clown world

Emerged from The Honkler, a version of Pepe the Frog meme featuring a red clown nose and rainbow wig, characterized as honking a bicycle horn whenever liberals speak. That meme is associated with the use of honk honk ("HH") as a dog whistle for Heil Hitler.

[…] instead of the young boys growing up to be feminine, weak cry babies like they are in the modern ultra-liberal clown world they live in today.

2020 December 10, James Nicholls, How Uk Should Be, Xlibris Corporation

Bloody idiots. But remember, this is an age when hurty feelings come above everything else, especially free speech. Sums up our stupid clownworld backward feminut times, eh?

2020, P. J. Vanston, Somewhere in Europe, unnumbered page

But he wasn't a chad. If you are not a chad you are literally an unperson in this clown world.

2021, anonymous, quoted in Martin Robinson, You Are Not the Man You Are Supposed to Be: Into the Chaos of Modern Masculinity, unnumbered page

(slang, derogatory, alt-right) The current absurd and irrational state of global society from the perspective of the alt-right movement.


symbolicate

en-verb

symbolicate (third-person singular simple present symbolicates, present participle symbolicating, simple past and past participle symbolicated)

symbolicates (present singular third-person)
symbolicating (participle present)
symbolicated (participle past)
symbolicated (past)

Xcode generally does a good job of automatically symbolicating the reports (replacing addresses with method names) in Organizer as long as you keep the .dSYM for every binary you ship.

2011, Rob Napier, Mugunth Kumar, iOS 5 Programming Pushing the Limits, John Wiley & Sons, page 163

(computing) To replace memory addresses with symbols (names of methods, classes etc.) in a stack trace, to aid in debugging.


QRAM

random access memory
random access memory#English

(quantum computing) Initialism of quantum random access memory.


triqubit

The Deutsch gate is then indeed universal within the triqubit world.

2008, Zdzislaw Meglicki, Quantum Computing Without Magic: Devices, MIT Press, page 320

(quantum computing) Involving three qubits.


QCU

(quantum computing) Initialism of quantum control unit.


quantum processing unit

en-noun

quantum processing unit (plural quantum processing units)

(quantum computing) A computational unit that uses quantum computing principles to perform a task.


QPU

We find that the performance of both approaches is likely to depend on the quantum interconnect that serves to entangle multiple QPUs.

2017 March 17, Keith A. Britt, Travis S. Humble, “High-Performance Computing with Quantum Processing Units”, in ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, volume 13, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 39:1–39:13

quantum processing unit
quantum processing unit#English

(quantum computing) Initialism of quantum processing unit.


quantum register

quantum register (plural quantum registers)

(quantum computing) A collection of qubits on which quantum gates act.


hypercarry

From hyper- + carry, in the sense that this character "carries" the player through the game.

Alice is a hypercarry: level her up and she will take you all the way to endgame.

2015, Dignitas, Hypercarries: Misconceptions and Reality, Dignitas.gg
Be it hyper carry, hypercarry, hard carry, or any other term you want to call it, a hypercarry is a specific subclass of the carry role.

Her Elemental Burst also gets stronger for every attack that Eula lands, making her a hypercarry similar to Hu Tao and Razor.

2021, Marc Santos, “'Genshin Impact' Guide: Best Team Compositions For Eula”, in International Business Times

(video games) A video game character that does so much damage that success in the game is mainly dependent on that character.


Deutsch gate

Named after British physicist David Deutsch.

named-after

(quantum computing) A three-qubit quantum gate.


quantum gate

(quantum computing) A basic quantum circuit operating on a small number of qubits.


quantum logic gate

en-noun

quantum logic gate (plural quantum logic gates)

So far, experimenters have managed to make single quantum logic gates. Factoring a 300-digit number would require stringing together thousands of gates, and even quantum computing's most enthusiastic supporters admit that such a goal is exceedingly daunting.

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

(quantum computing) Synonym of quantum gate


NISQ

Coined by physicist John Preskill in 2018 (see quotations below).

coin

For this talk, I needed a name to describe this impending new era, so I made up a word: NISQ. This stands for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum.]

[2018, John Preskill, “Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond”, in Quantum, volume 2, page 82

The quantum computing era that we are living in today is known as the NISQ era, as mentioned in the previous section.

2021, Srinjoy Ganguly, Thomas Cambier, Quantum Computing with Silq Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 86

Initially, Google would be focusing on so-called "noisy intermediate-scale quantum" (NISQ) algorithms, he said. NISQ is the low-hanging fruit of quantum computing that scientists hope will make the technology useful this decade.

2022 July 28, “Google seeks quantum gains in Aussie labs”, in The Australian Financial Review, Melbourne, page 3

To my knowledge, this is the first piece of work to demonstrate quantum benefit using a NISQ machine to solve militarily important problems and that will build confidence and underpin continued investment in quantum information processing by the UK MOD and Government.

2023 January 13, “United Kingdom: Making better, faster decisions with quantum computing”, in Asia News Monitor, Bangkok

(quantum computing, attributive, neologism) Acronym of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (computer).


bell character

(computing) A control character with the value seven (Unicode code point U+0007, ASCII 0x07), originally used to ring a bell on telegraphy equipment to alert the operator to an incoming message; on modern computers, generally causes a beep or buzzer to sound when printed to a terminal window, or may cause the terminal window to flash briefly.


Matrioshka brain

en-noun

Matrioshka brain (plural Matrioshka brains)

A hypothetical megastructure of immense computational capacity powered by a Dyson sphere.


CRDT

These eventually consistent data types are called Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types, or CRDTs. CRDTs are an emerging concept. The idea first appeared in a paper in 2011 by Marc Shapiro et al. At this point, CRDTs are not widely used, but interest in them is growing,[…]

2016, Michael Nash, Wade Waldron, Applied Akka Patterns […], O'Reilly

conflict-free replicated data type
w:conflict-free replicated data type

(distributed computing) Initialism of conflict-free replicated data type.


data wrangling

Despite the challenges, data wrangling remains a fundamental building block that enables visualization and statistical modeling. Only through data wrangling can we make data useful.

2016, Bradley C. Boehmke, Data Wrangling with R, Springer, page 3

(data management, slang) The process of transforming and mapping data from one raw data form into another format with the intent of making it more appropriate for a variety of downstream purposes such as visualization and analytics.


filepath

(computing) The location of a file in a directory structure. Also known as the path of a file. A path can be absolute or relative.


side mission

When one of the daily robberies ends with him accidentally merking the robber (a real player, which the NPCs aren’t supposed to be able to attack), Guy gets his hands on the victim’s sunglasses—a pair of eyewear that allows him to see, like “Rowdy” Roddy Piper in They Live, the secret messages (and, in this case, powerups and side missions and stats) scattered across his world.

2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club


perma

en-verb

perma (third-person singular simple present permas or perma's, present participle permaing or perma-ing, simple past and past participle permaed or perma'd)

permas (present singular third-person)
perma's (present singular third-person)
permaing (participle present)
perma-ing (participle present)
permaed (participle past)
permaed (past)
perma'd (participle past)
perma'd (past)

My points were that a permanent death model was used on LegendMUD the predecesor to UO and it failed miserably. Promoted ongoing endless "hate" wars of permaing other peoples characters (perma'd character would make new one, build up, hunt down who perma'd him, that person would respond in same).

1997 December 21, Jag, “Re: Good Post/Idea”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.online (Usenet)

(transitive, video games, slang) To permakill.


modmin

Instead of alerting the officials, users are told to tag a modmin, who will quickly review the situation and do what needs to be done so that the group can continue to function.

2019, Jessica Reyman, Erika M. Sparby, Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression

As soon as I set up a course page with my CRs as my fellow modmins, my course students immediately joined the page and within a week I started lectures.

2020 June 7, Naira Khan, “OP-ED: The online pivot in Bangladesh”, in Dhaka Tribune

As those needs come, Williams and her team of modmins remain more dedicated than ever to keeping their Buy Nothing Group as welcoming and safe a space as possible in order to both provide – and create – community.

2021 June 1, Olivia Monahan, “How a Sacramento ‘Buy Nothing’ Facebook group helped a community thrive in 2020”, in The Sacramento Bee

Having moderators and administrators (modmins) who are very active can go a long way to knowing who is in your community, what’s happening in your community, and ensuring everyone feels comfortable in the space you’ve created.

2021 July 3, Kiesha Richardson, “How to Create Safe Communities in the Gaming Industry”, in GNL Magazine

A user on social media who is either a moderator or an administrator.


millisatoshi

A thousandth of a satoshi; the same as 0.00000000001 bitcoin.


IRG

Ideographic Research Group
w:Ideographic Research Group

(international standards, computing) Initialism of Ideographic Research Group.


semitotalistic

Those are fully symmetric, but not semitotalistic; the main difference lies, among other things, in whether a pair of diametrically opposed live cells should give birth to a new cell.

1992 June 15, Harold McIntosh, “Variations on Conway Life.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Bays looked at several spots in the paramerization space of 'semi-totalistic' ('semi-totalistic' that my new state is a function of only my own state and the sum of my neighbors' states) on cubic as well as 'half-cubic' lattices.

1994 October 11, Wayne Tvedt, “3D Cellular Automata”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

I've recently discovered four new semi-totalistic rules (i.e. defined by neighbor counts, like Life) that have self-replicating patterns in them.

2001 October 31, David Eppstein, “Four new rules with replicators”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) Totalistic only on the outer planes.


JWT

en-noun

JWT (countable and uncountable, plural JWTs)

(computer security) Initialism of JSON Web Token (“a means of transmitting claims in optionally encrypted JSON format; an individual transmission of this kind”).


mega menu

There has actually been a recent trend of several major e-commerce websites moving their top menu to the left, using fly-out mega menus instead.

2012, Rich Page, Website Optimization: An Hour a Day

They use mega menus carefully, with a mega footer only on the home page.

2015, Andy Grogan, Accidental Encyclopedia, page 29

However, mega menus can be difficult to implement so that they are usable with the keyboard and work on small devices.

2016, Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton, Web Style Guide, 4th Edition, page 229

If you're unlucky, you have one of those clients who wants MEGA menus with a hierarchy of menus with many links.

2016, Kelt Dockins, Design Patterns in PHP and Laravel, page 72

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(Internet, graphical user interface) A complex menu that may incorporate subheadings, images, and other content.


hi-score

(nonstandard, video games) Alternative spelling of high score


subdir

(computing) Abbreviation of subdirectory.


busy beaver function

busy beaver function (plural busy beaver functions)

(mathematics, computing theory) The mathematical function, denoted by Σ(n), that maps each positive integer n to the number of steps required for the busy beaver among machines with two colors and n states to terminate.


JSONP

(computer languages) Initialism of JavaScript Object Notation with Padding, a technique for requesting data in JSON format by loading an HTML script element.


kidfluencer

(informal, social media, marketing) A child who is an influencer.


finfluencer

→ German: Finfluencer, Finfluenzer

→ Macedonian: финфлуенсер (finfluenser)

desc

финфлюе́нсер

финфлюэ́нсер

→ Russian: финфлюе́нсер (finfljujénser), финфлюэ́нсер (finfljuénser)

→ Serbo-Croatian: fincluencer／финфлуенсер

(informal, social media, marketing, neologism) An influencer who gives advice on financial investments.


Johnson's algorithm

(graph theory) An algorithm for finding the shortest paths between all pairs of vertices in an edge-weighted directed graph.


screaming snake case

From snake case, with the "screaming" part derived from the use of capital letters which typically denote yelling in text.

(programming) The practice of writing identifiers in all caps using underscores to separate words.


lower camel case

(programming) The practice of writing identifiers by concatenating multiple component words, where each word excluding the first is capitalized.


upper camel case

(programming) The practice of writing identifiers by concatenating multiple component words, each of which is capitalized.


bilerp

Columns of TABLE 1 include an LOD level, number of bilinear interpolations (bilerps) per pixel, and number of pixels per packet for 32 bit texels.

2007, Paul S. Heckbert, Texture map component optimization, US Patent 9007389 (PDF version)

(mathematics, computing) Abbreviation of bilinear interpolation.


bilerp

en-verb

bilerp (third-person singular simple present bilerps, present participle bilerping, simple past and past participle bilerped)

bilerps (present singular third-person)
bilerping (participle present)
bilerped (participle past)
bilerped (past)

In mipmapping operations, the set of addresses fetches a four texel neighborhood from each of the two maps that bound the calculated size of the bilerped (bilinearly interpolate) quad.

1998, Carroll Philip Gossett, Mark Goudy, Ole Bentz, Method for efficient handling of texture cache misses by recirculation, US Patent 6259460 (PDF version)

(mathematics, computing) to interpolate bilinearly


LKM

loadable kernel module
w:loadable kernel module

(computing) Initialism of loadable kernel module.


mobileness

These serve as an algorithmic way to judge the “mobileness” of a site, and similar algorithms are likely to be used by the search crawlers.

2011, James Pearce, Professional Mobile Web Development with WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal, page 466

(computing) Suitability for mobile devices.


kext

Starting with macOS High Sierra, Apple introduced a new security feature that requires users to approve kexts the first time they need to load.

2020, Drew Smith, Apple macOS and iOS System Administration, page 76

(computing) A loadable extension to the kernel of the macOS operating system.


firm link

(computing) A kind of link within a file system having aspects of both hard links and soft links.


hard link

(computing) A directory entry that associates a name with a file in a file system.


trilerp

(mathematics, computing) Abbreviation of trilinear interpolation.


trilerp

trilerp (third-person singular simple present trilerps, present participle trilerping, simple past and past participle trilerped)

trilerps (present singular third-person)
trilerping (participle present)
trilerped (participle past)
trilerped (past)

(mathematics, computing) to interpolate trilinearly


Tbps

(computing) terabits per second, a measure of data transfer rate equal to 1000 gigabits per second.


Pbps

(computing) petabits per second, a measure of data transfer rate equal to 1000 terabits or 10¹⁵ bits per second.


Goomba

Possibly derived from Hungarian gomba (“mushroom, fungus”).

(video games) A mushroom-like enemy in the Mario franchise.


world state

The game will come up with a default world state and give you a description about what’s been going on.

2013 December, Sam Smith, “Dragon Age: Inqusition”, in Play, page 43

Players can edit their decisions from previous games they have played to affect the world state in the newest game in the series: Dragon Age: Inquisition.

2017, Tyler Paulley, "The Official Rulebook for Choice in Video Games: An Examination of Choice in Modern Narrative Games", thesis submitted to Bellarmine University, page 12

Skyrim presents players with a variety of actions that they can perform to change the game’s world state.

2018, John Drake, "Planning For Non-Player Characters By Learning From Demonstration", dissertation submitted to the University of Pennsylvania, page 10

(video games) The state of a gameworld at a given time, comprising all player locations, object states, narrative variables, etc.


soft fork

Coordinate term: hard fork

As it pertains to blockchain technology, a soft fork is an upgrade to mining software that makes a change to the network but does not require that all miners participate.

2020, Lorne Lantz, Daniel Cawrey, Mastering Blockchain, O'Reilly, page 61

(cryptocurrencies) A rule change of a blockchain that does not require an upgrade of the whole network.


hard fork

Coordinate term: soft fork

Bitcoin Cash is a hard fork of Bitcoin.

Some are pushing for a “hard fork” of Ethereum, which would undo the damage by effectively asking 51% of the currency’s users to agree to pretend that it had never happened in the first place.

2017 November 8, Alex Hern, “'$300m in cryptocurrency' accidentally lost forever due to bug”, in The Guardian

As it pertains to blockchain technology, a hard fork is an upgrade to mining software that makes a change to the network that requires the participation of all miners.

(cryptocurrencies) A rule change of a blockchain such that the software validating according to the old rules will see the blocks produced according to the new rules as invalid; the new blockchain resulting from such a split.


gigachad

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From giga- + Chad (“a very attractive man”). Although isolated uses exist earlier, the term was popularized by an anonymous poster on the 4chan /pol/ board on October 17th, 2017, who referred to Russian model Ernest Khalimov as "Gigachad". See Gigachad for more.

I heard Robert just donated $500 to Team Trees. What an absolute gigachad!

I have a lot of respect to Tarik for being a gigachad.

2022 March 27, Olivia Richman, “Doublelift calls Tarik "gigachad" for condemning JasonR's sexist behavior”, in Inven Global, archived from the original on 2024-02-05

As per his IGN interview, LMSH took 242 tries to beat Malenia on his own. After this, he just decided that no other player has to suffer the same fate he did. What an absolute GigaChad.

2022 April 18, RJ Pierce, “Legendary 'Elden Ring' Player 'Let Me Solo Her' Is Now Immortalized In A Mod”, in Tech Times, archived from the original on 2023-03-25

His meteoric rise from ironic gigachad to actual gigachad is a huge story in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but he just one-upped his own reputation. In an RMR match against Ecstatic, HooXi scored an insane HLTV rating of 2.21.

2022 October 5, Kenneth Williams, “HooXi just outfragged the rest of G2 against Ecstatic”, in WIN.gg, archived from the original on 2023-09-25

(by extension, Internet slang, sometimes sarcastic) An extremely admirable man; a Chad among Chads.


Facebook jail

(Internet slang) A period of time in which a user is banned or blocked from accessing or posting to their Facebook account.


playersexuality

Multiple posters from the collected content acknowledged that many of the explicitly queer opportunities in the games are actually cases of “playersexuality” (Cole, 2016).

2019, Sam Stockton, "Dating Ga(y)mes: Queer Performance in Farming Simulation Roleplay Games", thesis submitted to the University of Calgary, page 47

It can be argued that explicit representations of bisexuality, pansexuality, and other multiple-gender-attracted people are erased from games that use 'playersexuality' as a mechanic.

2020, Alayna Cole, Dakoda Barker, Games as Texts: A Practical Application of Textual Analysis to Games, unnumbered page

In some ways, playersexuality simplifies romance for both players and developers; […]

2020, Alexandra M. Lucas, “Innovative Origins, Playersexuality, & Complex Inquisition: The Evolution of Relationship Mechanics in Dragon Age”, in Lindsay D. Grace, editor, Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer, page 183

(video games) The state of an NPC being attracted to the player character, especially without regard to gender, race, etc.


collision attack

en-noun

collision attack (plural collision attacks)

(cryptography) An attack on a cryptographic hash function that is able to find a hash collision (a pair of different inputs that have the same hash) faster than by brute force.


preimage attack

preimage attack (plural preimage attacks)

(cryptography) An attack on a cryptographic hash function that is able to find a preimage for a hash; that is, it is able to determine (faster than by brute force) some input that results in a known hash when passed through the algorithm.


second preimage attack

second preimage attack (plural second preimage attacks)

(cryptography) An attack on a cryptographic hash function that is able to find a second preimage for a hash and its preimage; that is, given a hash and an input that has that specific hash, it is able to find (faster than by brute force) another input with the same hash.


chosen-ciphertext attack

chosen-ciphertext attack (plural chosen-ciphertext attacks)

The ElGamal encryption system is resistant against chosen-plaintext attacks, but not against chosen-ciphertext attacks.

chosen-plaintext attack
chosen-plaintext attack

(cryptography) An attack on a cryptosystem that relies on the attacker's ability to choose any ciphertext of their liking and decrypt it into the corresponding plaintext with that system and key. More powerful than a chosen-plaintext attack.

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ciphertext-only attack

ciphertext-only attack (plural ciphertext-only attacks)

known-plaintext attack
known-plaintext attack

(cryptography) An attack on a cryptosystem that relies only on the attacker's knowledge of some ciphertexts encrypted with that system and key. Less powerful than a known-plaintext attack.


known-plaintext attack

known-plaintext attack (plural known-plaintext attacks)

ciphertext-only attack
ciphertext-only attack

(cryptography) An attack on a cryptosystem that relies on the attacker's knowledge of not just some ciphertexts encrypted with that system and key, but also their corresponding plaintexts (cribs). More powerful than a ciphertext-only attack, but less powerful than a chosen-plaintext attack.

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chosen-plaintext attack

chosen-plaintext attack (plural chosen-plaintext attacks)

chosen-ciphertext attack
chosen-ciphertext attack

(cryptography) An attack on a cryptosystem that relies on the attacker's ability to choose any plaintext of their liking and encrypt it into the corresponding ciphertext with that system and key. More powerful than a known-plaintext attack but less powerful than a chosen-ciphertext attack.

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BreadTube

Blend of bread + YouTube, in reference to the 1892 book The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, often considered a foundational text of political anarchism. By surface analysis, bread + -Tube.

Holonym: LeftTube

The community of videobloggers (particularly YouTubers) who tend towards left-wing perspectives.


pay-to-win

(video games) Alternative form of pay to win


The problem with consumers is that they are often quick to label any microtransaction as P2W, which muddies the discussion of ethical game design. Today's developers have learned from some of the most egregious examples of P2W design.

2022, Joshua Bycer, Game Design Deep Dive: Free-to-Play, CRC Press, page 5


free to play

(video games) Alternative form of free-to-play


DGML

(computing) Initialism of Directed Graph Markup Language.


bitcoiner

One who uses the bitcoin cryptocurrency.


fail fast

en-verb

fail fast (third-person singular simple present fails fast, present participle failing fast, simple past and past participle failed fast)

fails fast (present singular third-person)
failing fast (participle present)
failed fast (participle past)
failed fast (past)

To prevent these gaps from being a problem, write your code to fail fast. Use assertions to signal the limits of your design; if someone tries to use something that isn't implemented, the assertion will cause his tests to fail.

2008, James Shore, Shane Warden, The Art of Agile Development, page 324

In lieu of those unneeded hooks, write code to fail fast and prevent gaps from becoming a problem.

2015, Rachel Alt-Simmons, Agile by Design, page 182

Adding abstract to the base class causes your code to fail fast with an error that's easier to fix.

2020, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, Head First C#, page 339

One of the most important best practices is to fail fast. Code the service in such a way that unrecoverable errors are discovered as early as possible and, if such an error is detected, have the service fail immediately.

2020, Gabriel N. Schenker, Learn Docker – Fundamentals of Docker 19.x, page 254

(programming) To report immediately any condition likely to cause a failure, rather than attempting to continue.


GEDCOM

(computing, genealogy) Acronym of genealogical data communication: an open specification for exchanging genealogical data between different software packages.


SEH

(programming) Initialism of structured exception handling.


tear-off

Tear-offs are rarely found in modern interfaces, though, so typically you'll want to disable the tear-off feature by default.

2009, John K. Ousterhout, Ken Jones, Tcl and the Tk Toolkit

(graphical user interface) A pull-down menu that can be detached from its parent menu bar and dragged around the screen.

This makes tearoffs especially risky for objects that may be accessed remotely. Given all of the potential pitfalls of tearoffs, a logical question might be, "when are tearoffs appropriate?" There is no absolute answer; […]

(programming) A COM (Component Object Model) interface that is instantiated only when explicitly requested.


screen share

screen share (third-person singular simple present screen shares, present participle screen sharing, simple past and past participle screen shared)

screen shares (present singular third-person)
screen sharing (participle present)
screen shared (participle past)
screen shared (past)

to screen share movies

(computing, transitive) To transmit the content of one's computer screen (or a portion of it) to another device.


tool-friendly

en-adj

tool-friendly (comparative more tool-friendly, superlative most tool-friendly)

more tool-friendly (comparative)
most tool-friendly (superlative)

Kotlin is a programming language for the JVM that has concise syntax, is interoperable, safe, and tool friendly.

2018, Mohamed Shazin Sadakath, Spring Boot 2.0 Projects, page 301

(computing) Designed for easy interoperation with software tools.


undeploy

en-verb

undeploy (third-person singular simple present undeploys, present participle undeploying, simple past and past participle undeployed)

undeploys (present singular third-person)
undeploying (participle present)
undeployed (participle past)
undeployed (past)

If you really need to undeploy the application, use the -undeploy option. This stops the application and removes the staged files. If you want to redeploy the application, you must distribute and prepare the application again.

2004, Jon Mountjoy, Avinash Chugh, WebLogic: The Definitive Guide

This Manager application enables you to deploy, start, stop, or undeploy server-side Web applications.

2005, Vivek Chopra, Jon Eaves, Rupert Jones, Beginning JavaServer Pages, page 26

(transitive, computing) To undo the deployment of; to revert to a state prior to deployment of.


MFCC

en-noun

MFCC (countable and uncountable, plural MFCCs)

(computing) Initialism of Mel-scale Frequency Cepstral Coefficient.


group chat

“The Lifeguards” is a polyphonic story, told in the voices of three mothers, with chapters handed over to their teenage sons, a recently widowed detective and the Barton Hills Mamas, an Austin, Texas, group chat consisting of members I thought of as that brood of vipers.

2022 April 5, Elizabeth Wetmore, “How Far Will Parents Go to Protect Their Sons?”, in The New York Times

Unanswered messages—whether it's a text convo with your crush, a group chat that none of your friends responds to, or a hopeful conversation starter on Tinder—are just one more way living in this digital age can make you feel all-caps crappy.

2023 March 6, Alexis Jones, Megan Schaltegger, “These Tinder Conversation Starters Actually Work, According To Dating Experts”, in Women's Health

But just as the big three TV networks amassed a giant audience in the 20th century, then lost it to cable and the internet, the appeal of bringing the entire world into one big group chat might be over. This is the way a phenomenon ends — not with a sharknado but a whimper.

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

(Internet) A simultaneous online chat between a group of people by means of a messaging application.


Mitchell-Netravali filter

Mitchell-Netravali filter (plural Mitchell-Netravali filters)

Introduced in a 1998 paper by Don Mitchell and Arun Netravali.

(computer graphics) Any of a group of bicubic reconstruction filters often used for antialiasing or for scaling raster graphics.


connection string

connection string (plural connection strings)

(computing) A text string that specifies information about a database or other data source and the means of connecting to it.


cold wallet

(cryptocurrencies) Synonym of cold storage


sir, this is a Wendy's

One of the comments:
"I got the whole alphabet right, even the hard part where you have to say LMNOP! The doctors were really impressed!"
"Sir, this is a Wendy's"

2020 July 24, jthr...@gmail.com, “Re: LOL!”, in alt.guitar.amps (Usenet)

Sir, this is a Wendy's. (Full disclosure: this isn't a Wendy's. This is a sex-advice column, JACKS, and sex-advice columnists are not matchmakers. So you'll have to find and/or hire a phone-sex provider on your own.)

2022, Dan Savage, "When an asexual says 'no', she means no", The Georgia Straight, 17 February 2022 - 24 February 2022, page 17

“You must be in so much pain to keep posting bikini pictures at your age,” a follower commented on longtime supermodel Paulina Porizkova’s Instagram this week. “I pray you can come to terms with your mortality.”
This comment has big “Sir, this is a Wendy’s” energy, or at least, “Sir, if seeing a woman’s exposed flesh compels you to bring up her death, the internet might not be the healthiest place for you right now” vibes. But Porizkova, who is 57 and known for having a good sense of humor, responded with another bikini pic, adding, “As you can see, I’m suffering indeed.”

2022 May 2, Jenny Singer, “Women Are Calling Themselves ‘Old and Ugly’ on Twitter—And It’s Actually Super Heartwarming”, in Glamour

sir, this is an Arby's
sir, this is an Arby's#English

(Internet slang) Alternative form of sir, this is an Arby's.


sir, this is an Arby's

From a humorous Internet meme that envisions a character giving a strange, rambling monologue, with the punchline being a fast-food employee reminding them that they are in a restaurant. This format of joke is first attested in a November 2011 tweet by American screenwriter Ethan Hunter (@ethanhunter).

Setting aside the fact that Trump inviting a group of lawmakers to the White House to discuss trade policy only to launch into an out-of-nowhere rant about one of his enemies being fat is the definition of the phrase “ma’am, this is an Arby’s,” Trump’s hatred for Nadler goes way back.

2019 April 9, Bess Levin, “Trump's Radical Anti-Impeachment: Fat Jokes”, in Vanity Fair

When you’re doing your job as a journalistic commentator in its highest form, you’re drawing new parallels, expanding the Overton Window, opening people’s minds and also ensuring them they aren’t alone in their frustrations with the status quo. When done at its most hacky, however, you’re ranting at people, making leaps and assumptions that gloss over reality, casting yourself as omniscient genius, and generally just pulling real “Sir, this is an Arby’s” shit.

2021 October 13, Blair Stenvick, “If I Ever Run for Governor, Please Don't Vote for Me”, in Portland Mercury

I wonder if you’re familiar with the “Sir, this is an Arby’s” meme. Let me illustrate it for you:
Person A [with aggressive aggravation]: Can you believe it? The other day, I heard someone refer to the book of Genesis. Surely you KNOW that Genesis is not just “a book,” but the first part of the Pentateuch, and the Pentateuch is a five-fold book, not five books. Do you know what the first word is in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy? It’s and. BOOM. What did Jesus call the Torah? “The book of Moses.” Not the books of Moses.
Person B [laconically]: Sir, this is an Arby's.

2020 September, Alex Duke, “'Sir, This Is a Local Church'— Or, How an Absurdist Meme about a Roast Beef Shop Might Help Heal Our Church”, in 9Marks Journal, page 142

(Internet slang) Used to indicate that one finds a statement to be bizarre, tangential, or inappropriate for the context in which it is made.


FXAA

fast approximate anti-aliasing
w:fast approximate anti-aliasing

(computing) Initialism of fast approximate anti-aliasing.


Karen haircut

From the use of Karen, beginning in the late 2010s, as a pejorative for an entitled middle-aged white woman. The association of a specific hairstyle with this type of woman began with a 2014 meme pairing a photo of a white woman with an asymmetrical blond bob with the text "The 'Can I Speak To A Manager' Haircut".

There was no misinformation from middle-aged women on Facebook with Karen haircuts.

2020 April 27, Vic Bell, “A Nation In Paralysis”, in Salient, Victoria University of Wellington, page 14

A woman with a Karen haircut pointed at a hall in the back […]

2020, A. W. Hartoin, Bottle Blonde (published 15 September 15 2020), unnumbered page

The blonde with the Karen haircut had terrible acne, which she concealed with makeup.

2020, Matthew Archbold, American Antigone (published 16 September 2020), page 117

(slang, derogatory) A hairstyle associated with entitled middle-aged white women, typically a layered, asymmetrical bob with blond highlights.


can I speak to the manager haircut

can I speak to the manager haircut (plural can I speak to the manager haircuts)

can I speak to the manager haircuts (plural)

From a 2014 meme pairing a photo of a white woman with an asymmetrical blond bob with the text "The 'Can I Speak To A Manager' Haircut".

But after a banshee of a woman with a 'can I speak to your manager' haircut howled at us (apparently this was "singing", though we're still yet to confirm it) for an hour we decided it was best to seek the comforts of the motel, its panoramic views of the roundabout and reruns of Midsomer Murders.

2016, Lachlan Sharp, "Lake Placid", The Reef (Beaumaris Yacht Club), Volume 7, Issue 2, Summer/Autumn 2016, page 16

In the first ten seconds of an educational video, Pam, with her double-denim and 'can I speak to the manager' haircut, says ominously: […]

2017, Erin Christie, "Nobody Told Me", Grapeshot (Macquarrie University), Volume 9, Issue 7 (2017), page 29

A middle-aged boomer with a can-I-speak-to-the-manager haircut who has lots of opinions about lots of things but none of them feel all that well thought out.

2020, Portia MacIntosh, Stuck On You, unnumbered page


unstreamable

Read about the Black Keys’ El Camino in Pitchfork’s feature “A Brief History of Famously Unstreamable Albums (That Ended Up Streaming Anyway).”

2021, Matthew Ismael Ruiz, “Watch the Black Keys’ New “Going Down South” Video”, in Pitchfork

(Internet) Not streamable; impossible to stream.


ontology engineering

(computer science) A field which studies the methods and methodologies for building ontologies.


text simplification

text simplification (countable and uncountable, plural text simplifications)

natural language processing
natural language processing

(linguistics, computer science) An operation used in natural language processing to modify, enhance, classify or otherwise process an existing corpus of human-readable text.


groyper

Unclear overall. First attested in c. 2015.
A common hypothesis seems to be a blend of goy ("Gentile") + groper ("sexual assaulter"), probably in reference to the illustration's (later) associations with the political group. Other conjectures include an alteration of groper alone, as well as being based on names apparently befitting an amphibian, such as Frogger, the root *groyp- being onomatopoeia for a toad's croak (compare Italian gracidare (“to croak”), Bulgarian кря́кам (krjákam, “croak, etc.”)). Or possibly a nonsense term; multiple elements may be combined here.
The first attestations (almost always accompanied with a distinct Pepe the Frog illustration, on 4chan) predate associations with Nick Fuentes, so it is unclear if the first is a case of folk etymology.
There is a phonemically near-identical, uncommon surname, German Greuper, also seen in American English, but this is unlikely to have influenced the name.

noncog

(Internet slang) A large, green, cartoon toad with a strange mischievous expression, similar to Pepe the Frog.


time travel debugging

(programming) A form of software debugging allowing the user to step back and forward through the recorded prior execution of a program.


counterflame

The initial reply by G.S., using a curious combination of concessions and refusal to debate specifics, managed to work up to a level of derogation that could reasonably be termed a counterflame: […]

The discussion did not affect my perception of the o-l c [on-line community] because I viewed the flame/counterflame situation as an aspect of the medium of teletype e-mail—not as a reflection of any person or group in the community.

2009, Eric Lesser, Michael Fontaine, Jason Slusher, Knowledge and Communities, page 219

(Internet) A flame (aggressive message) posted in response to another flame.


graduate student descent

Modeled on gradient descent. Attributed to David A. McAllester.

Phrase of the day, "Graduate Student Descent." Optimization through graduate student tweaking.]

[2011 April 6, Kat Scott, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-07-04

[…] people without real-world experience often ignore systematic approaches to hyperparameter tuning in favor of manual, gut-feeling approach. The most popular method is arguably 'Graduate Student Descent (GSD) […]

2019, Chip Huyen, “Design a machine learning system”, in Chip Huyen [personal website], retrieved 2021-09-27

Instead of hypothesis-forming based on theory, extensive research on previous studies and/or reflection against the existing domain knowledge, grad student descent […] is applied.

2019 April 17, Oguzhan Gencoglu with Mark van Gils, Esin Guldogan, Chamin Morikawa, Mehmet Süzen, Mathias Gruber, Jussi Leinonen, and Heikki Huttunen, “HARK Side of Deep Learning - From Grad Student Descent to Automated Machine Learning”, in arXiv, page 2

(machine learning, humorous) The process of choosing hyperparameters manually and in an ad-hoc manner, typical of work assigned to a graduate student.


bufferbloat

en-noun

bufferbloat (usually uncountable, plural bufferbloats)

From buffer + bloat, first attested in 2010.

(networking) Excessive buffering of packets which may cause delays (latency) or jitter (latency variation) in packet-switched networks, particularly during high load.

(networking) Delay caused by such excessive buffering.


XML bomb

(computer security) A malicious XML file designed to consume a lot of memory as a result of the expansion of entities within the markup during parsing.


Twitterfication

Further, as voice and sound enter multimedia culture, literacies of the ear, speech, and especially performance (e.g., think of the YouTube, Second Life, and Twitterfication of the Internet) also become part of the aesthetics and pedagogies of an expanded technoliteracy that should allow for multiple methods of learning.

2012, Peter Pericles Trifonas, Learning the Virtual Life: Public Pedagogy in a Digital World

We sat back and watched Facebook's Twitterfication take place last year, culminating with the launch of new privacy settings.

2014, Zhaohao Sun, Handbook of Research on Demand-Driven Web Services, page 205

(informal) Adaptation to the norms and values of (the users of) the social network Twitter.


memeworthy

en-adj

memeworthy (comparative more memeworthy, superlative most memeworthy)

more memeworthy (comparative)
most memeworthy (superlative)

Clips from 1980s cartoons are usually pretty memeworthy.

Facebook's filters are also designed to notice the already popular, frequently clicked items while disregarding other, less memeworthy ones.

2013, Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don’t Exist, Penguin UK

... but they are far from memeworthy. One question that social media can help us ask our students is: what can poetry (and literature more generally) do in ...

2015, Frederick Luis Aldama, Latino/a Literature in the Classroom: Twenty-first-century approaches to teaching, Routledge

That was kind of memeworthy. I'm impressed.” “Your mum and I were over at Joe's the other night. Twenty years he's been there, Michael.

2017, Randa Abdel-Fattah, The Lines We Cross, Scholastic Inc.

... opened up under the rear wheels of a bus during morning rush hour, producing memeworthy images that have given the city an image it would like to shake.

2021, Justin Starr, Water and Wastewater Pipeline Assessment Technologies: Classification Systems, Sensors, and Results Interpretation, CRC Press, page 19

(Internet slang) Deserving of Internet memes.


hitmarker

You can use hitmarkers to locate enemies by shooting them through walls.

2013, Philip Marcus et al., BradyGames Signature Series Guide: Call of Duty: Ghosts, page 111

If you see a hit marker from your grenade/tactical, you’ll know where they are (generally), even if you don’t get the kill outright.

2020 March 25, Mike Hume, “Warzone gulag tips: How to win when it’s all on the line”, in The Washington Post

While you might expect something called Hardcore mode to toss away crutches like the HUD, hitmarkers, and anything else that's remotely useful, it doesn't.

2023 January 24, Shabana Arif, “Modern Warfare 2 Hardcore mode launching in Season 2 after Tier 1 playlist flops”, in The Daily Mirror

(video games) An audiovisual cue indicating that an enemy has been hit.


error out

en-verb

error out (third-person singular simple present errors out, present participle erroring out, simple past and past participle errored out)

errors out (present singular third-person)
erroring out (participle present)
errored out (participle past)
errored out (past)

(intransitive, computing) To fail with an error.


From /pol/ - Politically Incorrect, an imageboard on 4chan; and the word Polack, a slur used against Polish people that depicts them as backwards.

(Internet slang) A habitual poster on the /pol/ - Politically Incorrect board on 4chan; a member of the /pol/ community.


From /pol/ - Politically Incorrect, an imageboard on 4chan. Taken from political to indicate /pol/'s main theme. Portmanteau with retard.


scanout

A video processor outputs one scan line at a time in synchrony with the TV raster scanout.

1983, Bruce J. Schachter, Computer Image Generation, page 72

A partial solution, suitable for low-resolution displays, is to place the frame buffer on an isolated bus. This allows video scanout to occur simultaneously with CPU operations that do not affect the frame buffer.

1996, James D. Foley, Andries Van Dam, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, page 858

(computer graphics) The conversion of image data in computer memory to a series of lines for output to a raster display.


BreadTuber

Entering into this visibility war requires BreadTubers to build knowledge about YouTube’s algorithms and find ways to mobilize this knowledge in order to facilitate the collective visibility of the community

2020, Kelley Marie Cotter, "Critical Algorithmic Literacy: Power, Epistemology, and Platforms", thesis submitted to Michigan State University, page 8

Contrapoints, Philosophy Tube, Hbomberguy, and Shaun are among the most popular Breadtubers.

2021, Christian Fuchs, Social Media: A Critical Introduction, unnumbered page

Among the most popular “Breadtubers” is Contrapoints, with her channel amassing an audience of nearly 1.5 million subscribers.

2021 October 19, Terrance Davis, “The rise in class-conscious media”, in The Signal, Georgia State University, page 6

A videoblogger who is part of the BreadTube community.


Instagrammability

The day I was there, the Portland Head Light towered in glorious Instagrammability.

2016, Melody Warnick, This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are, page 158

The Instagrammability of these animals would destroy them, I thought.

2021 August 12, Noelle Mateer, “Looks That Quill: The Dark Side of Hedgehog Instagram”, in Wired

Destination stakeholders have increasingly recognized the importance of the “Instagrammability” of places.

2021, Velvet Nelson, An Introduction to the Geography of Tourism, page 303

The state or quality of being Instagrammable.


copy-pasteable

If you’re ready to go from match to first date (...and maybe even a second?), keep scrolling for expert-approved advice on how to kickstart those convos (+ copy-and-paste-able answers to 24 of our fave Hinge Prompts).

2024 April 8, Lydia Wang, Morgan Sullivan, Rachel Varina, “24 Best Hinge Prompts to Actually Help Your Matches Get to Know You”, in Cosmopolitan


Instagramability

"Careful," I teased. "I'm grading this date on its Instagramability."

2020, Kathleen Barber, Follow Me, page 180

I didn't care about the Instagramability [of the wedding ceremony]. I wanted it to be serious. We focused on our faith and our families.

2021, Claudia Oshry, Girl With No Job: The Crazy Beautiful Life of an Instagram Thirst Monster, page 95

[…] Unfortunately, because of the Instagramability of your amazing snacks, I have a day of eating myself sick on ice cream ahead of me."

2021, Amanda Radley, Under Her Influence, unnumbered page

Alternative spelling of Instagrammability.


rinsta

Teen girls tell me that they have public “rinsta” or real Instagram accounts for all followers and then private “finsta” Instagram accounts for their "closest" friends.

2017, Ana Homayoun, Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World, page 31

Her “rinsta” is based on her full name and it is the picture of a perfect middle schooler.

2018, Carrie Kerpen, Work It: Secrets for Success from the Boldest Women in Business, page 78

There were the Finstas and the Rinstas—the fake and the real, the accounts that your parents could see, where every kid posted things about school and new haircuts and cute dogs on the street, and the accounts where you could see more bare skin and some authentic teen misery.

2020, Emma Straub, All Adults Here, page 110

(informal) A primary personal Instagram account on which one posts publicly (typically under their real name).


pagelet

(Internet) A reusable modular fragment of a web page.


cryptobro

He likes to cite Lambos—as in Lamborghini, the cryptobro trophy ride of choice—as shorthand for the excessive trappings of wealth, which do not interest him.

2018 October 22, Nick Paumgarten, The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust, issue

"When it comes to blockchain, never invest more than you can afford to lose. One hundred percent. High-risk gambling, day trading, speculating—that's the way of the crypto bros."

2019, John Hargrave, Blockchain for Everyone: How I Learned the Secrets of the New Millionaire Class (And You Can, Too), page 297

Crypto bros defend the imbalance by noting that women are more risk-averse than men.

2021, Michael Mechanic, Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All, unnumbered page

(slang, sometimes derogatory) An enthusiastic cryptocurrency supporter, usually male, especially a dogmatic, condescending one.


Puertopia

[…] to "crypto-currency" traders building their own version of a libertarian, tax-free "Puertopia" built on Bitcoin.

2018, Mimi Sheller, Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes, unnumbered page

Their arrival came as residents of the island struggled from the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Maria, but the young millionaires—some of them were billionaires—had another priority: creating "Puertopia."

2020, Jeff John Roberts, Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street, unnumbered page

Puerto Rico has become a hotbed for this virtual currency as ultra rich advocates, such as Brock Pierce, flocked to their Caribbean “Puertopia” to evade taxes and to maximize their blockchain profits.

2021, Catalina M. de Onís, Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico, page 210

(cryptocurrencies slang) Puerto Rico as a cryptocurrency tax haven.


WitchTok

Is ‘WitchTok’ to blame for the popularisation of manifestation amongst Gen Z?

2020, Phoebe Bowers, "The Dawn of Manifesttion", Quench (Cardiff University), November 2020, page 9

On TikTok, the 'WitchTok' community grew exponentially, with influencers posting tarot card readings, manifestations, and good luck spells that their followers could watch from home.

2021 January 22, Caitlin O'Sullivan, “Something Wicked”, in Cherwell, Oxford University, page 3

Today is the day to take a risk (and maybe finally try out that spell you saw on WitchTok)!

2021 February 14, Gina Feliz, “Nasstrology: Valentines Day Edition”, in The Nassau Weekly, page 9

(Internet slang) The community of witches and occult-oriented accounts on TikTok.


content gap

Basic SEO involves following the examples below, leveraging content, and creating additional content when analytics inform stakeholders and analysts that there is a content gap. Content gaps occur when visitors and searchers are looking for a specific keyword or phrase, but the term is not located on the website.

2017, Marshall Sponder, Gohar F. Khan, Digital Analytics for Marketing, Routledge

(SEO slang) The difference between what users are looking for on the web, and the results they receive.


stackful

A stackful coroutine is a normal function that can be suspended during execution.

2018, Raghavendra Rao K, Kotlin for Enterprise Applications using Java EE, page 64

(programming) Using a stack (last-in-first-out data structure).


alt-tech

This is a book on all things alt-tech and the like. People who are shadow-banned and removed from the internet can be found with all things alt-tech. Includes a multiple page list of content creators, works as a guide and reference.

Parler was sometimes ridiculed as the “boomer 4chan,” a messy-but-accessible connecting piece between mainstream right-wing Facebook and the darker fringes of the internet. But in a short time, it really did become the core of the “alt-tech” ecosystem, and its downfall has enraged many on the right who were already in an uproar about limitations on online speech.

2021 January 18, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Parler’s Rise Was Also Its Downfall”, in The Atlantic

There are three types of alt-tech platforms: 1) platforms created for extremists and used by extremists such as WASP Love and Hatreon; 2) ultra-libertarian platforms, platforms created by libertarians or commercially driven developers, which tend to operate in the name of free speech and tolerate extremist content such as Gab, Minds and 8chan; and 3) hijacked platforms, platforms created for entirely different purposes that have been hijacked by extremists but proactively work with the authorities to ban these from using their services such as Discord, Telegram and JustPasteIt.

2021, Julia Ebner, Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists, Bloomsbury, page 145

(Internet) Social media and other Internet platforms with a large alt-right userbase.


port knocking

(networking) A means of securing ports on a firewall by requiring the host to attempt to connect to a prespecified sequence of closed ports before being allowed access to the desired port.


Periscope

Periscope (third-person singular simple present Periscopes, present participle Periscoping, simple past and past participle Periscoped)

Periscopes (present singular third-person)
Periscoping (participle present)
Periscoped (participle past)
Periscoped (past)

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Periscoped her first major campaign rally with Olympian Michelle Kwan as the host of the live stream.

2015, Marketing Trends Guide 2016, page 8

When Manchester City fan Josh Chambers “Periscoped” an entire away match at Crystal Palace in Febrary 2017, notionally for the benefit of his stay-at-nome dad, the stream was watched by more than 139,000 stay-at-home fans.

2017, Paul Brown, Savage Enthusiasm: A History of Football Fans, page 277

And photographer Patrick Witty (2015 ) Periscoped refugees landing in Lesbos, Greece, for BuzzFeed News.

2018, Claudette G. Artwick, “Social Media Livestreaming”, in Scott Eldridge II, Bob Franklin, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism, page 298

(transitive or intransitive, Internet) To broadcast live video stream using Periscope app via phone or tablet.


WORM drive

(computer hardware) A write once, read many drive; data storage technology that allows information to be written to a disc a single time and prevents the drive from erasing the data.


compact disc drive

en-noun

compact disc drive (plural compact disc drives)


octal data rate

(computing, electronics) A memory interface which performs eight bits per clock cycle per lane


SPOG

single pane of glass
single pane of glass#English

(computing) Acronym of single pane of glass.


single pane of glass

single pane of glass (plural single panes of glass)

(computing) A management dashboard that brings together information and metrics from various different sources, giving a unified view.


virtual class

Coordinate term: virtual method

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) A nested inner class whose functions and member variables can be overridden and redefined by subclasses of an outer class.


case folding

(programming, information science) Text normalization where uppercase and lowercase characters are treated as equivalent.


fluent interface

fluent interface (plural fluent interfaces)

Coined in 2005 by Eric Evans and Martin Fowler.

software engineering
software engineering

application programming interface
application programming interface

(software engineering) An object-oriented application programming interface whose design relies extensively on chaining methods together, with the aim of improving code legibility.


macrovariable

(computing) A variable that may be modified by or within a macro


overalignment

overalignment (usually uncountable, plural overalignments)

(computing) The result of overaligning data


overalign

en-verb

overalign (third-person singular simple present overaligns, present participle overaligning, simple past and past participle overaligned)

overaligns (present singular third-person)
overaligning (participle present)
overaligned (participle past)
overaligned (past)

(computing) To organise data with alignment greater that a compiler can handle


leaky bucket

(computing theory) A counter or variable that is incremented whenever an event of interest occurs, and also periodically decremented; used in algorithms to check whether events will gradually overflow the system's capacity, for example in a telecommunication network.


momfluencer

Feeling overwhelmed and maybe a bit underappreciated, we moms gravitate toward the insistence of well-meaning momfluencers who tell us what we "deserve” — we "deserve" a break. Praise. Recognition.

2020 August, Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (And That's Okay), page 43

The everchanging expectations voiced by an endless stream of “experts” (and the momfluencer with 12K followers and the gingham filter for that perfect orange-y skin glow) makes it impossible to feel like you're succeeding at motherhood.

2020 September, Maggie Combs, Motherhood Without All the Rules

And now, some of the first Insta Stories I watch as I nurse my baby at 6:23 a.m. are by Hannah of @ballerinafarm, a new face to the momfluencer stratosphere, but one of many conventionally beautiful, straight, white women who perform a version of motherhood that feels like pioneer cosplay hit with a dash of Brooklyn hipster aesthetics.

2021 January 28, Sara Petersen, “Momfluencer Content Enrages Me. Why Can't I Look Away?”, in Harper's Bazaar

The soul of this community is local queen bee Sherry Conrad (Search Party alum Shalita Grant, the season’s MVP), an officious, controlling momfluencer with a knack for stealing the spotlight.

2021 October 17, Judy Berman, “You Season 3 Is the Best Installment Yet—and a Brilliant Send-Up of Suburbia”, in Time Magazine

(Canada, US) Alternative form of mumfluencer.


token bucket

(computing theory) A fixed-capacity data structure to which tokens or packets are added at a fixed rate; used in algorithms to check whether sufficient tokens will be available when expected, for example in a telecommunication network.


editathon

Usability and easiness are two key factors for users, as we noticed during the Ljubljana “editathon” and in individual and group test cases carried out.

2014, Silvia Orlandi, Raffaella Santucci, Vittore Casarosa, Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Cultural Heritage, page 196

In September 2018, we brought together a group of 12 young women living in a slum resettlement colony in Delhi's urban edge to participate in a Wikipedia editathon.

2020, Mike Hodson, Julia Kasmire, Andrew McMeekin, Urban Platforms and the Future City

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Margot Wallström, was so impressed with the success of the India–Sweden Wikipedia editathon in 2017 that she announced the #WikiGap editathons in March 2018 in 54 of its embassies […]

2021, Danny Burns, Jo Howard, Sonia M. Ospina, The SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry, page 529

(Internet) A collaborative group session of contributing edits to a wiki.


Generation Facebook

Facebook generation
Facebook generation#English


delete character

en-noun

delete character (plural delete characters)

(computing) the last character in the ASCII repertoire, coded as 127, designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape


hyperbeam

"I'm not saying that, Vil. I only say what you hear me say and you haven't heard me say that. But, Vil, to get out we're depending on you. I can't call for help because I can't aim a hyperbeam without knowing where we are: I can't find out where we are because I can't pinpoint any stars—"

1972, Robert Silverberg, New Dimensions II: Eleven Original Science Fiction Stories, Doubleday, page 122

Unless that fellow was lying, they do have some combat-worthy units. And hyperbeams must be flying from end to end of their fleet.

1990, Isaac Asimov, The Diplomacy Guild, Avon Books, page 194

Wasting no time, Crossfire aims her hyperbeam cannon and fires her spatial blast which engulfs Charlemagne and punches a hole in the ground.

2018, Xavier J. Fulwood, Knighthood: The Dangerous Adventures, Page Publishing, Incorporated

(science fiction, video games, rare) An extraordinarily intense beam of any size (of energy or matter); a superbeam.


BaaS

(computing) Acronym of Backup as a Service.


DRaaS

(computing) Acronym of Disaster Recovery as a Service.


FaaS

(computing) Acronym of Function as a Service.


StaaS

(computing) Acronym of Storage as a Service.


WaaS

(computing) Acronym of Workplace as a Service.


CPaaS

(computing) Acronym of Communications Platform as a Service.


MBaaS

(computing) Acronym of Mobile Backend as a Service.


head

that which has been seen cannot be unseen

what has been seen cannot be unseen#English

Alternative form of what has been seen cannot be unseen


unwield

en-verb

unwield (third-person singular simple present unwields, present participle unwielding, simple past and past participle unwielded)

unwields (present singular third-person)
unwielding (participle present)
unwielded (participle past)
unwielded (past)

(transitive, video games) To cease to wield (a weapon).


wallbang

wallbang (third-person singular simple present wallbangs, present participle wallbanging, simple past and past participle wallbanged)

wallbangs (present singular third-person)
wallbanging (participle present)
wallbanged (participle past)
wallbanged (past)

Your weapon’s penetration status will determine exactly what walls you can and cannot wallbang.

2020 June 13, Andy Williams, Complete Valorant wallbang guide for Bind: Spots, angles, glitches, more, archived from the original on 2020-10-26

In some maps, shadows may clip through buildings/walls. Players will often exploit this by wallbanging to eliminate unlucky targets. This depends on the user's graphical settings.

(Can we date this quote?), Bullet Penetration, archived from the original on 2019-03-18

Wallbanging your opponents can be one of the most hilarious ways to land a kill on your opponent when playing a competitive shooter.

2021 July 14, Sonu Banerjee, Valorant Player Discovers Insane Wallbang Spot on Split, archived from the original on 2021-10-24

(video games) To shoot at a character through a wall without having vision on them.


wallbang

While being on the receiving end of a flurry of Agent abilities and can often catch players off-guard, there’s nothing better than one-upping your opposite number with a good old fashioned wallbang.

With waves of enemies pouring at each other in constant droves, it’s easy to blow past the more impressive shots that pros pull off—like wall bangs, which require some ingenuity and planning.

2018 January 6, Maddy Myers, Here's A Textbook Wall Bang, Which Is Totally Not A Sex Thing, archived from the original on 2021-10-24

(video games) An instance of wallbanging; in particular a kill obtained by wallbanging.

So, a newly respawned opponent can fall prey to the wallbang from Passageway if players are lucky enough.

2021 May 5, Ashim, COD Mobile: Top 5 wallbang spots on Firing Range for Ranked MP, archived from the original on 2021-10-24

(video games) A position or constellation that allows wallbanging.


hyperbomb

The hyperbomb of that day will have lost meaning as a weapon and gained meaning as a complex substitute for Francoise Sagan's "sports" car, as this death device is so playfully called.

1957, Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play, World Publishing Company, page 33

"He went back inside," Igor grunted. "After examining the artefacts we'd packed for dispatch. Probably wants to make sure the computer records don't describe them as ultra-guns or hyperbombs or whatever the hell."

1974, John Brunner, Total Eclipse, Doubleday, page 33

We entered an area where a hyperbomb had been detonated during the war.

2014, J. Michael Reeves, Terry Austin, Byron Preiss, I—Alien, J. Boylston

(rare, military, science fiction, video games) An exceedingly powerful, destructive bomb; superbomb.


CRIMM

(computing) Initialism of continuity Rambus in-line memory module.


keyscan

There are two indirect RAM jumps encountered during a keyscan: […]

1986, Commodore 128: Programmer's Reference Guide, page 421

So, a keyscan routine that repeated every 100mSec would probably meet the requirement of fast enough.

1993, Thomas W. Schultz, C and the 8051: Programming for Multitasking, page 182

The keyboard of the PC generates a keyscan code whenever one of its keys is depressed

2000, Walter A. Triebel, Avtar Singh, The 8088 and 8086 Microprocessors: Programming, Interfacing, Software, Hardware, and Applications, page 639

(computing) The process of scanning the state of a keyboard to determine which keys are being pressed.


ferrite core memory

en-noun

ferrite core memory (plural ferrite core memories)

(computing, historical) Synonym of core memory


magnetic core memory

magnetic core memory (plural magnetic core memories)


DSCGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of double scan Color Graphics Adapter


MCGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of Multi Color Graphics Array


UVGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of ultra Video Graphics Array


SXGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of super extended graphics array


HGC

Hercules Graphics Card
w:Hercules Graphics Card

(computer graphics) Initialism of Hercules Graphics Card.


UXGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of ultra Extended Graphics Array


Colemak

Blend of Coleman + Dvorak, from the name of its inventor, Shai Coleman, and in reference to the earlier Dvorak keyboard layout.

(computing) A keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets, somewhat similar to the QWERTY layout, but placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row.


SEGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of Super Extended Graphics Array


WSVGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of Wide Super Video Graphics Array


QXGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of Quantum Extended Graphics Array


QVGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of Quarter Video Graphics Array


WUVGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of Wide Ultra Video Graphics Array


WQVGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of Wide Quarter Video Graphics Array


WQXGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of Wide Quad Extended Graphics Array


WXGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of Wide Extended Graphics Array


WVGA

(computer graphics) Initialism of Wide Video Graphics Array


WET

(software engineering) Acronym of write everything twice. A humorous backronym coined to serve as the antonym of DRY, punning on the opposition of wet and dry.


WET

en-adj

WET (comparative WETter, superlative WETtest)

WETter (comparative)
WETtest (superlative)

(software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of WET; containing much repetition.


blue team

A group within an organization tasked with repelling the efforts of the red team to defeat their security etc.


Horner's method

Named after William George Horner, though it significantly pre-dates his work.

(mathematics, computing theory) An algorithm for polynomial evaluation that employs Horner's rule.


Horner's rule

(mathematics, computing theory) The rule stating that a polynomial of degree n can be (optimally) evaluated with only n multiplications and n additions:


sugma

Used for its similarity to suck my (balls).

(chiefly Internet, humorous) An interjection designed to sound similar to “suck my” (especially used to trick a person into asking the meaning).


Zarankiewicz function

Zarankiewicz problem
Zarankiewicz problem

(graph theory) The function for which the Zarankiewicz problem seeks a formula: z(m, n; s, t), denoting the largest possible number of edges in a bipartite graph G = (U, V, E) for which |U| = m and |V| = n, but which does not contain a subgraph of the form K_(s,t).


Zarankiewicz problem

Named after the Polish mathematician Kazimierz Zarankiewicz, who proposed several special cases of the problem in 1951.

(graph theory) An unsolved problem in mathematics, asking for the largest possible number of edges in a bipartite graph that has a given number of vertices and has no complete bipartite subgraphs of a given size.


stack frame

(computing) An individual frame on the call stack, representing a call to a subroutine that has yet to return.


onion service

(computing) A server configured to receive inbound connections only through the anonymity network Tor.


DuckDuckGo

The search engine website was founded by Gabriel Weinberg in 2008, who stated in 2009 that the name comes from duck, duck, goose.

(Internet) An Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results.


DuckDuckGo

en-verb

DuckDuckGo (third-person singular simple present DuckDuckGos, present participle DuckDuckGoing, simple past and past participle DuckDuckGoed)

DuckDuckGos (present singular third-person)
DuckDuckGoing (participle present)
DuckDuckGoed (participle past)
DuckDuckGoed (past)

(Internet, transitive, rare) To search for (something) on the Internet using the DuckDuckGo search engine.


link building

However, you need to understand the difference between link building and link baiting before you go link crazy! The key to successful linking in content marketing is to achieve a healthy marriage of link building and link baiting: […]

2011, Susan Gunelius, Content Marketing For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 53

search engine optimization
search engine optimization

(SEO) The process of establishing relevant links to a website from external sites for the purpose search engine optimization.


fantroll

Some are even disguised as so-called 'real Celine Fans' (fantrolls) who look for the opportunity to malign other people because they are insecure and unable to post their thoughts respectfully or intelligently about Celine or anything else!

1999 December 21, Docnoid, “What do you think of this NG?”, in alt.music.celine-dion (Usenet), retrieved 2021-12-24

It must have really hurt a fantroll such as yourself to see Sony's pathetic E3 showing. Sony did take it upon themselves claim victory in the console wars, so that ought to be good enough for a fantroll.

2002 May 25, Mitch Crane, “PC was Best of Show at E3 2002”, in alt.games.video.xbox (Usenet), retrieved 2021-12-24

I can see that your intentions are to contradict the fantrolls that come in here spreading misinfo.

2002 June 26, xslacks, “Is it just me or.....”, in microsoft.public.xbox (Usenet), retrieved 2021-12-24

(fandom slang) An internet troll who is part of a fandom.


onion network

(networking) A network that uses onion routing.


onion router

(networking) A network node involved in onion routing.


DMARC

(Internet) Acronym of domain-based message authentication, reporting and conformance: an email authentication protocol for the prevention of spoofing.


LEMP

The E stands for engine, since Nginx is pronounced "engine X".

(Internet software) Initialism of Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP: a combination of software for use as a web server.


elliptic-curve cryptography

(cryptography) A branch of public-key cryptography in which elliptic curves are used to generate key pairs.


futex

Contraction of fast userspace mutex; see mutex.

(computing) A mechanism for basic locking, based on an atomic integer in userspace that may be operated upon from multiple processes or threads.


Googleverse

(informal) The world or sphere of the Internet company Google.


tab leader

(computing) In word processing, a series of repeated text characters filling the area of a tab stop, such as the row of periods/dots leading to the name of a chapter in a table of contents.


Racket

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) A general-purpose, multiparadigm programming language descended from Scheme.


Dragon Book

The textbooks were published with a dragon on their cover art.

(computer science, slang) Any one of several textbooks about compiler construction written by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman, especially Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (1986).


Green Dragon Book

The textbook was originally published with a green dragon on its cover art.

(computer science, slang) Principles of Compiler Design (1977), a notable textbook about compiler construction written by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman.


Blue Dragon Book

The textbook was originally published with a blue dragon on its cover art.

(computer science, slang) The first edition of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (1986), a notable textbook about compiler construction.


Purple Dragon Book

The textbook was originally published with a purple dragon on its cover art.

(computer science, slang) The second edition of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2006), a notable textbook about compiler construction.


Wizard Book

The textbook was published with a wizard on the cover art.

computer programming
computer programming

(computer science, slang) Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1985), a notable computer science textbook that teaches fundamental principles of computer programming, including recursion, abstraction, modularity, and programming language design and implementation.


memecoin

(cryptocurrencies) A cryptocurrency or token that is based on a meme or has a comedic trait.


flyaround

(computer graphics) The animated passage of the camera around a model, to show it from different angles.


e-club

An online club; a club that gathers over the Internet.


control unit

central processing unit
central processing unit

(computing) The part of a central processing unit that directs its operation, converting instructions stored in memory into signals that determine the operation of the data path and other components.


von Neumann architecture

en-noun

von Neumann architecture (countable and uncountable, plural von Neumann architectures)

Named after John von Neumann, Hungarian mathematician.

computer architecture
computer architecture

(computing) A computer architecture that uses the same buses to access both program instructions and data to be operated on.


Harvard machine

Harvard machine (plural Harvard machines)

Harvard architecture
Harvard architecture

(computing) A computer that implements the Harvard architecture.


load-store architecture

load-store architecture (plural load-store architectures)

(computing) A type of computer architecture in which instructions either load/store values between memory and CPU registers, or perform calculations on values in CPU registers, but cannot directly perform calculations on values in memory.


secondary memory

secondary storage
secondary storage#English

(computing) Synonym of secondary storage


primary storage

(computing) The volatile memory of a computer directly accessible by the central processing unit; the main memory together with processor registers and the processor cache.


secondary storage

(computing) The nonvolatile memory of a computer, not directly accessible by the central processing unit.


machine cycle

instruction cycle
instruction cycle#English

(computing) Synonym of instruction cycle


execution cycle

execution cycle (plural execution cycles)


instruction cycle

instruction cycle (plural instruction cycles)

(computing) The steps that a central processing unit undertakes in order to process a single instruction, consisting of fetching, decoding, and executing the instruction in question and updating the program counter.


NEAT

(computing theory) Acronym of neuroevolution of augmenting topologies: a genetic algorithm for the generation of evolving artificial neural networks.


TIQIP

(quantum computing) Acronym of trapped-ion quantum information processor.


finger tree

(computing theory) A purely functional tree-like data structure offering amortized constant time access to its "fingers" (leaves), used for the efficient implementation of other purely functional data structures.


CQRS

(programming) Initialism of command–query responsibility segregation (a mechanism that applies the CQS principle by using separate Query and Command objects to retrieve and modify data.)


CQS

command–query separation
w:command–query separation

imperative computer programming
imperative programming#English

(programming) Initialism of command–query separation (a principle of imperative computer programming.)


object show

(Internet) An animated web-series, typically depicting a fictional game show, starring a cast of simply-drawn anthropomorphic objects.


box art

→ Spanish: box art, boxart

→ Portuguese: box art, boxart

(video games, by extension) The artwork used to promote or represent a video game when it is distributed digitally, without physical packaging.


accent tag

Hence, clearly the search facilities and strategies represent the “nightmare” aspect of trying to use YouTube for linguistic ... Examples include “Accent tag” videos (as in Figure 13, following something like a dialect questionnaire, ...

2016, Elena Seoane, Cristina Suárez-Gómez, World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 276

There are also lots of examples on YouTube, such as the “Accent Tags,” though they have to be used with some caution since they are self-selected and may not always be the ideal representative of a particular dialect.

2017, Jeffrey Reaser, Carolyn Temple Adger, Walt Wolfram, Donna Christian, Dialects at School: Educating Linguistically Diverse Students, Routledge

Kelly and the Konglish Accent Tag / Kelly, who usually posts videos about makeup and merch and has over 92,000 followers, took a departure from that genre one day to post a YouTube performance demonstrating her “English” and “Konglish” ...

2020, Betsy Rymes, How We Talk about Language: Exploring Citizen Sociolinguistics, Cambridge University Press, page 80

A more recent source is the accent tag challenge on YouTube.12 It started out as a linguistic data collection project but gained its own dynamics when more and more people uploaded videos on YouTube reading the given word list and ...

2021, Marcus Callies, Stefanie Hehner, Philipp Meer, Michael Westphal, Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New Perspectives for Teaching and Teacher Education in Germany, Routledge

(Internet) A video uploaded to YouTube in which a speaker signifies bits of English dialectal language distinctive to their region.


rotor machine

(cryptography) An mixed electronic and mechanical stream cipher composed of a series of wheels, widespread use from the 1920s–1970s.


MPL

Mozilla Public License
w:Mozilla Public License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of Mozilla Public License.


social commerce

a social commerce network

Slums like Dharavi are reintroducing this classic model of social commerce at an entirely new scale. Members of savings groups build assets individually and collectively, forming relationships of trust with their neighbors in the process.

2011 November 29, Adam Werbach, “How a classic model of social commerce can teach the world how to save”, in The Guardian

Social commerce is about using social media as “transactional media” to complete sales transactions, but in some of the most innovative cases of social commerce, no money changes hands.

2012, Paul Marsden, Paul Chaney, The Social Commerce Handbook, McGraw Hill Professional, page x

Social media companies have been chasing the dream of “social commerce” for years, ramping up advertising and nudging their users toward buying and selling in hopes of getting a piece of the internet’s other most profitable business.

2021 October 2, John Herrman, “Will TikTok Make You Buy It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(social media, business) A subset of electronic commerce that involves social media and user contributions to assist online buying and selling of products and services.


Tumblr

From tumblelog, an early form of microblogs.

What is different about “quick blogging” tools like Twitter (which imposes a strict character count so it can be easily used on a cellphone) and Tumblr (which allows longer messages as well as photographs) is the degree to which people use them for spontaneous and almost continuous communication.

2007 November 4, Noam Cohen, “The Global Sympathetic Audience”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

There are other services for reporting where you’re traveling (Dopplr) or for quickly tossing online a stream of the pictures, videos or Web sites you’re looking at (Tumblr).

2008 September 5, Clive Thompson, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

If Facebook is the social network for online identification and authentication, and Twitter is for communication, Tumblr fulfils a different role: self-expression.

2012 March, Tom Cheshire, “Tumbling on success: How Tumblr's David Karp built a £500 million empire”, in Wired UK, →ISSN

A microblogging and social networking website founded in 2007.


Tumblr

Fangirling on your own behind your computer screen is fine and dandy, but once you’ve seen the most popular fan blogs and fansites, the Tumblrs with the most followers, or the message boards where everyone seems to know one another, you’re gonna want in on that excellent fandom party.

2015, Sam Maggs, “Engage! Become an Active Member of Your Fandom”, in The Fangirl’s Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, Philadelphia, Pa.: Quirk Books

But despite its confusing themes and erratic jump cuts between unnamed personas, the sentiments expressed are quite familiar to anyone who has visited the Tumblrs of teen girls – as are the images and linguistic choices.

2018, Zoe Alderton, The Aesthetics of Self-Harm: The Visual Rhetoric of Online Self-Harm Communities, Routledge

Like Cole, Myers also cites the 2014 Allied Media Conference as a turning point, an opportunity to meet many of the people behind the Tumblrs they followed and with whom they chatted.

2021, Moya Bailey, “Alchemists in Action against Misogynoir”, in Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance, New York University Press, published 2022, page 168


bootROM

(computing) A read-only memory used for the initial boot process of a computer or device.


fansign

From fan + sign. Initially gained popularity in the sense of a photograph of a person with an inscription in 2012. Gained popularity in the sense of a meet-and-greet with a K-pop artist in 2016.

Fansigns can go from okay to weird as fans are really known to show devotion and dedication to their idols […]

2013 March 12, rhysia.wordpress.com, Fansign? What the heck is that?! – Rhysia

(Internet) A photograph of a person with an inscription (often on the body or a piece of paper) used on the Internet as an autograph of a celebrity or as a sign of love for a celebrity from a fan.


shitgame

(vulgar, derogatory, slang) A video game of exceedingly poor quality.


digital sharecropping

Here's one: digital sharecropping will not be long for this world. Of all the terms that creators from the sharing economy will demand, the right to own their creativity will be central.

2008, Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, Penguin

When all is said and done, the notion of a hybrid economy turns out to be nothing more than an upbeat version of digital sharecropping, a scenario in which all of us have the right to remix sounds and images and spread them through networks that profit from our every move.

2014, Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company

intellectual property
intellectual property

(social media, derogatory) A system where the intellectual property generated by users is owned and sold by just a few digital platforms.


OOMF

[Jeremy O. Harris:] One of the things I worry about is that the little gay boys and girls I’m friends with don’t meet people their age IRL. They only know people through their oomfs, right? The oomfs run the world.
[Devan Shimoyama:] What’s “oomf”?
[Jeremy O. Harris:] An oomf is an “O.O.M.F.” — “one of my friends,” as in someone you know only in a digital space, from Twitter or Tumblr.

2022 September 16, Emil Wilbekin, “What Does It Mean to Be a Young, Black Queer Artist Right Now?”, in The New York Times Style Magazine

(Internet slang) Acronym of one of my followers/friends.


Unixoid

en-adj

Unixoid (comparative more Unixoid, superlative most Unixoid)

more Unixoid (comparative)
most Unixoid (superlative)

Also used to refer to any or all varieties of Unixoid operating systems.

1996, Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker's Dictionary, third edition, page 459

While this question is perfectly reasonable if the environment consists of large numbers of Microsoft Windows desktop machines and a few servers, in a Unixoid data center with lots of servers, or a Unix environment with a large number of workstations that are remotely operated using SSH, the answer to this question is obvious.

2006, Benedikt Stockebrand, IPv6 in Practice: A Unixer's Guide to the Next Generation Internet, page 300

(computing, informal) Characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.


Unixoid

From the perspective of erstwhile Unixoids, those are all toy operating systems, while Unix is what you use when you have real work to do […]

1995, G. Burgess Allison, The Lawyer's Guide to the Internet, page 339


OLD

(Internet) Abbreviation of online dating.


ARTS

real-time strategy
real-time strategy#English

(video games) Acronym of action real-time strategy.


software forge

(programming) A website that hosts software projects, fostering their development.


LMGIFY

(Internet) Initialism of let me google it for you.


batteries-included

Django is a batteries-included backend framework.

(figuratively, chiefly software, of a product) Including all possible components required for full usability.


cryptojack

en-verb

cryptojack (third-person singular simple present cryptojacks, present participle cryptojacking, simple past and past participle cryptojacked)

cryptojacks (present singular third-person)
cryptojacking (participle present)
cryptojacked (participle past)
cryptojacked (past)

(cryptography, computer security) To make unauthorized use of an individual's electronic device to mine for cryptocurrency.


pocket monster

Borrowed from Japanese ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā), itself from English pocket + monster.

bor+

A fictional creature from the universe of the Pokémon franchise.


user page

brugerside

(Internet) A page on a website associated with a particular user.

(wikis) The main page associated with a particular editor, often including autobiographical and personal content, testing and drafts, notices, etc.

(wikis, by extension, rare) Any page in the userspace, including a user subpage or talk page.


SPN

service principal name
service principal name#English

(computing, cryptography) Abbreviation of service principal name.


preferential attachment

en-noun

preferential attachment (plural preferential attachments)

Coined by Albert-László Barabási and Réka Albert.

Aided by preferential attachment and network effects (the phenomenon of a good or service becoming more valuable the more people who use it), a handful of winners emerge, overshadowing other available options.

2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company

(graph theory) A positive feedback cycle where the more connected nodes in a graph are more likely to receive new links.


permadie

en-verb

permadie (third-person singular simple present permadies, present participle permadying, simple past and past participle permadied)

permadies (present singular third-person)
permadying (participle present)
permadied (participle past)
permadied (past)

Back-formation from permadeath; by surface analysis, perma- + die.

(rare, chiefly video games, slang) To permanently die.


permadead

Back-formation from permadeath; by surface analysis, perma- + dead.

(rare, chiefly video games, slang) Permanently dead.


permastun

permastun (third-person singular simple present permastuns, present participle permastunning, simple past and past participle permastunned)

permastuns (present singular third-person)
permastunning (participle present)
permastunned (participle past)
permastunned (past)

(video games, rare) To permanently stun.


on-chain

The on-chain methodology suggests that all customer data is taken care of inside each block on the blockchain.

2021, D. Sumathi et al., editors, Convergence of Blockchain Technology and E-Business, CRC Press, page 241

(cryptocurrencies) Occurring, validated, and recorded on a blockchain.


off-chain

The off-chain arrangements use miners who give their hard disk to store other clients' records for a prize, and the blockchain is utilized to encourage the capacity market among miners and clients.

(cryptocurrencies) Occurring outside of a blockchain.


MJPEG

(computer graphics, file format) A video compression format in which each video frame or interlaced field of a digital video sequence is compressed separately as a JPEG image.


WebM

(computer graphics, file format) An audiovisual media file format.


JBIG

The JBIG format works well with the many common bilevel images that include text and line art.

2018, J.K. Petersen, The Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary, CRC Press

(computer graphics) An early lossless image compression standard developed by the JBIG, widely implemented in fax machines.


memoizer

(programming) An algorithm or software component that memoizes.


swappiness

How frequently a Linux server utilizes swap is referred to as its swappiness. By default, the swappiness value on a Linux server is typically set to 60.

2016, Jay LaCroix, Mastering Ubuntu Server, page 187

(computing) A setting in the Linux kernel determining the balance between swapping out runtime memory and dropping pages from the system page cache.


QRNG

quantum random number generator
quantum random number generator#English

(quantum mechanics, computing) Abbreviation of quantum random number generator.

(computing) Abbreviation of quasi-random number generator.


BDSP

w:Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.


Coordinate term: DWeb

“We want to be a Web3 lifestyle company,” says Goner, who emphasizes that they’re still growing. “I’m a metaverse maximalist at this point. […]

2021 November 1, Samantha Hissong, quoting Gordon Goner, “How Four NFT Novices Created a Billion-Dollar Ecosystem of Cartoon Apes”, in Rolling Stone

The biggest investors and industry players are also lobbying in Washington to influence rules that would favor their futuristic view of tokenomics, which can already be seen in some burgeoning communities where web3 is not some abstract concept but a feature of daily life.

2021 December 5, Ephrat Livni, “Welcome to ‘Web3.’ What’s That?”, in New York Times

There are naysayers, too, notably proponents of more distributed technologies that are known as Web3, who argue that blockchains and cryptocurrencies are the next big thing—though as Ben Thompson, a tech pundit, points out, these may find much better use cases in the metaverse than in the real world.

2021 December 18, “The billionaire battle for the metaverse”, in The Economist, →ISSN


tokenomics

It is for this reason that the rules of the economy—the “tokenomics”—are so important. Tokenomics is an uncharted discipline, and there are very few best practices. If your kids are going into college, tell them to dual-major in economics and computer science.

2019, John Hargrave, Blockchain for Everyone, Simon and Schuster, page 270

(cryptocurrencies) The rules or science of the token economy.


hellban

hellban (third-person singular simple present hellbans, present participle hellbanning, simple past and past participle hellbanned)

hellbans (present singular third-person)
hellbanning (participle present)
hellbanned (participle past)
hellbanned (past)


non-computable

Chaitin's constant is a non-computable number.

(computing theory, mathematics) Not computable.


computable analysis

Mathematical analysis
mathematical analysis

(mathematics, computing theory) Mathematical analysis of computable numbers and functions.


ODB

OpenDocument Database
w:OpenDocument Database

(computing) Initialism of OpenDocument Database.


ODG

OpenDocument Graphics
w:OpenDocument Graphics

(computing) Initialism of OpenDocument Graphics.


boost pad

(video games) In a video game, especially a racing game, a patch of ground that causes the character to speed up temporarily when crossed.


NoA

Nintendo of America
w:Nintendo of America


isoparm

To eliminate this, you can ask your program to divide your surface based on its isoparms. If you do, you will see that a great deal of your curve detail is cut away. This is because the curves occur between isoparms.

2014, Andrew Paquette, An Introduction to Computer Graphics for Artists, page 274

(computer graphics) An isoparametric curve.


prototype extension

en-noun

prototype extension (plural prototype extensions)

(computing, rare) An extension, enrichment or continuation of a declaration of a function.


language model

Although unigram language models are simple, they clearly make unrealistic assumptions about word occurrences in text.

2022 [2009], Chengxiang Zhai, Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval, Springer Nature, page 9

(machine learning) A machine learning model that assigns probabilities to sequences of characters or words, and/or is capable of generating plausible subsequent text from a given prompt.


keystrip

A keystrip, summarising the uses of the red keys, completes the package.

1990, Computer Education, numbers 64-72, page 26

(computing) A physical overlay for a computer keyboard, indicating the functions of certain keys within a particular software package.


iGPU

graphics processing unit
graphics processing unit#English

(computer hardware) Initialism of integrated graphics processing unit (a graphics processing unit which has been built into another major system component, such as the CPU or motherboard, and typically utilises system RAM instead of having VRAM chips of its own)


dGPU

(computer hardware) Initialism of discrete graphics processing unit (a graphics processing unit which has access to dedicated graphics memory)

discrete graphics processing unit

(computer hardware) Initialism of dedicated graphics processing unit (a graphics processing unit which has access to dedicated graphics memory)

(computer hardware, colloquial) video card, graphics card


geofacet

(computing, geography) A technique for visualising data for a range of geographic regions, in which a series of identically-sized plots (for instance, bar charts) are arranged in a way that mimics the real-world geographical configuration of the regions.


bird app

Derived from the Twitter logo of a blue bird.

You're always on that damn bird app!

Another poll on the bird app has gone viral ... this time with the question being -- who's the baddest out of these 2 ladies???

2021 December 11, “SALMA HAYEK HOTTER THAN JENNIFER LOPEZ??? Twitter Says ... Absolutely”, in TMZ

It’s easier to not open the bird app when I don’t want them instead of declaring a mass exodus.

2021 December 14, Ben Cost, quoting mh-Musings @entrespire, “Fans, haters are ‘deleting Twitter’ over ‘Spider-Man’ spoilers”, in New York Post

(Internet slang, often derogatory) The social media application X, formerly Twitter.


recursive descent

(computing theory) A kind of top-down parsing involving a set of mutually recursive procedures, each of which implements one of the non-terminals of the grammar, so that the structure of the parser program closely mirrors that of the grammar.


greataxe

From great + axe. Probably modeled on greatsword, greathelm, etc.

The Saint-Commander rested his famous greataxe against his chair. Gil recalled its name, Red Pilgrim.

1979, Brian Daley, The Starfollowers of Coramonde, Ballantine Books, page 48

Dragon King Greataxe can be buffed by spells and consumables, while the Dragon Greatsword cannot.

2020 July 23, Corvo Attano, EdgeOfDreams, “Dragon king greataxe or Dragon greatsword?”, in reddit.com

Last few days I played outpost rush or wars, the team with the most hammers + greataxes just wins.

2021 November 16, Leandermann, “PvP is only the highest number of greataxe + hammer wins”, in reddit.com

(rare, video games, fantasy, weaponry) A giant axe; a broadaxe.


engineering sample

engineering sample (plural engineering samples)

(computer hardware, semiconductors) A non-final version of an integrated circuit meant for product development, validation, or demonstration purposes.


utility graph

In reference to the three utilities problem, which asks to draw the utility graph in the plane.

(graph theory) The graph K_(3,3), which has six vertices in two sets of three and nine edges such that every vertex in one set is connected to each vertex in the other.


complete bipartite graph

complete bipartite graph (plural complete bipartite graphs)

(graph theory) A biclique, a bipartite graph such that every vertex of one set is connected to every vertex of the other.


greatshield

Probably modeled on greathelm, greatsword, etc.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:greatshield.

(especially fantasy and video games) A particularly large, durable shield.