CST

en-noun

CST (countable and uncountable, plural CSTs)

(computing) Initialism of concrete syntax tree.


sift

en-verb

sift (third-person singular simple present sifts, present participle sifting, simple past and past participle sifted)

sifts (present singular third-person)
sifting (participle present)
sifted (participle past)
sifted (past)

From Middle English syften, from Old English siftan, from Proto-West Germanic *siftijan.

(computing, dated) To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.


WebDAV

w:Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning

(Internet) Abbreviation of Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning.


data glove

(computing) a glove containing sensors to detect movement of the hand and fingers, used to control a computer-generated virtual reality environment


AMA

Alberta Motor Association
w:Alberta Motor Association

Initialism of Alberta Motor Association.


AMA

(Internet) Initialism of ask me anything: usually attached to the end of a prompt in an “ask me anything” interview session.


AMA

We did this after the company abruptly terminated Victoria Taylor, a Reddit employee who worked extensively with us as well as with other moderator teams on facilitating A.M.A.s.

2015 July 8, Brian Lynch, Courtnie Swearingen, “Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum”, in The New York Times

While Obama’s AMA ended up being a bit bland, the experiences and knowledge shared by the vacuum repair man made it one of the most popular and memorable AMAs ever hosted.

2016 October 10, Will Cenci, “Why scientists should learn to love Reddit”, in The Guardian

(Internet) Initialism of ask me anything.


PBR

en-noun

PBR (countable and uncountable, plural PBRs)

(computing) Initialism of policy-based routing.

(computer graphics) Initialism of physically based rendering.


CB

CB (countable and uncountable, plural CBs)

(speedrunning, initialism) Initialism of cruise boost.


PSW

program status word
program status word#English

(computing) Initialism of program status word.

(video games) Initialism of persistent-state world: one that continues to exist even when no players are present.


blivet

Unknown; seems to have been coined by American soldiers in World War Two.

(computing, slang) A program that has messy source code.


data warehouse

Coined by IBM researchers Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy in 1988.

(computing) A collection of data, from a variety of sources, organized to provide useful guidance to an organization's decision-makers.


CG

Plenty of CGs pad out the adventure too, with beautiful art depicting the events that take place.

2016 March 7, Andrew Barker, “Steins;Gate”, in RPGFan, archived from the original on 2019-10-10

There are a good number of CG scenes as well which provide even nicer artwork. Please note that though this is a visual novel on Steam, there are pretty steamy CGs in each route.

2017 August 31, Marcus Estrada, “Review: A Hand in the Darkness”, in Hardcore Gamer

(video games, in a visual novel) A unique, static full-screen image, usually displayed to illustrate a significant event in the story.


EDM

EDM (countable and uncountable, plural EDMs)

(computing) Initialism of electronic document management.

(computing) Initialism of entity data model.


dependency

dependency (countable and uncountable, plural dependencies)

From dependent + -cy or dependence + -y or depend + -ency.

This library has dependencies on a lot of other libraries. We have to compile all of those other libraries first.

(computing) Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.

One of this library's dependencies is very finicky. It can be hard to get it to compile on some systems.

(computing) An external component whose functionality is relied on.


cruft

Circa 1959, MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. Unknown origin; possibly from Cruft Hall, built in 1915 as a gift from a donor named Harriet Otis Cruft. Cruft Hall was the radar laboratory of Harvard's physics department during the Second World War, which contained much old and unused technical equipment. Possibly blend of crust + fluff, both of which may form on old abandoned things, or influenced by crud.

The PEB includes the list of loaded modules (i.e., the EXE and DLLs), the memory containing environment strings, the current working directory, and data for managing the process’ heaps—as well as lots of special-case Win32 cruft that has been added over time.

2015 [1992], Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, 4th edition, page 908

Best developer practices run the gamut from keeping the cruft out of your code to ensuring your code is accessible to all your application or site’s users.

2015, Shelley Powers, JavaScript Cookbook, Sebastopol: O'Reilly, page 143

Sawyer cites responses to a message saying "there is cruft in [Perl]" as the excuse some Perl community members used to "push him into a corner" until he deactivated his Twitter account.

2021 August 14, Jim Salter, quoting Sawyer X, “The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct enforcement”, in Ars Technica

(computing, slang) Redundant, old or improperly written code, especially that which accumulates over time.


cruft

en-verb

cruft (third-person singular simple present crufts, present participle crufting, simple past and past participle crufted)

crufts (present singular third-person)
crufting (participle present)
crufted (participle past)
crufted (past)


GOTO

From go to, a keyword for this purpose in many programming languages.

The setjmp/longjmp facility in C is essentially a GOTO.

(programming) Any construct which produces an unstructured jump in the flow of execution.


GOTO

GOTO (third-person singular simple present GOTOs, present participle GOTOing, simple past and past participle GOTOed)

GOTOs (present singular third-person)
GOTOing (participle present)
GOTOed (participle past)
GOTOed (past)

If we were GOTOed from 310 we GOTO 320.

1983, Charles Seiter, Robert Weiss, Pascal for BASIC Programmers, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

You can create loops by telling the computer to GOTO an earlier line.

1983, C. Regena, Programmer's reference guide to the TI-99/4A, page 18

Cross reference programs show program structure by displaying line numbers that are GOTOed or GOSUBed to from other lines in the program, and listing the line numbers in which different variables appear.

There is no way of falling into or GOTOing a procedure. The procedure can only be invoked by name as a subroutine.

1987, Douglas S. Stivison, Introduction to Turbo Pascal, Sybex

She and her hosts could not understand one another until Hopper remembered some COBOL commands. "MOVE," she said, pointing to herself. "GOTO Osaka Hotel." The Japanese immediately understood and delivered her to her lodging.

1990, Computer Languages, Time-Life Books, page 44

Next - goto the next entity defined in the module

1991, Gerald C. Cohen, Structured Representation for Requirements and Specifications, NASA, page 25

4. Goto the Targets option.

2010, Martin Peston, A User's Guide to the Meade LXD55 and LXD75 Telescopes, page 103

(programming) To reach (a point in a program) by means of a GOTO instruction.


preso

We need to provide a pause of "down time" after each preso for the streaming team to save the captured video to disk before beginning the next presentation.

1999 August 30, Eric Krock, “CodeStock E1 speakers: coordinating Gecko/JS embedding presentations”, in netscape.public.mozilla.embedding (Usenet)

“Now that I've finished Russ's preso, neither do I!”

2003 August, J. D. Richard, Oh, Crapper!, Xlibris Corporation, page 245

Sorry no formal preso for you, but the first point is a real killer in my book.

2005 March 11, Carey Matthew Black, “AR System Presentation”, in Remedy ARS (Usenet)


Hungarian notation

/hʌŋˈɡɛɹi.ən noʊˈteɪʃən/

The notation was invented by Charles Simonyi (born 1948), Hungarian-American computer programmer.

lpsz is Hungarian notation for a 32-bit pointer to a null-terminated string.

(computing, programming) A naming convention in which the name of a variable indicates its data type and intended use by including abbreviations as prefixes.


LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
w:Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.


DD

en-noun

DD (countable and uncountable, plural DDs)

(computing) Initialism of Debian developer.

(Internet) Initialism of direct download.


spamvertising

(Internet) The practice of sending spam email, or of posting similar material on a wiki, blog or notice board, in order to advertise or attract search engines to a website.


swizzle

en-verb

swizzle (third-person singular simple present swizzles, present participle swizzling, simple past and past participle swizzled)

swizzles (present singular third-person)
swizzling (participle present)
swizzled (participle past)
swizzled (past)

unswizzle

antonym(s) of “convert symbols to pointers”

Unknown etymology, 1813. Original sense “alcoholic drink”, possibly a variant of switchel (“a drink of molasses and water, often mixed with rum”), attested 1790, itself of uncertain origin. Possibly influenced by fizz.
In verb sense “to stir”, from swizzle stick (“stick for stirring alcoholic drinks”), itself attested 1859.

(computer graphics) To permute bits, or elements of a vector.

(programming, transitive) To convert portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization.

If you or a loved one want to implement method swizzling, you may want to consider using a fairly well-tested wrapper package, such as JRSwizzle. Apple may reject applications that appear to use method swizzling in a dangerous way.

2016, David Thiel, iOS Application Security: The Definitive Guide for Hackers and Developers, No Starch Press, page 25

(programming, Objective-C, transitive) To change a class's dispatch table in order to resolve messages from an existing selector to a new implementation.


amortize

amortize (third-person singular simple present amortizes, present participle amortizing, simple past and past participle amortized)

amortizes (present singular third-person)
amortizing (participle present)
amortized (participle past)
amortized (past)

From Middle English amortisen, from Old French amortir (via the stem amortiss-), from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”).

(transitive, computer science) To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time.


flamage

If you insist on posting your baby photos to that abortion newsgroup, get ready for some flamage.

(Internet, slang) flame postings considered as a group


all elbows

From the idea that these programs rudely elbow others out of their way.

Multicom goes beyond lame. It's about the worst example of
an 'all elbows' 1984 vintage DOS program that I've seen in
a long time. Yuk!

1995 October 12, Randy Reames, “MFJ-1278 Software?”, in rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc (Usenet)

It /will/ nuke NT's loader, but that's because NT is all
elbows when it comes to booting.

1998 December 20, Iain Georgeson, “Boot sector woes”, in alt.dur.general (Usenet)

Amen, even more than most games poor `all elbows' behavior, modern
games are generally boring to the extreme.

2002 March 22, Dowe Keller, “Hardest Mistake in Comp Arch to Fix”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet)

(computing, dated) of a program that steals whatever resources it needs without consideration for other tasks.


flame bait

(Internet) A deliberately provocative posting intended to start a flame war.


flame war

Remember, Smokey the Bear says, "Only you can prevent flame wars".

2008 July 12, Megan McArdle, “Note to trolls”, in The Atlantic

That post was the starting point for a flame war between Linux creator Linus Torvalds and Tanenbaum and a bunch of other enthusiasts, who later became the first Linux developers.

2019, Kamran Amini, Extreme C, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 362

(Internet) An argument consisting entirely or largely of flames by various parties that serve only to escalate the dispute.


pixelated

en-adj

pixelated (comparative more pixelated, superlative most pixelated)

more pixelated (comparative)
most pixelated (superlative)

The photo may be pixelated if you print it too large.

(computing) Of an image, visibly made of discrete pixels.

pikselöity

of an image, visibly made of discrete pixels


CMYK

(computing, printing) Initialism of cyan, magenta, yellow, key: the colour model used in colour printing.


K

Abbreviations.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of counter, prefix counter-, sequence contr.

ng

prefix <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">counter-</i>, sequence contr.

5k = 5,000

(often computing) Abbreviation of kilo-, 1,024.

(computing) A single character message used as an acknowledgement (ACK), meaning "previous message received and understood."


meg

Clipping of megabyte, megahertz, megajoule, etc.

(computing) - "My new computer has over 500 megs [or meg] of RAM." (megabytes)

(radio) - "What frequency does Radio XYZ broadcast on?" "105.7 meg." (megahertz)

(heating) - "a 250-meg gas heater" (megajoule)

(colloquial) Any unit having the SI prefix mega-.


ER

en-noun

ER (countable and uncountable, plural ERs)

(computing) Initialism of entity-relationship.


snapshot

This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.

(computing) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.

στιγμιότυπο

(Computing) Files captured at a particular time that are capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state


snapshot

en-verb

snapshot (third-person singular simple present snapshots, present participle snapshotting, simple past and past participle snapshotted)

snapshots (present singular third-person)
snapshotting (participle present)
snapshotted (participle past)
snapshotted (past)

Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.

2007, David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure, page 30

(transitive, computing) To capture the state of, in a snapshot.


login

I've forgotten my login again.

(computing) Credentials: the combination of a user's identification and password used to enter a computer, program, network, etc.

Your login failed because you weren't connected to the office network.

(computing) The process or an instance of logging in.


P

(computing theory) The set of all problems that are solvable in polynomial time by a deterministic Turing machine


GP

en-noun

GP (countable and uncountable, plural GPs or GP)

(roleplaying games, board games, video games) Initialism of gold piece.

roleplaying games; board games; roleplaying games; board games

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

genetic programming
genetic programming#English

(uncountable, software, artificial intelligence) Initialism of genetic programming.

(grand strategy video games) Initialism of great power.

I don't think your response really answers the GP's question.

(Internet) Initialism of grandparent poster; the person two levels up in a nested conversation thread.


unroll

en-verb

unroll (third-person singular simple present unrolls, present participle unrolling, simple past and past participle unrolled)

unrolls (present singular third-person)
unrolling (participle present)
unrolled (participle past)
unrolled (past)

(transitive, programming, software compilation) To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as an optimization.


DBA

database analyst
database analyst#English

(databases) Initialism of database analyst.

database administrator
database administrator#English

(databases) Initialism of database administrator.


flow chart

A schematic representation of how the different stages in a process are interconnected.


padding

en-noun

padding (countable and uncountable, plural paddings)

(computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.

täyte

extra characters such as spaces added to a record

(military, cryptography) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.


navigator

Although the window looks like a view of files and folders on disk, the “folders” that appear here are called groups; they don't exist on disk. They appear in the navigator because it's convenient to group related files together […]

2012, Richard Wentk, iOS App Development Portable Genius, page 38

(computing) A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.


RE

RE (countable and uncountable, plural REs)

recursively enumerable
recursively enumerable#English

(computing theory, computational complexity theory) Abbreviation of recursively enumerable; the class of decision problems for which a 'yes' answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time.


octal

octal (countable and uncountable, plural octals)

(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) The number system that uses the eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

(arithmetic, computing, countable) A digit or value in the octal number system.


octal

(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in octal or mathematical calculations performed using octal.

八進制

concerning numbers expressed in octal or mathematics calculations performed using octal


BF

(video games) Initialism of Battlefield, an FPS video game series.


barker

From Middle English berkere; equivalent to bark (“dog noise”) + -er.

The barker looks action-packed, but actually playing the game is rather dull.

(video games) A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.


fetch

The verb is derived from Middle English fecchen (“to get and bring back, fetch; to come for, get and take away; to steal; to carry away to kill; to search for; to obtain, procure”) [and other forms], from Old English feċċan, fæċċan, feccean (“to fetch, bring; to draw; to gain, take; to seek”), a variant of fetian, fatian (“to bring near, fetch; to acquire, obtain; to bring on, induce; to fetch a wife, marry”) and possibly related to Old English facian, fācian (“to acquire, obtain; to try to obtain; to get; to get to, reach”), both from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to hold, seize; to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”). The English word is cognate with Dutch vatten (“to apprehend, catch; to grasp; to understand”), German fassen (“to catch, grasp; to capture, seize”), English fet (“(obsolete) to fetch”), Faroese fata (“to grasp, understand”), Danish fatte (“to grasp, understand”), Swedish fatta (“to grasp, understand”), Icelandic feta (“to go, step”), West Frisian fetsje (“to grasp”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

nb...

facch, facche, facchen, fach, fache, fæchen, fatche, feccean, fecche, fecchen, fecchenn, fecchyn, fech, fechchen, feche, fechen, fechin, fechyn, fetche, fetchen, fetchyn, focche, focchen, fochche, foche, fotche, vacche, vacchen, vecche, vecchen, vechchen,

cog

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

Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete

a fetch from a cache

(also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

(computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.


TLD

top-level domain
top-level domain#English

(Internet) Initialism of top-level domain.


Moore's law

Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore.

named-after

The pocket calculator’s fortunes have fallen ever since. It is a victim of “Moore’s Law,” the theory that the number of transistors that can be squeezed on to a microchip will roughly double every two years, thereby increasing computing power at the same rate.

2012 March 4, Alice Rawsthorn, “Farewell, Pocket Calculator?”, in The New York Times

How will industries and enterprises dependent upon and accustomed to Moore's Law continue to thrive? What might this disruption mean for society? And will the certainty of continued exponential change enshrined in Moore's Law ever become standard again?

2015, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, Rachel Jones, Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary, Hachette UK

(computing) An empirical observation that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years.


tweeter

The latest addition to these daily outpourings are suggested tweets to circulate. Fortunately I am not a tweeter, so I swiftly delete all these unread.

2013 October 31, Rowena Mason, quoting David Steel, “Lord Steel criticises culture of spin and tweeting in modern politics”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

(social media) One who posts messages ("tweets") on the social networking site Twitter.


thicket

From Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce (“thick”) + Old English nominal suffix -et. Compare similar German Dickicht (“thicket”), which is first attested in the 17th century, however.

(computing, figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.


blob

(databases) Alternative spelling of BLOB


cross-link

Coordinate term: back-link

There's no downside to providing reasonable cross links, and several reasons for providing them. For example, effective cross-linking keeps visitors on your site longer (as opposed to heading off-site because they can't find what they need on your site."

2006 May 23, Harold Davis, Search Engine Optimization, O’Reilly Media, Inc., page 33

(Internet) An internal hyperlink to another webpage belonging to the same web domain.


cross-link

en-verb

cross-link (third-person singular simple present cross-links, present participle cross-linking, simple past and past participle cross-linked)

cross-links (present singular third-person)
cross-linking (participle present)
cross-linked (participle past)
cross-linked (past)

muodostaa verkkosidos

to form a link between adjacent chains of a polymer

Coordinate term: back-link

(Internet) To add an internal hyperlink between two webpages belonging to the same web domain.


tuple

From the ending of the words quintuple, sextuple; from Latin -plus.

(databases) A single row in a relational database.

(computing) A set of comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system as a parameter to a function call.

Both Python and Haskell have a tuple data type as well as a list data type.

Unlike lists, tuples are not formed by consing.

(programming) A fixed-size container data type similar to a list that can hold different types of elements.


LPN

(networking) Initialism of Low-Power Network.


FW

(computer security) Abbreviation of firewall.

(computer hardware, computer software) Abbreviation of firmware.


FSA

finite-state automaton
finite-state automaton#English

(computer science) Initialism of finite-state automaton.


DPS

en-noun

DPS (countable and uncountable, plural DPSs)

(video games) Initialism of damage per second (a standard way to calculate the damage dealt to other players or creatures in online role-playing games.)

damage per second

(by extension, video games) A player or unit whose primary role is to deal the maximum amount of damage possible (as opposed to holding the attention of the enemy, healing, or other tasks).


quantization

quantization (countable and uncountable, plural quantizations)

(uncountable, signal processing) The process of approximating a continuous signal by a set of discrete symbols or integer values


C++

→ Polish: C++

From the name of the C language (on which it was based) and ++, the increment operator in both languages, suggesting something added to C.

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) A multi-paradigm high-level compiled programming language, that is a more advanced form of C.


internet

en-verb

internet (third-person singular simple present internets, present participle internetting, simple past and past participle internetted)

internets (present singular third-person)
internetting (participle present)
internetted (participle past)
internetted (past)

[ˈɪntʰɚˌnɛt̚]

[ˈɪɾ̃ɚˌnɛt̚]

The noun is a variant of Internet. The verb is derived from the noun.

Having no idea what that means, I am internetting like mad.

We have several groups of Internetters, from Alaska, from New Zealand, and a group from San Francisco interested in deserts as a context where different faiths developed. Internetting with them could stimulate discussion. Internetting with other countries is seen as a way of broadening the students' areas of interest and triggering their questions.

2002, Soshana Keiny, “The Conceptual Framework of the Book”, in Ecological Thinking: A New Approach to Educational Change, Lanham, Md., New York, N.Y.: University Press of America, page 14

Most of us, before and after the second uprising, can be found in schools, offices, or factories, going about our everyday lives. Dreaming, working hard for a future. Texting, internetting, entertaining ourselves in the present.

2005, Vincente L. Rafael, “The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines”, in Daniel Rosenberg, Susan Harding, editors, Histories of the Future, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, page 87

I collect cookbooks, too. And recipes, you know, that I've internetted.

2021, Shirley Goldberg, chapter 15, in Eat Your Heart Out (Starting Over; 2), [Adams Basin, N.Y.?]: The Wild Rose Press

(intransitive, Internet, informal) To use the Internet; specifically, to search for information using the Internet.

internetten

to use the Internet; to search for information using the Internet


internet

From inter- (prefix meaning ‘amid, among; between’) + net (“to form a netting or network”).

prefix

We are continuing our program of internetting our radar system with that of the Federal Aviation Agency.

1966 February 14, Robert S[trange] McNamara (witness), “Statement of the Secretary of Defense”, in Department of Defense Appropriations for 1967: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session … Part 1 […], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 59

More efficient means of internetting the computers in the system must also be developed.

1975 March 7, Malcolm R[oderick] Currie (witness), “Statement of Dr. Malcolm R. Currie, Director, Defense Research and Engineering, Accompanied by Laurin A. Knutson, Assistant Director (Programing) O.D.D.R. & E.”, in Fiscal Year 1976 and July–September 1976 Transition Period Authorization for Military Procurement, Research and Development, and Active Duty, Selected Reserve, and Civilian Personnel Strengths: Hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Ninety-forth Congress, First Session on S. 920 […] Part 6: Research and Development […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 2756

Other less dynamic examples of information networks include intelligence or military command centers, internetted with communications including different kinds of voice circuits, (i.e., encrypted and non encrypted), data communications, teletype, facsimile, and the like.

1981 September 29, Stephen J[oseph] Lukasik (witness), “Statement of Stephen J. Lukasik, Chief Scientist, Office of Science and Technology, Federal Communications Commission”, in Emergency Management Information and Technology: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session […] (no. 55), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published [1982], →OCLC, page 119

[…] Soviet interceptors have been internetted with radars, enabling the use of early-warning radars to track reentry vehicles for interception. […] [T]he Soviets have evidently internetted their SA-5, not with earlier mechanical radars, but with phased-array systems that are far more adequate for reentry vehice tracking purposes.

1985 spring, Robert J. DeSutter, Jr., “SALT Nonviolations and the Evolution of a Compliance Policy”, in Robert J. DeSutter, Jr., compiler, Selected Readings and Documents on Postwar American Defense Policy, volume III, [Colorado Springs, Colo.: United States Air Force Academy]; Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page [1041]

We hear that Air Force Intelligence has officially concluded the Soviets have rolled production lines to break out of the ABM treaty and deploy a nationwide anti-missile system, which could possibly be in place by next year. […] [T]he Soviets are internetting their early-warning radars […]

1988 February 25, “Breakout”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20

Question. How will the various radars of the Caribbean Basin Radar Network be internetted together? / Answer. […] These operation centers will also be internetted so as to share surveillance data and coordinate tracking/interdiction efforts.

1990 April 5, John J. Welch Jr. (witness), Edward R. Bracken (witness), Thomas R. Ferguson (witness), “Missile and Other Procurement, Air Force”, in Department of Defense Appropriations for 1991: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session: Part 5 […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 432

An experiment conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the ARPANET experiment sought to explore technologies for the networking of remote research sites. ARPANET sends independent digital packets over networks "internetted" together to pass information.

1996 April–June, Robert J. Bunker, “Internetted Structures and C² Nodes”, in Susan M. Miranda, editor, Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin (PB 34-96-2), volume 2, number 2, Fort Huachuca, Ariz.: U.S. Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca, →OCLC, page 26, column 2

Emergency "patches" were applied to WWMCCS's General Comprehensive Operating System software as engineers desperately tried to find a way to work around the limitations of the Honeywell 6000 computers so that the network's nodes could be effectively internetted.

2000 June, David E[ric] Pearson, “WWMCCS Intercomputer Network”, in The World Wide Military Command and Control System: Evolution and Effectiveness, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.: Air University Press, page 186

(specifically, networking) To connect (a computer, an electronic device, etc.) into a computer network (in particular, the Internet).


TOS

en-verb

TOS (third-person singular simple present TOSes, present participle TOSing, simple past and past participle TOSed)

TOSes (present singular third-person)
TOSing (participle present)
TOSed (participle past)
TOSed (past)

If you want to join this riot, we urge you to! You wont have to worry about being TOSed or reported because there will be no Guides online! So do whatever you want—punt, scroll, tos, just turn AOL into a war zone!

2003, Michael Newton, The Encyclopedia of High-tech Crime and Crime-fighting, AOL Riot on June 1, 1998, page 21

(Internet, probably dated) To report another user for a real or imagined terms of service violation.


ICE

(computing) Initialism of internal compiler error.

in-circuit emulation
in-circuit emulation

(computing) in-circuit emulator, in-circuit emulation


OTC

(slang, Internet, text messaging) Initialism of on the cheek.


ADR

en-noun

ADR (countable and uncountable, plural ADRs)

/eɪ diː ˈɑː/

software engineering
software engineering

architectural decision record
w:architectural decision

(software engineering) Initialism of architectural decision record.


ADL

(programming) Initialism of argument-dependent lookup, a feature of C++ in which the compiler chooses a function based on its arguments.


zombify

en-verb

zombify (third-person singular simple present zombifies, present participle zombifying, simple past and past participle zombified)

zombifies (present singular third-person)
zombifying (participle present)
zombified (participle past)
zombified (past)

These trojans can zombify your machine.

(transitive, computing) To take control of (a computer) in order to use it covertly and illicitly.


kanban

en-noun

kanban (countable and uncountable, plural kanbans or kanban)

From Japanese 看板 (かんばん, kanban), from 看 (kan, “visible”) + 板 (“board or card”), developed and first used in the Toyota Production System.

The sub-assembly line assembles A. It goes to processing line 1 to withdraw part a, and for this purpose it must take the sub-assembly kanban (called withdrawal kanban). It goes to store a, withdraws boxes in the required quantity and removes those kanban (called in-process kanban or production-ordering kanban) that are attached to the boxes.

1986, David J. Lu, transl., edited by Japan Management Association, Kanban Just-in Time at Toyota: Management Begins at the Workplace, CRC Press, page 93

(countable) A card containing a set of manufacturing specifications and requirements, used to regulate the supply of components.


shopping basket

shopping basket (plural shopping baskets)

(Internet) A page on a shopping website where one's prospective purchases are listed before payment.

cistella

(Internet) page on a shopping website where one's prospective purchases are listed before payment


singleton

From single + -ton, probably following the model of simpleton.

singleton design pattern
singleton pattern

(computing) A class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.


vlog

Blend of video + blog, itself a blend of web log.

When you create this kind of videoless vlog, where you don't have the video recorded on a camcorder, you have to be more conscious of the story you want to tell.

2006, Stephanie Cottrell Bryant, Videoblogging for Dummies, page 83

(Internet) A weblog using video as its primary presentation format.


vlog

en-verb

vlog (third-person singular simple present vlogs, present participle vlogging, simple past and past participle vlogged)

vlogs (present singular third-person)
vlogging (participle present)
vlogged (participle past)
vlogged (past)

I like to take walks when I'm having my breaks at work, and then I vlog my walks and put them online. I can just ramble on about philosophy, or whatever.

2005 September 10, “Vloggers get political in Norway”, in BBC Online

(Internet, intransitive) To contribute to a video weblog.

(Internet, transitive) To post (something) to a video weblog.


SPF

Sender Policy Framework
w:Sender Policy Framework

(Internet) Initialism of Sender Policy Framework.


RFC

Request for Comments
w:Request for Comments

(computing) Initialism of Request for Comments.


RFC

(computing) Initialism of remote function call.


DAT

(computing, audio) Digital Audio Tape — a digital data storage tape format using a dual-spooled cartridge and magnetic tape, used for digital audio and data storage.


shebang

From hash + bang or sharp + bang, after Etymology 1.

(computing) The character string "#!" used at the beginning of a computer file to indicate which interpreter can process the commands in the file, chiefly used in Unix and related operating systems.


CERT

(computing) Acronym of computer emergency response team.


lint

lint (third-person singular simple present lints, present participle linting, simple past and past participle linted)

lints (present singular third-person)
linting (participle present)
linted (participle past)
linted (past)

From the lint Unix utility, written in 1979, which analyses programs written in the C language, itself named after the undesirable bits of fiber and fluff found in sheep's wool (see etymology 1).

You should lint your JavaScript code before committing it.

(transitive, computing) To perform a static check on (source code) to detect stylistic or programmatic errors.


full motion video

en-noun

full motion video (countable and uncountable, plural full motion videos)

When most companies become involved in teleconferencing, usually their first interest is in full-motion video conferencing.

1985, Steven Golen, C Glenn Pearce, Ross Figgins, Report writing for business and industry

Originally, 72 minutes of partial-screen (one-eighth) full-motion video could be stored. These pictures are fairly coarse — worse than low-quality VCR...

1989 November, “Coming for Personal Computers: Full-motion Video”, in Popular Science, volume 235, number 5

To digitize and store a 10 seconds clip of full motion video in a computer requires transfer of an enormous amount of data[…]

1992, Association for Computing Machinery, Computer Graphics

But while the small screen and grainy full-motion video on a CD-ROM […] may wow computerphiles […], it won't impress the MTV generation.

1992 December 22, PC Mag, volume 11, number 22, page 346

In reality, multimedia was associated first and foremost with the development of full-motion video. This fascination for a cinema-like illusion of motion […]

2008, Mark J P Wolf, The Video Game Explosion

Video of sufficient quality to make motion appear continuous to humans, considered to require at least 16 frames per second.

Stored full-motion video is useful for messages and information dissemination, whereas live video can be used for direct interaction, medical applications, manufacturing applications, and a variety of other process control processes.

1996, Prabhat K. Andleigh, Kiran Thakrar, Multimedia Systems Design, page 18

In games, full motion video (FMV) truly began in the 16-bit era on the Amiga and Atari ST. Psygnosis, an innovative company that is now a distant memory, often put an awe-inspiring, beautifully rendered movie at the front ot their games.

2004, Kevin Oxland, Gameplay and Design, page 161

Privateer II had real actors in full motion video sequences doing all sorts of silly stuff.

2005, William Abner, Gamer's Tome of Ultimate Wisdom 2006, page 125

Full motion video (FMV) is a popular term for pre-recorded TV-quality movie or animation in a video game. FMV is simply a playback of something that was previously recorded. With modern computer hardware, games are rendered at much higher resolutions than typical FMV's, resulting in FMV's being easily spottable as "lower quality" than the game itself.

2007, Jielin Dong, Network Dictionary, page 206

Fight through to the end of the tekken tournament with any of these eight original characters and you unlock a hidden character (including favorites like Kuma and Wang), as well as being treated to a short FMV (full motion video) sequence that expands a little on each fighter's motivation.

2013, Matt Fox, The Video Games Guide, page 293

Enter the Full Motion Video (FMV) game – in which pre-recorded video was used to display action – and the seminal title Star Trek: Bee on the Bridge.

2017, Nate Crowley, 100 Best Video Games (That Never Existed), page 50

(video games) In-game footage that is pre-rendered, often using real-world scenes, as opposed to being rendered in-engine or in real time.


NDC

(networking) Initialism of network daughter card.


PMI

PMI (countable and uncountable, plural PMIs)

(software) Initialism of portable management interface.


RPM

(computing) RPM Package Manager, or formerly Red Hat Package Manager, a package management system used by some distributions of the Linux operating system – most importantly those by Red Hat.

.rpm

the RPM package manager package file extension


CRC

cyclic redundancy check
cyclic redundancy check#English

(computing) Initialism of cyclic redundancy check.


LOC

LOC (countable and uncountable, plural LOCs)

(programming) Initialism of lines of code.


NTA

National Tax Agency
w:National Tax Agency

Initialism of National Tax Agency (of Japan), the Japanese government agency that collects taxes and enforces tax law.

National Tax Agency

w:National Transport Authority (Ireland)

(Ireland) Initialism of National Transport Authority.


NTA

(Internet slang, Reddit slang) Initialism of not the asshole; used as a response to AITA (“am I the asshole?”).

not the asshole

(Internet slang) Initialism of not that anon.


CPS

CPS (countable and uncountable, plural CPSes)

(video games) Initialism of clicks per second.

cyber-physical system
w:cyber-physical system

(computing) Initialism of cyber-physical system.

functional programming
functional programming

continuation-passing style
continuation-passing style#English

(functional programming, uncountable) Initialism of continuation-passing style.


foreground

/ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/

From fore- + ground. Compare Dutch voorgrond (“foreground”), German Vordergrund (“foreground”), Danish forgrund (“foreground”), Swedish förgrund (“foreground”), Norwegian forgrunn (“foreground”), Icelandic forgrunni (“foreground”).

(computing, often attributive) The application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others.


FC

FC (countable and uncountable, plural FCs)


RC

RC (countable and uncountable, plural RCs)

release candidate
release candidate#English

(software) Initialism of release candidate.


OT

en-adj

OT (comparative more OT, superlative most OT)

more OT (comparative)
most OT (superlative)


BW

Pokémon Black and White
w:Pokémon Black and White

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Black and White.


WP

(international law) Initialism of Warsaw Pact.

(Internet) Initialism of Wirtualna Polska.

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Wikipedia.


WP

(software) Initialism of word processor.

(computing) Initialism of word processing.

(computing) Initialism of weakest precondition.


IE

See also: PIE

(linguistics, anthropology, etc.) Initialism of Indo-European.


FTA

(Internet) Initialism of from the article. (used in Internet message boards when quoting articles)


FTA

en-noun

FTA (countable and uncountable, plural FTAs)

(computing) Initialism of filetype association.


WORM

write once, read many
write once, read many#English

(computing, computer hardware) Initialism of write once, read many.


IMS

IMS (countable and uncountable, plural IMSes)

Information Management System
w:Information Management System

(computer science) Initialism of Information Management System.


oof

An onomatopoeia. Similar to Dutch oef and German uff.
The usage of this term on the Internet was popularized by the game Roblox.

Fans were quick to express their disappointment at the removal of what has now become an iconic sound in the gaming space. The audio is trending on Twitter under #SaveTheOOF and Big Oof.

2022 July 27, Eleni Thomas, “Roblox is removing iconic “oof” sound after copyright issues”, in Dexerto

That actually hits me home because I used to drink tequila sunrises when I first started drinking. So that’s an oof.

2022 September 22, Vinepair Staff, “The Cocktail College Podcast: How to Make the Perfect El Diablo”, in The Cocktail College Podcast

(Internet) Something cringeworthy, or which arouses disappointment, often used in conjunction with the qualifier big.


TRI

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence, US) Initialism of Toyota Research Institute.


TGIF

thank God it's Friday
thank God it's Friday#English

(marketing) Initialism of Twitter, Google, iPhone/iPad or Instagram, Facebook.


TGIF

(college) A Friday afternoon beer party.

transforming growth interacting factor#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of transforming growth interacting factor.


SDI

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

single-document interface
w:single document interface

(graphical user interface) Initialism of single-document interface.


BST

BST (countable and uncountable, plural BSTs)

(computing, graph theory) Initialism of binary search tree.


news channel

The phrase [Web syndication] often refers to web news feeds (news channels) that provide an up-to-date summary of recently added contents and the latest changes of web sites.

2012, Leslie Sikos, Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML, page 307


BCD

binary-coded decimal
binary-coded decimal#English

(computing, electronics) Initialism of binary-coded decimal.

Boot Configuration Data
w:Boot Configuration Data

(computing) Initialism of Boot Configuration Data.


GI

GI (countable and uncountable, plural GIs)

global illumination
global illumination#English

(computer graphics) Initialism of global illumination.


XR

extended reality
extended reality#English

(computing) Initialism of extended reality.


jeet

Thought to be a clipping of pajeet (“an Indian”), the second part of which is derived from Hindi जीत (jīt, “victory, win”). Likely stems from the fact Indian posters tended to shill low circulation crypto coins (or "shitcoins") in order to get anons on 4chan's /biz/ board to buy into them, only for the scammer to sell off at the first hint the coin was going for a downturn.

As the coin dropped by 1%, all of the jeets started panic-selling simultaneously.

This project has the potential to fly. The whitepaper and team sold me. This is not a project for the jeets though. Jeets will need to find a low mc launch to through there .2 bean at

2022 January 30, u/SpecificSalamander19, “🐺 We are proud to announce that Coyote Coin is launching soon! 🔥 A Dual Chain coin created to change the way you think about crypto! 🐺”, in Reddit, r/AllCryptoBets, archived from the original on 2023-12-23

thats ok, your wife will cheer me up in the back of my porsche truck, which dumb jeets like yourself paid for by shorting and swing trading in the negative

2022 September 28, “If your looking for a 'REALTIME' education on what FOMO is...look no further”, in Reddit, r/WallStreetBetsCrypto, archived from the original on 2023-12-23

NFT "jeets" are Olympic champions when it comes to losing money. Somehow, they always get the best whitelists for every release. As soon as they mint something, they start to drop price by 10% every 2 hrs. In just a day or two, these jeets will sell 40% or less under mint price on OpenSea.

2023 May 16, u/MaximumStudent1839, “Ubisoft wants to sell Assassin's Creed's Ezio's 'digital soul' as an NFT”, in Reddit, r/CryptoCurrency, archived from the original on 2023-12-23

this is why the jeets are running scared, but if you are well diversified on BTC and ETH you should brush it off. There´s always that risk.

2023 August 1, u/MWCyrus, “Richard Heart is being sued by the SEC for securities fraud!”, in Reddit, r/Pulsechain, archived from the original on 2023-12-23

(4chan, Internet slang, cryptocurrencies, derogatory) An investor who is extremely risk-averse and will sell off their holdings at the slightest hint of a downturn.


BP

BP (countable and uncountable, plural BPs)

(machine learning) Initialism of backpropagation.


UDS

(computing, automotive) Initialism of Unified Diagnostic Services.


DHT

DHT (countable and uncountable, plural DHTs)

distributed hash table
distributed hash table#English

(computing) Initialism of distributed hash table


ECL

Embeddable Common Lisp
w:Embeddable Common Lisp

(computing) Initialism of Embeddable Common Lisp.


diagnostic

(computing) Any tool or technique used to find the root of a problem.


ODS

OpenDocument Spreadsheet
w:OpenDocument Spreadsheet

(computing) Initialism of OpenDocument Spreadsheet.


MVP

Coordinate term: MVC

(software, design) Initialism of model-view-presenter.

(computer graphics) Initialism of model view projection.


DDS

DDS (countable and uncountable, plural DDSs)

(computing) Initialism of data distribution service.


CAM

content-addressable memory
w:content-addressable memory

(computing) Initialism of content-addressable memory.


NSF

(Internet, acronymy component) Initialism of not safe for [context] or initialism of not suitable for [context]: labels online content as being not appropriate for, and not to be clicked or displayed in, the named context; for example, NSFW (work), NSFL (life or lunch), NSFM (minors).


UL

en-verb

UL (third-person singular simple present ULs, present participle ULing, simple past and past participle ULed)

ULs (present singular third-person)
ULing (participle present)
ULed (participle past)
ULed (past)


ABS

acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
anti-lock braking system

(computing) Initialism of Arch build system.


BYOB

This release now supports proper BYOB readers on Fetch and WebTransport, which allows developers to prepare their ArrayBuffer so that it can be reused for read requests and thus saves memory allocation.

2023 August 1, Firefox 116.0 release notes

(computing) Initialism of Bring your own buffer.


TPM

Trusted Platform Module
w:Trusted Platform Module

(computing) Initialism of Trusted Platform Module.


PPE

en-noun

PPE (countable and uncountable, plural PPEs)

bulletin board system
bulletin board system

(computing, historical) Initialism of PCBoard programming executable: a software component used to extend the features of a bulletin board system.


BMI

brain–machine interface
w:brain–computer interface

(computing) Initialism of brain–machine interface.


DOT

DOT (countable and uncountable, plural DOTs)

Alternative form: DoT

(video games) Initialism of damage over time.

(by extension, video games) A weapon or ability that deals damage over time as opposed to or in addition to direct damage.


PAC

(computing) Initialism of programmable automation controller.

(computing) Initialism of proxy auto-config (file).


MAD

(programming) Acronym of Michigan algorithm decoder, a programming language, a variant of ALGOL, developed in 1959 at the University of Michigan.


CPA

CPA (countable and uncountable, plural CPAs)

correlation power analysis
correlation power analysis#English

(computer security) Abbreviation of correlation power analysis.

chosen-plaintext attack
chosen-plaintext attack#English

(computer security) Abbreviation of chosen-plaintext attack.


retrofit

en-verb

retrofit (third-person singular simple present retrofits, present participle retrofitting, simple past and past participle retrofitted)

retrofits (present singular third-person)
retrofitting (participle present)
retrofitted (participle past)
retrofitted (past)

/ˌɹɛtɹəʊˈfɪt/

/ˈɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ˌfɪt/

/ˌɹɛtɹoʊˈfɪt/

/ˈɹɛtɹoʊˌfɪt/

The verb is derived from retro- (prefix meaning ‘back; backward’) + fit (“to equip, supply”).
The noun, which is first attested later than the verb, is either derived:
* from the verb (see above); or
* from retro- + fit (“act of fitting; conformity of elements one to another”).

saada jälkikäteisasennuksena

(intransitive) to supply a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed

The bug was so bad that we had to retrofit our patch to the last three releases, as well as the newest release.

(computing) Synonym of backport (“to retroactively supply a fix or feature to a previous version of a software product at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.”)


DP

en-noun

DP (countable and uncountable, plural DPs)

dynamic programming
dynamic programming#English

(computer science) Initialism of dynamic programming.


DP

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
w:Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.


flamer

Send a note to the flamer. Tell him that his message was inappropriate. Request that he refrain from posting anything like it again.

1997, Alex J. Packer, Pamela Espeland, How Rude!

(computing, slang) One who flames, or posts vitriolic criticism.


LSM

liquid state machine
liquid state machine#English

(computing) Initialism of liquid state machine.


registrar

/ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪsˌtɹɑɹ/

From Medieval Latin registrārius, from registrum (“register”) + -ārius (“agent”). See more at register.

(Internet) A service that manages the reservation of domain names.


DPI

DPI (countable and uncountable, plural DPIs)

deep packet inspection
w:deep packet inspection

(Internet) Initialism of deep packet inspection.


Qt

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing) a free and open-source cross-platform software for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications.


LF

LF (countable and uncountable, plural LFs)


ACE

(file format) A proprietary data compression archive file format.


ACE

ACE (countable and uncountable, plural ACEs)

human recombinant soluble angiotensin-converting enzyme 2

(computing) Initialism of arbitrary code execution.

(computing) Initialism of access control entry.

Because the DNS requires that a domain name be in an ACE format, IDNA proposes that client applications, such as a web browser, manage the character conversion internally.

2003, John Yunker, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies, New Riders

(computing) Initialism of ASCII-compatible encoding.


CSR

CSR (countable and uncountable, plural CSRs)

(cryptography) Initialism of certificate signature request.


XM

For instance, the rhythm-action game Dance Factory used 24-channel XM tracker music, composed by Allister Brimble decades after his Amiga debut […]

(computing) Initialism of extended module: a tracker music file format


GIS

GIS (countable and uncountable, plural GISs)

geographic information system
w:geographic information system

(computing) Initialism of geographic information system (“computer-based system to analyse and present spatial data”).


MBR

MBR (countable and uncountable, plural MBRs)

(computing) Initialism of master boot record.


CR

CR (countable and uncountable, plural CRs)

(computing) Initialism of carriage return.


ATO

ATO (countable and uncountable, plural ATOs)

Interestingly, the nature of the available stolen data means the typical victim of an ATO attack varies slightly depending on whether a bank or a retailer is under attack.

2022, Gilit Saporta, Shoshana Maraney, Practical Fraud Prevention, O'Reilly Media

(computer security, finance) Initialism of account take over.


MSA

MSA (countable and uncountable, plural MSAs)

A “mail submission agent” (MSA) that accepts outgoing mail from an MUA, grooms it, and submits it to the transport system[.]

2011, Evi Nemeth et al., UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, Pearson Education, page 744

(computing) Initialism of mail submission agent.


GTA

(video games) Initialism of Grand Theft Auto, a series of video games by Rockstar Games involving car theft and gang warfare (e.g. GTA V).


GTA

I remember that car was in one of the classic GTAs.

(video games) Any game in the Grand Theft Auto series.


PL

programming language
programming language#English

(computing) Initialism of programming language.


CFR

Code of Federal Regulations
w:en:Code of Federal Regulations

(US, law) Initialism of Code of Federal Regulations.

Council on Foreign Relations
w:en:Council on Foreign Relations

(US) Initialism of Council on Foreign Relations.


CFR

CFR (countable and uncountable, plural CFRs)

cost and freight
cost and freight#English

(uncountable, Incoterm) Initialism of cost and freight.

The CFR for the SARS epidemic was around 9 to 10 percent, while MERS, first identified in 2012, is around 35 percent.

2020 March 12, Matt Stieb, “Does the Coronavirus Think I’m Old?”, in New York

case fatality rate
case fatality rate#English

(countable, pathology, epidemiology, statistics) Initialism of case fatality rate.

constant frame rate
constant frame rate#English

(uncountable, video compression) Initialism of constant frame rate.


SAN

Storage Area Network
w:Storage Area Network

(computing) Acronym of Storage Area Network.

Subject Alternative Name
w:Subject Alternative Name

(computing) Acronym of Subject Alternative Name.

System Area Network
w:System Area Network

(computing) Acronym of System Area Network.


IPS

(computing) Initialism of intrusion prevention system.

Internet Provider Security
w:Internet Provider Security

(computing) Initialism of Internet Provider Security.


EPS

Encapsulated PostScript
w:Encapsulated PostScript

(computing, publishing, file format) Initialism of Encapsulated PostScript: a typographically set publishing format with vector graphics


DSS

decision support system
w:decision support system

(computing) Initialism of decision support system.


TTP

TTP (countable and uncountable, plural TTPs)

The cyber operation began and used the same malware and TTPs from the Crimea.

2018, Kha M. Nguyen, Learning to Mow Grass: IDF Adaptations to Hybrid Threats, page 33

Al Qaeda used email as a TTP to communicate with what they called their ‘link man’ to bring the plot to fruition (Silber 2012, 163).

2022, John Michael Weaver, The U.S. Cybersecurity and Intelligence Analysis Challenges, Springer Nature, page 43

(computer security, military, countable) Initialism of tactic(s), technique(s) and procedure(s).


PBT

PBT (countable and uncountable, plural PBTs)

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering, uncountable) Initialism of property-based testing.


PBT

w:Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering

(networking) Initialism of Provider Backbone Transport.


PIA

PIA (countable and uncountable, plural PIAs)

(Internet) Initialism of pain in the ass.


MFA

MFA (countable and uncountable, plural MFAs)

multi-factor authentication
w:multi-factor authentication

(computer security, uncountable) Initialism of multi-factor authentication.


qwertz

(computing, typography) A style of keyboard layout used in some European countries.


SOP

SOP (countable and uncountable, plural SOPs)

same-origin policy
same-origin policy#English

(Internet) Initialism of same-origin policy.


tactical

The repeat that we use here is called a tactical, or tactic combinator. The behavior of repeat t is to loop through running t, running t on all generated subgoals, running t on their generated subgoals, and so on. When t fails at any point in this search tree, that particular subgoal is left to be handled by later tactics.

2013, Adam Chlipala, Certified Programming with Dependent Types

(computing) A combinator of proof tactics.


TD

TD (countable and uncountable, plural TDs)

(video games) Initialism of tower defense.

(machine learning) Initialism of temporal difference.


hacking

hacking (usually uncountable, plural hackings)

From Middle English hackynge, hakkynge, hacckinge, equivalent to hack + -ing.

(computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.

(computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. See also cracker.

hackerství

unauthorized attempts to bypass the IT security mechanisms


ESP

ESP (countable and uncountable, plural ESPs)

email service provider
w:mailbox provider

(Internet) Initialism of email service provider.


talker

From Middle English talkere, equivalent to talk + -er.

(Internet) A stripped-down version of a MUD which is designed for talking, predating instant messengers; a kind of early chat room.


LIR

local Internet registry
w:local Internet registry

(Internet) Initialism of local Internet registry.


FIFO

FIFO (countable and uncountable, plural FIFOs)

first in first out
first in first out#English

(accounting, operations, computing) Acronym of first in first out.


PES

Pro Evolution Soccer
w:Pro Evolution Soccer

(video games) Initialism of Pro Evolution Soccer.


mail merge

(computing) A software product that uses a file (or database) of names and addresses, together with a template document, to produce multiple copies of a letter, each personally addressed to a different recipient.


massively parallel

(computing) having many individual or distributed processing units and thus able to carry out many simultaneous calculations


CAS

CAS (countable and uncountable, plural CASes)

computer algebra system
w:computer algebra system

(mathematics, computing) Initialism of computer algebra system.

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of compare and swap.


OTP

(cryptography) Initialism of one-time pad.

(computing) Initialism of one-time password: a password that is valid for only one login session or transaction.


OTP

Opposite Track Path
w:Opposite Track Path

(computing) Initialism of Opposite Track Path.


MPP

MPP (countable and uncountable, plural MPPs)

massively parallel
massively parallel#English

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of massively parallel processing.

(computing, countable) Initialism of massively parallel processor.


SS

Pokémon Sword and Shield
w:Pokémon Sword and Shield

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Sword and Shield.


I

I (countable and uncountable, plural Is)

(computing) Abbreviation of instruction.


CMS

content management system
content management system#English

(computing) Initialism of content management system.

Color management system
w:Color management system

(computing) Initialism of Color management system.

Conversational Monitor System
w:Conversational Monitoring System

(computing) Initialism of Conversational Monitor System.

(video games) Initialism of construction and management simulation: a style of game that involves planning and managing a population of citizens in a town or similar, without direct control of characters


wildcard

1968, Digital Equipment Corporation, VAX/VMS 319(5864), page 751, Section 2.1.2 Using Wildcard Characters
A wildcard character is a symbol that you can use with many DCL commands to apply the command to several files at once, rather than specifying each file individually.

If the character * is acting as a wildcard, then the pattern a*m matches each of the words amalgam, atom and alum.

(computing) A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.

German wildcard Sabine Lisicki conquered her nerves to defeat France's Marion Bartoli and take her amazing Wimbledon run into the semi-finals.

2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport

(sports, card games) Alternative form of wild card.

шабло́н

derived adjective may be used in phrases


wildcard

en-verb

wildcard (third-person singular simple present wildcards, present participle wildcarding, simple past and past participle wildcarded)

wildcards (present singular third-person)
wildcarding (participle present)
wildcarded (participle past)
wildcarded (past)

The unfortunate consequence is that document elements cannot be wildcarded because a schema needs to provide a closed list of possible document elements.

2002, Eric Van der Vlist, XML Schema, page 183

(computing) To replace or supplement with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values.


firebrick

firebrick:

(computer science) The X11 color name of RGB hexadecimal value #B22222.


RSS

Another theory is that RSS was always too geeky for regular people. Even the New York Times, which seems to have been eager to adopt RSS and promote it to its audience, complained in 2006 that RSS is a “not particularly user friendly” acronym coined by “computer geeks.”

2019 January 9, Sinclair Target, “The Rise and Demise of RSS”, in Motherboard

(Internet) Initialism of Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication (“mechanism to follow updates on other websites such as news, music, blogs, etc.”).

Rich Site Summary

(Internet, deprecated) Initialism of RDF Site Summary.


exec

exec (third-person singular simple present execs, present participle execing, simple past and past participle execed)

execs (present singular third-person)
execing (participle present)
execed (participle past)
execed (past)

(computing, informal) To execute; to run.


REXX

programming language
programming language

A structured high-level programming language which was designed by IBM to be both easy to learn and easy to read.


Small Computer Systems Interface

(computing) A standard interface and command set for transferring data between devices on a bus.


hr

(computing) Initialism of horizontal rule.


DQ

(video games) Initialism of Dragon Quest.


filename

Solidification of file name, compounded from file + name. Related to file system. The preference for the solid form filename over the spaced form file name in opposition to the preference for the spaced form file system over the solid form filesystem is probably influenced by the solidification of other compound nouns ending with name (for instance: place name > place-name > placename).

(computing) The name assigned to a file in a file system.


cyclic redundancy check

en-noun

cyclic redundancy check (plural cyclic redundancy checks)

(computing) A type of hash function that produces a checksum used to detect and correct transmission errors in data (abbreviation CRC).


hash function

(computing) An algorithm that generates a numeric, or fixed-size character output from a variable-sized piece of text or other data; used in database table queries, cryptography and in error-checking.


auth

en-verb

auth (third-person singular simple present auths, present participle authing, simple past and past participle authed)

auths (present singular third-person)
authing (participle present)
authed (participle past)
authed (past)

You can't post messages on the site unless you're authed.


JIT

(software) Abbreviation of just-in-time compiler.

(computing) Abbreviation of just-in-time compilation.


JIT

JIT (third-person singular simple present JITs, present participle JITing, simple past and past participle JITed)

JITs (present singular third-person)
JITing (participle present)
JITed (participle past)
JITed (past)

(computing) To perform a just-in-time operation (usually compiling).


DMA

en-noun

DMA (countable and uncountable, plural DMAs)

direct memory access
w:direct memory access

(computing) Initialism of direct memory access.

(computing) Initialism of direct memory addressing.


Dx

developer experience
developer experience#English

(programming) Abbreviation of developer experience.


DOM

The same applies to DHTML. Why can't anyone agree on a single standard? Probably because Micro$oft wants to retain a desktop monopoly in the face of superior technology avaialable on other platforms. Even on Windows, Netscape and IE use different DOMs.

2000 October 8, David Steuber, “Re: Comparing Perl and Java”, in comp.lang.perl.misc (Usenet)

Document Object Model
Document Object Model#English

(computing) Acronym of Document Object Model.

(computing) Initialism of disk on module.


mutable

en-adj

mutable (comparative more mutable, superlative most mutable)

more mutable (comparative)
most mutable (superlative)

From Middle English mutable, from Old French mutable, from Latin mutabilis (“liable to change”). By surface analysis, mutate + -able.

A value of a mutable type can change. Objects and arrays are mutable: a JavaScript program can change the values of object properties and array elements. Numbers, booleans, null, and undefined are immutable.

2011, David Flanagan, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

(programming, of a variable) Having a value that is changeable during program execution.


compartmentalization

en-noun

compartmentalization (countable and uncountable, plural compartmentalizations)

(software) The act of dividing complex code into libraries with common functionality to help make the process of programming more manageable and reusable.


checksum

(mathematics, computing) A number, derived by applying a suitable algorithm to some data, used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission, storage or data entry.


checksum

en-verb

checksum (third-person singular simple present checksums, present participle checksumming, simple past and past participle checksummed)

checksums (present singular third-person)
checksumming (participle present)
checksummed (participle past)
checksummed (past)

(mathematics, computing) To compute a checksum.


LIFO

last in first out
last in first out#English

(computing, accounting, business) Initialism of last in first out.


randomly

en-adv

randomly (comparative more randomly, superlative most randomly)

more randomly (comparative)
most randomly (superlative)

When a file is accessed randomly, the programmer must specify the relative record number.

1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming, page 314

(computing) By random access; at any point at a given time; not sequentially.


broadcaster

/ˈbɹɔːdˌkɑːstə/

From broadcast (“to transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

suffix

(computing) A piece of equipment used to transmit data over a computer network.


packet

From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et.

(networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).


packet

en-verb

packet (third-person singular simple present packets, present participle packeting, simple past and past participle packeted)

packets (present singular third-person)
packeting (participle present)
packeted (participle past)
packeted (past)

2007, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace
Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender. These attacks—known as packeting—tend to be of limited duration […]

denial-of-service attack
denial-of-service attack

(transitive, Internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.


TIFF

(computer graphics file format) Acronym of tagged image file format.


TIFF

(computer graphics) An image stored in the TIFF format.

(computing) A file using TIFF file format


memo

The first is that the recursive call finds its subproblem solution in the memo and returns immediately.

2020, Daniel Zingaro, Algorithmic Thinking: A Problem-Based Introduction, No Starch Press, page 86

(programming) A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.


SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics
w:Scalable Vector Graphics

(computer graphics) Initialism of Scalable Vector Graphics.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
w:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Initialism of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, a Caribbean nation.

Initialism of Sun Valley Gardens, a nudist club in Pelham, Ontario, Canada.


SVG

In this chapter we will cover: […] • Creating SVGs with popular image editing packages and services • Inserting SVGs into a page with img and object tags […]

2015, Ben Frain, Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 170

(computer graphics) A graphic stored in the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format.


literal

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

From Middle English literal, from Old French literal, from Late Latin litteralis, also literalis (“of or pertaining to letters or to writing”), from Latin littera, litera (“a letter”); see letter.

(programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.

直接量

programming: value written in the source code


TDD

en-noun

TDD (countable and uncountable, plural TDDs)

Coordinate term: BDD

software engineering
software engineering

test-driven development
test-driven development#English

(uncountable, software engineering) Initialism of test-driven development.


EDA

EDA (countable and uncountable, plural EDAs)

(software) Initialism of event-driven architecture (a pattern promoting the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events.)

event-driven architecture

(software) Initialism of electronic design automation (collective name for software used to design integrated semiconductor circuits.)


PGA

Professional Graphics Adapter
w:Professional Graphics Controller

(computing) Initialism of Professional Graphics Adapter, a video interface card for computers, made obsolete in 1987 by the VGA adapter.


OCS

(software) Initialism of Open Computer and Software (an application which inventories IT assets)

Open Computer and Software

(communication, Microsoft, software) Initialism of Microsoft Office Communications Server (a software product)

(Internet) Initialism of Open Collaboration Services (an open and vendor-independent API to access online services)


OCS

(Internet) Initialism of Online Charging System (a system allowing providers of communication services to charge customers based on service usage)

Online Charging System

(Internet) Initialism of Origin Content Server (another name for a Web server)


AMS

AMS (countable and uncountable, plural AMSes)

(computing) Initialism of application management software.


HUD

An explosion just made us an exit! I'll mark it on your HUD, Chief, go!

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Cortana (Jen Taylor), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Cortana

heads-up display
heads-up display#English

(technology) Acronym of heads-up display.


trichording

From tri- + coordinate + -ing, referring to simultaneous movement along three orthogonal axes.

I know nothing about elite players but I belive trichording works at its best in dogfights.

1997, micnet, “SpaceOrb Debate (was: auto-levelling)”, in alt.games.descent (Usenet)

In order to know when someone's cheating, one has to know everything about the weapons in Descent 3. One must know reload rates, relative shield damage, and physics (to a small degree). One should also know about ship physics for each ship, and of course know about trichording and know what it looks like when a certain ship is trichording.

2002, Samus, “Releasing the 1.5 patch unofficially...”, in alt.games.descent (Usenet)

(slang, video games) Moving in three directions, about three axes.


DMCA

en-verb

DMCA (third-person singular simple present DMCAs, present participle DMCAing, simple past and past participle DMCAed or DMCA'd)

DMCAs (present singular third-person)
DMCAing (participle present)
DMCAed (participle past)
DMCAed (past)
DMCA'd (participle past)
DMCA'd (past)

The record label DMCAed several Web sites that were hosting copyrighted song lyrics.

(informal, transitive, Internet) To serve a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notification against, so as to have infringing material taken down.


IST

(computing) Initialism of InterSwitch Trunk.


isochronous

From Ancient Greek ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) + Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + -ous.

Their entire national telephone network is isochronous, with a clock distribution tree radiating from a single, protected cesium reference clock.

(computing) Of or pertaining to the use of clocks derived from the same clock reference.

These packets belong to an isochronous voice application and need priority handling.

(computing) of or pertaining to data associated with time-sensitive applications.


XPDL

(computing) Initialism of XML Process Definition Language.


podcatcher

(Internet) A podcast client; a device, or software, that can receive a podcast.


notice board

(Internet) An online forum where users can post and read messages.


AST

en-noun

AST (countable and uncountable, plural ASTs)

(computing) Initialism of abstract syntax tree.


SAM

A SAM conversion occurs when Java converts the SAM interface into functional code.

2020, Barry Burd, John Paul Mueller, Android Application Development All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 213

(programming) Initialism of single abstract method.


BO

BO (countable and uncountable, plural BOs)

A business object (BO) is simply a software abstraction of a real-world entity.

2004, Chuck Cavaness, Programming Jakarta Struts, O'Reilly, page 139

(software engineering) Initialism of business object.


BO

(business, computing, historical) Initialism of BusinessObjects, a French enterprise software company specializing in business intelligence.


unvoiced

(Internet) Of an IRC user: not granted voice privileges.


morphing

(computing) The smooth transformation of one image into another using digital tweening.


millennium bug

(computing) A design flaw in computer systems that represented years as two digits (e.g. 84 for 1984), which could cause date calculations to fail if they involved years later than 1999.

千年蟲

a design flaw in computer systems which which could cause date calculations to fail after 1999


checkout

checkout (countable and uncountable, plural checkouts)

(Internet, by extension) The process of confirming and paying for an online purchase.


SPAN

Switched Port Analyzer
w:Switched Port Analyzer

(computing) Acronym of Switched Port Analyzer, a Cisco technology


eval

en-verb

eval (third-person singular simple present evals, present participle evalling or evaling, simple past and past participle evalled or evaled)

evals (present singular third-person)
evalling (participle present)
evaling (participle present)
evalled (participle past)
evalled (past)
evaled (participle past)
evaled (past)

Of course, it's quite pointless to eval a piece of code that you know at compile time ...

1997, Sriram Srinivasan, Andy Oram, Steve Talbott, Advanced Perl Programming

(programming, of software) To evaluate (or execute) source code held in a string during run time.


SAP

(software) SAP AG, derived from the German Initialism of Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung. It is one of the world's largest software companies.


AO

(video games) Initialism of Anarchy Online.


SHTML

(computing) Initialism of server-parsed HTML.


web page

Holonym: website

Dave Bishop, an amateur astronomer, operates a supernova web page at www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html, which lists new discoveries, including images.

2007 March, Doug Rich, “How to Search for Supernovae”, in Astronomy, volume 35, number 3, pages 70–72

A single hypertext document (transmitted as HTML) on the World Wide Web, often hyperlinked to others, and intended to be viewed with a web browser.


pacifist

From French pacifiste, equivalent to pacific + -ist.

pacifist

one who loves, supports, or favours peace

(video games, roguelikes) A player who attempts the challenge of winning a game without attacking any enemy characters.


IPC

interprocess communication
interprocess communication#English

(computing) Initialism of interprocess communication.


perceptron

an element, analogous to a neuron, of an artificial neural network consisting of one or more layers of artificial neurons


TT

Some have also noted that the TT is anthropomorphic. It is true that the TT tests for human-like intelligence.

2003, “Turing Test: 50 Years Later”, in James H. Moor, editor, The Turing test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pages 69–70

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence) Initialism of Turing test.


DDR

en-noun

DDR (countable and uncountable, plural DDRs)

(computing) Double-data-rate computer RAM.


DDR

Dance Dance Revolution
w:Dance Dance Revolution

(video games) Initialism of Dance Dance Revolution.


check out

en-verb

check out (third-person singular simple present checks out, present participle checking out, simple past and past participle checked out)

checks out (present singular third-person)
checking out (participle present)
checked out (participle past)
checked out (past)

(transitive, computing) To obtain (source code or other material) from a repository so that one can modify it and later check it back in.

kuitata ulos

to obtain computer source code from a source code control system


EMF

Eclipse Modeling Framework
w:Eclipse Modeling Framework

(software) Initialism of Eclipse Modeling Framework.


malware

en-noun

malware (usually uncountable, plural malwares)

→ Amharic: ማልዌር (malwer)

→ Bengali: মালওয়্যার (malōẇyar)

→ Czech: malware

→ Danish: malware

→ Dutch: malware

→ French: malware; → maliciel (calque)

→ German: Malware

→ Hindi: मैलवेयर m (mailveyar)

→ Italian: malware

→ Japanese: マルウェア (maruwea)

→ Korean: 맬웨어 (maerweeo)

→ Macedonian: малвер m (malver)

→ Portuguese: malware

→ Romanian: malware

→ Serbo-Croatian: malver m

→ Slovak: malvér m

→ Spanish: malware

→ Tagalog: malware

→ Thai: มัลแวร์ (mal-wɛɛ)

Blend of malicious + software or from mal- + -ware.

In a follow-up attack that hit Kyiv’s power grid a year later, the suspects used a second piece of malware, called Industroyer, to cut power for an hour, the indictment said. The malware, according to experts, posed one of the greatest digital threats to critical infrastructure since Stuxnet, the computer attack by the United States and Israel that took out Iran’s uranium centrifuges in 2009.

2020 October 19, “U.S. Charges Russian Intelligence Officers in Major Cyberattacks”, in New York Times

(computing) Software which has been designed to operate in a malicious, undesirable manner.

skadelike programmatuur

software developed to cause harm to a computer system


PP

(video games) Initialism of Puzzle Pirates.


add-on

Microdrives that can hold several gigabytes (see Figure 2.20) have been available as add-ons for portable devices.

2010, Kenneth Baldauf, Ralph Stair, Succeeding with Technology, page 77

(computer hardware, software) A software extension or hardware peripheral that provides additional functions or customization for a core application or system.


SSR

server-side rendering
server-side rendering#English

(web development) Initialism of server-side rendering.


enabled

en-adj

enabled (comparative more enabled, superlative most enabled)

more enabled (comparative)
most enabled (superlative)

Ajax-enabled

WAP-enabled

(computing) Adapted for use with the specified mechanism or system.


AV

access violation
access violation#English

(computing) Initialism of access violation.


locked

You can't delete a locked computer file.

(computing) Protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.


systolic

a systolic compiler

(computing) Relating to a systolic array


interrogate

en-verb

interrogate (third-person singular simple present interrogates, present participle interrogating, simple past and past participle interrogated)

interrogates (present singular third-person)
interrogating (participle present)
interrogated (participle past)
interrogated (past)

/ɪnˈtɛɹ.əˌɡeɪt/

/ɪnˈtɛɹ.ə.ɡæɪt/

Learned borrowing from Latin interrogātus.

lbor

to interrogate a database

(transitive, computing) to query; to request information from.


freezer

→ Macanese: friza

[…] "freezer" cartridges (such as the Action Replay), as a convenient way to take control […]

The execution of the program was suspended with a special hardware expansion, the freezer, and the contents of the memory were saved to disk.

2016, Polgár Tamás, Freax: The Brief History of the Computer Demoscene

(computing) A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.


home computer

Coordinate term: personal computer

This last section is meant to draw your attention to a further sphere of potential use for your home computer, namely letting it monitor and control some activity directly, without your own participation […]

1983, Using Your Home Computer, Macmillan International Higher Education, page 80

(computer hardware, dated) A computer intended for use in the home.


grifter

From grift + -er; or probably an alteration of grafter (“a corrupt person, one who accepts bribes”), which is essentially a doublet of the same word. Originally circus slang, gradually widened in sense. First attested in 1906.

(colloquial, especially Internet) A manipulator or otherwise generally corrupt person who "games" a system, group of people, or other entity for selfish gains; especially of a political "sell-out" perceived as lacking integrity.


repo

en-noun

repo (countable and uncountable, plural repos)

(countable, computing, informal) Clipping of repository (“storage location for files”).


app

A visual tool can be thought of as a graphics app that generates most of your program's GUI code for you

1999 February, Maximum PC, volume 4, number 2

So is a spreadsheet app, but I'm not going to put those on a web site any time soon.

1999, Jerry Bradenbaugh, JavaScript application cookbook, page xi

The Web browser was the killer app that kickstarted the Internet and, in turn, enabled it to be embedded in everything

1999 November, AUUGN, volume 20, number 4, page 9

Want realtime flight and gate updates? A calorie counter? A remote for your DVD player? Chances are there's an app for it. Smartphones separate themselves in another key area: connectivity

2005 May, Popular Science, volume 266, number 5, page 78

(computing, mobile telephony) An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.


Venn diagram

Named after John Venn (1834–1923), British mathematician and philosopher.

(set theory) A diagram representing some sets by contours of closed shapes, such as circles or ellipses (and sometimes also the universal set as a rectangle enclosing all of these shapes), and indicating the relationships between the sets: by overlapping the shapes to show that the corresponding sets have a non-empty intersection, and by possibly (but not necessarily) enclosing all of the sets (which are proper subsets of the universal set) within a universal set (represented typically by a rectangle); such that the total number of simply connected regions is 2ⁿ, where n is the number of depicted sets which are proper subsets of the universal set.


cardinality

(data modeling, databases) The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many.


admissible

en-adj

admissible (comparative more admissible, superlative most admissible)

more admissible (comparative)
most admissible (superlative)

(artificial intelligence) Describing a heuristic that never overestimates the cost of reaching a goal.


SNMP

(computing, networking) Initialism of Simple Network Management Protocol.


pathological

pathological (comparative more pathological, superlative most pathological)

more pathological (comparative)
most pathological (superlative)

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

(computer science) Having properties that cause unusually bad behaviour, especially regarding correctness or performance.


enable

en-verb

enable (third-person singular simple present enables, present participle enabling, simple past and past participle enabled)

enables (present singular third-person)
enabling (participle present)
enabled (participle past)
enabled (past)

From Middle English enablen, equivalent to en- + able.

давам възможност

to give power, sanction or authorization to; to provide with abilities, means, opportunities

umožnit

to allow a way out or excuse for an action

(chiefly electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

aanskakel

to activate a function of an electronic or mechanical device


strikeout

en-noun

strikeout (countable and uncountable, plural strikeouts)

(computing, wordprocessing) Cancellation of a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.

tāhīpae

(Computing) Cancellation of text items by crossing out rather than deleting


strikeout

en-verb

strikeout (third-person singular simple present strikeouts, present participle strikeouting, simple past and past participle strikeouted)

strikeouts (present singular third-person)
strikeouting (participle present)
strikeouted (participle past)
strikeouted (past)

(computing, textprocessing) To cancel a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.

tāhīpae

(Computing) To cancel text items by crossing them out rather than deleting


slider

From slide + -er.
The meaning "small hamburger" was originally used to describe onion-steamed small burgers at White Castle restaurants, formerly spelt "Slyder".
Regarding the senses about control devices or widgets: physical sliders (potentiometers serving as rheostats) predate virtual ones (elements in graphical user interfaces), and the virtual ones are so named because their concept is the abstraction of the physical ones; if more explanation on that topic is needed, it is available in the Wikipedia articles on skeuomorphs, icons, and the desktop metaphor.

In the Vista Volume Mixer tool, when you move the speaker volume slider, the program sliders move along with it.

2008, Paul McFedries, Microsoft Windows Vista Unleashed, page 186

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A widget allowing the user to select a value or position on a sliding scale.

liukusäädin

(software, graphical user interface) a widget allowing the user to select a value or position

(graphical user interface, Internet) A slideshow on a web page.


open system

(computing) A system allowing hardware and software from different manufacturers to be used together seamlessly.


haystack

From Middle English haystak, haystake, hey stak, equivalent to hay + stack.

Both of these functions will look through the haystack for the specified needle and, if they find it, will return the portion of the string from the beginning of the needle to the end of the haystack.

2010, Peter MacIntyre, PHP: The Good Parts, page 39

needle in a haystack
needle in a haystack

(programming) The text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack)


NMI

non-maskable interrupt
non-maskable interrupt#English

(computing) Initialism of non-maskable interrupt.


buddy system

buddy memory allocation
buddy memory allocation

(computing theory) The use of buddy memory allocation.


shard

From Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), from Proto-West Germanic *skard, from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), from *skardaz (“damaged; nicked; scarred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Scots schaird (“shard”), French écharde (“splinter”), Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), German Scharte (“notch”), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”) ( > Danish skår).
The database sense is perhaps derived from the online gaming sense or from SHARD (System for Highly Available Replicated Data), name of a 1980s database product.

cog

1997, Ultima Online. The term "shard" is related to the backstory of the game, in which the Gem of Immortality is shattered by the Stranger, the protagonist of Ultima I.
"The planet was still bound to the jewel's magic, even as it lay shattered upon the floor of Mondain's castle. For, within each shattered remnant of the jewel, dwelled a perfect likeness of Sosaria. Thus is the world in which you are born, live, and die. Brittania, that was once Sosaria, now exists as a thousand worlds, each with its own peoples, history and destiny. This Brittania is but one of many in the multiverse that is... ...ULTIMA ONLINE." - Intro cinematic to the game, written by Michael Morlan https://web.archive.org/web/20080706122926/http://michael-morlan.net/pages/production/prod_uo.htm

(online gaming) An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.

(databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.


shard

en-verb

shard (third-person singular simple present shards, present participle sharding, simple past and past participle sharded)

shards (present singular third-person)
sharding (participle present)
sharded (participle past)
sharded (past)

(online gaming, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.


netizen

Do we have to learn a new kind of language — ‘Netspeak’, as I shall call it — in order to be a netizen?

2001, David Crystal, “A linguistic perspective”, in Language and the Internet, Cambridge: The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, published 2002, →OCLC, page 17

It appeared by Wednesday evening that Congress would follow Bank of America, Netflix and Verizon as the latest institution to change course in the face of a netizen revolt.

2012 January 19, Johnathan Weisman, “Web Rises Up To Deflect Bills Seen as Threat”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2012-01-19, page A1

A $25,000 (£19,000) prize pool was established to reward the best solutions, and the competition was hosted on Kaggle – a Google-owned platform used by more than a million netizens to build AI models, find and share datasets, and collaborate with fellow Kagglers.

2020 January 21, Katyanna Quach, “How a Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25,000 AI contest with hidden code – and was fired from dream SV job”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2020-01-23

The use of the term "West Taiwan" (西台灣) to mock China has steadily grown in popularity since January 2020 when President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said that Beijing needs to face the reality that Taiwan is already an independent country. At the time, netizens conjured terms such as "Mainland Taiwan," "Taiwanese Beijing," and "West Taiwan" to agitate Chinese nationalists, censors, and trolls.

2021 December 9, Keoni Everington, “German video game ad labels China 'West Taiwan'”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2021-12-09

(Internet) A member of the community of Internet users.


undirected graph

en-noun

undirected graph (plural undirected graphs)

(graph theory) A graph in which the edges are not ordered, so the edge (a, b) is identical to the edge (b, a).


directed edge

(graph theory) An edge of a directed graph.


directed graph

Coordinate term: oriented graph

A directed graph (A, R) is a set of vertices A together with an incidence relation R: if aRb then there is an edge going from A to B.

(graph theory) A graph in which the edges are ordered pairs, so that, if the edge (a, b) is in the graph, the edge (b, a) need not be in the graph and is distinct from (a, b) if it is.


sneakernet

sneakernet (countable and uncountable, plural sneakernets)

From sneaker (“running shoe”) + net (“network”), a reference to a person wearing sneakers walking from one computer to another.

compound

Significant advances are occurring to race past sneakernet. But the ideal computer interconnect solution will always be just around the next bend.

1986, Hardcopy, volume 6, Brea, Calif.: Sedlin Pub. Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 143, column 3

Before complicated networks and E-mail and special-interest bulletin boards, there was Sneakernet. Sneakernet required no special protocol, no special cables and terminal software. To communicate on Sneakernet, all you needed to do was take a disk from your computer to someone else's, stick the disk in that remote drive, and copy some files—instant data transfer. Well, almost instant.

1989 April, David Plotkin, “Compute! Specific”, in Compute!, volume 11, number 4, issue 107, Greensboro, N.C.: COMPUTE! Publications, ABC Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 58, column 2

Before computer networks came into existence, sneakernet was the only method of file sharing available. Sneakernet is the generally accepted term for the act of loading files that you want to share on removable media (tape, CD, or floppy disk) at one computer, carrying the media to a second computer, and reading the files from that media onto that second computer. [...] Sneakernet is the lowest-tech form of file sharing that has ever been available, and it is still practiced at some sites today.

2001 December, Robin Anderson, Andy Johnston [et al.], “File Sharing”, in Unix Unleashed, 4th edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, part II (Critical Subsystems), page 546

(uncountable) A method of transferring a computer file from one computer to another by copying it to a floppy disk, thumb drive, or some other external storage device, carrying the device to the other computer, and saving the file there, in contrast to electronic methods used by networked computers to transfer data.

球鞋網絡

method of transferring a computer file from one computer to another by copying it to an external storage device, carrying the device to the other computer, and saving the file there


DL

en-noun

DL (countable and uncountable, plural DLs)

Before Transformer models, the attention mechanism was proposed as a helper for improving conventional DL models such as RNNs.

2021, Savas Yildirim, Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu, Mastering Transformers […], Packt Publishing Ltd, page 26

(machine learning) Initialism of deep learning.


DL

en-verb

DL (third-person singular simple present DLs, present participle DLing, simple past and past participle DLed or DL'd)

DLs (present singular third-person)
DLing (participle present)
DLed (participle past)
DLed (past)
DL'd (participle past)
DL'd (past)


neural network

A neural network is a computer system built to simulate, or act like, the human brain.
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

(machine learning) A real or virtual computer system designed to emulate the brain in its ability to "learn" to assess imprecise data.


enclave

Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave (“enclave”), deverbal of enclaver (“to inclose”), from Old French enclaver (“to inclose, lock in”), from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre (“to lock in”), from in + Latin clavis (“key”) or clavus (“nail, bolt”). Compare inlock.

der

When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave.

2010, Mike Ebbers, Dino Tonelli, Jason Arnold, Co-locating Transactional and Data Warehouse Workloads on System z, page 245

(computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.


filler

(programming) In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that contains no data relevant to a given context (normally capitalised when in a data division).


AAR

(computing) Axis2 ARchive file (extension .aar)


test case

(computing) Any of a set of conditions and variables used to test an application.


enqueue

en-verb

enqueue (third-person singular simple present enqueues, present participle enqueuing or enqueueing, simple past and past participle enqueued)

enqueues (present singular third-person)
enqueuing (participle present)
enqueueing (participle present)
enqueued (participle past)
enqueued (past)

(transitive, computing) To add an item to a queue. [from 20th c.]