mantissa

en-noun

mantissa (plural mantissas or mantissae)

Borrowed from Latin mantissa, mantīsa, of unknown origin (said by Festus to be a loanword from Etruscan, but it may actually be from Celtic, possibly through Etruscan mediation).

(mathematics, computing) The significand; that part of a floating-point number or number in scientific notation that contains its significant digits.


association

association (countable and uncountable, plural associations)

/əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃən/

/əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃən/

/əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/

From Latin associātiō, from associō (perhaps via French association).
Morphologically associate + -ion
The Philippine sense is a calque of Spanish gremio.

robust association of massive baryonic objects

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.


isthmus

Borrowing from Latin isthmus (“a strip of land between two seas”), from Ancient Greek ῐ̓σθμός (isthmós, “neck, narrow passage”), possibly from εἶμῐ (eîmi, “to go”). Cognate to Old Norse eið (“isthmus”).

bor

(graph theory) An edge in a graph whose deletion increases the number of connected components of the graph.


FPS

frames per second
frame per second#English

(film, television, computing) Initialism of frames per second.


FPS

first-person shooter
first-person shooter#English

(video games) Initialism of first-person shooter.


stereotype

en-noun

stereotype (countable and uncountable, plural stereotypes)

Borrowed from French stéréotype. Printing sense is from 1817, the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann's book Public Opinion.

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.


vault

From Middle English vaute, vowte, from Old French volte (modern voûte), from Vulgar Latin *volta < *volvita or *volŭta, a regularization of Latin volūta (compare modern volute (“spire”)), the past participle of volvere (“roll, turn”). Cognate with Spanish vuelta (“turn”) and Portuguese volta ("turn"). Doublet of volute.

klenba

figuratively: anything resembling a vault

(computing) An encrypted digital archive.


vault

en-verb

vault (third-person singular simple present vaults, present participle vaulting, simple past and past participle vaulted)

vaults (present singular third-person)
vaulting (participle present)
vaulted (participle past)
vaulted (past)

In future updates, most likely in season six, more items will get vaulted.

2018 August 31, Steven Asarch, “'Fortnite' Developer Update 5.40: Storm Destruction, Revolver in Vault”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-10-03

Blizzard will vault the gorgeous Hanamura and other Assault maps from Overwatch's competitive mode when 'Overwatch 2' arrives.

2021 February 19, Kris Holt, “Overwatch 2 Will Ditch The Widely Disliked Assault/2CP Maps”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-02

While some mistakes have resulted in Riot pulling Agents in the past, those changes were always temporary. If Riot is set on having only seven maps in the "Valorant," that likely means Split isn't coming back and more maps will get vaulted in the future.

2022 June 17, James Carr, “The Real Reason Valorant Is Dropping Its Oldest Map”, in SVG.com, archived from the original on 2022-11-28

(video games) To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.


mia

Clipping of bulimia; intentionally formed to resemble the given name Mia as form of personification and coded language. Compare ana.

(Internet, slang) bulimia (used especially by the pro-mia movement).


vaccine

en-noun

vaccine (countable and uncountable, plural vaccines)

The noun is probably partly:
* derived from vaccine (adjective) (see etymology 1); and
* borrowed from French vaccine (“cowpox (short for variole vaccine); vaccination against smallpox using material from cowpox”), vaccin (“cowpox material used for smallpox vaccination”), both noun uses of vaccin (adjective), from Latin vaccīnus (see etymology 1).
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* Italian vaccina
* Portuguese vacina
* Spanish vacuna

bor

(computing) A software program which protects computers against, or detects and neutralizes, computer viruses and other types of malware; an antivirus.


nudge

Circa 17th century, perhaps of North Germanic origin, related to Norwegian nugge, nyggje (“to push, rub, shove”), Icelandic nugga (“to rub, massage”), from the root of Proto-Germanic *hnōjaną (“to smooth, join together”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneh₂- (compare Ancient Greek κνάω (knáō, “to scratch, scrape”), source of English acnestis).
Compare also Scots nodge (“to push, poke, nudge”), knidge (“to push, squeeze”), gnidge (“to rub, press, squeeze, bruise”), and knudge (“to squeeze, press down with the knuckles”), Saterland Frisian Nukke, Nuk (“a sudden push”), Middle Low German nucke, nücke, gnücke (“a sudden push, shock, impetus”). Compare also dialectal nuch (“to tremble”), Middle English nuchen (“to tremble”).

cog

(Internet) A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound.


journal

From Middle English journal, from Anglo-Norman jurnal (“daily”), from Old French jornel (“day”) (French journal), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”). Doublet of diurnal and the journal from French.

(computing) A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.

loki

computing: chronological record of changes


png

/ˌpiːɛnˈd͡ʒiː/

(computing) Alternative letter-case form of PNG; Portable Network Graphics, an open protocol for digital images.


sentinel

1570s, from Middle French sentinelle, from Old Italian sentinella (perhaps via a notion of "perceive, watch", compare Italian sentire (“to feel, hear, smell”)), from Latin sentiō (“feel, perceive by the senses”). See sense, sentient.

uder

The <xmp> tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally

[…] a sentinel value that indicates a missing entry.

2016, Jake VanderPlas, Python Data Science Handbook, page 120

(computer science) A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.


ravel

en-verb

ravel (third-person singular simple present ravels, present participle ravelling or (US) raveling, simple past and past participle ravelled or (US) raveled)

ravels (present singular third-person)
ravelling (participle present)
raveling (US participle present)
ravelled (participle past)
ravelled (past)
raveled (US participle past)
raveled (US past)
ravel (infinitive)

The verb is borrowed from Dutch ravelen, rafelen (“to tangle, become entangled; to fray; to unweave”) [and other forms]; further etymology uncertain. It has been suggested that the verb is originally derived from the noun, but the Oxford English Dictionary regards this as “very uncertain”, and instead regards the noun as having derived from the verb (compare Dutch rafel, raffel (“frayed thread”)).
Ravel is a contranym having both the senses of tangling (verb senses 1.1, 1.2, 1.4.1, and 2.3; noun sense 1) and untangling (verb senses 1.3, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 2.1, and 2.2; noun sense 2). It would appear that the tangling senses predate the untangling ones (as in Dutch), but this is uncertain because the first published uses of both senses of the words occur around the same time.

(programming) In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.

programming language
programming language


coloring

en-noun

coloring (countable and uncountable, plural colorings)

(graph theory) An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.


zone

→ Korean: 존 (jon)

→ Punjabi: ਜ਼ੋਨ (zon)

From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

der

(networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.

зо́на

networking: that collection of a domain's DNS resource records that are not delegated to another authority

(networking, dated) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk (an obsolete networking protocol).

zona

computing: logical group of network devices on AppleTalk

по́яс

religion: belt worn by priests in the Greek Orthodox church


scheme

→ Irish: scéim

→ Malay: skim

Borrowed from Medieval Latin schēma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.

der

uniform resource identifier
uniform resource identifier

(Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.

skeema

internet: part of a uniform resource identifier that indicates purpose


flit

Short for flow control unit or flow control digit.

header flit

(networking) A flow control unit or flow control digit.


scrum

French: scrum

Either a back-formation from or an apocopic form of scrummage, a variant of scrimmage.

(software engineering) In Agile software development (specifically Scrum or related methodologies), a daily meeting in which each developer describes what they have been doing, what they plan to do next, and any impediments to progress.


scrum

(software engineering) Alternative letter-case form of Scrum


DCG

The AGFL formalism for the syntactic description of Natural Languages has been developed by the Computer Science Department of the Radboud University of Nijmegen. It is a formalism in which large context free grammars can be described in a compact way. AGFLs belong to the family of two level grammars, along with attribute grammars and DCG's: a first, context-free level is augmented with set-valued features for expressing agreement between constituents.

(computing) Initialism of definite clause grammar.

(computing) Initialism of discounted cumulative gain.


signature

/ˈsɪɡnət͡ʃə(ɹ)/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

/ˈsɪɡnət͡ʃɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre (“to sign”) from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”).

nc

(computing) A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.

tunniste

computing: pattern used for matching identity

(cryptography) Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.

varmenne

cryptography: data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source

Your signature must not exceed three lines of text, or 600 pixels in height.

forum signature generator

(Internet) Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details.


Twofish

An encryption algorithm, related to the earlier Blowfish, used in modern cryptographic software.


packed decimal

en-noun

packed decimal (countable and uncountable, plural packed decimals)

(computing) A storage mode that places two decimal digits into one byte, each digit occupying four bits. The sign occupies four bits in the least significant byte.


actual parameter

actual parameter (plural actual parameters)

(programming) A value supplied to a method or function, as opposed to a formal parameter.


pickle

en-verb

pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)

pickles (present singular third-person)
pickling (participle present)
pickled (participle past)
pickled (past)

From Middle English pikel (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”).

cog

You can now restore the pickled data. If you like, close your Python interpreter and open a new instance, to convince yourself […]

2005, Peter Norton, et al: Beginning Python

To illustrate how this would work in practice, consider a field designed to store and retrieve a pickled copy of any arbitrary Python object.


formal parameter

en-noun

formal parameter (plural formal parameters)

(programming) An abstract representation, typically including a name and a type, of a parameter expected to be passed to a method or function.


mail relay

(Internet) A device or program that routes an e-mail to the correct destination.


VoIP

The VoIP Forum is dedicated to enabling and promoting industry-wide interoperability between products that send telephony over the Internet and private IP enterprise networks. This interoperability will allow seamless transmission of Internet phone calls regardless of the telephony application used by callers and call recipients. At present, applications from different vendors are incompatible due to fundamental differences in voice coding, silence suppression, addressing and dialing plans, call management and other related functions.

1996 November 12, IMTC, Inc., comp.dcom.telecom (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-03, message-ID <telecom16.627.2@massis.lcs.mit.edu>

VoIP "represents a group of competing companies who've gotten together to agree on standards," Pulver says. "It's very important," and is good news for users, because their co-operation will move Internet telephony forward, he says.

1996 November 13, Rebecca Sykes, “Group forms to spur Internet telephony”, in Computerworld New Zealand, archived from the original on 2016-11-03

(Internet) Voice over Internet Protocol, a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to transmit telephone calls


proxy

Inherited from Middle English procusie, contraction of procuracie, from Anglo-Norman procuracie, from Medieval Latin procuratia, from Latin prōcūrātiō, from Latin prōcūrō (“I manage, administer”) (English procure). Compare proctor.

(software) An interface for a service, especially for one that is remote, resource-intensive, or otherwise difficult to use directly.


proxy

en-verb

proxy (third-person singular simple present proxies, present participle proxying, simple past and past participle proxied)

proxies (present singular third-person)
proxying (participle present)
proxied (participle past)
proxied (past)

(networking) To function as a server for a client device, but pass on the requests to another server for service.


proxy

(Make sure you don't move!! Might trigger a proxy..!)

2001, "TripleRaid", Perfect Dark: Glitch FAQ http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/file/198275/7974

the only means the Protectors have of delaying is by laying mines and Sentry Guns, and the Runners can only use the Magnums to blow up Proxies and Sentries.

2001, "CyricZ", Perfect Dark: FAQ/Walkthrough http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/file/198275/8052

Usually, the only reason I play in Yoshi's Island is to have fun with the clouds - put proxies on them, taunt from them, whatever.

2002, "yc", Super Smash Bros.: Kirby http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/file/198854/9449

You can also walk with your gun out, as this will limit your speed, allowing you do evade the proxies.

2006, "eatyourmumshead", Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory: Online Mode FAQ http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/924556/43994

(video games slang) Short for proximity mine.


COBOL

Acronym of common business-oriented language, perhaps coined by American computer scientist and aerospace engineer Bob Bemer.

coin

The problem in COBOL is that, while there exists a standard COBOL, ANS (American National Standard) COBOL, no computer manufacturer offers a COBOL compiler that is both full and pure ANS.

1973, Russell M. Armstrong, Modular Programming in COBOL, Wiley-Interscience

A programming language developed in the late 1950s especially for business applications.


post

en-verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

posts (present singular third-person)
posting (participle present)
posted (participle past)
posted (past)

→ Finnish: postata

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).

der

I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.

(Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.


rig

From Early Modern English rygge, probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian rigge (“to bind up; wrap around; rig; equip”), Swedish dialectal rigga (“to rig a horse”), Faroese rigga (“to rig; to equip and fit; to make s.th. function”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *rik- (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *rign-, *reyg- (“to bind”); or related to Old English *wrīhan, wrīohan, wrēohan, wrēon (“to bind; wrap up; cover”). See also wry (“to cover; clothe; dress; hide”).

cog

When I saw a special version of Quake running on Voodoo hardware, I knew I would be forking out quite a bit of money on my gaming rig.

2004, Radford Castro, Let Me Play: Stories of Gaming and Emulation, page 104

(slang, computing) A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.


XPCOM

Although most components available from XPCOM are written in C++, the XPConnect/XPCOM pairing can also accommodate other languages.

2002, David Boswell, Creating Applications with Mozilla, page 241

XPCOM is entirely internal to the Mozilla Platform. XPConnect is the glue that turns XPCOM-compliant objects and their interfaces into JavaScript host objects.

2004, Nigel McFarlane, Rapid Application Development with Mozilla, page 176

XPCOM enables component software development, a paradigm that is heavily leveraged in the Mozilla product line. DLLs that implement the required external functions and classes defined for this purpose by XPCOM can be registered as components with a Mozilla-based project, and applications can then uses XPCOM to query these components for classes and interfaces, and then make calls against the interfaces to obtain the services provided by the component.

2007, Syd Logan, Cross-Platform Development in C++

These XPCOM interfaces are the starting point for all XUL elements.

2007, Kenneth C. Feldt, Programming Firefox: Building Rich Internet Applications with XUL

Cross-Platform Component Object Model
w:XPCOM

(computing) Abbreviation of Cross-Platform Component Object Model.


gallery

From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), perhaps an alteration of galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Palestine. More at Galilee.

a gallery of image thumbnails

a clip-art gallery in a word processor

(computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.


ECB

(computing) Initialism of event control block (IBM)


codec

Blend of coder + decoder, probably in imitation of how modem was formed.

Audio and video codecs are important in making multimedia files small enough to distribute and simple to play back.

(computing) A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.

կոդեկ

H.264 and AV1 are examples of video codecs.

(computing, proscribed) A media coding format.


favourite

Attested from the 1580s, borrowed from Middle French favorit, from Old French favorit or Italian favorito (“favoured, favourite”), past participle of Italian favorire (“to favor”), from favore, from Latin favor (“good will, favor”), from the verb faveō (“I favour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂weh₁yeti (“to be favourable to”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine, glow light”). Doublet of favori.


favourite

en-verb

favourite (third-person singular simple present favourites, present participle favouriting, simple past and past participle favourited)

favourites (present singular third-person)
favouriting (participle present)
favourited (participle past)
favourited (past)

(Internet) To add to one's list of favourite items on a website that allows users to compile such lists.


scope

en-noun

scope (countable and uncountable, plural scopes)

→ Irish: scóp

From Italian scopo (“purpose”), from Latin scopus (“target”), from Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-. Etymologically related to skeptic and spectrum.

A variable's scope is the region of a program within which the variable can be referred to by its simple name. Secondarily, scope also determines when the system creates and destroys memory for the variable. Scope is distinct from visibility, which applies only to member variables and determines whether the variable can be used from outside of the class within which it is declared.

2001, Mary Campione, Kathy Walrath, Alison Huml, The Java Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 72

(programming) The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.


scope

en-verb

scope (third-person singular simple present scopes, present participle scoping, simple past and past participle scoped)

scopes (present singular third-person)
scoping (participle present)
scoped (participle past)
scoped (past)

If we locally scope the user's login name, it won't be accessible from outside this function.

(programming) To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.


sprint

→ Catalan: esprint

→ Czech: sprint

→ Dutch: sprint

→ French: sprint

desctree

→ German: Sprint
→ Serbo-Croatian: šprint

→ Greek: σπριντ (sprint)

→ Italian: sprint

→ Japanese: スプリント (supurinto)

→ Korean: 스프린트 (seupeurinteu)

→ Polish: sprint

→ Portuguese: sprint, ⇒ sprintar

→ Russian: спринт (sprint)

→ Serbo-Croatian: sprȉnt, спри̏нт

→ Spanish: esprint, sprint

Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Northern Middle English sprenten, from Old Norse *sprenta (for later spretta), from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintaną (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ- (“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen (“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta (“to startle”), Icelandic spretta (“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).

cog

(software engineering) In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.


resize

(computing) An operation that changes the size of something.


DASD

(computing) Initialism of direct access storage device, such as a USB drive or hard drive.


illegal

en-adj

illegal (comparative more illegal, superlative most illegal)

more illegal (comparative)
most illegal (superlative)

Borrowed from French illégal, from Medieval Latin illegalis, from Latin legalis, by surface analysis, il- + legal. In senses relating to immigration, via clipping from illegal alien or illegal immigrant.

(computing) Describing a programming operation that is not allowed by the operating system.


WikiProject

(wiki jargon) A group of editors who work together on improving the coverage of a particular topic on a wiki, especially on Wikipedia.


nbsp

I also changed OutputToString and OutputToStream to check for an empty document when requesting plain text, in which case they'll return an empty string or stream. This fixes the bug where we'd send back an nbsp in the string.

1999 September 8, Simon Fraser, “fixes for empty doc testing and output”, in netscape.public.mozilla.editor (Usenet)

You need the nbsp in order for the cell to show like a regular cell (otherwise you get that "raised" looking space -- if you know what I mean).

2001 June 4, Fox, “Netscape: DIV within a table?”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet)

Incidentally - I noticed myself that GL doesn't automatically put a nbsp in table cells.

2003 June 6, "S Chapman", "Help me upgrade from PageMill !", in adobe.golive.windows, Usenet

non-breaking space
non-breaking space#English

(HTML) Initialism of non-breaking space.


CPAD

(computing) Initialism of cross-platform application development.


relocation

en-noun

relocation (countable and uncountable, plural relocations)

/ˌɹiːləʊˈkeɪʃən/

A peculiarity of ECOFF relocation entries is that even on 32-bit machines, they're 10 bytes long, which means that on machines that require aligned data, the linker can't just load the entire relocation table into a memory array[…]

2000, John R. Levine, Linkers and Loaders, Morgan Kaufmann, page 157

(computing) The assigning of addresses to variables either at linkage editing, or at runtime.


desktop publishing

My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard.

2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47

(computer graphics) The use of page layout software on a desktop computer to produce publishable documents.


CNC

(computing, manufacturing) Acronym of Computer Numerical Control. or Acronym of Computerized Numerical Control.


karma

karma (countable and uncountable, plural karmas)

Borrowed from Sanskrit कर्मन् (kárman, “act, action, performance”), first attested in English in 1785 in a translation of the Bhagavad Gita by Charles Wilkins.

bor

(Internet) A score assigned to a user or post on some discussion forums, indicating popularity or perceived value.


POV

(finance, computing) Initialism of percentage of volume, a type of securities trading algorithm.


word processing

/ˈwəːdˌprəʊsɛsŋ/

(computing) The creation, input, editing and formatting of documents and other text using software on a computer.


bundle

From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bundą (“bundle”). Compare also bindle, Dutch bundel, German Bündel.

examples of bundles would include in accordance with, the results of and so far.

(linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.

ryväs

linguistics: unidiomatic sequence of words that occurs with high frequency

(computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.


bundle

en-verb

bundle (third-person singular simple present bundles, present participle bundling, simple past and past participle bundled)

bundles (present singular third-person)
bundling (participle present)
bundled (participle past)
bundled (past)

(computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.

paketoida

computing: to sell hardware and software as single product


session

→ Japanese: セッション (sesshon)

→ Korean: 세션 (sesyeon)

→ Scottish Gaelic: seisean

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).

Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session.

(computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

通信期

(computing) the sequence of interactions between client and server


word processor

/wɜːd ˈpɹəʊˌsɛsə(ɹ)/

/wɝd ˈpɹɑˌsɛsɚ/

Coordinate term: text editor

Software that provides word processing functions on a computer, typically including typeface selection, line justification and other formatting, pagination, and numerous other features.


spoof

spoof (third-person singular simple present spoofs, present participle spoofing, simple past and past participle spoofed)

spoofs (present singular third-person)
spoofing (participle present)
spoofed (participle past)
spoofed (past)

Coined by the English comedian Arthur Roberts (1852–1933) in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.

However, MULTOPS assumes that packet rates between two hosts are proportional and the IP addresses are not spoofed.

2003, Tao Peng, Christopher Leckie, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, “Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attacks by Sharing Distributed Beliefs”, in Rei Safavi-Naini, Jennifer Seberry, editors, Information Security and Privacy: 8th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2003, Wollongong, Australia, July 9–11, 2003: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2727), Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Springer, page 224

[I]dentities in the online world can be easily spoofed. Your ten-year-old daughter will know that a middle-aged man is not her age or gender when she sees him in the physical world. But as we have seen, that middle-aged man can easily pass himself off as another ten-year-old girl in the online world.

2007, Wes Kussmaul, “The Solution”, in The Sex Life of Tables: What Happens When Databases about You … Mate, Waltham, Mass.: PKI Press, page 83

This attack [session hijacking] uses the fact that most communications are protected at session setup but not thereafter. The attacker spoofs the victim's IP address and performs a DoS [denial-of-service] attack on the victim.

2009, Manfred Fettinger, “Overview of Security Attacks”, in Intrusion Detection in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Comparison of Different Approaches, [Munich]: GRIN Verlag, section 2.5.2 (Session Hijacking), page 5


cross-platform

(computing) Of software, etc., designed to work on various operating systems.


modifier

The protected modifier makes a class member visible to subclasses, but not to external code.

(programming) A keyword that qualifies the meaning of other code.


vulnerable

en-adj

vulnerable (comparative more vulnerable, superlative most vulnerable)

more vulnerable (comparative)
most vulnerable (superlative)

From Late Latin vulnerābilis (“injurious, wounding”), from Latin vulnerō (“I wound”).

bor

a vulnerable PC with no antivirus software

(computing) More likely to be exposed to malicious programs or viruses.


first class

Java has no first-class functions, so function objects are usually expressed by an interface with a single method.

(programming) Of or relating to a treatment like that for a first-class object.

ensiluokan

programming: relating to a treatment like a first-class citizen


fortune cookie

(computing) A quote-of-the-day feature (especially on *nix systems.)


unfold

From Middle English unfolden, from Old English unfealdan (“to unfold”), equivalent to un- + fold.

functional programming
functional programming

higher-order function
higher-order function

(computing, programming) In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.


highlight

en-verb

highlight (third-person singular simple present highlights, present participle highlighting, simple past and past participle highlighted or (nonstandard) highlit)

highlights (present singular third-person)
highlighting (participle present)
highlighted (participle past)
highlighted (past)
highlit (nonstandard participle past)
highlit (nonstandard past)

You could have asked: is there a reason this easy patch was not applied, either on IRC or private mail by me. You did write a comment on IRC and I did see it. Problem is that you did not highlight me _and_ you did not wait for an answer.

2006, Frans Pop, “Re: Bug#378404: installation guide: one more additional proposal”, in linux.debian.maint.boot (Usenet)

You must be somewhere completely different. I’ve looked for several days and don’t see you. But: I’m kind of blind from time to time - please feel free to highlight me ([Sno]) or probably (H. Merijn Brand) Tux or vanHoesel (Theo van Hoesel).

2013, Jens Rehsack, “Re: AnyData open API”, in perl.dbi.dev (Usenet)

(transitive, Internet) To seek the attention of (a user) on IRC by mentioning their name in a message, causing that message to appear highlighted on their screen.


PMS

en-noun

PMS (countable and uncountable, plural PMSs)

package management system
package management system#English

(computing, countable) Initialism of package management system.


background

background (countable and uncountable, plural backgrounds)

(computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).

The antivirus program is running in the background.

(computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.

за́ден план

computing: activity not visible to the user


double-click

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

երկկտտոց

action or event of pushing mouse-button twice


double-click

en-verb

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

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

(computing) To push the button on a mouse twice in quick succession in order to perform a different task than would be performed from a single-click or triple-click.


bloatware

From bloat + -ware, originally in the sense “unwieldy software”. The sense “pre-installed software” has become predominant since the 2010s.

Today’s software development cycle does not allow time to optimize and refine products, and that leads to bloatware.

1996 February 12, Ed Foster, “Passing the bloatware buck: Programmers finger deadlines, driven bosses”, in InfoWorld, page 58

That’s not really a surprise, considering that writing efficient software takes more time than writing wasteful code. “Bloatware” makes economic sense for software developers, if not for consumers!

2001, Glenn E. Weadock, Upgrading Your Home PC, page 16

I’ll bet you think I’m going to write one of those boring articles you see all over the net bemoaning “bloatware.” Whine whine whine, this stuff is so bloated, oh woe is me, edlin and vi are so much better than Word and Emacs because they are svelte, etc.

2001 March 23, Joel Spolsky, “Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth”, in Joel on Software; republished as Joel on Software […], 2004, page 277

(computing, informal) Software that is packed with too many features and therefore slow or unwieldy; software that is inefficiently designed and occupies an excessive amount of memory or disk space.

turhakeohjelmisto

software that is overpacked with features

Bloatware has also introduced numerous security and trust issues in smartphones. […] OEMs, third-party app providers, telecommunication operators, and malicious parties have used bloatware apps to over-collect user data.

2017, Haroon Elahi, Guojun Wang, Xu Li, “Smartphone Bloatware: An Overlooked Privacy Problem”, in Guojun Wang et al., editors, Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage, page 170

Most phones had preinstalled Android stores and bloatware built in by manufacturers, but workers would still choose to install third-party marketplaces like Tencent MyApp, Baidu 91 Mobile Assistance, and Qihoo 360 Mobile Assistants.

2018, Luzhou Nina Li, “Android App Stores and the Appification of Everything”, in Jeremy Wade Morris, Sarah Murray, editors, Appified: Culture in the Age of Apps, page 46

[…] samsung should stop adding crap bloatware […] i never use such app and i dont need it

2018, Shawn Mankad, Shengli Hu, Anandasivam Gopal, “Single state prediction with embedded topic modeling of online reviews for mobile app management”, in The Annals of Applied Statistics, volume 12, number 4, →JSTOR, page 2297

(computing) Unwanted pre-installed software, especially on a smartphone.


carousel

From French carrousel, from Italian carosello, probably from carro (“cart”), from Latin carrus. Not believed to be related to carousal.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A visual component that displays a horizontal series of items one at a time.


listing

Print me a listing of the latest version.

(computing) A printout of a program or data set.


CBT

en-noun

CBT (countable and uncountable, plural CBTs)

(computing, countable) Initialism of closed beta test.


WS

WS (countable and uncountable, plural WSs)

(Internet, Web) Initialism of Web service.


transit

en-verb

transit (third-person singular simple present transits, present participle transiting, simple past and past participle transited)

transits (present singular third-person)
transiting (participle present)
transited (participle past)
transited (past)

From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).

der

(Internet) To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.


(indicating emotion): Perhaps borrowed from Japanese ~, 〜, 〰, emphatic form of ー (long vowel mark).

She brought ~10 shirts for a two-day trip.

(mathematics, Internet, text messaging) approximately

Awesome~ I hope you enjoy your trip!

“Bufh! Y-Y-You can leave everything to us, Miss Horn!” “We’ll keep your luggage safe!” “Oh god, my nose won’t stop bleeding…” “Please, misters! And thanksies~” Horn exclaimed enthusiastically as she got away from them.

2016, Yukiya Murasaki, translated by ZackZeal, How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord, volume 6, J-Novel Club, published 2018

(Internet, text messaging) Indicating joy, elation, excitement, or a playful tone.


Back-formation from any% or low%, in which the “%” was a literal indicator of the percentage completion the player would achieve in order to qualify for the given leaderboard category.
The suffix was then broadened to form category names in general, where the suffixed term specified some condition about the category, e.g. what score must be obtained, items used, etc., in order to qualify.

any% – any percentage completion is permitted

low% – the lowest possible completion is required

(speedrunning) Suffix forming speedrunning categories requiring a given percentage to qualify.

P%
(requiring a “P” rank in order to qualify)

Gears%
(gear items are allowed as part of the run, whereas in the main category runs they would not be)

(speedrunning) Suffix forming speedrunning categories related to the suffixed element, or subject to constraints based on it.


BASIC

Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, but designed to spell out basic (i.e. simplistic). First use appears c. 1964 in the BASIC Instruction Manual.

Many programs were written for the Sinclair Spectrum computer in BASIC.

Any of a family of third-generation programming languages.


backport

en-verb

backport (third-person singular simple present backports, present participle backporting, simple past and past participle backported)

backports (present singular third-person)
backporting (participle present)
backported (participle past)
backported (past)

To retroactively supply (to a previous version of a software product) a fix, or a new feature, at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.

corregir retroactivament

to retroactively supply to (a previous version of a software product) a fix, or a new feature, at the same time or after supplying it to the current version

To retroactively supply (a fix or a new feature) to a previous version of a software product at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.

(also video games) To re-release software on its original or a previous platform with new features, after its release on a different platform.


backport

A software program that has been backported.


NPOV

The NPOV is self-consciously a view, not the absence of all views.

2007, Juha Suoranta, Tere Vadén, “From Social to Socialist Media: The Critical Potential of the Wikiworld”, in Peter McLaren, Joe L. Kincheloe, editors, Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Now?, Peter Lang, section 147

Similarly, it is also important to understand the fundamental operation of NPOV in full detail: contrary to the synthesis commonly required for the coverage of topics in conventional encyclopedias, NPOV does not require the establishment of a universally accepted consensus description of the topic at hand—a kind of graveyard peace between opposing factions, achieved through arrival at a compromise which satisfies no one and omits any controversial points not acceptable to one of the participants.

2008, Axel Bruns, Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage, Peter Lang, section 120

Content creators and editors are encouraged to filter material through a sieve of strict standards known to insiders as NPOV, NOR, RS, and V.

2015, June Jamrich Parsons, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts 2016, Comprehensive, 18th edition, Cengage Learning, section 332

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of neutral point of view - the guideline of all Wikipedia and Wiktionary articles.


nugget

en-noun

nugget (countable and uncountable, plural nuggets)

→ Portuguese: nugget

Uncertain. Possibly from a rebracketed alteration of an ingot as a ni(n)got. Alternatively, likely a diminutive of dialectal nug (“lump, block”) + -et.

We have previously said that the heuristic algorithms produce good nuggets for most classes and most λ values […]

2002, Data Mining: A Heuristic Approach, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 93

(computing theory) A partial description gleaned from data mining.


smurf

Peyo
The Smurfs
fr:Les Schtroumpfs
nl:De Smurfen

Borrowed from Dutch smurf (via the Belgian comic De Smurfen, a translation of French Les Schtroumpfs), from French schtroumpf, a word that was created by Peyo based on German Strumpf (literally “stocking, sock”), either simply because it sounds funny to the French ear or based on a regional German use for “idiot”. Armand van Raalte was an employee for the Belgian publisher of Peyo's stories who felt that schtroumpf would not have the same effect in Dutch, so he tried to find a simple word that could be used both as a noun and a verb. The result was smurf. In other languages, the term was similarly altered; compare the translations below.


smurf

en-verb

smurf (third-person singular simple present smurfs, present participle smurfing, simple past and past participle smurfed)

smurfs (present singular third-person)
smurfing (participle present)
smurfed (participle past)
smurfed (past)

(computer security, transitive) To carry out a smurf attack against someone.


reproduction

en-noun

reproduction (countable and uncountable, plural reproductions)

/ˌɹiːpɹəˈdʌkʃən/

Could you file a bug at on the issue tracker with a minimum reproduction so that we can investigate?

2020, Joe Tsai, “[Bug?] Repeated imported enum cause panic in golang”, in protobuf mailing list

(computing) A method for reproducing a bug or problem.


multiply

From Old French multiplier, from Latin multiplicō, from multi (“many”) + plicō (“I fold”).
The noun presumably derives from the verb.

The extended instruction set may double the speed again if a lot of multiplies and divides are done.

List the number of adds and multiplies for each of the forms (6) , (7), and (8).

2004, C. K. Birdsall, A. B. Langdon, Plasma Physics via Computer Simulation, page 75

(computer science) An act or instance of multiplying.


rekey

en-verb

rekey (third-person singular simple present rekeys, present participle rekeying, simple past and past participle rekeyed)

rekeys (present singular third-person)
rekeying (participle present)
rekeyed (participle past)
rekeyed (past)

She had to rekey the security code.

(computing) To enter information into a device, such as a keyboard or keypad, after it has been done at least once before.


hydrate

hydrate (third-person singular simple present hydrates, present participle hydrating, simple past and past participle hydrated)

hydrates (present singular third-person)
hydrating (participle present)
hydrated (participle past)
hydrated (past)

Borrowed from French hydrate, coined by Joseph-Louis Proust, from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + -ate.

(programming) To load data from a database record into an object's variables


CP

en-noun

CP (countable and uncountable, plural CPs)

child pornography
child pornography#English

(Internet, euphemistic) Initialism of child pornography.


weblog

From Web + log, coined by Jorn Barger in 1997.

A Weblog is updated as often as the writer decides and can include photographs and links to other sites around the Web. There are different ways to create a Weblog, and you do not need your own file server.

2002 July 25, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Your World, Online: Setting Up a Weblog”, in New York Times

The case of the Loufan landslide indicates how a mainstream journalist-blogger used his weblog to expose the cover-up of an accident in north-west China.

2011, Xin Xin, “Web 2.0, citizen journalism and social justice in China”, in Graham Meikle, Guy Redden, editors, News Online: Transformations and Continuities, Palgrave Macmillan, →OCLC, page 184

(Internet, dated) A website in the form of an ongoing journal.


facade

Borrowed from French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin faciēs (“face”); compare face.

Facades are widely used for tasks like simplifying complex APIs.

2017, Evan Burchard, Refactoring JavaScript: Turning Bad Code Into Good Code, O'Reilly Media, page 311

(programming) An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.


black box

en-verb

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

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

black box
black box#History
flight recorder#Terminology

* Since circa 1945 in both main senses (that is, event recorders and objects with unknown innards), which are historically related to each other; for details, see black box § History and flight recorder § Terminology.
* (type of theater): Such theaters are often painted black.

(web development) To focus on the inputs and outputs without worrying about the internal complexity.


genocide

en-noun

genocide (countable and uncountable, plural genocides)

Armenian Genocide
Jewish Holocaust
destruction of Carthage
genocide

Coined by lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent Raphael Lemkin in 1943 or 1944 in reference to the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus) + -cide (“killing, killer”). Doublet of gendercide. Compare genticide.

der

I used genocide in my first ascension, but have been genocideless ever since. Makes the game much more interesting, but then again, if one hasn't ascended yet, it will be interesting anyway.

2000, Kimmo Kasila, “Arch lich at Minetown bones, Help!”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet)

(video games, roguelikes) The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.


luser

(computing, slang, derogatory) An incompetent computer user.

(computing, slang, derogatory) A user (especially in IRC) who disobeys the rules of the servers that they are using and usually resorts to disruptive or offensive behavior/behaviour.


pie chart

From its circular shape, resembling a circular pie, of which portions are typically divided by radial cuts.

A pictorial graph in the shape of a circle, with segments representing related proportions


instant messenger

en-noun

instant messenger (plural instant messengers)

(communication, computing) A computer application which allows instant text communication between two or more people through a network or the Internet in its entirety.


spacefiller

Spacefiller patterns might possibly even be within reach of current search programs; these would have much more predictable (and higher) growth rates from the start.

2008 May 31, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Other things that can be built (I see no reason why not) are a self-replicator, quadratically growing spacefiller, programmable computer/constructor, self-growing prime number sieve.

2009 December 16, Mark Jeronimus, “WireWorld Extendable 3”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) A pattern that grows quadratically by filling space with still life.


intrinsic

en-adj

intrinsic (comparative more intrinsic, superlative most intrinsic)

more intrinsic (comparative)
most intrinsic (superlative)

From Middle French intrinsèque, from Latin intrīnsecus (“on the inside, inwardly”), from *intrim, an assumed adverbial form of inter (“within”) + secus (“by, on the side”).

der

In addition to the Fortran operators that are intrinsic (built in), there may be user-defined operators in expressions.

1997, Jeanne C. Adams, Walter S. Brainerd, Jeanne T. Martin, Brian T. Smith, Jerrold L. Wagener, Fortran 95 Handbook: Complete ISO/ANSI Reference, MIT Press, page 192

(programming, of a function or operator) Built-in.


intrinsic

SIMD intrinics

Crappy loops, we got them: Use vector intrinsics¶ For troublesome loops that just don't vectorize even with hints, vector intrinsics are another option.

2021, Robert Robey, Yuliana Zamora, Parallel and High Performance Computing, Simon and Schuster, page 190

(computing, programming) A built-in function that is implemented directly by the compiler, without any intermediate call to a library.

You can acquire the fire-resistance intrinsic by eating dragon meat.

(video games) An ability possessed by a character and not requiring any external equipment.


podcast

Blend of iPod (“portable music player made by Apple”) + broadcast, probably coined by the British technologist and broadcaster Ben Hammersley (born 1976) who proposed the word podcasting in 2004.

coinage

There's no restriction for what a podcast should and should not be. Of course, if you cover all these topics and more, you may find it harder to find an audience than if you focus on a narrower range and cover it well. Finding listeners is simpler if your podcast can be summarized in a sentence. More people will sample your show if it fits in a category in a podcast directory—like that found in the iTunes Store—than if it ends up lumped in a generic catch-all list.

2007, Andy [J. Williams] Affleck, “Plan Your Podcast”, in Take Control of Podcasting on the Mac, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press; republished in “Plan Your Podcast”, in Take Control of Podcasting (1.0), San Diego, Calif.: Alt Concepts, 2020

Try listening to a mix of well-known podcasts. You'll soon find that the best always feature hosts that have their own unique voice.

2016, Matthew Anniss, Create Your Own Podcast, Capstone, page 20

A programme, especially an audio programme, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

(loosely, by extension) An individual episode of such a programme.


podcast

en-verb

podcast (third-person singular simple present podcasts, present participle podcasting, simple past and past participle podcasted or podcast)

podcasts (present singular third-person)
podcasting (participle present)
podcasted (participle past)
podcasted (past)
podcast (participle past)
podcast (past)

lähettää podcastina

to deliver (information) in the form of a programme over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices

lähettää podcastia

to deliver a programme over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices

(transitive) To deliver (information) in the form of a programme, especially an audio programme, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

(intransitive) To deliver a programme, especially an audio programme, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.


proof of concept

en-noun

proof of concept (plural proofs of concepts or proofs of concept)

proofs of concepts (plural)
proofs of concept (plural)

(software engineering, perhaps nonstandard) A proof of technology or pilot project.


conversion

conversion (countable and uncountable, plural conversions)

From Middle English conversion, conversioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conversion, from Latin conversiō, from convertō.

обръщане

the act of having converted something or someone

המרת דת

to replace one religious faith with another

Mike Follin […] also programmed the Spectrum version of The Sentinel (97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-op conversions Bubble Bobble (90%, Issue 45) and Bionic Commando (92%, Issue 53).

(computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.


rem

(computing) A remark; a programming language statement used for documentation (in BASIC for example); also used in DOS batch files.


rem

Like the em unit, the rem unit is based on declared font size. The difference—and it’s a doozy—is that whereas em is calculated using the font size of the element to which it’s applied, rem is always calculated using the root element.

2017, Eric A Meyer, Estelle Weyl, CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web, Kindle edition, O'Reilly Media, page 126

(web design) A unit relative to the declared font size of the root element in an HTML document.


in silico

/ɪn ˈsɪlɪkəʊ/

From in and silicon (from Latin silex (“flint, pebble, stone; crag, rock”)) + Latin -ō, by analogy with English in vitro (“in glass, referring to an experiment conducted in a test tube”). The silico component refers to silicon chips which were used for computing at the time when the term was coined.

cog

He was able to dissect the frog in silico.

In the future, computers can be used as experimental tools, generating a new source of investigation of living organisms, their study in silico (in contrast to in vivo or in vitro).

1996, Antoine Danchin, “On Genomes and Cosmologies”, in Julio Collado-Vides, Boris Magasanik, Temple F[erris] Smith, editors, Integrative Approaches to Molecular Biology, Cambridge, Mass., London: MIT Press, page 92

The term "virtual screening" (or in silico screening) was first reported in the scientific literature in 1997[…]; it can be defined as a set of computer methods that analyzes large databases or collections of compounds in order to identify and prioritize likely hit candidates[…]. In silico screening search can be performed on libraries that contain physically existing compounds or on virtual libraries, and thus on compounds that are not yet synthesized. […] [I]t should be noted that in silico screening goes much beyond number crunching, it helps to generate ideas, to reduce the cost and to gain knowledge.

2016, Bruno O. Villotriex, Melaine A. Kuenemann, David Lagorce, Olivier Sperandio, Maria A. Miteva, “In Silico Approaches Assisting the Rational Design of Low Molecular Weight Protein–Protein Interaction Modulators”, in Claudio N. Cavasotto, editor, In Silico Drug Discovery and Design: Theory, Methods, Challenges, and Applications, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, page 460

There is an increasing number of in silico models for toxicological endpoints. Some of these models offer significant benefits over existing in vivo or in vitro models. First, they require no materials and will make a prediction from the chemical structure alone. Once the models are built, they are usually fast and cheap to run. […]

[2017], D. Bower, K. P. Cross, S. Escher, G. J. Myatt, D. P. Quigley, “In Silico Toxicology: An Overview of Toxicity Databases, Prediction Methodologies, and Expert Review”, in Dale E. Johnson, Rudy J. Richardson, editors, Computational Systems Pharmacology and Toxicology (Issues in Toxicology; no. 31), London: Royal Society of Chemistry, →ISSN, page 213

(computing, sciences) In computer simulation or in virtual reality.


kiboze

en-verb

kiboze (third-person singular simple present kibozes, present participle kibozing, simple past and past participle kibozed)

kibozes (present singular third-person)
kibozing (participle present)
kibozed (participle past)
kibozed (past)

back-formation from kibozing, itself an agglutination of Kibo + bozo + ing http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.kibology/browse_thread/thread/222e8778f60a70b2/4fa5dcbe6d0bfdc8?lnk=st&q=kibozing#4fa5dcbe6d0bfdc8.

The idiot apparently adds spaces to people's names to prevent kibozing. It doesn't help when you're replying to me in a newsgroup I read; I'll find that article just fine. Besides, I don't kiboze. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/misc.fitness.weights/msg/452e24b785207bb5

(Internet) To search the Usenet news for a string, particularly one's name or nickname, especially with the intention of posting a follow-up, as popularized by James "Kibo" Parry.


executive

From Middle French executif, from Latin executivus.

1973, ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems, Fourth Symposium on Operating System Principles
The second phase of the executive development proceeded through two steps as stated in Section 2. First, a failsoft executive was developed providing automatic failure detection and recovery […]

(computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.


OSPF

Initialism of open shortest path first: a link-state routing algorithm that is used to calculate routes based on the number of routers, transmission speed, delays and route cost.


MPMD

(computing) Initialism of multiple program, multiple data


LKG

(computing) Initialism of last known good.


console

Borrowed from French console (“bracket”, noun), from consoler (“to console, to comfort”, verb).
Sense of “bracket” either due to a bracket alleviating the load, or due to brackets being decorated with the Christian figure of a consolateur (“consoler”), itself perhaps a pun on the first sense (alleviating load).
Originally used for the bracket itself, then for wall-mounted tables (mounted with a bracket), then for free-standing tables placed against a wall. Use for control system dates at least to 1880s for an “organ console”; use for electrical or electronic control systems dates at least to 1930s in radio, television, and system control, particularly as “mixer console” or “control console”, attached to an equipment rack. This was popularized in computers by mainframes such as the IBM 704 (1954) in terms such as “operator’s console” or “console typewriter”, and then generalized to any attached equipment, particularly for user interaction. The automotive sense harks back to earlier use as “support”.

An instrument with displays and an input device that is used to monitor and control an electronic system.

(video games) A consumer device dedicated to playing video games, with the ability to change games.

конзола

video games: device dedicated to playing video games


fuzz

en-noun

fuzz (countable and uncountable, plural fuzzes)

Uncertain. Some dictionaries suggest a Germanic source; compare Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”), Dutch voos (“unsound; rotten”). Others, such as Webster's New College Dictionary, suggest a back-formation from fuzzy. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests, “Perhaps imitative of the action of blowing away light particles.”

onomatopoeic

imitative

"Fuzz testing" or "fuzzing" is a technique for software testing that provides random data ("fuzz") to the inputs of a program.

2008, Asoke Talukder, Manish Chaitanya, Architecting Secure Software Systems, Boca Raton: CRC Press, page 94

(computing) The random data used in fuzz testing.


fuzz

en-verb

fuzz (third-person singular simple present fuzzes, present participle fuzzing, simple past and past participle fuzzed)

fuzzes (present singular third-person)
fuzzing (participle present)
fuzzed (participle past)
fuzzed (past)

onomatopoeic

imitative

Sulley works by fuzzing the first fuzzable field to be fuzzed. While it is iterating through all the values it wants to try for that field, all the other fields are untouched and remain at their default value.

2012, Charlie Miller, Dion Blazakis, Dino DaiZovi, iOS Hacker's Handbook, page 172

(computing) To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input.


AFK

I'm gonna go AFK in a few mins

(military, video games, Internet slang) Initialism of away from keyboard (that is, away from one's computer; idle)


ESA

Entertainment Software Association
w:Entertainment Software Association

(software) Initialism of Entertainment Software Association.


blogcast

(computing) a short video and/or audio clip published within a blog


Nigerian scam

The scam messages usually claim to originate from Nigeria, though this is often a spoof.

Even savvy Internet users have fallen victim to the ubiquitous Nigerian scam.

(Internet) An attempt to defraud by sending out large numbers of emails, each stating that the recipient is entitled to receive a large amount of money, but will need to supply banking account details, or to send payment for fees, before the payment can be passed on.


postmaster

(Internet) The administrator of an electronic mail system.


discretize

en-verb

discretize (third-person singular simple present discretizes, present participle discretizing, simple past and past participle discretized)

discretizes (present singular third-person)
discretizing (participle present)
discretized (participle past)
discretized (past)

(transitive, mathematics, computing) To convert (a continuous space) into an equivalent discrete space, often for the purposes of easier calculation.

discretiseren

convert continuous space into discrete space


scrubber

(graphical user interface, audio, video) A horizontal bar allowing the user to set the playback position.


screenburn

Damage caused to some older computer screens where a frequently-displayed image "burns" a dull copy of itself onto the screen, and remains permanently visible.


Easter egg

/ˈiː.stəɹ ˌɛɡ/

Adventure (1980 video game)#Easter_egg
Easter egg

From Easter + egg. Cognate with German Low German Ooosterei (“Easter egg”), Middle High German ōsterei ("Easter egg"; > modern German Osterei).
So called because eggs would be eaten during Easter to break the fasting during Lent. (No eggs, dairy, meat except fish, lard, or foods containing these ingredients could be eaten during Lent.)
The computing sense is from the early 1980s, popularized by the video game Adventure.

gloss

"Easter egg"; > modern German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Osterei</i>

an Easter egg that displays the names of the application's development team

Once found, the Easter egg will often enable the player to traverse through the game much more rapidly the second time around.

2011, Myint Swe Khine, Learning to Play: Exploring the Future of Education with Video Games, page 59

(computing, video games) An undocumented function hidden in a program or video game, typically triggered by a particular input sequence or combination of keystrokes.

ou de pasqua

an undocumented function hidden in a program


HOT

en-noun

HOT (countable and uncountable, plural HOTs)

(video games) Initialism of health over time: a status effect that restores health points as time passes


Zip drive

A trademark of the Iomega Corporation. See zip (“move quickly”).

(computing) A storage device, similar to a floppy disk drive but using disks with a much larger capacity (100, 250, or 750 MB, compared to a normal floppy disk capacity of 1.44 MB).


upsert

en-verb

upsert (third-person singular simple present upserts, present participle upserting, simple past and past participle upserted)

upserts (present singular third-person)
upserting (participle present)
upserted (participle past)
upserted (past)

Each entity event is upserted into the key/value table, such that the most recently read event for a given key is represented.

2020, Adam Bellemare, Building Event-Driven Microservices, O'Reilly, page 25

(databases, transitive) To insert rows into a database table if they do not already exist, or update them if they do.


upsert

The upsert option lets you specify whether the update should be an upsert—that is, it tells MongoDB to update the record if it exists, and create it if it doesn't.

2013, David Hows, Eelco Plugge, Peter Membrey, Tim Hawkins, The Definitive Guide to MongoDB, Apress, page 66

(databases) An operation that inserts rows into a database table if they do not already exist, or updates them if they do.


disable

disable (third-person singular simple present disables, present participle disabling, simple past and past participle disabled)

disables (present singular third-person)
disabling (participle present)
disabled (participle past)
disabled (past)

The pilot had to disable the autopilot of his airplane.

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

afskakel

to deactivate a function of an electronic or mechanical device


requirement

System requirements not met. Go to Settings to learn more.

(engineering, computing) A statement (in domain specific terms) which specifies a verifiable constraint on an implementation that it shall undeniably meet or (a) be deemed unacceptable, or (b) result in implementation failure, or (c) result in system failure.


visual

From Middle English vysual, from Old French, from Late Latin visualis (“of sight”), from Latin visus (“sight”), from videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see visage.


WIMP

en-noun

WIMP (countable and uncountable, plural WIMPs)

(graphical user interface) Acronym of window, icon, menu, pointer (a graphical interface paradigm).

(graphical user interface, very rare) Acronym of window-icon-mouse program.


screensaver

I configured my screensaver to appear after only two minutes, because I enjoyed watching it so much.

(software) A computer program that displays aesthetic patterns or images when the computer is not being used, originally intended to prevent screenburn.


memory chip

(computing, electronics) A RAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM or EEPROM microchip that can be plugged into a personal computer to provide temporary or permanent memory.


open-source

Coordinate term: source-available

Linux is an open-source operating system.

ASP.NET MVC has been under an open-source license since the initial release, but it was just open-source code instead of a full open-source project.

2014, Jon Galloway, Brad Wilson, K. Scott Allen, David Matson, Professional ASP.NET MVC 5, John Wiley & Sons, page 10

(software) Of or relating to a product which is licensed to permit modifications and redistribution of its source code, as per The Open Source Definition.


ham e-mail

Chosen as an opposite for spam (junk e-mail), both words being meat products.

(Internet) E-mail that is wanted by the recipient and is not considered spam.


me too

en-verb

me too (third-person singular simple present me toos, present participle me tooing, simple past and past participle me tooed)

me toos (present singular third-person)
me tooing (participle present)
me tooed (participle past)
me tooed (past)

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

This is a big ME TOO for the list of things to do when you are bored.
(I asked for it in r.h.d a while back and got no response so I feel justified in ``me tooing.)

1990 January 14, Tamara Schacham, “big me to for things to do”, in rec.humor (Usenet)

I was put in mind of the possibility because of a recent thread in which someone claimed that some vegetable which I like tasted like soap to him and several others me tooed it.

1997 July 13, Rich Clancey <rhc@world.std.com>, “weak lemon and soap”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet)

I know me tooing is frowned upon, but me too!

2001 May 28, Vegard Valberg <Vvalberg@online.no>, “Re: WI Pearl Harbor Done Right -- Part 2”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet)

I'm more or less agreeing with you too (but don't let Moby hear-he'll accuse me of me tooing).

2002 July 19, Ken Higgs <kenhiggs8@hotmail.com>, “Re: Bring on the Aussies...”, in rec.sport.cricket (Usenet)

(Internet slang, Usenet) To agree with someone.


armature

/ˈɑɹ.mə.t͡ʃʊɚ/

/ˈɑɹ.mə.t͡ʃɚ/

Borrowed from Middle French armature, from Latin armātūra (“armour”). Doublet of armor and armure.

(computer graphics) A kinematic chain (a system of bones or rigid bodies connected by joints) that is used to pose and deform models, often character models.


retrieve

retrieve (third-person singular simple present retrieves, present participle retrieving, simple past and past participle retrieved)

retrieves (present singular third-person)
retrieving (participle present)
retrieved (participle past)
retrieved (past)

Recorded in Middle English c. 1410 as retreve (altered to retrive in the 16th century; modern form is from c. 1650), from Middle French retruev-, stem of Old French retrover (“to find again”, modern retrouver), itself from re- (“again”) + trover (“to find”), probably from Vulgar Latin *tropāre (“to compose”).

der

modern <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">retrouver</i>

to retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits

1714, Rev. Dean Berkeley, letter to Alexander Pope, May 1, 1714

(transitive) To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.


spindle

From Middle English spyndel, spindle, spyndylle, from Old English spindle, spindel, alteration of earlier spinel, spinil, spinl (“spindle”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinnilu (“spindle”), equivalent to spin + -le. Cognate with Scots spindil, spinnell (“spindle”), Dutch spindel ("spindle"; < Middle Dutch spille, spinle), German Spindel (“spindle”), Danish spindel (“spindle”), Swedish spindel (“spindle”).

gloss

(computing) A plastic container for packaging optical discs. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package.

spindel

computing: a plastic container for packaging optical discs


lunchbox

You'll find a mix among clamshell laptops for strong laps, lunchboxes, and sewing-machine configurations; the latter two designs typically have detachable keyboards.

1988 October 11, PC Mag, volume 7, number 17, page 93

The performance difference between desktops and lunchboxes was practically nil.

2004, Scott Mueller, Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, page 20

(computing, slang) A luggable; an early laptop computer, usually a unit with a handle and a fold-out keyboard.


deferred

(programming) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”)


flatten

en-verb

flatten (third-person singular simple present flattens, present participle flattening, simple past and past participle flattened)

flattens (present singular third-person)
flattening (participle present)
flattened (participle past)
flattened (past)

(programming, transitive) To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.

(computer graphics, transitive) To combine (separate layers) into a single image.

統合する

computer graphics: to combine into a single image


peripheral brain

en-noun

peripheral brain (plural peripheral brains)

(computing) Any hardware (i.e. handheld, computer, laptop) containing vast amounts of information, which is in constant flux and is important to the owner but not so important as to be stored in wetware.

cerebro periférico

Any hardware containing vast amounts of information, which is in constant flux and is important to the owner but not so important as to be stored in wetware


DMZ host

(Internet) A single node in a DMZ, typically protected by a firewall, sometimes hidden by NAT. Usually, DMZ hosts accept incoming external connections, but they cannot initiate connections with internal hosts.


RFID chip

An electronic chip used to tag an object or merchandise in order to recognize it electronically from a short distance.


A numeronym representing localization as "L" followed by 10 more letters, followed by "n".

(software engineering) Abbreviation of localization.


FDD

FDD (countable and uncountable, plural FDDs)

floppy disk drive
floppy disk drive#English

(computing, countable) Initialism of floppy disk drive.

(software) Initialism of feature-driven development.


persistent

en-adj

persistent (comparative more persistent, superlative most persistent)

more persistent (comparative)
most persistent (superlative)

From Latin persistentem, present participle of persistō (“continue steadfastly”). By surface analysis, persist + -ent.

Once written to a disk file, the data becomes persistent: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.

(computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.

pysyvä

computing: existing after the execution of the program


Dvorak

August Dvorak
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard

From Czech Dvořák. The keyboard is named after the American inventor August Dvorak.

Dvorak keyboard

(computing, typography) Describing an optimized keyboard layout for the English language, in which the alphabet is arranged in the order PYFGCRL on the top row, AOEUIDHTNS on the middle, or home row, and QJKXBMWVZ on the bottom row, thus placing the letters most frequently used in the home row. Many variants on Dvorak layouts also exist, including keyboards for right-hand-only and left-hand-only-typists.


HDD

/ˈeɪt͡ʃˌdiːˌdiː/

(computing) Initialism of hard disk drive.


programming

en-noun

programming (usually uncountable, plural programmings)

/ˈpɹəʊɡɹəmɪŋ/

/ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɪŋ/

Management wanted to know how much programming the project would need.

(computing) The act of writing a computer program.

Together with this is the influence of an infinite number of neurotransmitters, neurohormones, environmental hazards, and accidental programmings.

2016, David R. Hawkins, The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden, page 142


allocate

en-verb

allocate (third-person singular simple present allocates, present participle allocating, simple past and past participle allocated)

allocates (present singular third-person)
allocating (participle present)
allocated (participle past)
allocated (past)

From Medieval Latin allocāte, imperative of Latin allocāre, from ad- (“to”) + locus (“place”).

The memory manager allocates memory to requesting processes until there is no more memory available or until there are no more processes waiting for memory.

2011, José M. Garrido, Richard Schlesinger, Kenneth Hoganson, Principles of Modern Operating Systems, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, page 264

(computing) To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.

okupi

computing: to reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program


NAT

en-noun

NAT (countable and uncountable, plural NATs)

Coordinate term: PAT

(networking) Acronym of network address translation (“network address rewriting”).

(networking) Acronym of network address translator (“device that implements that network function; a NAT firewall”).


bogus

en-adj

bogus (comparative more bogus, superlative most bogus)

more bogus (comparative)
most bogus (superlative)

First attested as an underworld term for an apparatus for creating counterfeit coins, then the coins themselves. Later, the word was applied to anything of poor quality. The newest use to mean useless is probably from the slang of computer hackers.
The origin is unknown, but there are at least two theories that try to trace its origin:
* From Hausa boko (“to fake”). Since bogus first appeared in the United States, it may be possible that its ancestor was brought there on a slave ship.
* From criminal slang as a short form of tantrabogus, a 19th-century slang term for a menacing object, making some believe that bogus might be linked to bogy or bogey (see bogeyman). In this sense, Bogus might be related to Bogle – a traditional trickster from the Scottish Borders, noted for achieving acts of household trickery; confusing, but not usually damaging.

(computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.


open source

Compound of open + source, coined by Christine Peterson in 1998 for software as an umbrella term to encompass existing concepts such as free software, freedomware, and sourceware.

(software) The practice of providing open-source code for a product.

His contributions to open source are numerous.

(software) Open-source software in general.


hint

→ Danish: hint

→ Dutch: hint

→ Japanese: ヒント (hinto)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: hint

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: hint

→ Swedish: hint

From Middle English hinten, hynten, variant of henten (“to lay hold of, catch”), from Old English hentan (“to seize, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *hantijan, from Proto-Germanic *hantijaną. Doublet of hent. Related also to hunt.

This font does not scale well to small sizes; the hints for the 10-point letter 'g' still need work.

(computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.

(databases) An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.


zip

(programming) Synonym of convolution (“type of mapping function”)


zip

en-verb

zip (third-person singular simple present zips, present participle zipping, simple past and past participle zipped)

zips (present singular third-person)
zipping (participle present)
zipped (participle past)
zipped (past)

(transitive, computing) To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.

компримирам

to convert a computer file into a smaller package

(transitive, programming) To subject to the convolution mapping function.


SAS

Serial Attached SCSI
w:Serial Attached SCSI

(computing) Initialism of Serial Attached SCSI, a computer bus standard for mainly connecting hard drives, but also used for other devices, derived from the SCSI and SATA standards.


SAS

(computing) Initialism of secure attention sequence.


correctness

en-noun

correctness (usually uncountable, plural correctnesses)

(computing) The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.

virheettömyys

computing: state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification


reusable

en-adj

reusable (comparative more reusable, superlative most reusable)

more reusable (comparative)
most reusable (superlative)

(computing) (of a program) Able to be executed by several tasks without being reloaded; either reentrant or serially reusable


Turing machine

Named after English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer Alan Turing (1912–1954), who introduced the concept in 1936 to give a mathematically precise definition of computability.

named-after

Another class, P, is a subset of NP, and includes all decision problems that can be solved by a (deterministic) Turing machine in polynomial time.

2017, Arlindo Oliveira, The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity, MIT Press, page 81

(computing theory) An abstract computing machine that has a finite number of possible internal states and operates on an infinite memory tape by first reading a symbol from a cell in the tape, and then, deterministically, based on that symbol and the machine’s state, writing a symbol in that cell, moving to a neighboring cell, and/or changing state.


promiscuous

en-adj

promiscuous (comparative more promiscuous, superlative most promiscuous)

more promiscuous (comparative)
most promiscuous (superlative)

From Latin prōmiscuus (“mixed, not separated”), from prō (“forth”) + misceō (“mix”).

uder

(networking) The mode in which an NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.

erottelematon

being in a mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic


capability

en-noun

capability (countable and uncountable, plural capabilities)

Formed in Modern English as capable + -ity.

Enforcing a security policy means controlling the rights users can acquire to data. In a capability machine, a user’s rights are defined by the capabilities he (or a process acting on his behalf) can obtain and the access rights conferred by those capabilities.

1987 November, Richard Y. Kain, Carl E. Landwehr, “On Access Checking in Capability-Based Systems”, in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, volume SE-13, number 2, pages 202–207

(computing) A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control.


shredder

(computing) A program that overwrites deleted data to prevent recovery.


subclass

(object-oriented programming) An object class derived from another class (its superclass) from which it inherits a base set of properties and methods.


subclass

en-verb

subclass (third-person singular simple present subclasses, present participle subclassing, simple past and past participle subclassed)

subclasses (present singular third-person)
subclassing (participle present)
subclassed (participle past)
subclassed (past)

unsubclass

antonym(s) of “cause to act as a member of a subclass”

I subclassed the Button class to create a more specialised FancyButton class for my user interface.

(transitive, computing) (in object-oriented programming) To create a subclass of (some class).

Since Windows knows about these events, your application should be able to know about them as well. In order to accomplish this, subclass the window of a form or control, intercepting all of its events.

2000, James D. Foxall, MCSD in a Nutshell: The Visual Basic Exams, page 93

(transitive, computing) To cause (an object) to act as an instance of a subclass (by creating the desired subclass and instantiating an object of this subclass).


ambient device

(computing) A simple wireless object that unobtrusively presents information.


clean code

(computing, software) Non-redundant software code comprising of focused task-specific modules and functions, written in a systematic manner so that another coder can easily interpret or modify it.


baseline

baseline (third-person singular simple present baselines, present participle baselining, simple past and past participle baselined)

baselines (present singular third-person)
baselining (participle present)
baselined (participle past)
baselined (past)

Finally, the test was baselined by evaluating the best and poorest catalysts of their respective types by this protocol.

1993, M.M. Mitchell et al., “Residual Feed Cracking Catalysts”, in Magee & Mitchell, editors, Fluid Catalytic Cracking, page 320

(engineering, computing) To provide a baseline for measurement.


multithreaded

(computing) Of an application program, having more than one thread of execution; thus taking advantage of multi-tasking operating systems and hardware.

مُتَعَدَّد مُؤَشِّرَات

application having more than one thread of execution

(computing) Of a programming language, able to produce such programs


archdevil

/ɑɹt͡ʃ.ˈdɛvəl/

/ɑɹt͡ʃ.ˈdɛvɪl/

(computing, Unix) A program, or part of a program, which is not invoked explicitly but lies dormant waiting for some event.


mining

en-noun

mining (countable and uncountable, plural minings)

→ Russian: ма́йнинг (májning)

Kazakhstan became last year the world’s second-largest centre for bitcoin mining after the United States, according to the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, after China clamped down on crypto mining activity.

2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian

(cryptocurrencies) Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof of work.


ghosting

ghosting (countable and uncountable, plural ghostings)

Examine your matrix map, and make sure that no three keystrokes form a rectangle with a fourth keystroke that will cause you problems. This prevents both ghosting and blocking.

2011, John St. Clair, Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine, page 218

(computing) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.


gesture

/ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃə/

/ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃɚ/

/ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃɝ/

From Medieval Latin gestūra (“a mode of action”), from Latin gerō (“to bear; (reflexive) bear oneself, behave, act”), past participle gestus.

der

This Web browser can be controlled with mouse gestures.

(graphical user interface) A motion made with a pointing device, or on a touchscreen, that is recognised by the system as a command.


haptic

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

From Ancient Greek ἁπτικός (haptikós, “able to come in contact with”), from ἅπτω (háptō, “to touch”) + -ικός (-ikós, “suffix forming an adjective from a noun”).

[T]he new standard should encompass other media, such as video, audio (both captured and synthetic), and in principle be extensible to new modalities such as haptic output and speech or gestural input, which have become increasingly integrated within graphics applications; […]

1999, David J. Duke, Ivan Herman, M. Scott Marshall, “Preface”, in PREMO: A Framework for Multimedia Middleware: Specification, Rationale, and Java Binding (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 1591), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISSN, page v

We might think, for example, about tele- (or remote) surgery, a technique that, now more than ever before, is enabling surgeons around the world to operate using haptic interfaces that control robotic systems located at different locations.

2014, Alberto Gallace, Charles Spence, “Introduction”, in In Touch with the Future: The Sense of Touch from Cognitive Neuroscience to Virtual Reality, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Haptic feedback, or virtual touch, can also contribute to an IVE [immersive virtual environment] by providing forces or resistance with a physical device that resists a physical hand or finger. […] Vibration motors in smartphones and tablets can also be seen as a rudimentary form of haptic feedback.

2015, Cody O. Karutz, Jeremy N. Bailenson, “Immersive Virtual Environments and the Classrooms of Tomorrow”, in S. Shyam Sundar, editor, The Handbook of the Psychology of Communication Technology, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, page 295

(computing) Of or relating to haptics (“the study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch”).


broadband

en-noun

broadband (usually uncountable, plural broadbands)

(Internet) An internet connection provisioned over an existing service using alternate signal frequencies such as ADSL or cable modem.


concurrent

en-adj

concurrent (comparative more concurrent, superlative most concurrent)

more concurrent (comparative)
most concurrent (superlative)

/kəŋˈkʌɹənt/

/kɒŋˈkʌɹənt/

/kəŋˈkɝɹənt/

From Middle English concurrent, from Old French concurrent, from Latin concurrēns, present active participle of concurrō (“happen at the same time”), from con- (“with”) + currō (“run”).

Informally, a concurrent program is one that does more than one thing at a time. […] However, this simultaneity is sometimes an illusion.

2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley, page 19

Different concurrent designs enable different ways to parallelize.

2012, Rob Pike, “Concurrency is not Parallelism”, in Waza Conference, San Francisco, page 21

More precisely, a concurrent algorithm (or concurrent program) is the description of a set of sequential state machines that cooperate through a communication medium, e. g., a shared memory.

2012, Michel Raynal, Concurrent Programming, Springer Science & Business, page 4

Many languages are dogmatic about the solutions they offer for handling concurrent problems. For example, Erlang has elegant functionality for message-passing concurrency but has only obscure ways to share state between threads.

2018, Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, The Rust Programming Language, No Starch Press, page 342

(computing, of code) Designed to run independently, rather than sequentially, using various mechanisms, such as threads, event loops or time-slicing.

concurrent

involving more than one thread of computation


multiplexer

(computing, telecommunications) A device that combines several input signals into a single output signal.


egocasting

(Internet) The portrayal of an individual ego or personality through a network, such as in an Internet forum, weblog, podcast, or photoblog.


sig

Your sig should ideally be four or five lines long, six or seven at the maximum. Since it will be repeated on hundreds of messages, a long signature wastes bandwidth and is therefore rude.

1995, Vince Emery, How to grow your business on the Internet

Posting good content is the best way to get people clicking your sig link.

2004, Brad Hill, Building Your Business with Google For Dummies, page 48

(Internet, informal) A signature, especially one on emails or newsgroup postings.


gray hat

From being grey (“gray”), a mix between black and white, morally grey/gray. From white hat + black hat. From cowboy country and western fiction, where good guys wear white Stetson hats with light attire, and bad guys wear black ones with black attire. From chivalric fiction, with white knights and black knights. From the association of the color white with good and black with evil.

(computing, computer security, slang) A hybrid between a white hat and a black hat hacker, who hacks for no personal gain, and does not have malicious intentions, but does sometimes commit crimes.


nav

(transport, military, Internet) Navigation. Often used attributively, as in nav beacon.


one-armed router

en-noun

one-armed router (plural one-armed routers)

(computing) A special variety of router used to route packets in a VLAN environment.


lasso

→ Czech: laso

→ Dutch: lasso

→ Finnish: lasso

→ German: Lasso

→ Hungarian: lasszó

→ Italian: lasso

→ Macedonian: ласо (laso)

→ Russian: лассо́ (lassó)

→ Slovene: laso

From Spanish lazo, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, from Latin laqueus. Doublet of lace.

(computing) An image-editing function allowing the user to capture an irregularly-shaped object by drawing an approximate outline.


partial

en-adj

partial (comparative more partial, superlative most partial)

more partial (comparative)
most partial (superlative)

From Middle English partiall, parcial, from Old French parcial (“biased or particular”), from Late Latin partiālis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”).

der

It's easy to prove partial correctness, but it's not obvious that it is also totally correct.

(computer science) describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates


partial

In fact, as seen in Chapters 5 and 6, the resulting document is usually the product of rendering a layout, which yields the rendering of the template at hand, which in turn can invoke the rendering of other templates and/or one or more partials.

2009, Antonio Cangiano, Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers, page 356

(programming, Internet) A fragment of a template containing markup.


multiplex

en-verb

multiplex (third-person singular simple present multiplexes, present participle multiplexing, simple past and past participle multiplexed)

multiplexes (present singular third-person)
multiplexing (participle present)
multiplexed (participle past)
multiplexed (past)

From multi- + -plex or multi- + complex.

(computing) To combine several signals into one.


orchestration

en-noun

orchestration (countable and uncountable, plural orchestrations)

Microservices applications can be formed with thousand of containers. We need a proper container orchestration framework to handle all of these containers. Let's discuss Kubernetes, which is the most popular container orchestration system, in the next section.

2021, Dhanushka Madushan, Cloud Native Applications with Ballerina […], Packt Publishing Ltd, page 130

(uncountable, by extension, computing) The automated arrangement, coordination, and management of computer systems, middleware, and services.


thrash

en-verb

thrash (third-person singular simple present thrashes, present participle thrashing, simple past and past participle thrashed)

thrashes (present singular third-person)
thrashing (participle present)
thrashed (participle past)
thrashed (past)

From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.

(software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.

koeajaa perin pohjin

software: to extensively test a software system

(computing) In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

ruuhkautua

computing: to cause poor performance of a virtual memory


one-way

From one + way. First attested in 1906 in reference to one-way tickets; 1914 in reference to one-way streets; 1940 in reference to one-way mirrors.

(computer science) Of a function: easy to compute for every input, but hard to invert given the image of a random input.


troglodyte

/ˈtɹɒɡləʊdaɪt/

/ˈt͡ʃɹɑɡlədaɪt/

/ˈt͡ʃɹɑɡloʊdaɪt/

From Latin trōglodyta (“cave dwelling people”), from Ancient Greek τρωγλοδύτης (trōglodútēs, “one who dwells in holes”), from τρώγλη (trṓglē, “hole”) + δύω (dúō, “I get into”).

af

(computing) A person who chooses not to keep up-to-date with the latest software and hardware.


virtual reality

en-noun

virtual reality (countable and uncountable, plural virtual realities)

Calque of French réalité virtuelle. virtual + reality

A computer technology that simulates a real or imagined environment so that the user can interact with it as if physically present.


toon

Proxemics are very important, however, as the positioning of an agent's toon in anon-combat grouping or in the environment can show place within a social group.

2010, Ben Kei Daniel, Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities

(informal, video games) A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.


opinionated

en-adj

opinionated (comparative more opinionated, superlative most opinionated)

more opinionated (comparative)
most opinionated (superlative)

an opinionated framework

(software engineering) Enforcing one particular approach instead of offering options and flexibility.


oscillator

Meronym: rotor

He has turned up a number of new oscillators of periods 2,3,4,5,6, & 8.

1989 October 26, Richard Schroeppel, “Some recent Life results”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Two track segments, each of which realizes the same transformation in a different number of generations are particularly useful for obtaining oscillator periods.

1996 December 16, Paul Callahan, “Need help in finding topic for research project”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Synthesis of spaceship flotillas is even more complicated than synthesis of oscillators, since spaceships are like oscillators that move[…]

2010, Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata, page 126

(cellular automata) A pattern that returns to its original state, in the same orientation and position, after a finite number of generations.


SUT

(computer science, software engineering, software testing) Initialism of system under test.


skip

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).
Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.

der

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

(video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.


quad

Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple.
The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.

System Rasterization Primitives • Polygons • Triangles, Trapezoids, Quads

1989, ACM SIGGRAPH '89 Course Notes, New York: Association for Computing Machinery, page 48

schemes have appeared which generate good results when applied to meshes which contain both triangular and quadrilateral regions. These kinds of schemes turn out to be very useful for modelling animations, because there, in symmetric (e.g. cylindrical) areas, quads and vertices with valence 4 are preferred

2006, Koen Beets, Johan Claes, Frank Van Reeth, “Optimizing Mesh Construction for Quad/Triangle Schemes”, in Hans-Peter Seidel, Tomoyuki Nishita, Qunsheng Peng, editors, Advances in Computer Graphics, page 711

Tris and quads have different areas of functionality. In real-time graphics, tris are the norm because they provide the most basic geometric representations of planes.

2010, Tony Mullen, Claudio Andaur, Blender Studio Projects: Digital Movie-Making, page 91

(informal, computer graphics) A quadrilateral.


deletia

(computing) In an email reply, material omitted from the quoted original.


flapping

en-noun

flapping (countable and uncountable, plural flappings)

(computing, telecommunications) The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.


outset

en-verb

outset (third-person singular simple present outsets, present participle outsetting, simple past and past participle outset)

outsets (present singular third-person)
outsetting (participle present)
outset (participle past)
outset (past)

(Internet, CSS, transitive) To cause (a design element) to extend around the outside of something else, the opposite of being inset.