battery-backed

akkukäyttöinen

electronics: using a battery to maintain something

using a rechargeable battery to maintain operation

paristokäyttöinen

using a non-rechargeable battery to maintain operation

akkumuistia käyttävä

using a rechargeable battery to maintain storage

paristomuistia käyttävä

using a non-rechargeable battery to maintain storage

(electronics, computing) Using a battery to maintain volatile memory when powered off.

(video games, of saved game data) Written to a volatile memory chip in a video game cartridge to maintain the data when not in use.


interactive fiction

en-noun

interactive fiction (countable and uncountable, plural interactive fictions)

(literature, uncountable) Text adventures and their descendants.


HA

HA (countable and uncountable, plural HAs)

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of high availability.


gold farming

The gold farming industry turns one man's play into another's work, but most gaming workers see a clear difference between work and play.

2007 October 23, Ge Jin, “Chinese Gold Farmers: Immigrant Workers in the Game Land”, in Friedrich Von Borries, Steffen Peter Walz, Matthias Böttger, editors, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level, Birkhäuser Basel, page 463

While some companies seem largely indifferent to gold farming, others see gold farmers as unfairly extracting value from property that they do not own. Gold farming is often described as a parasitic business practice that undermines the stability of virtual economics.

2010 October 26, Greg Lastowka, Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds, Yale University Press, →OL

You heard of gold farming? Selling multiplayer online game currency for real cash?

2012 November 15, “Critical”, in Person of Interest, season 2, episode 7, spoken by Leon Tao (Ken Leung)

massively multiplayer online games
massively multiplayer online games

(online gaming) The business of farming/grinding for in-game currency (gold in many games) and items in massively multiplayer online games for for-profit resale outside of the game.

打钱 打錢

farming/grinding for in-game currency for for-profit resale outside of the game


auto-reply

auto-reply (countable and uncountable, plural auto-replies)

I'd like to be able to disable auto-reply for certain users.

(email, computing, uncountable) A feature in e-mail software that sends automatic replies, used for instance when the recipient of a message is on holiday.

I sent an email to the school secretary, only to receive an auto-reply.

If you have tried to accomplish work in August that requires outside assistance (work like scheduling, deal making, or, say, researching an article about out-of-office auto-replies), you probably ride this particular emotional roller coaster several times a day.

2015 August 27, Emily Gould, “The Art of the Out-of-Office Reply”, in The New York Times

(email, computing, countable) A message sent by this means.


post-decrement

(computing) A decrement operation that takes place after evaluation of the expression that contains the variable being decremented.


post-decrement

en-verb

post-decrement (third-person singular simple present post-decrements, present participle post-decrementing, simple past and past participle post-decremented)

post-decrements (present singular third-person)
post-decrementing (participle present)
post-decremented (participle past)
post-decremented (past)

(transitive, computing) To perform such an operation upon.


post-increment

(computing) An increment operation that takes place after evaluation of the expression that contains the variable being incremented.


post-increment

post-increment (third-person singular simple present post-increments, present participle post-incrementing, simple past and past participle post-incremented)

post-increments (present singular third-person)
post-incrementing (participle present)
post-incremented (participle past)
post-incremented (past)


pre-decrement

(computing) A decrement operation that takes place prior to evaluation of the expression that contains the variable being decremented.


pre-decrement

pre-decrement (third-person singular simple present pre-decrements, present participle pre-decrementing, simple past and past participle pre-decremented)

pre-decrements (present singular third-person)
pre-decrementing (participle present)
pre-decremented (participle past)
pre-decremented (past)


pre-increment

(computing) An increment operation that takes place prior to evaluation of the expression that contains the variable being incremented.


pre-increment

pre-increment (third-person singular simple present pre-increments, present participle pre-incrementing, simple past and past participle pre-incremented)

pre-increments (present singular third-person)
pre-incrementing (participle present)
pre-incremented (participle past)
pre-incremented (past)


aspect-oriented

en-adj

aspect-oriented (comparative more aspect-oriented, superlative most aspect-oriented)

more aspect-oriented (comparative)
most aspect-oriented (superlative)

The advantage of our aspect-oriented email notification system is that we can change which emails it sends without editing the main program.

(computing) Describing a system which has been written so that different subsystems appear to add themselves to the main business logic without that logic having to include them explicitly.


Pepe

The character’s creator, Matt Furie, chose the name Pepe because it reminded him of the term pee-pee, a resemblance he found funny.

(Internet slang, 4chan) An image or depiction of the Pepe the Frog character.


octlet

(computing) A word (or rather, a doubleword) consisting of eight bytes (64 bits)


quick time event

en-noun

quick time event (plural quick time events)

Introduced by the Japanese video game Shenmue (1999).

(video games) An interactive cut scene-like sequence in a video game where the player has a limited time in which to push a button, or sequence of buttons, displayed on screen.


spawn point

(video games) A location on a game map in which a player, bot or item spawns.


quadlet

The quadlets are time aligned for accuracy so that they may be loaded into the FIFO registers which are 32 bits wide and 64 quadlets deep.

2000, Ian Robertson Sinclair, Practical electronics handbook, page 257

(computing) A word consisting of four bytes.


halfword

(computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes


doubleword

(computing) An area of storage double the size of the word in a particular system; in a 16-bit architecture, this is equal to four bytes.


inversion of control

software architecture
software architecture

(software architecture) Abstract principle describing an aspect of some software architecture designs in which the flow of control of a system is inverted in comparison to the traditional architecture, getting the flow of control from a generic code part.

obrácení řízení

abstract principle describing an aspect of some software architecture designs


business logic

business logic (usually uncountable, plural business logics)

(computing) Algorithms in a software system that model real-life business objects and their interactions.

obchodní logika

algorithms in a software system that model real life business objects and their interactions


dependency injection

dependency injection (countable and uncountable, plural dependency injections)

(software architecture) A type-safe way of supplying an external dependency to a software component.

依賴注入

a process of supplying an external dependency to a software component


configurator

(computing) A small software application intended to assist in the configuration of a particular part of the system.


exe

And a final note, you should encrypt the password stored in the exe. The encryption doesn't have to be the strongest, possibly just even an ascii value shift, but atleast some level of encryption that will keep someone using a hex editor from noticing an unusual string of characters in plain english at the end of your exe.

1998 February 28, Michael Righi, “Can I keep PASSWORDS in the EXE file??”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-14

I had write a form in a project that it will update the log number table when a click the "New Log Number" button. Everything seems OK when I run from the project!
But when I complied it to a exe and run the EXE and click the "New Log Number" button, an error message come out and the content is somthing about "cannot update the temp table"?

1999 November 29, Hector, “Error when run from the EXE”, in microsoft.public.fox.vfp.forms (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-14

Make sure that you did not include the table with the exe, (you can not update a table built into the exe). That should fix your problem.

1999 November 29, Beth Walsh, “Error when run from the EXE”, in microsoft.public.fox.vfp.forms (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-14

I have generated an EXE on the server then a shortcut in local drive C:\ . This shortcut starts in C:\MyDocuments (anyfolder). I'm trying to read a file located at the same place as the EXE so I need to get the full path name of the EXE.

2000 September 5, GG, “The exe FOLDER”, in comp.databases.gupta (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-14

The exe name is NOT the project name: they are two different things. As soon as you save your project (after building an exe), whatever you built as your exe is the name it will always use for the exe. You can change the project name and it doesn't affect the exe name.

2003 September 18, Stephen J Whiteley, “How to change the name of the exe file?”, in microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-14

(file format) A Windows executable file.


AOP

AOP (countable and uncountable, plural AOPs)

aspect-oriented programming
aspect-oriented programming#English

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of aspect-oriented programming.


demogroup

Some of his modules were later also used by crackers and demogroups. Bamiga Sector One, for example, used his module titled Blueberry for the cracktro of Carrier Command.

2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1

(demoscene) A named group of affiliated people involved in the demoscene.


demoparty

They were the organizers of the first Russian demoparty, Enlight '96 in St. Petersburg, but unfortunately there weren't any quality releases.

Extensive documentation on the history of copyparties and demoparties has been lovingly preserved by the demoscene itself.

2008, Tara McPherson, Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected, page 193

In the mid-1980s, demoparties were also copyparties, where the first so called hot releases of cracked and trained games changed hands. However, illegal software copying later disappeared […]

2021, Mark J. P. Wolf, Encyclopedia of Video Games

(demoscene) A party organised by and for the demoscene, typically involving socializing, computer programming, and competitions.


LAN party

For obvious reasons, one-day events are the easiest to set up, and it is recommended that the first LAN party you host be a one-day party.

2001 October 8, Network World, volume 18, number 41

People like to go to LAN parties because graphically intensive games play better over a LAN than over the Internet[…]

2007, Meredith G. Farkas, Social software in libraries, page 219

LAN parties have been around ever since geeks started playing games on computer networks.

2011, Brian Johnson, Duncan Mackenzie, Xbox 360 For Dummies

(computing) A social event based around a LAN (local area network) where participants engage in computer activities such as multiplayer gaming.


demoscene

Demoscene is an extremely arcane subculture characterized by endlessly clashing perspectives, trends, and technological innovations.

2005, Chris Gehman, Steve Reinke, The sharpest point: animation at the end of cinema

Casual computer users could not create these texts; in fact, the driving force behind most of the hacker teams in the demoscene was the prospect of creating a demo that exceeded the abilities of all other hackers...

2006, Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, Fan fiction and fan communities in the age of the Internet: new essays

The demoscene is chiefly a European community that originates from the mid-1980s and continues to exist even today.

2009, John Impagliazzo, Timo Järvi, Petri Paju, History of Nordic Computing 2

(computing) The informal computer art subculture that produces and watches demos (audiovisual computer programs).


key binding

I changed the key binding for pause to the Escape key.

(computing) A key, or key combination, which, when pressed, causes something to happen.


uncached

(computing, of a device) Having no cache.


reimage

en-verb

reimage (third-person singular simple present reimages, present participle reimaging, simple past and past participle reimaged)

reimages (present singular third-person)
reimaging (participle present)
reimaged (participle past)
reimaged (past)

(computing, transitive) To completely replace the operating system (on a particular computer) with a preconfigured image, typically as a drastic means of fixing problems.


terminal symbol

en-noun

terminal symbol (plural terminal symbols)

(computing theory) A symbol in a formal grammar that can appear in sentences of the grammar.


non-terminal symbol

non-terminal symbol (plural non-terminal symbols)

(computing theory) A symbol in a formal grammar that cannot appear in sentences of the grammar but may eventually be resolved into a sequence of terminal symbols.


non-terminal

(computing theory) A non-terminal symbol in a formal grammar.


NP-complete

Informally, a problem is in the class NPC—and we refer to it as being NP-complete—if it is in NP and is as "hard" as any problem in NP. We shall formally define what it means to be as hard as any problem in NP later in this chapter. In the meantime, we will state without proof that if any NP-complete problem can be solved in polynomial time, then every problem in NP has a polynomial-time algorithm. Most theoretical computer scientists believe that the NP-complete problems are intractable, since given the wide range of NP-complete problems that have been studied to date—without anyone having discovered a polynomial-time solution to any of them—it would be truly astounding if all of them could be solved in polynomial time. Yet, given the effort devoted thus far to proving NP-complete problems intractable—without a conclusive outcome—we cannot rule out the possibility that the NP-complete problems are in fact solvable in polynomial time.

2001, Thomas H Cormen, Charles E Leiserson, Ronald L Rivest, Clifford Stein, Introduction To Algorithms, 2nd edition, The MIT Press, page 968

Every area of math seems to have its own NP complete problems. For example, the question of whether or not a graph contains a Hamiltonian circuit is a quintessential NP complete problem and, since it can be explained with little higher level math, is a popular choice in expository works.

2002, Thomas A. Garrity, All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School, Cambridge University Press, page 317

A problem Π is said to be NP-complete if each problem in NP is reducible to Π. Hence
(4.13) if some NP-complete problem belongs to P, then P=NP.

2003, A. Schrijver, Combinatorial Optimization: Polyhedra and Efficiency, Volume A, Springer, page 43

(computing theory, of a decision problem) That is both NP (solvable in polynomial time by a non-deterministic Turing machine) and NP-hard (such that any (other) NP problem can be reduced to it in polynomial time).


MDI

MDI (countable and uncountable, plural MDIs)

medium-dependent interface
w:Medium-dependent interface

(computer hardware, communication) Initialism of medium-dependent interface.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

multiple document interface
w:multiple document interface

(software, graphical user interface) Initialism of multiple document interface.


MDI

Microsoft Document Imaging format
w:Microsoft Document Imaging Format

(software, graphics) Initialism of Microsoft Document Imaging format.

Mission Data Interface
w:Mission Data Interface

(software, navy) Initialism of Mission Data Interface. It's an interface of the NUWC.


undock

en-verb

undock (third-person singular simple present undocks, present participle undocking, simple past and past participle undocked)

undocks (present singular third-person)
undocking (participle present)
undocked (participle past)
undocked (past)

After I undock my laptop, I can run it for about six hours on battery power.

(transitive, computing) To remove from a docking station.

(transitive, computing) To drag (a user interface element, such as a toolbar) away from its fixed position so that it floats freely.

tauwehe

a computer term for dragging an element from its fixed position


docking station

en-noun

docking station (plural docking stations)

(computing) A piece of hardware into which a laptop computer can be plugged for use as a desktop computer, peripherals such as the monitor being connected directly to the docking station.


code page

(computing) Alternative spelling of codepage


codepage

From code + page, originally used in IBM's EBCDIC-based systems.

Coordinate term: codespace

(computing) A mapping to a particular character set, where there are several possible sets that share the same code points.


page down

en-verb

page down (third-person singular simple present pages down, present participle paging down, simple past and past participle paged down)

pages down (present singular third-person)
paging down (participle present)
paged down (participle past)
paged down (past)

From the Page Down key on a keyboard that performs this function.

As I paged down through the year-old comments, I came to one young man's posting, in which he casually mentioned that he was looking for a boyfriend.

(computing) To scroll down to the next page of content.


page up

page up (third-person singular simple present pages up, present participle paging up, simple past and past participle paged up)

pages up (present singular third-person)
paging up (participle present)
paged up (participle past)
paged up (past)

From the Page Up key on a keyboard that performs this function.

When I paged up or down, the text would sometimes get mangled and duplicated.

(computing) To scroll up to the previous page of content.


alpha-beta pruning

(computing theory) An algorithm for pruning a search tree by eliminating any branch that is demonstrably inferior to a branch previously encountered.

alfa–beeta-karsinta

algorithm for pruning a search tree by eliminating inferior branches


search tree

The red-black tree is a balanced binary search tree that has quite fast insert and delete operations and is always sorted.

(computing theory) A tree (data structure) set up to facilitate searching.


TV game

(video games) An early type of video game, the predecessor of modern games consoles, consisting of a unit with a built-in controller that plugged into a television set.


TGP

(Internet) Initialism of thumbnail gallery post, a website that links to many galleries (of e.g. pornography) and provides a thumbnail image of each.


code point

In UTF-8, the number of bytes used to write a character to a file depends on the Unicode code point.

A code point is one entry in the Unicode character database. A code point is not the same as a character, depending on the meaning you give to “character.” What appears as a character on screen is called a grapheme in Unicode.

2009, Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan, Regular Expressions Cookbook, O'Reilly, page 45

Today, Unicode defines 1,112,064 code points, far exceeding the 2-byte capacity originally set aside for Unicode characters. A Unicode code point is simply an integer value that Unicode associates with a particular character symbol; you can think of it as the Unicode equivalent of the ASCII code for a character.

2020, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code, 2nd edition, volume 1, No Starch Press, page 102

(computing, especially Unicode) A numerical offset in a character set, etc., as opposed to a displayed grapheme or character, which can be composed of several code points.


tivoization

/ˈtiːvəʊ.ɪˌzeɪʃən/

From TiVo + -ization. Coined by Richard Stallman in 2007, in reference to TiVo's use of GNU GPL-licensed software on the TiVo brand digital video recorders.

(computing, copyright law) The creation of a system that incorporates software under the terms of a copyleft software license, but uses hardware to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware.


pay-to-play

As the lawsuit claims, we’re being programmed to constantly seek a dopamine hit from each swipe in what it calls a “pay-to-play” loop.

2024 March 14, Georgina Lawton, “I’m not surprised people are suing a dating app company – our addiction to swiping makes us miserable”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

(video games, of an online game) Requiring payment from the player.


PIP

Peripheral Interchange Program
w:Peripheral Interchange Program

(computing, historical) Acronym of Peripheral Interchange Program.


interrupt request

en-noun

interrupt request (plural interrupt requests)

(computing) The act of interrupting any of several hardware processes in a computer.

keskeytyspyyntö

the act of interrupting any of several hardware processes in a computer


cold boot

en-verb

cold boot (third-person singular simple present cold boots, present participle cold booting, simple past and past participle cold booted)

cold boots (present singular third-person)
cold booting (participle present)
cold booted (participle past)
cold booted (past)

(transitive, computing) To reboot a computer by turning it off and on.


cold boot

(computing) The act of rebooting a computer by turning it off and on.


user control

You can add existing Web server controls and markup to a user control.

(graphical user interface) A control created by a developer, usually by combining other controls, often intended for use in a specific application.


Kolmogorov complexity

en-noun

Kolmogorov complexity (countable and uncountable, plural Kolmogorov complexities)

(computing theory) The complexity of an information object—such as a book or an image—informally defined as the length of the shortest program that produces that information object as output.

Kolmogorovova složitost

complexity defined as the length of the shortest program


craigslist

en-verb

craigslist (third-person singular simple present craigslists, present participle craigslisting, simple past and past participle craigslisted)

craigslists (present singular third-person)
craigslisting (participle present)
craigslisted (participle past)
craigslisted (past)

From the name of the website, itself from Craig's list (after founder Craig Newmark).

Over the days that follow Andrew's party, the craigslisting mania from our potential seller does not abate.

2009, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Gimme Shelter, page 207

(transitive, Internet, informal) To advertise (a product or service) on the Craigslist website.


pod slurping

(computing) The illicit copying of data from an unattended personal computer by plugging in a portable storage device


MMU

en-noun

MMU (countable and uncountable, plural MMUs)

(computer hardware) Initialism of memory management unit.


non-functional requirement

non-functional requirement (plural non-functional requirements)

(computing) A requirement of a project, such as accessibility or portability, that is not a specific, measurable aspect of performing a particular task.


nullipotent

Latin roots, nullus (“not any”) + potent (“having power”) – literally, “having no power”.

compound

(mathematics, computing) Describing an action which has no side effect. Queries are typically nullipotent: they return useful data, but do not change the data structure queried. Contrast with idempotent.


floppy disk drive

en-noun

floppy disk drive (plural floppy disk drives)

(computer hardware) A floppy drive; a disk drive for floppy disks.


hard disk drive

hard disk drive (plural hard disk drives)

(computing) A hard drive or hard disk; a fixed disc drive containing rigid disks.


disk drive

(computer hardware) A computer drive that reads disks.


mass storage

The mass storage of the network consisted of 40 megabytes of Bernoulli boxes.

(computer hardware) Any form of persistent data storage technology with high capacity relative to that of the high-speed non-persistent memory of computers of its time.


waterfall model

waterfall model (plural waterfall models)

A sequential software development process in which development is seen as flowing steadily downwards (like a waterfall) through the phases of requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, integration, and maintenance


sidescrolling

Another sequel, Pac-Land, transported the adventurous wedge into a sidescrolling world where he had to navigate a series of platforms and obstacles.

2008, Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith, Susana Pajares Tosca, Understanding video games: the essential introduction, page 63

(video games) That scrolls horizontally.


ctor

There is one important caveat with ctor-initializers: They initialize data members in the order that they appear in the class definition, not their order in the ctor-initializer.

2014, Marc Gregoire, Professional C++, John Wiley & Sons, page 162

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) Abbreviation of constructor.


microarchitecture

microarchitecture (countable and uncountable, plural microarchitectures)

(computing) The architecture of the data processing parts of a microcomputer.


stored procedure

stored procedure (plural stored procedures)

I think the overflow bug is in your stored procedure.

(databases) A named program or routine stored in a database.


unpatched

2007, Harris et al, Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook
Microsoft is actually pretty good about warning users about active attacks abusing unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer.

(computing) For which a patch is not yet available.

When working with kernel patches, it's a good idea to apply them to a clean, unpatched kernel.

2003, Derek Vadala, Managing RAID on Linux

(computing) Not patched; to which a patch has not been applied.


zero-day

Back then, having "zero day warez" (brand new cracked games that are not even one day old yet) on your BBS first was a big status symbol.

2020, Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories

(computing) Of warez, released less than a day after the official product release.

(computing) Of a vulnerability, newly discovered, and therefore still not fixed and possibly exploited by hackers or other criminals.

If your software is popular and has a high demand, you will want to defend against the "zero-day" cracker.

2003, John Viega, Matt Messier, Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++

Before discussing ways to counter zero-day attacks, let's begin with the definition of what a zero-day attack is. A zero-day attack is one that the vendor does not yet know about or hasn't been fixed.

2014, Michael Gregg, CASP CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner Study Guide: Exam CAS-002

2005, Valdes et al, Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection
Automatically creating reliable signatures of zero-day exploits is the focus of intense research efforts.

(computing) Of an exploit or its threat or an attack, benefiting from a newly found and yet unpatched or unmitigated flaw in software or hardware; using a zero-day vulnerability.


zero-day

New Internet Explorer zero-day exploited in Hong Kong attacks

These days, however, more zero days are being used and discovered.

All the four zero-days originally were reported to Microsoft, affecting Internet Explorer on the desktop.

(computing, idiomatic) A vulnerability that has been discovered recently, and is yet unpatched or unmitigated; a zero-day vulnerability.


NNTP

(Internet) Initialism of Network News Transfer Protocol (a standard mechanism for transferring messages between a server and a newsreader program.)


oldbie

From old + -bie, coined as an antonym for newbie.

(Internet, rare) An old-timer, a person with experience.


UCE

(computing) Initialism of unsolicited commercial email; spam.


link exchange

(Internet) A scheme of reciprocal linking whereby two or more websites link to one another to increase traffic.


blogroll

Blend of blog + logroll, or as back-formation from blogrolling.

(Internet) A blogger's list of hyperlinks to other blogs that he/she recommends.


favelet

From fave + -let as abbreviation of favorite (the term used in the Internet Explorer browser for a bookmark).


VRML

Virtual Reality Modeling Language
w:Virtual Reality Modeling Language

(file format) Initialism of Virtual Reality Modeling Language: a computer language describing three-dimensional objects for interpretation and display by a web browser.


hostmask

The channel operator banned the hostmask *!*@*example.com, so nobody could connect from example.com any more.

(Internet) On IRC, a partial address that matches a number of hosts.


typosquatting

It's a technique, a sort of "typosquatting," that Maly has used repeatedly. A Web site called "Jobonline.cz" was registered last March and two months later Maly bought jobsonline.cz.

2000 April 4, ICB Toll Free News, “TYPO-SQUATTING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC”, in Toll Free 800, Domain Name, and ENUM Industry News and Information, archived from the original on 2004-01-17

The decline in traditional, direct cybersquatting was accompanied by a rise in a form of indirect cybersquatting known as typosquatting. A typosquatter attempts to cash in on the traffic generated by high-volume Web sites.

2014, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, 2nd edition, ABC-CLIO, page 59

(Internet) A form of cybersquatting that involves the registration of domain names likely to be mistyped by users.

typosquattage

registration of names likely to be mistyped by users


user group

Members of the Accounting user group can print financial reports.

(computing) A set of users grouped together on a system for administrative purposes.

I joined a local Linux user group.

(computing) A community of users of a particular machine, operating system, etc.


unselect

en-verb

unselect (third-person singular simple present unselects, present participle unselecting, simple past and past participle unselected)

unselects (present singular third-person)
unselecting (participle present)
unselected (participle past)
unselected (past)

(computing, transitive) To cancel a previous selection, especially by removing a mark from a tick box.


hostee

My main domain (currently) is www.lovesuicide.com and you can see just by looking there's a LOT of stuff on there, some of my hostees themselves take up more than 20 megs of space.

1999, manda, “I don't want to be another cihost casualty”, in alt.www.webmaster (Usenet)

Hi. Well, I'm starting a Hanson Fanfiction domain, but before I can actually start the process of registering the domain, I need atleast 4 hostees.

1999, BabyCarrot, “Hanson fanfiction domain”, in alt.fan.hanson (Usenet)

Since there's a router port somewhere between your servers and the Internet, you can query it (or your host can if it's shared among multiple hostees) to find out your total incoming and outgoing data rate.

2008, Cal Henderson, Building Scalable Web Sites

(Internet) A person whose content is hosted on a domain owned by somebody else.


tagboard

The purpose of cam girl blogs vary wildly. They may contain anything from one-line entries about how the girl is feeling that day[…] or when she will be online to chat (often conducted via a tagboard—an instant message board—on her site), […]

2012, Anita Harris, editor, Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures, Activism, Routledge, page 123

(Internet) A small message board on a webpage, usually located in the sidebar, where visitors can leave a name and short message.

clibchlár

internet: a small message board on a webpage


aimbot

For the British, in the first confrontation, [a range-clock system] probably would've been somewhat useful - especially if Iron Duke was giving the ranges, considering that thing seemed to have an aimbot installed - but it would've maybe only marginally improved things for the British, I think.

2021 May 2, Drachinifel, 3:58:12 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 144, archived from the original on 2022-09-26

(video games) A program or patch that allows the player to cheat by having the character's weapon aimed automatically.


aimbot

aimbot (third-person singular simple present aimbots, present participle aimbotting, simple past and past participle aimbotted)

aimbots (present singular third-person)
aimbotting (participle present)
aimbotted (participle past)
aimbotted (past)

(video games) To cheat in a video game using an aimbot.


instaban

instaban (third-person singular simple present instabans, present participle instabanning, simple past and past participle instabanned)

instabans (present singular third-person)
instabanning (participle present)
instabanned (participle past)
instabanned (past)

(informal, Internet) To ban without hesitation.


instaban

Next up in confusing Instabans...

2015 July 28, Elizabeth Denton, “Instagram Banned #Goddess and People Are Seriously Upset”, in Seventeen Magazine

Instabans will spread.

2019 January 4, “Healthy holidays and a sunscreen rethink: top five travel trends for 2019”, in The Guardian

You'll no longer catch an instaban for giving your PSN ID a potentially offensive name, as Sony plans to check each case individually.

2019 April 15, “Sony ends auto-bans for offensive PSN IDs – changes them automatically instead”, in Metro


IEO

en-noun

IEO (countable and uncountable, plural IEOs)

initial exchange offering
w:initial exchange offering

(cryptocurrencies) Initialism of initial exchange offering.


frameset

The reloading of the frameset is obviously less attractive than simply changing the location of one frame.

(Internet) The set of frames that constitute the layout of a webpage.


cooldown

I had to wait for the cooldown to finish before recasting the spell.

Private Terminal: After using a power, you must wait for it to recharge before using it again.
Private Terminal: This is called the cooldown period. When a power is in cooldown, its icon is gray. A red icon indicates that the power cannot affect the current target.

2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tactical Mastery: Advanced Power Use

(video games) The minimum length of time that the player needs to wait after using an ability or item before it can be used again.

(by extension) A particular ability with a powerful effect but long cooldown period, making it important to track when it was last used and when it can be used again.


trappable

If automatic error trapping is on and a trappable error occurs then the program is terminated.


logout

(computing) The act or process of logging out.


LiveScript

The name originally proposed for JavaScript.


JScript

(programming) A dialect of JavaScript developed by Microsoft.


ECMAScript

(programming) A standardised specification of JavaScript, developed by Ecma International.


human-readable

en-adj

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

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

(computing) That can be read by humans (as well as computers), such as a file format based on plain text.


fire button

You launch him into the air with a quick press on the fire button, trying to pass over bombs as you fly.

1986, Rachael Smith, Bomb Jack (video game review in Your Sinclair issue 5, May 1986)

(video games) A button on a joystick or joypad that corresponds to the action of firing a weapon, but often represents other in-game actions.


NVM

(computing) Abbreviation of non-volatile memory.


bursty

bursty (comparative burstier, superlative burstiest)

burstier (comparative)
burstiest (superlative)

The router needs to handle bursty traffic.

(computer science) Occurring in abrupt bursts, especially of information


info-dump

Unfortunately, too many corporate meetings are info-dumps — convened for the sake of information exchange, which is more efficiently handled by phone or fax […]

1995, Robert W Keidel, Seeing organizational patterns

(chiefly computing) A large volume of data supplied at the same time.


stack trace

(programming) A hierarchical trace of the function calls made by a program, used in debugging.


geospatial

The geospatial analysis of the area will take several hours to complete.

(computing) Describing the combination of spatial software and geographic data.


autofire

You start off with just seven clips of ammo and five grenades — so all you autofire merchants are in trouble. Only real soldiers, with an accurate eye and careful trigger finger need apply here.

1988, Operation Wolf (review), Crash issue 59 (December 1988)

High-speed autofire and a choice of two joystick sizes are featured.

1989 October, Popular Mechanics, volume 166, number 10

Also the crappy joystick, the SJS1, is useless. It's as stiff as a Skoda's steering and there's no autofire on it. I can't help thinking that I made the worst investment of my life by buying this computer.

1990 March, Letters: Your Sinclair, number 51

(video games) A feature on a joystick or gamepad that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button.


autofire

en-verb

autofire (third-person singular simple present autofires, present participle autofiring, simple past and past participle autofired)

autofires (present singular third-person)
autofiring (participle present)
autofired (participle past)
autofired (past)

(video games, weaponry) To fire automatically.


codeword

Bob cannot get any information out of the codeword since he doesn't know what transmission bases Alice used.

(cryptography) A string representing an encoded piece of text.


make file

make, a Unix program for this purpose, and file.

(computing) A configuration file that describes the steps involved in building an application from its source code.


requester

From request + -er; compare requestor, requestress.

Clicking on Add True-Type brings up an OS-specific font requester. Highlighting a font and clicking OK returns you to the Edit Font List window, now with the selected font appearing in the Font pop-up menu.

2005, Timothy Albee, Steve Warner, Robin Wood, Essential LightWave 3D: The Fastest Way to Master LightWave 3D (page 66)

File requesters, help files, configuration utilities, and menus would all be different […]

2007, Sulayman K. Sowe, Ioannis G. Stamelos, Ioannis Samoladas, Emerging Free and Open Source Software Practices (page 263)

(graphical user interface) A dialog box that prompts the user to choose from a list.


slambook

In classic Net slambook fashion, other members of the list responded to XXX's messages by sharing their own experiences with Pets Warehouse.

2005, Stephen Andert, Donald K. Burleson, Web Stalkers, page 146

(Internet) An online guestbook of this kind, where each visitor is invited to write personal replies to a set of questions.


no-op

Short for no operation (NOP), common assembly language instruction.

Points may be coincident and the number of specified points can be zero, in which case the function is a no-op.

1991, Graham C. E. Winn, OS/2 Presentation Manager GPI

A JMP instruction qualifies as a no-op in this sense.

1999, Donald Knuth, MMIXware: A RISC Computer for the Third Millennium

(computing) An instruction or operation that has no effect; a null operation.

lệnh vô tác

instruction or operation that has no significant effect


googleability

The good news is that you can improve your Googleability (or ability to show up on any search engine) so that people who search for information about you on the Internet will find you.

2007, Lindsey Pollak, Getting from college to career, page 39

If you don't exist on Google, Yahoo and MSN, you don't exist. A strong "googleability" rating and online presence will enhance your Personal Brand.

2009, Hubert K. Rampersad, Authentic Personal Branding, page 117

Thanks to Joop van Eijk, my father, for offering advice and guidance, for keeping track of my googleability, for making my Dutch summary readable and for having taught me to always explore all opportunities.

2010, G. Van Eijk, Unequal networks: spatial segregation, relationships and ...

(informal) The likelihood of finding something using Google or another similar Internet search engine.


bad ending

(video games) An ending that occurs when the player finishes the video game but is not completely successful for some reason, as opposed to a good ending.


group box

(graphical user interface) A rectangular control that can contain other controls, intended for grouping similar items visually.

caixa de grupo

graphical user interface: a rectangular control that can contain other controls


yobibyte

(computing) Strictly, 2⁸⁰ (1024⁸, 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) zebibytes, as opposed to a yottabyte.


zebibyte

(computing) Strictly, 2⁷⁰ (1024⁷, 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) exbibytes, as opposed to a zettabyte.


deep linking

(Internet) The practice of linking to a specific page or file within a website so as to bypass introductory pages, considered a violation of netiquette.


good ending

(video games) An ending that occurs when the player finishes a video game and is completely successful, as opposed to a bad ending.


fancruft

Fancruft (sometimes shortened to just cruft) is a derogatory term for these types of articles, which are sometimes just barely tolerated.]

[2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, No Starch Press, page 225

This contrast shows how dedicated Star Wars fans use the niche Wookieepedia to create and value content with a vast amount of detail and precision, even if the same content is viewed as fancruft within the more general Wikipedia community.

2012, Jason Mittell, “Wikis and Participatory Fandom”, in Aaron Delwiche, Jennifer Jacobs Henderson, editors, The Participatory Cultures Handbook, Routledge, page 39

Editors are the folks who detect and remove original research and fancruft.

2014, Michael Restivo, Why Wiki Works: Peer Production and Making Knowledge the Wiki Way (dissertation), Stony Brook University, page 1

Although the term ["cruft"] is almost always intended negatively, it is also associated with a certain obsessive attraction, most obviously in the case of "fancruft," those excessively detailed wiki entries about extremely minor elements of some niche subculture.

2017, David Letzler, The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention, U of Nebraska Press, page 5

(Wikimedia jargon, derogatory) Trivial or excessively detailed information on a work of fiction added by fans to a general-interest wiki.


context-sensitive

Right-click anywhere in the document window, and a context-sensitive menu appears.

(computing, philosophy) Sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation.

kontekstiherkkä

sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation


yottabyte

[…] the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (10²⁴ bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

2012 March 15, James Bamford, “The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)”, in Wired, →ISSN


subtree

(mathematics, computer science, graph theory) A tree wholly contained in another.

podstrom

mathematics, computer science: a tree wholly contained in another


newsfeed

Without unfriending someone, you can now choose to limit or block (unsubscribe) someone from your newsfeed or choose to see only what Facebook deems as very important.

2013, Nils Smith, Social Media Guide for Ministry: What It Is and How to Use It

(Internet) A feed, especially one providing news content.


powerup

(video games) Alternative spelling of power-up


hard-wire

hard-wire (third-person singular simple present hard-wires, present participle hard-wiring, simple past and past participle hard-wired)

hard-wires (present singular third-person)
hard-wiring (participle present)
hard-wired (participle past)
hard-wired (past)

(computing) To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed.


pixel art

What can I say about pixel art other than that the designers who create it have way too much time on their hands? All joking aside, pixel art has taken on a life of its own in recent years.

2005, Matt Kloskowski, Extreme Photoshop CS, page 132

The Pencil tool is useful when you want to control exactly how a pixel changes. For example, pixel art is often done using the Pencil tool with a brush size of 1 pixel […]

2013, Olivier Lecarme, Karine Delvare, The Book of GIMP: A Complete Guide to Nearly Everything, page 69

(computer graphics) A style of digital art drawn at the pixel level, sometimes having the pixels enlarged for a retro appearance.


OOPL

programming language
programming language#English

(programming) Initialism of object-oriented programming language.


party game

Mario games range from strict arcade games to racing games, party games, and complex 3D action-adventures.

2009, Rusel Demaria, Reset: Changing the Way We Look at Video Games, page 373

(video games) A multiplayer game, usually consisting of a series of short minigames, that can be easily played in a social setting.


accelerator key

en-noun

accelerator key (plural accelerator keys)


daisywheel printer

daisywheel printer (plural daisywheel printers)

daisy wheel, from the resemblance to the flower.

(computer hardware) A printer that operates by striking the page with moulded characters from a rotating circular arrangement, obsolete since the late 1980s.

margarétafejes nyomtató

a printer that operates by striking the page with moulded characters from a rotating circular arrangement


daisy wheel printer

daisy wheel printer (plural daisy wheel printers)

daisywheel printer
daisywheel printer#English

(computing) Alternative spelling of daisywheel printer


unit testing

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) A software testing methodology in which individual tests (unit tests) are developed for each small part of a program.


thermal printer

thermal printer (plural thermal printers)

(computer hardware) A printer that operates by applying heat to selected areas of specially treated paper.


hotlinking

(Internet) Directly embedding or linking to a resource on another server, such as an image or video, so that it appears to be part of the linking website — considered a violation of netiquette.


unit test

(software, testing) An individual test in unit testing


demoscener

Although some artists still preferred the low-level composing techniques which offered more flexibility and efficiency, such as the game composer Rob Hubbard and the demoscener Laxity, Soundmonitor proved to be an important step...

2008, Karen Collins, From Pac-Man to pop music: interactive audio in games and new media

The other 8-bit computers of the era such as MSX and Amstrad CPC sold well in certain countries but did not attract the early demosceners in great numbers, presumably due to their lesser popularity and a weaker pirate scene.

2009, John Impagliazzo, Timo Järvi, Petri Paju, History of Nordic Computing 2, page 290


Turing tarpit

Coined by Alan Perlis (1922-1990), computer scientist, from the name of Alan Turing (1912-1954), who described a basis for all possible computational algorithms, and tarpit.

The basic reason for increasing the size of the language is the so-called Turing tarpit: if the language is too simple, one may be able to do anything in it.

1985, Jean-Paul Tremblay, Paul G Sorenson, The Theory and Practice of Compiler Writing

Without more abstract notions of what constitutes important aspects of a programming language, one is seriously in danger of falling into the Turing Tarpit.

1994, Jørgen Lindskov Knudsen, Object-oriented Environments: The Mjolner Approach

programming language
programming language

(computing) The situation in which a programming language is only minimally Turing complete, so that "everything is possible but nothing is easy".


serverless

Generally, when people think of serverless computing, they tend to think of applications with back-ends that run on third-party services, also described as code running on ephemeral containers. In my experience, many businesses and people who are new to serverless computing will consider serverless applications to be simply “in the cloud.”

2017, Maddie Stigler, Beginning Serverless Computing, Apress, page 1

(computing) Based on a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand.

serverless architecture

2005, Coulouris et al, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design
A group at the University of California, Berkeley, proposed a serverless network file system architecture and developed a prototype implementation.

(computing, literally) Not involving a server; composed only of clients.


hard redirect

I'd prefer to use a hard redirect so that people don't even notice we've reorganised the site.


preloader

(web development, historical) In Flash animations, the loading screen that stalls for time while resources are downloaded.


OPC

Open Platform Communications
w:Open Platform Communications

(communication, programming) Initialism of Open Platform Communications.

Open Packaging Conventions
w:Open Packaging Conventions

(programming) Initialism of Open Packaging Conventions.


param

(mathematics, programming, informal) Abbreviation of parameter.


casual game

(video games) A video game targeting casual, irregular gamers, typically having few rules to learn and a low initial level of difficulty.


backtick

The backtick acts like the double-quote operator.

2000, Lincoln D Stein, Network Programming with Perl

(computing) The symbol `, resembling a reversed quotation mark.

zpětný apostrof

the symbol `, resembling a reversed quotation mark


backquote

The form that follows the backquote is not evaluated, except for certain items.

1988, Wendy L Milner, Common Lisp: A Tutorial


backquote

en-verb

backquote (third-person singular simple present backquotes, present participle backquoting, simple past and past participle backquoted)

backquotes (present singular third-person)
backquoting (participle present)
backquoted (participle past)
backquoted (past)

(computing, transitive) To enclose (text) in backquotes.


palettize

palettize (third-person singular simple present palettizes, present participle palettizing, simple past and past participle palettized)

palettizes (present singular third-person)
palettizing (participle present)
palettized (participle past)
palettized (past)

(transitive, computer graphics) To encode (an image) efficiently by mapping its pixels to a palette containing only those colours that are actually present in the image.


unlockable

But usually when people refer to the metagame, they mean things such as unlockables or customizable features.

2012, Keith Burgun, Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games, CRC Press, page 98

(video games) An initially hidden feature that is made available to reward the player for some achievement.


UDG

user-defined graphic
user-defined graphic#English

(computing) Initialism of user-defined graphic.


Perlish

en-adj

Perlish (comparative more Perlish, superlative most Perlish)

more Perlish (comparative)
most Perlish (superlative)

Incidentally, the eval { } block around the method call is the Perlish way of catching exceptions.

2004, Ian F Darwin, Java Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Java Developers

Second, the standard domain-specific notation you're recreating in your Perl class must conform to the Perlish precedences and associativities.

2005, Damian Conway, Perl Best Practices

In this chapter, I'll try to present examples in a more Perlish style of Perl.

2006, Jeffrey Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions

(computing, programming, informal) Typical of, or suited to, the Perl programming language.


persistable

A message can contain any data, including persistable objects.

2000, Pradeep Tapadiya, COM+ Programming: A Practical Guide Using Visual C++ and ATL

2002, Drayton et al, C# in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
A dynamic module can be either transient or persistable.

(computing) That can be made to persist; permanent.


sockpuppetry

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

From sock puppet + -ry, under influence from puppetry.

The facelessness of the internet makes sockpuppetry all too tempting for many.

2007, Jonathon Keats, Control + Alt + Delete: A Dictionary of Cyberslang

On the Internet, the new form of false identities is termed sock puppetry... the term came to be applied to people who would assume a false identity and then join an Internet group. The term has been extended to include people who use false identities on the Internet in order to deceive others.

2014, Timothy R. Levine, Encyclopedia of Deception, Vol. II, s.v. Sockpuppetry

The use of sock puppets, especially (Internet, derogatory) the use of pseudonymous online accounts for abuse.


Sokoban

Borrowed from Japanese 倉庫番 (sōkoban, “warehouseman”).

These so-called deadlock states are largely responsible for the failure of our attempts to solve positions in the game of Sokoban.

1998, Robert Mercer, Eric Neufeld, Advances in Artificial Intelligence

The sokoban problem encodes a small instance of a well known computer game, where a single stone must be pushed to its goal position.

2000, Zbigniew W Ras, Setsuo Ohsuga, editors, Foundations of Intelligent Systems

Sokoban exhibits a large number of difficult search-space properties.

2002, Jonathan Schaeffer, H. J. Van Den Herik, Chips Challenging Champions, page 30

(video games) A computer puzzle game, devised in 1980 and frequently reimplemented, in which the player must push boxes to designated locations under a set of movement constraints.


quicksort

From Quick + sort, from its computational efficiency.

Somewhat surprisingly, the average behaviour of quicksort is the same as the best behaviour.

1987, Åke Wikström, Functional Programming Using Standard ML

(computing) A sorting algorithm that operates by recursively partitioning the items to be sorted into two sets.


quicksort

en-verb

quicksort (third-person singular simple present quicksorts, present participle quicksorting, simple past and past participle quicksorted)

quicksorts (present singular third-person)
quicksorting (participle present)
quicksorted (participle past)
quicksorted (past)

1991, Maguire et al, Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications
The first and last subsets are then recursively quicksorted.

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


user-defined graphic

en-noun

user-defined graphic (plural user-defined graphics)

It includes memory space for ASCII text characters in Screen RAM, character font in ASCII Font RAM, user-defined graphics font in Graphic RAM, […]

1984, Robert Gordon Middleton, New Digital Troubleshooting Techniques

Most microcomputers now allow users to define their own characters by specifying their own patterns (user defined graphics).

1986, Douglas Hainline, New Developments in Computer-assisted Language Learning

Other user-defined graphics can be defined by entering the 8-byte sequence.

2006, Paul Scherz, Practical Electronics for Inventors

(computing, dated) A graphic symbol defined by the user, replacing one of the text characters in the computer's character set.


ARN

Use the ARN for the regions we want.

2020, Heartin Kanikathottu, AWS Security Cookbook: Practical solutions for managing security policies, monitoring, auditing, and compliance with AWS, Packt, page 370

(cloud computing) Initialism of Amazon resource name.


wingnutosphere

From wingnut + -o- + -sphere, by analogy with blogosphere.

That was obviously violated today as the New Republic betrayed, once again, that it seeks to destroy the new people-powered movement for the sake of its Lieberman-worshipping neocon owners; that it stands with the National Review and wingnutosphere in their opposition to grassroots Democrats.

2006 June 26, Howard Kurtz, quoting Markos Moulitsas, “Coming Clean”, in The Washington Post

(US politics, blogging, slang, derogatory) The community of bloggers perceived to be on the political far right.


hypohamiltonian

(graph theory) Of a graph, not containing a Hamiltonian cycle but such that the removal of any single vertex produces a Hamiltonian graph.


FS

(cryptography) Initialism of forward secrecy.


QID

The Wikidata Q prefix is from Uzbek Qamarniso.

Inside the bot-friendly world of Wikidata, every concept and thing is represented with a numeric code dubbed a QID.]

[2019 February 18, Tom Simonite, “Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata”, in Wired, →ISSN

Within the Unicode consortium, a discussion has been started to use the Wikidata numbering system (“QID”) to create a system of emoji encoding that lies outside core Unicode regulation […]

2019 September, Christian Lieske, Felix Sasaki, “Wikidata gets wordier”, in MultiLingual

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata.

Q-identifier

Due to the absence of unique entity identifiers across different databases, it is required to use the commonly available quasi-identifiers (QIDs), such as names and addresses, for linking records from those databases.

2020, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti, editors, Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology […], Springer Nature, page 36

(databases) Initialism of quasi-identifier.

(computer security) Initialism of Qualys identifier.


Hamiltonian graph

(graph theory) A graph for which there is a Hamiltonian cycle.


Hamiltonian path

Hamiltonian path (plural Hamiltonian paths)

Named after William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865), Irish mathematician.

(graph theory) A path through a graph which visits each vertex exactly once.

Hamiltonpad

path which visits each vertex exactly once


Hamiltonian cycle

Hamiltonian cycle (plural Hamiltonian cycles)

(graph theory) A Hamiltonian path with an additional connection between the first and last vertices visited, forming a cycle.

hamiltonkreds

graph theory: a cycle visiting all vertices once


parameterless

(computing theory) Taking no parameters; having zero arity.


RAM pack

Currently the Ace (for which a 16K RAM pack is obtainable) is one of the lowest priced machines available.

1985, John P Killingbeck, Microcomputer Quantum Mechanics

After preprogramming, the player can insert the RAM pack into the slot and push a button, and the instrument will load the information and set the registers.

2002, Wendy Horobin, How It Works: Science and Technology

(computing) A hardware module containing RAM for use by another device.


defriend

en-verb

defriend (third-person singular simple present defriends, present participle defriending, simple past and past participle defriended)

defriends (present singular third-person)
defriending (participle present)
defriended (participle past)
defriended (past)

2005, Schmitt et al, Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design
But why subject myself and friends to the awkward social construct of being virtually "defriended" because I want to save some space on a Web page?

Likewise, the actions of friending or defriending someone send out messages of their own.

2007, Mia Consalvo, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Internet Research Annual: Volume 4

(social media, uncommon) To remove from one's list of friends (e.g. on a social networking website).


friends list

(Internet) A list of contacts (in social networking, instant messaging, etc.), ostensibly the user's friends.


hyphen-minus

The symbol -, used as a hyphen, a minus sign and a dash.


soft hyphen

(computing, typography) A generally invisible text character marking a point where hyphenation can occur without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if the text is later reflowed.

weiches Trennzeichen

a generally invisible text character marking a point where hyphenation can occur without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if the text is later reflowed


cyberattack

en-noun

cyberattack (countable and uncountable, plural cyberattacks)

He also points out that if the US does come under cyberattack, we may be powerless to stop the attack.

1996 July 1, Stephen Pizzo, “Information Superhighway Under Assault”, in Santa Rosa Press-Democrat

In the months before Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's arrival in Beijing on Monday, the Obama administration quietly held an extraordinary briefing for the Chinese military leadership on a subject officials have rarely discussed in public: The Pentagon's emerging doctrine for defending against cyberattacks against the United States – and for using its cybertechnology against adversaries, including the Chinese.

2014 April 6, David E. Sanger, “U.S. tries candor to assure China on cyberattacks”, in The New York Times

In recent months, cyberattacks have also crippled police departments in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, as well as hospitals treating coronavirus patients in intrusions that involved criminal groups holding data hostage and seeking payments to unlock the data.

2021 June 2, Christina Goldbaum, William K. Rashbaum, “The M.T.A. Is Breached by Hackers as Cyberattacks Surge”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.


boot disk

(computing) A computer disk holding a bootstrap loader and an operating system.


unfriend

en-verb

unfriend (third-person singular simple present unfriends, present participle unfriending, simple past and past participle unfriended)

unfriends (present singular third-person)
unfriending (participle present)
unfriended (participle past)
unfriended (past)

From un- (verb prefix) + friend. Compare Dutch ontvrienden (“to unfriend”), German entfreunden (“to unfriend”).

"I asked her why, she said it was because I didn't comment, and I shrugged and said whatever. I didn't unfriend her."

Without unfriending someone, you can now choose to limit or block (unsubscribe) someone from your newsfeed or choose to see only what Facebook deems as very important.

2013, Nils Smith, Social Media Guide for Ministry: What It Is and How to Use It

(social media) To defriend; to remove from one's friends list (e.g. on a social networking website).


CVE

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
w:Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

(computer security) Initialism of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures.

(computing) Initialism of collaborative virtual environment.


coroutine

From co- + routine, coined by Melvin Conway in 1958.

Although a powerful tool, coroutines can be hard to understand due to the way data can flow back and forth between sections of the code.

The actual origin of the concept of symmetric unit control is difficult to determine. One of the earliest published applications of coroutines was in the area of syntax analysis (Conway, 1963).

2010, Robert W. Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, Addison-Wesley Longman, page 440

Python coroutines are the product of a series of enhancements to the humble generator functions we've seen so far in the book.

2015, Luciano Ramalho, Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming, O'Reilly Media, page 479

(programming) A piece of code that performs a task, and that can be passed new input and return output more than once.

subroutine

a coroutine that accepts input once and return output once

generator

a coroutine that accepts input once, but yield output multiple times


graymail

From gray + mail: in the threat sense, by analogy with blackmail.

(Internet) Email that is not technically spam (since the user agreed to receive it) but which is unwanted, such as newsletters after making a purchase.


userbox

I wasn't satisfied with the retrogamer userbox, so I created a new one.

2006, Lee K Seitz, “Any Wikipedians here?”, in rec.games.video.classic (Usenet)

Creating a userbox template for posting on member editors' user pages.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual

Currently, this userbox-mania is tending to decrease on Russian Wikipedia, being systematically repressed by administrators, but it is still thriving in the Ukrainian edition.

2013, Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor & Vera Zvereva (eds.), Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States, page 134

(originally Wikimedia jargon, wiki jargon) A simple, standardised box placed on a webpage to indicate the user's proficiencies or preferences.

thank you all!! All 10613 of you!!! Maybe more now!! Here’s to many more userboxes being made!!❤❤

2016 September 21, userboxes, retrieved 2014-07-07

Made some plural userboxes, feel free to use! (With or without credit) - Ben Levine

2022 January 30, r/plural, retrieved 2014-07-07

(Internet) A graphic modelled after this, shared on various social media websites.


serializable

This implies that the fields must be either of primitive types or of class types that are themselves serializable.

2002, Ivor Horton, Beginning Java 2: SDK 1.4 Edition

If a class is serializable, all of its subclasses are also serializable.

2006, Herbert Schildt, Java: The Complete Reference


in-box

Academic life, like any other, has a full in-box. A professor can stay busy answering his or her mail.

1999, Michael Szenberg, Passion and Craft: Economists at Work, page 187

Since your next job may not have a very full in-box or a very heavy schedule, and might lack some of the psychic rewards that your previous leadership job had, your state of depression may worsen.

2002, Perry M. Smith, Rules & Tools for Leaders, page 122

Our livers were never designed to have such a full in-box, and because most people are nutritionally deficient, the body also lacks the materials needed for detoxification

2006, Sally Beare, 50 Secrets of the World's Longest Living People, page 177


in-box

in-box (third-person singular simple present in-boxes, present participle in-boxing, simple past and past participle in-boxed)

in-boxes (present singular third-person)
in-boxing (participle present)
in-boxed (participle past)
in-boxed (past)


wireframe

A wireframe is transparent in nature, requiring some skill and expertise in interpreting the model.

2001, Philip D. Rufe, Fundamentals of Manufacturing, page 153

(computer graphics) A visual model of an electronic representation of a three-dimensional object

Wireframes should be simple sketches that you can quickly revise and not get attached to.

2003, Andrew Chak, Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Web Sites, page 306

(web design) A basic visual guide used to suggest the layout of fundamental elements in a web interface


wireframe

wireframe (third-person singular simple present wireframes, present participle wireframing, simple past and past participle wireframed)

wireframes (present singular third-person)
wireframing (participle present)
wireframed (participle past)
wireframed (past)

She'd barely wireframed it, here, and there was no there there, no interiority.

(computer graphics) To generate a wireframe representation

There are a few lists you should make before you start wireframing.

2006, Daniel M. Brown, Communicating Design, page 290

(web design) To prepare a wireframe for a website


space complexity

en-noun

space complexity (usually uncountable, plural space complexities)

(computer science) A measure of the amount of space, or memory required by an algorithm to solve a given decision problem. An informal analogy would be the amount of scratch paper needed while working out a problem with pen and paper.


preprocess

en-verb

preprocess (third-person singular simple present preprocesses, present participle preprocessing, simple past and past participle preprocessed)

preprocesses (present singular third-person)
preprocessing (participle present)
preprocessed (participle past)
preprocessed (past)

If the desired result is to perform the smallest possible rotation between each pair of two orientations, you can preprocess the quaternions to achieve this.

2001, Mark A. DeLoura, editor, Game Programming Gems 2, Charles River Media, Inc.

In pattern recognition we can divide an entire task into three phases: data acquisition, data preprocessing, and decision classification.

2002, Sing-Tze Bow, editor, Pattern Recognition and Image Preprocessing, Marcel Dekker, Inc.

To obtain the same performance benefits of traditional OLAP systems, a UDM uses preprocessed aggregates.

2006, Brian Larson, Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Osborne/McGraw-Hill


generic programming

(programming) A style of computer programming in which algorithms are written in terms of to-be-specified-later types that are then instantiated when needed for specific types provided as parameters.


interframe

Each keyframe becomes a reference for all the following interframes.

2003, Dan Livingston, Carlos Justiniano, Advanced Macromedia Flash MX, page 356

(signal processing) A video frame which is compressed to express only the change from a reference frame.


B-frame

(signal processing) A compressed video frame which is reconstructed based on its differences from both the previous and the subsequent frame.


macroblock

(signal processing, video compression) A block of adjacent pixels, typically a rectangular 16×16 block


P-frame

(signal processing, video compression) A video frame which contains only information on the differences from previous frames


D-frame

(signal processing, video compression) A low-quality intraframe containing only DC components, used for high-speed previews.


I-frame

(signal processing, video compression) Abbreviation of intraframe.

invincibility frame
invincibility frame#English

(video games, speedrunning) Abbreviation of invincibility frame.


machine instruction

en-noun

machine instruction (plural machine instructions)

(computing) Any of a set of discrete instructions, each with its own binary representation and associated assembly language mnemonic, that a CPU can execute; typically they involve the movement, comparison or manipulation of data.


instruction set

instruction set (plural instruction sets)

(computing) The set of machine instructions that a particular CPU can execute; the corresponding set of assembly language mnemonics.


neuroinformatics

(biology, computing) The science that studies the neural system by use of computational models


deserialize

en-verb

deserialize (third-person singular simple present deserializes, present participle deserializing, simple past and past participle deserialized)

deserializes (present singular third-person)
deserializing (participle present)
deserialized (participle past)
deserialized (past)

/diːˈsɪəɹɪəlaɪz/

(transitive, computing) To parse (serialized data) so as to reconstruct the original object.


hotfix

When you extract the files in a hotfix, you'll generally find the following.

1999, John Savill, The Windows NT and Windows 2000 Answer Book

For example, the IIS 3.0 denial-of-service attacks that brought down Microsoft's web site several times in 1997 quickly led to the release of a hotfix.

2000, Paul Robichaux, Managing the Windows 2000 Registry

(computing) A cumulative package of one or more files used to address a problem in a software product.


metablog

metablog (third-person singular simple present metablogs, present participle metablogging, simple past and past participle metablogged)

metablogs (present singular third-person)
metablogging (participle present)
metablogged (participle past)
metablogged (past)


desktop publisher

en-noun

desktop publisher (plural desktop publishers)

(computing) A person involved in desktop publishing.

(computing) A piece of software that performs desktop publishing.


high bit

(computing) The most significant bit in the binary representation of a number, sometimes used to record the sign of the number.


preoptimize

en-verb

preoptimize (third-person singular simple present preoptimizes, present participle preoptimizing, simple past and past participle preoptimized)

preoptimizes (present singular third-person)
preoptimizing (participle present)
preoptimized (participle past)
preoptimized (past)


preoptimization

en-noun

preoptimization (countable and uncountable, plural preoptimizations)

(computing) An advance optimization; an instance of preoptimizing.


quux

Metasyntactic variable
metasyntactic variable#English


flip-screen

Learic and Leanoric concoct their spells by travelling round the flip-screen landscape, collecting rare herbs and roots from the countryside.

1987, Feud (review in Crash magazine issue 38)

Yes, that's right, you've correctly deduced from the plot that what we're talking about here is a flip-screen adventure, each screen presenting you with a few baddies to beat up and one or two problems to solve before you can progress onto the next one.

1990, Hammerfist (review in Your Sinclair magazine issue 54)

So, your masterpiece is going to have to be either a straightforward (upward?) vertically scrolling blast (with a choice of fast or faster still but both supremely smooth), a single flip-screen affair or a 'push-scrolling' jobbie where the screen scrolls in accordance with the main sprite.

1992, Ian Osborne, Shoot-'Em-Up Construction Kit (review in Zzap! magazine issue 84)

(video games) Not scrolling, but composed of linked screens between which the player can travel.


ISPF

(computing) Initialism of Interactive System Productivity Facility; An IBM mainframe online application development system


screen-scrape

en-verb

screen-scrape (third-person singular simple present screen-scrapes, present participle screen-scraping, simple past and past participle screen-scraped)

screen-scrapes (present singular third-person)
screen-scraping (participle present)
screen-scraped (participle past)
screen-scraped (past)

Screen-scraping programs, by their nature, are very reliant on the layout of the information source that they are analyzing.

2003, Kim Topley, Java Web Services in a Nutshell

Often it is simpler to screen-scrape this data rather than trying to recreate the logic of a script using programmatic interfaces to the database.

2006, Kevin Strange, C. Elegans: Methods and Applications

Or you could go to the other extreme and screen-scrape the site at will.

2008, Raymond Yee, Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services

(transitive, computing) To extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content.


sourcebook

That sourcebook is aimed at players of fighters, rogues, rangers, and warlords, and by design you're not going to find much in that book to appeal to other characters.

2008, James Wyatt, Bill Slavicsek, Richard Baker, Dungeon Master 4th Edition For Dummies, page 156

(video games) A publication intended to supplement the core materials of a roleplaying game.


drag-drop

The problem is that drag-drop is handled differently in various situations, so sometimes you'll need to modify your behavior to achieve the desired result.

2005, David A Karp, et al: Windows XP in a Nutshell


unboxing

Autoboxing and unboxing are typically used for collections of primitives. […] Unboxing involves the production of a primitive for each object.

2014, Robert Liguori, Patricia Liguori, Java 8 Pocket Guide, O'Reilly, page 28

(object-oriented programming) Automatic conversion of objects back to value types.

kuorinta

automatic conversion of objects back to value types


drag and drop

Use drag and drop to move the unwanted files to the trash.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(usually attributive, computing, graphical user interface) A feature of a graphical user interface whereby the user can move or copy an object by dragging its visual representation across the screen and releasing it in another location.


drag and drop

drag and drop (third-person singular simple present drags and drops, present participle dragging and dropping, simple past and past participle dragged and dropped)

drags and drops (present singular third-person)
dragging and dropping (participle present)
dragged and dropped (participle past)
dragged and dropped (past)

You can duplicate the files by holding the Ctrl key while dragging and dropping them.

(transitive, computing, graphical user interface) To use such a feature to move or copy an object.


hot-swappable

(computing, of hardware) That can be inserted or removed without switching off the computer.


subsequence

(computer science) A subset of an array with the same ordering.


swap file

So called because data can be swapped between memory and this file.

(computing) A file on disk used as auxiliary memory.


domain hack

It is however, possible to create a domain hack. This is where parts of the domain spell out a particular word […]

2008, Chris Brophy, Manufacturing, Distribution and Promotion in the Music Industry

I love those domain hacks, I own http://www.web2.0button.com and I recently got an email asking how I registered a domain name with a dot in it (HEHE).

2006, "Dave 2.0", http://en.gli.sh/ - web 2.0 en.gli.sh community (discussion on alt.usage.english newsgroup)

(Internet, informal) An Internet domain name in which the top-level domain (such as a country code) can be understood as part of the name rather than the usual suffix.


jaggies

From jaggy or jagged + -ie (“diminutive”) + -s (“plural”).

affix

The anti-alias option in image editors helps to eliminate the jaggies.

1999, Brent Heslop, David Angell, Rick Darnell, Microsoft Word 2000 Bible

2007, Pulli et al, Mobile 3D Graphics: With OpenGL ES and M3G
Edge antialiasing only works at the edges of primitives, but jaggies can happen also at intersections of polygons.

(computer graphics, informal) Jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.


unpaged

The routine that actually changes the paging register must be in an unpaged region; otherwise it will no longer be executable after it has swapped pages.

(computing, of memory) Not subject to paging.


swap in

en-verb

swap in (third-person singular simple present swaps in, present participle swapping in, simple past and past participle swapped in)

swaps in (present singular third-person)
swapping in (participle present)
swapped in (participle past)
swapped in (past)

(transitive, computing) To retrieve (memory contents) from a swap file.


page in

page in (third-person singular simple present pages in, present participle paging in, simple past and past participle paged in)

pages in (present singular third-person)
paging in (participle present)
paged in (participle past)
paged in (past)

(transitive, computing) To transfer (memory contents) from auxiliary storage.


bullet time

First used with reference to the 1999 film The Matrix, and later to the slow-motion effects in the 2001 video game Max Payne.

...particularly in the use of the bullet-time technique...

2006, Dani Cavallaro, The Cinema of Mamoru Oshii: Fantasy, Technology and Politics

(film, video games) A visual effect in which the camera pans around a slowed-down object, such as a flying bullet.

(video games) A mode in which gameplay slows down to allow the player to observe and maneuver around bullets or other fast moving objects.


keylogging

(computing) The logging of keystrokes, as with a key logger


page fault

(computing) An alert (such as an interrupt or exception) indicating that a page of memory was accessed without being loaded.


backtrace

backtrace (third-person singular simple present backtraces, present participle backtracing, simple past and past participle backtraced)

backtraces (present singular third-person)
backtracing (participle present)
backtraced (participle past)
backtraced (past)


frameless

So there's still a need for a frameless alternative to any web page.

2005, Michael Meadhra, How to Do Everything with Dreamweaver 8

(computing, of a webpage) Without frames.


glue code

One of the concerns raised was that glue code is typically something that is very special for a given context and therefore hard to reuse.

1993, Eike Best, editor, CONCUR '93: 4th International Conference on Concurrency Theory

The linker interposes the glue code in front of each downward call.

2000, John R Levine, Linkers and Loaders

(computing) Code that serves to connect separate parts of a program for compatibility or interoperability.


deopping

Chanserv can control a channel in terms of oppings and deoppings […]

1998, do...@noone.com, “Chat Channel”, in alt.irc.mirc (Usenet)

(Internet) The demotion of an IRC user from operator status.


bootable

(computing, of a disk, etc.) That can be booted; from which one can boot the system.


bootable

(computing) A disk or other medium from which the system can be booted.


swap out

swap out (third-person singular simple present swaps out, present participle swapping out, simple past and past participle swapped out)

swaps out (present singular third-person)
swapping out (participle present)
swapped out (participle past)
swapped out (past)

(transitive, computing) To transfer (memory contents) into a swap file.


opping

[…] the purpose of delaying autoops is basically reducing the number of mode changes, and grouping several oppings into one.

1994, Roger Espel Llima, “Keeping a channel open (ircii-2.6)”, in alt.irc (Usenet)

(Internet) The promotion of an IRC user to operator status.


page out

page out (third-person singular simple present pages out, present participle paging out, simple past and past participle paged out)

pages out (present singular third-person)
paging out (participle present)
paged out (participle past)
paged out (past)

However, if the ASE application is paged out because of memory starvation, the entire process is blocked and no useful work can be done until the required pages are brought into memory.

2002, Allan N. Packer, Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform, page 362

(transitive, computing) To transfer (memory contents) to auxiliary storage.


filename extension

en-noun

filename extension (plural filename extensions)


thin client

(computing) A minimal client that relies on the server to do most of its processing.

cienki klient

a minimal client that relies on the server to do most of its processing


fat client

(computing) A complex client that does not rely on the server to do most of its processing.


fall-through

fall-through (countable and uncountable, plural fall-throughs)

Deverbal from fall through.
switch (x) {
case 1:
 printf("Printed when x=1");
 break;
case 2:
 printf("Printed when x=2");
case 3:
 printf("Printed when x=2 or x=3");
 break;
}
A case statement in the C programming language containing a fall-through. Because the second case has no "break" at the end, execution will "fall through" to the third case.

text float box

<tt>switch (x) {
case 1:
 printf("Printed when x=1");
 break;
case 2:
 printf("Printed when x=2");
case 3:
 printf("Printed when x=2 or x=3");
 break;</tt>
}

It is a good idea to comment the (rare) cases in which a fall-through is intentional so that an uncommented fall-through can be assumed to be an error.

1997, Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language: Language Libraries and Design

If you place default elsewhere, then a break will be required to prevent fall-through.

2001, Graham M Seed, Barry J Cooper, An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in C++

Specifically, it prohibits fall-through conditions in almost all cases.

(programming) In certain programming constructs, the situation where execution passes to the next condition in a list unless explicitly redirected.


tarpit

tar baby

another term related to tar and to trapping or bogging down

(computing) A service that purposely delays incoming connections in order to reduce the effectiveness of spamming and similar techniques.


tarpit

en-verb

tarpit (third-person singular simple present tarpits, present participle tarpitting, simple past and past participle tarpitted)

tarpits (present singular third-person)
tarpitting (participle present)
tarpitted (participle past)
tarpitted (past)

If an attack matches a certain pattern, the connection can be tarpitted.

2004, Steven Andres, Brian Kenyon, Erik Pack Birkholz, Security Sage's Guide to Hardening the Network Infrastructure, page 415

(transitive, computing) To delay by means of a tarpit service.


attract mode

(video games) A demonstration mode intended to attract potential players to an arcade game.


misrecognize

misrecognize (third-person singular simple present misrecognizes, present participle misrecognizing, simple past and past participle misrecognized)

misrecognizes (present singular third-person)
misrecognizing (participle present)
misrecognized (participle past)
misrecognized (past)

This process of misrecognizing one's self in the image in the mirror creates the ego, the entity that says 'I.'

2006, Mary Klages, Literary Theory, page 80

(psychology, computing) To recognize in error


discretization

en-noun

discretization (countable and uncountable, plural discretizations)

Analyses all required a planar mathematical discretization of a region containing a prescribed number of cells with prescribed orientations.

BLAZE Multiphysics has many features from: discretation, temporal resolution, user modification and post processing.

(mathematics, computing, cognitive science) The act of discretizing, or dividing a continuous object or spectrum into a finite number of discrete elements


DLL hell

A more succinct way to say this is that the versioning the CLR enforces for strong-named assemblies means the end of DLL hell.

2002, David Chappell, Understanding .NET: A Tutorial and Analysis

Another feature of Windows 2000 or later Windows operating systems that deals with DLL Hell is file protection: system DLLs are protected...

(computing, informal) Problems caused by incompatible versions of a DLL (dynamic-link library).


shortcut key

(computing) A key or key combination involved in a keyboard shortcut.

tecla de drecera

a key that allows quick access to a prgramme or task


versioning

versioning (usually uncountable, plural versionings)

There have been many proposals to incorporate versioning in object-oriented databases.

1993, Stefano Ceri, Katsumi Tanaka, Shalom Tsur, Deductive and Object-oriented Databases

2005, Longley et al, Geographic Information Systems and Science
An alternative to pessimistic locking is optimistic versioning.

(computing) The use of versions as a means of distinguishing similar items.


trending

[…] the only conversation most people can keep track of is what’s trending on social media.

2015 September 28, Yesha Callahan, “Social Media Is Driving the TV Conversation”, in The New York Times

(Internet, marketing) Popular or becoming more popular.


command line

I'm so used to the command line that I don't even know how to find things in the GUI.

The command line offers a lot of helpful features, such as tab completion and wildcard expansion.

command line interface
command line interface

A shell, a command line interface; usually used with the definite article.

Type the following at the command line: du -s -h.

The text prompt presented to the user in a command line interface.

linie de comandă (linie textuală de comandă)

Use the following command line to compile a file without linking: gcc -c main.c -o main.o

A line of text that is entered at such a prompt.


unescape

en-verb

unescape (third-person singular simple present unescapes, present participle unescaping, simple past and past participle unescaped)

unescapes (present singular third-person)
unescaping (participle present)
unescaped (participle past)
unescaped (past)

Hopefully, the possibilities afforded by escaping and unescaping strings are now becoming clear.

2006, Richard Leggett et al., Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices, page 76

(programming) To reverse the escaping of a string.


datahub

(computing) An administrative building centre with access to multiple, independent (often remote) databases


showcasing

en-noun

showcasing (countable and uncountable, plural showcasings)

(Internet, retailing) The activity of going to bricks-and-mortar stores to examine goods before buying them online, frequently from a different retailer.


black hat

From the black stetsons (cowboy hats) traditionally worn by such villains.

(computing, computer security, slang) A malicious hacker, one who violates computer security out of maliciousness or for personal gain.


spawner

(computing) A program which spawns objects or processes as needed

[…] at this point, there are enemy birds that fly out of the pipe and attack the player's avatar. The pipes themselves are "enemy spawners" […]

2006, Alice J. Robison, Inventing fun: videogame design as a writing process, page 77

(video games) An object in a simulated game world that spawns further objects.


nonstatic

(object-oriented programming) Not static.


subnotebook

(computing) A small, lightweight laptop computer, smaller than a notebook computer.


number cruncher

number cruncher (plural number crunchers)

Right above the database access layer sits a number cruncher that performs any calculations that a particular request may require, such as computing a standard deviation. In many cases, this layer just forwards raw numbers.

2001, C/C++ Users Journal, volume 19, page 38

(computing) A program, algorithm, or hardware with a focus on numerical calculation.


unclicked

...design for hypertext was blue for unclicked and purple for clicked. People like it because they're used to it.

2002, Gerry McGovern, Rob Norton, Catherine O'Dowd, The Web Content Style Guide

THE EXPOSURE EFFECT OF UNCLICKED BANNER ADVERTISEMENTS

2007, Charles R Taylor, Doo-Hee Lee, Cross-Cultural Buyer Behavior


middle-click

en-verb

middle-click (third-person singular simple present middle-clicks, present participle middle-clicking, simple past and past participle middle-clicked)

middle-clicks (present singular third-person)
middle-clicking (participle present)
middle-clicked (participle past)
middle-clicked (past)

(intransitive, computing) To press the middle button on a computer mouse.

(transitive, computing) To activate an item on the screen by middle-clicking while the pointer is over it.


triple-click

(computing) The action of pushing the button on a mouse three times in quick succession in order to perform a different task that would be performed from a single-click or double-click.

Dreifachklick

pushing the button on a computer mouse three times in quick succession


triple-click

triple-click (third-person singular simple present triple-clicks, present participle triple-clicking, simple past and past participle triple-clicked)

triple-clicks (present singular third-person)
triple-clicking (participle present)
triple-clicked (participle past)
triple-clicked (past)

(computing) To push the button on a mouse three times in quick succession in order to perform different task that would be performed from a single-click or double-click.


single-click

(computing) The action of pushing the button on a mouse once in order to perform a different task that would be performed from a double-click or triple-click.

單擊

action or event of pushing mouse-button once


single-click

single-click (third-person singular simple present single-clicks, present participle single-clicking, simple past and past participle single-clicked)

single-clicks (present singular third-person)
single-clicking (participle present)
single-clicked (participle past)
single-clicked (past)

(computing) To push the button on a mouse once in order to perform different task that would be performed from a double-click or triple-click.


gameboard

The Mario games extended the gameboard with side scrolling […]

2011, Janet H. Murray, Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice


undeletable

(computing) That cannot be deleted; indelible.


Ajaxify

Ajaxify (third-person singular simple present Ajaxifies, present participle Ajaxifying, simple past and past participle Ajaxified)

Ajaxifies (present singular third-person)
Ajaxifying (participle present)
Ajaxified (participle past)
Ajaxified (past)

(Internet, transitive, rare) To modify a Web application to use Ajax.


logfile

(computing) A file that serves as a log.


turtle graphics

(computing) Vector graphics generated by a turtle that moves according to relative coordinates on a Cartesian plane, as in the Logo programming language.


parentless

The top-level window is parentless and forms the root of the hierarchy.

2012, Michael Lawrence, John Verzani, Programming Graphical User Interfaces in R, page 19

(computing) Having no parent in a data structure.


netbook

Blend of net + notebook, a trademark registered by Psion.

(please add the primary text of this quotation)
As the line between traditional laptop computers and smartphones blurs and new ideas like netbooks arrive, business travelers face a new series of choices about what to carry on the road.

2009 March 4, The net(book) effect, “Joe Brancatelli”, in NBC News

(computing) An economical notebook computer.


keyer

(television) A device that replaces a fixed colour in the image with some other picture or background; chromakeyer.


shmup

Highlights include the great-looking shmup Judgement Silversword.

Galaga was probably the most influential of all of these because it added bonus levels and the power-up, a concept that has become standard in every shmup.

2005, Raph Koster, A Theory of Fun for Game Design


typosquatter

However, little has been written about an interesting and growing subspecies of cybersquatter: the typosquatter. Instead of registering domain names containing the trademarks of others, these folks take a lower-risk course of action. They look around and see which Web sites get the heaviest traffic. Then they register, for themselves, domain names that consist of the likeliest typographical errors that users are may make when seeking to access these sites. Domain names like "amazom.com," "dismey.com" and so on.

1998 September 11, Robert C. Cumbow, “Day of the Typosquatters”, in The Internet Advertising/Marketing Law Report, archived from the original on 1998-12-03

The decline in traditional, direct cybersquatting was accompanied by a rise in a form of indirect cybersquatting known as typosquatting. A typosquatter attempts to cash in on the traffic generated by high-volume Web sites.

2014, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, 2nd edition, ABC-CLIO, page 59

(Internet) A person who engages in typosquatting.


run-and-gun

Play switches from an overhead run and gun to a platform jumping shooter in this mediocre game.

2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002

What makes a horror game different to write than, say, a run-and-gun first-person shooter?

(video games) Of a player's character, that runs on foot and uses a projectile weapon.


chording

en-noun

chording (countable and uncountable, plural chordings)

(computing) The ability, using a keyboard or similar device, to enter characters or commands in the form of "chords" by pressing several keys simultaneously.


chorded

(computing, of a computer keyboard) Through which input is supplied by pressing a relatively small number of keys in combinations, as though playing chords.

a chorded cycle


Numeronym presenting accessibility as "a" followed by 11 more letters, followed by "y".

(software engineering) Abbreviation of accessibility.


unwatch

en-verb

unwatch (third-person singular simple present unwatches, present participle unwatching, simple past and past participle unwatched)

unwatches (present singular third-person)
unwatching (participle present)
unwatched (participle past)
unwatched (past)

To unwatch a page, you can simply revisit the page; you'll notice the tab now says Unwatch. Click the tab again to remove the page.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, page 319

(transitive, wiki jargon) To remove (a webpage) from one's watchlist.


isosurface

an isosurface representing a concentration of 10 grams per cubic meter

(computer graphics, geometry) A surface that represents points of a constant value within a volume of space


submenu

(computing, graphical user interface) A secondary menu available through another menu, especially one that branches off the first.


in-order

(computing theory) Alternative spelling of inorder


post-order

(computing theory) Alternative spelling of postorder


passphrase

(computing) A password that comprises a whole phrase.

pasfrazo

computing: a password that comprises a whole phrase


inorder

(computing theory) Of a tree traversal, recursively visiting the root in between the left and right subtrees.


postorder

(computing theory) Of a tree traversal, recursively visiting the left and right subtrees before the root.


r.e.

recursively enumerable
recursively enumerable#English

(computing theory) Abbreviation of recursively enumerable.


semi-decidable

(computing theory) Of a set, such that there is a deterministic algorithm such that (a) if an element is a member of the set, the algorithm halts with the result "positive", and (b) if an element is not a member of the set, (i) the algorithm does not halt, or (ii) if it does, then with the result "negative".


co-recursively enumerable

en-adj

co-recursively enumerable (not comparable)

Any recursively enumerable set which is also co-recursively enumerable is a decidable set.

(computing theory) Describing a set for which there exists a deterministic algorithm that will list all items not in that set.


pixel-perfect

pixel-perfect (comparative more pixel-perfect, superlative most pixel-perfect)

more pixel-perfect (comparative)
most pixel-perfect (superlative)

It was the first (and, indeed, practically the only one to this day) to have an animated loading screen, the first to have pixel-perfect collision detection […]

1991, Stuart Campbell, “The YS Official Top 100 Part 1”, in Your Sinclair

Manual pixel-perfect collision-detection routines can be difficult to create and processor-intensive to run.

2003, Colin Moock, ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide

(video games, design) Involving precision at the pixel level.

(computing, design) Having precise dimension ratios in all aspects on well-defined drawing glyphs.