GNU FDL

GNU Free Documentation License
w:GNU Free Documentation License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of GNU Free Documentation License.


current events

en-noun

current events pl (normally plural, singular current event)

Current affairs; those events and issues of interest currently found in the news.


denotation

denotation (countable and uncountable, plural denotations)

From Late Latin dēnotātiō, from Latin dēnotāre (“to denote, mark out”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns of action), from dē- (“completely”) + notāre (“to mark”); equivalent to denote + -ation.

denotational semantics
denotational semantics

(computer science) Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics


mouse potato

Lady Miss Kier is a mouse potato. 'I wake up, I go and turn the computer on before I wash my face or brush my teeth. I'll be sitting there in my underwear, and before I know it, four hours have passed. Then I pick up the phone, push some more buttons and the food delivery arrives, and then 16 hours have passed in front of the computer. It leaves you completely drained.'

1994 July 14, Ruth Shurman, “Me and my Gizmo: No. 8”, in The Guardian

The internet, the authors say, affords the average mouse-potato the opportunity to experience a Naipaul-esque enigma of arrival in far-away lands without ever leaving the shores of Trinidad.

2001 December 7, Aniruddho Sanyal, “The Trini Trinity Is Found On De Line”, in The Times Higher Education Supplement

(slang) A person who spends excessive amounts of time using a computer.


watchlist

The police have hundreds of citizens on their watchlists.

The TSA provides the airlines with the “No Fly” and “Automatic Selectee” watchlists for use in identifying passengers who are to be denied boarding or who require additional scrutiny prior to boarding. The “No Fly” watchlist is a list of persons who are considered a direct threat to U.S. civil aviation.

2010, William J. Krouse, Terrorist Watchlist Checks and Air Passenger Prescreening, page 11

A list of people or things that are assigned to receive special attention or monitoring.


semantics

semantics (countable and uncountable, plural semantics)

From French sémantique, displacing earlier semasiology. From Ancient Greek σημαντικός (sēmantikós). By surface analysis, semantic + -ics.

file sharing and locking semantics

(computer science) The meaning of computer language constructs, in contrast to their form or syntax.


Frankenstein complex

Frankenstein complex (plural Frankenstein complexes)

Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1947 in his novelette Little Lost Robot. From Victor Frankenstein, the title character of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.

coin

I'll admit that this Frankenstein Complex you're exhibiting has a certain justification—hence the First Law in the first place.

1947 March, Isaac Asimov, “Little Lost Robot”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 39, number 1, page 116

Mr. Graf, you're still disturbed. You sure you're not harboring just a little of the old Frankenstein complex about all this? It's all right to admit it to me—in fact, I want you to talk about it.

1987 December, Lois McMaster Bujold, “Falling Free”, in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, volume 108, number 13, page 30

The central character of Mary Shelley's novel by the same name 'Frankenstein' is used as an adjective in a variety of biomedical contexts, eg Frankenstein complex The fear that machines via artificial intelligence may replace physicians

1992, Joseph C. Segen, The Dictionary of Modern Medicine, page 234

No wonder Gibson introduces the Turing Registry agents in Neuromancer, representatives of cyberpunk's own apparent Frankenstein Complex: “For thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible.[…]”

2010, Graham J. Murphy, Sherryl Vint, editors, Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives, Routledge, page 197

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

The fear that an artificial intelligence will turn against humans.


accessibility

en-noun

accessibility (usually uncountable, plural accessibilities)

From accessible + -ity, after Late Latin accessibilitas, from Latin accessibilis.

The purpose of this study is to measure West Virginia University's website accessibility for students and users who are blind or visually impaired and compare that measurement to the measurement of other websites of […]

2007, Accessibility of WVU Websites for Individuals with Vision Impairments, ProQuest, page 4

(computing, web design) Features that increase software usability for users with certain impairments.

無障礙

feature that increases software usability


LDP

Linux Documentation Project
w:Linux Documentation Project

(computing) Initialism of Linux Documentation Project.

Label Distribution Protocol
w:Label Distribution Protocol

(networking) Initialism of Label Distribution Protocol.


acceptor

From Middle English acceptour, from Latin acceptor, with the meanings from accept.

finite-state machine
finite-state machine

(computing theory) A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.


IRC

Internet Relay Chat
Internet Relay Chat#English

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Relay Chat.


IRC

en-verb

IRC (third-person singular simple present IRCs, present participle IRCing, simple past and past participle IRCed)

IRCs (present singular third-person)
IRCing (participle present)
IRCed (participle past)
IRCed (past)

<Xantha> <- irced 2 yrs without aliases […]

1995, Stuart Harris, The Irc Survival Guide

[…] IRCing can confirm the observation that work and play appear to constitute a continuum for the digerati.

2002, James Arnt Aune, Selling the Free Market

[…] not that this is strange or anything, I do the same thing myself when I'm IRCing — there're some real weirdos out there roaming the Net […]

2004, Allison Rushby, Friday Night Cocktails

(intransitive, Internet, informal) To participate in Internet Relay Chat.


your mileage may vary

The United States Environmental Protection Agency requires all new vehicles to undergo a set of standard emissions tests which simulate city and highway driving. Part of the test measures estimated city and highway gas (petrol) mileage estimates. Since no test can exactly simulate all driving habits and conditions, the actual gas mileage of each vehicle will vary. As a result, when these estimated mileage claims from automobile manufacturers appear in advertisements, they are almost always accompanied with the standard disclaimer “your mileage may vary”.

The battery lasts a day in my phone, but your mileage may vary.

When that definition is executed, the metadata for the temporary table is put into your schema (most likely—your mileage may vary), but no space is allocated to hold data.

1993, Jim Melton, Alan R. Simon, “Basic Data Definition Language (DDL)”, in Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide, San Francisco, Calif.: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, section 4.3.4 (Temporary Tables), page 74

In other words, your mileage may vary and my disk-size figures are just estimates provided for your convenience.

1994, Bob LeVitus, Macintosh System 7.5 for Dummies (For Dummies), San Mateo, Calif.: IDG Books, page 328

We pause here to emphasize that with animals, there are no absolutes. […] We like to say that with any given wolf or dog, "your mileage may vary."

2012, Jessica Addams, Andrew Miller, “Modern Wolf Mythology: The Things that ‘Everyone Knows’”, in Between Dog and Wolf: Understanding the Connection and the Confusion, Wenatchee, Wash.: Dogwise Publishing

Mallory Ortberg: […] The advice game is the ultimate your-mileage-may-vary exercise—do you have a feeling for when someone is looking for (or needs) a gentle smack to return them to their senses, a bit of empathy, a dose of humor? It’s a tricky balance, I think, between writing something entertaining for your many readers and trying to be genuinely helpful to the original writer.

2015 November 12, Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Emily Yoffe, “Dear Prudie, from Prudie: Emily Yoffe’s advice to her successor, Mallory Ortberg”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2018-02-07

(Canada, US, idiomatic, often computing) It may work differently in your situation, or be different in your experience.

možná to máte jinak

it may work differently in your situation

ez mindenkinél másként/máshogy/máshogyan van/működik (persze)

э́то мо́жет срабо́тать у тебя́ по-друго́му


ASCII

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

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

In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) was developed from telegraphic codes.

2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 127

American Standard Code for Information Interchange#English

(computing) Acronym of American Standard Code for Information Interchange.


OCR

en-noun

OCR (countable and uncountable, plural OCRs)

optical character recognition
optical character recognition#English

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of optical character recognition (the technology or principle).

optical character reader
optical character reader#English

(computing, countable) Initialism of optical character reader (the scanning device).


FTP

File Transfer Protocol
File Transfer Protocol#English

(Internet) Initialism of File Transfer Protocol (a technology for transferring files over the Internet)


FTP

en-verb

FTP (third-person singular simple present FTPs, present participle FTPing, simple past and past participle FTPed)

FTPs (present singular third-person)
FTPing (participle present)
FTPed (participle past)
FTPed (past)

Just as newsgroups have certain rules to live by, there are several courtesies to remember when FTPing and telneting to remote sites […]

Having saved header.php, I FTPed it back to the Sandbox theme folder, overwriting the old version.

2008, Paul Thewlis, WordPress for Business Bloggers

File Transfer Protocol
File Transfer Protocol

(computing, transitive) To transfer using File Transfer Protocol.


FAQ

Abbreviation of frequently asked questions.

abbreviation of

This site's FAQ says you should log in to access some pages.

(Internet) A list of questions said to be frequently asked, and their answers.


pseudo

From Middle English, derived from prefix pseudo-, itself derived from Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”).

der

Issues such as verifiability (for age declared), anonymity (in spite of pseudos and avatars) and traceability are at stake[…]

2011, Divina Frau-Meigs, Media Matters in the Cultural Contradictions of the "Information Society", page 299

(Internet, clipping) A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.


swap

From the verb swap. First attested in 1620.

How much swap do you need?

(computing, informal, uncountable) Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.


GUI

Coordinate term: TUI

graphical user interface
graphical user interface#English

(computing) Initialism of graphical user interface.


bureaucrat

/ˈbjʊəɹəkɹæt/

/ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/

One of three major processes is generally used: a bureaucrat review, a broader community review, or an approvals group review. As only local bureaucrats or Wikimedia stewards can grant the bot flag necessary to operate an authorized bot, the simplest method is to appeal directly to these individuals.

2014, Pnina Fichman, Noriko Hara, editors, Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration, Rowman & Littlefield, page 18

(wiki jargon) A user on a wiki with the right to change user access levels.


PM

en-verb

PM (third-person singular simple present PMs, present participle PMing, simple past and past participle PMed)

PMs (present singular third-person)
PMing (participle present)
PMed (participle past)
PMed (past)

PM me if you want more information.

(Internet, transitive) To send a private message to (a participant in a chat room, etc.).


obfuscate

obfuscate (third-person singular simple present obfuscates, present participle obfuscating, simple past and past participle obfuscated)

obfuscates (present singular third-person)
obfuscating (participle present)
obfuscated (participle past)
obfuscated (past)
obfuscate (infinitive)

explain

antonym(s) of “to deliberately make less confusing”

From Middle French obfusquer, from Old French offusquer, and the participle stem of Late Latin obfuscō, from Latin ob- + fuscō (“to darken”).

We need to obfuscate these classes before we ship the final release.

(computing) To alter code while preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.


RTFM

(Internet slang, Unix, vulgar) Initialism of read the fucking man page.


craft

craft (third-person singular simple present crafts, present participle crafting, simple past and past participle crafted)

crafts (present singular third-person)
crafting (participle present)
crafted (participle past)
crafted (past)

From Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure.
Cognate with German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”).

cog

(video games) To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

crafter

to combine different items to form a new one.


synonym

From Middle English sinonyme, from Latin synōnymum, from Ancient Greek συνώνυμον (sunṓnumon), neuter singular form of συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos, “synonymous”), from σύν (sún, “with”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”). By surface analysis, syn- + -onym.

Synonyms are part of the SQL standard and are used frequently by Oracle DBAs. Note that Oracle includes both private and public synonyms.

2011, Paul Nielsen, Uttam Parui, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Bible

(databases) An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.


fnord

A neologism from the Principia Discordia popularized in the Illuminatus! trilogy.

metasyntactic variable
metasyntactic variable

(programming) A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.


OS

I've decided to install two different OSes on my new laptop.

Some vendors do now have a variant of the per-unit royalty (usually termed a “shared risk,” or similar approach), but it is not strictly the same as for those proprietary embedded OSes mentioned before […]

2008, Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Building Embedded Linux Systems

A policy-created scheduled task will be accepted by computers running client OSes as old as Windows 2000 […]

2010, Jorge Orchilles, Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference

In a dual-boot configuration, you install two OSs on the computer (Windows XP and Windows 2000, for example).

2009, Emmett Dulaney, CompTIA A+ Complete Review Guide

operating system
operating system#English

(software) Initialism of operating system.


jiffy

Origin unknown; said to have been thieves’ cant for “lightning”. Also formerly written "giffy", to which a connection with gliff has been proposed. As a kind of envelope, a genericization of Jiffy bag.

unk

unknown

The FOR...NEXT loop for TIME increments by STEP 2 (every two jiffies) for two reasons: 1) the printing of 60 jiffies a second is too fast to read, and 2) the printing of each jiffy takes longer than its incrementations; this would delay the loop, so the printing of TIME$ is slower than it should be.

1980, Carroll S. Donahue, Janice K. Enger, PET-CBM Personal Computer Guide, Berkeley, Calif.: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, →OCLC, page 283

The number of processed packets per round is limited in dependence of the page size. The processed packets are forwarded to a single queue and are processed for the time of two jiffies.

2015, Johanna Ullrich, Edgar R. Weippl, “Protection through Isolation: Virtues and Pitfalls”, in Ryan Ko, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, editors, The Cloud Security Ecosystem: Technical, Legal, Business and Management Issues (Syngress Advanced Topics in Information Security), Waltham, Mass.: Syngress, page 135

(computing) A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values.

систе́мный тик

(computing) Unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer


computer science

en-noun

computer science (usually uncountable, plural computer sciences)

The study of computers and their architecture, languages, and applications, in all aspects, as well as the mathematical structures that relate to computers and computation.


DOD

(scrum, software) Initialism of definition of done.


achievement

achievement (countable and uncountable, plural achievements)

From Middle French achevement (compare Modern French achèvement), from Old French achevement, from the verb achever, achiever (“to finish”); equivalent to achieve + -ment. The heraldic sense may be influenced by hatchment.

Finishing the game does not give you a 100% score until you have unlocked all of the achievements.

(video games) An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.


DOS

Coordinate term: CP/M

Next, using your word processor or the DOS text editor, you can edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

1993, Kris A. Jamsa, DOS: The Complete Reference, McGraw–Hill Osborne Media

One way to do that is to turn the PC off and turn it back on again. Then, the PC performs its self-test and boots DOS.

1993, Doug Lowe, The Only DOS Book You'll Ever Need, Mike Murach & Associates Incorporated, page 95

Disk Operating System
w:Disk Operating System

(computing, historical) Acronym of Disk Operating System, a family of disk-based operating systems.


DOS

Alternative form: DoS

denial of service
denial of service#English

(computing, Internet) Initialism of denial of service.


google

From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).

Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.

2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 51

An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.

գուգլ

Internet search performed on the Google search engine

otsing

Internet search performed on any search engine

The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.

(dated) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.


google

en-verb

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)

googles (present singular third-person)
googling (participle present)
googled (participle past)
googled (past)

Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.

Have fun and keep googling!
This is the first occurrence of the term in print.

1998 July 8, Larry Page, “New Features”, in eGroups, archived from the original on 1999-10-09

Willow: Have you googled her yet?
Xander: Willow! She's 17!
Willow: It's a search engine.

2002 October 15, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, “Help”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 7, episode 4, spoken by Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris (Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon)

Google it.

2002 December 13, Kevin Wade, Maid in Manhattan, spoken by Marisa (Jennifer Lopez)

Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. Kenneth Lay, I came up with a report in the newspaper Oil Daily headlined "Lay apologizes." But tel me if you can find any remorse in his actual words: […]

2002 December 28, Bill Keller, “Who’s sorry now?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-03-23, page A-19

To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.

googloj

to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine

I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.

(by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.

hakea

to search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine

His name googles.

(intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.

löytyä netistä

to be locatable in a search of the Internet


BC

en-noun

BC (countable and uncountable, plural BCs)

Calque of Latin ante Christum, popularized with the 1627 publication of De doctrina temporum by French theologian Denis Pétau.

This would be a BC-breaking change.

backward compatibility
backward compatibility#English

(software) Initialism of backward compatibility.


IME

Japanese IMEs can work with both QWERTY keyboards and Japanese keyboards.

input method editor
input method editor#English

(computing) Initialism of input method editor.


dialect

From Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectos, dialectus, from Ancient Greek διάλεκτος (diálektos, “conversation, the language of a country or a place or a nation, the local idiom which derives from a dominant language”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “I participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “inter, through”) + λέγω (légō, “I speak”).

der

Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.

programming language
programming language

(computing, programming) A variant of a non-standardized programming language.


accordion

→ Irish: acordán

desc

แอกคอร์เดียน

→ Thai: แอกคอร์เดียน (ɛ́k-kɔɔ-dîian)

→ Thai: แอกคอร์เดียน (ɛ́k-kɔɔ-dîian)

First attested in 1831. From German Akkordeon, from Akkord (“harmony”), from French accord, from Old French acorder, based on Italian accordare (“to tune”). See also accord.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.


BM

en-noun

BM (countable and uncountable, plural BMs)

Fans know IdrA for his BM — Bad Manners.

2014, Doug Hendrie, AmalgaNations: How Globalisation Is Good

(video games) Initialism of bad manners. Behaviour which shows disrespect to an opponent.


BM

en-verb

BM (third-person singular simple present BMs, present participle BMing, simple past and past participle BMed)

BMs (present singular third-person)
BMing (participle present)
BMed (participle past)
BMed (past)


Pythonesque

en-adj

Pythonesque (comparative more Pythonesque, superlative most Pythonesque)

more Pythonesque (comparative)
most Pythonesque (superlative)

The module works by wrapping the C-extended Tkinter module into Pythonesque classes.

2001, Andy Duncan, Sean Hull, Oracle and Open Source: Tools and Applications

If you want to cut out a third line, you can rewrite the above with a lambda function, which turns four lines into one (how very Pythonesque).

2003, Richard Hightower, Python Programming with the Java Class Libraries

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


jitter

(computing) A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.


HTML

Hypertext Markup Language
Hypertext Markup Language#English

Initialism of Hypertext Markup Language.


operating system

en-noun

operating system (plural operating systems)

/ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtɪŋ ˌsɪstəm/

/ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɪŋ ˌsɪstəm/

This operating system enjoys little market share but the software is open source and free, and it performs as just as well as the leading competitor's.

(computing, software) Software for controlling the allocation and use of various hardware resources (memory, CPU time, disk space, input and output devices) to tasks and remote terminals.

ഓപറേറ്റിങ്ങ് സിസ്റ്റം

ōpaṟēṟṟiṅṅŭ sisṟṟaṁ


abort

→ Polish: abort

→ Portuguese: abort

From Middle English, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“come into being”). Doublet of abortus.

(computing) The function used to abort a process.

We've had three aborts over the last two days.

(computing) An event in which a process is aborted.


abort

en-verb

abort (third-person singular simple present aborts, present participle aborting, simple past and past participle aborted)

aborts (present singular third-person)
aborting (participle present)
aborted (participle past)
aborted (past)

From Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).

(transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.

終止

computing: to terminate a process prior to completion


RAM

random-access memory
random access memory#English

(electronics, computing) Acronym of random-access memory.

ՕՀՍ

random access memory — see also random access memory

ΜΤΠ

μνήμη τυχαίας προσπέλασης f (mními tychaías prospélasis)

Coordinate term: PRAM

(computer science) Acronym of random-access machine.


nag screen

WinRAR shows a nag screen once its 40-day trial is over to encourage users to buy a license.

The first screen to pop up is the nag screen; be patient, it disappears after 5 seconds. (Have you ever wondered why nag screens are mandatory for shareware?)

1996, New and improved stupid Windows tricks, page 17

(computing) A message displayed by a nagware program to encourage the user to purchase the full version.


avatar

→ Japanese: アバター

Avatar (Hinduism)
Chip Morningstar
LucasArts
Neal Stephenson
Randy Farmer
Shadowrun
Snow Crash
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
pen and paper

Attested 1784, borrowed from Hindustani अवतार / اوتار (avtār), from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”), a compound of अव (ava, “off, away, down”) and the vṛddhi-stem of the root √तॄ (√tṝ, “to cross”).
In computing use, saw some use in 1980s videos games – 1985 online role-playing game Habitat by Lucasfilm Games (today LucasArts), by Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer, later versions of the Ultima series (following religious use in 1985 Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar), and 1989 pen and paper role-playing game Shadowrun. Popularized by the 1992 novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

أَفَاتَار

A virtual intelligence is an advanced form of user interface software. VIs use a variety of methods to simulate natural conversation, including an audio interface and an avatar personality to interact with.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Computers: Virtual Intelligence (VI) Codex entry

Devices now track and record our every move and, whether we like it or not, each one of us will bequeath to posterity a virtual avatar, a digital being whose calls, messages, transactions, loves and losses will live on in a vast, unregulated cyberspace. The afterlife has arrived, at least for our cyberbeings.

2013 November 27, Roger Cohen, “The past in our future”, in The New York Times

en:an instantiation digitally with a simulation

(computing, video games, metaverse) A complex and dynamic digital representation of a person or being in the form of a digital model, used online as a simulation or emulation of a person, or as a person's online alter ego, in a virtual world, virtual chat room, or metaverse.

Coordinate term: icon

en:an instantiation digitally with a simulacrum

(computing, video games) A simple and static or nearly static digital representation of a person or being in the form of a small digital object, used online as a simulacrum or token of a person or that person's online alter ego, in any digital environment but especially in non-virtual, non-metaversal ones.


transitive

From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).

(graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.


noun

From Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen.

Nouns are the data; verbs are the data transformations, and therefore verbs represent much of the complexity of systems.

1992, Brad A. Myers, David C. Smith, Bruce Horn, chapter 19, in Languages for Developing User Interfaces

You choose either (1) the verb (change font) first and then select the noun (the paragraph) to which the verb should apply or (2) the noun first and then apply the verb.

2000, Jeff Raskin, The Humane Interface, page 59

Thus, in essence, the mouse provides a capability for picking among a set of nouns (for instance, the file to which to apply some action) and verbs (such as "edit" or "insert")

2005, Barbara J. Grosz, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 149, number 4

(computing) An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.


libre

Sense 1 (“especially of the will: free, independent”) is borrowed from French libre (“at liberty, free; clear, free, vacant; free, without obligation”), from Latin līber (“free, unrestricted”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).
Senses 2 (“(software) with very few limitations on distribution or improvement”) and 3 ("not enslaved") are either borrowed from the French word or the Spanish libre (“free: not enslaved or imprisoned; without obligation; unconstrained by distrust or timidity; not containing, without”), from the same Latin etymon as above.

bor

One more point leads toward Free Software in education: when students get jobs, they prefer to use tools they learned at school in order to minimize extra learning efforts. This fact should lead colleges to teach only those tools not owned by anyone—those that are libre.

1999 February, Alessandro Rubini, “Software Libre and Commercial Viability”, in Marjorie Richardson, editor, Linux Journal: The Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community, number 58, Seattle, Wash.: Specialized System Consultants, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 48, column 1

The great potential of libre software for development and social inclusion has long been emphasized. The cost aspect of it, though it might act as a driver, is only one limited aspect of the benefits of libre software in developing countries, deprived regions, or urban areas. The empowerment of persons and groups to not only use technology, but understand it, at the level and rhythm that fits them, with the resulting ability to become active contributors and to innovate are the essence of libre software.

2005, Philippe Aigrain, “Libre Software Policies at the European Level”, in Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott A. Hissam, Karim R. Lakhani, editors, Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software, Cambridge, Mass., London: MIT Press, pages 454–455

The formal definition of Open Access, however, does require re-use rights to enable the article to be re-used in various ways (text-mined, translated into other languages, used in part in other products, etc.), [...]. This is what is known as ‘libre’ Open Access. ‘Libre’ Open Access does not yet constitute the bulk of Open Access literature. In institutional repositories the majority of articles are of the ‘gratis’ type, though a small proportion carry an appropriate (usually Creative Commons) licence and are ‘libre’.

2012, Alma Swan, “Section 3. The Importance of Open Access.”, in Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access (Open Guidelines Series), Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, section 3.2 (Levels of Open Access), page 25, column 2

Free and open-source software (F/OSS, FOSS) or free/libre/open-source software (FLOSS) is a software that is both a free software and an open source. FOSS is a computer software that is available in source code (open source) form and that can be used, studied, copied, modified, and redistributed without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients have the same rights under which it was obtained (free or libre). Free software, software libre, or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients have the same rights under which it was obtained and that manufacturers of consumer products incorporating free software provide that software as source code.

2014, Joshua M. Pearce, “Introduction to Open-source Hardware for Science”, in Open-source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs, Waltham, Mass., Kidlington, Oxfordshire: Elsevier, section 1.2 (What is Open Source?), pages 1–2

(software) With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge.


definition

en-noun

definition (countable and uncountable, plural definitions)

From Middle English diffinicioun, from Middle French definition, from Latin dēfīnītiō, from dēfīniō. Equivalent to define + -ition.

(programming) A statement which provides a previous declaration with a value or body of a subroutine (in the case of function).


Macaddict

A fanatical advocate of the Macintosh computer system.


macrovirus

/ˈmækɹoʊˌvaɪɹəs/

A macrovirus is a type of virus that is embedded in a document that used the macro programming language.

2002, Kathleen Sindell, Safety Net: Protecting Your Business on the Internet, John Wiley & Sons, page 243

A computer virus written in a macro language.


verb

From Middle English verbe, directly from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and word.

You can invoke the Properties OLE verb in many ways. The easiest way is to move the mouse over the border of the control until it becomes only a four-way pointer and then right-click.

1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out, page 321

The InfiniBand verbs, which are closely modeled in the “Gen2” interface, provide the functional specification for the operations that should be allowed on an InfiniBand compliant adapter.

2016, Ada Gavrilovska, Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach

(programming) A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.


sound card

(computer hardware) A computer hardware device used for generating and capturing sounds.

聲卡

a computer hardware device used for generating and capturing sounds


webmaster

A person responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a website or websites.

gwiasvester

the person responsible for maintaining a website


metadata

[ˈmɛɾ.əˌdeɪ.ɾə]

That photo's metadata suggests it was edited using Photoshop.

(computing) Structured information about a file (date created, creator, software used to create, last modified, file format, file fingerprint, etc).


SIM

security information management
w:security information management

(computer security) Initialism of security information management.


lens

lens (plural lenses or (obsolete) lens or (rare) lentes)

lenses (plural)
lens (obsolete plural)
lentes (plural rare)

→ Bengali: লেন্স (lenś)

→ Turkish: lens

Borrowed from Latin lēns (“lentil”), with Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of “lens”, a semantic loan from Arabic عَدْسَة (ʕadsa, “lentil; optic lens”).

semantic loan

(programming) A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.


CLL

en-noun

CLL (countable and uncountable, plural CLLs)

(countable, computing) Initialism of command line language.


shadowing

shadowing (countable and uncountable, plural shadowings)

(computing) The technique of copying ROM contents to RAM to allow for shorter access times. The ROM chip is then disabled while the initialized memory locations are switched in on the same block of addresses.


robot

→ Hindi: रोबोट (roboṭ)

→ Japanese: ロボット (robotto)

→ Korean: 로봇 (robot)

→ Swahili: roboti

→ Welsh: robot

Internet Archive
Josef Čapek
Karel Čapek
R.U.R.

table
Borrowed from Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1920 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef, and taken into English without change.

(South Africa) A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).


consensus

consensus (countable and uncountable, plural consensuses or consensus)

Borrowed from Latin cōnsēnsus (“agreement, accordance, unanimity”), from cōnsentiō (“feel together; agree”); see consent.

bor

(computing) An agreement on some data value that is needed during computation.


alphabet

From Middle English alphabete, borrowed from Late Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from ἄλφα (álpha) and βῆτα (bêta), the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Α (A) and Β (B), lowercase forms α and β. The Greek names derived from aleph, the name of the Phoenician letter 𐤀 (ʾ, “ox”) and beth, the name of the letter 𐤁 (b, “house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs F1 (𓃾) and pr (𓉐).
 Doublet of alfabeto.

Let L be a regular language over the alphabet #x5C;Sigma.

(computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.


SMS

/ˌɛs ɛm ˈɛs/

(video games) Initialism of Sega Master System.


AA

en-noun

AA (countable and uncountable, plural AAs)

(computer graphics) Initialism of antialiasing.


AA

en-verb

AA (third-person singular simple present AAs, present participle AAing, simple past and past participle AAed)

AAs (present singular third-person)
AAing (participle present)
AAed (participle past)
AAed (past)

On the other hand, edge AA in EF2000 didn't make much difference because only the objects were AAed and they made up only a very small percentage of the screen area.

1999 September 12, Darin Genereux, “Re: "Anti-Aliasing vs. More Polygons" teapot page has been UPDATED”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video (Usenet)

Vector images can be considered to have extremely high resolution, so it is possible to AA them.

2003 June 25, Ilari Liusvaara, “Re: I have a Linux Desktop dream, desktoplinux.com”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet)

(computer graphics, transitive) Initialism of antialias.


adverb

From French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”), so called because it is used to supplement other words.

(programming) In the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.


mobile

→ Japanese: モバイル (mobairu)

→ Kurtöp: མོ་བའིལ (mobail)

→ Persian: موبایل (mobâil)

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).

der

there are many business opportunities in mobile

(uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices.


global

en-adj

global (comparative more global, superlative most global)

more global (comparative)
most global (superlative)

domestic

antonym(s) of “concerning all parts of the world”

local

antonym(s) of “of a variable, in computing”

From globe + -al; compare French global.

Global variables keep support engineers employed.

(not comparable) Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal:

(not comparable, computing) Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.

-omfattande (e.g. systemomfattande, programomfattande)


global

(computing) A globally scoped identifier.


wireless

en-noun

wireless (usually uncountable, plural (dated) wirelesses)

If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.

(uncountable, networking) Wireless connectivity to a computer network.

безжично свързване

wireless connectivity to a computer network


season

→ Japanese: シーズン (shīzun)

From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow”), sǣd (“seed”). Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English sǣl (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd (“time, period, yeartide, season”)).

temps

(obsolete) an extended, undefined period of time

(video games) The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game

(video games) A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.


add

en-verb

add (third-person singular simple present adds, present participle adding, simple past and past participle added)

adds (present singular third-person)
adding (participle present)
added (participle past)
added (past)
add (infinitive)

From Middle English adden, from Latin addō (“add, give unto”), from ad (“to”) + dō (“give”).

Typically, a hostile mob will add whenever it's within the aggro radius of a player.

(intransitive, video games) To summon minions or reinforcements.

(transitive, Internet, text messaging, video games) To add someone as a friend.


add

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

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

(computer science) An act or instance of adding.

When the player has fought the boss for one minute, two adds will arrive from the back and must be dealt with.

(video games) An additional enemy that joins a fight after the primary target.


network

filtered-popping recursive transition network

The copy machine is connected to the network so it can now serve as a printer.

(computing, Internet) Multiple computers and other devices connected together to share information

netwerk

multiple computers and other devices connected together


y

Abbreviations.
y
# (stenoscript) the sound sequence /ɔɪ̯/.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of why.
# (stenoscript) the suffix -ry or -rry.


dictionary

/ˈdɪkʃənəɹi/

/ˈdɪkʃəˌnɛɹi/

From Middle English dixionare, learned borrowing from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium, from Latin dictiōnārius, from dictiō (“a speaking”), from dictus, perfect past participle of dīcō (“to speak”) + -ārium (“room, place”). By surface analysis, diction + -ary.

User calls RouteCollection.GetVirtualPath, passing in a RequestContext, a dictionary of values, and an optional route name used to select the correct route to generate the URL.

2011, Jon Galloway, Phil Haack, Brad Wilson, Professional ASP.NET MVC 3

(computing) An associative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a dictionary (sense 1).


abstraction

en-noun

abstraction (countable and uncountable, plural abstractions)

From Middle English abstraccyone; either from Middle French abstraction or from Medieval Latin abstrāctiō (“separation”), from Latin abstrahō (“draw away”). Equivalent to abstract + -ion.

der

Files are an abstraction provided by the file system for storing data, so that applications do not have to care how that data is stored.

(computing) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.


WYSIWYG

Coined by computer typesetter John W. Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s.

coin

WYSIWYGs are helpful tools in that they enable you to create pages much more quickly

2003, James H. Pence, How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML, page 132

(computing) Software that allows editing on screen what the printed version would be like; software with a what-you-see-is-what-you-get display interface.

所見即所得

computer program that allows editing on screen what the printed version would be like

wirklichkeitsgetreue Darstellung auf dem Bildschirm

מה שאתה רואה זה מה שאתה מקבל (informal; there is no formal translation)

ne görüyorsan onu alırsın (informal; there is no formal translation)


skill

en-verb

skill (third-person singular simple present skills, present participle skilling, simple past and past participle skilled)

skills (present singular third-person)
skilling (participle present)
skilled (participle past)
skilled (past)

From Middle English skilen (also schillen), partly from Old English scilian (“to separate, part, divide off”); and partly from Old Norse skilja (“to divide, separate”); both from Proto-Germanic *skilōną, *skiljaną (“to divide, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skille (“to separate, discard”), Swedish skilja (“to distinguish, differentiate, part”), Icelandic skilja (“to understand”), Low German schelen (“to make a difference; to be squint-eyed”), Dutch schelen (“to make a difference”).

cog

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

(video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.


feature

→ German: Feature

→ Ukrainian: фі́ча (fíča)

From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factūra, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Doublet of facture.

feature

long, prominent article or item in the media

The program contained an internal feature, which allowed a user to update display text after each command keystroke.

(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

funcionalitat

computing: beneficial capability of a piece of software

Coordinate term: (output) parameter

MIT researchers are striving to improve the interpretability of features so decision makers will be more comfortable using the outputs of machine-learning models. Drawing on years of field work, they developed a taxonomy to help developers craft features that will be easier for their target audience to understand.

2022 June 30, Adam Zewe, “Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models”, in MIT News

(statistics, machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.


accelerator

* First attested in 1611.
* (motor vehicle): First attested in 1900.
* accelerate + -or

a pedal used to control a vehicle's speed

a device that speeds up computer processing

a key which a user can press to activate a menu

If they had allowed single-character accelerators, Windows wouldn't be able to determine whether the character was input or a shortcut.

2002, Davis Howard Chapman, Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++ .NET in 21 Days, page 187

(computing) A computer component using dedicated hardware to accelerate the processing and display of graphics.


send

From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *sandijan, from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sont-eye- (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun is from the verb.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian seende (“to send”), Dutch zenden (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Danish and Norwegian sende (“to send”), Swedish sända (“to send”), Icelandic senda (“to send”). Related also to Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith.

Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo.

(graphical user interface; often capitalized, or capitalized and put in quotation marks) An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message.


inc

(Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of incoming.


inc

(programming) Abbreviation of increment.


accumulator

From Latin accumulātor, agent noun of accumulō (“pile up”), accumulate + -or.

The contents of the memory location and accumulator are NOT altered, but the Negative, Zero and Carry flags are conditioned according to the result of the subtraction.

1986, Jules H. Gilder, Apple IIc and IIe Assembly Language, Springer Science & Business Media, page 139

The function signature has changed to include the additional parameter accumulator. This parameter, in a way, takes on the job of the return value.

2011, Oliver Sturm, Functional Programming in C#, John Wiley & Sons, page 122

(programming) A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.

accumulator

computer science: register for holding intermediate results

(cryptography) A one way membership function.


point

→ Cantonese: point

→ Indonesian: poin

→ Japanese: ポイント (pointo)

→ Korean: 포인트 (pointeu)

From Middle English poynt, from Old French point m (“dot; minute amount”), from Latin pūnctum (“a hole punched in; a point, puncture”), substantive use of pūnctus m, perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick, punch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“prick, punch”)); alternatively, from Old French pointe f (“sharp tip”), from Latin pūncta f (past participle). Displaced native Middle English ord (“point”), from Old English ord (“point”). Doublet of pointe, punctum, punt, and punto.

kärki

position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force

decimal point

not used when reading decimal fractions aloud

The one with the most points will win the game.

A small discrete division or individual feature of something.

(sports, video games, board games) A unit of scoring in a game or competition.

punt

This attack deals 320 points of damage.

Defeating the boss grants 60 experience points.

(video games, board games) A unit of various numerical parameters used in a game, e.g. health, experience, stamina, mana.


point

en-verb

point (third-person singular simple present points, present participle pointing, simple past and past participle pointed)

points (present singular third-person)
pointing (participle present)
pointed (participle past)
pointed (past)

From Middle English pointen, poynten, from Old French pointier, pointer, poynter, from point from Latin pūnctum.

central processing unit
central processing unit

(transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.

(transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.


CDC

(computing) Connected Device Configuration


CDC

change data capture
w:change data capture

(computing) Initialism of change data capture.


FIFA

(video games, trademark) A series of association football video games developed and released annually by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports label.


offset

From off- + set, used to construct the noun form of the verb to set off. Compare Middle English ofsetten (“to encumber, harass, beset, besiege”), from Old English ofsettan (“to press, oppress, overwhelm, crush”).

cog

An array of bytes uses its index as the offset, of words a multiple thereof.

(programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.


retrovirus

From retro- + virus, from its reverse direction of replication.

(computer security) A computer virus that seeks to attack antivirus programs in an attempt to avoid detection.


smiley

(Internet) A sequence of text characters used to represent a happy mood; especially :) or :-) or other depictions of smiling.

emoticon

characters that representation an emotion


BOF

en-noun

BOF (countable and uncountable, plural BOFs)

Coordinate term: EOF

(computing) Initialism of beginning of file.


software

→ Amharic: ሶፍትዌር (softəwer)

From soft + -ware, by contrast with hardware (“the computer itself”). Coined by John Tukey in 1958.

The "software" comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.

1958, John W. Tukey, "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics" in The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9

As originally conceived, the word "software" was merely an obvious way to distinguish a program from the computer itself. A program comprised sequences of changeable instructions each having the power to command the behavior of the permanently crafted machinery, the "hardware."

1995, Paul Niquette, Softword: Provenance for the Word ‘Software’

(computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM).

ໂລຊີຊີແອນ

lō sī sī ʼǣn


EOF

EOF (countable and uncountable, plural EOFs)


EOF

Enterprise Objects Framework
w:Enterprise Objects Framework

(computing) Initialism of Enterprise Objects Framework.


data structure

(computer science) Any form of storing and organizing data in a computer so that it can be accessed efficiently.


die

en-verb

die (third-person singular simple present dies, present participle dying, simple past and past participle died)

dies (present singular third-person)
dying (participle present)
died (participle past)
died (past)
die (infinitive)

→ Vietnamese: đai

From Middle English deyen, from Old English dīeġan and Old Norse deyja, both from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced Old English sweltan, whence Modern English swelt.

I can't believe I just died to a turret!

Dr Thomas concluded she had died to a blow to the head, which led to a bleed on the brain, probably a fall and had hit her head hard on the wooden bedpost, as there was blood on the bedpost.

2014, S. J. Groves, The Darker Side to Dr Carter, page 437

(intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

(uncommon, nonstandard outside video games) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):

Of course, Nazis are not present in this game. Instead, we have animals that will try to cover you with dirt. As soon as you get too dirty, you will die.

1995, “Slobzone”, in Coming Soon! magazine (video game review)

Oh look, I just died.[…]I missed that jump again! That was dumb! Hey, I just died on the same freakin' Zinger.

2009, Brian Sulpher, 9:15–9:30 from the start, in Onto Doom And Gloom (video game playthrough), via youtube

Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.

(video games, slang) To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.


automatic

en-adj

automatic (comparative more automatic, superlative most automatic)

more automatic (comparative)
most automatic (superlative)
dubious (superlative)

→ Albanian: automatik

→ Malay: automatik

[ˌɔː.ɾəˈmæɾ.ɪk]

[ˌɑː.ɾəˈmæɾ.ɪk]

From French automatique, from Ancient Greek αὐτόματον (autómaton), neuter of αὐτόματος (autómatos, “self-moving, moving of oneself, self-acting, spontaneous”), from αὐτός (autós, “self, myself”) + μέμαα (mémaa, “to wish eagerly, strive, yearn, desire”).

automatik

describing a firearm which fires continuously

(computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.


access

en-noun

access (countable and uncountable, plural accesses)

From Middle English accesse, acces, borrowed from Middle French acces (“attack, onslaught”) or from its source Latin accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach; accede”), from ad (“to, toward, at”) + cēdō (“move, yield”). Doublet of accessus. First attested in the early 14th century. The sense "entrance" was first attested about 1380.

der

Operations on C++ volatiles do put the compiler on notice that the object may be modified asynchronously, and hence are generally safer to use than ordinary variable accesses.

2011, Victor Pankratius, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Walter Tichy, Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development, page 74

(countable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.

存取

computing: process of locating data in memory

(uncountable, networking) Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.

toegang

communication with a computer program or the Internet


access

en-verb

access (third-person singular simple present accesses, present participle accessing, simple past and past participle accessed)

accesses (present singular third-person)
accessing (participle present)
accessed (participle past)
accessed (past)

⇒ Brazilian Portuguese: acessar

I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.

(transitive, computing) To have access to (data).


cat

From concatenate, derived from the program's function of concatenating files. Compare concat.

(computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.


cat

cat (third-person singular simple present cats, present participle catting, simple past and past participle catted)

cats (present singular third-person)
catting (participle present)
catted (participle past)
catted (past)

(computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).

(computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.


word

en-noun

word (countable and uncountable, plural words)

desc

Chinese Pidgin English: word, 𭉉 (Chinese spelling)

From Middle English word, from Old English word, from Proto-West Germanic *word, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰh₁om. Doublet of verb and verve; further related to vrata.

you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone

The size of a register in the MIPS architecture is 32 bits; groups of 32 bits occur so frequently that they are given the name word in the MIPS architecture.

1997, John L. Hennessy with David A. Patterson, Computer Organization and Design, 2nd edition, San Francisco, California: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., §3.3, page 109

(computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).

woord

computing: fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit

(computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator.

sana

computer science: finite string which is not a command or operator


port

Inherited from the Old English port, from the Latin porta (“passage, gate”), reinforced by the Old French porte. Doublet of porta.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

Computer port
w:Computer port (hardware)

A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

مَنْفَذ

computing: logical or physical construct into and from which data are transferred

A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.

(also networking) A number that delimits a connection for specific processes or parts of a network service.


port

en-verb

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)

ports (present singular third-person)
porting (participle present)
ported (participle past)
ported (past)

From Old French porter, from Latin portāre (“carry”). Akin to transport, portable.

(computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform.

كَيَّفَ

computing: to adapt a program so that it works on a different platform


port

Gamers can't wait until a port of the title is released on the new system.

The latest port of the database software is the worst since we made the changeover.

(computing) A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting.

sovitus

computing: program adapted to work on a different platform; act of adapting

(computing, BSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.


IOC

en-noun

IOC (countable and uncountable, plural IOCs)

(computer security) Initialism of indicator of compromise.


clock

clock (countable and uncountable, plural clocks)

c. 1350–1400, Middle English clokke, clok, cloke, from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)).
Related to Old English clucge, Dutch klok, Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell; clock”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka.
Doublet of cloak and cloche.

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic

сахӏат

instrument to measure or keep track of time

chronometer

instrument used to measure or keep track of time

even a stopped clock is right twice a day

Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds.

1984, The Journal of Forth Application and Research, volume 2, page 83

The best schedule produced by any hardware algorithm takes 7 clocks, whereas the statically reordered code in Figure 1.2(b) takes only 5 clocks.

1990, Joseph F. Traub, Barbara J. Grosz, Annual Review of Computer Science, page 180

(computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.


ID

en-noun

ID (countable and uncountable, plural IDs)

(Internet) Initialism of image description.


web browser

(Internet) A computer program used to navigate the World Wide Web, chiefly by viewing web pages and following hyperlinks.

webblaaier

a computer program used to navigate the World Wide Web


supersede

From Middle French superseder (“postpone, defer”), from Latin supersedēre, from super (“over”) + sedēre (“to sit”). The meaning “to replace” is from 1642, probably by association with unrelated precede – note that c instead of s (from cēdere (“to yield”), not sedēre (“to sit”)). As a result, supercede is a common misspelling – see therein for further discussion. Doublet of surcease.

der

Rogue cancels and supersedes are being issued on a large scale against posters.

(Internet) An updated newsgroup post that supersedes an earlier version.


free

en-adj

free (comparative freer or more free, superlative freest or most free)

freer (comparative)
more free (comparative)
freest (superlative)
most free (superlative)

From Middle English free, fre, freo, from Old English frēo (“free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“dear, beloved”), from *preyH- (“to love, please”). Related to friend.
cognates, etc
Germanic cognates include West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), Low German free (“free”), German frei (“free”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian fri (“free”).
Other cognates include Russian приятель (prijatelʹ, “friend”) and Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).
Germanic and Celtic are the only Indo-European language branches in which the PIE word with the meaning of "dear, beloved" acquired the additional meaning of "free" in the sense of "not in bondage". This was an extension of the idea of "characteristic of those who are dear and beloved", in other words friends and tribe members (in contrast to unfree inhabitants from other tribes and prisoners of war, many of which were among the slaves – compare the Latin use of liberi to mean both "free persons" and "children of a family").
The verb comes from Middle English freen, freoȝen, from Old English frēon, frēoġan (“to free; make free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frijōn, from Proto-Germanic *frijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *preyH-.

inh

there ain't no such thing as a free lunch

why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free

OpenOffice is free software.

(software) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.

lejuar

software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement

(software) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.

(programming) Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound.


free

en-verb

free (third-person singular simple present frees, present participle freeing, simple past and past participle freed)

frees (present singular third-person)
freeing (participle present)
freed (participle past)
freed (past)

There is no way to access that original area of memory, nor is there any way to free it before the program ends.

2002, Jesse Liberty, SAMS Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours, page 148

(transitive, programming) To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.

felszabadít

programming: to relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system


stylus

Borrowed from Latin stylus (“a stake or pale”). Probably not directly related to Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “a pillar”). Doublet of style.

иго́лка

граммофо́нная

(writing) An ancient writing implement consisting of a small rod with a pointed end for scratching letters on clay, wax-covered tablets or other surfaces, and a blunt end for obliterating them.

(computing) A small device resembling a pen used to input handwritten text or drawings directly into an electronic device with a touch-sensitive screen.

ստիլուս

pen for writing on a touch-sensitive screen


zipper

→ Cebuano: siper

→ Esperanto: zipo

→ French: zipper

→ Japanese: ジッパー (jippā)

→ Korean: 지퍼 (jipeo)

→ Portuguese: zíper

→ Spanish: zíper

→ Tagalog: siper

1925, zip + -er. The trade name was registered in 1925 by B.F. Goodrich for “boots made of rubber and fabric,” claiming use of the name since June 1923. No longer a registered trademark.

(programming) A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).


ontology

en-noun

ontology (countable and uncountable, plural ontologies)

Learned borrowing from New Latin ontologia (1606, Ogdoas Scholastica, by Jacob Lorhard (Lorhardus), from Ancient Greek ὤν, ὄντος (ṓn, óntos, “being”), present participle of εἰμί (eimí, “being, existing, essence”) + λόγος (lógos, “account”).
First known English use 1663: Archelogia philosophica nova; or, New principles of Philosophy. Containing Philosophy in general, Metaphysicks or Ontology, Dynamilogy or a Discourse of Power, Religio Philosophi or Natural Theology, Physicks or Natural philosophy, by Gideon Harvey (1636–1702), London, Thomson, 1663.
Popularized as a philosophical term by German philosopher Christian Wolff (1679–1754).

der

(countable, computer science, information science) A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.


index

en-noun

index (plural indexes or indices or (obsolete, in use in the 17th century) index's)

indexes (plural)
indices (plural)
index's (obsolete plural)

⇒ Chinese: 引得 (yǐndé)

→ Japanese: インデックス (indekkusu)

From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indicō (“point out, show”); see indicate.

der

(computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.

индекс

programming: key indicating location of data

(computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.


index

en-verb

index (third-person singular simple present indexes, present participle indexing, simple past and past participle indexed)

indexes (present singular third-person)
indexing (participle present)
indexed (participle past)
indexed (past)

(computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.


language

en-noun

language (countable and uncountable, plural languages)

From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj. Displaced native Old English ġeþēode.

der

/ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/

[ˈleɪŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]

a language is a dialect with an army and navy

language analysis for the determination of origin

In fact pointers are called references in these languages to distinguish them from pointers in languages like C and C++.

2015, Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages, page 94

(computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.

rekenaartaal

computer language — see also computer language


board

en-noun

board (countable and uncountable, plural boards)

→ Japanese: ボード (bōdo)

From Middle English bord, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- (“to cut”). The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table."

inh

en:clipping of blackboard, surfboard, or others

Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, circuit board, message board (on the Internet), bulletin board, etc.

The object of the game is to move the smiley face over the preset board, in doing so removing the green squares and ending up at the exit […]

2004, Dan Whitehead, Martyn Carroll, Shaun Bebbington, “Future Shocks”, in Your Sinclair, number 94

You are able to then change a color candy with any candy around the board, similar to the way you are able to with color bomb candies.

2015, Hiddenstuff Entertainment, Candy Crush Soda Saga Game Guide, page 23

(video games) A level or stage having a particular two-dimensional layout.


hourglass

Coordinate term: (Apple) beach ball

When I right click the desktop display to check Display Properties, it hangs and shows me only the hourglass instead of the display menu.

(graphical user interface) A cursor, often shaped like an hourglass, indicating that the computer is busy.


morph

en-verb

morph (third-person singular simple present morphs, present participle morphing, simple past and past participle morphed)

morphs (present singular third-person)
morphing (participle present)
morphed (participle past)
morphed (past)

(colloquial, transitive, intransitive, computer graphics) To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.


wall

From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw.
Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.

cog

the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

(Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.


wall

en-verb

wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled)

walls (present singular third-person)
walling (participle present)
walled (participle past)
walled (past)


qubit

Blend of quantum + bit, a play on cubit (“historical unit of length”). Coined by American physicist Benjamin Schumacher in 1995.

coin

Coordinate term: bit

Quantum computing, on the other hand, is based on quantum bits, or qubits.

Each extra qubit in a quantum machine doubles the number of simultaneous operations it can perform.

2012 February 25, ‘An uncertain future’, The Economist

Google’s Sycamore computer has all of 53 qubits to its name, as does a new IBM computer, installed online at the company’s Quantum Computation Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. System One, IBM’s black cube from tomorrow, only has 20 qubits.

2019 October 21, Dennis Overbye, “Quantum Computing Is Coming, Bit by Qubit”, in New York Times

By harnessing that odd behavior, scientists can instead build a quantum bit, or qubit, which stores a combination of 1 and 0. Two qubits can hold four values at once. And as the number of qubits grows, a quantum computer becomes exponentially more powerful.

2019 October 23, Cade Metz, “Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing”, in New York Times

(quantum computing) A quantum bit; the basic unit of quantum information described by a superposition of two states; a quantum bit in a quantum computer capable of being in a state of superposition.


radio

en-noun

radio (countable and uncountable, plural radios)

desctree

→ Japanese: ラジオ (rajio)
→ Hokkien: la-jí-o͘h

desc

→ Hokkien: (Malaysia, Singapore) 黎撩 (lê-liô)

emergency position indicating radio beacon

(Internet, uncountable) The continuous broadcasting of sound via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.


open

en-adj

open (comparative more open, superlative most open)

more open (comparative)
most open (superlative)

closed-source

antonym(s) of “with a free license and no proprietary components”

From Middle English open, from Old English open (“open”), from Proto-West Germanic *opan, from Proto-Germanic *upanaz (“open”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“up from under, over”).
cognates
* Scots apen (“open”)
* Saterland Frisian eepen (“open”)
* West Frisian iepen (“open”)
* Dutch open (“open”)
* Low German open, apen (“open”)
* German offen (“open”)
* Danish åben (“open”)
* Swedish öppen (“open”)
* Norwegian Bokmål åpen (“open”)
* Norwegian Nynorsk open (“open”)
* Icelandic opinn (“open”)
 Compare also Latin supinus (“on one's back, supine”), Albanian hap (“to open”). Related to up.

der

at church every time the doors swing open

(graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.

I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same file open.

(computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; connected to as a resource.

(computing, education) Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.

free

(computing, used before "code") Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated.


open

en-verb

open (third-person singular simple present opens, present participle opening, simple past and past participle opened)

opens (present singular third-person)
opening (participle present)
opened (participle past)
opened (past)
open (infinitive)

From Middle English openen, from Old English openian (“to open”), from Proto-West Germanic *opanōn, from Proto-Germanic *upanōną (“to raise; lift; open”), from Proto-Germanic *upanaz (“open”, adjective).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian eepenje (“to open”), West Frisian iepenje (“to open”), Dutch openen (“to open”), German öffnen (“to open”), Danish åbne (“to open”), Swedish öppna (“to open”), Norwegian Bokmål åpne (“to open”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic opna (“to open”). Related to English up.

der

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To connect to a resource (a file, document, etc.) for viewing or editing.


bot

The goals of IRC bots vary widely, such as automatically kicking other users off or more nefarious things like spamming other IRC users. In this paper, a free standing IRC bot is presented that monitors an IRC channel for commands from a particular user and responds accordingly.

2009, Ryan Farley, Xinyuan Wang, “Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation”, in Dimitris Gritzalis, Javier López, editors, Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference, page 42

He is particularly good at creating web robots, which are also called bots. A bot is software that searches for certain kinds of websites and then automatically does something — good or bad — on each site. Google uses bots to search and index websites.

2009, Richard K. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy, and Style, page 91

Twitter bots can leverage Twitter′s text message support to allow users to accomplish tasks from their cell phones. You could consider Twitter accounts that are simply an automated import of blog′s RSS feed a Twitter bot.

2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies, page 59

Overall, bots—good and bad—are responsible for 52 percent of web traffic, according to a new report by the security firm Imperva, which issues an annual assessment of bot activity online.

2017 January 31, Adrienne LaFrance, “The Internet Is Mostly Bots”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2021-09-01

(computing) A piece of software designed to perform a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.

بُوت

a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks

Most games offer both single player mode, in which a player competes against computer rivals—bots—and a multiplayer mode, which is a contest among people only.

2012, Philip Hingston, Believable Bots: Can Computers Play Like People?, Springer Science & Business Media, page 232

(video games) A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.

"That lobby was bronze negative 10!" Aydan joked on-stream, noting how easy it felt for his squad. "We got blessed with the lobby. It was such a bot lobby."

2021 March 6, Aydan Conrad (quoted), Wesley Yin-Poole, “Call of Duty: Warzone squad sets new world record with an astonishing 162 kills in a single game”, in Eurogamer

(video games, slang, derogatory) A supremely unskilled player.


bot

en-verb

bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)

bots (present singular third-person)
botting (participle present)
botted (participle past)
botted (past)

Players caught botting will be banned from the server.

(video games) To use a bot, or automated program.


name

→ Sranan Tongo: nen

→ Japanese: ネーム (nēmu)

PIE word
 *h₁nómn̥
From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥. Cognates include Saterland Frisian Noome, West Frisian namme, Dutch naam, German Name, Danish navn, Swedish namn, Latin nōmen (whence Spanish nombre), Russian имя (imja), Sanskrit नामन् (nāman). Possible cognates outside of Indo-European include Finnish nimi and Hungarian név. Doublet of nomen and noun.

it doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right

(computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.


star

Sranan Tongo: stari
Aukan: sitali

→ Finnish: stara

→ French: star

→ German: Star

→ Italian: star

→ Swahili: staa

From Middle English sterre, from Old English steorra (“star”), from Proto-West Germanic *sterrō, variant of *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *sternǭ (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”). Doublet of aster, stella, étoile, and estoile.
cognates
Cognate with Scots starn, ster, North Frisian steer, West Frisian stjer, Saterland Frisian Stiern, Dutch ster, Luxembourgish Stär, German Stern, Yiddish שטערן (shtern), Vilamovian śtaom, Swedish stjärna, Norwegian stjerne, Icelandic stjarna, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō), Spanish estrella, Portuguese estrela, Italian stella, Romanian stea, Occitan estela, Venetian stéła, Sicilian stidda, Sardinian isteddu, Mirandese streilha, Walloon sitoele, Romansch staila, Megleno-Romanian steau̯ă, Istriot stila, Istro-Romanian ste, Latin stēlla, Greek αστέρι (astéri), Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr), Old Armenian աստղ (astł), Persian ستاره (setâre), Tajik ситора (sitora), Pashto ستوری (storay), Mazanderani اساره (ëssâre), Northern Kurdish stêr, Central Kurdish ئەستێرە (estêre), Zazaki astare, Ossetian стъалы (st’aly), Hindi तारा (tārā), Urdu تارا (tārā), Punjabi ਤਾਰਾ (tārā), Gujarati તારો (tāro), Sanskrit तारा (tārā).

аеҵǝа

a celestial body appearing as a point of light on the clear night sky, whose position is relatively fixed with respect to each other

single point of failure
single point of failure

(networking) A network topology with multiple computers individually merging to one central switch, thus free of risk of collisions. A single point of failure can occur if the switch experiences corruption.


quine

American Philosophical Association
Epimenides
Kathleen Atkins
The Philosophical Lexicon
indirect self-referencing

From Quine, named after the American logician and philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000).
Verb sense 1 (“to append (a text) to a quotation of itself”) was coined by the American cognitive and computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter (born 1945) in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979; see the quotation), referring to Quine’s study of indirect self-referencing and in particular Quine’s paradox, the following statement that produces a paradox: “‘Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation’ yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.” Hofstadter also referred to the concept of noun sense 1 (“program that produces its own source code as output”) in the book, but termed it a self-rep rather than a quine.
Verb sense 2 (“to deny the importance or significance of (something obviously real or important)”) was independently coined by the American cognitive scientist and philosopher Daniel Dennett (1942–2024) in September 1969 in the original version of his work The Philosophical Lexicon: see the 1987 quotation.

coinage

This has been bugging me recently. Any quines or pointers to relevant articles or web pages is appreciated. Thanks!

1996 October 10, John David Regehr, “[A] Quine in C++?”, in comp.lang.misc (Usenet)

Self-reproducing programs are commonly called quines. Do a web search, it should turn up lots of them. There was also a quine thread here in comp.lang.c just days ago, search deja.com (the thread's title was something about self-printing programs, I think).

1999 December 14, Gergo Barany, “CC Hack?”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet)

A quine is a program that can print its own source code. Most quines are notoriously difficult (and fiendish) to write. Perl can cheat, though. :)

2001 July, Clinton Pierce, “Advanced Perl”, in Perl Developer’s Dictionary, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, page 269

Why have a one-page chapter that doesn't say anything? At the least, you should present a quine program written in pure ISO C (I can send you one if you like); […] you might refer the interested reader to Ken Thompson's ACM lecture or to another good source of quine-related puzzles. Quines *are* a lot of fun, but why waste time with trivial ASCII-based examples when there are much more fundamental ways to create them?

2003 May 6, Arthur J. O’Dwyer, “‘A to Z of C’”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet)

A respectable quine—one that doesn't cheat—is not allowed to do anything as underhand or trivial as seeking the source file on the disk, opening it, and copying (or printing) its contents. Although writing a quine is not always easy, and in fact may seem impossible, it can always be done in any programming language that is Turing complete (see Turing machine), which includes every programming language actually in use.

2004, David [J.] Darling, “quine”, in The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno’s Paradoxes, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, page 264, column 2

SelfGOL can reproduce itself; it can turn other programs into a quine; it can display a scrolling banner; it plays the Game of Life; and it contains no (ordinary) loops, goto statements, or if statements. Control flow is done, well, interestingly.

2005, Simon Cozens, “Fun with Perl”, in Allison Randal, editor, Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, page 260

Yet from a different perspective, it [the semantics of a program] describes the process of producing this very code; in other words, it is because object- and meta-language interrelate that makes a quine difficult; in less reflective programs, where means and ends are more separate, this difficulty is not so obvious.

2008, Julian Rohrhuber, “Implications of Unfolding”, in Uwe Seifert, Jin-hyun Kim, Anthony Moore, editors, Paradoxes of Interactivity: Perspectives for Media Theory, Human-computer Interaction, and Artistic Investigations, Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia: transcript Verlag, part II (Interplay between Art, Science, and Technology), page 179

Gee, last time I wrote a quine in Lisp it ended up being kind of difficult …

2009 July 31, Mike Ash, “‘--All You Zombies--’ Title”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet)

The solution is to make a quine that is also a λ-expression (instead of a list of statements). This is possible, thanks to S-expressions. The way the quine works relies on the fact that its code is a list of statements and that the last one can take a list of the previous ones as arguments.

2011, Antoine Amarilli [et al.], “Can Code Polymorphism Limit Information Leakage?”, in Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Jianying Zhou, editors, Information Security Theory and Practice: Security and Privacy of Mobile Devices in Wireless Communication […] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 6633), Berlin: Springer, archived from the original on 2022-02-06, section 5 (Can Lisp-like Languages Help?), page 14

A Quine is a program that prints its own code. Quines exist for any programming language that is Turing complete and it is a common challenge for students to come up with a Quine in their language of choice. The Quine Page provides a comprehensive list of such programs in various languages.

2012, Thomas Meyer, Christian Tschudin, “Robust Network Services with Distributed Code Rewiring”, in Pietro Lio, Dinesh Verma, editors, Biologically Inspired Networking and Sensing: Algorithms and Architectures, Hershey, Pa.: Medical Information Science Reference, IGI Global, section I (New Biologically Inspired Architectures), page 37, column 1

Upon receiving a "QUINE" request by the client, the server will first send a 01 OK response, and will then provide the client with a quine in the programming language used to implement the server. This quine does not have to be original.

2013 December 8, Brian Hodgert, “‘Mountains will be Mountains’”, in talk.religion.buddhism (Usenet)

(computing) A program that produces its own source code as output.

quine

program that outputs its own source code


abstract

en-adj

abstract (comparative more abstract or abstracter, superlative most abstract or abstractest)

more abstract (comparative)
abstracter (comparative)
most abstract (superlative)
abstractest (superlative)

From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.


abstract

en-verb

abstract (third-person singular simple present abstracts, present participle abstracting, simple past and past participle abstracted)

abstracts (present singular third-person)
abstracting (participle present)
abstracted (participle past)
abstracted (past)
abstract (infinitive)

काढून टाकणे

kāḍhūn ṭākṇe

remove

to remove, separate, take away, or withdraw

He abstracted out the square root function.

(transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.

(intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".


ICQ

Pun on the pronunciation of "I seek you."

ICQ was unusual among instant-messaging systems because it used what is called peer-to-peer technology—ICQ users essentially communicated with each other directly, without having all their messages pass through a central server.

2005, Laura Lambert, Chris Woodford, Christos J. P. Moschovitis, The Internet: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, page 136

(Internet) A program allowing users to send each other instant messages via the Internet.


ICQ

ICQ (third-person singular simple present ICQs, present participle ICQing, simple past and past participle ICQed)

ICQs (present singular third-person)
ICQing (participle present)
ICQed (participle past)
ICQed (past)

"My friends ICQ me before they call me just to make sure I'm there," said Kurera, a 19-year-old sophomore […]

2000 January 14, Greg Miller, “Ethernet Is Changing Dorm Life”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2013-06-30

I'll log-on in Hawaii. If needed we can ICQ from there.

2002, Mike Savage, Lake Effect, Savage Press, page 94

It shut him up. Never had him ICQ me again.

2004, Michael C. Westwood, Meeting the President, page 94

(transitive, Internet) To send an instant message to (someone) using ICQ.


router

→ Japanese: ルーター, ルータ

→ Korean: 라우터 (rauteo)

The router was configured to forward packets outside of a certain range of IP addresses to its internet uplink port.

(Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.


slashdot

slashdot (third-person singular simple present slashdots, present participle slashdotting, simple past and past participle slashdotted)

slashdots (present singular third-person)
slashdotting (participle present)
slashdotted (participle past)
slashdotted (past)

After Slashdot, a site that commonly links to other, smaller sites.

2002, Shelley Powers et al., Unix Power Tools http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596003307&id=t295L6vYuUkC&pg=PA501&lpg=PA501&dq=slashdotted&sig=rF5IZDXp33wnnsgkRIC5niMtqHM
If these numbers are significantly higher than normal usage, something is amiss (perhaps your web server has been slashdotted).

[2003], 2006 Matthew Strebe, The Best of SlashNOT, 2002–2005 http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595383157&id=skVK4smqz8UC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=slashdotted&sig=z6LagXUGvJ09gG77HdLoLSEnFAk
And that guy is supposed to be thrilled to lose both his inbound and outbound connections and e-mail for the joy of having been slashdotted.

2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache Security http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596007248&id=5yiULnTkN6oC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=slashdotted&sig=_zJmLeVMfDyEAAt8FhAl6NZcrVA
Sites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute.

2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando https://web.archive.org/web/20080519054317/http://www.accelerando.org/_static/accelerando.html
Oh shit, thinks Manfred, better buy some more server time. He can recognize the signs: He's about to be slashdotted.

(computing, Internet, dated) To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site.


gas

en-noun

gas (countable and uncountable, plural gases or gasses)

New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore

Coordinate term: Ether

gas fee

Gas is the fuel of Ethereum. Gas is not ether–it's a separate virtual currency with its own exchange rate against ether. Ethereum uses gas to control the amount of resources that transactions can use[…]

2018, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood, Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps, O'Reilly Media

The average “gas fee” – transaction cost – of an Ethereum transaction is between US$85 and US $156, according to crypto.com data.

2021 November 6, Ben Butler, “Australian banks are opening up to cryptocurrency: what does it mean for you?”, in The Guardian

(uncountable, cryptocurrencies) An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.


nine

en:High availability#"Nines"
en:Nines (notation)
nine

From Middle English nyne, nine, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”). Cognate with Scots neen, nine (“nine”), Saterland Frisian njúgen (“nine”), West Frisian njoggen (“nine”), Dutch negen (“nine”), German Low German negen (“nine”), German neun (“nine”), Danish ni (“nine”), Swedish nio (“nine”), Icelandic níu (“nine”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun, “nine”), Latin novem (“nine”), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa, “nine”), Sanskrit नवन् (navan, “nine”).

my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas

my very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins

my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas

nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine

They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines.

(computing, engineering, usually in the plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).


take

en-verb

take (third-person singular simple present takes, present participle taking, simple past took, past participle taken or (archaic or Scotland) tane)

takes (present singular third-person)
taking (participle present)
took (past)
taken (participle past)
tane (Scotland archaic participle past)
take (infinitive)

Brill Publishers
Helmut Rix
Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben

From Middle English taken (“to take, lay hold of, grasp, strike”), from Old English tacan (“to grasp, touch”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse taka (“to touch, take”), from Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to touch”), from pre-Germanic *deh₁g- (“to touch”), possibly a phonetically altered form of Proto-Indo-European *te-th₂g- (“to touch, take”) (see there for details).
Cognate with Scots tak, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk taka (“to take”), Norwegian Bokmål ta (“to take”), Swedish ta (“to take”), Danish tage (“to take, seize”), Middle Dutch taken (“to grasp”), Dutch taken (“to take; grasp”), Middle Low German tacken (“to grasp”). English thack may be from the same root. Compare tackle. Unrelated to Lithuanian tèkti (“to receive, be granted”), which is instead cognate with English thig.
Gradually displaced Middle English nimen (“to take”; see nim), from Old English niman (“to take”).

unést

to support or carry without failing or breaking

The function takes two arguments, an array of size n and an integer k.

(transitive) To accept as an input to a relation.

(transitive, mathematics, computing) To accept (zero or more arguments).

To accept as an input to a relation.
To accept (zero or more arguments).


map

Shortening or back-formation of Middle English mappemounde, mapemounde (“world map”), from Old French mapamonde, from Medieval Latin mappa mundī, compound of Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”) and mundus (“world”). See mop for more on the first component.

a map of Australia, a map of Lilliput

Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

2012 March–April, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-02-19, page 106

Anna, it is a map.
Audio (US): (file)

2016, “Learning English (public domain)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), via VOA, archived from the original on 2017-09-25

A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.

I don't want to play this map again!

On top of that, each of Evolve's maps are dim, open arenas with little to interact with besides the occasional hostile organism.

2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica

(board games, video games) An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.

associative array
associative array#English

(computing) Synonym of associative array.

映射

(computing) associative array — see also associative array


map

en-verb

map (third-person singular simple present maps, present participle mapping, simple past and past participle mapped)

maps (present singular third-person)
mapping (participle present)
mapped (participle past)
mapped (past)

→ Swedish: mappa

картирам

to create a visual representation of a territory

(transitive, computing) To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.


bit

From Middle English bitte, bite, from Old English bita (“bit; fragment; morsel”) and bite (“a bite; cut”), from Proto-Germanic *bitô and *bitiz; both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”). More at bite.
cognates
Cognate with West Frisian bit, Saterland Frisian Bit, Dutch bit, German Low German Beet, Biet, German Biss and Bissen, Danish bid, Swedish bit, Icelandic biti.

der

I trusted to the Lord to be with me; and at one of our trips to St. Eustatia, a Dutch island, I bought a glass tumbler with my half bit, and when I came to Montserrat I sold it for a bit, or sixpence.

1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 6, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I

Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.

(historical) A unit of currency and coin of the British West Indies worth six black dogs, originally equal to one-eighth of a Spanish dollar but later increasingly debased to one tenth, one eleventh, one twelfth, etc.

(historical) A unit of currency of the Dutch West Indies in the early 20th century, worth one fifth of a cent.


bit

Coined by John Tukey in 1946 as an abbreviation of binary digit, probably influenced by connotations of “small portion”. First used in print 1948 by Claude Shannon. Compare byte and nybble, with similar food associations.

(mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.

(computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.

status bits on IRC

permission bits in a file system

(information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.

bit

information theory: datum that may take on one of exactly two values