append

append (third-person singular simple present appends, present participle appending, simple past and past participle appended)

appends (present singular third-person)
appending (participle present)
appended (participle past)
appended (past)

From Latin appendere (“to hang up, suspend on, pay out”), via Old French apendre, appendre, via Middle English appenden; from ad (“on, upon, against”) + pendere (“to suspend, hang”), equivalent to ad- + pend. Compare with Old English appenden, apenden (“to belong”). See also pendant.

uder

(computing) To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file, string, or other object.


append

After recursively sorting the two subsets, the situation is (11,28) 35 (45,50,62) and an append of the three pieces gives the final result.

1997, Jeffrey H. Kingston, Algorithms and Data Structures

Logging can be used to back out bad data, be it an overwrite of existing data or an append of new data.

2007, Jeff LeSueur, Marketing Automation: Practical Steps to More Effective Direct Marketing

When a file is created or expanded due to an append of new data to the file, new blocks are allocated to the file.

2016, Sibsankar Haldar, SQLite Database System Design and Implementation

(computing) An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.


pong

From ping, via the pairing of ping-pong.

(networking) A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.


variable

Borrowed into Middle English in the 14th century from Old French variable, from Latin variare (“to change”), from varius (“different, various”). Equates to English vary + -able.

(programming) A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.

مُتَغَيِّر

computing: a named mutable piece of storage


private

en-adj

private (comparative more private, superlative most private)

more private (comparative)
most private (superlative)

→ Punjabi: ਪ੍ਰਾਈਵੇਟ (prāīveṭ)

→ Welsh: preifat

From Latin prīvātus (“bereaved, deprived, set apart from, release”), perfect passive participle of prīvō (“I bereave, deprive, release”), from prīvus (“private, one's own, peculiar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per; compare prime, prior, pristine. Doublet of privy.

der

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(not comparable, object-oriented programming) Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses.


private

en-verb

private (third-person singular simple present privates, present participle privating, simple past and past participle privated)

privates (present singular third-person)
privating (participle present)
privated (participle past)
privated (past)

During these negotiations, however, the Kleins say that Hosseinzadeh issued a copyright takedown for the video — even after it had already been privated.

2016 May 25, Geoff Weiss, “H3h3Productions Sued For Copyright Infringement By MattHossZone, Spotlighting Fraught Issue Of Fair Use”, in Tubefilter

Shay has also since briefly returned to social media, making a quick post on Instagram. His account was privated following his scandal in February and his Twitter remains inactive.

2017 May 15, Rebecka Schumann, “Shay Carl’s Cam Girl Goes After Another Famous Man On YouTube”, in International Business Times

"[…] IOI had no part in privating the subreddit, this was entirely the decision of the moderators, and we are just fellow fans like you who volunteer our time to help out," a moderator wrote.

2022 January 28, Jared Moore, “Hitman 3: Steam Owners Will Get Free Upgrades to Make Up for Shaky Launch”, in IGN

“Must be hard being a one-hit wonder,” a follower negged me once. “Actually, yes,” I joked in a now-privated video response. “Thank you for noticing.”

2022 February 18, Sonja Smith-Yang, “I went viral on TikTok and it wasn’t what I expected”, in The Independent

(Internet, transitive) To make something hidden from the public (without deleting it permanently).


functional

en-adj

functional (comparative more functional, superlative most functional)

more functional (comparative)
most functional (superlative)

/ˈfʌŋkt͡ʃənəl/

(computing theory) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.

funkcionální

having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects


functional

/ˈfʌŋkt͡ʃənəl/

(computing) An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).

関数オブジェクト

an object encapsulating a function pointer


expansion

en-noun

expansion (countable and uncountable, plural expansions)

From French expansion, from Latin expānsiō. By surface analysis, expand + -sion.

An act, process, or instance of expanding.


mega-

From Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “great, large, mighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂s (“great”). Cognate with Latin magnus, Sanskrit मह (maha, “great, massive, large-scale, epic”), and with Germanic words: Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌻𐍃 (mikils), Old English micel, Middle English muchel, English much, Old High German mihhil, Old Norse mikill, Danish meget.

cog

(computing) Multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 2²⁰ (= 1,048,576, the binary number closest to a million). Computing symbol: Mi.


kilo-

From French, kilo- irregularly derived from Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi, “one thousand”). The etymologically "correct" form would be chili- or chilo-, resulting in forms such as chiliasme (“chiliasm”) or chilopode (“centipede”); but the French, when creating the prefix, had to avoid a possible (standard) pronunciation of chi as /ʃi/, too close to the vulgar verb chier.

der

(computing) Multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 2¹⁰ (1024)


public

en-adj

public (comparative more public, superlative most public)

more public (comparative)
most public (superlative)

The adjective and noun are derived from Late Middle English publik, publike (“(adjective) generally observable, public; relating to the general public or public affairs; (noun) a generally observable place or situation”), from Anglo-Norman public, publik, publique, Middle French public, publique, and Old French public (“(adjective) generally observable, public; relating to the general public; official; (noun) community or its members collectively; nation, state; audience, spectators collectively”) (modern French public, publique (obsolete)); and from their etymon Latin pūblicus (“of or belonging to the community, people, or state; general, public”), an alteration of poplicus (influenced by pūbēs (“adult men; male population”)), from poplus (“community; the people, public; nation, state”) (later populus; from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”); further origin uncertain, possibly from Etruscan or from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)) + -icus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). Doublet of people.
The Middle English word displaced native Old English ceorlfolc and folclic.
The verb is derived from the adjective.

عُمُومِيّ

open to all members of a community, as opposed to only a segment of it

nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American public

nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public

nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public

no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public

no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public

(not comparable, by extension, object-oriented programming) Of an object: accessible to the program in general, not only to a class or subclass.

julkinen

(object-oriented programming) of an object: accessible to the program in general, not only to a class or subclass


up

down

antonym(s) of “traveling towards a major terminus”

From Middle English up, from Old English upp, from Proto-Germanic *upp, see more there.

上り方向に

rail transport: traveling towards a major terminus

Is the server back up?


up

en-verb

up (third-person singular simple present ups, present participle upping, simple past and past participle upped)

ups (present singular third-person)
upping (participle present)
upped (participle past)
upped (past)

100 new apps and games have just been upped.

(computing, slang, transitive) To upload.


executor

/ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɚ/

/ˈɛɡzɪˌkjuːtɚ/

From Middle English executour, from Anglo-Norman executour, from Latin execūtor, agent noun of exequor.

When searching for a solution is unnecessary, then the program executor "doesn't care" which solution is generated nor how it is obtained.

2014, Robert Kowalski, Thom Frühwirth, Logic for Problem Solving, Revisited, page 114

(computing) A component of a system that executes or runs something.


member

→ Japanese: メンバー (menbā)

→ Malay: member

→ Punjabi: ਮੈਂਬਰ (maimbar)

From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Italic *memzrom, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz, “meat, flesh”), Crimean Gothic menus.
Coexists with native Middle English lim, limb (“member, limb, joint”) (from Old English lim (“limb, joint, main branch”)), and displaced Middle English lith (“limb, joint, member”) (from Old English liþ (“limb, member, join, tip”)).

cog

The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members.

(computing) A file stored within an archive file.

(object-oriented programming) A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.


demon

Daemon (computing)
Maxwell's demon
en:demon (disambiguation)

From Maxwell's demon; a derivation from “disk and execution monitor” is generally considered a backronym.

(computing) Alternative spelling of daemon


MBD

en-noun

MBD (countable and uncountable, plural MBDs)

model-based definition
model-based definition#English

(CAD, computing) Initialism of model-based definition.

(computing, electronics) Initialism of motherboard.

model-based development
model-based development#English

(software, programming) Initialism of model-based development.

model-based testing
model-based testing#English

(software, testing) Initialism of model-based testing.


reduce

en-verb

reduce (third-person singular simple present reduces, present participle reducing, simple past and past participle reduced)

reduces (present singular third-person)
reducing (participle present)
reduced (participle past)
reduced (past)

From Middle English reducen, from Old French reduire, from Latin redūcō (“reduce”); from re- (“back”) + dūcō (“lead”). See duke, and compare with redoubt.

(transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.


binary

en-adj

binary (comparative more binary, superlative most binary)

more binary (comparative)
most binary (superlative)

From Late Latin bīnārius (“consisting of two”), from Latin bīnī (“two-by-two, pair”). By surface analysis, bin- + -ary.

двайко́вы

being in a state of one of two mutually exclusive conditions such as on or off

(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.

Division of reals is a binary operation.

(mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.

He downloaded the binary distribution for Linux, then burned it to DVD.

(computing) Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).


binary

en-noun

binary (countable and uncountable, plural binaries)

As our initial exposure to the base 10 number system consisted of learning how to count, it also makes sense that we might begin by learning how to count in binary.

1987, Robert W. McBeth, J. Robert Ferguson, IBM Assembler: An Intuitive Approach, John Wiley, page 5

(mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.

Now that you have a high-level idea of what binaries look like and how they work, you're ready to dive into a real binary format.

2018, Dennis Andriesse, Practical Binary Analysis […], No Starch Press, page 31

(computing) Synonym of binary file; a file consisting of data other than human-readable text.


case dependent

(computer science) Synonym of case sensitive


case insensitive

(computer science) Treating or interpreting upper- and lowercase letters as being the same.

hoofdletterongevoelig

treating upper- and lowercase letters as being the same

but see unterscheidet/beachtet Groß- und Kleinschreibung nicht


manager

→ Albanian: menaxher

→ Burmese: မန်နေဂျာ (mannegya)

→ Catalan: mànager

→ Dutch: manager

→ French: manager
→ Turkish: menajer

→ German: Manager

→ Greek: μάνατζερ (mánatzer)

→ Hungarian: menedzser

→ Italian: manager

→ Japanese: マネージャー (manējā)

→ Korean: 매니저 (maenijeo)

→ Polish: menedżer

→ Romanian: manager

→ Russian: ме́неджер (ménedžer)

→ Scottish Gaelic: manaidsear

→ Spanish: mánager

→ Swahili: meneja

→ Ukrainian: ме́неджер (ménedžer)

a file manager; a task manager; Program Manager

(software) A window or application whose purpose is to give the user the control over some aspect of the system.


edge

From Middle English egge, from Old English eċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).
See also Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg; also Welsh hogi (“to sharpen, hone”), Latin aciēs (“sharp”), acus (“needle”), Latvian ašs, ass (“sharp”), Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís, “needle”), ἀκμή (akmḗ, “point”), and Persian آس (âs, “grinding stone”)).

(graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.

aresta

in graph theory: any of the pairs of vertices in a graph

Remember that edge computing refers to data that is processed on edge devices before the result goes to its destination, which could be on a public or private cloud.

2022, Sergio Mendez, Edge Computing Systems with Kubernetes, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 5

(computing, often attributive) The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.


rooted

en-adj

rooted (comparative more rooted, superlative most rooted)

more rooted (comparative)
most rooted (superlative)

(mathematics, graph theory, of a tree or graph) Having a root.

You are rooted. All your base are belong to us.

(computing, not comparable) Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.


case sensitive

case sensitive (comparative more case sensitive, superlative most case sensitive)

more case sensitive (comparative)
most case sensitive (superlative)

(computer science) Distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters. Often used in computer science to indicate a distinction is made in comparison or equality of letters based on case. For example, a case-sensitive password will not recognize "Password" and "password" as the same, but a case insensitive comparison would.

závisející na velikosti písmen

distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters

but see unterscheidet/beachtet Groß- und Kleinschreibung

(periphrasis) kis- és nagybetűk különböznek/eltérnek benne


first-person

(film, television, video games) Visual presentation through the protagonist or principal character's own eyes.


monoid

Just like any abstraction, a monoid is useful to the extent we can write useful generic code assuming only the capabilities provided by the abstraction.

2023, Michael Pilquist, Rúnar Bjarnason, Paul Chiusano, Functional programming with Scala, Second edition, Shelter Island: Manning Publications Co

functional programming
functional programming

(algebra, functional programming) A set which is closed under an associative binary operation, and which contains an element which is an identity for the operation.


real number

Even if you pass sqrt an integer, it returns a real number.

floating-point number
floating-point number


fluent

fluent (comparative more fluent, superlative most fluent)

more fluent (comparative)
most fluent (superlative)

From Latin fluens (“flowing”), present active participle of fluō (“I flow”).

The payment processor offers a fluent API.

(programming) Being or relating to a fluent interface.


REM

Clippings
* (remaining time): Clipping of remaining.
* (remark): Clipping of remark.

I think it should be upgraded to Visual BASIC, but I'm no good at that. So maybe someone here would like to take a crack at it. There are only 40 lines of active code, plus a few REMs. About 100 BASIC commands altogether.

2006 December 24, David Williams, “satellite program”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc (Usenet)

(computing) A remark (programming language statement used for documentation).


metasyntactic

Metasyntactic values, in the sense I'm using here, are descriptive of syntax, as for example the nonterminals of a Chomsky grammar.

(linguistics, computing) Used in describing syntax; relating to metasyntax.


metasyntactic variable

en-noun

metasyntactic variable (plural metasyntactic variables)

Use metasyntactic variables like foo and bar when you need a name but the particular name doesn't matter.

(chiefly programming) A conventional variable name used for an unspecified entity whose exact nature depends on context.


expensive

en-adj

expensive (comparative more expensive, superlative most expensive)

more expensive (comparative)
most expensive (superlative)

From Latin *expēnsīvus, from expendō (“to weigh out (money), to pay out”) (whence English expend). By surface analysis, expense + -ive. In the sense of "high-priced" has largely displaced dear.

an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm

(computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.


execution

en-noun

execution (countable and uncountable, plural executions)

From Old French execution (c.1360), from Latin exsecutiō, an agent noun from exsequor (“to follow out”), from ex (“out”) + sequor (“follow”).

The entire machine slowed down during the execution of the virus checker.

(computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.

uitvoering

carrying out of an instruction by a computer


poly

poly (countable and uncountable, plural polys)

The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris.

2009, Andrew Paquette, Computer Graphics for Artists II: Environments and Characters


poly

en-verb

poly (third-person singular simple present polys, present participle polying, simple past and past participle polyed)

polys (present singular third-person)
polying (participle present)
polyed (participle past)
polyed (past)

(transitive, intransitive, video games, roguelikes) To polymorph; to transform by magic.


bar chart

A graph in the form of boxes of different heights, with each box representing a different value or category of data, and the heights representing frequencies.


glider

From Middle English glider, glydare, equivalent to glide + -er.

By the way, what happens to a beehive which is under attack by one or two gliders such as pictured:

1989 December 22, Norbert Roestel, “CA-LETTER”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

I believe it is indeed new -- I've gone back through everything I can find, as far back as the early 90's when Heisenburp devices were first invented, and there don't seem to be any reactions based on a glider suppressing a blinker.

2006 September 28, Dave Greene, “Small Heisenburp device in Conway's Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

In Conway's Life interesting effects can be obtained by colliding gliders.

2008, Derek Abbott, Paul C. W. Davies, Arun Kumar Pati, Quantum Aspects Of Life, page 246

(cellular automata) In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.

It is a reversible rule, and an interesting one. Shortly after I implemented it, Chris and I were watching it run from a small random configuration of vants, when we noticed a structure consisting of 2 vants propagating away from the others -- it is a glider of sorts, consisting of 2 cooperating vants moving along, erasing each others' trail.

1989 June 11, David Hiebeler, comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

I wanted to test some totalistic automaton and the glider with the B024S1 rule, which Ilmari Karonen described.

2003 May 13, Frank Buss, “Totalistic Explorer and squirm”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

By contrast, consider a rule like Seeds (B2/S) that has "gliders" and oscillators and so forth, so theoretically it might support universal computation somehow.

2007 May 12, Dave Greene, “Wanted: 2D CA, "as complex" but "denser" than Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(by extension) Any spaceship in a cellular automaton, especially one which exhibits glide reflection.


ng

(Internet) Initialism of newsgroup; also NG.


tee

* From Middle English [Term?], from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T).
* (computing): By analogy with a T-shaped pipe that sends fluids in two directions.

(computing) The process of redirecting output to multiple destinations.


tee

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)

tees (present singular third-person)
teeing (participle present)
teed (participle past)
teed (past)

[…] teeing via multiple redirects (ls > file1 > file2) […]

1997, Robin Burk, David B. Horvath, UNIX Unleashed, page 615

(computing) To redirect output to multiple destinations.


Holy Grail

the Holy Grail (canonical)
Holy Grails (plural)

From Middle English Holy Grayle.
(web page layout): So called because it was traditionally difficult to achieve with the available markup.

(Internet, informal) A web page layout with fixed-width columns to the left and right, and a central area that fills the remaining space.


printer

→ Azerbaijani: printer

→ Georgian: პრინტერი (ṗrinṭeri)

→ Japanese: プリンター (purintā)

→ Korean: 프린터 (peurinteo)

→ Russian: при́нтер (prínter)

→ Serbo-Croatian: prìnter, прѝнтер

The use of the Hughes type printer is extending on the main circuits, where speed of transmission is a great object; but it is highly improbable that it will ever be adopted, except on main circuits.

1872 February 24, “Telegraph Instruments”, in The Mechanics’ Magazine and Journal of Science, Arts, and Manufactures, volume XCVI, London: Mechanics' Magazine Offices, 166, Fleet Street, and 85, Gracechurch Street, E.C., →OCLC, page 172, column 1

By the use of these keys in conjunction with the other keys, the operator has perfect control over the receiving printer at the distant station.

1903, “The Rowland Multiplex Printing Telegraph System”, in Telegraph Age. A Semi-monthly Journal Devoted to Telegraphy, volume XX, New York, N.Y.: J[ohn] B. Taltavall, →OCLC, page 461, column 1

For long distance messages, reports, etc., the use of the printer telegraph renders a highly satisfactory and efficient service, especially where the line circuits are derived through a composite or phantom circuit without the exclusive use of wires for this circuit. The Union Pacific recently installed a two-channel multiplex automatic printer on a simplexed circuit, thereby eliminating the necessity for at least one additional overland wire, and also speeding up the service and reducing the cost for each message.

1924, Railway Signaling and Communications, volume 17, number 1, Bristol, Conn.: Simmons-Boardman Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 1

In a telegraph system, a multiplex transmission circuit in which the signals transmitted comprise equal-impulse code combinations, a receiving distributor for separating the successive combinations into separate channels, a simplex printer for each channel, and local means including said distributor for generating start and rest impulses for each printer.

1928 August 18, Robert F. Dirkes, Vernon R. Kimball, James W. Long, Operating Simplex Printers in a Multiplex System, US Patent US1802240A, claim 3, page 5, column 1

Top-quality prints in minutes, at savings up to 80%, are said to be possible with the Satellite printer. Printer is sold by Eugene Dietzgen Co, Chicago, Ill.

1959 September, “Compact Printer”, in Air Conditioning, Heating and Ventilating, volume 56, New York, N.Y.: Industrial Press, →OCLC, page 103

Much like a regular printer can print out a picture or text file, these machines can turn a digital 3-D model into a real, tangible object, and they are becoming more and more widespread. All over the world, makerspaces (places where people can gather, share ideas, learn, and use tools like 3-D printers to let their dreams become reality) are opening the doors.

2015, Nicki Peter Petrikowski, “Introduction”, in Getting the Most out of Makerspaces to Create with 3-D Printers (Makerspaces series), New York, N.Y.: Rosen Publishing, page 5

(now chiefly computer hardware) A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects.

rekenaardrukker

computing: device used to print text or images


meme

Shortened from mimeme, equivalent to mime + -eme.
Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Shortened (after gene) from mimeme (compare English phoneme), anglicized as if from a noun derived from Ancient Greek μῑμέομαι (mīméomai) with the deverbal suffix -μα (-ma), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitation, copy”). The concept was later applied to the Internet by Mike Godwin.

coin

I do...but my journal is a mess. It's mostly filled with memes and my bitching about a house I am building.

2005, darklily, “OT: Livejournal”, in soc.sexuality.general (Usenet)

The idea was to append Keyboard Cat to the end of a blooper video to "play" that person offstage after a mistake or gaffe, like getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. The meme became popular, Ashton Kutcher tweeted about it to more than 1 million followers, and more than 4,000 such videos have now been made.

2012, Greg Jarboe, You Tube and Video Marketing, 2nd edition

Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style? [headline]

2013 February 8, Tim Jonze, “Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style?”, in The Guardian

Social networks produce inside jokes at a relentless pace. The best, worst, stupidest and funniest of those jokes become memes, and either you get them or you don’t.

2017 December 15, Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Life on the Meme Council: Meet the Internet’s Gatekeepers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

He said that NFT sales had helped establish memes as a sophisticated art form and “serious pieces of culture.”

2021 April 29, Marie Fazio, quoting Ben Lashes, “The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500,000 Off the Meme.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(Internet) Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc.

This meme generator lets you make your own memes by adding a caption to existing images, or by uploading your own image.

I'm always posting memes on the groupchat.

(Internet) A specific instance of a meme, such as an image macro or a video, often with humorous superimposed text.

kink meme

anon meme

(Internet) A work produced and shared in response to a prompt or suggestion within an online group.


cyber-

Relating to the Internet or cyberspace, or to computers more generally.


follow

en-verb

follow (third-person singular simple present follows, present participle following, simple past and past participle followed)

follows (present singular third-person)
following (participle present)
followed (participle past)
followed (past)

From Middle English folwen, folȝen, folgen, from Old English folgian (“to follow, pursue”), from Proto-West Germanic *folgēn, from Proto-Germanic *fulgāną (“to follow”).

inh

If you want to see more of our articles, follow us on Twitter.

(social media, transitive) To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.

فولو

to subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform


follow

It doesn't take too many follows to become overwhelmed with the deluge of content on Twitter.

2012, Brett Petersel, Esther Schindler, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Twitter Marketing

Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.

2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book

(social media) The act of following another user's online activity.


identity

en-noun

identity (countable and uncountable, plural identities)

From Middle French identité, from Latin identitās.

(algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.


heterogeneous

en-adj

heterogeneous (comparative more heterogeneous, superlative most heterogeneous)

more heterogeneous (comparative)
most heterogeneous (superlative)

From Medieval Latin heterogeneus, from Ancient Greek ἑτερογενής (heterogenḗs, “of different kinds”), from ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + γένος (génos, “kind”). Compare hetero- and -ous.

der

(computing) Of a network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture; alternatively, of a data resource with multiple types of formats.

heterogeeninen

computing: comprising different types of computers or formats


parameter

[pəˈɹæm.ə.ɾɚ]

From French paramètre, from New Latin parametrum (“parameter”), from Ancient Greek παρα- (para-, “beside”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

Coordinate term: feature

The parameter estimation problem considered in this chapter consists of estimating the unknown parameter, ū [a barred v, actually], given N samples of the observation process.

2012, Michael Lemmon, Competitively Inhibited Neural Networks for Adaptive Parameter Estimation, Springer Science & Business Media, page 74

Fundamental is the regulation of a for-profit OpenAI. The company initially delayed the launch of its earlier GPT-2, with a mere 1.5bn parameters, because the company fretted over its implications.

2020 August 11, “The Guardian view on artificial intelligence's revolution: learning but not as we know it”, in The Guardian

(sciences) A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.

(machine learning) A variable of a model that is trained by a machine learning algorithm.

(programming) An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.

مَعْلَم

name in a function or subroutine definition

(programming, loosely) An actual value given to such a formal parameter.


serial

desctree

→ Russian: сериа́л (seriál, “TV-series”)
→ Azerbaijani: serial

/ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/

Formed as series + -al, on model of Latin seriālis, from seriēs + -ālis. Cognate to Italian seriale. First use appears c. 1823. See cite below.

Go to these sites for serials, cracks and keygens.

(computing, slang) A serial number, esp. one required to activate software.

serial

serial number required to activate software


bob

The bob list determines the drawing priority […]

1986, Eugene P Mortimore, Amiga programmer's handbook, Volumes 1-2

IMHO, youd be better doing other things with the CPU and letting the blitter draw bobs, esp on a machine with fast ram.

1995, John Girvin, “Blitting bobs”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet)

Changes: This release adds 2 new effects (bobs and unlimited bobs), has a GFX directory for sharing graphics, adds utility functions to the common code

2002, demoeffects, “Demotized 0.0.1 - A collection of demo effects from the early days of the demo scene.”, in fm.announce (Usenet)

(computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.


toaster

→ French: toasteur

→ German: Toaster

→ Hebrew: טוסטר

ja-r

トースター (tōsutā)

→ Japanese: トースター (tōsutā)

→ Korean: 토스터 (toseuteo)

→ Polish: toster

→ Russian: то́стер (tóstɛr)

From toast + -er (agent noun suffix) or -er (patient suffix).

For most older computers (pre-486 and even some 486s), it's simply easier to throw them away and start over (and cheaper, too). I know; this probably goes against the grain; after all, you hung onto that old toaster for three years, and now it makes a darn good doorstop.

2000, Jennifer Fulton, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Alpha Books, page 15

On the technical side, we had only the old “toaster” Macintosh computers as our environment (only black and white and 512 by 480 screen resolution) and a variety of IBM PCs or equivalents.

2005, Clark N. Quinn, Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games, John Wiley & Sons, page 65

(computing, humorous) A low-end or outdated personal computer.

The Freedom Toaster was developed with backing from Mark Shuttleworth as a vending-machine-style dispenser of free digital products, including Ubuntu Linux.

2008, Michael Jang, Ubuntu Certified Professional Study Guide, McGraw Hill Professional, page 9

(computing slang, uncommon) A self-contained software package distributable over the Internet or by burning onto CDs.


FOSS

(computing) Initialism of Free and Open Source Software.


pane

→ Japanese: ペイン (pein)

From Middle English pane, pan, from Old French pan, from Latin pannus, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”). Doublet of pagne, pan, and pannus.

pain (except in accents without the pain-pane merger)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A portion of a user interface that typically makes up part of a larger window and may be docked or snapped into position.


tier

en-verb

tier (third-person singular simple present tiers, present participle tiering, simple past and past participle tiered)

tiers (present singular third-person)
tiering (participle present)
tiered (participle past)
tiered (past)

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

table
From Middle French tier, from Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”). Alternatively, from a Germanic source related to Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English tīr (“glory, honour, fame”), Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour, renown”).

cog

(transitive, computing) To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.


step

From Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-West Germanic *stappjan, from Proto-Germanic *stapjaną (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”).
Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), Walloon steper (“to walk away, leave”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”) and further to Slavic Polish stąpać (“to stomp, stamp, step, tread”), Russian ступать (stupatʹ) and Polish stopień (“step, stair, rung, degree”), Russian степень (stepenʹ). Related to stamp, stomp.

cog

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

Printing from 0 to 9 with a step of 3 will display 0, 3, 6 and 9.

(programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.


enemy

From Middle English enemy, enemye, enmy, borrowed from Old French enemi, anemi (Modern French ennemi), from Latin inimīcus, from in- (“not”) + amīcus (“friend”). Displaced Middle English feend (“enemy”), from Old English fēond (“enemy”), which survived into Modern English as fiend, but with a different meaning.

let the perfect be the enemy of the good

non-player character
non-player character

(video games) A non-player character that tries to harm the player.


theme

-iːmi (for the sense dealing with the Byzantine empire only)

From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do). Doublet of thema.

der

switch to a dark theme to conserve battery power

Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects.

Theme

computing: collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc.


theme

en-verb

theme (third-person singular simple present themes, present participle theming, simple past and past participle themed)

themes (present singular third-person)
theming (participle present)
themed (participle past)
themed (past)

(computing, transitive) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).


fire up

fire up (third-person singular simple present fires up, present participle firing up, simple past and past participle fired up)

fires up (present singular third-person)
firing up (participle present)
fired up (participle past)
fired up (past)

⇒ Greek: φαερόπ (faeróp) (as adverb)

Fire up a text editor.

Fire up your computer.

(transitive, computing, informal) To launch; to run.


panic

en-adj

panic (comparative more panic, superlative most panic)

more panic (comparative)
most panic (superlative)

The adjective is borrowed from Middle French panique, a word itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πανικός (panikós, “pertaining to Pan”); Pan, the Greek god of fields and woods, was believed to be the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.
Adjective sense 3 (“pertaining to or resulting from overpowering fear or fright”) is partly an attributive use of the noun.
The noun is derived from the adjective, while the verb is derived from the noun. Verb sense 1.3 (“to highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show”) is derived from noun sense 4 (“a highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show”).

der

(Greek mythology, archaic) Alternative letter-case form of Panic (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”)


panic

en-noun

panic (countable and uncountable, plural panics)

If your new driver has an error that panics the system when you load the driver, then the system will panic again when it tries to reboot after the panic. The system will continue the cycle of panic, reboot, and panic as it attempts to reload the faulty driver every time it reboots after panic.

2010, Solaris system engineers, “Managing Devices”, in Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials (Solaris System Administration Series), Santa Clara, Calif.: Sun Microsystems Press, section 9.3.4.2 (Avoiding Recurring Panic)

(countable, computing) Short for kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.


panic

en-verb

panic (third-person singular simple present panics, present participle panicking, simple past and past participle panicked)

panics (present singular third-person)
panicking (participle present)
panicked (participle past)
panicked (past)

espantar

to cause (someone) to feel panic; to frighten (someone) into acting hastily

(computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.

(computing) Of a computer system: to crash.


PSP

en-noun

PSP (countable and uncountable, plural PSPs)

PlayStation Portable
w:PlayStation Portable

(video games) Initialism of PlayStation Portable.

Program Segment Prefix
w:Program Segment Prefix

(computing) Initialism of Program Segment Prefix.


PSP

software engineering
software engineering

personal software process
w:personal software process

(software engineering) Initialism of personal software process.


palimpsest

From Latin palimpsēstus, from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος (palímpsēstos, “scraped again”).

uder

(computing) Memory that has been erased and re-written.


junction

→ Bengali: জংশন (joṅśon)

→ Japanese: ジャンクション

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/

From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.

der

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.

(programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.


queue

From Middle English queue, quew, qwew, couwe, from Anglo-Norman queue, keu and Old French cöe, cue, coe (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda. See also Middle French queu, cueue. Doublet of coda.

2005, David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell, p. 234,
Queue implementations are commonly based on insertion order as in first-in, first-out (FIFO) queues or last-in, first-out queues (LIFO queues are also known as stacks).

(computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide.


queue

en-verb

queue (third-person singular simple present queues, present participle queueing or queuing, simple past and past participle queued)

queues (present singular third-person)
queueing (participle present)
queuing (participle present)
queued (participle past)
queued (past)

(computing, transitive) To add to a queue data structure.


webmail

en-noun

webmail (usually uncountable, plural webmails)

Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail are well-known webmail services.

A service for sending, receiving, and/or storing email, usually on a remote web server, in such a way that it is accessible through a web browser.


move

en-verb

move (third-person singular simple present moves, present participle moving, simple past and past participle moved)

moves (present singular third-person)
moving (participle present)
moved (participle past)
moved (past)
move (infinitive)

From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre, present active infinitive of moveō (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). More at muff. Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian.

cog

We didn’t really want a copy; we just wanted to get the result out of a function: we wanted to move a Vector rather than to copy it.

2013, Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, 4th edition, Addison-Wesley, 3.3.2, page 75

In Rust, for most types, operations like assigning a value to a variable, passing it to a function, or returning it from a function don’t copy the value: they move it.

2018, Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, chapter 4, in Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development, O’Reilly, page 77

In this paper, we focus on two specific move related issues: using an entity which has already been moved hence making it invalid, and calling move operations when doing so will not have any effect on how the program executes

2023 September, Attila Gyén, Dániel Kolozsvári, Norbert Pataki, “Code Comprehension for the Move Semantics in C++”, in Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Software Quality Analysis, Monitoring, Improvement, and Applications, Bratislava, Slovakia: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, →ISSN, page 3

(transitive, programming) To transfer the value of one object in memory to another efficiently (i.e., without copying it in entirety).


application

en-noun

application (countable and uncountable, plural applications)

/ˌæplɪˈkeɪʃən/

/ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən/

From Late Middle English applicacioun, borrowed from Old French aplicacion (French application), from Latin applicātiōnem, accusative singular of applicātiō (“attachment; application, inclination”), from applicō (“join to, attach; apply”).

This application can connect to most social networks.

Saeed straightened and held up his phone, directing its camera at the heavens, consulting an application that indicated the names of celestial bodies he did not know.

2017, Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, page 15

application software
application software

(computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)

(computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.


atomic

en:containing a single change, in version control

(programming, of a commit in a VCS) Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.

In order to avoid race conditions, this operation has to be atomic.

Whenever possible, use atomic types instead of mutexes.

It also provides an atomic compareAndSet method (which if successful has the memory effects of both reading and writing a volatile variable) and, for convenience, atomic add, increment, and decrement methods.

2006, Tim Peierls, Brian Goetz, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, Doug Lea, David Holmes, Java Concurrency in Practice, Pearson Education, page 325

(computing, of an operation) Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.

atominen

computing: guaranteed to either complete fully, or not at all


package

package (countable and uncountable, plural packages)

Equivalent to pack + -age. Possibly influenced by Anglo-Latin paccagium or Old French pacquage.

(software) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.

паке́т

computing: piece of software that it can be installed with a package manager


trainer

→ Cebuano: trainor
→ English: trainor

I actually never got a trainer for RCT, but needed one for my brother when I installed it on his computer. He is 10, and is only concerned with making "cool" coasters. I also completed CF before getting trainers.

2000, Phil, “I need trainer for version 1.10.021”, in alt.games.rctycoon (Usenet)

Are there any sites that have original copies of games? (ie: Summer/Winter/World Games with Fast Loading). Just looking for games without the trainers/intros.

2001, LJames4728, “Good C64 Game Sites?”, in alt.c64 (Usenet)

(video games, slang) A patch for a video game that applies cheats.


tech

en-verb

tech (third-person singular simple present techs, present participle teching, simple past and past participle teched)

techs (present singular third-person)
teching (participle present)
teched (participle past)
teched (past)

Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

(video games) To perform a technical (a special move in fighting games that cancels out an opposing attack).


runner

From Middle English rennere, rynner, urnare, equivalent to run + -er. Cognate with Old Norse rennari (“runner; messenger”). Displaced earlier Middle English runel (“runner”), from Old English rynel (“runner”; also “messenger, courier”).

махови́к

mechanical part intended to guide or aid something else to move

A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.


nuke

nuke (third-person singular simple present nukes, present participle nuking, simple past and past participle nuked)

nukes (present singular third-person)
nuking (participle present)
nuked (participle past)
nuked (past)

Clipping of nuclear weapon. The verb is derived from the noun.

The command and control servers used by the Mydoom variant, responsible for the recent denial of service attacks against Korean and US government websites, receive instructions from a master server located in the UK. [...] Apparently, the decision of whoever was responsible to damage the infected systems after July 10 pointed [Roger] Thompson in this direction. "Why bother nuking 60k computers after doing all the work of assembling them? Nuking them only helps the Good Guys, because the victims are forced to re-build, and therefore clean, their computers. [..."]

2009 July 14, Lucian Constantin, “Master Control Server for Mydoom DDoS Botnet Tracked to UK: Security Experts Stress that North Korea’s Involvement in the Attacks is Unlikely”, in Softpedia News, archived from the original on 2016-05-09

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

(transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).

When a release is not in accordance with rules, it can be made invalid. This is calling ‘nuking’. A nuke based on non existent rules or made up reasons can be undone – this is called and un-nuke. If the same release is getting nuked and un-nuked multiple times, it’s referred to as a Nukewar. When a release is nuked or un nuked, reason for the action is usually mentioned along with the nuke announcement.

2009 June 12, TEAM FILEnetworks, “Scene NukeWars : Funniest nuke reasons ever”, in FILEnetworks Blog, archived from the original on 2021-03-23

(transitive, warez) To flag a release as bad for some reason or another (for instance, due to being a duplicate of an earlier release or containing malware).


programmer

/ˈpɹəʊɡɹæmə/

/ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɚ/

*program + -er (US) / programme + -er (UK)

(computing) One who writes computer programs; a software developer.


toast

en-noun

toast (countable and uncountable, plural toasts)

→ Bulgarian: тост (tost)

→ Czech: toust, toast

→ Dutch: toost, toast

→ French: toast

→ Romanian: toast

→ German: Toast

→ Greek: τοστ (tost)

→ Hebrew: טוסט (tost)

→ Italian: toast

→ Japanese: トースト (tōsuto)

→ Korean: 토스트 (toseuteu)

→ Maori: tōhi

→ Macedonian: тост (tost)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: toast

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: toast

→ Polish: tost, toast

desctree

→ Russian: тост (tost)
→ Armenian: տոստ (tost)

→ Turkish: tost

→ Ukrainian: тост (tost)

→ Welsh: tost

From Middle English tost, from the verb tosten (see below).
The sense "a person who is honored with a drink and wishes for good health or prosperity," with the accompanying verb "to propose or drink to (a person) as a toast," first appears in print at the very end of the 17th century. The conventional assumption is that the use is metaphorical, "the name of a lady being supposed to flavour a drink like a spiced toast." This is pure speculation, however, as the origin of the sense remains obscure.

With the new Windows Push Notification Service, you can remotely send notifications from a cloud-based web service. In Windows 8, the majority of the Toast messages are standard duration toasts.

2012, Nick Lecrenski, Doug Holland, Allen Sanders, Professional Windows 8 Programming

(countable, computing, graphical user interface) A transient, informational unclickable pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.


infinite

From Middle English infinite, from Old French infinit and Latin infīnītus, from in- (“not”) + fīnis (“end”) + the perfect passive participle ending -itus. Doublet of infinito. Displaced native Old English unġeendodlīċ.

[…] prevents overpowered combos and infinites […]

2007, Adam Deats, Joe Epstein, Virtua Fighter 5, page 14

(video games) A combo that can be used repeatedly without interruption.


health

en-noun

health (usually uncountable, plural healths)

Inherited from Middle English helthe, from Old English hǣlþ, from Proto-West Germanic *hailiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hailiþō, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, hale”). Cognate with Old High German heilida. Analyzable as whole + -th, hale + -th, or heal + -th. More at heal. Doublet of wholth.

The enemies on this level have a lot of health.

Lose a little health and there's a few seconds in which you'll be able to win it back by ragging on an enemy.

2018 March 6, Martin Robinson, “Dispelling the myths of Bloodborne”, in Eurogamer

(video games) The amount of damage an in-game object can withstand before it is destroyed.

кръв

(video games) amount of damage an in-game object can withstand


computer game

An electronic game, especially a game played using a general-purpose computer (as opposed to a game console).


gameplay

gameplay (usually uncountable, plural gameplays)

The totality of player experiences during a game, such as the gaming environment and the competitive interaction with other players; often with reference to a video game or a board game.


sock

(computing, networking) Abbreviation of socket.


drop

From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”) [and other forms], from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropō (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to crumble, grind”).

nb...

dropan, droupe, (Northern England) droipe

afval

small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension

pisara

very small quantity of liquid, or of anything

pisara

that which hangs or resembles a liquid globule

pudotettu esine

(online gaming, video games) item dropped by a defeated enemy

aleneminen

decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate

afgrond

distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level

(online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.


drop

en-verb

drop (third-person singular simple present drops, present participle dropping, simple past and past participle dropped or (archaic) dropt)

drops (present singular third-person)
dropping (participle present)
dropped (participle past)
dropped (past)
dropt (archaic participle past)
dropt (archaic past)

From Middle English droppen, dropen (“to fall in drops, drip or trickle down; to scatter, sprinkle; to be covered with a liquid; to give off moisture; of an object: to drop, fall; of a living being: to fall to the ground”) [and other forms], from Old English dropian, droppian (“to drop”), from dropa (“a drop”) (see further at etymology 1) + -ian (suffix forming verbs from adjectives and nouns).

спадам

to decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.

laskea

to move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards — see also lower

laskea

to lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume

The album Hip-Hop Xmas dropped in time for the holidays.

(intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.

ilmestyä

of a programme, software, music, etc.: to enter public distribution

They dropped the album Hip-Hop Xmas in time for the holidays.

That hacker has been threatening to drop my docs [i.e. publish my personal information].

(transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.

julkaista

to release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public

Next, you drop to a shell.

(intransitive, computing) To enter a more basic interface.

The next step drops the user to a recovery shell.

(transitive, computing) To present (the user) with a more basic interface.


fingerprint

/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/

asymmetric cryptography
asymmetric cryptography

(cryptography) A unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.

بَصْمَة

unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem


supplicant

From Latin supplicans (“supplicating, bowing down”), from supplicō (“kneel, bow down, request”), from sub- (“lower”) + plicō (“fold”).

der

(networking) A device attempting to authenticate itself to an 802.11 network.


computability logic

(computing, mathematics) a formal theory of computability


kebab

From Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb), partly through Urdu, Persian and Turkish kebap. Doublet of cevapi. See the Arabic entry for more.

(graphical user interface) A menu icon of three vertical dots.


role-playing video game

en-noun

role-playing video game (plural role-playing video games)

(video games) A genre of video game that uses gameplay elements found in a paper-and-pencil role-playing game, such as character classes and leveling up.


aristocrat

/ˈæɹɪstəˌkɹæt/

/əˈɹɪstəkɹæt/

From French aristocrate (“aristocrat”), attested once in the 16th century but recoined in the Revolutionary era, from aristocratie (“aristocracy”), from Medieval Latin aristocratia, from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατία (aristokratía), from ἄριστος (áristos, “best”) (compare Old English ar) + κράτος (krátos, “rule”). By surface analysis, aristo- + -crat.

der

ἀριστοκρατία

Coordinate term: patristocrat

(cryptography) A cipher in which the original punctuation and spacing are retained.


breeder

I was wondering if anyone out there could mail me a base for MIT's 'breeder' - the one with 8? puffer trains forming glider-guns. I've seen in in a few books but can't seem to get it working ...

1992 June 17, Bill Sharp, comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

I later implemented an improved version of the algorithms on an Atari STe, this time the goal was to run the breeder, which it did at 2 gen/sec at the stage when the first glider gun has been assembled.

2002 July 23, Owen Rees, “Wolfram and "general 2D simulators"”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

A glider-emitting breeder pattern can probably also be constructed in this rule, which would out-radiate any chaotic pattern by a considerable margin.

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

(cellular automata) A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.


microcontroller

(computing, electronics) A microcomputer on a single chip, used to control some device such as an automobile engine or a toy.


complement

en-noun

complement (countable and uncountable, plural complements)

From Middle English complement, from Latin complementum (“that which fills up or completes”), from compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (English complete). Doublet of compliment.

der

(computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.

komplementti

The complement of 01100101#x5F;2 is 10011010#x5F;2.

diminished radix complement
diminished radix complement

(computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.

The complement of 01100101#x5F;2 is 10011011#x5F;2.

(computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.

The complement of −123 is 123.

(computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.


stage

→ Japanese: ステージ (sutēji)

From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stæde, stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead. Doublet of étage.

cog

How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?

(video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.


mojibake

/ˌməʊd͡ʒiˈbɑːki/

Borrowed from Japanese 文字化け (mojibake), from 文字 (moji, “character”) + 化ける (bakeru, “to transform, take a different form”, generally in a negative way).

Alas, you'll even see “text” files where some lines have one encoding but other lines have different encodings. You are guaranteed to see mojibake.

2012, Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl, O'Reilly, page 285

The space behind the door is filled with mojibake, more specifically, a mojibake that is made of pieces of my memory. “Why? Why do I like girls?” I hear a younger voice of mine echoing in the room.

2021, Lydia Chen, When the Flowers Withered, Singapore: Partridge Publishing

(computing) Corrupt characters or letters, especially resulting from being displayed or transferred through an inappropriate character set or encoding.


censorware

(computing) Software or hardware used to filter content on the Internet or block Internet access or restrict the running of applications or computer usage, on the basis of content being regarded as objectionable.

审查商品

software or hardware used to filter content on the Internet


single

→ Finnish: sinkku

→ German: Single

→ Japanese: シングル (shinguru)

→ Polish: singiel

From Middle English single, sengle, from Old French sengle, saingle, sangle, from Latin singulus, a diminutive derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Akin to Latin simplex (“simple”). See simple, and compare singular.

Coordinate term: double

If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats.

2011, Rubin H. Landau, A First Course in Scientific Computing, page 214

(computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.


Unix

A pun on Multics to sound like eunuchs, as Unix was considered to be an emasculated Multics (see multi- and uni-). Probably coined by Brian Kernighan in 1970.

Alternative form: UNIX

(computing) An operating system that shares the original source code by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, currently owned by Novell.

Alternative form: UNIX

(computing) An operating system largely compatible with Unix that qualifies for use of the UNIX trademark, currently owned by The Open Group.


Unix

en-noun

Unix (plural Unixes or Unices or Unixen)

Unixes (plural)
Unices (plural)
Unixen (plural)

Alternative form: unix

GNU is not Unix.

The Linux kernel operating system is one of the most popular Unixes.

(computing, informal) Any of the above plus Unix-like operating systems similar to Unix but not qualifying for use of the UNIX trademark.


WiFi

WiFi (countable and uncountable, plural WiFis)


WiFi

en-verb

WiFi (third-person singular simple present WiFis, present participle WiFi-ing, simple past and past participle WiFied)

WiFis (present singular third-person)
WiFi-ing (participle present)
WiFied (participle past)
WiFied (past)

A WiFi-ing We Will Go ?

2003, The Information Management Journal - Volume 37, Issues 1-5, page 17

Just like the aforementioned consumer and durable products made their way into the remotest parts of the country, the smartphones are 4G-ing and WiFi-ing their way into the hamlets today.

2017 July 5, Derek Abraham, “Vivo, Oppo, IPL, and the Chinese invasion of cricket”, in The Hindu

But during the past three capital bills, we’ve probably spent more than $5 million on laboratories, the Gator Center (updates), fully WiFi-ing the campus and campus security,” a $500,000 card-based system for faculty and students.

2020 January 20, Linda Harris, “EGCC making plans for the future”, in The Steubenville Herald Star


wait state

With memory that slow, the processor is going to spend most of its time on wait states.

(computing) Any of several instances in which a computer's processor cannot execute instructions (either for the entire computer, or just for a specific task) until an I/O operation completes, or until an interrupt is resolved


hero

head

hero (plural heroes or (sandwich sense only) heros, feminine heroine)

heroes (plural)
heros (plural)
heroine (feminine)

→ Hindi: हीरो (hīro)

→ Japanese: ヒーロー (hīrō)

→ Korean: 히어로 (hieoro)

→ Thai: ฮีโร่ (hii-rôo)

[ˈhɪə.ɹəʊ~ˈçɪə.ɹəʊ]

From Middle English heroes, from Old French heroes, from Latin hērōs (“hero”), from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “demi-god, hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”). Related to Latin servo (“protect”). Displaced Middle English heleð, haleð, from Old English hæleþ, hæle.

der

(web design) The eye-catching top portion of a web page, sometimes including a hero image; the portion above the fold.


astroturfing

From AstroTurf (“a synthetic substitute for grass”), a play on grass roots, as in “fake grass roots”. Attributed to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen in an unidentified 1985 public statement: "[A] fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grassroots and Astroturf."

(originally US politics, now social media, marketing) The disguising of an orchestrated campaign as a "grass-roots" event, i.e., a spontaneous upwelling of public opinion.

Tarnung einer Kampagne als Volksbewegung


PRC

Palm Resource Code
Palm Resource Code#English

(computer science) Initialism of Palm Resource Code (the file format for Palm OS applications.)


object

From Old French object, from Medieval Latin obiectum (“object”, literally “thrown against”), from obiectus, perfect passive participle of obiciō (“I throw against”), from ob- (“against”) + iaciō (“I throw”), as a calque of Ancient Greek ἀντικείμενον (antikeímenon). Doublet of objet.

ἀντικείμενον

massive astronomical compact halo object

massive astrophysical compact halo object

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.

كَائِن

object-oriented programming: instantiation of a class or structure


yum

Please run yum in non-caching mode to correct this header.

Yellowdog Updater, Modified
w:Yellowdog Updater, Modified

(computing) Acronym of Yellowdog Updater, Modified, a popular package manager in Linux.


shotgun

en-verb

shotgun (third-person singular simple present shotguns, present participle shotgunning, simple past and past participle shotgunned)

shotguns (present singular third-person)
shotgunning (participle present)
shotgunned (participle past)
shotgunned (past)

From shot + gun. Front passenger seat sense comes from ride shotgun.

Understand the problem before fixing it. About the only scenario where shotgunning is useful is if there is a shorted IC and you cannot tell which one it is.

1998, Stuart Ball, Debugging Embedded Microprocessor Systems, page 71

(computing, slang) To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.


acquisition

en-noun

acquisition (countable and uncountable, plural acquisitions)

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French acquisicion, from Latin acquisītiō, from acquirere; equivalent to acquire + -ition.

(computing) The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.


stub

From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-West Germanic *stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr, Faroese stubbi (“stub”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”). Doublet of stob.
Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.

Even though the stub is a dummy, it allows us to determine whether the procedure is called at the right time by the program or calling procedure.

2000, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, John W. McCormick, Programming and Problem Solving with ADA 95, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, page 352

(programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.

Coordinate term: skeleton

The server performs the server RPC runtime library functions to accept the request and call the server stub procedure. […] After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server.

2002, Judith M. Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware, CRC Press, page 7

(computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.

A stub is usually long enough to serve as a quick definition, but too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject (see Figure 4-2).

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, page 66

(wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.

بذرَة

(wikis) page providing minimal information


Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi (countable and uncountable, plural Wi-Fis)

Coined in analogy to Hi-Fi as a trade name developed for the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (later Wi-Fi Alliance).
Often analyzed as a shortened form of wireless fidelity (similar to how hi-fi is short for high fidelity); this is possibly due to the former slogan of the aforementioned Wi-Fi Alliance, The Standard for Wireless Fidelity.

وَاي فَاي

computing: wireless data communication standard

(networking, uncountable) Any of several standards for short-range wireless data transmission (IEEE 802.11).

Mimi gave Fifi access to her Wi-Fi.

This coffee shop has Wi-Fi for its customers.

He asked me if I knew the Wi-Fi password.

2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 13

(networking, uncountable) Wireless networking using one of these standards.


print

en-verb

print (third-person singular simple present prints, present participle printing, simple past and past participle printed)

prints (present singular third-person)
printing (participle present)
printed (participle past)
printed (past)
print (infinitive)

From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten (“to impress; imprint”) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (“to imprint”), Middle Low German prenten (“to print; write”), Danish prente (“to print”), Swedish prenta (“to write German letters”). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

cog

However, when you print the string you can see only 11 characters (c, a, r, ', s,, w, h, e, e, l).

2010, Chuck Easttom, Advanced JavaScript, Jones & Bartlett Learning, page 217

On the RHS side we write the current date to the variable date and print it to the terminal window, followed by the string "Chris coming home...." .

2015, Othmar Kyas, How To Smart Home: A Step by Step Guide to Your Personal Internet of Things, Key Concept Press

(computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.

принтирам

computing: to display a string on the terminal


hat

Sranan Tongo: ati

From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”). Cognate with North Frisian hat (“hat”), Danish hat (“hat”), Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.

cog

The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.

2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, page 139

(programming, informal) The caret symbol ^.


aggregation

en-noun

aggregation (countable and uncountable, plural aggregations)

/æɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən/

From Latin aggregātiō, from aggregō (“aggregate”).

(networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.

聚合

summarizing multiple routes into one route

The difference between an association and an aggregation is entirely conceptual and is focused strictly on semantics.

2002, Kirk Knoernschild, edited by Addison-Wesley Professional, Java Design: Objects, UML, and Process

(object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.


barf

en-verb

barf (third-person singular simple present barfs, present participle barfing, simple past and past participle barfed)

barfs (present singular third-person)
barfing (participle present)
barfed (participle past)
barfed (past)

Dutch: barfen

bath (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)

Uncertain. Probably of imitative origin.

The program barfed as a result of the invalid input.

(computing, slang, intransitive, by extension) Of a system: to fail.


hexadecimal

en-noun

hexadecimal (countable and uncountable, plural hexadecimals)

1952. hexadeca- + decimal; see the Wikipedia article for more information.

(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) A number system with base sixteen, using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E and F, most used in computing as a hexadecimal digit can represent four bits, half a standard byte, and thus a single byte can be represented conveniently with two digits.

(countable, computing) A number expressed in the hexadecimal system.


cab

(video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.

(software, Windows) Alternative form of CAB; Clipping of cabinet file.; a compress library archive file.


sub

* Shortened form of any of various words beginning with sub-.
* (lend a person money): From subsidize.

I've just noticed a mistake in the subs for this film.

(Internet, informal) Clipping of subtitle.

The default accessor can be overridden by declaring a sub of the same name in the package.

2002, Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Perl in a nutshell

So far, all the subs and functions that we have used have been those built into the system, or those written to handle events from controls […]

2004, P. K. McBride, Introductory Visual Basic.NET, page 49

(computing, programming) Clipping of subroutine. (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does)

subroutine

I'm totally stoked; just got 10 new subs after my last video.

(colloquial, Internet) Clipping of subscription (or (by extension) a subscriber) to an online channel or feed.

subi

subscription to an online channel or feed


sub

en-verb

sub (third-person singular simple present subs, present participle subbing, simple past and past participle subbed)

subs (present singular third-person)
subbing (participle present)
subbed (participle past)
subbed (past)

switch

one who is willing to take either a sadistic or a masochistic role

(slang, Internet, transitive) To subtitle (usually a film or television program).


frag

I'd been fighting him for ages, and then you stole my frag!

Oh, man. Did you play Online Gaming last night? No, yeah, no? I did. I got so many frags.

2004 August 16, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #111: other days”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Homestar Runner (Matthew Chapman)

(video games, slang) A successful kill in a deathmatch game. A point or score (when considered collectively) gained by successfully killing opponents in a deathmatch game.


frag

frag (third-person singular simple present frags, present participle fragging, simple past and past participle fragged)

frags (present singular third-person)
fragging (participle present)
fragged (participle past)
fragged (past)

I fragged him once and then meleed him for the kill.

(transitive, military and video games, slang) To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade.

I fragged him but he fell off the ledge afterwards.

I have pistol-fragged far superior players coming at me with a shotgun with 100% health.

1996, Martin Cox, “Stupid frags ...”, in rec.games.computer.doom.playing (Usenet)

tappaa

to kill (another player) in a deathmatch computer game


colo

The previous wall outlet tests at their colo facility ran for 6 days straight without issue.

One was a mistake in the colo, where there was a mislabeled circuit, so they cut power to 1/3 of one of our racks.


bonus

en-noun

bonus (plural bonuses or bonusses or (nonstandard) boni)

bonuses (plural)
bonusses (plural)
boni (nonstandard plural)

→ Danish: bonus

→ French: bonus

→ German: Bonus

→ Portuguese: bónus, bônus (Brazil)

→ Japanese: ボーナス (bōnasu)

→ Turkish: bonus

Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”). Doublet of bona.

Spend the time killing things and there's a bonus for each hit - but only for fatalities notched up since the start of your current life.

1988, David Powell, Rygar (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 25

(video games) An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.


corn

For the rhyme, and with influence from the emoji substitute 🌽.

(Internet, euphemistic) pornography; porn


gib

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.


gib

en-verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

gibs (present singular third-person)
gibbing (participle present)
gibbed (participle past)
gibbed (past)

(transitive, video games) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.


POSIX

Icelandic: POSIX-staðall

Operating System
operating system#English

(computing) Acronym of Portable Operating System Interface: a set of IEEE standards designed to provide application portability between UNIX variants.

可移植操作系統接口

computing: set of standards providing application portability between UNIX variants


reboot

reboot (third-person singular simple present reboots, present participle rebooting, simple past and past participle rebooted)

reboots (present singular third-person)
rebooting (participle present)
rebooted (participle past)
rebooted (past)

We need to reboot the system after installing these updates.

The system reboots every weekend after updates are installed.

NASA is once again trying to reboot the Hubble Space Telescope, agency officials said. The telescope’s instruments have been shut down since the end of September, when a router that formats science data for transmission to the ground had an electrical failure.

2008 October 24, Dennis Overbye, “Another Effort to Reboot Telescope”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To execute a computer's boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, possibly after a system failure.

重新啟動

To execute a computer's boot process and reload the operating system


decimal

Borrowed from Late Latin, Medieval Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus, from decem (“ten”) + adjective suffix -alis.

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

десети́чен

concerning numbers expressed in decimal or calculations using decimal


term

(computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.


program

→ Malay: program

→ Tok Pisin: program

/ˈpɹoʊˌɡɹæm/

/ˈpɹoːɡɹɑːm/

From French programme, from Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”), from προγράφω (prográphō, “I set forth as a public notice”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of programma.

der

The program runs on both Linux and Microsoft Windows.

(computing) A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task.

program playback
playing tracks in a custom order


baud

en-noun

baud (countable and uncountable, plural bauds)

Borrowed from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

To reach the Backroom Bulletin Board, call (718) 849-6699 with a computer, using either the 300 or 1200 baud setting on the modem.

1985 April 13, Stephanie Poggi, “Queer Hackers”, in Gay Community News, page 2

(computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.

بَاوْد

A rate defined as the number of signalling events per second

(computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.


Uniform Resource Locator

Uniform Resource Locator (plural Uniform Resource Locators)

(computing, Internet) A universal address for resources on the internet, which is most commonly used for websites.

ΟΕΠ

ομοιόμορφος εντοπιστής πόρων (omoiómorfos entopistís póron)


boilerplate

boilerplate (countable and uncountable, plural boilerplates)

The Star (1788)
boilerplate
boilerplate (spaceflight)

From boiler + plate. First use appears c. 1793 in the periodical Star.

They put that boilerplate on all the warning labels.

(computing) Standard text or program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor; text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels.


epoch

From Medieval Latin epocha, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ, “a check, cessation, stop, pause, epoch of a star, i.e., the point at which it seems to halt after reaching the highest, and generally the place of a star; hence, a historical epoch”), from ἐπέχω (epékhō, “I hold in, check”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “I have, hold”). Doublet of epoche.

der

Coordinate term: (cartography, engineering) datum

UNIX epoch; J2000 epoch

Appendix A gives formulae for the calculation of the orbital elements of the planets at any time referred to the mean ecliptic and equinox of the epoch of noon on 1st January 2000; this is called the J2000 epoch.

2000, Carl D. Murray, Stanley F. Dermott, Solar System Dynamics, Cambridge University Press

There are two major epoch times associated with most timestamps: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 and 1601-01-01 00:00:00. The first, starting in 1970, is traditionally referred to as POSIX time as it is a common timestamp in UNIX and UNIX-like systems.

2016, Preston Miller, Chapin Bryce, Learning Python for Forensics, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 281

The .NET epoch is midnight at the start of January 1st, AD 1, although that's AD 1 in a proleptic Gregorian calendar, which refers to even more complexity we haven't talked about yet.

2022, Tomasz Lelek, Jon Skeet, Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs: How to Make Good Programming Decisions, Simon and Schuster, page 155

(chronology, astronomy, computing) A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.

The neural network was trained over 500 epochs.

For now, let's test and evaluate our GAN by comparing the results from the first epoch with the generated images from the last epoch.

2021, Joe Papa, PyTorch Pocket Reference, O'Reilly Media

(machine learning) One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm.


octet

(computing) A byte of eight bits. Abbreviation: o

This is done by breaking down each set of permissions (user, group, and other) to represent an octet.

2003, Nitesh Dhanjani, Linux and UNIX security portable reference

(computing, rare) A group of three bits, representing any of eight possible values.


media

en-noun

media (countable and uncountable, plural media or medias)

Burmese: မီဒီယာ (midiya)

Turkish: medya

Latinate plural of medium, particularly as a clipping of communications media and often reinterpreted as singular or mass noun, from Latin media, neuter plural form of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).

(computing) Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.


media

Shortening from multimedia, from multi- + media (“forms of communication”).

I have media files stored on an external hard drive.

Adjust media sound in multiple apps


match

en-verb

match (third-person singular simple present matches, present participle matching, simple past and past participle matched)

matches (present singular third-person)
matching (participle present)
matched (participle past)
matched (past)

From Middle English macchen (“to marry; be paired with”), from the noun (see above).

inh

The behavior matched one or more rules and was rejected by an edit filter.

(transitive, programming) To be an example of a rule or regex.


dismount

en-verb

dismount (third-person singular simple present dismounts, present participle dismounting, simple past and past participle dismounted)

dismounts (present singular third-person)
dismounting (participle present)
dismounted (participle past)
dismounted (past)

From dis- + mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.

The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.

PROBLEM: A volume periodically dismounts. There are two drives with one volume on each. From time to time, the second volume dismounts and the drive shuts down.

1995, Rick Sant'Angelo, NetWare unleashed, page 1130

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.

卸下

(computing) to make a mounted drive unavailable for use


cap

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

caps (present singular third-person)
capping (participle present)
capped (participle past)
capped (past)

Call your friends and bring a gun / The Halo revolution's on / Capping flags and arming bombs / Yes, we don't blink until we're done

2007 November 20, Greg Haupt, “LvUrFR3NZ”, in Halo 3 Original Soundtrack, performed by Princeton, Sumthing Else Music Works

(transitive, video games) To take capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.


kit

en-noun

kit (countable and uncountable, plural kits)

From Middle English kyt, kytt, kytte, from Middle Dutch kitte (“a wooden vessel made of hooped staves”). Related to Dutch kit (“tankard”) (see below). The further etymology is unknown. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kitjō-, *kut-, which would be related to the root of Dutch kot (“ramshackle house”), itself of non-Indo-European origin.
The transfer of meaning to the contents of a soldier's knapsack dates to the late 18th century, extended use of any collection of necessaries used for travelling dates to the first half of the 19th century.
The further widening of the sense to a collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble emerges in US English in the mid 20th century.

der

(computing, informal) A full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade.

(video games) The set of skills and abilities chosen for a playable character.


email

en-noun

email (countable and uncountable, plural emails)

The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail. The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail (“to send through the mail”).

He sent me his details via email.

The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.

Please stop sending me “constructive criticisms” via email, or telling me that “ I feel you are being defensive”, especially just after I have told you “you’re loved”. “Rewards” like that are horrible.

(uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network.

e-pos

דואר אלקטרוני \ דֹּאַר אֶלֶקְטְרוֹנִי

ímél

now officially endorsed but still less common

What’s your email?

In this system, your username is your email.

Don’t send personal messages to my work email.


email

en-verb

email (third-person singular simple present emails, present participle emailing, simple past and past participle emailed)

emails (present singular third-person)
emailing (participle present)
emailed (participle past)
emailed (past)

e-pos

(transitive) to send an email or emails to

She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.

(transitive) To send an email or emails to.

I’ll email you the link.

He emailed the file out to everyone.

(transitive, ditransitive) To send (something) through email.

e-pos

(transitive) to send (something) through email

átküld

optionally adding: e-mailen, if the context doesn't make it clear

Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.

(intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.

e-pos

(intransitive) to send, or compose and send, an email or emails


spawn

spawn (third-person singular simple present spawns, present participle spawning, simple past and past participle spawned)

spawns (present singular third-person)
spawning (participle present)
spawned (participle past)
spawned (past)

Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out; spread out”, verb). Doublet of expand. Compare also Middle English spalden, spolden, spawden (“to cut open (a fish)”).

der

We put down torches to stop creepers from spawning.

(ergative, video games) To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time.

生成

to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time


spawn

en-noun

spawn (countable and uncountable, plural spawn or spawns)

From Middle English spawne, from the verb (see above).

потомък

any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring


delete

en-verb

delete (third-person singular simple present deletes, present participle deleting, simple past and past participle deleted)

deletes (present singular third-person)
deleting (participle present)
deleted (participle past)
deleted (past)

→ Portuguese: deletar, delete

From Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from dēlēvī, originally perf. tense of dēlinere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”). Original sense first appears c. 1495. In common use for ordering the absence of features of products (such as automobiles) in the 1960s. Computing sense, including the noun form, first appears c. 1977 in Software: Practice & Experience.

Also I got deleted by a rogue and druid who were both invisible and just popped up and cleaned me.

2020 November 20, “Enhance Arena positioning”, in Blizzard Forums (US)

(online gaming, slang) To defeat or dominate.


delete

Cascading updates and cascading deletes are useful features of the SQL Server database engine.

2003, Jeffrey P. McManus, Jackie Goldstein, Kevin T. Price, Database Access with Visual Basic .NET, page 30

(computing) The delete character (U+007F or %7F).


confluence

From late Middle English confluence, from Late Latin cōnfluentia (“a flowing together, conflux”), from cōnfluēns (present participle of cōnfluō (“to flow or run together”)) + -ia (nominal suffix).

af

present participle of <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">cōnfluō</i> (“to flow or run together”)

(computer science, in rewriting systems) A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.


raise

en-verb

raise (third-person singular simple present raises, present participle raising, simple past and past participle raised)

raises (present singular third-person)
raising (participle present)
raised (participle past)
raised (past)

From Middle English reysen, raisen, reisen, from Old Norse reisa (“to raise”), from Proto-Germanic *raisijaną, *raizijaną (“to raise”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *rīsaną (“to rise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”).
Cognate with Old English rāsian (“to explore, examine, research”), Old English rīsan (“to seize, carry off”), Old English rǣran (“to raise”). Doublet of rear.

whakahī

Referring to lifting the pitch of a musical note

hāpai

Of lifting an object to a higher elevation

hī

Refers to raising an eyebrow in scepticism

aradan qaldırmaq

(military) to remove or break up (a blockade); to relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done

raise oneself up by one's own bootstraps

A division by zero will raise an exception.

Provide some mechanism in the local service class to raise the event. This might take the form of a public method that the host application can invoke to raise the event.

2007, Bruce Bukovics, Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0, page 243

(programming, transitive) To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).


decimate

en-verb

decimate (third-person singular simple present decimates, present participle decimating, simple past and past participle decimated)

decimates (present singular third-person)
decimating (participle present)
decimated (participle past)
decimated (past)

Borrowed from Latin decimāre (“to take or offer a tenth part”), from decimus (“tenth”). As a noun, via Latin decimatus (“tithing area; tithing rights”).

tertiate

reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part

A decimate tool allows us to obtain a more coarse-grained view of the data over the full n-dimensional space.

1999, Mihalisin & al., "Visualizing Multivariate Functions, Data and Distributions" in Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, page 122

However, many times it is more practical to decimate existing high-res models because of time, money or manpower issues.

Given this initial fine mesh, we smooth and decimate it to a desired mesh resolution.

2004, Geremy Heitz et al., “Automatic Generation of Shape Models using Nonrigid Registration with a Single Segmented Template Mesh”, in Vision Modeling and Visualization 2004, page 74

(computer graphics) To replace (a high-resolution model) with another of lower but acceptable quality. (Usually algorithmically)

alentaa resoluutiota

computer graphics: to replace with lower resolution


fold

The verb is from Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”). The noun is from Middle English folde,falde, itself derived from the verb.

For example, a story that is "page I, above the fold" is considered very important news. In web page design, the fold signifies the place at which the user has to scroll down to get more information.

1999, Jared M. Spool, Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide, Morgan Kaufmann, page 77

(by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.

It was Erik Meijer who coined the name hylomorphism to describe a computation that consists of a fold after an unfold. The unfold produces a data structure and the fold consumes it.

2010, Richard Bird, Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design, Cambridge University Press, page 168

functional programming
functional programming

higher-order function
higher-order function

(functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.

(programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.


pebble

en-verb

pebble (third-person singular simple present pebbles, present participle pebbling, simple past and past participle pebbled)

pebbles (present singular third-person)
pebbling (participle present)
pebbled (participle past)
pebbled (past)

From Middle English pibel (also in pibleston), from Old English papolstān (“pebble-stone”), from Old English *papol, *pyppel, *pæbbel of unknown origin + Old English stān. Compare Albanian popël.

unk

unknown

(transitive, graph theory) To place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules; see pebble game.


cage

→ Zulu: ikheji

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.

(graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.


badge

→ Japanese: バッジ (bajji)

→ Korean: 배지 (baeji)

From Middle English badge, bagge, bage, bagy, from Anglo-Norman bage or Medieval Latin bagea, bagia (“sign, emblem”), of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from Medieval Latin baga (“ring”), from Old Saxon bāg, bōg (“ring, ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, bracelet, armband”); or possibly the Anglo-Norman word is derived from an earlier, unattested English word (compare Old English bēag (“ring, bracelet, collar, crown”). Cognate with Scots bagie, badgie, bawgy (“badge”).

cog

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A small overlay on an icon that shows additional information about that item, such as the number of new alerts or messages.

When you have checked in to the site from ten different cities, you unlock the Traveller badge.

(Internet, video games) An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement.


default

en-noun

default (countable and uncountable, plural defaults)

→ Russian: дефо́лт (defólt)

From Middle English defaut, defaute, from Old French defaute (“fault, defect, failure, culpability, lack”), ultimately from Latin de- (“away”) + fallo (“deceive, cheat, escape notice of”).

der

(electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory

լռելյայն

electronics, computing: original settings


default

en-verb

default (third-person singular simple present defaults, present participle defaulting, simple past and past participle defaulted)

defaults (present singular third-person)
defaulting (participle present)
defaulted (participle past)
defaulted (past)

If you don't specify a color, it defaults to red.

It defaults your application to Windows authentication mode, and if you want to use forms mode, you can just change it in the authentication section of the file.

2002, Tony Martin, Dominic Selly, Visual Basic .NET at Work: Building 10 Enterprise Projects, page 346

(transitive, intransitive, computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.

käyttää oletusarvona

computing: to assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard


try

Trésor de la langue française informatisé

From Middle English trien (“to try a legal case”), from Anglo-Norman trier (“to try a case”), Old French trier (“to choose, pick out or separate from others, sift, cull”), of uncertain origin. It is probably related to Italian tritare (“to grind; to sort; to analyze”) (see also French trier). Alternatively, believed to be a metathetic variation of Old French tirer (“to pull out, snatch”), from Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (tiran, “to tear away, remove”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”), see tear. Related to Occitan triar (“to pick out, choose from among others”), although the Occitan verb could also be a borrowing from French. Alternatively or by confluence, the Old French is from Gallo-Roman Vulgar Latin *triare, of unknown origin.
Replaced native Middle English cunnen (“to try”) (from Old English cunnian), Middle English fandien (“to try, prove”) (from Old English fandian), and Middle English costnien (“to try, tempt, test”) (from Old English costnian).

cog

[t̠͡ɹ̠̊˔aɪ̯]

[t̠͡ɹ̠̊˔ʷaɪ̯]

(programming) A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.


parity

en-noun

parity (countable and uncountable, plural parities)

From Middle French parité, from Late Latin paritas, from Latin pār (“equal”). Equivalent to pari- + -ty.

parita

math: classification into one set or the other

Senses related to classification into two sets.

(computing) The count of one bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.