PSB

PSB (countable and uncountable, plural PSBs)

Public Security Bureau
w:Public Security Bureau

(computing, IBM) Initialism of program specification block.

Presidential Service Badge
w:Presidential Service Badge

(military, US) Initialism of Presidential Service Badge.


PSB

Adult love, loss, triumph and decline is catalogued by PSB's words, rhythms, clothes and politics. The Pet Shop Boys have staying power.

2008, Tara Brabazon, Thinking Popular Culture: War, Terrorism and Writing, page 155


blinkenlights

Mock German from blink and lights; see the Wikipedia article for history.

The back of the NIRT truck was crowded with consoles and flashing panels of blinkenlights, battered laptops plastered with security inventory stickers...

2007, Charles Stross, The Merchants' War

2011, Charlie Sorrel, "LightDims: Tiny Sunglasses for Blinkenlights", Wired
I am talking about — of course — LED blinkenlights, the usually-blue glowing pimples that pepper routers, speakers, computers and even USB hubs.

(computing, slang) The flashing lights on an electronic device such as a modem, router, or network hub (originally the front-panel lights on old computers).


endian

From end + -ian (suffix meaning ‘one from, belonging to, like, or relating to’ forming nouns, and meaning ‘from, like, or related to’ forming adjectives), originally in the noun Big-Endian coined by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) in his novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726). Swift wrote of an emperor of Lilliput who, after his son cuts his finger when opening an egg at the large end, commands his subjects to open them at the small end; those who rebel by opening their eggs at the large end are called “Big-Endians”.
The term was applied in the computing context by the Israeli-American computer scientist Danny Cohen (1937–2019) in 1980.

nb...

A Conversation between the Author and a Principal Secretary Concerning the Affairs of that Empire: The Author’s Offers to Serve the Emperor in His Wars.

In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships

at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-street

endian-neutral code

In Ken Turkowski's article on the big and little endian addressing used on the 68020 he commented that Motorola's approach "proved" that a machine with consistant bit addressing (e.g., all little or big endian) was impossible. I assume that he was joking.

1984 August 25, Ian Kaplan, “Inconsistent bit addressing in the 68020: big- AND little-endian”, in net.micro.68k (Usenet)

most significant byte
most significant byte

(computing) Preceded by a qualifying word: of a computer: storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a particular memory address; for example, at the smallest address (big-endian) or the largest address (little-endian).


OBP

en-noun

OBP (countable and uncountable, plural OBPs)

object-based programming
object-based programming#English

(programming, uncountable) Initialism of object-based programming.


instant messaging

(communication, computing) A form of realtime communication where two or more people exchange text messages, usually short, using computers or other devices with communications capabilities.


IANAL

(Internet) Initialism of I am not a lawyer.


(computing) Old abbreviation for JavaME.


video games console

video games console (plural video games consoles)

(video games, nonstandard) A video game console.


endianness

endianness (countable and uncountable, plural endiannesses)

When reading and writing data a byte at a time, it is necessary to know the endianness of the computer you are working on.

The Unicode standard does not specifically does not require a particular endianness of text written in Unicode; both big- and little-endian encodings are allowed.

1999, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java Input/Output

Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little.

2006, Michael Barr, Anthony Massa, Programming Embedded Systems, page 99

An endianness difference can cause problems if a computer unknowingly tries to read binary data written in the opposite format from a shared memory location or file.

2012, Albert J. Marcella, Cyber Forensics, page 116

(computing) The property of being either big-endian or little-endian.

位元組順序

the property of being either big-endian or little-endian


least significant byte

least significant byte (plural least significant bytes)

(computer science) The byte of a multibyte number with the least importance: that is, the byte stored last on a big-endian system or first on a little-endian system.


MSB

most significant bit
most significant bit#English

(computing) Initialism of most significant bit.

most significant byte
most significant byte#English

(computing) Initialism of most significant byte.


spammer

(computing, Internet) Someone who sends spam.


LSB

least significant bit
least significant bit#English

(computing) Initialism of least significant bit.

least significant byte
least significant byte#English

(computing) Initialism of least significant byte.


LSB

Linux Standard Base
w:Linux Standard Base

(computing) Initialism of Linux Standard Base.


plonk

(Internet) The supposed sound of adding a user to one's killfile.


in-line

BBC BASIC allows the programmer to write in-line assembly language.

(computing, of source code) Of a different language than the outer enclosing code.

nội tuyến

of a different language than the outer enclosing code

Now the paragraph to which you applied the inline style should be light gray, as the inline CSS is overriding the embedded CSS and the linked style sheet. Any other default paragraphs should still be dark gray based on the embedded style.

2007, Simon Collison, Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional

(web design, Cascading Style Sheets) Of a style: inserted in the style attribute of an HTML element instead of in a separate stylesheet.


adoption

adoption (countable and uncountable, plural adoptions)

French adoption, Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”).

Our company is considering the adoption of a four-day week.

(computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.


data synchronization

(computing) The establishment of equivalence between data collections (typically on different servers, and sometimes between trading partners), where each data element in one item maps to a data item in the other, and their data is equivalent.


buffer

Agent noun from obsolete verb buff (“make a dull sound when struck”) (mid-16c.), from Old French buffe (“blow”).
The “boatswain's mate” sense is said to be popularly explained by the mate being a “buffer”, that is intermediary, between officers and men, but various other explanations have also been proposed.

bufro

anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another

Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

(computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.


buffer

en-verb

buffer (third-person singular simple present buffers, present participle buffering, simple past and past participle buffered)

buffers (present singular third-person)
buffering (participle present)
buffered (participle past)
buffered (past)

inperken

to isolate, to minimise the impacts of one thing on another

Some games let you buffer jumps—if you hold the jump button mid-air, your character will jump as soon as they touch the ground.

To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.

(video games) To queue up (an input) so that it is performed immediately once it is possible.

(computing) To store data in memory temporarily.


replication

en-noun

replication (countable and uncountable, plural replications)

/ɹɛplɪˈkeɪʃən/

Inherited from Middle English replicacioun, replicacion, from Anglo-Norman replicacioun and Old French replicacion (“reply, answer”), from Latin replicātiō, replicātiōnem. By surface analysis, replicate + -(at)ion.

surf

(computing) The process of frequent electronic data copying a one database in one computer or server to a database in another so that all users share the same level of information. Used to improve fault tolerance of the system.


backspace

(computing) A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards.

(computing) A non-printable text character representing a backspace.


backspace

en-verb

backspace (third-person singular simple present backspaces, present participle backspacing, simple past and past participle backspaced)

backspaces (present singular third-person)
backspacing (participle present)
backspaced (participle past)
backspaced (past)

So once you hit 'E', just backspace.

2024 April 17, SMii7Y, 1:20 from the start, in Content Warning Footage That Should Never Be Uploaded, spoken by SMii7Y

(computing) To remove a character behind a cursor.

(computing) To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.


lobby

→ Armenian: լոբբի (lobbi)

→ Catalan: lobby

→ Danish: lobby

→ Dutch: lobby

→ French: lobby

→ German: Lobby

→ Italian: lobby

→ Japanese: ロビー (robī)

→ Korean: 로비 (robi)

→ Macedonian: лоби (lobi)

→ Polish: lobby

desc

→ Portuguese: lóbi, lobby (unadapted spelling)

→ Russian: ло́бби (lóbbi)

Serbo-Croatian:

→ Cyrillic script: лоби

→ Latin script: lobi

→ Slovene: lobi

→ Spanish: lobby

From Old French *lobie, from Medieval Latin lobium, lobia, laubia (“a portico, covered way, gallery”), borrowed from Frankish *laubijā (“arbour, shelter”).
Related to Old English lēaf (“foliage”). More at leaf. Doublet of lodge and loggia.
Political sense derives from the entrance hall of legislatures, where people traditionally tried to influence legislators because it was the most convenient place to meet them.

(video games) A virtual area where players can chat and find opponents for a game.


STAB

(fandom slang, Pokémon) A 50% damage boost applied when a Pokémon uses a move with the same type as itself (for example, an Electric-type Pokémon using an Electric-type move).


BB

en-noun

BB (countable and uncountable, plural BBs)

(computing) Initialism of bulletin board.


co-op

(video games, board games) A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch.


overpower

en-verb

overpower (third-person singular simple present overpowers, present participle overpowering, simple past and past participle overpowered)

overpowers (present singular third-person)
overpowering (participle present)
overpowered (participle past)
overpowered (past)

Rather than overpowering the characters or giving them some kind of slow-mo adrenalin abilities, Bloody Days does the most unexpected thing: it introduces a genuinely smart tactical system.

2017 March 10, Adam Smith, “Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days is smarter than you’d think”, in Rock Paper Shotgun

(video games, transitive) To make excessively powerful.


DHCP

/ˈdiːˌeɪt͡ʃˌsiːˌpiː/

dynamic IP addressing
dynamic IP addressing#English

(Internet) Initialism of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (a protocol that computers use to decide on one IP address to use when using dynamic IP addressing, usually drawn from a limited pool of between 4 and 65,000 possible addresses).


PAE

Physical Address Extension
w:Physical Address Extension

(computing) Initialism of Physical Address Extension.


PAM

en-noun

PAM (countable and uncountable, plural PAMs)

pluggable authentication module
w:pluggable authentication module

(computing) Initialism of pluggable authentication module.


SMD

SMD (countable and uncountable, plural SMDs)

(video games, countable) Initialism of Sega Mega Drive.


ALU

arithmetic logic unit
arithmetic logic unit

(computer hardware) arithmetic logic unit.


NIC

network interface card
network interface card#English

(networking) Acronym of network interface card (or controller): used to interface a computer to a network.

network interface card

Network Information Center
w:Network Information Center

(Internet) Acronym of Network Information Center.


ensemble

(machine learning) A supervised learning algorithm combining multiple hypotheses.


Winchester

French: Bicêtre

Hungarian: vincseszter

Russian: винчестер (vinčester)

From Middle English Wynchester, Winchestre, from Old English Wintanċeaster, from Latin Venta Belgārum (literally “Venta of the Belgae”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Celtic *wentā (“town, place”), Proto-Indo-European *h₁wen- (“place (?)”) + Old English ċeaster, from Latin castra (“camp”).
The bottle is named for the former customary units of the English city. The rifle is named named after American businessman Oliver Winchester (1810–1880). The computer disk is named for the rifle.

named-after

And besides, Winchesters of the nonremovable sort work fine—why bother complicating things with cartridges[…]

1984 February 7, PC Mag, volume 3, number 2, page 234


EAP

en-noun

EAP (countable and uncountable, plural EAPs)

(authentication, Internet) Initialism of Extensible Authentication Protocol.


network topology

network topology (plural network topologies)

(computing) The physical arrangement of a network; the way in which cables are arranged in order to connect computers in a network.


DLL

(computing) Initialism of Data Link Layer.

(computing) Initialism of doubly-linked list.

dynamic-link library
dynamic-link library#English

(computing, file format) Initialism of dynamic-link library.


EIA

Electronic Industries Alliance
w:Electronic Industries Alliance

(computing) Initialism of Electronic Industries Alliance.


AD&D

2016, Diego Lo Giudice, “How AI Will Change Software Development And Applications”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), pages Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals need to understand the potential benefits AI will bring, not only to how they build software but also to the nature of the applications themselves.:

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Initialism of application development and delivery.


CSMA

(computing) Initialism of carrier sense, multiple access.


VDL

(computing) Initialism of virtual digital library.


VDL

(computing) Initialism of View Design Language.

(computing) Initialism of Vienna Definition Language.


bus topology

(networking) A (computer) network topology in which the nodes are all connected at different points to a line called a bus.


MOS

operating system
operating system#English

(computing) Initialism of maintenance operating system.

(computing) Initialism of mobile operating system.


exogenous

(databases, of a key) Having no meaning in itself, such as an automatically generated sequential identifier.


star ring

a network topology consisting of a physical star and a logical ring.


star topology

A physical network topology in which all nodes are connected to a central connectivity device (e.g. a hub).


bombe

(computing) An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.


Ethernet

Originally a trademark of Xerox, apparently composed of ether + net (“network”).

A set of network cabling and network access (CSMA/CD) protocol standards for bus topology computer networks invented by Xerox but now controlled by the 802.3 subcommittee of the IEEE.


DVMT

dynamic video memory technology
w:dynamic video memory technology

(computing) Initialism of dynamic video memory technology.


back end

Together, the MathDocument and PaperController classes comprise the MathPaper application's front end, while the Evaluator makes up the application's back end. This technique of having separate front and back ends is a common […]

2002, Simson Garfinkel, Michael K. Mahoney, Building Cocoa Applications: A Step-by-step Guide, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", page 295

(computing) That part of a hardware or software system that is farthest from the user; the internals rather than the user interface.

後端

computing: part of a system that is farthest from the user


Numeronym representing globalization as "g" followed by 11 more letters, followed by "n".

(software engineering) Abbreviation of globalization.


Numeronym representing personalization as "p" followed by 13 more letters, followed by "n".

(software engineering) Abbreviation of personalization.


nouse

Our noses are no longer just for smelling things, but can be used for moving things too in operating a nouse, a device which has the same pointing function as a computer mouse but is controlled by movements of the nose.

2007, Kerry Maxwell, Brave New Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the 21st Century, page 128

(computing, neologism) A form of computer mouse operated with the nose.


real-time

в реа́льном вре́мени

производи́мый

The projects, which are due to start in November, are: Real-time prediction and mitigation of disruption through personalised passenger communications - [...]

2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23

(computing) Of a system: that responds to events or signals within a predictable time after their occurrence; specifically the response time must be within the maximum allowed, but is typically synchronous.


trigger

Originally tricker, from Dutch trekker (“pull”, noun, as in drawer-pull, bell-pull), from Dutch trekken (“to drag, draw, pull”).

laukaisin

music: electronic transducer allowing a percussion instrument to control an electronic device

referential integrity
referential integrity

(databases) An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity.

(online gaming) A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain command.

triggeri

online gaming: text string that causes the player to execute a certain command


coupling

en-noun

coupling (countable and uncountable, plural couplings)

From Middle English couplynge; equivalent to couple + -ing.

Coordinate term: cohesion

The lack of coupling means that the elements of our system are better isolated from each other and from change. This isolation makes it easier to understand each element of the system.

2009, Robert C. Martin, chapter 10, in Clean Code, Prentice Hall, page 150

(software engineering) The degree of reliance between two or more software modules.

kytkentä

(software engineering) degree of reliance between two program modules


VoD

VoD (countable and uncountable, plural VoDs)

service de média audiovisuel à la demande

(uncountable) Abbreviation of video on demand.

(Internet, countable) A replay of a live broadcast.

Abbreviation of video on demand.
A replay of a live broadcast.


CWD

CWD (countable and uncountable, plural CWDs)

(computing, countable) Initialism of current working directory.


ADB

(computing, Android) Initialism of Android Debug Bridge.

(computing, legacy Apple hardware) Initialism of Apple Desktop Bus.


cohesion

cohesion (usually uncountable, plural cohesions)

Attested from the late 17th century, borrowed from French cohésion, from Latin cohaesiō, cohaesiōnem.

Coordinate term: coupling

In general, it is neither advisable nor possible to create such maximally cohesive classes; on the other hand, we would like cohesion to be high. When cohesion is high, it means that the methods and variables of the class are co-dependent and hang together as a logical whole.

2009, Robert C. Martin, chapter 10, in Clean Code, Prentice Hall, page 140

(software engineering) Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together.

cohesió

the degree to which functionally related elements belong together


emergent

en-adj

emergent (comparative more emergent, superlative most emergent)

more emergent (comparative)
most emergent (superlative)

/ɪˈmɜː.d͡ʒənt/

-ɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒənt

In short, emergent games are ones that allow a huge range of possibilities and don't dictate a strict, linear flow of events. A strategy game is emergent because so many units can interact and have some effect on each other.

2008, Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities, page 126

(video games) Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.


ISF

Ink Serialized Format
w:Ink Serialized Format

(computing) Initialism of Ink Serialized Format.


EDP

en-noun

EDP (countable and uncountable, plural EDPs)

(computing) Initialism of electronic data processing.


dynamic IP addressing

(Internet) The use of a dynamic IP address.


RMS

Richard M. Stallman
w:Richard M. Stallman

(computing) Initialism of Richard M. Stallman.


dynamic IP address

dynamic IP address (plural dynamic IP addresses)

internet service provider
internet service provider

(telecommunications) An IP address which changes periodically, when each time a user connects to their internet service provider.


LNA

(Internet) Initialism of local network adapter.

(Internet) Initialism of local network attachment.


TrackBack

(software, Internet, blogging) A protocol for a system that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it.


fate map

(biology) a diagram of an embryo of some organism showing the structures that will develop from each part


collisionless

A token ring network is collisionless, but an Ethernet network is not.

(computing theory) Without the possibility of data packets colliding on the network.

a collisionless hash

(computing theory) Without the possibility of items having the same value, which would prevent reliable lookup.


OWA

(Internet, computing) Initialism of Outlook Web Access.


encapsulate

en-verb

encapsulate (third-person singular simple present encapsulates, present participle encapsulating, simple past and past participle encapsulated)

encapsulates (present singular third-person)
encapsulating (participle present)
encapsulated (participle past)
encapsulated (past)

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(software, object-oriented programming) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.

ներպարունակել

object-oriented programming: To enclose objects in a common interface

(networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.


FGI

(Internet slang, vulgar) Initialism of fucking Google it.


NFI

No fucking (freaking) idea
no idea#English

(Internet) Initialism of No fucking (freaking) idea; Expresses lack of knowledge on the subject matter


pre-alpha version

en-noun

pre-alpha version (plural pre-alpha versions)

A program or application that is not feature-complete and is not usually released to the public. Developers are usually still deciding on what features the program should have at this stage of software development. This stage comes before the alpha version, and is the first software development stage given to a program.


alpha version

(computing, technology) An early version of a program or application, typically unstable, but useful to show what the product will do. Sometimes this stage is referred to as a preview version. Sometimes no more features are added after this release, but bug fixes continue. This release comes after a pre-alpha version and before a beta version. As opposed to a beta version an alpha version is usually not feature complete.


release candidate

release candidate (plural release candidates)

(software engineering) A version of a program that is nearly ready for release but may still have a few bugs; the status between beta version and release version.


beta version

(computing) An early version of a program or application that contains most of the major features, but is not yet complete. Sometimes these versions are released only to a select group of people, or to the general public, for testing and feedback. This is the second major stage of development following the alpha version, and comes before the release candidate.


release version

release version (plural release versions)

(computing, software) A version label given to packaged computer software that has been made available to one or more target audiences.


HW

HW (countable and uncountable, plural HWs)


Feynman diagram

Feynman diagram (plural Feynman diagrams)

Named after its inventor, American theoretical physicist Richard Feynman (1918–1988).

Feynman diagrams for the fourth-order radiative corrections to the scattering of an electron by an electromagnetic field.

1950 February 15, Robert Karplus, Norman M[yles] Kroll, “Fourth-order Corrections in Quantum Electrodynamics and the Magnetic Moment of the Electron”, in Physical Review, volume 77, number 4, Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the American Physical Society by the American Institute of Physics, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 536

The symbolic representation of Maxwell's equations is introduced to make it easier to survey the whole subject and to formulate the equations. The Feynman diagram method is applied to the computation of the correlation of the fields at different points in space to any order of approximation.

1967 April 3, Betty L. Oberholtzer, Publications of the National Bureau of Standards: Published by NBS July 1960 through June 1966; Published by Others 1960 through 1965 (with Subject and Authors Indexes) (National Bureau of Standards Supplement to Miscellaneous Publication; 240), [Washington, D.C.]: National Bureau of Standards, United States Department of Commerce, →OCLC, page 145

Among physicists, Feynman is probably best known for Feynman diagrams, the work that brought him his Nobel Prize in 1964. The diagrams constitute a computational tool kit that enables physicists to make sense of not only Quantum Electrodynamics, the theory that underpins electricity and magnetism, but also of the relativistic quantum field theories believed to describe the weak and strong interactions of elementary particles.

2015, Tony Hey, Gyuri Pápay, “Preface”, in The Computing University: A Journey through a Revolution, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, page vii

(physics) A pictorial representation of the interactions of subatomic particles, showing their paths in space and time as lines, and their interactions as points where lines meet.


NLA

(computing) Initialism of network location awareness.


dongle

Unknown. Likely a descendant of dangle, reflecting that electronic accessories such as computer peripherals often are plugged in via a flexible cable (although wirelessness is also often relevant). Claims that the word comes from a man named "Don Gall" were made up by an advertisement. First usage 1980-1985.

FreedomPop will offer three different flavors of broadband: a USB dongle that allows you to connect your computer to the internet, a WiFi hotspot device, and an iPhone case that allows you to override the phone's existing network and use it as a FreedomPop hotspot.

2012, Tecca, FreedomPop offering 1GB of free wireless data, hopes you’ll pay for more, via Yahoo! Tech, link

(computer hardware) Any small device that plugs into an electronic device, typically a computer, and alters its functionality. Common examples include wireless modems, digital media players, software copy protect devices, and adapters.

Take the dongle, for example. It is the summit of copy protection, an explicit melding of software and hardware. Without the right hardware key—the dongle—plugged into the machine's parallel port, the software won't run.

1997 April 1, David McCandless, “Warez Wars”, in Wired, →ISSN

(computer hardware) A hardware device used by a specific application for purposes of copy protection.

motxilla

A hardware device utilized by a specific application for purposes of copy protection


RPC

remote procedure call
remote procedure call#English

(computing) Initialism of remote procedure call.


ICS

Ice Cream Sandwich
w:Android Ice Cream Sandwich

(computing, Android) Initialism of Ice Cream Sandwich.


ICS

ICS (countable and uncountable, plural ICSs)

(Internet, computing) Initialism of Internet connection sharing.


ops

Why don't I have ops in this channel any more?

Perhaps I might now add one more piece of etiquette advice, for which all chanops will thank me. If you want ops on a channel, don't beg for them […]

1995, Stuart H. Harris, The IRC Survival Guide, page 121


linked

en-adj

linked (comparative more linked, superlative most linked)

more linked (comparative)
most linked (superlative)

(computing) having links (between modules, records etc)


breadcrumb

/ˈbɹɛdˌkɹʌm/

From bread + crumb. Computing sense: a reference to the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to find the way back home when venturing into the woods.

Breadcrumbs usually look something like this: "Home > About Us > Staff" and are positioned near the top navigation. […] The words in the breadcrumbs are links to pages at higher levels of the website.

2010, Mark Stephenson, Web-Empower Your Church

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, chiefly in the plural) A single link in a chain indicating the hierarchical location of a directory, web page or similar, used as a navigation aid.

If you believe the system can merrily proceed despite an assertion failure, code the exception handler to log the error, leaving debugging breadcrumbs behind, and return.

2004, Jack Ganssle, The Firmware Handbook, page 276

[…] track metrics used to improve performance, or log a series of breadcrumbs to track an application's progress, […]

2012, Wallace B. McClure, Nathan Blevins, John J. Croft IV, Wrox Cross Platform Android and iOS Mobile Development Three-Pack

(programming, chiefly in the plural) A fragment of data that serves to log the actions taken by a program, used in debugging.


breadcrumb

en-verb

breadcrumb (third-person singular simple present breadcrumbs, present participle breadcrumbing, simple past and past participle breadcrumbed)

breadcrumbs (present singular third-person)
breadcrumbing (participle present)
breadcrumbed (participle past)
breadcrumbed (past)

/ˈbɹɛdˌkɹʌm/

Along those same lines, creating separate folders can enable you to use "breadcrumbing," which is another navigation aid (discussed in the section "Determining How to Organize the Information," later in this chapter).

2003, Sybex Inc., HTML complete, page 155

One navigational technique—breadcrumbing—is like having a “You Are Here” store directory in each aisle.

2003, Kreta Chandler, Karen Hyatt, Customer-centered Design: A New Approach to Web Usability

The most striking change from previous versions of Windows is that Vista displays the path using a method called breadcrumbing.

2007, John Rizzo, Moving to Microsoft Windows Vista: Visual Quickproject Guide, page 93

(graphical user interface, intransitive) To add navigational breadcrumbs to (a web page or user interface).


holy war

(computing, Usenet) A long-running and acrimonious debate or flame war over personal preferences in technical matters, such as the choice between little-endian and big-endian representation.

luftë e shenjtë

a type of war — see also war of religion


topology

en-noun

topology (countable and uncountable, plural topologies)

From Late Latin topologia, from Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place, locality”) + -(o)logy (“study of, a branch of knowledge”).

der

(computing) The arrangement of nodes in a communications network.


closed-source

From closed + source, in reference to source code.

(chiefly software) Whose constituent makeup, or source code, is not made publicly available.


descriptor

That which describes; a word, phrase, etc. serving as a description.

(computing, information science) A name associated with certain data or documents in an information storage and retrieval system; an index term.


root kit

(computing) Alternative spelling of rootkit


YAGNI

(software engineering, informal) Acronym of you ain't gonna need it: the principle that software developers should not add functionality to software until it is required.


depender

(programming) An agent that depends on another agent, the dependee; the subject of a dependency, a dependent (used in agent-oriented programming)


training

en-noun

training (usually uncountable, plural trainings)

(computing) The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.


bento

Borrowed from Japanese 弁(べん)当(とう) (bentō).

(graphical user interface) A menu icon of nine squares in a grid.


prod

prod (countable and uncountable, plural prods)

We've hit ten million users in prod today.

(programming, slang, uncountable) Short for production (“the live environment”).

Check our BBS for the latest prods.

(demoscene, slang, countable) A production; a created work.


dec

(programming) Abbreviation of decrement.


MAU

(computing) Initialism of media/multiple attachment unit: a connectivity device for a token ring network.


token ring

(computing) A network standard invented by IBM and later defined by the 802.5 subcommittee of the IEEE which provides for a network with a star ring topology, and which operates by passing a token frame around the logical ring.


ring topology

(computing) A network topology in which, in the physical case, every node of a network is connected to exactly two other nodes: one node designated as upstream and the other as downstream. A given node receives data from its upstream node and sends data to its downstream node.

toipeolaíocht fháinneach

a network topology in which every node of a network is connected to exactly two other nodes


internym

From inter- + -nym. Coined by Madeleine Page in the Internet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban.

Madeleine "why don't we just call the damn thing the "internym"?" Page

1997 February 23, Madeleine Page, “Epenthetics revisited”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet)

Madeleine "internym goes here" Page

1997 July 29, Madeleine Page, “Photographs in bars”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet)

I'm experimenting with the internym after seeing it so artfully used by others on other newsgroups.

1998 October 19, Rick Denney, “Our RST "middle names"...”, in rec.sport.triathlon (Usenet)

Michael "please destroy that message after reading[5]" Kuettner[6]
[…]
[5] This internym was inserted by the NSA to discredit [1]

2005 October 16, Michael Kuettner, “I know, it's not glass, but hey...”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet)

(Internet) A phrase or epithet, particularly one intended to be witty, inserted in quotation marks between one's first and last names—or elsewhere by or in one's name, if this is not possible—at the end of a post.


Defined by collaboration among five major computer companies in Taiwan.

(computing) A character encoding method for Traditional Chinese characters.


NN

(Internet) Netscape Navigator, a former web browser


punch card

перфокарта

card with have holes or notches used for storing data

Programming by typing C++ or Python yourself might eventually seem as ridiculous as issuing instructions in binary onto a punch card.

2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN

A card that can have holes or notches cut in it, especially one for storing data, that can be sorted according to combinations of holes present or absent.

(computing, historical) Such a card, the size of a US dollar bill and having 80 columns of 12 rows, used in early mainframe computers.


punched card

(computing) A punch card (especially one that has had holes punched in it).

hulkort

punch card, especially one that has had holes punched in it


peripheral

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Ancient Greek περί (perí)
Ancient Greek περῐ- (peri-)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō
Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō)
Ancient Greek περιφέρω (periphérō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek περιφερής (peripherḗs)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.
Ancient Greek -ια (-ia)
Ancient Greek περιφέρεια (periphéreia)bor.
Latin peripheriabor.
Middle French peripheriebor.
English periphery
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English peripheral
From peripher(y) + -al.

etymon

Check your peripheral's manual for the information you'll need.

1984, Human Connection, Making MS-DOS & PC-DOS work for you

Check your peripheral's owners' manual to see at what speed your peripheral transmits or receives information, and then record this on the DIP Switch Information chart in the column at the left.

1986, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Turn on the Mac, and check your peripheral. Since you've already installed your device driver, it should be available where you need it....

1994, Steve Birchall, Upgrading and repairing Macs


folksonomy

en-noun

folksonomy (countable and uncountable, plural folksonomies)

(Internet, uncountable) The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.

We imagined a microlibrary which would be a well organized digital collection of resources, focused specifically on our project, and employing both traditional library cataloging and organization, and the folksonomy made possible by user-generated tagging.

2011, Charles Wankel, Educating Educators with Social Media, page 291

(Internet, countable) A user-generated taxonomy.


USF

Nintendo Ultra 64 Sound Format
w:Nintendo Ultra 64 Sound Format

(video games) Initialism of Nintendo Ultra 64 Sound Format.


DK

(video games) Initialism of Donkey Kong.


monolithic

en-adj

monolithic (comparative more monolithic, superlative most monolithic)

more monolithic (comparative)
most monolithic (superlative)

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

From French monolithique; by surface analysis, monolith + -ic.

Monolithic kernels perform all operating system duties in kernel space.

In the monolithic architecture software system is deployed as a single solution, in which functionally distinguishable aspects are all interwoven.

2020, L. S. Jayashree, G. Selvakumar, Getting Started with Enterprise Internet of Things […], Springer Nature, page 103

(software engineering) Consisting of a single program or codebase.


lamer

Phil and his counterparts in Asia and the US are deployed to infiltrate pirate groups; to study IRC; to get under the skin of the lamers, the dabblers, and the professionals; to chat, seduce, charm, and interact with the denizens of this bizarre over-underworld.

1997 April 1, David McCandless, “Warez Wars”, in Wired, →ISSN

Other accounts mention that the lamers are constantly asking for advice on coding routines.

2009, John Impagliazzo, Timo Järvi, Petri Paju, editors, History of Nordic Computing 2 […], Springer, page 298

(slang, derogatory, demoscene, gaming, warez, dated) A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence.

peelo

a person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence


pwn

en-verb

pwn (third-person singular simple present pwns, present participle pwning, simple past and past participle pwned or pwnd or pwnt)

pwns (present singular third-person)
pwning (participle present)
pwned (participle past)
pwned (past)
pwnd (participle past)
pwnd (past)
pwnt (participle past)
pwnt (past)

From own, possibly born out of a typographical error (the adjacency of o and p on qwerty keyboards).

2nd guard: "Yeah, shiiit! I PWNED YO @zz!"

1999 August 5, Quaestor, “Re: [SP] So..the first victim of the Evil/Hero System”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.online (Usenet), retrieved 2016-09-23, message-ID <37AA8154.D77E6EB8@Skara.Brae>

Otherwise I use fury as my normal attack. Fury completely pwns!

2001, Edward Glamkowski, alt.games.diablo2 (Usenet)

When you get to the Temple of Marr, look very closely at the vases at zone-in and see if you can find the picture where Mith Marr "pwns" someone.

2003, James Grahame, alt.games.everquest (Usenet)

My Trident pwns the Cirrus Logics!

2004, Bronney Hui, alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (Usenet)

NOOBZ STILL R NOT PWNED. CONTINUE PWNERSHIP UNTIL ALL NOOBZ R PWNED.

2005, AlphaDream, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, Nintendo

(Internet slang, online gaming, originally leet, transitive, intransitive) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game).


pwn

en-noun

pwn (countable and uncountable, plural pwns)

(Internet slang, computer security, originally leetspeak) An exploit in computer security, especially relating to machine code.


wiz

The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods.

2003, David Lojek, Emote to the Max, page 11

(Internet, informal) A wizard; an administrator of a multi-user dungeon.


plug-in

(computing) A module or device that interacts with another to add a specific feature or function.


minimize

en-verb

minimize (third-person singular simple present minimizes, present participle minimizing, simple past and past participle minimized)

minimizes (present singular third-person)
minimizing (participle present)
minimized (participle past)
minimized (past)

I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.

(computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.

նվազեցնել

(computing) To cause a window to disappear


ACID

SQLite relies on native file locking and page journaling to implement ACID properties.

2007, Sibsankar Haldar, Inside SQLite, O'Reilly Media, page 31

database transaction
database transaction

(databases) Acronym of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability, a set of properties that guarantee database transactions are processed reliably.


top-down

a top-down shooter

(video games) presenting the player with an aerial view


Lisa

Diminutive of Elisabeth in several European languages. The computer is named after Lisa Brennan-Jobs, officially explained as an acronym for “Locally Integrated Software Architecture”.

Both Macs and Lisas, along with Imagewriter printers, are part of the convention network organized by Sytek of Mountain View, California.

1984 July 23, Peggy Watt, “Democrats Computerize Politics”, in InfoWorld, volume 6, number 30, page 24

(computing, historical) Ellipsis of Apple Lisa.


photoshop

photoshop (third-person singular simple present photoshops, present participle photoshopping, simple past and past participle photoshopped)

photoshops (present singular third-person)
photoshopping (participle present)
photoshopped (participle past)
photoshopped (past)

From Adobe Photoshop, a widely-used graphics editor. This may in turn have been derived from its usage to refer to the camera room in the offset lithography process, where laid up pages could be extensively retouched before being transferred to the printing plates.

(transitive, Internet) To digitally edit or alter a picture or photograph.


SR

en-noun

SR (countable and uncountable, plural SRs)

speech recognition
speech recognition#English

(uncountable, computing) Initialism of speech recognition.


BSAA

w:Business Software Association of Australia

(Australia, computing) Initialism of Business Software Association of Australia.


BPL

(Internet, networking) Initialism of broadband over power line.


side effect

The Eiffel programming language is somewhat purist in insisting that functions have no side effects.

unintended consequence
unintended consequence

An unintended consequence, or secondary result, of any action, in addition to the main or intended consequence of that action.

(programming) A change in state outside of the local environment of the function being called.

vedlejší účinek

computing: a state change caused by a function call


webcomic

From Web + comic. The word is first attested 2000, but websites titled "WebComics" existed previously (as early as 1995).

Webcomics certainly have their selling points. They are harder to censor and generally free from editorial meddling[…]

2008, Danny Fingeroth, The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels, page 275

Almost six years ago, Andrew Hussie began another one of a series of webcomics on his website, MS Paint Adventures. These early comics were experiments in fan-sourced storytelling: He’d create and monitor forums for character and story suggestions, then fold them into the story.

2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic

(comics, Internet) An online comic, especially one first published on the Internet.


showstopper

Any impediment that prevents all further progress.

(computing) A software bug that must be fixed before any further development is possible.


clustered

(databases, of a primary key) Used as the clustering key of a clustered index.


NWS

(computing) Initialism of not work safe.


high-level language

high-level language (plural high-level languages)

Alternative form: (initialism) HLL

programming language
programming language

(programming) A programming language requiring a compiler to translate it into a form that a particular machine understands, focusing on user-friendly code development by automating core tasks such as accessing memory.

высокоу́ровневый язы́к программи́рования


digitization

digitization (countable and uncountable, plural digitizations)

(computing) The conversion of data or information from analog to digital or binary.

(computing) Hence, the transformation of a process or system from mainly analogue form to digital form


assignment

assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments)

assignment (computer science)
homework assignment
sex assignment

From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement.

(programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

присвояване

operation(s) that assign a value to a variable


deletionist

en-adj

deletionist (comparative more deletionist, superlative most deletionist)

more deletionist (comparative)
most deletionist (superlative)

In the deletionists’ corner sits the strong sense that the more topics of debatable value are included (they cite such entries as side characters from the Pokémon cartoon or the Heroes TV series as examples), the more dependents will see Wikipedia as a source of fun rather than knowledge. They are worried that the brand is at risk of losing its value. In a deletionist world, Wikipedia would exert more control over what it publishes. […]

2009, Emmanuel Gobillot, Leadershift: Reinventing Leadership for the Age of Mass Collaboration, Kogan Page, published 2011, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 89

(Wikimedia jargon) Preferring to delete material.


deletionist

(Wikimedia jargon) A user with deletionist sentiments.


word wrap

(computing) A word processing feature which automatically adjusts lines of text to fit within the page margins. Words exceeding the margins are set to begin a new line.


word wrap

en-verb

word wrap (third-person singular simple present word wraps, present participle word wrapping, simple past and past participle word wrapped)

word wraps (present singular third-person)
word wrapping (participle present)
word wrapped (participle past)
word wrapped (past)

(computing) To adjust lines of text in this manner.


ZOMG

/zəʊ̯ ɛm d͡ʒiː/

Variant of OMG, presumably from excited users accidentally hitting the Z key while attempting to press shift or from conscious imitation of such excitement. The earliest known existence of the term comes from the imageboard 4chan in 2004. The meme was spammed and eventually the name was given to the hidden board /z/.

I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said that my initial reaction to this machine went something like: ZOMG it's an overgrown Blackberry.

2007 August, Germaine Ong, “Sony Vaio VGN-UX38GN”, in GameAxis Unwired

My fellow Tweeters were supportive, bless their hearts, but I know I was getting annoying constantly tweeting stuff like: "ZOMG I JUST BURNED 1K CALORIES!!11!"

2010, Shawn Collins, “Walking the Walk in Affiliate Marketing”, in Internet Marketing from the Real Experts, page 204

What was he doing pursuing me? He didn't seem happy about it, like, ZOMG, I met my soul mate and now my life can begin! It was more like he was being compelled against his will.

2012, Cate Tiernan, Darkness Falls, page 62

(Internet slang) An emphatic form of oh my God.


PlayStation

Compound of play + station; coined by American multinational software company Sony Interactive Entertainment.

coin

Back then, kids didn't have TV or video games, so I guess slaughtering your mom and dad was a bit like the Playstation of its day.

2003, Cash Peters, Gullible's Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist, page 55

The Everlasting Treat Ball landed like the PlayStation of the pet products world back in 2004.

2009, Michael Schaffer, One Nation Under Dog, page 150

He was obsessed with bullfighting, which was the PlayStation of the day, only considerably more dangerous; he was soon gored to death.

2009, Paul Clammer, Alison Bing, Anthony Sattin, Paul Stiles, Lonely Planet Morocco, page 38

(video games, trademark) A video game console of the "PlayStation" brand.

(video games, trademark) The original PlayStation.


PlayStation

en-verb

PlayStation (third-person singular simple present PlayStations, present participle PlayStationing, simple past and past participle PlayStationed)

PlayStations (present singular third-person)
PlayStationing (participle present)
PlayStationed (participle past)
PlayStationed (past)

Mark Bond, designer “25 years ago I was bouncing around on my Space-hopper, watching Thunderbirds and playing Kerplunk. 25 years later, I have just bought a Sacco bean-bag from Coexistence to sit on whilst Playstationing.[…]”

1999, Coexistence: Twenty-Five Years, [London?]: Blueprint, page 119

Connectix does not claim to emulate all Sony games and even the ones it does accommodate won’t necessarily run smoothly or accurately, but with a fair-sized library of perfectly compatible games, CVGS does “broaden consumer choice,” as it purports to intend, and allows for PlayStationing at work, during a long commute via one’s laptop, or at home when the TV isn’t available.

2000 May 15, Cox News Service, “PlayStation games can run on PC”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 123, number 232, Dayton, Oh.: Cox Ohio Publishing, →ISSN, page 2E

A boat was moored up at one: the fairy-lit waterline cabins looked impossibly cosy, the pigtailed daughter PlayStationing on the bridge painfully evocative.

2001, Tim Moore, Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist, London: Abacus, page 296

Do you fit much PlayStationing into your hectic schedule?

2001 May, Chris Stead, “Mat Hoffman”, in Official NZ PlayStation Magazine, number 44, Auckland: ACP Publishing, →OCLC, page 82

He’ll play outside in the fresh air when he should be inside playstationing and getting asthma.

2005, Nicemongoose, quotee, edited by Tim Worstall, 2005: Blogged; Dispatches from the Blogosphere, London: Friday Books, page 52

“I moved in to ‘guard’ the place from vagabonds and dossers,” says [Orin] Walters, laughing. “And I turned it into a living, eating, Playstationing, music-making, smoking den for me and my mates. And that’s what we did, 24-7.”

2005 June/July, Vivian Host, “broken RULES”, in XLR8R, number 88, San Francisco, Calif.: Amalgam Media, Inc., →ISSN, page 50, column 1

While she falls asleep studying, the rest of gang is partying and PlayStationing; […]

2008 February 14, Wesley Morris, “Dancing aside, ‘Step Up 2’ just plods”, in The Boston Globe, volume 273, number 45, Boston, Mass., →ISSN, page D9, column 3

And faceless Jason, Playstationing for 30 hours or more, ratcheted down from Druggie High, to twitch upon the floor.

2009, Michael Yates, edited by John Clarke, Life Class, [Wakefield]: Nettle Books, page 57

[Lenore] Skenazy wrote on her May 22 dotcom FreeRangeKids, it would be “a day to get kids outside to meet each other and relearn the lost art of playing! As opposed to PlayStationing.”

2010 May 19, Joanna Molloy, “Ring Around the Rosie days in city are long gone”, in Daily News, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, page 3, column 1

Dad comes in—Skyler is playstationing. Dad says: “What about your homework?” Skyler says: “Later. All work and no Playstation makes Jack a dull boy.”

2015, J. T. Dock Houk, Life’s a Joke, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, page 348

They laughed, thinking of their friend who had swapped his evening run for pizza eating and PlayStationing and had ballooned.

2016, Amanda Prowse, Another Love, London: Head of Zeus, page 100

(rare) To play on the PlayStation video game console.


geek code

(Internet) A set of codes used in sigblocks to broadcast the (typically computer-related) interests, skills, and aspirations of the poster.


SOC

en-noun

SOC (countable and uncountable, plural SOCs)

separation of concerns
separation of concerns#English

(programming) Initialism of separation of concerns.


molly-guard

From Molly (female given name) + guard.
Originally a Plexiglas cover improvised for the Big Red Switch on an IBM 4341 mainframe after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) tripped it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.

There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.

The radial heat losses are minimized by the Molly Guard foil which establishes a linear temperature profile between the hot heater housing and the water cooled base plate.

1978, Proceedings of the 13th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, volume 3, Society of Automotive Engineers, page 1948

1998 August 10, kensmark, “Vi versus Word. The pros and cons (or why does Vi remiond me of a bigger version of notepad?)”, rec.arts.sf.composition, Usenet,
Therefore, we have many "molly guards," which are kludged covers that protect the on/off switch and keep you from hitting it by accident.

To include switch, cut-out and molly guard, you'll probably need to order at least two, probably three components.

2008 September 6, Simon Slavin, “Manual on/off switch with electrical off-trip?”, in uk.comp.sys.mac (Usenet)

A physical barrier to protect something from unwanted contact, especially a shield to prevent accidental tripping of an emergency shutdown or power switch.


federated

(computing, telecommunications) Interconnected, as a federation or supernetwork of independent and interoperable services.


EVM

(cryptocurrencies) Initialism of Ethereum virtual machine.


CLAF

(graphical user interface) Acronym of change look and feel.


CLAF

(graphical user interface) Acronym of custom look and feel.


dumper

Protected programs implement various measures of counteraction against debuggers, disassemblers, dumpers, and other hacker tools.

2005, Kris Kaspersky, Hacker Debugging Uncovered, page 51

(computing) A program that outputs the contents of storage or a data structure.


PCI

(computing, initialism) Initialism of Peripheral Component Interconnect (a type of expansion slot on a motherboard.)


spamvertise

en-verb

spamvertise (third-person singular simple present spamvertises, present participle spamvertising, simple past and past participle spamvertised)

spamvertises (present singular third-person)
spamvertising (participle present)
spamvertised (participle past)
spamvertised (past)

Based on your arguments you must believe that C&S should be allowed to spamvertise.

1994 May 12, Stefan Chakerian, “Re: Appropriate cancels (Was Re: `Serdar Argic': Racist remarks?...)”, in news.admin.policy (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19

I am also considering writing form pages where people can submit fake orders at the click of a mouse for sites that spamvertise to me.

2003 September 14, "Myob", “Guerilla spam fighting”, in alt.stop.spamming (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19

These e-mail viruses are being develoepd by spammers to spamvertise better to you.

2003 September 19, Kristen Bayes, “New Virus”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19

(Internet, slang, intransitive) To engage in spamvertising.

the variety who thinks it's "k-rad kewL" to spamvertise AOHell's trashy little HTML hole-in-the-wall with every post.

1997 March 14, "~*Spark The Heretic", “Re: is this stuff for real?/nora peal”, in alt.fan.karl-malden.nose (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19

I vote for #3. These guys probably also spamvertise G*e*n*e*r*i*c V*i*a*g*r*a and P*e*n*i*S P*i*l*l*S. They're scum.

2003 December 18, "Tegger®", “Re: Sludge-Maintenance manual interval changes”, in alt.autos.lexus (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19

If I hijack your account/server and spamvertise my domain name why would the registrar care (or even know)?

2004 October 23, "SPAMJAMR", “I need everyone's help”, in news.admin.net-abuse.email (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19

(Internet, slang, transitive) To use spam to advertise.


Perl

A respelling of its original name Pearl, a reference to Matthew 13:46.
A common backronymic explanation is “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language”.

Perl attracted the attention of Unix system administrators, who needed a language that was easier to use than the C programming language and more powerful than scripting languages such as Borne and C-shell.

1999, Eric Herrmann, Mastering Perl 5, Sybex, page 5

(computer languages) A family of high-level programming languages, particularly used for text processing.


Elvis

From the anglicisation of the Irish name of Saint Ailbe (Saint Elvis), also known as Saint Eilfyw or Eilfw. Ultimate origin is uncertain.


jukebox

1939, juke (“roadside café”) + box, replacing older collocational terms such as nickel-in-a-slot phonograph, coin-in-the-slot phonograph, and coin-operated phonograph.

(computing) An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.

Before you export a movie to tape, double-check the following: Make sure all unnecessary programs are closed, including your e-mail program, MP3 jukebox, and Web browser.

2011, Keith Underdahl, Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies

(computing, by extension) A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection.


deadlock

en-noun

deadlock (countable and uncountable, plural deadlocks)

If synchronization is always performed in least-first order with respect to object tags, then situations can never arise in which one thread has the synchronization lock for x while waiting for y and another has the lock for y while waiting for x. Instead, they will both obtain the locks in the same order, thus avoiding this form of deadlock.

2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 88

(computing) An inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation.

死鎖

computing: inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation


alpha testing

(software, testing) A process where a software application approaching full functionality is made available to a group of sophisticated users.


MOO

(video games) Initialism of Master of Orion.


MOO

(video games) Initialism of MUD, object-oriented.


ghost image

After the Norton Ghost disk-cloning and backup software tool, itself an initialism of general hardware-oriented system transfer.

(computing) A copy of all the contents of a hard drive, used as a backup.


reverse configure

en-verb

reverse configure (third-person singular simple present reverse configures, present participle reverse configuring, simple past and past participle reverse configured)

reverse configures (present singular third-person)
reverse configuring (participle present)
reverse configured (participle past)
reverse configured (past)

(transitive, computing) To determine an item's characteristics solely based on an identifier such as material number, catalog code, or part number.


compressor

From compress + -or, or from New Latin compressor.

(computing) A program or algorithm for compressing data.

pakkausohjelma (program)

computing: program or algorithm for compressing data


sidebar

(Internet) A block of information placed at the side of a webpage.

Seitenleiste

(computing) information placed at the side of a webpage


hotbox

While you can do everything you wish in Maya without ever using the hotbox, once you get used to the way the hotbox conserves space and puts nearly all of Maya's tools in easy reach, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it .

2000, Perry Harovas, John L. Kundert-Gibbs, Peter Lee, Mastering Maya Complete 2 - Volume 1, page 63

Another way to easily access menus is by using the hotbox, which appears when you press the spacebar.

2006, George Maestri, Maya 8 at a Glance, page 4

The features available in the hotbox further depend on the type of the object that is under the cursor when the hotbox is invoked.

2012, Kang Zhang, Software Visualization: From Theory to Practice, page 122

(graphical user interface) A context-sensitive dialog that duplicates many of the commands on the menu for users of the Maya Embedded Language.


instantiation

en-noun

instantiation (countable and uncountable, plural instantiations)

20th-century coinage from instantiate + -ion, itself coined 1946 from instance + -ate. The latter, in the sense "a case, an example", from Middle English instance, from Medieval Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence; also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from Latin īnstāns (“urgent”); see English instant.

der

(by extension, object-oriented programming) Creation of an instance of some class or template.


synchicity

(computing) The degree of synchronization between multimedia elements, e.g. between audio and video or between audio and subtitles.


directed

en-adj

directed (comparative more directed, superlative most directed)

more directed (comparative)
most directed (superlative)

(graph theory) Having the properties of a directed graph.


instantiate

en-verb

instantiate (third-person singular simple present instantiates, present participle instantiating, simple past and past participle instantiated)

instantiates (present singular third-person)
instantiating (participle present)
instantiated (participle past)
instantiated (past)

To see and test the result of one's CSS for any particular HTML element, one must instantiate that element in a document.

In the eighteenth century, this was instantiated in writings which developed the view that ‘savages’ exhibited more virtue and moral nobility than their conquerors.

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 195

(transitive) To represent (a concept, theme, or principle) by an instance.

To instantiate a class, we call its constructor.

(transitive, object-oriented programming) To create an object (an instance) of a specific class.


CBD

en-noun

CBD (countable and uncountable, plural CBDs or CBD's)

software engineering
software engineering

component-based development
component-based development#English

(software engineering) Initialism of component-based development.


minesweeper

minesweeper (countable and uncountable, plural minesweepers)

(uncountable, computing, video games) A logic-based computer game in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on numerical hints.


NaN (countable and uncountable, plural NaNs)

(computing) Acronym of not a number: applied to numeric values that represent an undefined or unrepresentable value, such as zero divided by itself.


(computing) Alternative form of NaN (not a number)


has-a

Coordinate term: is-a

(programming) The relationship between a class and any member of that class in object-oriented computer programming.

(programming, ontologies) Such relationship expressed as an ontology component (regardless of whether the OOP paradigm per se is implemented).


is-a

Coordinate term: has-a

A special slot, the Is-a slot, short for is-a-member-of-the-class, ties instances to the classes they are members of.

1992, Patrick Henry Winston, Artificial Intelligence, 3rd edition, page 180

(programming) The relationship between two entities in which one entity inherits from the other.


plotter

(computing) An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.


close out

en-verb

close out (third-person singular simple present closes out, present participle closing out, simple past and past participle closed out)

closes out (present singular third-person)
closing out (participle present)
closed out (participle past)
closed out (past)

(computing) To terminate a computer program.


CCA

en-noun

CCA (countable and uncountable, plural CCAs)

continuous configuration automation
w:continuous configuration automation

(computing) Initialism of continuous configuration automation.


repartition

(computing) The formatting of a hard drive, a database, etc. into different partitions.


repartition

en-verb

repartition (third-person singular simple present repartitions, present participle repartitioning, simple past and past participle repartitioned)

repartitions (present singular third-person)
repartitioning (participle present)
repartitioned (participle past)
repartitioned (past)

(transitive, computing) To format (a hard drive, a database, etc.) into different partitions.


connected

en-adj

connected (comparative more connected, superlative most connected)

more connected (comparative)
most connected (superlative)

In a connected graph, there is no section (proper subset that includes all edges from each vertex in said subset) of the graph that is isolated from the rest.

(mathematics, graph theory, of a graph) Having a path, either directed or undirected, connecting every pair of vertices.

sammenhængende

graph theory: having a path connecting every pair of vertices


compositor

From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.

(computer graphics) A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.


speculate

en-verb

speculate (third-person singular simple present speculates, present participle speculating, simple past and past participle speculated)

speculates (present singular third-person)
speculating (participle present)
speculated (participle past)
speculated (past)

Borrowed from Latin speculātus, past participle of speculor (“look out”), from specula (“watchtower”), from speciō (“look at”).

(intransitive, programming) To anticipate which branch of code will be chosen and execute it in advance.


punched tape

en-noun

punched tape (usually uncountable, plural punched tapes)

Train positions and speeds were established by a track magnet at each milepost, which produced a suitable mark on the punched recording tape whenever a train passed.

1960 December, “Talking of Trains: Recording electric operation”, in Trains Illustrated, page 707


paper tape

paper tape (usually uncountable, plural paper tapes)

(computing) an early sequential digital storage medium consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being coded as a pattern of punched holes; originally used with teletype machines.

reikänauha

early storage medium consisting of paper


ALUA

(computing) Initialism of asymmetric logical unit access.


AVVID

(computing) Initialism of architecture for voice, video, and integrated data.


addressability

addressability (countable and uncountable, plural addressabilities)

64-bit addressability means that a single machine instruction can operate on a value stored in eight bytes.

(computing) The capability of a microprocessor etc. to deal with values of a certain size using a single instruction.

bitness

capability to deal with values of certain size

(computer graphics) The capability of a display surface or storage device to accommodate a specified number of uniquely identifiable points.


file size

file size (countable and uncountable, plural file sizes)

(computing) The length of a file, often specified in bytes.


computerize

en-verb

computerize (third-person singular simple present computerizes, present participle computerizing, simple past and past participle computerized)

computerizes (present singular third-person)
computerizing (participle present)
computerized (participle past)
computerized (past)

(transitive, computing) To convert a manual function or system into a computer system.

(transitive, computing) To equip with a computer or a computer system.

камп'ютарызава́ць

(transitive, computing) To enter data into such a system.


crypto

en-noun

crypto (countable and uncountable, plural cryptos)

The CIA is also very into crypto (which makes sense, as they are the home of spy versus spy), […]

2004, Chey Cobb, Cryptography For Dummies, page 20

(uncountable, informal) Clipping of cryptography.

Nigeria—the world's second-largest Bitcoin market after the United States—has banned the trading of cryptocurrencies. It's triggered anger among Nigerians who see cryptos as a safe haven in a battered economy.

2021 February 12, Fred Muvunyi, “Nigeria's cryptocurrency crackdown causes confusion”, in Deutsche Welle News, Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2021-02-13, World

Some Turks have turned to crypto as a way to protect their savings from skyrocketing inflation and the weakening of its currency, the lira.

2021 April 26, Ryan Browne, “A second bitcoin exchange collapses in Turkey amid crackdown on cryptocurrencies”, in CNBC, retrieved 2021-04-26

But to state and federal regulators and some members of Congress, the entry of crypto into banking is cause for alarm.

2021 September 5, Eric Lipton, Ephrat Livni, “Crypto’s Rapid Move Into Banking Elicits Alarm in Washington”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(informal, cryptocurrencies) Clipping of cryptocurrency.

(informal, medicine) Clipping of cryptococcus.

(informal, medicine) Clipping of cryptosporidium.

(informal, pathology) Clipping of cryptosporidiosis.


crypto

en-adj

crypto (comparative more crypto, superlative most crypto)

more crypto (comparative)
most crypto (superlative)


Mactard

From Mac (“a Macintosh computer”) + -tard.

Lyle is also a Mactard who should have learned his lesson from the last book.

2002 May 17, geek_girl, “Re: My little Bromo rant”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet)

> Because any 'tard can manage to download stuff off of Kazaa.
Except us Mactards.

2003 July 20, Tonawanda Kardex, “Re: OT Recording industry on attack”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet)

BTW, you Mactards keep claiming Mac is a Unix (which it isn't), so....when will you Unix guys settle on one "distro"?

2005 June 14, Liam Slider, “Re: Linux Dev switching to OS X,Mac?”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet)

(Internet slang, derogatory) One who uses and uncritically advocates Macintosh computers.


hit and run

en-verb

hit and run (third-person singular simple present hits and runs, present participle hitting and running, simple past hit and ran, past participle hit and run)

hits and runs (present singular third-person)
hitting and running (participle present)
hit and ran (past)
hit and run (participle past)

(Internet) To download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g., BitTorrent) without seeding.


computerization

en-noun

computerization (countable and uncountable, plural computerizations)

The act of computerizing something, or something computerized.


TSO

Time Sharing Option
w:Time Sharing Option

(computing) Initialism of Time Sharing Option.

TCP segmentation offload
TCP segmentation offload


containerization

containerization (countable and uncountable, plural containerizations)

These cloud deployments become simple due to well-defined and matured cloud technologies such as containerization, virtual infrastructure, orchestration, CI/CD, etc.

2022, Pethuru Raj, Anupama C. Raman, Harihara Subramanian, Cognitive Internet of Things: Enabling Technologies, Platforms, and Use Cases, CRC Press

(computing) Software virtualization at the level of the operating system.


pop out

en-verb

pop out (third-person singular simple present pops out, present participle popping out, simple past and past participle popped out)

pops out (present singular third-person)
popping out (participle present)
popped out (participle past)
popped out (past)

In the menu that then pops out, select the number of degrees you want to rotate the image (90° if the image is lying on its left side, 180° if the image is upside down, or 270° if the image is lying on its right side).

2005, Rickford Grant, Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users, San Francisco: No Starch Press, page 182

(computing, intransitive) To appear on the screen as a temporary window or menu.


blue screen of death

en-noun

blue screen of death (plural blue screens of death)

First use appears c. 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. See cite below.

The only remaining problem is--NT still locks up the machine at exactly the same point. The only difference is that I don't get the blue screen of death--NT just freezes.

1993 October 10, tay...@saturn.brooks.af.mil, “NT Patch--doesn't fix Services for Macintosh”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup (Usenet)

A Blue Screen of Death is like an encrypted message from your computer telling you there's a problem. We're going to help you make sense of the gobbledygook so you can fix whatever's ailing your PC!

2007, Paul Lilly, “BSOD Crash Course”, in Maximum PC, page 40

(computing, informal) An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes the system to shut down.


multilingualization

(software engineering) The act of adapting or localizing something to, into, or for multiple languages


tweener

Trailing a little behind that in hype are the ’tweeners: the larger-format Windows CE Palm Pro portables. They’re not quite notebooks or subnotebooks, but they’re bigger than handhelds.

1999 January 4, Cathy Gagne, “Flashback ’98 Tech review: Handheld Dandies”, in Computerworld, volume 33, number 1, Framingham, Mass.: Computerworld, Inc., →ISSN, page 106

(informal) A person or thing that is between two categories, classes or age groups.

(computing) A computing device that is smaller than a traditional laptop, but larger than a PDA.


reflective

en-adj

reflective (comparative more reflective, superlative most reflective)

more reflective (comparative)
most reflective (superlative)

(computing, programming) Involving reflection.


collocation

en-noun

collocation (countable and uncountable, plural collocations)

1605. Learned borrowing from Latin collocātiō (“a putting together”). By surface analysis, col- (“together”) + location. The technical sense in linguistics was established in 1951, although it may actually be earlier.

surf

As usual, nothing of significance will be asked, and most certainly, answered, but do expect the dollar (and, inversely, ES) to go up, then down, then up, and so forth as random vacuum tubes blow in NYSE's ultramodern Mahwah collocation facility.

2011, "Tyler Durden", Zero Hedge, Watch Bernanke's Q&A With FOMC Approved Sycophants Live Here

(computing) A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.


throughput

en-noun

throughput (countable and uncountable, plural throughputs)

(networking) The rate at which data is transferred through a system.


marking

marking (countable and uncountable, plural markings)

From Middle English marking, merking, merkunge, from Old English mearcung, from Proto-West Germanic *markungu, equivalent to mark + -ing.

(graph theory) Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it.


prettify

en-verb

prettify (third-person singular simple present prettifies, present participle prettifying, simple past and past participle prettified)

prettifies (present singular third-person)
prettifying (participle present)
prettified (participle past)
prettified (past)


middleware

en-noun

middleware (usually uncountable, plural middlewares)

database management system
database management system

(computing) Software that functions at an intermediate layer between applications and operating system or database management system, or between client and server.

(computing) Networking software or hardware that is deployed in the middle of, as opposed to serviced by, a packet network to enhance or provide some network function, such as caching, filtering, or firewall functionality.


metalanguage

metalanguage (countable and uncountable, plural metalanguages)

(computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language


grammar checker

grammar checker (plural grammar checkers)

I ran the grammar checker on my novel, but the strange names confused it.

(computing) A software application, like a spell checker, that attempts to verify the grammar in a document.


posting

(computing) A message posted to a computerized bulletin board, a newsgroup, a blog, etc.


signed

It wasn't until they tried to subtract 3 from 1 that the elementary school students realized they needed signed numbers.

(mathematics, computer science) Having both positive and negative varieties.

有符號

(mathematics, computer science) having both positive and negative varieties


bulletin board

Some bulletin board subscribers can now dial up displays for their IBM PC or PC XT in living color—and see the results in less than a second.

1984 September 3, Judith Walters von Alten, “Color for Bulletin Boards”, in InfoWorld, volume 6, number 6, InfoWorld Media Group, →ISSN, page 35

bulletin board system
bulletin board system#English

(computing) Ellipsis of bulletin board system.


sign off

en-verb

sign off (third-person singular simple present signs off, present participle signing off, simple past and past participle signed off)

signs off (present singular third-person)
signing off (participle present)
signed off (participle past)
signed off (past)

He finished the conversation and signed off.

(idiomatic) To log off; to stop using a computer, radio, etc.; especially, to stop talking.


unsigned

We use an unsigned variable to store the employee's salary, since it will never be less than zero.

(computing) Not accepting negative numbers; having only a positive value (or zero).

無符號

not accepting negative numbers; having only a positive value


unsigned

For compilers which produce two-byte unsigneds, the maximum cumulative frequency is 16,383 if we wish to avoid the use of long arithmetic.

1999, Steve Heller, Optimizing C++, page 107

(computing) A numeric value or variable that has no sign and can only be positive.


protected

en-adj

protected (comparative more protected, superlative most protected)

more protected (comparative)
most protected (superlative)

(programming, of a variable, method, etc.) Having the protected access modifier, indicating that a program element is accessible to subclasses but not to the program in general.


angry fruit salad

en-noun

angry fruit salad (countable and uncountable, plural angry fruit salads)

From the bright colors associated with anger, and the unnaturally bright colors of many canned "fruit cocktail" mixtures.

(graphical user interface, slang) A web page or user interface that is poorly designed and overuses color.

(graphical user interface, slang) Such a design in general.

Klickibunti

bad interface design that overuses color


blind pig

The Web address isn't officially registered, it's a blind pig.

2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 197

(Internet) A Web address on the Deep Web that piggybacks on a public domain but is not visible to the system.


colophon

Borrowed from Late Latin colophōn, from Ancient Greek κολοφών (kolophṓn, “peak or finishing touch”).

der

(by extension, Internet) A page on a website identifying the details of its creation, such as the author's name and the technologies used.


ding

(colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) The act of levelling up.


ding

en-verb

ding (third-person singular simple present dings, present participle dinging, simple past and past participle dinged)

dings (present singular third-person)
dinging (participle present)
dinged (participle past)
dinged (past)

(intransitive, colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) To level up.


deprecated

en-adj

deprecated (comparative more deprecated, superlative most deprecated)

more deprecated (comparative)
most deprecated (superlative)

From Latin dēprecātus, past participle of deprecari (“to pray against (a present or impending evil), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from de (“off”) + precari (“to pray”).

Foo() has been deprecated; it outputs a debug message and then calls Foo2()

Note that deprecated functions are not removed yet.

A deprecated element or attribute is one that has been outdated by newer constructs.

1999, Dave Raggett, et. al., “Conformance: requirements and recommendations”, in HTML 4.01 Specification, W3C

Just because an element or attribute is deprecated doesn't mean that it can't be used on a webpage.

2002, Steven E. Callihan, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example

(computing) Said of a function or feature planned to be phased out, but still available for use.


alignment

en-noun

alignment (countable and uncountable, plural alignments)

From French alignement, by surface analysis, align + -ment.

the alignment problem

the alignment tax

It turns out that there’s little overlap between the communities concerned primarily with such short-term risks and those who worry more about longer-term alignment risks.

2022 December 13, Melanie Mitchell, “What Does It Mean to Align AI With Human Values?”, in Quanta Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Simons Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-15

The issue of chatbot responses that veer into strange territory is widely known among researchers. In an interview last week, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, said improving what's known as "alignment" — how the responses safely reflect a user's will — was "one of these must-solve problems."

2023 February 16, Karen Weise, “Microsoft Considers More Limits for Its New A.I. Chatbot”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-22

But many in the field are concerned that Big Tech companies are sidelining alignment research efforts in the race to keep building and releasing the technology into the world.

2023 February 17, Billy Perrigo, “The New AI-Powered Bing Is Threatening Users. That's No Laughing Matter”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-27

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence#Noun

(artificial intelligence) The goals and values of an artificial intelligence, considered relative to human ethical standards.


torrent

From BitTorrent and the file extension it uses for metadata (.torrent); ultimately from etymology 1, carrying the notion of the flow of information.

I got a torrent of the complete works of Shakespeare the other day; I'm not sure why.

(Internet, file sharing) A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent.


thrashing

(computing) Excessive paging within virtual storage.


persistence

persistence (countable and uncountable, plural persistences)

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

(computer science) Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.


modal

en-adj

modal (comparative more modal, superlative most modal)

more modal (comparative)
most modal (superlative)

From Middle French modal, from Medieval Latin modālis (“pertaining to a mode”), from Latin modus (“mode”); equivalent to mode + -al. Compare to French, Spanish, and Portuguese modal and Italian modale.

der

(computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.

Dialogs can be modal, in which case the user is required to provide necessary information before work in the main window can continue, or modeless. Modeless dialogs do not prevent the user from interacting with any of the other windows in the application.

a. 2011, “Dialog Windows”, in Qt Widgets Documentation, archived from the original on 2020-02-07

a modal dialog; a modal window

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.

modaal

requiring immediate computer user interaction


modal

Modal screen elements are subtrees which, when activated, disable all elements external to them. Examples of modals are yes-no message boxes and the application itself.

1996, OOPSLA '96: Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, volume 31, numbers 10-12

(graphical user interface) A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.


uncomment

en-verb

uncomment (third-person singular simple present uncomments, present participle uncommenting, simple past and past participle uncommented)

uncomments (present singular third-person)
uncommenting (participle present)
uncommented (participle past)
uncommented (past)

(programming, transitive) To convert (text that has been commented out) back into source code so that it will no longer be ignored by the compiler or interpreter.


busy beaver

(computing theory) A Turing machine that attains the maximum number of steps performed, or number of non-blank symbols finally on the tape, among all Turing machines in a certain class.


turbo

From turbocharged (“increased power”). From the action of a turbocharger, which increases the speed of an automobile through the increase in power of an engine.

Controllers with turbo features are banned from most competitive tournaments.


turbo

a turbo button on a controller; a PC equipped with a turbo mode

(computing, video games) Causing or relating to increased speed.


turbo

turbo (third-person singular simple present turbos, present participle turboing, simple past and past participle turboed)

turbos (present singular third-person)
turboing (participle present)
turboed (participle past)
turboed (past)


combining form

As far as possible this specification uses non-combining characters, however, in the cases tdot, TripleDot and DotDot Unicode only has combining forms of the accents, and so the entity replacement text starts with a space, to avoid the possibility that the expansion of the entity combines with preceding text.

2014 April 10, “XML Entity Definitions for Characters (2nd Edition)”, in David Carlisle, Patrick Ion, editors, w3.org, World Wide Web Consortium, retrieved 2015-03-22

(computing, typography) A character encoded from a sequence of other characters instead of a precomposed character.


locality

en-noun

locality (countable and uncountable, plural localities)

From French localité, from Late Latin localitas, equivalent to local + -ity.

This shows temporal locality of reference in action because the CPU accesses i at three points in a short time period. This program also exhibits spatial locality of reference.

2004, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine, page 154

(uncountable, mathematics, computing) The condition of being local.

paikallisuus

maths, computing: condition of being local


unload

en-verb

unload (third-person singular simple present unloads, present participle unloading, simple past and past participle unloaded)

unloads (present singular third-person)
unloading (participle present)
unloaded (participle past)
unloaded (past)

When you unload a DLL, the memory and other system resources it is using will become available for use by other applications.

1993, Tony Martin, Lisa C Towell, The NewWave agent handbook

(transitive, computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.


skype

skype (third-person singular simple present skypes, present participle skyping or skypeing, simple past and past participle skyped)

skypes (present singular third-person)
skyping (participle present)
skypeing (participle present)
skyped (participle past)
skyped (past)

(transitive, computing) To make (a telephone call) using Skype software.

(transitive, computing) To send (a message or file) with Skype.

I'll skype you tomorrow. We can skype for a couple of hours.

While spatial mobility does cause discontinuity in social relationships and result in losing the support system from their home country (Rangaswamy 2000), yet the social ties of our participants have not dissolved as they have been able to maintain supportive networks in India through physical visits, e-mails, ‘skypeing’ to contacts in foreign places.

2013, S. Irudaya Rajan, editor, India Migration Report 2013: Social Costs of Migration, Routledge

‘Where’s 007? He invited too?’ ‘He’s skypeing his mum. He’ll meet us down there.’

2015, Alan Carter, Bad Seed, Fremantle: Fremantle Press, page 123

And so Andy went home, still on a caffeine high, feeling excited about life as a graduate student, and instead of skypeing with Anja or going for a beer, he went online and read up on some of the relevant particle physics.

2015, Denis O’Sullivan, The Anthropist: A Curious Tale of Parallel Monogamy, Sex, Religion, Quantum Mechanics and Volleyball, Lulu.com, page 21

(transitive, intransitive, computing) To contact (a person) via Skype.


DAD

Currently replaying in preparation for DAD, and the Josiemance is still as lovely as I remember.

Dragon Age: Dreadwolf
w:Dragon Age: The Veilguard

(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age: Dreadwolf (early title of Dragon Age: The Veilguard).


(file format) Short for MPEG-4 Part 14; A file format for playing music and videos.


workaround

(computing) A procedure or a temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows a user to continue working until a better solution can be provided.

väliaikainen korjaus

(computing) a procedure or a temporary fix


whitelist

(law, computing) A list or collection of people or entities that are known, trusted, or explicitly permitted.


source language

en-noun

source language (plural source languages)

(computing) The language of the source code to be compiled.


plain text

plaintext usually a single compound word in cryptography

Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket.

(cryptography) Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).

This simple flat-file database has proven valuable as a way of maintaining and accessing an inventory file and an address file. The data file is a plain text file containing no control characters aside from new lines. The file is therefore easy to create and maintain using ordinary text editors

1988, Michael M. McDonnell, A simple computer data base system for UNIX

(file format) Human readable text which consists only of a string of characters, represented using a character encoding such as ASCII or Unicode. In the file format sense, plain text may represent structured data in a human readable format such as XML.

(computing) Data which consists only of human-readable unformatted text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatted/structured text. In this sense, the character data in between XML tags may be called "plain text".

raakateksti

data that consists only of human-readable text


plain text

(cryptography, computing) Alternative spelling of plaintext


arcading

arcading (countable and uncountable, plural arcadings)

Whatever your taste in arcade games, one thing is certain: the world of home arcading has never been richer.

1988, Computer Gaming World, volumes 43-54, page 47

(uncountable, video games) The playing of arcade games.


netiquette

netiquette (countable and uncountable, plural netiquettes)

Top-posting and spamming are considered poor netiquette on a newsgroup.

I would like to propose a netiquette rule, but I don't know where to post it.

1990 November 5, Dave Jones, “netiquette suggestion”, in news.misc (Usenet), message-ID <14434@goofy.megatest.UUCP>

Manners count. On Usenet, the term is netiquette, and in the soap-opera group that Ms. Baym studied, it resembles professional courtesy.]

[1992 December 1, William Grimes, “Computer as a Cultural Tool: Chatter Mounts on Every Topic”, in The New York Times, page C13

I have bad netiquette. Every week this column ends with information on how to write to me. And, every six to 12 weeks, I get around to checking my e-mail.

2010 May 5, June Casagrande, “A Word, Please”, in Burbank Leader

(Internet) Conduct while online that is appropriate and courteous to other Internet users, and may be expected or enforced by others.


tombstone

If you attempt to restore a backup that is older than the tombstone lifetime, it may introduce objects that were deleted […]

2008, Laura E. Hunter, Robbie Allen, Active Directory Cookbook, page 739

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A marker that takes the place of deleted data, allowing for replication of the deletion across servers etc.

This actually results in a crash dump, which is written to the log and to a tombstone file.

2014, Joshua J. Drake, Zach Lanier, Collin Mulliner, Android Hacker's Handbook, page 186


tombstone

en-verb

tombstone (third-person singular simple present tombstones, present participle tombstoning, simple past and past participle tombstoned)

tombstones (present singular third-person)
tombstoning (participle present)
tombstoned (participle past)
tombstoned (past)

One of the many improvements in Windows 2000 WINS (and NT4 SP4) is the capability to selectively delete or tombstone records.

2000, William Boswell, Inside Windows 2000 Server, page 211

(transitive, computing, Microsoft Windows) To replace (an object or data) with a tombstone marker.


target language

en-noun

target language (plural target languages)

(computing) The machine language into which source code is to be compiled.


blacklist

The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.

(law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.


doublet

From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et.

zeke

(historical in English) a man’s waistcoat

(computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.


compression

compression (countable and uncountable, plural compressions)

Borrowed from Middle French compression, from Latin compressiō.

Due to the presence of long-range correlations in language [21], [22] it is not possible to compute accurate measures of the entropy by estimating block probabilities directly. More efficient nonparametric methods that work even in the presence of long-range correlations are based on the property that the entropy of a sequence is a lower bound to any lossless compressed version of it [15]. Thus, in principle, it is possible to estimate the entropy of a sequence by finding its length after being compressed by an optimal algorithm. In our analysis, we used an efficient entropy estimator derived from the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm that converges to the entropy [19], [23], [24], and shows a robust performance when applied to correlated sequences [25] (see Materials and Methods).

2011, Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damián H. Zanette, “Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families”, in PLoS ONE, retrieved 2012-09-26

(computing) The process by which data is compressed.

компресиране

(computing) the process by which data is compressed


decode

If and when the remaining Allied intercepts and decodes are opened up, we may expect to learn a great deal more about the later stages of the Holocaust.

2004, David Cesarani, Holocaust: Responses to the Persecution and Mass Murder of the Jews, page 148

The British picked up a decode in November 1942 indicating that guards at Auschwitz would need six hundred gas masks.

2005, Richard Breitman, U.S. Intelligence And The Nazis, page 31

Decodes stating that Hollandia airfields were becoming overcrowded with IJA aircraft waiting to stage forward to Wewak led to pre-emptive strikes by Allied air forces and the destruction of more than 300 Japanese aircraft on the ground.

2006, Ian Pfennigwerth, A Man of Intelligence, page 223

He was sure that references to AK in the intercepts stood for Midway, but none of the decodes made the identification certain.

2011, Hervie Haufler, Codebreakers' Victory, page 192

This version includes more than 400 decodes that cover everything from legacy decodes to popular decodes and new or updated decodes for such protocols as voice over IP H.323, Server Message Block, Border Gateway Protocol Version 4, and Internet Inter-ORB Protocol

1999, Laura Wonnacott, “Sniffer Pro sees some switches”, in Info World, page 37

(computing) Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols


third-person shooter

third-person shooter (plural third-person shooters)

(video games) A combat-themed video game of a kind with a perspective view, typically positioning the camera over the shoulder of the player.


first-person shooter

first-person shooter (plural first-person shooters)

(video games) A combat or video game in the genre characterized by a three-dimensional view from the player's perspective (POV, point of view) and the ability to fire a weapon.

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-ware

From software. See also ware and warehouse.

(computing) Used to form mass nouns denoting specific classes of computer software, based on use, function, or method of distribution.


outdegree

/ˈaʊtdəˌɡɹiː/

(graph theory) The number of edges directed out of a vertex in a directed graph.


incidence matrix

incidence matrix (plural incidence matrices or incidence matrixes)

incidence matrices (plural)
incidence matrixes (plural)

(graph theory) A matrix showing the relationship between two classes of objects.


indegree

/ˈɪndəˌɡɹiː/

(graph theory) The number of edges directed into a vertex in a directed graph

入度

the number of edges directed into a vertex in a directed graph


pseudograph

(graph theory) A graph that contains loops as well as multiple edges between vertices

מולטיגרף

Graph that contains loops as well as multiple edges between vertices


footer

→ Malay: pengaki (calque)

From Middle English footer, equivalent to foot + -er.

(computing) A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)

zápatí

line of information at the bottom of a page