OP

I know they are going to tweak stuff in the next few weeks with patches as they find one class is OP and another is sucking...

2012 August 29, “Re: 5.0.4 first blush”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet), message-ID <k1l1nq$emb$1@dont-email.me>

(video games) Abbreviation of overpowered.

(Internet, music) Initialism of overplayed.


tagline

(computing) A pithy quotation habitually appended to a signature in email, newsgroups, etc.


predictive

en-adj

predictive (comparative more predictive, superlative most predictive)

more predictive (comparative)
most predictive (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin praedictivus, from praedico. Equivalent to predict + -ive.


time slice

Coordinate term: timeslot

(computing) The period of time for which a process is allowed to run in a preemptive multitasking system.


time-serving

(computing) The functionality of a timeserver.


side scroller

(video games) A video game where the player views the world from the side, controlling a character who mostly travels horizontally (usually left to right) through a level.


token economy

The supply of any token is also important in the operation of a token economy, as well as for the more fundamental issue of token valuation.

2019, Chris Brummer, Cryptoassets: Legal, Regulatory, and Monetary Perspectives, Oxford University Press, page 165

(cryptocurrencies, economics) An economy based on cryptocurrency tokens.


functional requirement

en-noun

functional requirement (plural functional requirements)

(computing) Any of the functions of a software system, described formally.

funkční požadavek

description of any of the functions of a software system


redistributable

(computing) (of a software component) Allowable to be redistributed by a third party as part of its own software


redistributable

This ensures that the source gets compiled before the redistributables are built, and that the redistributable is built before the remote deployment.

2003, Erik Hatcher, Steve Loughran, Java development with Ant, page 6

(computing) A software component that can be redistributed.


VBScript

(computer languages) A scripting language that is a subset of Microsoft Visual Basic.


PATA

(computer hardware) Initialism of parallel ATA: a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk.


redirection

redirection (countable and uncountable, plural redirections)

/ɹiːdəˈɹɛkʃən/

/ɹiːdɪˈɹɛkʃən/

/ɹiːdaɪˈɹɛkʃən/

(Internet) The automated process of taking a user to a location other than the one selected.


coiner

From Middle English coynour, from Middle French coigneur; equivalent to coin + -er (agent noun suffix). In the cryptocurrency sense, coin + -er (“supporter”).

(cryptocurrencies) A person who invests in or advocates for cryptocurrencies.


ATA

(computing) Advanced Technology Attachment; a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. (Renamed PATA when SATA came into existence to more clearly distinguish the two.)


declarer

From Middle English declarer, equivalent to declare + -er.

(computer science) A statement that declares the properties of a variable or contributes to doing so.


windowed

full screen

antonym(s) of “occupying a graphical window”

From Middle English wyndowed, wyndowid, equivalent to window + -ed.

This game can be played both in windowed mode and in full-screen mode.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) Occupying only a part of the screen (in a window.)


wikification

wikification (usually uncountable, plural wikifications)

Given a text or hypertext document, we define “text wikification” as the task of automatically extracting the most important words and phrases in the document (keywords), and identifying for each such keyword the appropriate link to a Wikipedia article with detailed explanatory information about the corresponding keyphrase. ¶ Text wikification is performed in two steps. […]

2007, Andras Csomai, Rada Mihalcea, “Linking Educational Materials to Encyclopedic Knowledge”, in Rosemary Luckin et al., editors, Artificial Intelligence in Education, IOS Press, page 558

This task will introduce the process of “wikification”; that is, automatically and judiciously augmenting a plain-text document with pertinent hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles – as though the document were itself a Wikipedia article. […] Wikification is a useful process in itself, […]

2009, Ian H. Witten, abstract of the presentation “Semantic Document Processing Using Wikipedia as a Knowledge Base”, in Shlomo Geva et al. (editors), Focused Retrieval and Evaluation (INEX 2009 workshop proceedings), Springer (2010), page 3

3 Query Wikification
The process of automatically recognizing the topics mentioned in an unstructured text and linking them to the appropriate Wikipedia [6] articles is known as wikification. Two Wikification method[s] have been proposed by now.

2009–10, Amir Hossein Jadidinejad, Fariborz Mahmoudi, Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Meta-language Index Construction and Structural Queries, in Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I, page 73

(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) The automated process of adding links to Wikipedia (or another wiki) to specific words and phrases in an arbitrary text (e.g. a news article).


block diagram

A pictorial representation of a system or process in which subsystems or other components are represented by geometric shapes joined by lines or arrows


proof of technology

software engineering
software engineering

(rare, software engineering) proof of concept; pilot project


cushioning

cushioning (countable and uncountable, plural cushionings)

(slang, neologism, social media) The act or practice of someone entertaining other potential romantic options while the person is in a committed relationship.


foozle

The original Ultima was a kill-the-foozle type of game where the goal was to destroy the Gem of Power, which was held by an evil wizard named Mondain.

2005, William Abner, Gamer's Tome of Ultimate Wisdom 2006

(video games, slang) The final boss character in a game.


procedural

en-adj

procedural (comparative more procedural, superlative most procedural)

more procedural (comparative)
most procedural (superlative)

/pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəl/

a procedural texture

procedural terrain

(computing) Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.


breadcrumbing

(neologism, Internet, social media) The act or practice of pretending to be interested in pursuing or developing a sincere relationship with other users, while actually having no such interest.


overloading

en-noun

overloading (countable and uncountable, plural overloadings)

/ˈəʊ.və(ɹ)ləʊdɪŋ/

I guess we need to adapt to even more overloadings, since symbolophobia is part of Ada culture.

2013 July 9, G.B., “Re: The future of Spark . Spark 2014 : a wreckage”, in comp.lang.ada (Usenet)

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) A type of polymorphism, where different functions, operators or variables with the same name are invoked based on the data types of the parameters passed.


supplementary character
supplementary character

(computing) Unicode Transformation Format-16; a Unicode encoding scheme which uses two-byte (16-bit) code units (singly for characters in plane 0, and in four-byte [32-bit] surrogate pairs for supplementary characters in planes 1 through 16).


XYZ

(web design, cartography) Describing a URL scheme for providing map tiles, where X and Y refer to coordinates, while Z refers to zoom level.


headshell

(computing) A component of a Sun server, used to connect a console between two Sun machines. It is made up of a DB-25 male connector with a normal Cat-5 ethernet cable connecting to another DB-25 male connector.


convolve

en-verb

convolve (third-person singular simple present convolves, present participle convolving, simple past and past participle convolved)

convolves (present singular third-person)
convolving (participle present)
convolved (participle past)
convolved (past)

Borrowed from Latin convolvere, present active infinitive of convolvō (“roll together”), from con- (“together”) + volvō (“roll”); see voluble, volute, and compare involve, evolve, revolve.

(computing) To compute the convolution function


inkjet printer

(computer hardware) A device for the printing of documents which that operates by propelling tiny droplets of liquid ink onto paper.

噴墨打印機

device that prints using droplets of ink


meganiche

From mega- + niche, coined by Clay Shirky.

(Internet) A small niche on the World Wide Web that is highly specific and appeals only to a limited demographic but may still be worthwhile and successful because of the huge total number of users.


pentadecimal

Kleene [13] uses a similar approach, based on Turing machine encodings over an alphabet of fifteen symbols, which are then translated into pentadecimal numbers.

1980 April, Norman H Cohen, “Gödel numbers: a new approach to structured programming”, in ACM SIGPLAN Notices

(computing, mathematics) Based on the number 15; using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D and E.


tetradecimal

(mathematics, computing) Based on the number 14; using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C and D.


reducer

(software) A function that takes state and action as arguments and returns the next state of the app.


platform game

(video games) A video game of the genre characterized by jumping (or otherwise moving) to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles.

videojoc de plataformes

A video game characterized by jumping to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles


containerize

containerize (third-person singular simple present containerizes, present participle containerizing, simple past and past participle containerized)

containerizes (present singular third-person)
containerizing (participle present)
containerized (participle past)
containerized (past)

1. First and foremost, containerize or dockerize the Spring Boot app using a Dockerfile.

2017, Ajitesh Shukla, Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 115

(computing, transitive) To run an application in a software container.

conteneuriser

(computing) to run an application in a container


initialize

initialize (third-person singular simple present initializes, present participle initializing, simple past and past participle initialized)

initializes (present singular third-person)
initializing (participle present)
initialized (participle past)
initialized (past)

(computing) To assign an initial value to a variable.

инициализирам

to assign an initial value to a variable

(computing) To format a storage medium prior to use.

(computing) To prepare any hardware (such as a printer or scanner) for use.


fencepost problem

en-noun

fencepost problem (plural fencepost problems)

By analogy with fence-building. If one wants to say "lay a fencepost, then a length of fence, then repeat", then a special case must be made for the final fencepost. If one wants to say "lay a length of fence, then a fencepost, then repeat", then a special case must be made for the initial fencepost.

(programming) A problem dealing with how to treat the initial or boundary values of a discrete problem.


debuggee

(computing) A process or application being debugged.


constructor

From Medieval Latin cōnstrūctor, from Latin cōnstruō (“to build”). By surface analysis, construct + -or.

констру́ктор

in object oriented programming: code that creates objects

(object-oriented programming) A class method that creates and initializes each instance of an object.


crow's foot

crow's foot (plural crow's feet or crows' feet)

crow's feet (plural)
crows' feet (plural)

The crow's-foot notation similarly represents relationships.

1999, Robert J Muller, Database Design for Smarties

Each crow's foot in your ER diagram indicates the need for a foreign key.

2007, Geoff Coffey, Susan Prosser, Filemaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual

(databases) A symbol, resembling a bisected equilateral triangle, used in database diagrams to indicate plurality.


UDF

UDF (countable and uncountable, plural UDFs)

(computing) Initialism of Universal Disk Format.

(computing) Initialism of user-defined function.


resend

From re- + send. Attested since the 1550s.

EtymOnLine

Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “resend”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

If the BS reaches its maximum number of resends, it initiates another full authentication or drops the SS.

2007, Yang Xiao, WiMAX/MobileFi: Advanced Research and Technology, page 99


crosscut

en-verb

crosscut (third-person singular simple present crosscuts, present participle crosscutting, simple past and past participle crosscut)

crosscuts (present singular third-person)
crosscutting (participle present)
crosscut (participle past)
crosscut (past)

Once we've implemented a concern in the component language, we need to perform an analysis to determine where ancillary concerns might crosscut the code.

2003, Joseph D. Gradecki, Nicholas Lesiecki, Mastering AspectJ: Aspect-Oriented Programming in Java, page 34

(software engineering) To affect several modules of a program, without the possibility of being encapsulated in any one of them. See Cross-cutting concern.


paywall

→ German: Paywall

desc

→ Norwegian Bokmål: betalingsmur (calque)

→ Swedish: betalvägg (calque)

From pay + wall, by analogy with firewall.

Techdirt got wind of a secret meeting by newspaper execs, complete with antitrust lawyers, to discuss how to proceed on the issue of implementing paywalls going forward.

2009 May 29, ScuttleMonkey, “Newspaper Execs Hold Secret Meeting To Discuss Paywalls”, in Slashdot

Scores of other newspapers started selling digital subscriptions in 2011, either with a paywall on their sites or by charging for mobile access with an e-reader app. […] Time magazine also set up a paywall in 2011, its second attempt in two years, […]

2012, Dennis F. Herrick, Media Management in the Age of Giants: Business Dynamics of Journalism. Second Edition., UNM Press, page 332

As for the larger general-interest dailies, Long Island's Newsday was the first to erect its paywall, in October 2009. It allowed full access for subscribers to the print edition of the paper or the parent company Cablevision, or for people willing to pay $5 per week.

2015, Brian Gorman, Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, page 140

(informal, computing) A feature of a website, application or service that only allows access to certain content or functions upon payment.

付費牆

a feature of a website that only allows access to paying subscribers


paywall

en-verb

paywall (third-person singular simple present paywalls, present participle paywalling, simple past and past participle paywalled)

paywalls (present singular third-person)
paywalling (participle present)
paywalled (participle past)
paywalled (past)

(informal, computing, transitive) To restrict access to (a website or other resource) by means of a paywall.


error message

(computing) A message displayed when a failure condition occurs, usually on a computer or device.


BGP

Border Gateway Protocol
w:Border Gateway Protocol

(Internet) Initialism of Border Gateway Protocol.


keychain

(cryptography) A digital repository for the storage of cryptographic keys.


centroid

From centre + -oid. From 1844, used as a replacement for the older terms "centre of gravity" and "centre of mass" in situations described in purely geometrical terms, and subsequently used for further generalisations.

barycentre

centre of gravity of a uniform, rigid object

barycentre

centre of gravity of a set of points of equal mass

1974 [Prentice-Hall], Narsingh Deo, Graph Theory with Applications to Engineering and Computer Science, 2017, Dover, page 248,
Just as in the case of centers of a tree (Section 3-4), it can be shown that every tree has either one centroid or two centroids. It can also be shown that if a tree has two centroids, the centroids are adjacent.

2009, Hao Yuan, Patrick Eugster, An Efficient Algorithm for Solving the Dyck-CFL Reachability Problem on Trees, Giuseppe Castagna (editor), Programming Languages and Systems: 18th European Symposium, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 5502, page 186,
A node x in a tree T is called a centroid of T if the removal of x will make the size of each remaining connected component no greater than |T|/2. A tree may have at most two centroids, and if there are two then one must be a neighbor of the other [6, 5]. Throughout this paper, we specify the centroid to be the one whose numbering is lexicographically smaller (i.e, we number the nodes from 1 to n). There exists a linear time algorithm to compute the centroid of a tree due to the work of Goldman [21]. We use operatorname CT(T) to denote the centroid of T computed by the linear time algorithm.

(graph theory, of a tree) Given a tree of n nodes, either (1) a unique node whose removal would split the tree into subtrees of fewer than n/2 nodes, or (2) either of a pair of adjacent nodes such that removal of the edge connecting them would split the tree into two subtrees of exactly n/2 nodes.


skybox

Thankfully, tools have been created to assist in the skybox creation process.

2004, Paul Marino, 3D Game-Based Filmmaking: The Art of Machinima

To ensure consistent sizing for all images, you should give each image in the skybox the same pixel width and height dimensions.

2007, Stephen Cawood, Pat McGee, Microsoft XNA Game Studio Creator's Guide

(video games, computer graphics) A cube with textures on its inner faces, used to simulate the sky or similar backdrop around a three-dimensional playfield.


Commie

(computing, slang) A Commodore computer.


keygen

/ˌkiːˈd͡ʒɛn/

A key generator, or keygen, is a mini program that generates a product key or serial number that unlocks or activates software. Keygens are usually standalone executables, but some are command-line programs that you run in Command Prompt (Windows) or Terminal (OS X).

2013, Chris Fehily, Cancel Cable: How Internet Pirates Get Free Stuff

(computing) A small program used to generate a license key used to unlock a trial version of software illegitimately.


FSB

(computing) Initialism of front-side bus.


pentagraph

(computing) A five-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.


bluey

en-noun

bluey (countable and uncountable, plural blueys)

(Internet slang, derogatory) An online troll who uses the blue check verification system on Twitter.


USB token

(computing) A hardware device serving as a user identity credential that one can connect to a standard computer interface such as a USB jack; often used in addition to or instead of a password.


instadeath

instadeath (countable and uncountable, plural instadeaths)

/ˈɪnstəˌdɛθ/

It may seem rather harsh, but if one's going to play a cyborg (or the equivalent), the benefits of almost unlimited cyberware counterbalance the risk of dying in pure zones (or InstaDeath due to transformation).

1994 February 11, Jacob Bara-Skowronek, “Re: Space Gods (was Re: Demographics)”, in alt.games.torg (Usenet)

It's way too powerful, the point with the inferno SRM-2 was that it needed to close into a range where the infantry might have a chance of firing back before suffering instadeath.

1995, Robert J Chverchko, “Re: Napalm LRM's”, in rec.games.mecha (Usenet)

"Dylan O'Donnell", "Re: New spoiler - instadeath"http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/msg/d0a9feedf4d1b605, rec.games.roguelike.nethack Usenet
It's still only on the 5-turn timer if you're hit by a monster-thrown egg, though, as opposed to the instadeath from "elementary physics" if you throw one upwards yourself.

2007, "Mark Mackey", "Lost char due to bug in Crawl SS 0.7"http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.misc/msg/cce4ed2df23f1e64?dmode=source, rec.games.roguelike.misc Usenet
One of the nice things added to Crawl in the dc400 beta days was the removal of typo instadeaths: back in the bad days accidentally moving onto a lava or deep water square was effectively an instadeath.


instakill

Poisoned projectiles have a 10% chance of an instakill vs non-poison-resistant monsters. (Note that the Tsurugi of Murumasa and Vorpal Blade only have a 5% chance of an instakill.)

2006, Joe Bednorz, “Re: How do warrior types ever get the hang of spells?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet)

(board games, video games, slang) An instant kill.


instakill

Quite true re 3 hit DP instakill combo.

1994, Mike Hall, “Re: Best incarnations of characters..”, in alt.games.sf2 (Usenet)

The level of frustration is subjective. As long as everyone has the same instakill mobs there is a level playing field ergo I live with it. The instakill mobs do decrease the amount of adventuring you can do w/o being high level, so that is a personal pain in the butt for me.

1999, Richard Cortese, “Re: Aren't games supposed to be fun?”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet)

(board games, video games, slang) Having the ability to instantly kill.


permadeath

permadeath (countable and uncountable, plural permadeaths)

And yes, especially 'special' mobs coming back is a bit of a stretch. But then the players coming back is a stretch too, no? (yes, I know, many have implemented some form of permadeath).

1996 April 21, Jay Sax, “Re: Best features of a mud.”, in rec.games.mud.diku (Usenet), message-ID <ayudanteDq7xJB.9LG@netcom.com>

If you are doing your job right designing a game, the newbie experience should be almost good enough that people don't care about permadeath any more then they would picking up a new novel.

2001 February 4, Rick Cortese, “Re: Permadeath Debate Today”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.series (Usenet), message-ID <t7s713pgas0b26@corp.supernews.com>

I don't consider permadeath a reasonable solution for most virtual worlds.

2004 June 15, Lee Sheldon, Character Development and Storytelling for Games, page 401

Permadeath is simply a way to encourage the playing of more than one game so they can try everything.

2007 January 12, Ray Dillinger, “Re: Roguelike developer diary”, in rec.games.roguelike.development (Usenet), message-ID <45a7f875$0$68978$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>

(video games, slang) Permanent death, where the player cannot continue but is obliged to restart the game from the beginning.

Last week, as you might recall, I promised to play Fire Emblem: Awakening with permadeath on. I also promised to continue battling no matter what happened: in other words, if any of my party members died in combat, they'd be dead for good.

2013 February 8, Jason Schreier, “A List Of Characters I Accidentally Killed In Fire Emblem: Awakening”, in Kotaku (Usenet)

For many fans of the dungeon crawler genre, the ultimate risk is permadeath. And it’s just what it sounds like. If you die in a game with permadeath, your character is toast. Gone. Permanently.

2015 April 4, Laura Hardgrave, “Darkest Dungeon and Permanent Death in Video Games”, in Den of Geek (Usenet)

Combat gets a lot more challenging in the back half of the story, especially if you ratchet up the sliding difficulty gauge to hard (which, notably, features Fire Emblem’s signature permadeath for added consequences to your actions).

2017 October 26, Meghan Sullivan, “Fire Emblem Warriors Review.”, in IGN (Usenet)

it features character permadeath which can’t be disabled; as the press release puts it, “in this Fire Emblem game, if your soldiers meet their end, they’re gone forever.”

2023 June 16, Oli Welsh, “A classic Fire Emblem is coming to Switch Online very soon”, in Polygon (Usenet)

(video games, slang) Likewise, any situation where a player character or characters who die are lost permanently but do not trigger a game over, allowing the player to proceed without the character(s). Particularly applies if said deaths are avoidable (not forced by the plot) and occur only as a result of player blunder.


marshalling

marshalling (countable and uncountable, plural marshallings)

(software) The process of transforming the memory representation of an object to a data format suitable for storage or transmission, which is typically used when data must be moved between different parts of a computer program, or from one program to another.


uncheck

en-verb

uncheck (third-person singular simple present unchecks, present participle unchecking, simple past and past participle unchecked)

unchecks (present singular third-person)
unchecking (participle present)
unchecked (participle past)
unchecked (past)

Uncheck the “save my password” box.

If you uncheck either of these check boxes, [Microsoft] Expression Web 2 will create all new Web pages with uppercase tag names and/or attributes. Current Web standards require that HTML tag names and attributes be lowercase. Therefore, pages created with either of these boxes unchecked will not be compatible with existing standards.

2008 March, Jim Cheshire, “Using Web Page Views”, in Using Microsoft Expression Web 2, special edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Que Publishing, Pearson Education, page 138

(graphical user interface, US, Canada) To remove a checkmark.


underflow

From under- + flow, modelled on overflow.

(computing) A condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored; usually treated as an error condition.

podtečení

computing: a condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored

(computing) The error condition that results from an attempt to retrieve an item from an empty stack.


underflow

underflow (third-person singular simple present underflows, present participle underflowing, simple past and past participle underflowed)

underflows (present singular third-person)
underflowing (participle present)
underflowed (participle past)
underflowed (past)

(computing) To trigger the condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored.


exceptionless

(programming) Without the use of an exception-handling mechanism.


queuing

en-noun

queuing (countable and uncountable, plural queuings)

(chiefly computing theory) The act of placing something in a queue.


kang

en-verb

kang (third-person singular simple present kangs, present participle kanging, simple past and past participle kanged)

kangs (present singular third-person)
kanging (participle present)
kanged (participle past)
kanged (past)

Online alias of an XDA-Developers.com user who appropriated the work of other users.

(Android programming, slang) To appropriate someone else's work.


bisection

en-noun

bisection (countable and uncountable, plural bisections)


markup language

markup language (plural markup languages)

computer language
computer language#English

(computer languages) A computer language using markup.


wedged

The server seems to be wedged: it's not even responding to pings.

(computing, slang) Stuck; incapable of proceeding without help, though not having crashed.


antibot

If a bunch of bots all follow an account at the same time, or report the account as spam, this can trigger an account suspension. In this way Twitter's antispam and antibot tools are weaponized to create additional friction for the legitimate use of the service by targeted users.

2019, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media, page 172

(computing) Working to combat or defend against bots, especially malicious or disruptive ones.


gimped

en-adj

gimped (comparative more gimped, superlative most gimped)

more gimped (comparative)
most gimped (superlative)

(informal, computing) Modified by means of the GIMP image editor.


solid-state device

en-noun

solid-state device (plural solid-state devices)

(computing, technology) Any device which employs the electric, magnetic or optical properties of a solid, especially of semiconductors.


betweenness

betweenness (countable and uncountable, plural betweennesses)

This is done by computing all the betweennesses of all edges and then looking for the ones with the highest values.

2010, David Easley, Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World

(graph theory, countable) A measure of the number of geodesic paths through a node or edge.


Machead

If you're a Machead, sorry. Now that the Windows platform has begun to solidify and DirectX software plug-ins are a reality, there is little contest between a Mac and a PC […]

2003. Ben Milstead, Home Recording Power!, Thomson Course Technology, p. 160

A Machead, through and through […]

2005. Andy Lester, Chuck Toporek, Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell, O'Reilly, page 499

(slang) A fan of the Apple Macintosh computer.


decompiler

(computer science) A computer program performing the reverse operation to that of a compiler.


machine code

machine code (countable and uncountable, plural machine codes)

central processing unit
central processing unit

(computer science) A system of instructions and data directly understandable by a computer's central processing unit.

(computer science) Machine language instructions that can be executed directly by a computer's central processing unit.


PCL

Printer Command Language
w:Printer Command Language

(computing) Initialism of Printer Command Language.


BSP

BSP (countable and uncountable, plural BSPs)

binary space partitioning
w:binary space partitioning

(computing) Initialism of binary space partitioning.

(computing) Initialism of board support package (“device driver”).


decompile

en-verb

decompile (third-person singular simple present decompiles, present participle decompiling, simple past and past participle decompiled)

decompiles (present singular third-person)
decompiling (participle present)
decompiled (participle past)
decompiled (past)

(computer science) To recreate the original source code from a compiled executable.


Raku

Probably a clipping of rakudo, the standard compiler, from Japanese 駱駝 (rakuda, “camel”), an allusion to the traditional symbol of the Perl language.

Many programming paradigms have influenced Raku. It has started its life under the name “Perl 6” but has been renamed in 2019 to break the illusion that it is just another version of Perl.

2020, Moritz Lenz, Raku Fundamentals, 2nd edition, Apress, page 1

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) A programming language derived from Perl.


listenership

en-noun

listenership (countable and uncountable, plural listenerships)

/ˈlɪsənəʃɪp/

/ˈlɪsənɚʃɪp/

From listener + -ship (suffix denoting a property or state of being).

suffix

While Soviet jamming is intense, particularly in the vicinity of Moscow, we have evidence that "Voice [of America]" programs can be heard in areas 25 miles from Moscow and that there are listeners in numerous cities throughout the Soviet Union. Listenership in the satellites, according to refugees, is widespread.

1953 August–December, “‘Voice’ Move to Washington”, in U.S. Information Agency: First Report to Congress, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Information Agency, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10

[A]n increase in VOA [Voice of America] audience size may well have been concealed by a change in recording listenership. In all, VOA tied for third in listenership among foreign stations.

1969 April 28, “Highlights”, in Foreign Radio Listening in Czechoslovakia before and during the Invasion (Research Service; E-7-69), Washington, D.C.: Office of Research and Assessment, United States Information Agency, →OCLC, page ii

In the late sixties, as if the result of some galactic explosion, the popular idiom splintered and broke into so many components that a microscopic analysis of each is a difficult if not Herculean task. The cause of this diffusion can be traced to several sources. One was the rapid acceleration and increasing listenership to FM radio, whose alternative programming deviated from hard-rock to progressive country & western, from album cuts to singles, from lush strings to neo-jazz, and away from banal top-forty disc jockeys towards mellowed diplomats who were more influenced by orchestration than sensation.

1977, Peter E. Berry, “1969: The Tower of Babel”, in “… And the Hits Just Keep on Comin’”, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, page 89

On the other hand, listenership figures from SABC [...] indicate that Radio Metro, an English-medium music programme oriented to urban blacks has one of the highest listenerships of all stations among blacks.

1996, David Gough, “Black English in South Africa”, in Vivian de Klerk, editor, Focus on South Africa (Varieties of English around the World; G15), Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISSN, section B (Pan-ethnic Varieties), subsection 3 (English and the Media), page 56

What people "want" to read in newspapers, see on television and in films, and listen to over the radio is made available to them by the media owners and their managers. The main objective is to make continuous efforts to increase readership/viewership/listenership so that revenue of advertisements could be attracted.

1998, Nandini Prasad, “Electronic Media and Public Service Broadcasting”, in V. S. Gupta, Rajeshwar Dyal, editors, Media and Market Forces: Challenges and Opportunities: Proceedings of the Regional Seminars and the National Colloquium, New Delhi: [F]or AMIC; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung by Concept Publishing Company, page 117

The American research confirmed the figure of 35 million as the average listenership of the station within Nigeria.

2000, Mansur Abdulkadir, “Popular Culture in Advertising: Nigerian Hausa Radio”, in Richard Fardon, Graham Furniss, editors, African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: James Currey; Harare, Zimbabwe: Baobab, page 128

As long-time owners of an independent theater chain who were now in search of inexpensive, reliable content that would capture a young listenership for their fledgling radio network, [George Washington] Trendle and [John H.] Kunsky likely thought the Western was the kind of low-risk, high-reward genre KTBC was in search of.

2015, Avi Santo, “Putting on the Mask: Character Licensing before the Lone Ranger”, in Selling the Silver Bullet: The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing (Texas Film and Media Studies Series), Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, page 34

As noted earlier, Black musics including the blues have not had solely Black listenerships, or remained entirely Black practices: others have been captivated by these musics, contributed to their histories, and benefitted financially from them.

2021, Byron Dueck, “Music of Ethnic North America”, in Timothy Rommen, Bruno Nettl, editors, Excursions in World Music, 8th edition, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, page 454

The audience that listens to a certain form or genre of audio material (specifically (Internet, radio), an audio broadcast such as a radio program or a podcast).

tigpaminaw

audience that listens to an audio broadcast


POM

en-noun

POM (countable and uncountable, plural POMs)

(computing) Initialism of Project Object Model.


A*

(computer science) A best-first graph search algorithm for finding a lowest-cost path to a goal.


ladder logic

(computing) A technique for describing and drawing electrical logic schematics


debugger

6. Memorandum PDP-23, ID Invisible Debugger, August 20, 1964.

1965 January 15, J. B. Dennis, “Computer Research”, in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics. Quarterly Progress Report, no. 76, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), archived from the original on 2010-07-03, page 360

Invisible Debugger, commonly referred to as ID, a utility program in the PDP-1 time sharing system written to aid in the debugging of other programs. An advanced ID has been written (April, 1966) to allow all operations to be carried out either directly on drum fields or on running cores.

1966 May 20, MIT Electrical Engineering Department, chapter ID, in PDP-23-1, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, archived from the original on 2011-02-18, page 1

(programming) A computer program that helps the user to test and debug other programs, by enabling their step-by-step execution controlled by the user, setting of breakpoints, and monitoring values of variables.


linker

(software compilation) A computer program that takes one or more objects generated by compilers and assembles them into a single executable program.


Sybil

(computer security) Ellipsis of Sybil attack.


BEM

Where OOCSS and SMACSS can be seen as a more of frameworks for thinking about structured CSS combined with some handy rules of thumb, BEM is a much more rigid system for how to author and name your styles. BEM is originally an application development methodology from the search engine company Yandex.

2016, Andy Budd, Emil Björklund, CSS Mastery, Apress, page 387

(web design) Initialism of block, element, modifier, a convention for authoring CSS.


unsaved

I lost my unsaved work in the power cut.

(computing) Not saved (stored in a file).


output device

(computing) Any device that formats and presents data for display to a user; examples include printers and video monitors


address of record

address of record (plural addresses of record)

(computing, Internet) The SIP or SIPS URI that points to a domain with a location service that can map the URI to another URI where the user might be available, frequently thought of as the "public address" of the user.


blidget

Widgetbox also gives you the tools to create your own widgets— either by turning your blog into a "blidget" that others can subscribe to or by coding something unique and adding it to the Widgetbox collection.

2007 October, Robert Strohmeyer, “The 15 Best Web Apps You've Never Heard Of”, in Maximum PC

In particular, a "blidget" allows users to display a section of their blog on other web sites.

2008 April 30, Diana Ransom, “Starting Up: Small Biz Tech Speak”, in The Wall Street Journal

Figure 9.22 on Page 235 shows the finished blidget for Social Media Power. Widgetbox blidgets like the one we just created are free, but they also offer a pro version for around $30 a year that allows you to design custom themes for you blidget, among other features.

2009, Deltina Hay, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization: Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Succeeding in the Social Web, Dalton Publishing, page 236

(slang, Internet) In the context of blogging, a widget featuring a blog feed, which can be installed on another blog or website.


dot-com

Dot-com companies are different from the traditional 'brick and mortar' in many ways ...

2001, Banking & Finance, Academic Foundation, page 46


beachball

en-verb

beachball (third-person singular simple present beachballs, present participle beachballing, simple past and past participle beachballed)

beachballs (present singular third-person)
beachballing (participle present)
beachballed (participle past)
beachballed (past)

Is Xcode “beachballing” forever on you when we try to open a project that was working fine the day before?

2015, Magno Urbano, Troubleshooting Xcode, Apress, page 54

(computing, slang, intransitive) To hang; to stop responding to user input; (used of Mac computers, where this is indicated by a spinning coloured cursor like a beach ball).

rantapalloilla

slang, Mac computing: to stop responding to user input


printable

(computing) Of a text character: having a visual representation, unlike the control characters.


OAS

(computing) Initialism of OpenAPI Specification. (a specification for machine-readable interface files for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful Web services)


chunking

en-noun

chunking (countable and uncountable, plural chunkings)

(computing) The division of memory or data etc. into smaller units for easier processing.


desugar

en-verb

desugar (third-person singular simple present desugars, present participle desugaring, simple past and past participle desugared)

desugars (present singular third-person)
desugaring (participle present)
desugared (participle past)
desugared (past)

(transitive, programming, informal) To remove syntactic sugar from.


endpoint

(networking, telecommunications) The entity at one end of a connection.

(programming) Part of a system that serves as a hook, allowing third-party code to intercept and modify behaviour at that point.


piggyback

piggyback (third-person singular simple present piggybacks, present participle piggybacking, simple past and past participle piggybacked)

piggybacks (present singular third-person)
piggybacking (participle present)
piggybacked (participle past)
piggybacked (past)

A corruption of pickaback, itself a corruption of pick-pack, like a pack.

(transitive, Internet) To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.

(transitive, Internet) To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.


handler

From Middle English handler, handiller, equivalent to handle + -er.

If the expression is a throw, we unwind the stack seeking a handler expression.

2006, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Trends in Functional Programming, volume 5, page 62

(programming) A subroutine that handles a particular situation such as an event or exception.


idempotence

Latin roots, idem (“same”) + potence (“the quality of having power”) – literally, “the quality of having the same power”. Coined by 19th century American mathematician Benjamin Peirce in context of algebra.

compound

(mathematics, computing) A quality of an action such that repetitions of the action have no further effect on the outcome; the state of being idempotent.

idempotenssi

quality of an action such that repetitions of the action have no further effect on outcome – being idempotent


MR

en-noun

MR (countable and uncountable, plural MRs)

(software engineering) Initialism of merge request.

(computing) Initialism of mixed reality.


dereferer

/ˌdiːɹəˈfɜːɹə(ɹ)/

(Internet, rare) A service used for removing the URL of the referring page that referred the user to a given page, to maintain privacy.


backtracking

backtracking (countable and uncountable, plural backtrackings)

backtracking algorithm

Backtracking is used to solve problems in which a sequence of objects is chosen from a specific set so that the sequence satisfies some criterion. The classic example of the use of backtracking is the n-Queens problem.

2004, Richard E. Neapolitan, Kumarss Naimipour, Foundations of Algorithms Using C++ Pseudocode, 3rd edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, page 188

This grammar only uses tokens and rules, so there is no backtracking involved, and the grammar is a predictive parser. This is fairly typical. Many grammars work fine without backtracking, or with backtracking in just a few places.

2017, Moritz Lenz, Parsing with Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars, Apress, page 112

(computer science) The act of building all possible solutions to a problem incrementally, abandoning any candidate solution if it cannot lead to a valid solution.

malavanco

computer science: building all solutions and abandoning any if it cannot lead to a valid one


readout

The computer readout was inaccurate.

(computing) The information output from a computer in a readable form.


VPC

virtual private cloud
w:virtual private cloud

(cloud computing) Initialism of virtual private cloud.


noarch

RPM Package Manager
w:RPM Package Manager

(computing) Used by the RPM Package Manager to mark software packages that contain only content, such as graphics, documentation or similar data that can be used on any architecture.


Blender

(computer graphics) An open source, cross-platform suite of tools for the creation of 3D graphics.


droplist

(graphical user interface) A pull-down menu.


eventing

eventing (usually uncountable, plural eventings)

The concept behind eventing is fairly simple. With eventing, you have two pieces of code. For example, you might have a script that is running based on a scheduled task. That script might encounter some condition and can raise (or signal) an event, perhaps that it has completed its work. A second bit of code, perhaps a second script running on that same system, can register for events.

2011, Thomas Lee, Karl Mitschke, Mark E. Schill, Windows PowerShell 2.0 Bible

(computing) The ability of one system or part of a program to send notifications to another, by raising events.


extractor

(graph theory) A particular kind of bipartite graph.


logon

Using the same logon for different systems can be a security risk.

(computing) credentials: the combination of a user's identification and password used to enter a computer.

The user's desktop is displayed shortly after logon.


privatize

en-verb

privatize (third-person singular simple present privatizes, present participle privatizing, simple past and past participle privatized)

privatizes (present singular third-person)
privatizing (participle present)
privatized (participle past)
privatized (past)

If the compiler allocates a privatized variable to a register, it must examine whether the variable is live after the termination of the while-loop.

1997, David Sehr, Utpal Banerjee, David Gelernter, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 9th International Workshop, page 184

(computing, transitive) To render (a variable, etc.) private in scope.


computational design

(computing) The development of a computational theory of design.

(computing) The design of products and processes through the use of digital means, integrating digital technology.


ternary computer

en-noun

ternary computer (plural ternary computers)

(computing) Any computer that uses ternary logic instead of binary


Mallory

From an Anglo-Norman nickname for an unfortunate person, from Old French maleure, malheure (“unhappy, unlucky”) (whence French malheur), from mal (“bad”) + eur (“fortune”).

(cryptography, computer security) The malicious party in examples of threat scenarios. See Alice and Bob.


sortable

Borrowed from Middle French sortable; equivalent to sort + -able.

(graphical user interface) A component that allows a sequence of items to be reordered via drag and drop.


JNTSC

(video games, DVD) The Japanese version of NTSC, which differs from NTSC only in using the black level and blanking level of PAL rather than the differing ones of North American NTSC.


ternary

From Late Latin ternārius (“consisting of three things”), from ternī (“three each”).

der

An "if…then…else" construction is called a ternary operator when it is combined in one line of a program.

(programming) Of an operator taking three operands.


subjoin

(databases) A subordinate or secondary join.


zero-knowledge proof

en-noun

zero-knowledge proof (plural zero-knowledge proofs)

Implementation of a zero-knowledge proof significantly improves the privacy and security of many systems. However, it introduces additional costs in processing power and hard drive space.

2020, Lorne Lantz, Daniel Cawrey, Mastering Blockchain, O'Reilly Media, page 185

(cryptography) An interactive method for one party to prove to another that a (usually mathematical) statement is true, without revealing anything other than the veracity of the statement.

preuve à divulgation nulle de connaissance


filmstrip

(computer graphics) A file containing a sequence of images or video frames.


subdirectory

(computing) A directory located inside another directory.


clickprint

(computing) The unique pattern of a person’s Internet browsing activity.


pasteboard

pasteboard (countable and uncountable, plural pasteboards)

(computing, countable) A widget allowing multiple users to paste and share text or other items.


fixity

fixity (countable and uncountable, plural fixities)

One may use a fixity declaration in Haskell to describe an operator's precedence and direction of associativity.

(programming) The position of an operator relative to its operand (prefix, postfix) or operands (infix).


metanavigation

(Internet) A means of navigating from one website to a related one


finisher

Tie Up Fallaway Slam (Finisher)

1999, BradyGames, Secret Codes for Sega Dreamcast

Shadow Kick (OO+O) is best used as a punishing move and a combo finisher.

2002, Ben Cureton, Paul Edwards, Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance™ Official Strategy Guide

(video games, informal) A finishing move.


cyberterrorism

Youths from California, Michigan and Israel were also found to have discussed cyberterrorism in some chat rooms and are suspected of trying to inject a malicious computer code into the Web servers that form the communications backbone of the Internet, Mr. McLaughlin said.

2001 January 15, Victoria Shannon, quoting Matt McLaughlin, “Internet Conspiracy”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSN

(computing) The deliberate, large-scale disruption of networks of computers, especially of computers attached to the Internet, by means of viruses etc.


plex

Ultimately from -plex, from Latin plectere

Striped volumes of mirrored plexes can survive failure of up to half of their disks.

2002, Paul Massiglia, Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers, page 60

(computing) A designated portion of a disk, usually set up to mirror some of the contents.


mapper

As he churned out early versions of the Quake III engine, the mappers and artists felt adrift, with no direction on what to pursue.

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

(video games) A designer of levels for video games.

Throughout the Famicom's life span, Nintendo produced several ASIC mappers, which grew in capability and specialty, allowing the Famicom to break many of its own hardware rules.

2015, Nathan Altice, I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer/Entertainment System Platform

(computing, electronics) A software or hardware component that performs a mapping.


choosability

(chiefly graph theory) The property of being choosable.


while loop

From the keyword while used in many programming languages for this purpose.

(programming) A section of computer code in which an instruction or group of instructions is repeated only while a certain condition continues to be met.


flippy

Practical experience has shown the flippies are not a flawless or long-term solution. When a disk is flipped over, it turns in the opposite direction. In doing so, it bends the nap of the liner in the disk shell in the opposite direction […]

1989, Winn L. Rosch, The Winn Rosch Hardware Bible, page 512


hard disk

(computer hardware) One of a series of parallel magnetic recording disks in a drive unit, used for the recording and retrieval of digital information; used especially in personal computers.

(computer hardware) The unit itself, and all the disks within it.


renderer

From Middle English renderar, equivalent to render + -er.

(computer graphics) A software or hardware process that generates a visual image from a model.

hahmonnin

computer graphics: a process that generates a visual image


iterator

Coordinate term: iteratee

(programming) A method capable of performing the same action on every item in a collection.


replicator

Why, this planet was still centuries away from developing such necessities as personal replicators or portable nano-intelligences...

2001, Greg Cox, The Eugenics Wars Vol I: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek), Star Trek, page 76

either there is not such thing as a concept known as 'spacecraft' (inwhich case, any talk of spacecraft, warp drives, inertial dampers, replicators, and the like would be pointless), or indeed there is.

2001, Judith Barad, Ed Robertson, The Ethics of Star Trek, Harper Perennial, page 74

The scanner here on Earth will destroy my brain and body, while recording the exact states of all of my cells. It will the transmit this information by radio. Travelling at the speed of light, the message will take three minutes to reach the Replicator on Mars. This will then create, out of new matter, a brain and body exactly like mine. It will be in this body that I shall wake up.

2007, Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, Basic Books, pages 301–302

(science fiction) A technological device that replicates physical objects.


justifier

When the operator starts typing the third line, the justifier goes to work on the second.

1955, Book Production, volumes 61-62, page 43

(computing, typography) A machine, program or algorithm that justifies text by aligning it.


config

en-verb

config (third-person singular simple present configs, present participle configing, simple past and past participle configed)

configs (present singular third-person)
configing (participle present)
configed (participle past)
configed (past)

(computing, informal, transitive) To configure.


object code

(computing) The output of a compiler or assembler; it is not necessarily executable directly without linking to other modules


chipset

(computing) A group of integrated circuits that are designed to work together, and are usually marketed as a single product.


RCS

Rich Communication Services
w:Rich Communication Services

(networking) Initialism of Rich Communication Services.


RCS

(computing) Initialism of revision control system.


radio button

(graphical user interface) Any of a group of widgets in a graphical user interface that is used to select one of a group of options; the selection of any one deselects the others.

選擇鈕

selction button in graphical user interface


concurrency

en-noun

concurrency (countable and uncountable, plural concurrencies)

(computer science, by extension) A property of systems where several processes execute at the same time.

kunrulo

computer science: having several processes executing at the same time


autocomplete

en-verb

autocomplete (third-person singular simple present autocompletes, present participle autocompleting, simple past and past participle autocompleted)

autocompletes (present singular third-person)
autocompleting (participle present)
autocompleted (participle past)
autocompleted (past)


autocomplete

Tools like spellcheck, autocomplete, and speech-to-text impose someone's ideas of the rules of English automatically—invisible authorities that we can defy but not avoid.

2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 2, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books

(computing) A software feature that predicts the rest of a word a user is typing.


Garden of Eden

Calque of Biblical Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן (gan ʿḗḏen).

calque

In this paper the author presents some properties regarding the existence or non-existence of gardens of Eden for the cellular automata.

1986, Patrick Chenin, Claire Di Crescenzo, François Robert, Computers and Computing: Proceedings, page 181

I have gotten interested in Garden-of-Eden configurations in Life. All that I have been able to uncover thus far is that there are 2 know configurations:

1989 October 20, Rajeev Pandey, “hints and topics, anyone?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

A configuration e not in the image of τ, namely e ∈ C \ τ[C] is called a Garden of Eden (briefly GOE) configuration, this biblical terminology being motivated by the fact that GOE configurations only appear as initial configurations.

2004, Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein with Francesca Fiorenzi and Fabio Scarabotti, “The Garden of Eden Theorem for Cellular Automata and for Symbolic Dynamical Systems”, in Vadim A. Kaimanovich, editor, Random Walks and Geometry: Proceedings of a Workshop at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, June 18 - July 13, 2001, Walter de Gruyter, →OL

(cellular automata) A pattern that can only exist as an initial state and is not reachable from any other state.


throbber

(graphical user interface) A widget consisting of a static image that animates during execution of a task.


indeterminism

en-noun

indeterminism (countable and uncountable, plural indeterminisms)

Borrowed from French indéterminisme, equivalent to in- + determinism.

In detail, an inference strategy has to deal with the following three kinds of indeterminisms: 1. the selection of the initial path, 2. the selection of the next branch B to be expanded, 3. the selection of the next linking step to be performed on B.

2003, Robert Nieuwenhuis, Andrei Voronkov, Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning

These indeterminisms confuse a regular bus arbiter in deciding whether a transaction should be aborted or resumed.

2008, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, Behrooz Parhami, Seyed-Ghasem Miremadi, Advances in Computer Science and Engineering

This parallelism brings in conflicts and directional indeterminisms which cannot be solved by the CU.

2014, M.B. Zaremba, Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Technology

(countable, computing) A situation in which there are multiple valid options for next step in a process.


redraw

Redraws need to be synchronised with the screen refresh to avoid a flickery display.

(computing, graphical user interface) An update to the screen display.


algorithmics

(mathematics, computing) The subdiscipline of informatics or computer science that studies algorithms.


foreign key

(databases) A column (or group of columns) in a relational table that identifies another table, so that items in the two tables can be conceptually linked.


unstring

en-verb

unstring (third-person singular simple present unstrings, present participle unstringing, simple past and past participle unstrung)

unstrings (present singular third-person)
unstringing (participle present)
unstrung (participle past)
unstrung (past)

It is also possible to save the delimiters (this might prove useful if the delimiters were also some sort of text identifier) and to count the length of the data items we are unstringing.

1980, Norman R. Lyons, Structured Cobol for Data Processing

(transitive, computing, programming, COBOL) To split (a text string) into smaller strings by separating on a delimiter.


follow-up

(Internet) A posted message on a newsgroup, etc. in reply to a previous one.

svar

Internet: posted message in reply to a previous one


leaderboard

(web design) An advertisement on a web page spanning the width of the page and shallow in height.


parametrize

parametrize (third-person singular simple present parametrizes, present participle parametrizing, simple past and past participle parametrized)

parametrizes (present singular third-person)
parametrizing (participle present)
parametrized (participle past)
parametrized (past)


newsreader

(computing) A program for reading and posting to newsgroups.


round robin

/ˌɹaʊnd ˈɹɒbɪn/

From round (adjective) + robin. Sense 1 (“senses relating to something with a round shape, or which goes around”) is connected with the word round, while sense 2 (“senses relating to people, animals, or plants”) is connected with some English regional senses of the word robin where it is used in the names of various fish and plants which are not related to the red-breasted bird. However, apart from the alliteration, it is not clear why the two words came to be linked together in compounds. It is possible that the term was first used to refer to sense 1.13.1 (“consecrated host”) which appears to be the earliest attested sense, and then extended to other senses either having the sense of round or robin.
Alternatively, it has been suggested that the term is a corruption of French ruban rond (literally “round ribbon”), referring to the practice in 17th-century France of signing on ribbons which were then attached to petitions of grievances in a circular manner: see sense 1.1. However, this etymology does not explain the senses of the term unrelated to a signed document.

der

(also attributive) Senses relating to something with a round shape, or which goes around.

(computing) A method of making use of several similar subsystems, assigning tasks to each of them in turn (for example, sending data to a destination down several communication links in turn to achieve greater combined speed).

kiertovuorottelu

(online gaming) A method of dividing loot among a party of players by having the game assign loot, or an enemy corpse to loot, to each player in turn.


formatted

(computing, of a storage medium) That has been physically arranged to be in a state ready for the storage of data


macrosystem

(computing) A programming system in which small constructs (macros) represent groups of machine instructions.


net-raising

Fundraising, soliciting and gathering resources through or with the use of the internet.

Conducting marketing, advocacy, community organization and other awareness or consensus-building campaigns, through the internet.


inlining

(computing, programming) An instance of in-line expansion.


cast away

en-verb

cast away (third-person singular simple present casts away, present participle casting away, simple past and past participle cast away)

casts away (present singular third-person)
casting away (participle present)
cast away (participle past)
cast away (past)

If you want to change a class member inside a const member function, the traditional approach is to cast away constness by saying (X*)this.

1995, Embedded Systems Programming, volume 8, page 180

(computing, programming, transitive) To eliminate by means of a cast operation.


packet sniffer

Software designed for checking packets of data transferred over the Internet.


user datagram protocol

(Internet) A communications protocol that has no error recovery features, and is mostly used to stream material over the Internet.


fullscreen

fullscreen (third-person singular simple present fullscreens, present participle fullscreening, simple past and past participle fullscreened)

fullscreens (present singular third-person)
fullscreening (participle present)
fullscreened (participle past)
fullscreened (past)

(computing, graphical user interface) To make a window occupy the entire screen.


full screen

Most computer games are played in full screen mode.

(computing, graphical user interface) Of a window occupying all the available display surface of a screen.

plná obrazovka

occupying all the available displayable surface


session data

(computing) The set of session variables held on a server that allow the continuation of a conversation with the client without the need to continually reinput data.


extern

Short for external; used as a keyword in these programming languages.

Finally, get rid of the two function declarations and two externs that we added at the top of TEFIL.CPP so that we could support file_open().

1995, Martin L. Rinehart, Learn C++ Today!, page 552

This is probably the big thing with C++, the more you can avoid global concepts and nasty externs the better, an object/class should be totally self-contained.

2018, Brian Beuken, The Fundamentals of C/C++ Game Programming

(programming) In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same variable.


batch process

(computing) A series of commands or programs that are executed without human intervention; the execution of such a series.


spray

en-noun

spray (countable and uncountable, plural sprays)

→ Esperanto: spraji

→ Turkish: sprey

From Middle Dutch sprāien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sprēwijaną (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to sow, scatter”).
Cognate with Middle High German spræjen, spræwen (“to squirt, spray, dust, splash, straw”), Danish dialectal språe (“to open up, burst forth”), Swedish dialectal språ (“to sprout, shoot forth, burst”), Norwegian dialectal spra, spræ (“to splash, splatter, spout, burst forth”), Dutch sproeien (“to spray, sprinkle”), German sprühen (“to spray, sparkle”).

der

This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.

2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium

(computing, countable) The allocation and filling of blocks of memory with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.


spray

en-verb

spray (third-person singular simple present sprays, present participle spraying, simple past and past participle sprayed)

sprays (present singular third-person)
spraying (participle present)
sprayed (participle past)
sprayed (past)

to spray the heap of a target process

(transitive, computing, computer security) To allocate blocks of memory from (a heap, etc.), and fill them with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.


FRP

en-noun

FRP (countable and uncountable, plural FRPs)

More recently, FRP has been implemented in a language called Elm by Evan Czaplicki, targeting JavaScript.

2014, Dean Wampler, Alex Payne, Programming Scala, O'Reilly Media, page 448

functional reactive programming
w:functional reactive programming

(programming) Initialism of functional reactive programming.


prestate

(computer science) The state that exists before an operation.


SV

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
w:Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.


magnetologic

(physics, computing) Describing a device that uses magnetism to perform the logical operations normally performed using electronics


NDP

Neighbour Discovery Protocol
w:Neighbour Discovery Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Neighbour Discovery Protocol.

Nortel Discovery Protocol
w:Nortel Discovery Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Nortel Discovery Protocol.


committer

(computing) A person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository.


speed loader

(computing, dated) A software technique for loading programs (e.g. from cassette tape) more quickly than normally possible.


exponentiate

en-verb

exponentiate (third-person singular simple present exponentiates, present participle exponentiating, simple past and past participle exponentiated)

exponentiates (present singular third-person)
exponentiating (participle present)
exponentiated (participle past)
exponentiated (past)

(computing) To apply a mathematical exponentiation function.


co-citation

(Internet) The simultaneous linking to each of a group of webpages from each of another group of webpages, even though the members of the group do not link to each other; used by some search engines to establish a connection between related pages.


ASR

speech recognition
speech recognition#English

(computer science) Initialism of automatic/automated speech recognition.


file system

(computing) A method of organizing blocks of data on a storage device into files and directories.

фа́йлова систе́ма

(computing): method of organizing blocks

(computing) A set of blocks that are organized in this way.


desktop picture

en-noun

desktop picture (plural desktop pictures)

(computing) A picture displayed on a computer's desktop as a background behind windows and other user interface elements.


tunable

If you are working with TCP, some specific tunables are also available. By default, some TCP tunables have a value that is too low.

2013, Sander van Vugt, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Administration: Real World Skills for Red Hat Administrators

(computing) A setting that can be configured.


data flow

data flow (countable and uncountable, plural data flows)

(computing) The route between origin, via nodes, to a destination taken by a packet of data

(computing) The transfer of data between the components of a computer


adicity

From -adic (taken from monadic/dyadic/triadic [function/operator]) + -ity, or alternatively from -ad (taken from monad/duad/triad) + -icity. Compare Latinate equivalent arity, based on -ary.

1997, Robert W. Burch, 13: Peirce's Reduction Thesis, Nathan Houser, Don D. Roberts, James Van Evra (editor), Studies in the Logic of Charles Sanders Peirce, Indiana University Press, page 233,
Equivalently, it says that all relations of adicity greater than 3 may be reduced to relations of adicities 1, 2, and/or 3. The negative component of the Thesis says, first, that relations of adicity 2 may not in general be constructed from (reduced to) relations exclusively of adicity 1; and, second, that relations of adicity 3 and greater may not in general be constructed from (equivalently: reduced to) relations exclusively of adicities 1 and/or 2.

What can be predicted is that the adicity of any syntactic predicate is the same: since its adicity is a grammatical and not a thematic fact, semantic differences between predicates cannot affect their grammatical structure.

2004, Susan Rothstein, Predicates and Their Subjects, Springer, page 47

2007, Helier J. Robinson, Relation Philosophy of Mathematics, Science, and Mind, Sharebooks Publishing, 2nd Edition, page 68,
We have seen that every relation, without exception, necessarily has a term set, and the necessary properties of simplicity and an adicity: relations without these are impossible, merely nominal.

(logic, mathematics, computer science) The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian product.


framer

The Los Angeles Times is also policing Web sites that frame its site without permission. As of November 1997, the Times had threatened to send cease and desist letters to unlicensed framers.

2020, Julian S. Millstein, Jeffrey D. Neuburger, Jeffrey P. Weingart, Doing Business on the Internet: Forms and Analysis, page 116

(Internet) A person who embeds another person's web pages in an HTML frame, so that they misleadingly appear to be part of the framing site.


wall clock

In recent years a consensus has been reached among many scientists in the field that the most relevant measure of run time is actual wall-clock elapsed time.

1996, Roger W. Hockney, The Science of Computer Benchmarking, SIAM, pages 19–20

(computing) The measure of wall time, the actual amount of time taken from the start to the end of an operation.


UDDI

(Internet) Abbreviation of Universal Description Discovery and Integration (a platform-independent, XML-based registry for businesses worldwide to list themselves on the Internet.)


parity bit

(computing) A bit (binary digit) used to indicate whether the number of bits in a given set with value of one is even or odd. Parity bits are used as a simple error detection code.


arborescence

(graph theory) A directed rooted tree in which all vertices can be reached from the root.


declarative

[dɪˈklɛɹəɾɪv]

[dɪˈklæɹəɾɪv]

(programming) That declares a construct.

(programming) A way of programming that is most akin to just stating what is wanted, rather than having to describe how to do it. Declarative programming


main memory

main memory (countable and uncountable, plural main memories)

(computing) The primary volatile memory of a computer, not including memory cache, persistent disk storage, or external storage.


query language

(databases, programming) Any of several generalized computer languages in which users may extract data from selected records in a database


recommit

(programming) A second or subsequent commit.


ringmaster

Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites.

2002, Feroz Khan, Information Society in Global Age, page 100

Each of the member websites in a webring had a navigation area at the bottom of the page that had “next” and “previous” buttons directing surfers to other sites in the ring. […] People needed ringmasters because the number of sites aimed at women was exploding.

2020, Lisa Levenstein, They Didn't See Us Coming

(Internet) The person who maintains a webring.


repopulate

en-verb

repopulate (third-person singular simple present repopulates, present participle repopulating, simple past and past participle repopulated)

repopulates (present singular third-person)
repopulating (participle present)
repopulated (participle past)
repopulated (past)

to repopulate a grid

(computing) To fill with data again; to refresh.


resupply

en-noun

resupply (countable and uncountable, plural resupplies)

A resupply gives you the chance to refill your fuel bottle as well as your food bag.

2003, Buck Tilton, Trekker's Handbook: Strategies to Enhance Your Journey

(countable, backpacking, video games) A package of materials used to replenish supplies.


RPN

reverse Polish notation
reverse Polish notation#English

(computing) Initialism of reverse Polish notation.


LSA

LSA (countable and uncountable, plural LSAs)

latent semantic analysis
w:latent semantic analysis

(computing) Initialism of latent semantic analysis.


NSPA

(Internet) Initialism of network service point address.


NSAP address

Short for network service access point address.

(Internet) An identifying label for network endpoints, used in OSI networking.


TLDNR

(Internet, slang) Alternative form of tl;dr (“too long, did not read”)


interoperable

From interoperate + -able; alternatively inter- + operable.

Patents exist as incentive for inventors to reveal the workings of their inventions; to receive a patent, you must provide the patent office with a functional description of your invention, which is then published. Even though others may not copy your invention during the patent period, they can study your patent filings and use them to figure out how to do the same thing in different ways, or how to make an interoperable add-on to your invention.

2020 September 7, Cory Doctorow, “IP”, in Locus Magazine

2022, October 13, Binyamin Applebaum, "It Shouldn’t Matter So Much Whether Elon Musk Buys Twitter", The New York Times
A person with a Gmail account can send messages to a person with a Yahoo account because email systems are interoperable.

(computing) (of a system or device) Able to communicate, and exchange data with another system or device.


roll over

en-verb

roll over (third-person singular simple present rolls over, present participle rolling over, simple past and past participle rolled over)

rolls over (present singular third-person)
rolling over (participle present)
rolled over (participle past)
rolled over (past)

In this task, you'll revisit the button symbol so that it reacts when the user rolls over it.

2004, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, Macromedia Studio MX 2004

(transitive, computing) To move the cursor over.


laser printer

(computer hardware) A computer printer that uses a laser beam to produce an image on a rotating drum before transferring it to the paper.


decidable

en-adj

decidable (comparative more decidable, superlative most decidable)

more decidable (comparative)
most decidable (superlative)

It is easy to show that the set of even numbers is decidable by creating the relevant Turing machine.

(computer science) describing a set for which there exists an algorithm that will determine whether any element is or is not within the set in a finite amount of time.


ONU

Coordinate term: ONT

optical network unit
w:Optical Network Unit

(networking) Initialism of optical network unit.


raster graphics

(computing) A data file or structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of colour, on a computer monitor, paper, or other display medium.


private key

asymmetric cryptography
asymmetric cryptography

The unpublished key in asymmetric cryptography.


dead tree edition

en-noun

dead tree edition (plural dead tree editions)

A dysphemism, referring to the raw materials from trees used in the manufacture of paper.

dead-tree edition Derogatory cyberspeak for the paper version of a periodical....

2004, William R. Tracey, The Human Resources Glossary, page 167

The city's major daily newspaper, the Oregonian, is losing subscribers to the dead-tree edition but has a large online following.

2011, Rachel Dresbeck, Insiders' Guide to Portland, Oregon, page 322

(idiomatic, derogatory, humorous) Paper version of a publication that can be found in digital format.


coclique

(graph theory) a subgraph whose complement is a clique, i.e. an independent set


dominating set

(graph theory) A set of vertices of a graph, such that each vertex in that graph is either in that set or adjacent to a vertex in that set.


domination number

domination number (plural domination numbers)

(graph theory) the number of vertices in a minimum dominating set of a given graph, often denoted as γ=γ(G)


matching number

matching number (plural matching numbers)

(graph theory) the number of edges in a maximum matching, often denoted ν=ν(G)


covering number

covering number (plural covering numbers)

(graph theory) The number of vertices in a minimum vertex cover of a graph, often denoted as τ=τ(G).


edge cover

(graph theory) A set of edges which touch all the vertices of a graph.


FIOA

(computing) Initialism of fetch instruction operand address.


vertex cover

(graph theory) a set of vertices which touch all the edges of a graph


independent set

independent set (plural independent sets)

(graph theory) a set of vertices of a graph, such that no pair of them are adjacent to each other; in other words, a set of vertices which are all "independent" of each other


independence number

(graph theory) the number of vertices in a maximum independent set of a given graph, often denoted as α=α(G)


edge covering number

edge covering number (plural edge covering numbers)

(graph theory) The number of edges in a minimum edge cover of a graph, often denoted as ρ=ρ(G).


throwaway

Something temporary and disposable, as:
(Internet) A burner account.

Something temporary and disposable, as:
A burner account.


isogram

From iso- + -gram. The "contour line" sense was proposed in 1889 by Francis Galton.

A line on a map or chart, such as a contour line, joining points that have the same value for some quantity.


refactoring

(programming) An act or process in which code is refactored.


playlist

/ˈpɫæɪ̯ˌɫɪst/

When you collect a group of MIDIs into an album, you can play them much like a CD, with repeat mode, random mode, and a programmed playlist.

1998, Judi N. Fernandez, WAVs, MIDIs & RealAudio: Enjoying Sound on Your Computer

Strangers constructed playlists that pulled from artists and albums you’d never heard of, but without the performative high/low-ness that afflicts so much online music talk.

2015 November 17, Robinson Meyer, “A Eulogy for Rdio”, in The Atlantic

I hadn't spoken to her in a year, but she could still see my listens on the music platform we both used. I still went to those playlists for solace. A sense of collective understanding. We had stockpiled our youth.

2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books

No past, just traces / Nowhere to play, just playlists

2021, “Skyline”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon

(computing) A list of tracks or videos to be played in a particular sequence, as from an audio CD or a streaming service.


blanker

These screen blankers prevent phosphor burn on your screen, which is always a danger when you leave the screen on too long.

1987, Howard Bornstein, Under the Apple, page 221

(computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.


compilate

en-verb

compilate (third-person singular simple present compilates, present participle compilating, simple past and past participle compilated)

compilates (present singular third-person)
compilating (participle present)
compilated (participle past)
compilated (past)

From Old French compiler (early 14c.), from Latin compilare + -ate.

(rare, computing) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.


compilate

(rare, computing) An act of compiling code.


slot-loading disc drive

en-noun

slot-loading disc drive (plural slot-loading disc drives)


feed drive

(computing) A drive mechanism for CD-ROMs etc in which no tray is used; the medium is inserted in a slot and is pulled in


learning content management system

learning content management system (plural learning content management systems)

learning content management systems (plural)

(computing) A software system for the creation, management and transfer of learning content.


healee

(video games) A character who is healed.


attributed

This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires SocketPermission of the declared form.

2003, Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, C# in a Nutshell, page 536

(programming) decorated with an attribute


petaflop

...a better machine is a petaflop machine. A petaflop is a quadrillion flops, a quadrillion floating-point operations per second, so a petaflop machine is a thousand times as fast as a teraflop machine, or a million times as fast as a Cray Y-MP8. The petaflop machine will exist by the year 2000, or soon afterward.

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

units of measure
units of measure#English

floating point operations
floating point operation#English

(computing) Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer:

a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operations per second.

First computer to surpass the 1 Petaflop (2⁵⁰ FLOPS) barrier [in 2008]

2012 Fall, Edgar Gabriel, COSC 6374 — Parallel Computation: Introduction and Organizational Issues, slide 20: “IBM Roadrunner”

1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second.


teraflop

The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8. One such design for teraflop machine, by Monty Denneau at I.B.M., will be a parallel supercomputer in the form of a twelve-foot wide box. You want to have at least sixty-four thousand processors in the machine, each of which has the power of a Cray. And the processors will be joined by a network that has the total switching capacity of the entire telephone network in the United States. I think a teraflop machine will exist by 1993. Now, a better machine is a petaflop machine. A petaflop is a quadrillion flops, a quadrillion floating-point operations per second, so a petaflop machine is a thousand times as fast as a teraflop machine, or a million times as fast as a Cray Y-MP8. The petaflop machine will exist by the year 2000, or soon afterward.

floating-point operation
floating-point operation

(computing) A unit of computing power equal to one trillion (10¹²) floating-point operations per second.


oversubscribe

en-verb

oversubscribe (third-person singular simple present oversubscribes, present participle oversubscribing, simple past and past participle oversubscribed)

oversubscribes (present singular third-person)
oversubscribing (participle present)
oversubscribed (participle past)
oversubscribed (past)

(programming) To use the oversubscription technique in multithreading.

(networking) To use the oversubscription technique in a computer network.


machine-readable

en-adj

machine-readable (comparative more machine-readable, superlative most machine-readable)

more machine-readable (comparative)
most machine-readable (superlative)

machine-readable dictionary

An ASCII text file may not be considered machine-readable if its contents do not follow a predictable, well-defined structure.

(computing) Organised or formatted in a way that permits unambiguous interpretation by a program.


autoformat

en-verb

autoformat (third-person singular simple present autoformats, present participle autoformatting, simple past and past participle autoformatted)

autoformats (present singular third-person)
autoformatting (participle present)
autoformatted (participle past)
autoformatted (past)

(computing, transitive) To format (a document, etc.) automatically.

(computing, transitive) To automatically prepare (a mass storage medium) for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process, without requiring a prompt from the user to do so.


dominator

(graph theory) A node that dominates another.


hit point

The in/out status for the hit point is determined by examining the loop which has the subelement (edge or vertex) closest to the hit point.

1991, Michael John Muuss, Lee A. Butler, “Combinatorial Solid Geometry, Boundary Representations, and n-Manifold Geometry”, in David F. Rogers, Rae A. Earnshaw, editors, State of the Art in Computer Graphics: Visualization and Modeling, New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, page 213

(computer graphics) In ray tracing, the point in a scene at which a ray strikes an object.


hyperinnovation

(computing) A state of multidimensional interconnections (as in hyperlink or hypertext).


teleprocessing

(dated, computing) The exchange of data between computers, or between a central computer and terminals, via telecommunications links; data communications


tombstoning

(computing) The process of (automatically) initiating software sleep mode on an app.


PIT

en-noun

PIT (countable and uncountable, plural PITs)

(computing) Initialism of programmable interval timer.


huggle

en-verb

huggle (third-person singular simple present huggles, present participle huggling, simple past and past participle huggled)

huggles (present singular third-person)
huggling (participle present)
huggled (participle past)
huggled (past)

(Internet, childish) To hug and snuggle simultaneously: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.


huggle

(Internet, childish) A hug while snuggling: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.


dirty code

That software has dirty code and we should not use it.

(computing, derogatory) Software code that has had many editors with conflicting styles, making it nearly impossible to maintain.


hauler

From Middle English halere, equivalent to haul + -er. Doublet of haulier.

The majority of a haul video's content, however, is dedicated to the “haul” itself: meaning, these users' recent purchases. And an entire wing of YouTube is occupied by these videos, some with remarkably high viewership. Haulers will go through their purchased goods one-by-one, placing them near the camera so viewers can see the details in each object, and often making observations and recommendations as they go along. Within YouTube's haul discourse, there remain two […]

2016, Aaron Duplantier, Authenticity and How We Fake It: Belief and Subjectivity in Reality TV, Facebook and YouTube, McFarland, page 132

(Internet) Someone who makes a haul video.


pixel tracking

(Internet) The use of code associated with a single pixel tag (invisible to the user) to monitor the activity of the user, especially his use of advertisements


portlet

(Internet) A pluggable user interface component making up part of a portal, such as a fragment displaying weather or news headlines.


surface area

en-noun

surface area (countable and uncountable, plural surface areas)

Disabling network access to unused ports reduces surface area.

(computing) The total resources of a system that are accessible from the outside world and thus might be attacked.


third-party

a third-party video game; a third-party character; third-party hardware

(computing, hardware, software) Of products, created or published by an independent publisher or manufacturer or its internal development teams, as opposed to first-party and second-party.


third-party

en-verb

third-party (third-person singular simple present third-parties, present participle third-partying, simple past and past participle third-partied)

third-parties (present singular third-person)
third-partying (participle present)
third-partied (participle past)
third-partied (past)

A very common mistake that Fortnite players make is being too exposed during their fights. The first step is to acknowledge that they can get third-partied.

2022 February 12, Aakrit Sharma, “8 things Fortnite pros do during a 3rd party situation (& you should too)”, in Sportskeeda

While the majority of players have given up with Seer, there are a select few who believe he still has a place in the meta. One of them is aceu, who recently explained on stream why Seer is still a strong pick due to his ability to "third-party" opponents.

2022 April 27, Alex Garton, “Aceu claims Seer is actually "meta" in Apex Legends for third-partying”, in Dexerto

Not only that, but you can also gauge the whereabouts of their target, making it easier to third-party them.

2022 June 21, Josh Brown, Joseph Yaden, “Call of Duty: Warzone tips and tricks to win the war”, in Digital Trends

(video games) To intervene in a fight between two players or teams, often allowing one to easily defeat both (sometimes seen as unfair).


bounced

(Internet) unsuccessful delivery of email


B-tree

(computing) An indexed data structure suitable for storage of a large number of items in a balanced fashion, with very few disk accesses required for locating the correct record block.


redevelop

redevelop (third-person singular simple present redevelops, present participle redeveloping, simple past and past participle redeveloped)

redevelops (present singular third-person)
redeveloping (participle present)
redeveloped (participle past)
redeveloped (past)

to redevelop an unsuccessful product for relaunch

(transitive) To develop again or differently.

(software, transitive) To reprogram (an app).

To develop again or differently.
To reprogram (an app).


Mbps

(computing) megabit per second, a measure of data transfer rate


backseat

backseat (third-person singular simple present backseats, present participle backseating, simple past and past participle backseated)

backseats (present singular third-person)
backseating (participle present)
backseated (participle past)
backseated (past)

(video games, usually derogatory) To give advice on how to play a video game while another person is playing the video game.


edgeware

en-noun

edgeware (countable and uncountable, plural edgewares)

(software, computing, uncountable) Computer software that is noticeably cutting-edge, that is, significantly innovative, either by taking a totally new approach to a task or by creating a completely new class of application or completely new class of software.


jack in

en-verb

jack in (third-person singular simple present jacks in, present participle jacking in, simple past and past participle jacked in)

jacks in (present singular third-person)
jacking in (participle present)
jacked in (participle past)
jacked in (past)

(music recording, computing, electronics) To insert an electronic coupling into a receptacle; to connect to something, whether involving a physical medium or not.


Internet

Coined by the U.S. Defense Department in 1986, shortening of internetwork.

coin

2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreword", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
[I]f you think the Internet existed in 1970, I can only guess that the education system has left at least one child behind.

The specific internet consisting of a global network of computers that communicate using Internet Protocol (IP) and that use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to identify the best paths to route those communications.

Internet

specific internet consisting of the global network of computers


fractionate

en-verb

fractionate (third-person singular simple present fractionates, present participle fractionating, simple past and past participle fractionated)

fractionates (present singular third-person)
fractionating (participle present)
fractionated (participle past)
fractionated (past)

(cryptography) To divide each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols as a preliminary stage of encryption.


DAG

en-noun

DAG (countable and uncountable, plural DAGs)

directed acyclic graph
directed acyclic graph#English

(computer science, mathematics) Acronym of directed acyclic graph.


materialization

materialization (countable and uncountable, plural materializations)

From material + -ization and materialize + -ation.

(databases) The creation of a temporary table containing the results of a database query.


programmatically

From programmatic + -ally or programmatical + -ly.

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

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

Mark-up coding was programmatically added to identify certain data types from others, for example, headwords and citations.

2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 489

(programming) Through program code, rather than through a user interface.


tristate

The 4 input ports are simply tristates that can be addressed to enable the data from any one of them to be read by the standard input port of the printer interface.

2000, John Blankenship, C is for Control

Configuration options that control the build process are either Booleans or tristates.

2010, Robert Love, Linux Kernel Development, page 14

(programming) A variable, etc. that can take any of three distinct values.


hall of fame

Scoring is by time taken, percentage of quest completed and charms collected with an overall rating offered. As in Underwurlde there is no Hall of Fame, largely due to the size of the program.

1985, Knight Lore (video game review in Crash issue 12)

[…] hanging out with Dave instead down at the video arcades in Houndsfield Street, spending our pocket money on rubbing out each other's names from the Space Invaders' Hall of Fame.

2013, Emlyn Rees, Josie Lloyd, The Boy Next Door, page 100


TL/DNR

(Internet, slang) Alternative form of tl;dr


Wikipedia

/ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdɪə/

Blend of wiki + encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001.

Shopping online for deals on some writable media / I edit Wikipedia

2006, “White & Nerdy”, in Straight Outta Lynwood, performed by “Weird Al” Yankovic

Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information.

2007 April 5, Greg Daniels, Michael Schur, “The Negotiation”, in The Office, season 3, episode 19, spoken by Michael Scott (Steve Carell)

Bart: So Dean Martin would show up at the last minute and do everything in just one take?
Homer: That's right.
Bart: But Wikipedia said he was “passionate about rehearsal.”
Homer: Don't you worry about Wikipedia. We'll change it when we get home.

2008 April 27, Jeff Westbrook, “Apocalypse Cow”, in The Simpsons, season 19, episode 17

Civility – translated as savoir-vivre in the French version – is one of the five "pillars" of Wikipedia.

2011 January 12, Timothy Garton Ash, “We've seen America's vitriol. Now let's salute Wikipedia, a US pioneer of global civility”, in The Guardian

To see how ghastly things have turned, look at the pages of the highly popular Wikipedia. Its free accessibility has made it a very useful and popular Internet resource. Then due to reports by Nature in 2005 of Wikipedia’s higher accuracy than online offerings of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Wikipedia has been gaining in respect as a legitimate online reference source. […]

2011, Andrew S. Balian, “Introductory Preface”, in The Unintended Disservice of Young Earth Science, Charleston, South Carolina: Christian Research Publishers, “Terrible Consequence of YE Denying This Early Church History”, pages 28–29

Sirius is 8.6 light years away / Arcturus is 37 / The past is the past and it's here to stay / Wikipedia is Heaven / When you don't want to remember no more / On the far side of the morning

2013, “We Real Cool”, in Warren Ellis, Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

"Cottagecore" refers to an internet aesthetic that, according to Wikipedia, "celebrates a return to traditional skills and crafts such as foraging, baking, and pottery, and is related to similar nostalgic aesthetic movements such as grandmacore, farmcore, goblincore, and faeriecore."

2020 September 15, Stephanie Osmanski, “What Is the Cottagecore Aesthetic? How T.Swift, Animal Crossing & COVID Are Involved”, in Parade, archived from the original on 2020-09-26

[…] we could be on the cusp of a genuine technological revolution where systems like GPT-3 replace search engines or Wikipedia as our default resource for discovering information.

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

A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

In August 2009, Wikipedia announced that it planned a move that many saw as a step away from its freewheeling ethos of anyone can edit.

Wikipedia mounted a 24-hour protest starting at midnight by converting their English page to a shadowy black background and warning readers that "the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet."

(metonymically) The community that develops Wikipedia.

(astronomy) A main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).


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His new project is to create a Wikipedia for UFO sightings from all around the world.

Likewise, it is much more important to build a complete set of libraries for all aspects of computing, a Wikipedia of free code, than to worry that further language innovation is the gating factor towards any future progress in software.

2007, Keith Cary Curtis, After the Software Wars, page 166

The library will function something like a Wikipedia of drug discovery, where scientists around the world can contribute to the database and even provide samples or screen drugs themselves, thereby saving millions of dollars on R&D.

2008 May, Melissa Wenner, “The Drug Resurrector”, in Popular Science, page 41

And when interesting ideas arose, such as creating a Wikipedia of top-secret content for the intelligence community, he provided cover for those ideas to develop.

2011, Eric Liu, Scott Noppe-Brandon, Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility, page 155

A wiki or similar collaborative database, especially one that is also an encyclopaedia.


puzzler

With the exception of certain handheld titles […], puzzlers (such as the countless Tetris iterations), and download-only games […], two-dimensional gaming has largely become a lost art, alienating many of us who grew up in a 2D virtual world.

2012, Brett Weiss, Classic Home Video Games, 1985-1988: A Complete Reference Guide

(video games) A video game in which the player is presented with (usually abstract) puzzles to solve.