go down

en-verb

go down (third-person singular simple present goes down, present participle going down, simple past went down, past participle gone down)

goes down (present singular third-person)
going down (participle present)
went down (past)
gone down (participle past)

suhtautua (receiving person or party as subject, received thing in illative)

Did the server just go down again? We'll have to reboot it.

As I say, it was a very hot day, and I found that the air-con was better on 777013 than either 777001 or 777009. There are, however, no emergency hopper windows, so if the air-con goes down on a hot day, you will cook!

2023 January 26, Pip Dunn, “Merseyrail '777s' are OK for commuters”, in RAIL, number 988, page 60

(intransitive, computing, engineering) To stop functioning, to go offline.


mount

mount (third-person singular simple present mounts, present participle mounting, simple past and past participle mounted)

mounts (present singular third-person)
mounting (participle present)
mounted (participle past)
mounted (past)

From Middle English mounten, from Anglo-Norman munter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre (“climb”), from Latin montem (“mountain”). Compare modern French monter.

Burn the contents of the staging area onto a writable CD-ROM, carry it over to the Web server, and mount it.

1998, Lincoln D. Stein, Web Security: A Step-by-step Reference Guide, page 377

(transitive, computing) To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.


protection

en-noun

protection (countable and uncountable, plural protections)

/pɹəˈtɛkʃən/

From Middle English, from Old French, from stem of Late Latin prōtectiō (“a covering over”), from Latin prōtēctus, perfect passive participle of prōtegere (“to protect, cover in front”). Displaced native Old English ġesċildnes.

der

(computing) An instance of a security token associated with a resource (such as a file).

suojaaminen

computing: instance of a security token associated with a resource


baddie

Aside from all of the abstract aspects (things we cannot see), you do not have to be an Instagram model/baddie to be a bad bitch.

2020, Kenshi Hayabusa, The Road to Becoming a Bad Bitch: How I Overcame Low-Self Esteem and Negativity, Hayabusa Publishing, page 56

All day long, she can immerse herself in the world of crop tops and contour and IG “baddies” that do not look like any Indian girl she knows.

2021, Priya-Alika Elias, Besharam: On Love and Other Bad Behaviors, Chicago: Chicago Review Press

Miriam noted that Instagram had “Insta baddies,” who made names for themselves by posing “with scandalous clothes on and maybe they'll have a bunch of makeup on.”

2021, Shauna Pomerantz, Miriam Field, “A TikTok Assemblage: Girlhood, Radical Media Engagement, and Parent–Child Generativity”, in Fiona Blaikie, editor, Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults: Situated, Embodied and Performed Ways of Being, Engaging and Belonging, Abingdon, England: Routledge, →DOI

On Instagram, baddies and models of every ethnicity rock fashion and beauty trends that Black women either created or popularized: cornrows, oversized door knocker earrings, long, intricately designed acrylic nails, artfully sculpted baby hairs.

2021, Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture, New York: St. Martin's Griffin

(neologism, slang) An attractive, confident woman, especially one who is a social media influencer.


abductive

(logic, computing) Being or relating to a logical process of abduction or inference.


EBCDIC

Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.

1989, D. Russell, The Principles of Computer Networking, Cambridge University Press, page 218

(computing) Acronym of Extended Binary-Coded-Decimal Interchange Code, an 8-bit character set and encoding representing 256 alphanumeric and special characters, devised by and used primarily by IBM.


SDP

Session Description Protocol
w:Session Description Protocol

(networking) Initialism of Session Description Protocol.


SDP

en-noun

SDP (countable and uncountable, plural SDPs)

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of stochastic dynamic programming.

(networking) Initialism of service discovery protocol.


database publishing

(computing) the production of catalogues, price lists etc, using data from a database


IBM

/ˈˌʌɪbiːˈɛm/

The study found that U.S. technology company IBM had by far the largest number of AI-related patents, with 8,920.
Audio (US): (file)

2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2019-02-07

International Business Machines
w:International Business Machines

Initialism of International Business Machines.


CASE

(computing, software) computer-aided software engineering.


dichotomic

en-adj

dichotomic (comparative more dichotomic, superlative most dichotomic)

more dichotomic (comparative)
most dichotomic (superlative)

(computing) Choosing between two antithetical choices, between two distinct alternatives. Classification based upon two opposites. http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0305-4470/27/14/016


signed magnitude

The IEEE standard for floating point uses signed magnitude for the mantissa.

(computing) The convention by which one bit in the representation of a number indicates the numeric sign, while the rest indicate the magnitude.


positive zero

en-noun

positive zero (countable and uncountable, plural positive zeros or positive zeroes)

positive zeros (plural)
positive zeroes (plural)

When not otherwise noted, "zero" will mean "positive zero" here.

(computing) A signed magnitude representation of zero in which the sign bit indicates a positive number.


logical complement

logical complement (plural logical complements)

The logical complement of 0xAAAA is 0x5555 on a 16-bit machine, and 0xFFFF5555 on a 32-bit machine.

(computing) The number, obtained by complementing every bit of a given number, which produces all ones when exclusive ored with the given number.


sign bit

(computing) The bit in the representation of a number indicating whether it is negative or positive; applicable to both twos complement and signed magnitude representations.


negative zero

negative zero (countable and uncountable, plural negative zeros or negative zeroes)

negative zeros (plural)
negative zeroes (plural)

One must take care in handling negative zero in comparisons.

(computing) A signed magnitude representation of zero in which the sign bit indicates a negative number.


numeric complement

numeric complement (plural numeric complements)

The numeric complement of -123 is 123.

(computing) The number obtained by changing the numeric sign of a number. This may or may not be the twos complement, depending on the way numbers are stored.

vastaluku

math: number obtained by changing the numeric sign


character encoding

character encoding (plural character encodings)

(computing) A well-defined correspondence between text characters and the numeric values used to represent them.

编码

well-defined correspondence between text characters and numeric values


ones' complement

ones' complement (plural ones' complements)

The ones' complement of 0xAAAA is 0x5555 on a 16-bit machine, and 0xFFFF5555 on a 32-bit machine.

(computing) The number obtained by subtracting a given n-digit binary number from 2ⁿ-1 (which yields the same result as the logical complement).

Computers that use ones' complement arithmetic have two representations for zero, all 0's and all 1's.

(computing) The convention by which bit patterns with high bit 0 represent positive numbers from 0 to 2ⁿ⁻¹-1 directly, while bit patterns with high bit 1 represent negative numbers from 0 to -(2ⁿ⁻¹-1), n being the word size of the machine, and the numeric complement of a number is its ones' complement.


two's complement

two's complement (plural two's complements)

The two's complement of 0xAAAA is 0x5556 on a 16-bit machine, and 0xFFFF5556 on a 32-bit machine.

(computing) The number obtained by complementing every bit of a given number and adding one. A number and its complement add to 2ⁿ, where n is the word size of the machine.

Nearly all modern computers use two's complement for integer arithmetic.

(computing) The convention by which bit patterns with high bit 0 represent positive numbers from 0 to 2ⁿ⁻¹-1 directly, while bit patterns with high bit 1 represent negative numbers from -1 to -2ⁿ⁻¹, n being the word size of the machine, and the numeric complement of a number is its two's complement.


swarm

From Middle English swarm, from Old English swearm (“swarm, multitude”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarm, from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz (“swarm, dizziness”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Swoorm (“swarm”), Dutch zwerm, German Schwarm, Danish sværm, Swedish svärm, Icelandic svarmur (“tumult, swarm”), Latin susurrus (“whispering, humming”), Lithuanian surma (“a pipe”), Russian свире́ль (svirélʹ, “a pipe, reed”).
The verb is from Middle English swarmen, swermen, from Old English swierman (“to swarm”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarmijan, from Proto-Germanic *swarmijaną (“to swarm”), from the noun. Cognate with Scots swairm, swerm (“to swarm”), Dutch zwermen, German schwärmen, Danish sværme, Swedish svärma.

cog

(computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.


inspector

→ Japanese: インスペクター (insupekutā)

Chrome has a built-in development tool called the Chrome Inspector. You can use it to examine the HTML elements in a web page; review what resources — or files, cookies, and databases — are active; follow network activity; […]

After that, with the help of the disk inspector, you can at any time compare the status of programs and system disk areas with the original one.

2020, Anatoly Belous, Vitali Saladukha, Viruses, Hardware and Software Trojans, page 112

(computing) A software tool used to examine something.


populate

en-verb

populate (third-person singular simple present populates, present participle populating, simple past and past participle populated)

populates (present singular third-person)
populating (participle present)
populated (participle past)
populated (past)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin populātus, past participle of populor (“populate”), from Latin populus (“people”).

John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate.

Clicking the refresh button will populate the grid.

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.


back up

back up (third-person singular simple present backs up, present participle backing up, simple past and past participle backed up)

backs up (present singular third-person)
backing up (participle present)
backed up (participle past)
backed up (past)

Back up your documents folder before applying the update.

(idiomatic, computing, transitive) To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost.


pony

→ Belarusian: по́ні (póni)

→ Danish: pony

→ Dutch: pony
→ Indonesian: poni

→ Finnish: poni

→ French: poney
→ Romanian: ponei

→ Georgian: პონი (ṗoni)

→ German: Pony
→ Estonian: poni

→ Hungarian: póni

→ Irish: pónaí

→ Italian: pony

→ Japanese: ポニー (ponī)

→ Lithuanian: ponis

→ Maltese: poni

→ Norwegian: ponni

desc

→ Portuguese: pónei, pônei (Brazil); poney

→ Russian: пони (poni)

→ Spanish: poni

→ Swedish: ponny

→ Ukrainian: по́ні (póni)

1659 from Scots powny, apparently from Middle French poulenet (“little foal”), ultimately from Late Latin pullanus (“young of an animal”), from pullus (cognate to English foal). Sense “small serving of alcohol” from 19th century, both for small sizes generally and for a quarter pint specifically, from the small size.

uder

(slang, derogatory, video games) Ellipsis of Sony pony.


nagware

(computing, slang) Software that displays a message requesting that the user register it.


wicket

From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wiket, from Old Norse (specifically, Old East Norse) víkjas, diminutive of vik. Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.

(Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.


shareware

From share + -ware; popularized by Bob Wallace

(software) A type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience.


safe mode

(computing) A troubleshooting mode of many operating systems in which most advanced functions are not activated.


selfish

en-adj

selfish (comparative more selfish or (proscribed) selfisher, superlative most selfish or (proscribed) selfishest)

more selfish (comparative)
selfisher (comparative proscribed)
most selfish (superlative)
selfishest (proscribed superlative)

From self + -ish. Compare Danish selvisk (“selfish”), Swedish självisk (“selfish”).

With that said, there is a perk to Xiao being a selfish DPS. He plays like Razor where he needs to be out in the field more than 90 percent of the time. Compared to Diluc, Xiao is more independent when it comes to dealing damage.

(video games) Of video game characters: relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.


organic

organic (comparative more organic, superlative most organic)

more organic (comparative)
most organic (superlative)

From Middle English organic, organik, from Old French organique, from Latin organicus.

According to a recent survey by Jupiter Research, 80 percent of Web users get information from organic search results.

2008, Michael Masterson, MaryEllen Tribby, Changing the Channel: 12 Easy Ways to Make Millions for Your Business

(Internet, of search results) Generated according to the ranking algorithms of a search engine, as opposed to paid placement by advertisers.


ghit

/ˈd͡ʒiːˌhɪt/

A contraction of Google hit; coined on 3 February 2004 by “Trevor” on his blog k’ɑləbøl: see the quotations from him and from American linguist Mark Liberman on his Language Log blog (9 February 2004), below.

Igry (1/2/3) – a (research-driven?) neologism expressing a voyeuristic, laissez-faire sense of shame – already gets slightly more ghits (ca 200 to 175, once you've sifted out the Russians) than its Catalan equivalent, vergonya aliena, although it's still way behind plaatsvervangende schaamte and vergüenza ajena (not to mention verguenza ajena).

2004 February 3, “Trevor”, “Shame”, in k’ɑləbøl, archived from the original on 2015-09-22

For me, though, the most important thing in his post is the neologism ghits. Now there's a word that fills a need! I don't know if this is Trevor's coinage, but it seems to be pretty new: "ghits" has 2380 ghits, at the moment, but all the 50 or so that I checked were programming language variable names, words in languages other than English, alternative spellings of "gits", or jokes like "ghits and siggles". Anyhow, I'm in Trevor's debt for the tip, and if he's the author, he deserves immortal renown. […] Update: it seems that Trevor is the responsible party. He's posted that / I am having 1,500 cards printed with "ghit = google hit © 2004 followthebaldie.com" and am going to flog them down the Ramblas this lunchtime. I am unsure as to whether this constitutes a business plan.

2004 February 9, Mark Liberman, “Igry and Ghits”, in Language Log, archived from the original on 2016-07-03

"Fifth wheel" is a common expression for superfluity, common in frames like "feel like a fifth wheel" (538 ghits), but it's not so commonly used in the frame "ADJ as a ___".

2004 August 8, Mark Liberman, “Superfluity and Uselessness”, in Language Log, archived from the original on 2016-10-01

I'm quite baffled, in fact, that there are so few ghits (Google hits) for this search, as the idea seems so obvious. Even if you spell it without the final 's', you end up with only one extra ghit.

2004 October 22, “David”, “Searching Sue de Nimes”, in TEFL Smiler: A British EFL Teacher Comments on His Life and Applied Linguistics, archived from the original on 2006-03-02

(Internet) Contraction of Google hit: a hit obtained using the search engine Google.


raft

en-verb

raft (third-person singular simple present rafts, present participle rafting, simple past and past participle rafted)

rafts (present singular third-person)
rafting (participle present)
rafted (participle past)
rafted (past)

Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).

The ToolStripContainer provides built-in rafting and docking of ToolStrip, MenuStrip, and StatusStrip controls.

2007, Dinesh Maidasani, Straight to the Point - Visual Basic 2005, page 11

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.


hyper-

From Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“over, above”) (English over), from *upo (“under, below”) (whence English up). Doublet of over-, super-, and sur-.

der

hypertext


sink

a bathroom sink sink (canonical)
sinks (plural)

From Middle English synken, from Old English sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”).
Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synke, Swedish sjunka. In the causative sense, it replaced Old English senċan (“make sink”) from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną.

(computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.

transportation network
transportation network

(graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.

(graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.


task

From Middle English taske (“task, tax”), from Old Northern French tasque, (compare Old French variant tasche), from Medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxāre (“censure; charge”). Doublet of tax.

The user killed the frozen task.

(computing) A process or execution of a program.


administrate

en-verb

administrate (third-person singular simple present administrates, present participle administrating, simple past and past participle administrated)

administrates (present singular third-person)
administrating (participle present)
administrated (participle past)
administrated (past)

* archaic: Latin administrātus, past participle of administrō.
* modern: Back-formation from administration (from administer, also from Latin administrō)
(The exact etymology is disputed, see note below.)

The job is to administrate the network.

(computing) the act or function of providing maintenance and general housekeeping for computer systems, networks, peripheral equipment, etc.


continue

From Middle English continuen, from Old French continuer, from Latin continuāre. Displaced native Old English þurhwunian.

So if you died battling the green monster inside the cave—and you had run out of lives—maybe a continue would be available.

2008, Jeannie Novak, Luis Levy, Play the Game: The Parent's Guide to Video Games, page 48

Moreover, where three lives and a sparse availability of extra life-giving '1-Ups' marked the 1991 experience, the iPod player is offered an unlimited number of continues with which to progress through the gameworld.

2012, James A. Newman, Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence, page 128

(video games) An option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.


social

en-adj

social (comparative more social, superlative most social)

more social (comparative)
most social (superlative)

From Middle French social, from Latin sociālis (“of or belonging to a companion or companionship or association, social”), from socius (“a companion, fellow, partner, associate, ally”), from sequor (“follow”). Cognate with English seg (“man, companion, fellow”). More at seg.

der

social gaming

(Internet) Relating to social media or social networks.

социаль

internet: relating to social media or social networks


social

en-noun

social (countable and uncountable, plural socials)

“I saw that shift, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s the future of social,’” Systrom said.

2023 January 31, Casey Newton, quoting Kevin Systrom, “Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text”, in The Verge

(Internet, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of social media.

Also check out some other experts in this topic — their socials are in the pinned comment below.

Close your mouth and delete all your socials tonight.

2019 August 29, “Cheeto Christ Stupid Czar”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics), Andrew Lloyd Webber (music)performed by Randy Rainbow

(Internet, informal, countable) A social media account; the username or handle thereof, or a link thereto.


speculation

speculation (countable and uncountable, plural speculations)

Etymology tree
Middle English speculation
English speculation
From Middle English speculacioun, speculation, from Old French speculation (compare French spéculation), from Late Latin speculātiō, speculātiōnem, from Latin speculor.
Morphologically speculate + -ion

etymon

Creating a work with the hope of selling it

(programming) The process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance.


script kiddie

Generally speaking, script kiddies are bored individuals without girlfriends or boyfriends who can think of nothing better to do on a Saturday night than make people come into work to fix a failing system.

2003, Kevin Day, Inside the Security Mind: Making the Tough Decisions, Prentice Hall Professional, page 126

It is important to realize that the motive behind the script kiddie or recreational hacker is a more ego-driven destruction of data without a hidden moral, political, or economic agenda.

2011, Will Gragido, John Pirc, Cybercrime and Espionage: An Analysis of Subversive Multi-Vector Threats, Newnes, page 115

(informal, derogatory) A (usually amateur) hacker who compromises files on others' computers or launches attacks on computer systems, using widely distributed computer programs or scripts rather than developing their own.


MDC

(computing) Initialism of mapped diagnostic context.

multiple description coding
w:multiple description coding

(computing) Initialism of multiple description coding.

modification detection code
w:Modification Detection Code

(cryptography) Initialism of modification detection code.


terminator

[ˈtɜː.mɪ.næɪ.ɾə]

* Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly from terminate + -or.
* (android that kills humans): After the 1984 film The Terminator.

(computing) A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.

(biochemistry) A DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.

(electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.

(science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans.


photoblog

A type of blog designed primarily to showcase photographs.

photoblog

a type of blog designed primarily to showcase photographs


blinker

нагла́зник m usually plural: нагла́зники

The following for example, doesn't work because the spark at the top is actually a blinker, and doesn't die. Without the blinker, this object is known as an OWSS (overweight spaceship).

1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

3 live cells together can yield either a blinker or a block, so these will be the most common objects formed "out of the void".

1994 May 13, Louis Howell, “Louis Howell's question of block clearing in life (simple solution)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

As Hickerson points out, a glider aimed at a faraway blinker or preblock has only 8 cells, but can be arranged to run as long as you want.

2008 January 8, Dave Greene, “Evolutionary factor in Conway's life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.


PDF

(file format) Initialism of Portable Document Format. A standard for representing electronic documents, allowing them to be transmitted and reproduced accurately with the same printed layout.


PDF

en-noun

PDF (countable and uncountable, plural PDFs)

(file format) Initialism of portable document format (“document in PDF format”).


tunnel

→ Afrikaans: tonnel

→ Armenian: թունել (tʻunel)

→ Czech: tunel

→ Danish: tunnel

→ Dutch: tunnel

→ Finnish: tunneli

desctree

→ French: tunnel
Haitian Creole: tinèl
→ Armenian: թիւնէլ (tʻiwnēl)
→ Ottoman Turkish: تونل (tünel), طونل (tünel)
Turkish: tünel
→ Romanian: tunel

→ German: Tunnel

→ Greek: τούνελ (toúnel)

→ Italian: tunnel

→ Japanese: トンネル

→ Korean: 터널 (teoneol)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: tunnel, tunell

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: tunnel, tunell

→ Polish: tunel

→ Portuguese: túnel

→ Russian: тунне́ль (tunnélʹ)

→ Kazakh: түнел (tünel)

→ Scottish Gaelic: tunail

→ Serbo-Croatian: tùnēl

→ Spanish: túnel

→ Swedish: tunnel

→ Uzbek: tunnel

From Middle French tonnelle (“net”) or tonel (“cask”), diminutive of Old French tonne (“cask”), a word of uncertain origin and affiliation. Related to Old English tunne (“tun; cask; barrel”). More at tun.

(computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.


tunnel

en-verb

tunnel (third-person singular simple present tunnels, present participle (UK) tunnelling or (US) tunneling, simple past and past participle (UK) tunnelled or (US) tunneled)

tunnels (present singular third-person)
tunnelling (UK participle present)
tunneling (US participle present)
tunnelled (UK participle past)
tunnelled (UK past)
tunneled (US participle past)
tunneled (US past)

(computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).


software architect

en-noun

software architect (plural software architects)

(computing) An architect (not to be confused with a designer) of software based on technology, who prepares plans and superintends construction of that software.


poll

en-verb

poll (third-person singular simple present polls, present participle polling, simple past and past participle polled)

polls (present singular third-person)
polling (participle present)
polled (participle past)
polled (past)

From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), from or cognate with Middle Dutch pol, pōle, polle (“top, summit; head”), from Proto-West Germanic *poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).
Akin to Scots pow (“head, crown, scalp, skull”), Saterland Frisian pol (“round, full, brimming”, adj), German Low German Polle, Poll (“round object, ball”), German Low German Poller (“head, tree-top, bulb”), Danish puld (“crown of a hat”), Swedish dialectal pull (“head”).
Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from the notion of "counting heads".

cog

The network hub polled the department’s computers to determine which ones could still respond.

(transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).


composition

en-noun

composition (countable and uncountable, plural compositions)

→ Korean: 컴포지션 (keompojisyeon)

/ˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən/

From Middle English composicioun, borrowed from Old French composicion, from Latin compositiō, compositiōnem.

hyvitys

agreement to pay money in order to clear a liability or obligation

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.


unfreeze

en-verb

unfreeze (third-person singular simple present unfreezes, present participle unfreezing, simple past unfroze, past participle unfrozen)

unfreezes (present singular third-person)
unfreezing (participle present)
unfroze (past)
unfrozen (participle past)

(transitive, computing) To release from a previously locked or frozen state.


RSVP

Resource Reservation Protocol
w:Resource reservation protocol

(computing) Initialism of Resource Reservation Protocol.


stream

→ Finnish: striimi (live stream)

From Middle English streem, strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic *straum, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Doublet of rheum.
Cognate with Scots strem, streme, streym (“stream, river”), North Frisian strum (“stream”), West Frisian stream (“stream”), Low German Stroom (“stream”), Dutch stroom (“current, flow, stream”), German Strom (“current, stream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål strøm (“current, stream, flow”), Norwegian Nynorsk straum (“current, stream, flow”), Swedish ström (“current, stream, flow”), Icelandic straumur (“current, stream, torrent, flood”), Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”), Lithuanian srovė (“current, stream”) Polish strumień (“stream”), Welsh ffrwd (“stream, current”), Scottish Gaelic sruth (“stream”).

cog

(computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.


stream

en-verb

stream (third-person singular simple present streams, present participle streaming, simple past and past participle streamed)

streams (present singular third-person)
streaming (participle present)
streamed (participle past)
streamed (past)

(Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

I did factor in the whole, like, "oh, I wonder if doing streaming, and the money that's kind of attached to it, is the reason I wanted to do this?", like, is it warping my brain? I did think about that. I've streamed for years and it's been my entire life and I've made a lot of money off it, and I wondered if that's what's affecting me and making me want to do this. And it's not.

2024 March 1, F1NN5TER, 1:40 from the start, in Coming Out, archived from the original on 2024-05-14


mousetrap

en-noun

mousetrap (countable and uncountable, plural mousetraps)

From Middle English mouse-trappe, mous trappe, mouse trape, equivalent to mouse + trap. Cognate with Dutch muizetrap, muizentrap (“mousetrap”), German Low German Muustrappe, Muustrapp (“mousetrap”). In the Internet sense, refers to a computer mouse.

(countable, Internet) A website designed to open another copy of itself when the user tries to close the webpage. Frequently used by advertisers and pornographers.


mousetrap

en-verb

mousetrap (third-person singular simple present mousetraps, present participle mousetrapping, simple past and past participle mousetrapped)

mousetraps (present singular third-person)
mousetrapping (participle present)
mousetrapped (participle past)
mousetrapped (past)

The scammer is paid for each new visitor directed to his site. There is nothing wrong except that the user finds it impossible to leave the site because he is mousetrapped.

(Internet, transitive) To prevent (the user) from leaving a website by opening another copy when it is closed.


maximize

maximize (third-person singular simple present maximizes, present participle maximizing, simple past and past participle maximized)

maximizes (present singular third-person)
maximizing (participle present)
maximized (participle past)
maximized (past)

(computing, graphical user interface) To expand (a window) to fill the main display area.

առավելացնել

to expand (a window) to fill the main display area (computing)


ubergeek

(computing, informal) A highly proficient geek.


whisper

From Middle English whisperen, from Old English hwisprian (“to mutter, murmur, whisper”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwisprōn, from Proto-Germanic *hwisprōną (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweys-, *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”).
Cognate with Dutch wisperen (“to whisper”), German wispern (“to mumble, whisper”). Related also to Danish hviske (“to whisper”), Icelandic hvískra (“to whisper”), Norwegian Bokmål hviske, kviskre (“to whisper”), Norwegian Nynorsk kviskre, kviskra (“to whisper”), Swedish viska (“to whisper”). More at English whistle.

inh

The invisibility of private interactions in the form of whispers resolved an ethical concern in the research but reduced our ability to gauge the volume of interaction […]

2002, Ralph Schroeder, The Social Life of Avatars, page 218

Anyone logged in to the chat room can click on an individual name, highlighting it, and send a message — a whisper — that will be seen only by the selected person.

2004, Caroline A. Haythornthwaite, Michelle M. Kazmer, Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education, page 179

(Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room.

yksityisviesti

internet: private message in a chat room


permission

en-noun

permission (countable and uncountable, plural permissions)

From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).

it's better to ask forgiveness than permission

it's easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission

I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.

(computing) Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.


promise

promise (countable and uncountable, plural promises)

From Middle English promis, promisse, borrowed from Old French promesse, from Medieval Latin prōmissa, Latin prōmissum (“a promise”), feminine and neuter of promissus, past participle of prōmittō (“I send or put forth, let go forward, say beforehand, promise”), from pro (“forth”) + mittere (“to send”); see mission. Compare admit, commit, permit, etc. Displaced native Old English ġehātan (“to promise”) and ġehāt (“a promise”).

(countable, computing, programming) A placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation.


website

→ Car Nicobarese: vep sait

→ Danish: website

→ Dutch: website

→ German: Website f

desc

→ Japanese: ウェブサイト, サイト

→ Japanese: ウェブサイト, サイト

→ Persian: وبسایت (veb-sâyt)

→ Portuguese: website

→ Russian: веб-са́йт (veb-sájt), сайт (sajt)

→ Spanish: website

→ Swedish: webbsajt, sajt

Meronym: webpage

You can find complete information about the products on the company's website.

(Internet) A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web that are typically accessible from the same base URL and reside on the same server.

webwerf

a collection of pages on the World Wide Web

Béésh Łichíʼii biyiʼdóó ił Nahazʼą́ baa Haneʼ


database transaction

en-noun

database transaction (plural database transactions)

Technically, a database transaction is sequence of operations that is treated as a single unit (an atomic unit). All of the operations in a transaction have to be completed before the database changes are made permanent.

2007, Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, Pearson Education, page 298

database management system
database management system

(databases) A unit of interaction in a database management system.


database management system

database management system (plural database management systems)

(databases) A suite of interrelated computer programs designed to manage message processing and database update in a tightly controlled manner.


DBMS

database management system
database management system#English

(databases, software) Initialism of database management system.


interface

→ Armenian: միջերես (miǰeres) (calque)

→ Japanese: インターフェース (intāfēsu)

→ Korean: 인터페이스 (inteopeiseu)

desctree

→ Russian: интерфе́йс (interféjs)
→ Kazakh: интерфейс (interfeis)

→ Turkish: ayarüz (calque)

From inter- (“between”) + face (“shape, figure, form”).

تَعْشِيق

point of interconnection between entities

The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.

(computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.

koppelvlak

computing: point of interconnection between systems or subsystems

The options are selected via the user interface.

(computing) The connection between a user and a machine.

միջերես

computing: connection between a user and a machine

This interface is implemented by several Java classes.

Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin, as an interface contains only method signatures, while a trait includes also the full method definitions; on the other side mixins include method definitions, but they can also carry state through attributes, while traits usually don't.

(computing, object-oriented programming) The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module,

interfaze

computing, object-oriented: connection between parts of software

The Audio and Video classes both implement the IPlayable interface.

(computing, object-oriented programming) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.

interfaze

computing, object-oriented: piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement

(object-oriented programming) In some languages, a block of code declaring the interface (point of interconnection) between a class and code that interacts with it.


rush

Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrysċan (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hurskijan, from Proto-Germanic *hurskijaną (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run, hurry”).
Cognate with Old High German hursken (“to hurry, speed, incite, accelerate”), Old English horsc (“quick, quick-witted, clever”).
etymology note
An alternative etymology traces rush via Middle English rouschen (“to rush”) from Old English *rūscian (“to rush”) from Proto-Germanic *rūskōną (“to rush, storm, be fierce, be cruel”), a variant (with formative k) of Proto-Germanic *rūsōną (“to be cruel, storm, rush”) from Proto-Indo-European *(o)rewə- (“to drive, move, agitate”), making it akin to Old High German rosc, rosci (“quick”), Middle Low German rūschen (“to rush”), Middle High German rūschen, riuschen (“to rush”) (German rauschen (“to rush”)), North Frisian ruse (“to rush”), Middle Dutch ruuscen (“to make haste”), Middle Dutch rūsen (“to rush”) (Dutch ruisen (“to rush”)), Danish ruse (“to rush”), Swedish rusa (“to rush”). Compare Middle High German rūsch (“a charge, rush”). Influenced by Middle English russhen (“to force back”) from Anglo-Norman russher, russer from Old French ruser, rëuser.
Alternatively, according to the OED, perhaps an adaptation of Anglo-Norman russher, russer (“to force back, down, out of place, by violent impact", "to pull out or drag off violently or hastily”), from Old French re(h)usser, ruser (although the connection of the forms with single -s- and double -ss- is dubious; also adopted in English ruse; French ruser (“to retreat, drive back”)), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *refūsāre and Latin refundō (“I cause to flow back”), although connection to the same Germanic root is also possible. More at rouse.

раш

video games: act of running at another player with large swarm of weak units — see also zerg

(video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.


rush

en-verb

rush (third-person singular simple present rushes, present participle rushing, simple past and past participle rushed)

rushes (present singular third-person)
rushing (participle present)
rushed (participle past)
rushed (past)

(video games, slang, transitive) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.


mutual

Borrowed from Middle French mutuel, from Latin mūtuus.

(Internet) Either of a pair of people who follow each other's social media accounts.


bumper

Dutch: bumper

Japanese: バンパー (banpā)

Korean: 범퍼 (beompeo)

Russian: ба́мпер (bámper)

(video games) A shoulder button on a gamepad.


modulus

Learned borrowing from Latin modulus. Doublet of module and mold.

(computing, programming) An operator placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.

moduuli

computing, programming: type of operator


screen

From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.

skerm

viewing area of electronic output device

After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears.

Clicking the Edit button sends you to a screen where you can change the name and description.

Various forms or formats of information display

(computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.


PEBCAK

Acronym of problem exists between chair and keyboard.

acronym

Miraculously, all of a sudden, the client's network began behaving beautifully! Before, PEBCAKs were causing a technician to need to visit their company every day, and now—after a simple deployment of basic policies—the client was ecstatic. […] Ask your IT professionals, "What percentage of your time, on a daily basis, do you spend solving PEBCAK issues?" Don't be surprised if you hear answers of 30% or more. Now, calculate how much money PEBCAKs are costing you in IT expense as well as lost productivity for the employees. Then deploy policies in a staged rollout to reduce this costly expense.

2007, Mike Foster, “Domain Policies”, in The Secure CEO: How to Protect Your Computer Systems, Your Company, and Your Job, Wichita, Kan.: Prime Concepts Group Publishing, page 150

In the tech support world, there's an old joke about "PEBCAK," or Problem Exists Between the Chair and Keyboard. Cybersecurity really is all about people and incentives. There are plenty of important technical fixes and new tools to adopt, but if organizations and individuals aren't willing to invest in securing themselves, then they will remain insecure.

2014 July 2, Peter W[arren] Singer, Allan Friedman, “The 5 Biggest Cybersecurity Myths, Debunked”, in Wired, archived from the original on 2014-07-02

How can I make my PC completely secure from any type of virus and hacking? Juzer You can’t, because of the old computer industry phenomenon known as PEBCAK, or "Problem exists between chair and keyboard". A lot of hacks depend on "social engineering," which means manipulating people into handing over their passwords or other details. […] Linux and Mac OS X are more secure than Windows, but PEBCAK is a problem with every operating system.

2015 January 15, Jack Schofield, “Ask Jack: How Can I Make My PC Completely Secure?”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2018-07-26

There is no way to stop every single cyber-attack. That said, for many attacks, PEBCAK is the answer. Unfamiliar with this approach? It's an oldie but goodie that anyone in IT will recognize, the letters forming an acronym that neatly states why countless attacks are successful. PEBCAK stands for Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard. While it is true that cyber-threats abound, the only way to contain the pandemic and meaningfully push back is if everybody does what they are supposed to do.

2017 August 19, Adam [K.] Levin, “5 Cyber-security Myths We Need to Ditch”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2017-10-09

The user asked if she could access the appropriate help desk ASAP, but Ben's colleague "simply said 'No' and hung up." And that, says Ben, "was the first time I ever saw a ticket closed with the cause code PEBCAK". Which for those of you with bad memories for acronyms stands for "Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard". Ben told us this was "certainly not the last" time his help desk applied code PEBCAK.

2017 November 17, Simon Sharwood, “Help Desk Declared Code PEBCAK and therefore Refused to Help!: Problem Existed between Chair and Keyboard”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2018-07-03

technical support
technical support#English

(computing, humorous, also attributively) Chiefly used by technical support helpdesk staff: a problem experienced with a user's computer that is due to user error.

fejl 40

ongelma sijaitsee näppäimistön ja tuolin välissä

a probléma a szék és a billentyűzet között van

PEBCAC

problem exists between chair and computer

PEBKAC

problem exists between keyboard and chair

PEBKAM

problem exists between keyboard and monitor

PEBKAS

problem exists between keyboard and seat

PEBMAC

problem exists between monitor and chair


fault

en-verb

fault (third-person singular simple present faults, present participle faulting, simple past and past participle faulted)

faults (present singular third-person)
faulting (participle present)
faulted (participle past)
faulted (past)

From Middle English faute, faulte, from Anglo-Norman faute, Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita (“shortcoming”), feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Displaced native Middle English schuld, schuild (“fault”) (from Old English scyld (“fault”)), Middle English lac (“fault, lack”) (from Middle Dutch lak (“lack, fault”)), Middle English last (“fault, vice”) (from Old Norse lǫstr (“fault, vice, crime”)). Compare French faute (“fault, foul”), Portuguese falta (“lack, shortage”) and Spanish falta (“lack, absence”). More at fail, false.

cog

When a page is read in, a few pages surrounding the faulted page are typically loaded as well in the same I/O operation in an effort to head off future page faults.

2002, Æleen Frisch, Essential system administration

(intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.


role

→ Spanish: rol

From French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus. Doublet of roll and rotulus.

massively multiplayer online role-playing game

(object-oriented programming) In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.


idempotent

Latin roots, idem (“same”) + potent (“having power”) – literally, “having the same power”. Coined in 1870 by American mathematician Benjamin Peirce in the context of algebra.

A projection operator is idempotent.

(mathematics, computing) (said of a function) Such that, when performed multiple times on the same subject, it has no further effect on its subject after the first time it is performed.

冪等

mathematics: an action which, when performed multiple time, has no further effect on its subject after the first time it is performed


transaction

Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio.

database transaction
database transaction

(computing) An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).


dip

(computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.


starvation

en-noun

starvation (countable and uncountable, plural starvations)

Whenever multiple threads compete for a scarce resource, there is the danger of starvation, a situation in which the thread never gets the resource.

2004, Scott Oaks, Henry Wong, Java Threads, O'Reilly Media, page 138

(computer science) A state where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work.


quorum

From Latin quōrum, genitive plural form of quī (“who, which”), used as standard wording in written commissions.

نِصَاب

minimum number present for official business

päätösvaltaisuus (päätösvaltainen as an adjective is more common)

határozatképesség (more commonly expressed with the adjective határozatképes)

(computing, distributed systems) The minimum number of votes that a distributed transaction has to obtain in order to be allowed to perform an operation in a distributed system.


classifier

(computing) A program or algorithm that classifies.

classifieur

computing: a program or algorithm that classifies

A classifier can have several types of extra information attached to it via a UML mechanism called adornments.

2005, Dan Pilone, Neil Pitman, UML 2.0 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, page 9

The owner scope of a feature specifies whether the feature appears in each instance of the classifier or whether there is just a single instance of the feature for all instances of the classifier.

2008, S.S.Jadhav B.S.Ainapure, Object Oriented Modeling & Design, page 3-40

The figure also shows that instances can be associated with a classifier Behavior, which represents the behavior that active objects start executing when created.

2017, Katalin Popovici, Pieter J. Mosterman, Real-Time Simulation Technologies, page 142

(object-oriented programming) Class which classifies other classes by features.

classifieur

OOP: class which classifies other classes by features


Wintel

“We used to produce our publication on the Mac, but the Wintel platform is cheaper and there are just as many applications available. So it just seemed to make sense to give up the religious war and get on with the business of doing our job,” said the information systems manager at a New York-based magazine, who asked not to be named.

1996 September 23, “Intel attacks Mac publishing niche”, in Computerworld, volume 30, number 39, →ISSN, page 56

(informal) The popular computing environment of the Microsoft Windows operating system running on an Intel CPU.


guild

From Middle English gilde, from Old Norse gildi (“payment, guild”). Related to geld, yield, yauld.

(video games) An organized group of players who regularly play together in a multiplayer game.


lower

en-verb

lower (third-person singular simple present lowers, present participle lowering, simple past and past participle lowered)

lowers (present singular third-person)
lowering (participle present)
lowered (participle past)
lowered (past)

(computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.


plain

en-adj

plain (comparative plainer, superlative plainest)

plainer (comparative)
plainest (superlative)

From Middle English pleyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pleyn, playn, Middle French plain, plein, and Old French plain, from Latin plānus (“flat, even, level, plain”).

der

(computing) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).

net

computing: containing no non-printing characters


chunk

Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) + *-k (diminutive suffix) (compare hunk from hump, etc.).

The first DWORD of a chunk data in the RIFF chunk is a four character code value identifying the form type of the file.

1994, Paul J Perry, Multimedia developer's guide

(computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.


chunk

en-verb

chunk (third-person singular simple present chunks, present participle chunking, simple past and past participle chunked)

chunks (present singular third-person)
chunking (participle present)
chunked (participle past)
chunked (past)

He's chunked right before the next battle so he has to regen HP.

(transitive, video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.


fence

en-noun

fence (countable and uncountable, plural fences)

→ Pennsylvania German: Fens

From Middle English fence, fens, short for defence, defens (“the act of defending”), from Old French defens, defense (see defence).
The sense "enclosure" arises in the mid 15th century.
Also from the 15th century is use as a verb in the sense "to enclose with a fence". The generalized sense "to defend, screen, protect" arises ca. 1500. The sense "to fight with swords (rapiers)" is from the 1590s (Shakespeare).
Displaced native Old English heġe (compare Modern English hedge).

the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

(computing, programming) A memory barrier.


redirect

en-verb

redirect (third-person singular simple present redirects, present participle redirecting, simple past and past participle redirected)

redirects (present singular third-person)
redirecting (participle present)
redirected (participle past)
redirected (past)

(computing, transitive) To substitute an address or pointer to a new location.

преадресирам

You will be redirected shortly.

(computing) To send to a new location by substituting an address or pointer.


redirect

(computing) The substitution of one address or identifier for another one, so as to navigate to a different location.

redirecció

substitution of an address for another one


canonical

en-adj

canonical (comparative more canonical, superlative most canonical)

more canonical (comparative)
most canonical (superlative)

(mathematics, computing) In canonical form.


canonical

Google advises canonicals as one of the preferred methods of treating duplicate content in your CMS.

2015, Simon Kloostra, Joomla! 3 SEO and Performance, page 63

(Internet) A URL presented in canonical form.


plus

en-verb

plus (third-person singular simple present pluses or plusses, present participle plusing or plussing, simple past and past participle plused or plussed)

pluses (present singular third-person)
plusses (present singular third-person)
plusing (participle present)
plussing (participle present)
plused (participle past)
plused (past)
plussed (participle past)
plussed (past)

Coordinate term: like

How do you get others to add you or your brand to their circles? By creating and sharing useful content, commenting, plussing others' content and comments, and engaging with others on Google+.

Everyone was plussing them or liking them or pinning them. The videos went viral.

2014, Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc., page 279

(social media, dated) To give a mark of approval on Google+.


query

An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.

The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.

(computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.

اِسْتِعْلام

computing: set of instructions passed to a database


query

query (third-person singular simple present queries, present participle querying, simple past and past participle queried)

queries (present singular third-person)
querying (participle present)
queried (participle past)
queried (past)

Linked tables can be accessed, queried, combined and reorganised much more flexibly and in a number of ways that may not be immediately predictable when the database is under construction.

1999, Luciano Floridi, Philosophy and computing: an introduction, page 104

(computing, databases) To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.

He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"... so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do.. maybe talk...

2000, Phantom, “Re: Uhm.. hi... I guess...”, in alt.support.boy-lovers (Usenet)

if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.

2000, Robert Erdec, “Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si”, in alt.irc.mirc (Usenet)

(transitive, Internet) To send a private message to (a user on IRC).


MODCA

Initialism of Mixed Object: Document Content Architecture, an IBM container format, somewhat like TIFF. Often used to store IOCA images. Also written MO:DCA.


static memory allocation

en-noun

static memory allocation (countable and uncountable, plural static memory allocations)

(computing) The process of allocating fixed memory at compile time.


peercast

en-verb

peercast (third-person singular simple present peercasts, present participle peercasting, simple past and past participle peercasted or peercast)

peercasts (present singular third-person)
peercasting (participle present)
peercasted (participle past)
peercasted (past)
peercast (participle past)
peercast (past)

(computing) To transmit streaming media via a peer-to-peer network.


CVS

software engineering
software engineering

Concurrent Versions System
w:Concurrent Versions System

(software engineering) Initialism of Concurrent Versions System (a utility that assists in tracking changes to source code, etc.)


declare

declare (third-person singular simple present declares, present participle declaring, simple past and past participle declared)

declares (present singular third-person)
declaring (participle present)
declared (participle past)
declared (past)
declare (infinitive)

From Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, from Latin dēclārō (“to make clear”), from dē- + clārus (“clear”).

декларирам

to make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.

The counter "i" was declared as an integer.

(transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.


mangle

mangle (third-person singular simple present mangles, present participle mangling, simple past and past participle mangled)

mangles (present singular third-person)
mangling (participle present)
mangled (participle past)
mangled (past)

From Middle English mangelen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, mahangler, frequentative of either Old French mangonner (“to cut to pieces”) or mahaigner (“to mutilate”), of Germanic origin, for which see mayhem.
Alternate etymology derives mangle from Middle English *mankelen, a frequentative form of manken (“to mutilate”), from Old English mancian, bemancian (“to maim”). More at mank.

der

(transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.


instruction

en-noun

instruction (countable and uncountable, plural instructions)

From Middle English instruccioun, from Old French instruccion, from Latin instructio; equivalent to instruct + -ion.

инструкция

that which instructs, or with which one is instructed

(computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.


World Wide Web

From worldwide + web, coined by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955) and Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist Robert Cailliau (born 1947) in a paper published on 12 November 1990: see the quotation.

coinage

WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project [title] […] Having a world wide web implies some solutions must be found for problems such as different access protocols and different node content formats. These issues are addressed by our proposal.]

[1990 November 12, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), archived from the original on 2020-11-10

Additionally, gateways exist so that WAIS users can retrieve information from non-WAIS data bases like Gopher, developed by university users of Next computers, and the World Wide Web, which makes available physicists' research from many locations.

1993 February 28, John Markoff, “A web of networks, an abundance of services”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-09, page 8

Anxiety about the World Wide Web tends to center on its excesses, on the overabundance of information, the overstimulation of graphics and gimmicks, the multiplicity of links.

2000, Jodi Dean, “Webs of Conspiracy”, in Andrew Herman, Thomas Swiss, editors, The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, page 63

Although the Internet has long been used to communicate a wealth of information, it was the rise of the World Wide Web, beginning in 1994, that led to the Internet's most rapid growth and acceptance as a medium of commerce. The Web can be thought of as the Internet's popular "multimedia" segment and is a primary platform for electronic commerce.

2003, Julian S. Millstein, Jeffrey D. Neuburger, Jeffrey P. Weingart, “Introduction to the Internet”, in Doing Business on the Internet (Intellectual Property Law Series), New York, N.Y.: Law Journal Press, § 1.03 (The World Wide Web), page 1-6.4

Consider for a moment that the Internet is about 40 years old, the microelectronics explosion happened only 30 years ago, the desktop computer appeared only about 25 years ago, the World Wide Web is really only a little more than a decade old, and that ubiquitous wireless Internet access is only now becoming a reality. Despite only relatively recent developmental history, we are facing an information explosion on the World Wide Web, making it necessary to build a better Web—an Intelligent Web—that will help users easily realize their information and communication needs.

2008, Rajendra Akerkar, Pawan Lingras, “Introduction to Web Intelligence”, in Building an Intelligent Web: Theory and Practice, Sudbury, Mass.: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, section 1.1 (Historical Perspective), page 1

(Internet) Usually preceded by the: collectively, all of the hypertext documents (web pages) on the Internet stored in different computers around the world that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media, and are typically retrieved by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS).

Wêreldwye web

all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media

Isizindalwazi sokuxhumana somhlaba jikelele


alignment diagram

en-noun

alignment diagram (plural alignment diagrams)


stable

en-adj

stable (comparative stabler or more stable, superlative stablest or most stable)

stabler (comparative)
more stable (comparative)
stablest (superlative)
most stable (superlative)

From Middle English stable, from Anglo-Norman stable, stabel, from Latin stabilis (“firm, steadfast”) (itself from stare (“stand”) + -abilis (“able”)). Displaced native Old English staþolfæst.

You should download the 1.9 version of that video editing software: it is the latest stable version. The newer beta version has some bugs.

(computing) Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.

(computer science, of a sorting algorithm) That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.


FA

en-noun

FA (countable and uncountable, plural FAs)

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of featured article.


refer

en-verb

refer (third-person singular simple present refers, present participle referring, simple past and past participle referred)

refers (present singular third-person)
referring (participle present)
referred (participle past)
referred (past)

From Middle English referren, from Old French referer, from Latin referre. The noun (used in journalism) is from the verb.

In C, the pointer obtained by &a refers to the variable a.

Hence, the precise number of bytes to which the pointer refers to is not known. The compiler must know the number of bytes to which a pointer refers to in order to apply dereference operation

2010 September 30, Ajay Mittal, Programming In C: A Practical Approach, Pearson Education India, →OCLC, page 201

(intransitive, programming) To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. [with to]


border

en-noun

border (countable and uncountable, plural borders)

Inherited from Middle English bordure, from Old French bordeure, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bord, equivalent to modern French bord (“a border”) + -er.
Akin to Middle High German borte (“border, trim”), German Borte (“ribbon, trimming”). Doublet of bordure. More at board.

cog

(computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.


LP

en-noun

LP (countable and uncountable, plural LPs)

(Internet) Abbreviation of landing page.

(online gaming, Internet) Initialism of let's play.

literate programming
literate programming#English

(programming) Initialism of literate programming.


commit

en-verb

commit (third-person singular simple present commits, present participle committing, simple past and past participle committed)

commits (present singular third-person)
committing (participle present)
committed (participle past)
committed (past)

→ German: committen

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-commit.wav

Borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission.

bor

When all SQL statements in the transaction are executed successfully, the transaction is committed and all the work that the SQL statements performed is made a permanent part of the database.

2005, Thearon Willis, Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Databases, John Wiley & Sons, page 343

We can commit all unstaged files with one command: […]

2014, Wlodzimierz Gajda, Git Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Apress, page 86

(transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.

(transitive, programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.

tallettaa

integrate new revisions into the public version of a file


commit

→ German: Commit

→ Russian: комми́т (kommít)

To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits, the server provides semaphore objects[…]

1988, Klaus R Dittrich, Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems: 2nd International Workshop

Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.

2009, Jon Loeliger, Version Control with Git

(computing, databases) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.

vahvistus

(computing) act of committing, making a permanent change

(programming) The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.


external

en-adj

external (comparative more external, superlative most external)

more external (comparative)
most external (superlative)

From Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin externus (“outward, external”), from exter/exterus (“on the outside, outward”).

der

(computing, of a hardware) Not contained in the main computer.

(computing, of storage) Using a disk or tape drive rather than the main memory.


external

(programming, in the C language) A variable that is defined in the source code but whose value comes from some external source.


nomogram

/ˈnɒ.məˌɡɹæm/

/ˈnəʊ.mə.ɡɹæm/

/ˈnɑ.məˌɡɹæm/

/ˈnoʊ.məˌɡɹæm/

Formed as nom- + -o- + -gram, by analogy with French nomogramme.

Cravalho et al. compared the agreement in obstruction measurements by the AG nomogram, passive urethral resistance relation (PURR), and the micturitional urethral pressure profile (MUPP) [20 ].

2015 October 28, “Simple Modification of the Bladder Outlet Obstruction Index for Better Prediction of Endoscopically-Proven Prostatic Obstruction: A Preliminary Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

(mathematics) A diagram in which the relationship between three variables is represented by a straight line or curve for each variable; the value of the third variable corresponding to particular values of the first two is obtained by drawing a straight line through the points on the first two curves that represent particular values of the first two variables and noting the point at which the line intersects the third line or curve.


cone

From Middle English cone (“corner, angle”) and conoun (“cone”), from Medieval Latin cōnus, cōnon (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”). Reinforced by Middle French cone, from the same Graeco-Latin source.

recursively enumerable
recursively enumerable

(computing theory) A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.


floating-point number

en-noun

floating-point number (plural floating-point numbers)

(computing) A real number held as a pair of integers, one representing the mantissa and the other representing the exponent. The base is normally 10, 16 or 256 depending on the computing system.

浮点数

computing: real number held as a pair of integers, representing the mantissa and the exponent

浮動小数点数

ふどうしょうすうてんすう


commit point

(databases) In a DBMS, a point in time at which all updates to a database, or group of records in a database, are guaranteed to have been written to disk, and the journal or log records of that action have also been so committed. Future updates may be undone to that point if necessary.


blur

en-verb

blur (third-person singular simple present blurs, present participle blurring, simple past and past participle blurred)

blurs (present singular third-person)
blurring (participle present)
blurred (participle past)
blurred (past)

From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear.

inh

Then give this box focus to blur the first one: […]

2003, John Pollock, JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, page 175

These form elements need to have an onFocus event handler to blur the current focus.

2001, Martin Webb, Michel Plungjan, Keith Drakard, Instant JavaScript, page 678

Blurring one window and focusing on another window yields the same result of sending the window to the back of the pile.

2007, Danny Goodman, JavaScript Bible, page 273

A manual way to blur a text object is to press the Tab key, which advances focus to the next field in order and removes it from the current field (blurring it).

2010, Chuck Easttom, Advanced JavaScript, page 329

(graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.


portable

en-adj

portable (comparative more portable, superlative most portable)

more portable (comparative)
most portable (superlative)

[ˈpʰɔɹɾɪ̈bl̩]

Borrowed from Middle French portable, or from Latin portabilis.

How do Java and C# create cross-platform, portable programs, and why can't C++ do the same?

2012, Herbert Schildt, C++: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, page 6

(computing) Of software: able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems.

Starting with release 1.7, a portable version allows all Host Attachment Kit commands to be run without installing the Host Attachment Kit.

2014, Bertrand Dufrasne, Bruce Allworth, Desire Brival, IBM XIV Storage System: Host Attachment and Interoperability (page 10)

(computing) Of a program: able to be copied directly from one machine to another without the use of an installer.


portable

[ˈpʰɔɹɾɪ̈bl̩]

siirrettävä rakennus

temporary building that is portable, especially one located at a school

A few portables, particularly the small laphelds, go one step further and come with software built into the computer.

1985, New Accountant, volumes 1-3, page lxvii

Compaq portables have grown lighter and more powerful since then. Their newest luggable, the Compaq Portable III, is six times more powerful and 10 pounds lighter than the original model.

1987, InfoWorld, volume 9, number 20, page 71

portable computer
portable computer#English

(computing) Clipping of portable computer.

(video games) A hand-held video gaming device.


pixel

en-verb

pixel (third-person singular simple present pixels, present participle pixeling or pixelling, simple past and past participle pixeled or pixelled)

pixels (present singular third-person)
pixeling (participle present)
pixelling (participle present)
pixeled (participle past)
pixeled (past)
pixelled (participle past)
pixelled (past)

pix (“pictures”), + el(ement); often taken to be a blend of “picture” and “element”. The ⟨x⟩ stems from the abbreviation pics being sometimes also written as pix, which has been in use since the 1880s. First attested in 1965.

Whether he's pixeling for cellphones or PCs, here is one artist who has a unique and imaginative vision.

2006, NFGMan, Character Design for Mobile Devices, page 110

To create computer graphics by editing individual pixels.


firmware

→ Amharic: ፈርምዌር (färməwer)

→ German: Firmware

→ Spanish: firmware

From firm + -ware, coined in a 1967 article as an intermediary term between hardware and software.

(computing) Something in between hardware and software. Like software, it is created from source code, but it is closely tied to the hardware it runs on.


cartridge

/ˈkɑɹtɹɪd͡ʒ/

Corruption of earlier cartage, from French cartouche, from Italian cartoccio (“roll of paper”), from Medieval Latin carta (“paper”). Doublet of cartouche.

Cartridge (firearms)
Magnetic tape data storage
cartridge

(computing) A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.

fishek

vessel which contains the ink for a computer printer

The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated.

1983, “Helpline”, in Sinclair User, number 21

(computing) Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.

We would like to see someone market a low-power, text-to-speech cartridge that would mate with the Epson and use its internal battery pack.

Nintendo made sure to loudly trumpet all of the advantages of the cartridge format, particularly the greatly reduced loading times and the sturdiness of the cartridges[…]

Not as good, though, as the PolyStation. Looks like a first-generation PlayStation in a Nitendo 64 box. And even though that bit on top looks like it should take a disc, it actually uses something like a Super Nintendo cartridge.

2015 June 24, “Top 10 Chinese Knockoffs of Foreign Products” (00:01:54 from the start), in China Uncensored, spoken by himself (Chris Chappell), New Tang Dynasty Television, via New Tang Dynasty Television

(computing) A removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.

kasedo

enclosure containung read-only memory devices


hygiene

en-noun

hygiene (countable and uncountable, plural hygienes)

From French hygiène, from Ancient Greek ὑγιεινή (τέχνη) (hugieinḗ (tékhnē), literally “art of health”), from ὑγιεινός (hugieinós, “of health, good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy”), from ὑγιής (hugiḗs, “healthy, sound”).

der

ὑγιεινή (τέχνη)

(computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.


rollback

en-noun

rollback (countable and uncountable, plural rollbacks)

The noun is a deverbal from roll back. The verb is a back-formation from the noun despite being redundant to roll back.

(databases) An operation which returns a database, or group of records in a database, to a previous state (normally to the previous commit point).

回滾

(computing) operation to return the database to the previous commit point


rollback

en-verb

rollback (third-person singular simple present rollbacks, present participle rollbacking, simple past and past participle rollbacked)

rollbacks (present singular third-person)
rollbacking (participle present)
rollbacked (participle past)
rollbacked (past)

The server is unstable, we need to rollback the changes.

(transitive, computing, databases) To return to the previous state.


e-commerce

The last thing you need to do before launching the e-commerce site is enable credit card processing.

2006, Cristian Darie, Karli Watson, Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005, Apress, page xxi

(Internet, business) Commercial activity conducted via the Internet.

تِجَارَة إِلِكْتْرُونِيَّة

commercial activity conducted via the Internet


admin

en-noun

admin (countable and uncountable, plural admins)

Clipping of administrator or administration.

Our admin has upgraded the server in our office, so we can exchange files faster.

(countable, informal, computing) A systems administrator (one who maintains a computer system or network).

The admin changed the forum settings to enable the use of emoticons.

(countable, informal, Internet) A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges allowing them to control or restrict the activity of other users.


admin

en-verb

admin (third-person singular simple present admins, present participle admining or adminning, simple past and past participle admined or adminned)

admins (present singular third-person)
admining (participle present)
adminning (participle present)
admined (participle past)
admined (past)
adminned (participle past)
adminned (past)

(transitive, computing, informal) To serve as an administrator for or of.


subset

subset (third-person singular simple present subsets, present participle subsetting, simple past and past participle subsetted)

subsets (present singular third-person)
subsetting (participle present)
subsetted (participle past)
subsetted (past)

(transitive, computing, typography) To extract only the portions of (a font) that are needed to display a particular document.


align

align (third-person singular simple present aligns, present participle aligning, simple past and past participle aligned)

aligns (present singular third-person)
aligning (participle present)
aligned (participle past)
aligned (past)

From Middle English alynen, alinen (“copulate”), from Middle French aligner, from Old French alignier, from a- + lignier, from Latin lineare (“make straight or perpendicular”), from the noun linea (“line”), from līneus (“flaxen; flaxen [thing]”), from līnum (“flax”), likely ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *līnom (compare linen).

der

(transitive, computing) To store (data) in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture, i.e. by beginning each item at an offset equal to some multiple of the word size.

對齊

to store data in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture


athletic

en-adj

athletic (comparative more athletic, superlative most athletic)

more athletic (comparative)
most athletic (superlative)

From French athlétique and Latin āthlēticus, from Ancient Greek ἀθλητικός (athlētikós, “relating to an athlete”), from ἀθλητής (athlētḗs, “athlete”): equivalent to athlete + -ic. For more, see athlete.

der

An athletic course in which Mario must traverse rotating lifts and stretch blocks.

2018, Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia, Milwaukie: Dark Horse, →OCLC, page 65

Mario levels are usually indicated to belong to one of five types (overworld, underground, athletic, castle, underwater)². The type determines the aesthetic style of the level, but also affects the challenges that are posed. For example, athletic levels usually contain platforms that are spaced far apart, as well as moving platforms. They thus require precise and timed jumps to traverse.

2019, S. M. Lucas, V. Volz, “Tile pattern KL-divergence for analysing and evolving game levels”, in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, page 171

(video games) Of a level in a Super Mario game: with an emphasis on platforming challenge, often involving precise jumps between floating platforms above a bottomless pit, and having upbeat background music.


adapter

→ Japanese: アダプター (adaputā)

مُوَائِم

device to allow compatibility (in general)

пре́ходник

device allowing plug to fit in an outlet of different type

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(machine learning, artificial intelligence) A collection of low-rank matrices which, when added to a base model, produces a fine-tuned model; a LoRA.

machine learning; artificial intelligence; machine learning; artificial intelligence


tourist

→ Albanian: turist

→ Armenian: տուրիստ (turist)

→ Asturian: turista

→ Azerbaijani: turist

→ Belarusian: турыст (turyst)

→ Catalan: turista

→ Czech: turista

→ Danish: turist

→ Dutch: toerist

→ Estonian: turist

→ Finnish: turisti

desctree

→ French: touriste
→ Persian: توریست (turist)
→ Italian: turista
→ Afar: tuurísti
→ Cimbrian: turist
→ Mòcheno: turist
→ Norman: touriste
→ Romanian: turist
→ Turkish: turist

→ Galician: turista

→ Georgian: ტურისტი (ṭurisṭi)

→ German: Tourist

→ Greek: τουρίστας (tourístas)

desc

→ Hindi: टूरिस्ट (ṭūrisṭ)

→ Hindi: टूरिस्ट (ṭūrisṭ)

→ Hungarian: turista

→ Indonesian: turis

→ Japanese: ツーリスト (tsūrisuto)

→ Kazakh: турист (turist)

→ Kyrgyz: турист (turist)

→ Latvian: tūrists

→ Lithuanian: turistas

→ Macedonian: турист (turist)

desctree

→ Norwegian: turist
→ Northern Sami: turista, durista

→ Occitan: torista

→ Polish: turysta

→ Portuguese: turista

→ Russian: турист (turist)

→ Serbo-Croatian: turist / турист

→ Slovak: turista

→ Slovene: turist

→ Spanish: turista
→ English: turista

→ Swedish: turist

→ Tagalog: turista

→ Turkmen: turist

→ Ukrainian: турист (turyst)

→ Uzbek: turist

→ Welsh: twrist

→ Yiddish: טוריסט (turist)

This popularity was supposedly due to M.I.T.'s tolerance of "tourists" on its system.

1984, Dean Gengle, The Netweaver's Sourcebook, page 105

The online tourists then uploaded the files to share with other BBS aficionados.

2012, Michael Banks, On the Way to the Web

(computing, dated) A guest user on a computer system.


artifact

Alteration of artefact, from Italian artefatto, from Latin arte (“by skill”) (ablative of ars (“art”)) + factum (“thing made”) (from facio (“to make, do”)).

This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has unsightly artifacts, making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.

These hallucinations are compression artifacts, but—like the incorrect labels generated by the Xerox photocopier—they are plausible enough that identifying them requires comparing them against the originals, which in this case means either the Web or our own knowledge of the world.

2023 February 9, Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, in The New Yorker

(computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or a digital image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm.

(software engineering) Ellipsis of build artifact.


idle

From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English īdel (“idleness”), from the adjective (see above).


mutant

From Latin mūtāns, present participle of mūtō.


teabag

en-verb

teabag (third-person singular simple present teabags, present participle teabagging, simple past and past participle teabagged)

teabags (present singular third-person)
teabagging (participle present)
teabagged (participle past)
teabagged (past)

The good news is, you don't have to play 10,000 matches to learn to hold your own against those obnoxious, teabagging 9-year-olds anymore!

(video games) To sit or crouch repeatedly on the head of another player's character after they are dead.


UE

(software) Initialism of User Experience.

(video games) Initialism of Unreal Engine.


container

→ Danish: container

→ Dutch: container

→ French: container

→ German: Container

→ Greek: κοντέινερ (kontéiner)

→ Japanese: コンテナ

→ Korean: 컨테이너 (keonteineo)

desc

→ Norwegian Bokmål: container, konteiner

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: container, konteinar

→ Brazilian Portuguese: contêiner, container

→ Russian: контейнер (kontejner)

→ Spanish: container

→ Swahili: kontena

→ Swedish: container

From Middle English conteyner, equivalent to contain + -er.

As the MP4 container can store audio, video, or both, the M4A naming and file extension is used to hint that this MP4 container holds solely audio information.

2011, Cory Altheide, Harlan Carvey, Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools, page 187

(file format) A file format that can hold various types of data.

This advantage is the primary incentive for using a list container, rather than a vector or a deque.

2015, Ivor Horton, Using the C++ Standard Template Libraries, Apress, page 64

(object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.

Flex automatically creates a TabBar container at the top of the TabNavigator container, with a tab corresponding to each child container. Each tab can have its own label and icon.

2007, Rich Tretola, Simon Barber, Renaun Erickson, Professional Adobe Flex 2, John Wiley & Sons, page 62

(graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.

(Java programming language) A web container.

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.

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

The application components all run in containers. They are isolated like VMs but lightweight and efficient like PaaS services.

2020, Elton Stoneman, chapter 1, in Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches

(cloud computing) A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself.


version

en-noun

version (countable and uncountable, plural versions)

From Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versiō, from Latin vertō (“I turn”). Used in English since 16th century.

Upgrade to the latest version for new features and bug fixes.

(computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).


version

en-verb

version (third-person singular simple present versions, present participle versioning, simple past and past participle versioned)

versions (present singular third-person)
versioning (participle present)
versioned (participle past)
versioned (past)

(transitive, computing) To keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.


destruct

destruct (third-person singular simple present destructs, present participle destructing, simple past and past participle destructed)

destructs (present singular third-person)
destructing (participle present)
destructed (participle past)
destructed (past)

(transitive, programming) To invoke the destructor of.


extend

extend (third-person singular simple present extends, present participle extending, simple past and past participle extended)

extends (present singular third-person)
extending (participle present)
extended (participle past)
extended (past)

From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extendō (“I stretch out”).

The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal.

(object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.


miss

From Middle English misse, mis, from Old English miss (“loss, absence”), from Proto-West Germanic *miss, from Proto-Germanic *miss- (“loss”). Cognate with Scots miss (“a loss, want, cause of grief or mourning”), Middle High German misse, mis (“lack, missing, absence”), Icelandic missir (“loss”). Related also to Scots mis (“wrongdoing, sin, guilt”), Dutch mis (“misdeed, wrongdoing, mistake”), Middle Low German misse (“sin, wrong”).

cog

Already we're seeing fewer cache misses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables.

1999, Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating Systems

(computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.


exponent

From Latin expōnēns, present participle of expōnō (“to expose; to exhibit, display, set out; to explain”), from ex- (“out, away”) + pōnō (“to lay, place, put”).

floating-point number
floating-point number

(computing) The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.


forge

From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […]

2018, V. M. Brasseur, Forge Your Future with Open Source

(computing) A Web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.


forum

→ Italian: forum

→ Korean: 포럼 (poreom)

From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero.

der

Trish was an admin on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.

(Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.


cred

en-noun

cred (countable and uncountable, plural creds)

DCE programming: using login creds to auth server?

1998, Lou Langholtz, comp.soft-sys.dce (Usenet)

(computing, informal, usually in the plural) A credential.


heartbeat

(computing) A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.


status

status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or status)

→ Cantonese: status

Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, many accents

Learned borrowing from Latin status. Doublet of state and estate.

I'm just about to update my status to "busy".

I read your status last night / You posted that someone else was holding you tight

2012, “Facebook Drama”, performed by Northern Cree

(social media) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.

status

social networking: function of some instant messaging applications


routine

routine (countable and uncountable, plural routines)

Unadapted borrowing from French routine.

(computing) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.

rutiini

computing: set of instructions designed to perform a specific task


storage

storage (usually uncountable, plural storages)

/ˈstɔː.ɹɪd͡ʒ/

/ˈstɔɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/

I′d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.

Secondary storages are used to store system programs (viz; operating system, assembler, interpreter, compiler and so on), data files, software packages and so on.

2007, Ramesh Bangia, Computer Fundamentals and Information Technology, India: Firewall Media, page 43

(usually uncountable, computer hardware) Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than main memory.


casual

/ˈkɛʒ(ʉː)əl/

From Middle French casuel, from Late Latin cāsuālis (“happening by chance”), from Latin cāsus (“event”) (English case), from cadere (“to fall”) (whence English cadence).

der

The devs dumbed the game down so the casuals could enjoy it.

(video games, informal, derogatory) A player of casual games.


crawl

en-verb

crawl (third-person singular simple present crawls, present participle crawling, simple past and past participle crawled)

crawls (present singular third-person)
crawling (participle present)
crawled (participle past)
crawled (past)

→ German: kraulen

From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla, kräla)), from Proto-Germanic *krablōną (compare Dutch krabbelen, German Low German krabbeln, German krabbeln), frequentative of *krabbōną (“to scratch, scrape”). Compare also West Frisian kreauwelje (“to crawl”), Dutch krevelen, krieuwelen (“to crawl”), German Low German kribbeln, German kribbeln (“to creep, crawl, tingle”). See also crab, crabble.

cog

Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl websites faster and more efficiently.

(transitive, Internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.

抓取

to index files or web sites in order to make them available for search


folder

→ Brazilian Portuguese: folder, fôlder

→ Dutch: folder

→ Indonesian: folder

→ Japanese: フォルダ (foruda), フォルダー (forudā)

→ Polish: folder

→ Serbo-Croatian: folder

My essays are in the folder named "Essays".

(computing) A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are usually related.


haul

From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English *halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, Saterland Frisian halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ġeholian (“to get, obtain”).

cog

Then there are the YouTube hauls, the oddly viral videos of influencers showing off what they got for Christmas. In her 2017 haul that's been watched 1.7 million times, Olivia Jade – a 19-year-old beauty and fashion tipster and the daughter of actress Lori Loughlin – sat on a plush white bed in polar bear pyjamas and a Santa hat. One by one, she showed off a bottle of Valentino perfume ("sweet mixed with floral"), a cropped, purple fuzzy sweater from Urban Outfitters, bikinis, sneakers, jeans, underwear, high heels, dresses, tops and more.

2018 December 24, Rachel Siegel, “Holiday shopping in the age of Instagram”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, N.S.W.: Nine Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-23

(Internet) Short for haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).


asynchronous transfer mode

A broadband voice and data technology with quality (class) of service QoS transmission for sending and receiving voice, data, and multimedia information over a fiber-optic network.

mode de transfert asynchrone

broadband voice and data technology with quality of service transmission for sending and receiving data


outline

en-verb

outline (third-person singular simple present outlines, present participle outlining, simple past and past participle outlined)

outlines (present singular third-person)
outlining (participle present)
outlined (participle past)
outlined (past)

Coordinate term: inline

(transitive, software compilation) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.


downcast

en-noun

downcast (countable and uncountable, plural downcasts)

From Middle English downcast (“misfortune”), adoun-cast (“destruction, overthrow”), from adoun (“downward”) + cast (“a throw, a cast”) (from Old Norse kast (“a throw”), from kasten (“to cast, throw”)), from Middle English casten adoun: see etymology 1. The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“act of throwing”, noun).

prefix

(countable, computing) A cast (“change of expression of a data type”) from supertype to subtype.


downcast

en-verb

downcast (third-person singular simple present downcasts, present participle downcasting, simple past and past participle downcast or downcasted)

downcasts (present singular third-person)
downcasting (participle present)
downcast (participle past)
downcast (past)
downcasted (participle past)
downcasted (past)

From Middle English doun-casten, *adoun-casten (“to cast or throw (something) downwards; to break down (something); to overcome (someone); to overturn (something)”), from down (“in a downward direction; (figurative) to destruction”), adoun (“downward”) + casten (“to throw (something), fling, hurl; to overcome (someone), defeat, overpower; [etc.]”): see etymology 1. The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“to throw”, verb).

prefix

(computing) To cast (“change the expression of”) (a data type) from supertype to subtype.

alityypiksi muuntaminen

to cast (a data type) from supertype to subtype


upgrade

en-verb

upgrade (third-person singular simple present upgrades, present participle upgrading, simple past and past participle upgraded)

upgrades (present singular third-person)
upgrading (participle present)
upgraded (participle past)
upgraded (past)

(intransitive, computing) To replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher version number or marketed under a more recent product name.

actualitzar

to replace a program with a later version of itself


NSFW

en-adj

NSFW (comparative more NSFW, superlative most NSFW)

more NSFW (comparative)
most NSFW (superlative)

(Internet, initialism) Not safe (or suitable) for work; i.e., containing inappropriate or adult content (e.g. pornography or profanity) that might be offensive to employees and co-workers.


production

en-noun

production (countable and uncountable, plural productions)

→ Japanese: プロダクション (purodakushon)

/pɹəˈdʌkʃən/

From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin prōductiō, prōductiōnem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). See produce.

der

Each production is implemented with a function.

(computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)

production environment

live production database

(programming, uncountable) The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.