork over $499-599 (4GB and 8GB models, respectively) and embrace Cingular service, with its sluggish data network, for a two-year contract?

2007 May 5, Steve Morgenstern, “Ring In The New”, in Billboard, page 27

[…] and Macolytes are well served, but the Chenies Street branch specialises in Apple products and sells many Mac-compatible accessories.

2010, Time Out, London's Best Shops, page 208

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A loyal user of Apple products, such as Macintosh computers, iPads, and iPhones.


iPod tax

(slang, taxation) A levy or tax on digital storage products (e.g. iPods), levied at a per unit capacity rate, used to compensate content providers for piracy of their goods.


oracle machine

Thus, an oracle machine (which enacts an oracle algorithm) would be like an ordinary Turing machine, except that adjoined to its ordinary computational operations would be another operation: ‘Call in the oracle and ask it whether C_q(n) stops; […]

1994, Roger Penrose, “Quantum theory and the brain”, in Shadows of the Mind, Oxford University Press, page 380

(computing theory) In computability theory, a form of theoretical Turing machine, able to solve even undecidable decision problems in a single operation.


zeroization

(cryptography) The erasure of sensitive parameters from a cryptographic module to prevent their disclosure if the equipment is captured.


Apple tax

Referring to American technology company Apple Inc., specifically the high price of its high-end computers (sense 1) and its mobile ecosystem (sense 2).

Microsoft has been warning about the so-called "Apple tax" that people pay for buying Macs. Their newest claim: A family of four will pay $3,367 over five years if they buy Macs instead of PCs, not just for the initial machines, but in ongoing costs hardware and software costs.

2009 April 9, Preston Gralla, “How much does the "Apple Tax" really cost?”, in Computerworld

You'll want to buy what you need and no more, as there is a definite Apple-tax premium here.

2018 October 30, John Burek, “Hands On With the 2018 Apple MacBook Air”, in PCMag

As a Windows guy, I feel like I’m living in a bizarro world, where the 'Apple Tax' actually gets you more ports and better performance than you can find on most comparable Windows machines, not just an alternative OS and cool design.

2021 October 13, Napier Lopez, “M1X MacBook Pro event: What to expect from Apple on October 18”, in TNW

(informal, derogatory) The price paid by people purchasing Apple products, said to be higher than that of comparable alternatives.

(title)

2015 July 8, Mark Sullivan, “Spotify snubs Apple, invites subscribers to avoid 30% 'Apple Tax'”, in VentureBeat

Epic's CEO Tim Sweeney has been incredibly outspoken about App Store taxes. He’s taken Fortnite off the Google Play Store and would dearly love to find a way to not have to give Apple a cut on iOS devices. Does he have a personal stake in that fight? Obviously. But he's also one of a growing chorus of voices pushing back against the so-called "Apple Tax."

2020 April 3, Dieter Bohn, “Why Amazon got out of the Apple App Store tax, and why other developers won’t”, in The Verge

Call this scourge what it plainly is, the Apple tax — the billions of dollars a year that Apple collects from large swaths of the technology industry for the privilege of offering paid apps and in-app purchases to iPhone and iPad users.

2021 May 26, Farhad Manjoo, “The Apple Tax Is Rotten”, in New York Times

The decision by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is the most significant strike yet against the system that includes Apple's commission, something critics call "the Apple tax." It could force the tech giant to revamp its entire business model for apps on iPhones and iPads.

2021 September 10, Bobby Allyn, “A Judge Rules Apple Must Make It Easier To Shop Outside The App Store”, in NPR

(informal, derogatory) The commission taken by Apple on purchases on its online services, such as the App Store and iTunes.


CTE

CTE (countable and uncountable, plural CTEs)

A recursive CTE is where an initial CTE is built and then the results from that are called recursively in a UNION statement returning subsets of data until all the data is returned. This gives you the ability to create data in a hierarchical fashion, as you will see in the next example.

2008, Robin Dewson, Beginning SQL Server 2008 Express for Developers, Apress, page 433

common table expression
w:common table expression

(databases, countable) Initialism of common table expression.


geotarget

en-verb

geotarget (third-person singular simple present geotargets, present participle geotargeting, simple past and past participle geotargeted)

geotargets (present singular third-person)
geotargeting (participle present)
geotargeted (participle past)
geotargeted (past)

(transitive, Internet, marketing) To target (an Internet user) with specific content for a geographic location.


CIFS

Coordinate term: SMB

Common Internet File System
w:Common Internet File System

(computing, Windows) Initialism of Common Internet File System.


special stage

(video games) A bonus level taking place between the main levels of a game.


XSRF

en-noun

XSRF (countable and uncountable, plural XSRFs)

cross-site request forgery
cross-site request forgery#English

(computer security) Initialism of cross-site request forgery.


currency sign

(computing, text encoding) A specific graphic symbol (¤) which replaced the dollar sign ($) in some international text encoding systems, starting with ISO 646.


LFN

(computing) Initialism of long filename.


crashproof

en-adj

crashproof (comparative more crashproof, superlative most crashproof)

more crashproof (comparative)
most crashproof (superlative)

(computing) Resistant to crashes (failure of software programs).


OSI layer

(networking) Any of the seven layers of abstraction in the OSI model of communications systems: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, or physical.


OSI model

(networking) A description of the standard functions of a communications system in terms of seven layers of abstraction (the OSI layers).


SLS

(computing) Initialism of second-level support.


boss key

When the directors came out of their meeting, I hit the boss key to replace my game with a fake spreadsheet screen.

To obtain the boss key in Leisure Suit Larry games, press <Ctrl><B>. This is also displayed in the “Special” menu. However, use the boss key with caution. First of all, your boss must be really naive if he believes that this display is part of your normal work and secondly, you must be prepared to lose your current score after you press the boss key.

1990, Michael Mueller, Martin Schuchardt, The Leisure Suit Larry Story, Abacus, page 19

For one, the original Tetris game I remember came with a "boss key," a special command built into the game's menu. When the player presses the boss key, the game pauses and draws a noninteractive spreadsheet program onto the screen.

2006, Ian Bogost, Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism, MIT Press

You can use screen savers to create a Super Boss Key—a key combination, such as Alt+F10, that you can press to make the PC immediately switch over to running the screen saver.

2009, Woody Leonhard, Windows 7 All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 240

(chiefly video games) A key which, when pressed, hides a program from view by a superior in the workplace.


photosharing

(Internet) The sharing of photographic images, especially via social networking sites


Oracle

database management system
database management system

(computing) A database management system (and its associated software) developed by the Oracle Corporation


heorshe

head

heorshe (third person, singular, plural they)

I heard ghastly rumors about some faculty actually destroying a student's video because heorshe didn't feel it was art. . . even if a rumor it sounds like a pretty terrible environment for expression.

1994 May 4, Mary Flanagan, “Savannah College of Art and Design”, in alt.artcom (Usenet)

Why doesn’t Argonut come out of the closet (where heorshe is having an affair with hisorher Filter Queen) and identify himorherself? It would be more fun to persecute himorher if we actually knew who heorshe is. ;-)

1996 September 16, Jon LeBlanc, “Argonut's special game report. (Argos/Sask)”, in rec.sport.football.canadian (Usenet)

Perhaps heorshe started out by investigating the scientific validity of all those house remedies and more esoteric healing methods which fall into the stereotypical Verbena paradigm.

1998 May 20, CML, “Mages playing out of Paradigm”, in rec.games.frp.storyteller (Usenet)

(nonstandard, uncommon, Internet) Alternative form of he or she: they (singular); used as a gender-neutral reference to the third person singular.


XT

en-noun

XT (countable and uncountable, plural XTs)

(computing) Initialism of extended technology: a version of the IBM PC with a built-in hard drive, released in 1983


overburn

en-verb

overburn (third-person singular simple present overburns, present participle overburning, simple past and past participle overburned or overburnt)

overburns (present singular third-person)
overburning (participle present)
overburned (participle past)
overburned (past)
overburnt (participle past)
overburnt (past)

(transitive, computing) To record more than the usual available data capacity onto (an optical disc).


Command key

Press ⌘Q to Quit an application.

(computing) Primary meta/modifier key used in Apple Macintosh computer keyboards for executing keyboard shortcuts. Usually represented by the ⌘ (Place of Interest Sign) and sometimes called the "Apple key" as the Apple logo is often on the key as well.


ambifix

(computing) A string of characters used for both prefix and suffix.


unscale

unscale (third-person singular simple present unscales, present participle unscaling, simple past and past participle unscaled)

unscales (present singular third-person)
unscaling (participle present)
unscaled (participle past)
unscaled (past)

Because OpenGL ES does not understand such a format, the vertex shader will then need to apply a matrix to unscale these values, which affects the vertex shading performance.

2014, Dan Ginsburg, Budirijanto Purnomo, Dave Shreiner, OpenGL ES 3.0 Programming Guide, page 457

(transitive, programming) To undo a scaling transform upon.


optical drive

(computer hardware) A drive that reads optical media.


virtual private server

en-noun

virtual private server (plural virtual private servers)

(computing) A virtualized server cohosted with other virtual server instances on the same hardware.


VPS

virtual private server
virtual private server#English

(computing) Initialism of virtual private server.


VESA

w:Video Electronics Standards Association

(computing) Acronym of Video Electronics Standards Association.


renumberer

Bit Bucket software tor the Atari including disassembler, renumberer, character generator[…]

A 260-line program, which took other renumberers between two and four minutes to renumber, took the Monkey Wrench only eight seconds.

1982 July 26, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 29, page 41

Programmed with a utility such as a program line editor or a renumberer, the EPROM leaves the whole of your RAM free to hold the program on which you are working.

1983, Owen Neville Bishop, Henry Budgett, Simple interfacing projects

(computing, dated) A program that renumbers lines of code in another program (for example, to allow insertion of further lines between them).


EISA

w:Extended Industry Standard Architecture

(computing) Initialism of Extended Industry Standard Architecture, a bus standard for computer peripherals, as well as the type of expansion slot used by it.


alist

We use alists extensively in this work. A directed graph is an alist associating vertices with edge lists.

J. S. Moore and Q. Zhang, Proof Pearl: Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Algorithm Verified with ACL2, in Joe Hurd and Tom F. Melham (ed.), Theorem proving in higher order logics: 18th international conference, 2005, p. 375


VOB

(software, multimedia) Abbreviation of video object.

versioned object base
versioned object base#English

(databases) Abbreviation of versioned object base.


versioned object base

versioned object base (plural versioned object bases)

(software) An individual database in the versioning software ClearCase.


EPETO

Earthquake Performance
seismic performance#English

(software) Initialism of Earthquake Performance Evaluation Tool Online.


metacompilation

(computing theory) A computation which involves metasystem transitions from a computing machine to a metamachine which controls, analyzes and imitates the work of the original machine.


dependee

(programming) An agent that is depended on by a depender, the target of a dependency (used in agent-oriented programming)


breadth-first search

breadth-first search (countable and uncountable, plural breadth-first searches)

Coordinate term: depth-first search

(graph theory) A search algorithm that begins at the root node and explores all the neighboring nodes.


GFC

GFC (countable and uncountable, plural GFCs)

(networking) Initialism of generic flow control.


computer engineering

A branch of engineering that deals with design and application of computers.


Playfair

Playfair (countable and uncountable, plural Playfairs)

* (craters): The craters are Named after Scottish mathematician, scientist and C of S minister John Playfair
* (cipher): The cipher is Named after British Lord, baron, politician and scientist Lyon Playfair, who popularized the cipher.

named-after

(cryptography) Ellipsis of Playfair cipher..

Here's a cipher message. Probably Playfair.

(cryptography) an encryption using the Playfair cipher


pseudodigraph

(graph theory) A graph that resembles a directed graph but violates one of the normal rules, as for example by including a directed loop.


deformat

en-verb

deformat (third-person singular simple present deformats, present participle deformatting, simple past and past participle deformatted)

deformats (present singular third-person)
deformatting (participle present)
deformatted (participle past)
deformatted (past)

(transitive, computing) To remove the formatting from.


antiworm

(computing) Countering or preventing worms (self-replicating programs).


chunker

From chunk (“divide into chunks”) + -er.

computational linguistics
computational linguistics

(computational linguistics) A software tool for dividing text into chunks.


CSG

en-noun

CSG (countable and uncountable, plural CSGs)

constructive solid geometry
constructive solid geometry#English

(computer graphics) Abbreviation of constructive solid geometry.


leaf node

(computing theory) A node, in a tree, that has no children.


defringe

en-verb

defringe (third-person singular simple present defringes, present participle defringing, simple past and past participle defringed)

defringes (present singular third-person)
defringing (participle present)
defringed (participle past)
defringed (past)

(transitive, computer graphics) To remove unwanted surrounding portions or speckles of colour from (an image).


brandjacking

This is one of the more blatant forms of brandjacking, in which a person claims to be an official representative of the company.

2009, Joel Postman, SocialCorp: social media goes corporate, page 121

(Internet) The imposture of the online identity of another person or company.


winner-take-all

(computing) Of a neural network model: organized so that neurons in a layer compete with each other for activation.


predeclare

predeclare (third-person singular simple present predeclares, present participle predeclaring, simple past and past participle predeclared)

predeclares (present singular third-person)
predeclaring (participle present)
predeclared (participle past)
predeclared (past)

(transitive, programming) To declare some source code element (such as a class) in advance of its full description, so that other preceding parts of the code can refer to it.


art game

(video games) A video game designed to convey an aesthetic and provoke a reaction, rather than to provide a traditional diversion with set goals.


loop invariant

(computer science) an invariant that should be true on entry into a loop and is guaranteed to remain true on every iteration of the loop

lykkjuóbreyta

invariant guaranteed to remain true on every iteration of a loop


hyperweb

(Internet) the software infrastructure for the hypernet, which provides access to data and application storage points in the cloud.


hypernet

(Internet) The Internet, inclusive of smartphones and WiFi networks.


QR code

Short for Quick Response Code, introduced as a trademark.

TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.

2023 December 13, “Network News: £13,000 stolen via car park QR”, in RAIL, number 998, page 11

A two-dimensional barcode, typically used to link to a website.

QR-ко́д

phonetically: кью-ар-ко́д, ку-эр-ко́д or кур-ко́д


committable

en-adj

committable (comparative more committable, superlative most committable)

more committable (comparative)
most committable (superlative)

committable message

committable sub-transaction

(computing) Able to be committed as a transaction; able to be implemented as a whole or rolled back as a whole, so that no partial implementation can occur.


echoable

That is, it must make sure that the host has caught up with the input character stream and echoed all echoable characters.

1976, Robert P. Blanc, Ira W. Cotton, Computer networking

(computing, rare) Capable of, or suitable for, being echoed to the display.


unbirthing

(Internet, paraphilia) Crawling back into a vagina and reentering the uterus (chiefly practiced in role-playing).


metacommand

(computing) A command that is not part of the language being written but serves as a directive to the interpreter or compiler.


upclock

en-verb

upclock (third-person singular simple present upclocks, present participle upclocking, simple past and past participle upclocked)

upclocks (present singular third-person)
upclocking (participle present)
upclocked (participle past)
upclocked (past)

(transitive, computing) To increase the clock speed of.


reclock

reclock (third-person singular simple present reclocks, present participle reclocking, simple past and past participle reclocked)

reclocks (present singular third-person)
reclocking (participle present)
reclocked (participle past)
reclocked (past)

And what's the big deal if people reclock their chips? “It gives us a bad reputation when a reclocked system fails!” says Intel.

1999 March 23, PC Mag, volume 18, number 6, page 87

(transitive, computing) To modify the clock speed of.


downclock

downclock (third-person singular simple present downclocks, present participle downclocking, simple past and past participle downclocked)

downclocks (present singular third-person)
downclocking (participle present)
downclocked (participle past)
downclocked (past)

(transitive, computing) To reduce the clock speed of.


sessionless

(computing, networking) Without a session; taking the form of a series of isolated requests.


podule

The podules Acorn plans to release include network cards (for Econet and Ethernet), ROM cards containing application software, a MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) sound card, an extended I/O card, […]

1987, Byte, volume 12, numbers 10-11, page 126

The Archimedes version of the Chromalock is a plug-in podule.

1989, Science Software, volume 5, page 231

Acorn's Springboard is a PC card with an Arm chip, either 1Mbyte or 4Mbyte of ram and a 32-bit podule bus. The result is a simple and cheap multiprocessor system on a PC base[…]

1990, Electronics World + Wireless World

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

(computing, dated) An expansion mechanism for ARM-based computer systems, generally a Eurocard-compatible printed circuit board that plugs into a backplane inside the machine.


bloggage

Back to the bloggage!

2005, Jonathan N. Calise, From the Mind of a Pez Dispenser, page 97

Sorry about my lack of bloggage. Since the last treatment I have been dealing with multiple, persistent side effects which lifted as of this afternoon.

2010, Robin Waites, George's Journey, page 82


e-sports

The effect on traditional sports is just one of the concerns often expressed about this phenomenon. The proliferation of e-sports conjures images of children eating sugary snacks late into the night as they stare at their screens.

2021 December 19, Joe Drape, “Step Aside, LeBron and Dak, and Make Room for Banjo and Kazooie”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

electronic sports
electronic sports#English

Short for electronic sports, the competitive play of video games as a commercial spectator sport.

電子競技

video games as a spectator sport — see also electronic sport


ZWNBSP

zero-width non-breaking space
w:zero-width non-breaking space

(computing, typography) Initialism of zero-width non-breaking space.


podder

Brrrtr had even sent Hrrryr, a podder. They had been born in the same pod.

2007, Samuel Blankson, The Kolumbas Affair, page 195

'It's the essential meat gunk that is supplied to the still-living podders,' she explained.

2010, Robertski Brothers, The McAtrix Derided

Paul says he started out as a Podder. He tried to do development deals with the Inner and Outer Systems, and he only became a renegade when he was betrayed by both.'

2013, Charles Sheffield, Proteus Unbound

(science fiction) One who was born in or lives in a pod.

Due to the signature white earphones, iPod users are able to recognize other "podders," an activity referred to as pod spotting.

2004, Innovation: The Journal of the Industrial Designers Society of America, page 32

You can still see podders with that vacant, 1,000-yard stare in coffeehouses, checkout lines and on treadmills, but the numbers are dwindling.

2006 July, Peter Buffa, “Hot stuff— for now”, in Orange Coast Magazine, volume 32, number 7, page 192

Novice podders need to be clear here about the important difference between restoring and updating iPod software.

2010, Steve Levine, The Art Of Downloading Music


podder

B., a Podder in the Bank, demanded and took a reward for his trouble in receiving the money.

1880, Kedarnath Ghosh, Compendium of Criminal Rulings

Five of these 100-rupee notes have been traced to a podder or money-changer in the Fort, who deposes that he received them from four soldiers in the Royal Fusiliers.

1915, Government Gazette: The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, page 48

He mentioned that he had no time to check the scrolls, and that the statement of the tellers and podders was quite false.


podder

It sounds like treacle,' said Abe, with a puzzled look; but I don't see what the podder's got to do with it, anyhow; and the young woman's got no business to be wasting her time waiting for the milk to set.

1898, The Literary World - Volume 57, page 70

Now and then toads would appear, and the shout " There's a podder!" would come from some child or other during an acute moving crisis.

1930, Mother Cecile in South Africa, 1883-1906: Foundress of the Community of the Resurrection of Our Lord, page 37

Speaking of toads—after a rainfall in South African country places, the roads would be hopping with great, fat, ugly, croaking toads (known to us kids as 'podders').

2006, F. M. K. Ridgway, Our Wandering Years, page 227


nonclustered index

en-noun

nonclustered index (plural nonclustered indices or nonclustered indexes)

nonclustered indices (plural)
nonclustered indexes (plural)

(databases) a type of database index that contains a series of sorted pointers pointing to the physical data rows, which are organized either in a heap or in the sort order specified by a clustered index, on the disk

index non-cluster

Index that contains a series of sorted pointers


clustered index

clustered index (plural clustered indices or clustered indexes)

clustered indices (plural)
clustered indexes (plural)

(databases) a type of database index that physically sorts the data in a table on the disk to match the criteria specified by the index.


ility

From the common suffix of various desirable qualities, e.g. testability, reliability.

One reason to use software libraries is that the authors have had time to add ilities in addition to the basic functionality.

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) An abstract quality that good software should exhibit.


systray

(computing) Abbreviation of system tray.


bpp

(computer graphics) Initialism of bits per pixel.


Start button

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) a labeled button in some versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system that opens the Start menu.


pseudowire

(computing, telecommunications) An emulation of a point-to-point connection over a packet-switching network.


pseudoterminal

(computing) A pair of pseudodevices that can communicate with each other without the hardware that a true device would require.


unattended installation

unattended installation (plural unattended installations)

(computing) An installation that does not require user interaction.


keyholder

(cryptography) The individual or organisation with access to a cryptographic key.


checked build

(computing) A special version of a software program that can provide advanced debug information in the event of a fault.


pseudodevice

/dev/null is a pseudodevice on Unix-like systems.

(computing) An entry in a file system that acts like a physical device without having the corresponding hardware.


themeable

(graphical user interface) Capable of having a visual theme applied.


cylinder-head-sector

(computing) An addressing system of hard drives where the hard drive is addressed by its cylinders, heads, and sectors.


head crash

head crash (countable and uncountable, plural head crashes)

This air passes through an internal filter to remove any leftover contaminants from manufacture, any particles that may have somehow entered the drive, and any particles generated by head crash.

2006, Rajmohan Joshi, Introduction To Computers, page 84

(computing) A collision of the head of a hard drive with the platter, resulting in permanent damage to the hard drive.


CHS

(computing) Initialism of cylinder-head-sector.


tracepoint

In addition to standard interactive debugging capabilities (display and modification of program variables, setting tracepoints and breakpoints for subprograms, displaying subprogram call stack, and so on), a number of new features were added for VAX Ada.

1987, A. Nico Habermann, Ugo Montanari, System Development and Ada, page 42

The first thing to notice is that tracepoints have no equivalent to the Trace commands, that is, there is no way to output information in a Release build using tracepoints.

2005, Karli Watson, Christian Nagel, Jacob Hammer Pedersen, Beginning Visual C# 2005, page 161

(computing, programming) A kind of breakpoint that performs a custom action.


photoreal

en-adj

photoreal (comparative more photoreal, superlative most photoreal)

more photoreal (comparative)
most photoreal (superlative)

Frequently, you can use the texture from one object to surface a completely different object. Figure 8.26 illustrates how a crab shell texture makes a wonderful photoreal fruit skin.

1998, Dan Ablan, Patrik Beck, Inside LightWave 3D

(computer graphics) Exhibiting photorealism.


energy bar

(video games) A bar indicating the proportion of a character's energy that still remains.


comp stomp

(slang, video games) A competitive game against one or more computer-controlled players.


taggable

(chiefly computing) Capable of being tagged.


freestore

(computing, programming) The heap of available memory.


tech up

en-verb

tech up (third-person singular simple present techs up, present participle teching up, simple past and past participle teched up)

techs up (present singular third-person)
teching up (participle present)
teched up (participle past)
teched up (past)

(video games) To upgrade to a higher technology level.


macroassembler

(computing) An assembler that supports user-defined macros.


imba

en-adj

imba (comparative more imba, superlative most imba)

more imba (comparative)
most imba (superlative)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:imba.

(video games, slang) Clipping of imbalanced.


lignel

(computer graphics) Any of the lines along the edge of a voxel, connecting its corners or pointels.


voxelization

en-noun

voxelization (countable and uncountable, plural voxelizations)

3D arrays of real numbers that are voxelizations of macromolecular structures

(computer graphics) The conversion of an image or model into voxels.


pointel

(computer graphics) Any of the eight vertices of a voxel.


surfel

(computer graphics) A unit square between voxels.


Shor's algorithm

(computing theory) A quantum algorithm for finding the prime factors of an integer.


backjumping

From back + jumping, modelled on backtracking.

(computing theory) A form of backtracking that may move more than one level at a time, used to improve the efficiency of certain algorithms.


reindex

en-verb

reindex (third-person singular simple present reindexes, present participle reindexing, simple past and past participle reindexed)

reindexes (present singular third-person)
reindexing (participle present)
reindexed (participle past)
reindexed (past)

(computing, databases) To index again or anew.


superrecursive

From super- + recursive, coined by Mark Burgin.

(computing theory) Being a generalization of ordinary algorithms that are more powerful than Turing machines.


activation record

en-noun

activation record (plural activation records)

(programming) a data structure containing subroutine state information located on the call stack

aktivaatiotietue

programming: data structure containing state information


poast

First sense is ancient; second sense probably first attested in c. early-2010s, but in common usage only as of the late 2010s. The spelling variant seems unexplained and may just be fanciful, or deliberately childish (compare memes like fren and groyper).

etydate

(humorous, Internet) A post on an internet site, especially associated with being "terminally online" or causing mischief.


predictive parser

en-noun

predictive parser (plural predictive parsers)

(computing) A recursive descent parser that does not require backtracking.

framsýnn þáttari

recursive descent parser that doesn't require backtracking


internetting

/ˈɪntəˌnɛtɪŋ/

/ˌɪntəˈnɛtɪŋ/

/ˈɪntɚˌnɛtɪŋ/

/ˌɪntɚˈnɛtɪŋ/

Plans must be analyzed continuously at all levels by simulation. We refer to the construct that makes this possible as a complete "internetting of nodes" and as a seamless "operation across networks." A node can be an airplane, a general, an Army private, a tank, or a UCAV. A collaborating network may be operated by the US Army or by an allied command. Internetting provides for the nearly direct connection of one of the nodes to any other node.

1995 December 15, “Technologies for Arming the Air Force of the 21st Century”, in New World Vistas: Air and Space Poer for the 21st Century: Summary Volume, [Washington, D.C.?]: USAF Scientific Advisory Board, →OCLC, page 12

(Internet, networking, also attributively) gerund of internet

(rare) The act of entwining or linking things together so as to form a network; interconnecting, networking.

Goals are postulated for future DOD [Department of Defense] growth in automated command and control capability and guidelines are generated which will aid future planners in specifying individual system characteristics which lend themselves to internetting, both within the individual systems and particularly within the over-all DOD command and control system.

1962 August, “Digital Computers”, in Rulon L. Thayne, Elizabethe H. Hall, Herman Miles, compilers, Computers and Data Processing Systems, Arlington, Va.: Hq. Armed Services Technical Information Agency, →OCLC, page 67, column 1

Last year we had planned to reduce the number of these radars to 151 by end fiscal year 1967. As you may recall, this reduction was predicated on the internetting of our radar system with that of the Federal Aviation Agency.

1967 January 26, Robert S[trange] McNamara (witness), “Statements of Hon. Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, and Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff”, in Military Procurement Authorizations for Fiscal Year 1968: Hearings before the Committee on Armed Services and Subcommittee on Department of Defense of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, First Session on S. 666 […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 243

The General Accounting Office (GAO) reported in 1975[…], that the system's management should address the need for improving (1) computer security and (2) the effectiveness and efficiency of internetting between computers in its automatic data processing (ADP) operations.

1977 March 3, John L[ittle] McClellan, Chairman, Subcommittee on Department of Defense, “Justification: Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard”, in Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1978: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session on H.R. 7933: An Act Making Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1978, and for Other Purposes […] Part 3—Operation and Maintenance […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 657

Although the internetting of academe makes it more likely for an exchange of information with our colleagues around the globe, scholars who study communication may be challenged to identify colleagues with similar interests.

1999, Steven A. Beebe, “International Communication Education”, in William G. Christ, editor, Leadership in Times of Change: A Handbook for Communication and Media Administrators, Annandale, Va.: National Communication Association; Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, page 63

The act of connecting a computer, an electronic device, etc., into a computer network (in particular, the Internet).

Internetting is the creation of a network of networks by interconnection of two or more computer networks.

1978 January, Frank Heinrich, “Usage of the NBS Data Encryption Algorithm”, in The Network Security Center: A System Level Approach to Computer Network Security (Computer Science & Technology; National Bureau of Standards Special Publication; 500-21, volume 2), Washington, D.C.: National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce; U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, section 2.3 (Internetting), page 24

"Internetting can make or break a network," Sytek, Inc.'s Robert R. Shatzer said during a session on local-area network gateways at the Interface '82 conference here last week. […] To illustrate the internetting concept, Shatzer displayed a chart in which small local-area networks were linked to large local networks, which were in turn tied to metropolitan networks, which were finally linked to long-haul networks.

1982 March 29, Bruce Hoard, “‘Internetting Can Make or Break Net,’ Sytek Director Tells Conference Session”, in John C. Whitmarsh, editor, Computerworld: The Newsweekly for the Computer Community, volume XVI, number 13, Framingham, Mass.: CW Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, columns 1 and 3

The user pays about 90 percent of the total costs of internetting—for a workstation or personal computer (PC), software, the local nets, and external connections—most of which would be paid by the user in any case for office, campus, or general communications.

1998, W. Russell Neuman, Lee McKnight, Richard Jay Solomon, “The Nature of Networks”, in The Gordian Knot: Political Gridlock on the Information Highway, Cambridge, Mass., London: MIT Press, page 79

The act of connecting multiple computer networks together; internetworking.

"I understand," Stoll said stiffly. "I'll do some hacking, internetting, see what I can find."

1995 November, [Jeff Rovin], created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, “Monday, 8:20 a.m., Washington, D.C.”, in Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, page 120

(informal) The act of using the Internet; specifically, searching for information using the Internet.


metaknowledge

metaknowledge (usually uncountable, plural metaknowledges)

/ˈmɛtəˌnɒlɪd͡ʒ/

Metaknowledge is knowledge about knowledge […] The hallmark of metaknowledge is its being a matter of knowing propositions in which one K[nowledge]-operator occurs within the scope of another. Knowledge about someone's ignorance thus counts as metaknowledge.

2005, Nicholas Rescher, Epistemic Logic: A Survey of the Logic of Knowledge, page 20 (Google preview)

(philosophy) Knowledge about knowledge itself (for example, epistemologic awareness).

The acts of monitoring, hypothesizing, and verifying are internal work which require a person's metaknowledge or knowledge concerning what kind of knowledge is needed and how that knowledge is appropriately used in the situation.

1996, Reiko Hayashi, “Cognition, Empathy & Interaction”, in Advances in Discourse Processes, volume 54, page 22 (Google preview)

Meta-knowledge is knowledge about how to acquire and exploit information, rather than basic knowledge about the world.

2004, Andy Clark, Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence, page 67 (Google preview)

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(psychology, artificial intelligence) Knowledge about types, domains, functions, or preconditions of knowledge.


front slash

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

(retronym, computing, nonstandard) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.


anonymouse

(informal) a person who posts to an online forum, or otherwise distributes information anonymously


arachnerd

Blend of arachnid + nerd, as a play on web and Web. Included on lists of Internet slang as early as 1996.

Why do I find these Internet neologisms so interesting? Guess it's because I'm a bona-fide arachnerd, a person that spends way too much time either surfing the Web or fussing with their home page.

2003 June 8, Chris Sherman, “To Google, and Other Internet Neologisms”, in Search Engine Watch

(Internet, slang) A person who spends a lot of time on the World Wide Web.


Las Vegas algorithm

Las Vegas algorithm (plural Las Vegas algorithms)

Named in contrast to a Monte Carlo method.

(computing) A randomized algorithm that always gives a correct result rather than merely giving a probably correct result.


Steiner point

(graph theory) An extra vertex that is not a member of the input.


CADAM

(computing) Acronym of computer-augmented design and manufacturing.


syscall

At an assembly code level, when a process wants to make a syscall, it will load the syscall number into the EAX register[…]

2009, Jatinder N. D. Gupta, Sushil K. Sharma, Handbook of research on information security and assurance

In addition, the relatively slow scalar CPU of the SX-9 and high cost of context switches (interrupts, syscalls) due to the huge context that needs to be stored away (like vector registers) contribute their part to the very poor UDP performance.

2010, Michael Resch, Katharina Benkert, Xin Wang, High Performance Computing on Vector Systems 2010, page 57

(computing) A software request for a service from the operating system kernel.


blogebrity

blogebrity (countable and uncountable, plural blogebrities)

It's been quite a turnaround for Hilton, who said that before becoming a blogebrity he had been in a deep depression and last year filed for bankruptcy and was fired from a job at a celebrity weekly magazine.

2006 November 6, “Perez Hilton says he's an 'outsider'”, in USA Today

(Internet, informal, countable) A well-known or popular blogger.

Given that there are more than 80 million blogs out there, according to the Web-tracking site Technorati, with roughly 15.5 million of them active, "blogebrity" is quite a bizarre phenomenon anyway.

2008, “Introduction”, in Sarah Boxer, editor, Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web, Vintage Books, page xii

(Internet, informal, uncountable) The state or phenomenon of fame achieved through blogging.


DX

double precision
double precision#English

(computing) Abbreviation of double precision.

Coordinate term: UX

(programming) Synonym of DevEx (“developer experience”)


phit

(computing) Abbreviation of physical unit of information transfer.


unreachable code

(computing) code that can never be reached during program execution because no part of the program calls it or branches to it.


PACS

PACS (plural PACS or PACSes or PACSs or PACS's)

PACS (plural)
PACSes (plural)
PACSs (plural)
PACS's (plural)

(medicine, software) Initialism of Picture Archiving Communication System.


tablespace

The tablespace provides a layer of abstraction between physical and logical data.

(databases) A storage location where the actual data underlying the objects in a database can be kept.


billboarded

(computer graphics) Displayed using the billboarding technique.


toggle switch

From the similarity of the control lever in early designs to a toggle.

When we add code modules, we will have an additional folder called (surprise!) Modules. We can use this toggle switch to display/hide all items within our folders.

2013, John Connell, Beginning Visual Basic 6 Database Programming, page 129

[…] most participants (17 out of 20) had problems using toggle switches and preferred checkboxes instead.

2023, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Maurice D. Mulvenna, Martina Ziefle, Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, page 14

(graphical user interface) A control resembling such a switch, allowing a setting to be enabled or disabled.


resultset

(databases) A set, often of tabulated data, that is the result of the querying of a database or a similar act.


coasterware

From coaster + -ware, from the jocular notion that the disc containing the software is more useful as a drink coaster.

From start to finish, it is a poorly conceived, ill-executed, and time-wasting piece of coasterware designed to suck money away from both fans of the much-lauded series and unsuspecting newcomers.

2003 November 1, “Europa Universalis: Crown of the North”, in Computer Gaming World

(computing, slang, derogatory) Exceptionally low-quality software.


overstore

en-verb

overstore (third-person singular simple present overstores, present participle overstoring, simple past and past participle overstored)

overstores (present singular third-person)
overstoring (participle present)
overstored (participle past)
overstored (past)

An attempt to overstore this new pitch command resulted in a real-time pitch maneuver being commanded 23 times at 1-minute intervals, due to an undetected bit error in the command message.

1967, Boeing Company, Lunar Orbiter I: Extended-mission Operations - Issue 848, page 3

Other FPL/I debugging features include: 1. each time or each n times that a particular identifier is referenced in any way or is referenced in order to overstore the element value, the execution of the program is temporarily suspended, the value of the identifier is displayed, and the CAPS user given the opportunity to use any of the available debugging features;

1968, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Department of Computer Science, Internal Report - Issue 257, page 46

BLH data from successive iterations overstore the original set of integrated BLH data.

1976, Ramani Ramakrishnan, Donald Randall, Robert N. Hosier, A computer program to predict rotor rotational noise of a stationary rotor from blade loading coefficients, page 26

If a satellite ephemeris is used for a planetary system, the gravitational constant for the planetary system obtained from the satellite ephemeris will overstore the value from the planetary ephemeris in the ODP.

2005, Theodore D. Moyer, Formulation for Observed and Computed Values of Deep Space, page 74

At user option, data from this operation overstore or are appended to original data.

2007, Leonard L. Grigsby, Power System Stability and Control, page 14-48

A response of y will overstore the passwdfile as, again, the previous message is simply a warning.

2018, Raj Rajgopal, Handbook of Heterogeneous Networking, page 83-9

(computing) To overwrite memory or storage.


overstore

If the overstore involves non-reducible data, i.e. data which cannot be effectively stored by interpolation at larger intervals from the original data, then the run will abort.

1970, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hydrodynamics Laboratory, Technical Report - Issue 133, page 395

[…] a loop data destroyed by overstore

1975, Edward A. Torrero, Microprocessors, page 49

Floating point error ( or a calculation that goes to zero ) Overstore, jump out of bounds, or illegal instruction.

1980, Proceedings of ... Annual ACM-SIGUCC User Services Conference, page 49

(computing) The overwriting of memory or data, especially when done in error.


dBFAST

(computing) A dialect of dBASE for Microsoft Windows


dBASE

(computing) An early database management system for microcomputers


TMP

Template metaprogramming
w:Template metaprogramming

(programming) Abbreviation of Template metaprogramming.


qugate

The time required for the operation of a qugate is usually referred to as gate time or τ_(gate), and it should also be much shorter than the decoherence time of each qubit.

2015, Richard A. Layfield, Muralee Murugesu, Lanthanides and Actinides in Molecular Magnetism, page 189

(computing) The kind of logic gate used in quantum computing.


qudit

Blend of quantum + dit. Compare qubit, qutrit.

(quantum computing) A quantum dit; the unit of quantum information described by a superposition of d states, where the number of states is an integer greater than two.


quantum computing

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

Quantum computing has the potential to break many previously unbreakable forms of encryption.

“The N.S.A. would obviously prefer that quantum computing were not possible,” said Dr. Seth Lloyd, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “But if it does turn out to be possible, then they need to be prepared.”

1997 February 18, George Johnson, quoting Seth Lloyd, “Quantum Theorists Trying to Surpass Digital Computing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(computing) The use of quantum mechanical phenomena to transcend classical time complexity limitations in computing.


fweep

(dated, computing) A person who used early minicomputers solely for playing games or using electronic mail.


marching ants

From the ant-like appearance of the moving dots.

(computing, graphical user interface) An animated dotted line indicating which portion of an image is currently selected.


gweep

gweep (third-person singular simple present gweeps, present participle gweeping, simple past and past participle gweeped)

gweeps (present singular third-person)
gweeping (participle present)
gweeped (participle past)
gweeped (past)

Purportedly coined by hackers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in 1977 and still in use through 1991. However, this entry did not appear in the Jargon File until the 1993 version 3.0.0, an edition which prompted controversy about Eric Raymond's stewardship and attention to proper attestation. The reliability of this particular addition is unclear; it was likely in use at WPI in 1991 as reported, but may have been specific to a much smaller subcommunity, particularly as it escaped mention in earlier editions of the Jargon File, which did capture other slang from WPI.

coin

(dated, computing, slang) To work on a minicomputer late at night.


gweep

(dated, computing, slang) A nighttime hacker on early minicomputers.


wall humping

We LPBs are truly bored with wall humping High Ping Whiners. I would like nothing more than to have someone who can kill me.

1998 March 17, Craig Fletcher, “Get a job.”, in alt.games.quake (Usenet)

Doom has three running speeds (not counting wall humping): running, strafe-running, and strafe-drawing. Strafe-drawing is a little faster than strafe-running, but harder to control for distance.

1998 April 21, Chris Dale, “How do you use the mouse?!”, in rec.games.computer.doom.playing (Usenet)

Indiana Jones was so-so. The walk through bush reminded me of tree humping (grrr). Didn't figure out the snake pit(due to lack of wall humping I hear), though it was obvious that was the point to work on.

2001 April 6, Tarf, “CL: April quest critique (was Re: CL: April's Fool question)”, in comp.sys.mac.games.adventure (Usenet)

Didnt the PF have to hump the path for a hours too? I really wanna know what kind of crack the PF GM is on. What kind of fucking moron would find wall humping for hours fun (besides mystics)? Maybe its time to go hump all the trees in SF again to see if the mirror will open because something was added after the last chaos storm with no warning or clues.

2001 November 19, Michael, “CL: Jack-ass area design”, in comp.sys.mac.games.adventure (Usenet)

Instead, you made it wall humping and pure luck. That is jackassitude.

2002 January 24, Kojiro, “CL: Shift of dynamics [was: thoughts on party size etc.]”, in comp.sys.mac.games.adventure (Usenet)

I don't think this is a statement that players are stupid. Not at all. They know what's good. This is a statement that engaging in quests, exploration and wall humping is an activity with a similar motivation to rattling the bars of your jail cell: You ain't got nuthin better to do.

2003 August 21, Ian Ollmann, “CL: Movable Portals”, in comp.sys.mac.games.adventure (Usenet)

(video games) (The act of a character) moving repeatedly against a wall, as if humping it, either intentionally (e.g. trying to find secret doors) or due to a glitch.


SAK

(initialism, computing) secure attention key (such as ctrl+alt+delete for Windows operating systems) (not in general use but used in topic-relevant online discussions).


pseudoparallel

(computing) Employing, or relating to, pseudoparallelism.


unicore

(computer hardware, of a processor) Having only one core.


pseudoparallelism

(computing) The execution of parallel processes on a unicore system.


dedecoration

Dedecoration did not produce any advantages in observing the size of the displacement of dislocations.

Applying the star-triangle and dedecoration transformations[…]

(graph theory) Decimation (the elimination of points from a lattice); the inverse of decoration.


hackaround

Just hafta remember to switch out of the always-on program before turning the Palm off. Or is there a hackaround for this inconvenience?

2000, Harold Rabbie, “Always-on programs”, in comp.sys.palmtops.pilot (Usenet)

If and when the EWG closes those holes with better language extensions, the library hackarounds can be refined or abandoned.

(computing) A hacky workaround; an unattractive but expedient solution.


coercibility

(databases) The ability of a string to override the collation of another string.


teamkill

en-verb

teamkill (third-person singular simple present teamkills, present participle teamkilling, simple past and past participle teamkilled)

teamkills (present singular third-person)
teamkilling (participle present)
teamkilled (participle past)
teamkilled (past)

Wait, I was killed by... a facility guard throwing the ball?! So, wait, I got teamkilled by SCP-018, which is good 'cause that's on my list of ways to die, but it was by a teammate?! I mean, that works, but I didn't think that was possible - OK!

2022 May 19, Simarded, 3:08 from the start, in Experiencing Death In Every Way In SCP Secret Laboratory - Part 2, archived from the original on 2023-02-11

(video games, transitive) To kill another player on one's own team.


teamkill

Albeit, at the time, the Type 93 would go on to be the central star of the most spectacular teamkill of the war, when the cruiser Mogami fired a salvo of six Type 93s at the cruiser USS Houston, missed, but, with their long range, the torpedoes quite happily motored on and blew up four friendly transports and a minesweeper. Yeah, not such a good day.

2021 January 20, Drachinifel, 22:02 from the start, in Type 93 Long Lance Torpedo - Long Range Hole Poking Device, archived from the original on 2022-11-01

(chiefly video games) The killing of another player on one's own team.


hyperheuristic

(computing) A heuristic search method that automates the selection of other heuristics.


run book

Coordinate term: playbook

Security administrators can create a series of runbooks and playbooks that can be used in response to a wide range of incident response activities.

2021, Arthur Conklin, Greg White, Chuck Cothren, Roger L. Davis, Dwayne Williams, Principles of Computer Security, McGraw Hill, page 542

(computing) A set of procedures prepared by an administrator for the day-to-day maintenance and exception handling of an IT system.


XPath

XML Path Language
XML Path Language#English

(computing) Abbreviation of XML Path Language.


XML Path Language

(computing) A query language for selecting nodes from an XML document, developed by the W3C.


smart quotes

(computing, typography) Curly quotes automatically inserted into text as a replacement for the straight quotes typed by the user.


graphing calculator

en-noun

graphing calculator (plural graphing calculators)

(mathematics, computing) A hand-held (usually programmable) electronic calculator which is capable of solving equations, plotting graphs and performing other tasks with variables.


homoglyph

/ˈhɒməʊɡlɪf/

First attested in 1938; formed as homo- (“same”) + glyph after homograph.

The homoglyphs I (uppercase i) and l (lowercase L) confused many who typed in the URL.

The E variant of the moon sign may perhaps be regarded as a homoglyph.

1938, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, The Inscriptions of Petén, volume IV, page 43

The lower case “L”, Upper case “i”, and Numeral “One” are homoglyphs.

All the other consonant phonemes are transcribed into the homoglyphs of their IPA representations.

2007, Shinji Ido, Bukharan Tajik, page page 4

The pair shown is the letter f and the guilder currency sign [ƒ]. Homoglyphs can also occur within the same writing system.

2009, Theodore Rosendorf, The Typographic Desk Reference, page 50

(linguistics, computing) A character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents; thus, in character encoding terms, a character with an identical or near-identical glyph, or the glyph itself.

homoglyphe

a character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents


fanout

fanout (countable and uncountable, plural fanouts)

B+ trees have very high fanout, which reduces the number of I/O operations required to find an element in the tree.

The fanout of a logic gate output is the number of gate inputs to which it is connected.

(computing, electronics) The degree to which something fans out, or splits into separate sections.


MBCS

Multi-Byte Character Set
w:Multi-byte character set

(computing) Initialism of Multi-Byte Character Set.


oversightly

en-adj

oversightly (comparative more oversightly, superlative most oversightly)

more oversightly (comparative)
most oversightly (superlative)

First attested in November 1999; a calque of the German übersichtlich (“readily viewable, clearly seen”), equivalent to over- + sight + -ly.

der

If you don’t like the look, feel and handling of the camera – don’t buy it! I have it, and I like the oversightly LCD display.

1999 November 21st, Henrik Egedorf, rec.photo.equipment.35mm, “Re: Nikon 8008 and N70” (see the original message)

It’s better (more oversightly, less buggy) than the vtesonline engine.

2006 December 6th, Bram Vink, rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad, “Re: Pack Alpha Ponderings” (see the original message)

[2009 September 9th, Tina Hall]: Very ‘uebersichtlich’…which means it’s easy to over-look (not meaning ‘miss’) and use at a glance, everything in its proper place.
I’d translate it as “oversightly”…mean[ing] something like “giving a good oversight of (itself)”.

2009 September 15th, Jonathan L Cunningham, rec.arts.sf.composition, “Re: OT: news reader software” (see the original message)

(rare, nonstandard, of a graphical user interface) Offering a clear and readily grasped overview (of something).


basename

(computing) A filename without any path or directory information.


TFS

Team Foundation Server
w:Team Foundation Server

(computing) Initialism of Team Foundation Server.


TFS

(Internet, Internet slang, text messaging, letter-writing, occasionally used) Initialism of thanks for sending.

letter-writing; occasionally used; letter-writing; occasionally used


tape library

(computing, historical) A device or room holding tape drives for storage purposes.


bk

(video games, slang) Initialism of bad kid, an inexperienced player or noob.


beerware

(computing, often humorous) Software that can be used under a relaxed licence, with the user encouraged to pay for the software by donating to its author enough money to buy a beer.


subfont

Two subfonts are available for EGA/VGA displays, and only one is available for LCD displays.

2001, Jim Cooper, Using MS-DOS 6.22, page 346

(computing, typography) A subset of a font, holding only some of its glyphs.


speedloader

Various speedloaders had different colours. You could also hear the data being loaded (1200baud iirc) and some programs had very interesting 'tunes' in them, and it was also possible to work out where you were in the load of your favourite games by the sound.

2002, John Bland, “Thumb Bandits.”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet)

(firearms, computing) Alternative form of speed loader


(Internet slang, leetspeak) Alternative spelling of haxor


ult

In addition to his healing and teleportion powers, Bard also has a unique ultimate ability, or ult. Ults are the most powerful moves each champion has—the one that takes the longest to unlock in a game, and is activated by pressing "R."

2015 March 13, Yannick LeJacq, “Why Bard Is Such An Exciting League Of Legends Champion”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 2021-12-09

To me, Lucio is the pinnacle of what a support character should be, he's fast, he's fun, he's useful, he can get eliminations and his ult can change the course of a game.

2016 June 2, Paul Tassi, “'Overwatch' Needs Not One, But Two New Support Heroes As Soon As Possible”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-01-17

On the other hand, notable nerfs have been applied to Raze and Brimstone. The cost for both agents' ultimate abilities, Showstopper and Orbital Strike, respectively, have been increased to seven ult points.

2020 July 22, Puah Ziwei, “'Valorant' patch 1.04 buffs Viper, nerfs Raze and Brimstone”, in NME, archived from the original on 2021-04-20

Those creators (Somjuu, Violet, and Flats) remixed how every hero in Overwatch plays, sometimes dramatically (Lucio's ult can now kill enemies and Sigma's Experimental Barrier is just ... gone) and sometimes superficially (Orisa now wears a Christmas hat).

2021 December 1, Michael McWhertor, “Overwatch gets weird with some over-the-top balance changes designed by players”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 2023-03-27

League of Legends game designer Azubuike "AzuBK" Ndefo-Dahl revealed that K'Sante's ult All Out was heavily inspired by the hugely popular scene from Naruto where Rock Lee drops his leg weight and shocks the audience.

2022 October 19, Sayantan "BibÖzil" Chowdhury, “"That Naruto moment was really key": League of Legends developers reveal the story behind K'Sante's ultimate”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2022-10-19

To improve her team repositioning Ultimate and put in more in line with the power of Valkyrie's Ultimate, Wraith's Interdimensional Portal can now cross twice the distance it could before. What's more, Wraith herself will speed up as she moves during her Ult.

2023 February 8, Ollie Toms, “All the Legend and weapon changes coming to Apex Legends Season 16”, in Rock Paper Shotgun, archived from the original on 2023-02-10

(video games, slang) An ultimate; the most powerful ability available to a character.


retagger

(computing) A program or algorithm that updates or changes tags.


webutation

Have you seen what that person is saying about you online? They are destroying your webutation.

(Internet, neologism) A person's or company's reputation on the World Wide Web.


pattern matching

(computer science) the act of checking some sequence of tokens for the presence of the constituents of a pattern

hahmonsovitus

computer science: act of checking tokens for patterns


immunoinformatics

(immunology, computing) The branch of bioinformatics that deals with immunology


copperbar

From copper + bar, after the "copper" (coprocessor) component of the Commodore Amiga chipset.

There a quite a lot of effects you can get with horz.retraces, eg a textmode copperbar (change color #0 with every scanline)

1996, WolfMan^iNSaNiTY, “Which scanline???”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

Although most cards still support screen-tweaking, you can just forget about copperbars (writing within horizontal retrace fuks up the screen BADLY) and other effex. Same goes for changing the font.

1998, Paul-Jan Pauptit, “Raster trix are a problem nowadays.”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

There was also the (really pretty famous) RSI Demomaker that let u make up your own intros/demos from a load of stock effects (bobs, starfields, copperbars, scrollers etc).. havent been able to find that tho...

2000, Lando, “looking for software”, in alt.amiga.demos (Usenet)

(demoscene) An animated horizontal bar of colour that extends into the overscan area of the display.


unauthorize

en-verb

unauthorize (third-person singular simple present unauthorizes, present participle unauthorizing, simple past and past participle unauthorized)

unauthorizes (present singular third-person)
unauthorizing (participle present)
unauthorized (participle past)
unauthorized (past)

This group of users includes anyone who has created a user account but either hasn't verified their account through their email or has been unauthorized by the administrator.

2015, Shaun Walker, Bruce Chapman, Cathal Connolly, Professional DNN7: Open Source .NET CMS Platform, page 157

(transitive, computing) To withdraw authorization or permissions from.


multiusing

I don't do much multitasking, let alone multiusing, and I already have an external 20MB hard disk attached to my PC.

A special type of network can be created by using multiusing. In a multiusing environment, all users share the same central processing unit (a microprocessor if the central unit is a microcomputer). […] The capability for multiusing is part of the hardware and operating system. It is not found in all computers.

1991, Steven M. Zimmerman, Leo M. Conrad, Understanding and using microcomputers

With the proper hardware and software, the BIOS might even be able to do multiusing functions, allowing several computers to access it and utilize its software and hardware.

1993, Aubrey Pilgrim, Upgrade or repair your PC & save a bundle

(computing) multiuser capability; the ability of a computer system to process requests from multiple users at the same time


preshifted

[…] elaborate masking, XDRAWing, refreshing, bit-shifting, preshifted shape sequences, […]

The images are preshifted, so that disparity is smaller than 1 pixel per camera displacement.

2010, Tobias Schuchert, Plant Leaf Motion Estimation Using A 5D Affine Optical Flow Model, page 50

Meanwhile, my good friend Bill Budge, an amazing Apple II games programmer, came up with an incredibly fast way to draw proportional text on the Apple II graphics screen using seven preshifted tables.

2011, Andy Hertzfeld, Revolution in The Valley, page 47

(chiefly computer graphics) Shifted in advance.


intertype

intertype declarations in aspect-oriented programming

(computing, programming) Between data types.


tinygram

Too many tinygrams can congest a network connection.

(networking, informal) A very small packet of data.


silly window syndrome

(Internet) A problem in data transmission, where a server, unable to process all incoming data, repeatedly asks the clients to reduce the size of the packets they are sending — to the point where all packets become extremely small ("tinygrams") and transmission becomes inefficient.


NUC

(computing, software) Initialism of not upwardly compatible.


textboard

go back to your textboards where youre the king of children

2003, Locco, “The keystying is calling...drop some shit...”, in alt.rap (Usenet)

Textboards would come first but then we'd see imageboards later on.

2008, Straha, “AH Challenge: Usenet triumphant”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet)

(Internet) A simple Internet message board that allows anonymous posting without registering an account.


gravatar

Blend of globally + recognized + avatar; a marketing coinage.

(Internet) An image (avatar) that registered users can use automatically on various blogging sites.


quicksave

quicksave (third-person singular simple present quicksaves, present participle quicksaving, simple past and past participle quicksaved)

quicksaves (present singular third-person)
quicksaving (participle present)
quicksaved (participle past)
quicksaved (past)

From quick + save. Attested at least since 1992, as a feature in the game Wolfenstein 3D (in the form "Quick Save").

Games can be quicksaved at any time, so you won't be forced to start every mission from scratch after making a bad tactical decision.

2000, Computer Gaming World, volumes 191-194

I think most gamers would be surprised by how much time they waste reloading and quicksaving for every minute imperfection and harmless mistake they make.

2004, Opticreep, “[POLL]: Save Gave Habits”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet)

6.00: the user “quicksaves” the game: the first time this happened

2009, Zach Waggoner, My avatar, my self: identity in video role-playing games, page 180

(video games) To save progress in one's game with a rapid keystroke, not needing to reach a checkpoint etc.


quicksave

(video games) A save created by quicksaving.


picklist

(computing, graphical user interface) A list from which the user can make a selection; a dropdown list.


trapdoor function

en-noun

trapdoor function (plural trapdoor functions)

From the idea that it is easy to fall through a trapdoor but difficult to climb back out.

(mathematics, cryptography) A function that is easy to compute in one direction but difficult to compute in the opposite direction (finding its inverse) without special information.


maxheap

(computing theory) A heap data structure with a "less than or equal to" comparison function.


smoothsort

(computing theory) A sorting algorithm based on heapsort but using the Leonardo numbers, tending to perform better than heapsort in cases where the items to be sorted are already partially sorted.


minheap

Minheaps are often used to implement priority queues.

(computing theory) A heap data structure with a "greater than or equal to" comparison function.


headered

Like a content control, a headered content control can have only one child in its Content attribute, and you can set the content implicitly or explicitly.

2008, Jesse Liberty, Alex Horovitz, Programming .NET 3.5


heapsort

(computing) A sorting algorithm based on the heap data structure.


heapsort

en-verb

heapsort (third-person singular simple present heapsorts, present participle heapsorting, simple past and past participle heapsorted)

heapsorts (present singular third-person)
heapsorting (participle present)
heapsorted (participle past)
heapsorted (past)

(transitive, computing) To sort with such an algorithm.


mergesort

(computing) A divide and conquer sorting algorithm that operates by dividing the items to be sorted into many small lists and gradually merging them together.


mergesort

mergesort (third-person singular simple present mergesorts, present participle mergesorting, simple past and past participle mergesorted)

mergesorts (present singular third-person)
mergesorting (participle present)
mergesorted (participle past)
mergesorted (past)


bundle adjustment

en-noun

bundle adjustment (plural bundle adjustments)

(computing theory, computer graphics) A process used in the reconstruction of a three-dimensional model from a set of photographs, simultaneously refining the coordinates describing the scene geometry as well as the parameters of the relative motion and the optical characteristics of the cameras that took the pictures.


shaderless

(computer graphics) Without the use of shaders.


commentation

commentation (countable and uncountable, plural commentations)

In-program commentation is another level of documentation that is compulsory, with standards being set regarding what should be included in source code.

1997, Case Studies in Algorithms and Programming

(programming) The use of comments in source code.


softlifting

(software) The purchasing of a single licensed copy of a software program and the loading of it on several machines, contrary to terms of agreement.


generification

generification (usually uncountable, plural generifications)

/d͡ʒəˌnɛɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

From Latin genus (“kind, class”). See -fy.

(computing) The process of making generic; conversion to use generics.


subversioning

(computing) The keeping track of changes in a file over time.


Thunderbird

The railway sense is derived from the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds, about a secretive high-tech rescue organization, ultimately from thunderbird.


ultrabook

From ultra- + book; see notebook computer.

(computing) A very lightweight and thin portable computer the areal size of a notebook computer or subnotebook.


crowd control

(video games) The concept or collective of action-impairing debuffs.


crowd control

en-verb

crowd control (third-person singular simple present crowd controls, present participle crowd controlling, simple past and past participle crowd controlled)

crowd controls (present singular third-person)
crowd controlling (participle present)
crowd controlled (participle past)
crowd controlled (past)


recrawl

recrawl (third-person singular simple present recrawls, present participle recrawling, simple past and past participle recrawled)

recrawls (present singular third-person)
recrawling (participle present)
recrawled (participle past)
recrawled (past)

Your Web site's listing in the search engine won't be updated until we get around to recrawling your pages.


unhashable

Mutable types like lists and dictionaries are unhashable.

2012, Allen B. Downey, Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling, page 28


code monkey

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A computer programmer.


semiweak

There are 2⁵⁶ (7.21 × 10¹⁶, about 72 quadrillion) possible keys for DES, of which four are weak and twelve are semiweak.

(cryptography, Data Encryption Standard) Producing only two different subkeys.


enaction

en-noun

enaction (usually uncountable, plural enactions)

An appreciation of the power of enaction in our understandings of the mind will throw into relief the question of motivations and goals.

2005, Ralph D. Ellis, Natika Newton, Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, conscious choice, and selective perception

The processes that underlie the organization and honing of these skills operate over a wide range of timescales, which include the enaction of a particular perceptual act at one end and the lifetime development of perception-action capabilities at the other.

2017, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Thomas Buhrmann, Xabier E. Barandiaran, Sensorimotor Life: An Enactive Proposal, page 76

The first mention of enaction as a history of couplings that bring forth a world referred to the activity of "sensorimotor networks". (Varela et al. 1991)

2018, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Elena Clare Cuffari, Hanne De Jaegher, Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity between Life and Language

Third, drawing on enaction and embodiment gives us the means for considering actions taken in response to musical sounds as sufficient for cognition, and thus constitutive of listeners' musical understanding.

2019, Mariusz Kozak, Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music, page 54

(philosophy, cognitive science, computer science) The interpretation of consciousness or understanding as a process of meaningfully engaging and interacting with the world in a hierarchy of actions that produce reactions.


upper memory area

(computing) The area of memory between 640 kB and 1 MB in an IBM-compatible PC.


high memory area

/ˈhʌɪˌmɛm(ə)riˌɛːrɪə/

(computing) The first 64 kilobytes of the area of memory beyond 1 MB in an PC-compatible machine.


A20 gate

(computing) A gate on x86 microprocessors restricting access to the memory beyond 1 MB.


kernel panic

If the timer doesn't get updated, watchdog will notice and force a kernel panic.

2005, Karl Kopper, The Linux Enterprise Cluster, No Starch Press, page 178

(computing) On Unix-derived operating systems, an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error.


bunnyhopping

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(video games) The act of jumping repeatedly to avoid enemy fire, especially in first-person shooters. In some games, the jumping animation or air speed is faster than the walking animation or speed, making hopping a more efficient mode of movement.


superscope

Microsoft recommends the use of superscopes when more than one DHCP server is present on a subnet.

2000, Robin Walshaw, Mission Critical Windows 2000 Server Administration, page 460

(computing) An outer scope that contains one or more subscopes.


subscope

Do not reuse variable names in subscopes

2008, Robert C. Seacord, The Cert C Secure Coding Standard

Lastly, a more powerful aggregation operation exploits the hierarchical relation between a scope and its subscopes.

2010, Kai Sachs, Ilia Petrov, Pablo Guerrero, From Active Data Management to Event-Based Systems and More, page 286

(computing) An inner scope contained within an outer scope.


unmark

en-verb

unmark (third-person singular simple present unmarks, present participle unmarking, simple past and past participle unmarked)

unmarks (present singular third-person)
unmarking (participle present)
unmarked (participle past)
unmarked (past)

to unmark text

(transitive, computing) To remove marks from.


reaccess

reaccess (third-person singular simple present reaccesses, present participle reaccessing, simple past and past participle reaccessed)

reaccesses (present singular third-person)
reaccessing (participle present)
reaccessed (participle past)
reaccessed (past)

It is interesting to note that this loop reaccesses the primary loop via line 4510 causing a jump to line 4105.

1993, Fred M. Lilienstein, Magnetics engineering fundamentals and computer-aided design solutions

(transitive, chiefly computing) To access again.


reaccess

page reaccesses

(chiefly computing) A second or subsequent access.


NoSQL

From no + SQL; more recently sometimes explained as short for not only SQL.

(computing, databases) A broad class of database management systems that differ from traditional relational databases in not using SQL as a primary query language and in omitting some common features to enhance scalability.


oct

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of octal.


undeclaration

en-noun

undeclaration (countable and uncountable, plural undeclarations)

(computing, programming) The act of undeclaring something previously declared.


CFG

context-free grammar
context-free grammar#English

(linguistics, computing theory) Initialism of context-free grammar.

Open the cfg and modify the first option.

control-flow graph
control-flow graph#English

(computer science) Initialism of control-flow graph.


multicache

Evaluation of High Performance Multicache Parallel Texture Mapping

(computing) Having or relating to more than one cache.


multimemory

(computing) Having or relating to more than one memory.


VFP

(computing) Abbreviation of Visual FoxPro.


fakester

These "fakesters" portray themselves as everything from inanimate objects like the World Trade Center to celebrities like Paris Hilton to historical forces like War (which lists its profession as "resolving disputes").

2003 August 13, Lessley Anderson, “Attack of the Smartasses”, in SF Weekly

(Internet) A user account on a social networking site with a profile containing information of a false, satirical, or promotional nature.


subkey

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A key located beneath another key in the registry.


taxel

From tactile element, modelled on pixel.

(computing, electronics) A tactile element in robotics etc.


stream cipher

(cryptography) a symmetric-key cipher in which plaintext digits are combined with a pseudorandom cipher digit stream


superframe

(computing, telecommunications) A frame (chunk of data) comprising several subframes.


Godcast

They are logging on to blogs, listening to Godcasts, interacting in chat rooms, and, in a sense, creating a highly personal just-for-me religion that connects a panoply of other beliefs.

2007, James B. Twitchell, Shopping for God: How Christianity Went from In Your Heart to In Your Face, Simon & Schuster, pages 13–14

(Internet, religion) A podcast featuring sermons or other content of a religious nature.


hyperoperator

(programming) An operator that acts on every member of a set.