tap

en-verb

tap (third-person singular simple present taps, present participle tapping, simple past and past participle tapped)

taps (present singular third-person)
tapping (participle present)
tapped (participle past)
tapped (past)
tap (infinitive)

The verb is derived from Middle English tappen, teppen (“to give (something) a knock or tap; to hit (something) lightly, pat, tap”), either:
* imitative of the making of a tapping sound; or
* from Old French tapper, taper (“to tap”) (modern French taper), from Frankish *tappōn, *dabbōn (“to strike”), or from Middle Low German tappen, tapen (“to rap, strike, tap”), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dab- (“to strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰebʰ- (“to beat, strike; to stun; to be speechless”). Doublet of dab.
Verb sense 1.1.1 (“to arrest (someone)”) and sense 1.6 (“to choose or designate (someone) for a duty, etc.”) allude to a police officer or other person tapping someone on their shoulder to catch their attention or to select them.
The noun is derived from Middle English tap, tappe (“light blow or hit”), and then either:
* from Middle English tappen (verb) (see above); or
* from Old French tape (“light slap or touch, pat”) (modern French tape), from tapper, taper (verb) (see above).
cognates
* German tappen (“to fumble; to grope”)
* Icelandic tappa, tapsa, tæpta (“to tap”)

der

Tap the Save Image button to save the picture in your iPod touch or iPhone photo library (in the Saved Images album) or tap Cancel to cancel.

2010, Tony Bove, “Your Pocket Picture Player”, in iPod & iTunes For Dummies (For Dummies), 7th edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, part IV (Playing It back on Your iPod or iPhone), page 301

Amazon says clothes racks will feature QR codes, which customers can scan to see available sizes, colors, customer ratings, and product details. Then, with a tap of a button, selected items will be sent to a fitting room to try on without having to first rummage through racks.

2022 January 20, Jon Porter, “Amazon’s First Clothing Store Lets You Summon Clothes to the Fitting Room”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2024-01-05

(graphical user interface) To invoke a function on an electronic device such as a mobile phone by touching (a button, icon, or specific location on its touch screen).

fer un toc

to operate an electronic device by tapping its touch screen


tap

en-noun

tap (countable and uncountable, plural taps)

(graphical user interface) An act of touching a button, icon, or specific location on the touch screen of an electronic device such as a mobile phone to invoke a function.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

kosketus

act of touching a button, icon, or specific location on the touch screen on an electronic device such as a mobile phone to invoke a function


moniker

Online Etymological Dictionary
Saturday Review (London newspaper)

Unknown, first attested 1849. Suggested derivations are:
* Backslang for ekename (compare nickname);
* From Shelta munik, munika;
* From monk;
* Partridge (A Dictionary of Historical Slang) suggests a corruption of monogram, which is suggestive of the sense signature.
* From monarch in the sense 'king or No. 1, and thus with frank egotism, "I, myself".' (The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 281, pg. 349.)
Online Etymological Dictionary's entry cites in 1857, the Saturday Review (London newspaper) noted, "the word has a certain Coptic or Egyptian twang".

Monikers are often composed from other monikers to allow object hierarchies to be navigated based on a textual description of a path.

The GetObject function can also be used to access objects via monikers. A moniker is itself an object that acts as an intermediary between VBScript and the actual object to be accessed. Monikers are typically used when the objects to be accessed exist in a namespace other than the file system.

1999, Tim Hill, Windows 2000: Windows Script Host, page 186

There are different types of monikers, but the one that deals with object instantiation is the class moniker. A class moniker portrays a class factory.

2011, Thuan L. Thai, Learning DCOM, O'Reilly, page 121

(computing) An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location.


electronic game

electronic game (plural electronic games)

(video games) A game played on an electronic device.


ESRB

Entertainment Software Rating Board
w:Entertainment Software Rating Board

(video games) Initialism of Entertainment Software Rating Board.


operating time

operating time (countable and uncountable, plural operating times)

käyttöaika

time interval between input/request for service and completion of task

(computing, telecommunications) The time interval between the instant a request for service is received from a user and the instant of final release of all facilities by the user or either of two users.


slave

Inherited from Middle English sclave, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos); see that entry and Slav for more. Displaced native Old English þēow. Thrall and bondsman/bondswoman, however, remain common synonyms. Doublet of ciao and Slav.
An alternative hypothesis derives sclavus from Ancient Greek σκῡλεύω (skūleúō), σκῡλάω (skūláō, “to strip or despoil a slain enemy”).

If you administer your own reverse DNS zones, remember to include them in your slave configuration.

2011, Roderick W. Smith, LPIC-2 Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide, John Wiley & Sons

(engineering, computing, photography) A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).

slave

device that is controlled by another device


Internet Relay Chat

(Internet) A protocol for instant communication via the Internet. Users connect to a network and join channels (chat rooms) where they can converse in typed text with other participants.


glitch

glitch (countable and uncountable, plural glitches)

Probably from Yiddish גליטש (glitsh), from German glitschig (“slippy”), from glitschen (“to slide, glide, slip”) + -ig (“-y”). Related to gleiten (“glide”). Cognate with French glisser (“to slip, slide, skid”).
Popularized in the 1960s, by the US space program. Attested in 1962 by American astronaut John Glenn, in reference to spikes in electrical current.

Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.

How to reach 8.555 ー The glitch
You need to have Wrex alive and sabotage the cure. Without the glitch, Wrex will discover the lie and try to kill you after Priority: Citadel II when you try to go back to the Normandy. Triggering this scene will remove Wrex and the Clan Urdnot in the war assets list
The glitch is easy, when you want to leave the Citadel, simply go to a fast travel shuttle, then in a DLC area (Dr. Bryson's Lab or Silversun Strip)
Then again the shuttle, and go back to the Normandy from here

2021 September 4, Paarnahkrin, “8.550 War Assets - How to achieve the highest possible score”, in Steam Community, archived from the original on 2021-12-07, Paarnahkrin's Guides


glitch

en-verb

glitch (third-person singular simple present glitches, present participle glitching, simple past and past participle glitched)

glitches (present singular third-person)
glitching (participle present)
glitched (participle past)
glitched (past)

His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.

(intransitive, video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.


backslash

From back + slash, because it is a slash going back against the direction of writing, in contrast to the common slash / (“slash, solidus, oblique, forward slash”).

[…] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).

2001, James T. Bretzke, Bibliography on East Asian Religion and Philosophy, Edwin Mellen Press, page 455

“So, do what I tell you. Open a browser window and type this in the menu bar: F-T-P colon backslash backslash euronews dot net backslash...”
I pecked carefully at the keyboard as he dictated a URL that was about fifty characters long, […]

2010, Lee Vance, The Garden of Betrayal, Random House, published 2011, page 25

Also, avoid submenus that can confuse the audience—if you're giving lengthy Web site addresses full of backslashes, shorten it so only the Web site's home page is given.

2010, Frank Barnas, Ted White, Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Fifth Edition, Elsevier, page 114

(computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.


backslash

backslash (third-person singular simple present backslashes, present participle backslashing, simple past and past participle backslashed)

backslashes (present singular third-person)
backslashing (participle present)
backslashed (participle past)
backslashed (past)

(computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.


prototype

/ˈpɹəʊtətʌɪp/

From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek πρωτότυπος (prōtótupos, “original; prototype”), from πρωτο- (prōto-, “prefix meaning ‘first’”) (from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + τῠ́πος (túpos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from τύπτω (túptō, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- + -type.

der

Like any variable in a C program it is necessary to prototype or declare a function before its use, if it returns a value other than an int. It informs the compiler that the function would be referenced at a later stage in the program. / For example, / In program 1, the statement / void display_message(); / is a function prototype or declaration. Here void specifies that this function does not return any value, and the empty parenthesis indicate that it takes no parameters (arguments).

2005, J. B. Dixit, “Unit-5: Functions and Pointers”, in Sangeeta Dixit, editor, Fundamentals of Computing, new edition, New Delhi: Laxmi Publications, page 355

(computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.


forest

􂀿ˈfɔɹ.ɛ̈stʰ􂁀

From Middle English forest, from Old French forest, from Early Medieval Latin forestis, likely from Proto-West Germanic *furhisti. In this sense, mostly displaced the native Middle English wode, from Old English wudu (modern English wood).

Let H be a traversal of an undirected graph G = (X, U). For given H, the set U can be split into set of tree edges from the forest G_H and the set of inverse edges that do not belong to this forest.

2000, Victor N. Kasyanov, Vladimir A. Evstigneev, Graph Theory for Programmers: Algorithms for Processing Trees, Springer Science & Business Media, page 16

(graph theory) A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.

Forests are considered the security boundary in Active Directory; by this we mean that if you need to definitively restrict access to a resource within a particular domain so that administrators from other domains do not have any access to it whatsoever, you need to implement a separate forest instead of using an additional domain within the current forest.

2008, Laura E. Hunter, Robbie Allen, Active Directory Cookbook, O'Reilly Media, Inc., page 17

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A group of domains that are managed as a unit.


worker

From Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.

This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.

(computing) A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.


needle

From Middle English nedle, from Old English nǣdl, from Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu, from Proto-Germanic *nēþlō, from pre-Germanic *neh₁-tleh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch naald (“needle”), German Nadel (“needle, pin, crochet hook”), German nähen (“sew”), Danish nål (“needle”), Norwegian nål (“needle”), Finnish neula (“needle”). Further related with Welsh nyddu, Latin nēre, Sanskrit स्नायति (snāyati, “wraps up, winds”). Related to snood.

cog

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God

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

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

needle in a haystack
needle in a haystack

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


spam

en-noun

spam (countable and uncountable, plural spams)

The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of either "spiced ham" or "shoulder of pork and ham" but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case.
The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python sketch (Flying Circus, Episode 25). In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in a newsgroup post dated March 31, 1993.
The term appears to have been used earlier in a different sense in relation to "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs), a kind of multi-user computer gaming environment before widespread use of the Internet, in the 1980s.

I get far too much spam.

I received 58 spams yesterday.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.

2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74

(uncountable, rarely countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.

An Act to provide for the control of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Long title, Spam Control Act (Cap. 311A, R. Ed. 2008)

(uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.

(Internet) Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.


spam

en-verb

spam (third-person singular simple present spams, present participle spamming, simple past and past participle spammed)

spams (present singular third-person)
spamming (participle present)
spammed (participle past)
spammed (past)

(intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)

(transitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.

(transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.

Stop spamming that special attack!

Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.

(transitive, by extension, computing, video games) To do something rapidly and repeatedly.


font

→ Thai: ฟอนต์ (fɔ́n)

Borrowed from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).

(computing, typography, informal) A typeface.

(computing, typography) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.

خَطّ

a computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs


wart

From Middle English warte, werte, from Old English wearte, from Proto-West Germanic *wartā, from Proto-Germanic *wartǭ. Cognate with Dutch wrat, German Warze, Hunsrik Waarz, Swedish vårta.

Hungarian warts suck big time! If you need them, your functions are too big and your class interface is much too fat.

1998, Chris Ahlstrom, “Hungarian notation”, in microsoft.public.vc.language (Usenet)

Far easier to not use warts in the first place. Even if a wart is present, you still have to verify the variable's declaration anyway, if you're a diligent maintenance programmer.

2002, Linonut, “Computer Science”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet)

(programming, slang, derogatory) Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.


PSX

(video games, dated) The original PlayStation, first released 1994.

(video games) The PSX PlayStation, based on the original PlayStation, with an integrated DVD drive (2003).


grid

Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.

(computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).

شَبَكَة حَاسُوبِيَّة

computing: a system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis


hamburger

en-noun

hamburger (countable and uncountable, plural hamburgers)

→ Burmese: ဟမ်ဘာဂါ (hambhaga)

→ Dutch: hamburger

→ Estonian: hamburger

→ French: hamburger m

→ German: Hamburger m

→ Bulgarian: хамбургер (hamburger)

→ Hungarian: hamburger

→ Japanese: ハンバーガー

→ Italian: hamburger m

desc

→ Khmer: ហាំប៊ឺហ្គឺ (hambɨɨgɨɨ)

→ Khmer: ហាំប៊ឺហ្គឺ (hambɨɨgɨɨ)

→ Korean: 햄버거 (haembeogeo)

→ Macedonian: хамбургер (hamburger)

→ Mongolian: хамбургер (xamburger)

→ Persian: همبرگر

→ Polish: hamburger

→ Portuguese: hambúrguer m

→ Romanian: hamburger m

→ Russian: га́мбургер (gámburger)

→ Mongolian: гамбургер (gamburger)

→ Swahili: hambaga

แฮมเบอร์เกอร์

→ Thai: แฮมเบอร์เกอร์ (hɛm-bəə-gə̂ə)

→ Thai: แฮมเบอร์เกอร์ (hɛm-bəə-gə̂ə)

→ Turkish: hamburger

→ Vietnamese: hăm-bơ-gơ

/ˈhæmˌbɜː.ɡə/

/ˈhæmˌbɝ.ɡɚ/

Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc.; or, less likely, borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg + -er.

hamburger button
hamburger button#English

(graphical user interface) Short for hamburger button.


lathe

en-verb

lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)

lathes (present singular third-person)
lathing (participle present)
lathed (participle past)
lathed (past)

From Middle English lathe (“turning-lathe; stand”), from Old Norse hlað (“pile, heap”)—compare dialectal Danish lad (“stand, support frame”) (as in drejelad (“turning-lathe”), savelad (“saw bench”)), dialectal Norwegian la, lad (“pile, small wall”), dialectal Swedish lad (“folding table, lay of a loom”)—from hlaða (“to load”). More at lade.

inh

(computer graphics) To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.


element

From Middle English element, from Old French element, from Latin elementum (“a first principle, element, rudiment”) (see further etymology there).

element

simplest or essential part or principle of anything

The div element was introduced into HTML as a solution to the layout problem.

2011, Richard Wagner, Creating Web Pages All-in-One For Dummies

(computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.

elementti

computing: conceptual object in a markup language


plane

→ Irish: plána

From Latin plānum (“flat surface”), a noun use of the neuter of plānus (“plain”). The word was introduced in the 17th century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain. Doublet of llano, piano, and plain.

հարթություն

geometry: flat surface extending infinitely in all directions

(computing, Unicode) Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.


nipple

→ Dutch: nippel

→ German: Nippel

→ Danish: nippel

→ Norwegian: nippel

From earlier neple, nypil, neble, believed to be a diminutive of nib, neb (“tip, point”), equivalent to nib + -le. Compare Old English nypel (“elephant trunk”), formed analogously as "a protuberance from one's neb" .

nänni

pointing stick — see also pointing stick


Delphi

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δελφοί (Delphoí).

(rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek, as well a diminutive of Delphine.

A city, the county seat of Carroll County, Indiana, United States.

programming language
programming language

A programming language dialect based on Pascal.


borrow

en-noun

borrow (countable and uncountable, plural borrows)

From Middle English borwen, borȝien, Old English borgian (“to borrow, lend, pledge surety for”), from Proto-West Germanic *borgōn, from Proto-Germanic *burgōną (“to pledge, take care of”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to take care”).
Cognate with Dutch borgen (“to borrow, trust”), German borgen (“to borrow, lend”), Danish borge (“to vouch”). Related to Old English beorgan (“to save, preserve”). More at bury.

cog

If we currently have any borrows of a value, we can't mutably borrow it into self, nor can we move it (because that would invalidate the existing borrows).

2018, Daniel Arbuckle, Rust Quick Start Guide

(programming) In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.


Python

From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).
The programming language is named after Monty Python.

(computing) An interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language invented by Guido van Rossum.


defenestration

en-noun

defenestration (countable and uncountable, plural defenestrations)

Holy Roman Emperor
Johann Philipp Abelin
Theatrum Europaeum

From New Latin defenestratio, from dē (“from; out”) + fenestra (“window”) + -atio (suffix indicating an action or process); compare Middle French défenestrer (modern French défenestrer), défenestration, Italian defenestrazione and
German Fenstersturz. The verb defenestrate was formed later.

Defenestration might be an option too. May I recommend Linux?

1998 November 1, “Dorian Bliss”, “He’s dead, Jim”, in rec.humor.oracle.d (Usenet), message-ID <363DA726.C27FA5F@spamfree.land>

It's defenestration day in Redmond today. A clearly stunned Microsoft did what it could to pretend that Judge Jackson's findings of fact were "just one step", as [Bill] Gates put said in the prepared statement that he read at a press conference last night, but it was hopeless.

1999 November 6, Graham Lea, “Stunned MS vows to fight on for freedom: ‘Integrity, partnership, quality … giving’ – (takes out onion)”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2014-08-19

No defenestration here. Ask questions about all aspects of Windows programming, get help on Microsoft technologies covered in Apress books, or provide feedback on any Apress Windows book.

2002, John Kilburn, Palm Programming in Basic, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, page 392

What's needed is defenestration – throwing out the Windows mindset along with Microsoft's licenses and software – but that's not as simple as changing a boot CD or even migrating a whole raft of servers. What's involved is fundamental change both in how IT operates and in what it does.

2004 February 12, Paul Murphy, “What does Linux cost?”, in LinuxInsider: Linux News & Information from around the World, archived from the original on 2016-03-11

Traditionally, the verb defenestrate means to throw out of a window. But as Australian companies take their first timid steps towards installing non-proprietary software on corporate desktops, defenestration is starting to be linked to the throwing out of Windows software.

2005 December 1, D. Braue, P. Gray, L. Colquhoun, J.-V. Douglas, “Leaders of the pack”, in MIS Asia: Managing Information Strategies, archived from the original on 2007-10-07

(computing, humorous) The act of removing the Microsoft Windows operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.


wat

Variation of what, used for humorous effect.

(informal, Internet, text messaging) Alternative spelling of what


static

Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek στατικός (statikós), from ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to make stand”). By surface analysis, stasis + -tic.

A further advantage of static type checking is of course computational efficiency, since run time checks are no longer necessary.

1980, R. Barbuti, A. Martelli, “Static Type Checking for Languages with Parametric Types and Polymorphic Procedures”, in Proceedings of the Fourth ‘Colloque Internationale sur la Programmation’

A static variable is one whose storage remains allocated for the duration of the entire program. All global variables are static variables.

1998, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, Mark R. Headington, chapter 8, in Programming and Problem Solving with C++

Despite the term, a static website doesn’t mean one that never changes. Static refers to the fact that the site’s assets—HTML files, graphics, and other downloadable content such as PDF files—are just static files sitting in an S3 bucket.

2019, Ben Piper, David Clinton, chapter 12, in AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide with Online Labs

(programming) Computed, created, or allocated before the program starts running, as opposed to at runtime.

статичен

programming: computed, created or allocated before the program starts running

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.

staattinen

object-oriented programming: defined for the class itself


static

static (countable and uncountable, plural statics)

Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time.

2000, Dov Bulka, David Mayhew, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques, page 149

(countable, programming) A static variable.


dynamic

en-adj

dynamic (comparative more dynamic, superlative most dynamic)

more dynamic (comparative)
most dynamic (superlative)

static

antonym(s) of “Changing, active, in motion”

From French dynamique, from Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós, “powerful”), from δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”), from δύναμαι (dúnamai, “I am able”).

der

dynamic allocation

dynamic IP addresses

the dynamic resizing of an array

(computing) Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.

dynamický

computing: happening at runtime instead of at compile time


invisible

From Middle English invisible, from Old French invisible, from Late Latin invīsibilis. Displaced native Old English unġesewenlīċ.
Morphologically in- + visible.

I went invisible so that my ex-girlfriend wouldn't send me instant messages.

(Internet) Apparently, but not actually, offline.


AS

autonomous system
w:autonomous system (Internet)

(Internet) Initialism of autonomous system.


offspring

en-noun

offspring (plural offspring or offsprings)

genitor

antonym(s) of “daughter(s) and/or son(s)”

From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.

وَلَد

singular offspring (male, female or sex unspecified)

(computing) A process launched by another process.


tie

From Middle English teye (“cord, chain”), from Old English tēag, tēah (“cord, chain”), from Proto-West Germanic *taugu, from Proto-Germanic *taugō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-. Compare Danish tov, Icelandic taug.

(graph theory) A connection between two vertices.


tie

en-verb

tie (third-person singular simple present ties, present participle tying, simple past and past participle tied)

ties (present singular third-person)
tying (participle present)
tied (participle past)
tied (past)

From Middle English teien, teiȝen, from Old English tīġan, tīeġan, from Proto-West Germanic *taugijan, from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to tug, draw”). Cognate with Icelandic teygja.

der

So, a class for tying a hash to an ISAM implementation might provide an extra method to traverse a set of keys sequentially (the “S” of ISAM), since your typical DBM implementation can't do that.

2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl: 3rd Edition, page 814

(programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.


preferences

(computing) The user-specified settings of parameters in interactive computer software

ayar

user-specified settings of parameters in computer software


spool

From Middle English spole (possibly via Old Northern French spole, espole), from Middle Dutch spoele, from Old Dutch *spōla, *spuola, from Proto-Germanic *spōlǭ (“spool”), from Proto-Indo-European *spel- (“to cleave, split”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Spoule (“spool”), Dutch spoel (“spool”), German Spule (“spool”), Swedish spole (“spool”), Icelandic spóla (“spool; reel”). The aviation usage is based on the visual similarity of one of the spools of a turbine engine to a spool used for thread (especially in cross-section).

(computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.


spool

en-verb

spool (third-person singular simple present spools, present participle spooling, simple past and past participle spooled)

spools (present singular third-person)
spooling (participle present)
spooled (participle past)
spooled (past)

(computing) To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time).

lähettää jonoon

to send files to some device or program that puts them in a queue for later processing of some kind


event

From Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.

(computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.

事件

computing: action which triggers an event handler


beehive

From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive.

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

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

Alternatively, in many cases the debris can be suppressed by perturbing the debris with a passing spaceship before it stabilizes into the beehive or loaf.

1992 October 22, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 6a)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Unfortunately, a beehive (a common six cell still life) was also created close to the block, and its position made it impossible to eliminate with conventional methods using still lifes (anything placed to destroy it would be damaged by earlier activity).

1996 November 16, Paul Callahan, “Still-life glider reflector found”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.


ASCII art

Japanese: AA (AA)

(computing, art) A form of letter art that uses only ASCII characters.


flip-flop

→ Japanese: フリップフロップ (furippu-furoppu)

Onomatopoeic. Most probably an imitation of the sound produced when walking in them.

Ten two-state flip-flops […] were formed into ten-stage ring counters representing each decimal digit in the ten-digit accumulators […]

2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 72

(computing, electronics) A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.


ADO

ActiveX Data Objects
w:ActiveX Data Objects

(computing) Initialism of ActiveX Data Objects.


AGP

en-noun

AGP (countable and uncountable, plural AGPs)

accelerated graphics port
accelerated graphics port#English

(countable, computing) Initialism of accelerated graphics port, a type of motherboard expansion slot.


erase

From Latin erasus, past participle of eradere (“to scrape, to abrade”), from ex- (“out of”) + radere (“to scrape”). Compare Middle English arasen, aracen (“to eradicate, erase”). Displaced native Old English dilegian.

This subsystem is waiting to become Exclusive after having issued an erase.

2000, Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, Gurindar S. Sohi, Readings in Computer Architecture, page 603

(computing) The operation of deleting data.


concatenate

en-verb

concatenate (third-person singular simple present concatenates, present participle concatenating, simple past and past participle concatenated)

concatenates (present singular third-person)
concatenating (participle present)
concatenated (participle past)
concatenated (past)

From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).

uder

Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".

(transitive, computing) To join (text strings) together.


BBS

en-noun

BBS (countable and uncountable, plural BBSes or BBSs)

Parallel to the emergence of text-based multiplayer games, though, was another kind of virtual community: Bulletin Boards (BBSs). BBSs were modems people could dial up to, connect with, and exchange software and messages with other members of the community. […] These BBSs, early frontier outposts of our virtual worlds, were John Lester’s first experience of a community outside the physical.

2007, Tim Guest, “Lester Prototype: The Beginning of Virtual Worlds”, in Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds, London: Hutchinson, page 60

bulletin board system
bulletin board system#English

bulletin board service
bulletin board service#English

(telecommunications, Internet) Initialism of bulletin board system or bulletin board service.

(computing) Initialism of BIOS boot sequence.

(computing) Initialism of BIOS boot specification.


miner

From mine + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).

Coordinate term: staker

The move would have probably prevented Kazakhstan-based miners from accessing the bitcoin network.

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

(cryptocurrencies) Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.

(cryptocurrencies) A person who mines cryptocurrency.


template

Alteration of templet, probably from French templet, diminutive of temple (“a weaver's stretcher”), variant of tempe, from Latin tempora (“temple”). Alteration of second syllable due to analogy with plate. Cognate with Faroese tamba (“to stretch out, relax”), Icelandic þamb (“a stretched, bloated, or extended belly”).

cog

A generic model or pattern from which other objects are based or derived.

(computing) document template (file with a basic outline for a work)

A template is a blueprint or formula for creating a generic class or a function. “C++ Templates”, in tutorialspoint, 2016

(object-oriented programming) A partially defined class or function, that can be instantiated in a variety of ways depending on the instantiation arguments.

шабло́н

object-oriented programming: partially defined class/function


signal

From Old French segnal, seignal or Medieval Latin signāle; noun use of the neuter of Late Latin signālis, from Latin signum; verb use from 1805, as a shortened from signalize (1650s).

(computing, Unix) A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.

сигна́л

computing: simple interprocess communication


well

From Middle English welle, from Old English wielle (“well”), from Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ (“well, swirl, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn; wind; roll”).
Cognate with West Frisian wel (“well”), Dutch wel (“well”), German Low German Well (“well”), German Welle (“wave”), Danish væld (“well; spring”), Swedish väl (“well”), Icelandic vella (“boiling; bubbling; eruption”).

cog

the jug goes to the well until it breaks

the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last

you don't miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water until the well runs dry

Tetris, the most widely played computer game of all time, is a problem-solving puzzle game. […] The player attempts to lock the falling shape smoothly together with the shapes in the well.

2005, James Paul Gee, Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul

(video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.

You can reposition the order of documents in the window by clicking and dragging the tabs, or you can drag a tab out of the well and view a document in its own floating window.

2011, Ted LoCascio, Using Adobe InDesign CS5, Enhanced Edition, pages 2-12

You should now have three documents open with their tabs showing in the tab well (this refers to the row of tabs for each open document in the editor), as shown in the following screenshot: […]

2016, Jeff Martin, Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook, page 15

(graphical user interface) The region of an interface that contains tabs.


demo

→ Portuguese: demo

Clipping of demonstration and various other words beginning with "demo-".

The game's developers released a demo version to the public 3 months before the full release.

(computing, informal) An edition of limited functionality to give the user an example of how the program works.

Effect 6: Gouraud spacecut - Probably the worst effect in the demo - has been done miles better before!

1995, dro...@vnet.ibm.com, “Demo review - Killing time by oxyron”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet)

This party will have it all for the Amiga scener: demos, competitions, dealers, and huge projection screen and sound system to entertain you.

1996, John Bus, “Amiga Domain - An Aussie Scene Party!”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet)

Though the idea of procedural textures has been around for years, they have primarily been exploited by the demo scene, made famous by impressive demos like kkrieger, and haven't hit it big in the game industry yet[…]

A very successful PC demo from 1993, Second Reality from Future Crew[…]

2008, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1

(computing, demoscene, informal) A non-interactive audiovisual computer program developed by enthusiasts to demonstrate the capabilities of the machine. See demoscene.


UAE

(computing, obsolete) Initialism of unrecoverable application error (the standard Microsoft Windows error message in Win16)


UAE

(computing) Initialism of Unix Amiga emulator.


arc

Inherited from Middle English ark, from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos (“bow, arrow”). Doublet of arch, arco, and arrow.


virtual

/ˈvɜːt͡ʃʊəl/

/ˈvɜɹt͡ʃuəl/

/ˈvɵːt͡ʃuəl/

PIE word
 *wiHrós
The adjective is derived from Middle English vertual, virtual [and other forms], from Old French vertüal, vertüelle (modern French virtuel), or from their etymon Medieval Latin virtuālis (“of or pertaining to potency or power; having power to produce an effect, potent; morally virtuous”), from Latin virtūs (“goodness, virtue; manliness, virility”) (from vir (“adult male, man”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“man”), possibly from *weyh₁- (“to chase, hunt, pursue”)) + -tūs (suffix forming collective or abstract nouns)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship), modelled after virtuōsus (“good, virtuous”).
Sense 4 (“pertaining to a theoretical infinitesimal velocity in a mechanical system that does not violate the system’s constraints”) is borrowed from French virtuel, from Middle French virtuel, from Old French vertüal, vertüelle: see above.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
cognates
* French virtuel
* Italian virtuale
* Spanish virtual

a virtual assistant    a virtual personal trainer

In recent months, hospitals around the country, looking for ways to free up beds for coronavirus patients, began expanding their virtual offerings, launching video doctors' visits and virtual therapy sessions, and rolling out programs to remotely monitor vulnerable patients, like those in nursing homes.

2020 August 10, Abigail Abrams, “Tech Companies are Transforming People’s Bedrooms into ‘Virtual Hospitals.’ Will It Last Post-COVID?”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-28

Operating using a computer and/or online rather than physically present.

etä-

operating using a computer and/or online rather than physically present

virtual machine virtual memory virtual private network

The virtual world of his computer game allowed character interaction.

(computing)
Simulated in a computer and/or online.

(object-oriented programming) Of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass.

virtual

of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass


virtual

en-noun

virtual (countable and uncountable, plural virtuals)

/ˈvɜːt͡ʃʊəl/

/ˈvɜɹt͡ʃuəl/

/ˈvɵːt͡ʃuəl/

näennäinen

that which is imitated or simulated rather than existing in fact or reality; an instance of this

(countable, programming) A virtual (adjective sense 3.3) member function of a class.


informatics

[ˌɪnfɚˈmæɾɪks]

Coined 1967 from information + -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic.
German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.

(computing) A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of information processing, particularly with respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.


reference

reference (countable and uncountable, plural references)

From Middle French référence, from Medieval Latin referentia, nominative neuter plural of referēns, present participle of referō (“return, reply”, literally “carry back”). Morphologically refer + -ence.

verwysing

academic writing: identification of a source

(computing) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.

отправка

computing: object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere

(programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.

kromnomo

programming: special sequence used to represent complex characters


reference

en-verb

reference (third-person singular simple present references, present participle referencing, simple past and past participle referenced)

references (present singular third-person)
referencing (participle present)
referenced (participle past)
referenced (past)

The given pointer will reference the actual generated data.

(programming) To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory.

viitata

to contain the memory address of another value


shelf

→ Czech: šelf

→ Irish: seilf

→ Serbo-Croatian: šȅlf, ше̏лф

→ Welsh: silff

From Middle English schelfe, probably from Old English sċylfe, sċilfe (“shelf, ledge, deck of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *skilfijā, from Proto-Germanic *skelfō (“shelf, ledge, cliff”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), distantly related to sculpt, carve and shell. Cognate with Dutch schelf (“hay loft, haystack”), German Low German Schelf (“haystack”), Old Norse skjalf (“bench”).

der

This is where the Visual Studio Shelving function can help. A shelf is a place on the server in source control that is separate from the main code line so it will not affect other developers.

A shelveset allows you to store a changeset on the server without adding it to the current codebase and sharing it with team members directly. Each team member has his own “shelf,” where he can store as many shelvesets as he wants.

2016, Wouter de Kort, DevOps on the Microsoft Stack, page 114

(computing) The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored.


pagination

en-noun

pagination (countable and uncountable, plural paginations)

/ˌpæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/

(computing) The separation of data into batches, so that it can be retrieved with a number of smaller requests.


paginate

en-verb

paginate (third-person singular simple present paginates, present participle paginating, simple past and past participle paginated)

paginates (present singular third-person)
paginating (participle present)
paginated (participle past)
paginated (past)

From Medieval Latin paginare, from Latin pagina.

(transitive, computing) To separate (data) into batches, so that it can be retrieved with a number of smaller requests.


mote

From remote, with allusion to the other sense of mote (“a speck of dust”).

A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.


lexeme

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -eme, a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure. Extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

لِكْسِيم

linguistics: unit of vocabulary, set of different forms of the same lemma

(computing) An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token).

詞素

computing: continuous character sequence without spaces


RPG

Initialism. When applied to a "rocket-propelled grenade" it derives from Russian РПГ (RPG), initialism of ручной противотанковый гранатомёт (ručnoj protivotankovyj granatomjót, “hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher”), of which "rocket-propelled grenade" is a backronym (though an accurate description of the weapon system).


lexical

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.

(chiefly computing) Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.


skin

en-noun

skin (countable and uncountable, plural skins)

From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”).
See also Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish ceinn, Irish scainim (“I tear, burst”), Latin scindere (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “he splits”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), see hide. More at shed. Not related to shin.

peel

outer protective layer of a plant or animal

congealed layer on the surface of a liquid

don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear

You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.

(countable, computing, graphical user interface) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.

面板

image used as the background of graphical user interface

(countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.

skini

alternate appearance for a 3D character model in a video game


skin

en-verb

skin (third-person singular simple present skins, present participle skinning, simple past and past participle skinned)

skins (present singular third-person)
skinning (participle present)
skinned (participle past)
skinned (past)

Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?

(transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).


farm

→ Dutch: farm

→ Finnish: farmi

→ German: Farm

→ Portuguese: farme, farma

→ Yiddish: פֿאַרם (farm)

→ Spanish: farmear

→ Thai: ฟาร์ม (faam)

From Middle English ferme, farme (“rent, revenue, produce, factor, stewardship, meal, feast”), influenced by Anglo-Norman ferme (“rent, lease, farm”), from Medieval Latin ferma, firma. There is debate as to whether Medieval Latin acquires this term from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *fermō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhwō (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”), or from Latin firmus (“solid, secure”), from Proto-Italic *fermos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”). If the former etymology is correct, the term is related to Old English feorh (“life, spirit”), Icelandic fjör (“life, vitality, vigour, animation”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃 (fairƕus, “the world”). Compare also Old English feormehām (“farm”), feormere (“purveyor, supplier, grocer”). Cognate with Scots ferm (“rent, farm”).

cog

a render farm

a server farm

(computing) A group of coordinated servers.


farm

en-verb

farm (third-person singular simple present farms, present participle farming, simple past and past participle farmed)

farms (present singular third-person)
farming (participle present)
farmed (participle past)
farmed (past)

From Middle English fermen, from Anglo-Norman fermer (“to let out for a fixed payment, lease, rent”) ultimately from the same Old English source as Etymology 1. Compare Old English feormian (“to feed, supply with food, sustain”).

cog

When you hit a black pudding with an iron weapon that does at least one point of damage there is a good chance it will divide into two black puddings of the same size (but half the hit points IIRC). […] When eaten black puddings confer several intrinsics so AC [armor class] is not the only potential benefit. […] Since black puddings are formidible monsters for an inexperienced character, farming is also a good way to die.

2004, Doug Freyburger, “Pudding Farming Requires Care”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet)

The practice of gold farming is controversial within gaming communities and violates the end user licensing agreements[…]

2010, Robert Alan Brookey, Hollywood Gamers, page 130

(video games, chiefly online gaming) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.


process

→ Japanese: プロセス (purosesu)

From Middle English proces, from Old French procés (“journey”), from Latin prōcessus, from prōcēdō.

(computing) An executable task or program.


include

en-verb

include (third-person singular simple present includes, present participle including, simple past and past participle included)

includes (present singular third-person)
including (participle present)
included (participle past)
included (past)

From Middle English includen, borrowed from Latin inclūdere (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudere (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). Doublet of enclose. Displaced native Old English belūcan (“to include,” also “to shut in”).

der

You have to include the strings library to use this function.

(programming) To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file.


include

In the previous lesson, you learned how to use server-side includes, which enable you to easily include snippets of web pages within other web pages.

2006, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day

(programming) A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.


roman

(of text, typography, computing) of or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.


manifold

From Middle English manifold, from Old English maniġfeald (“manifold, various, varied, complicated, numerous, abundant, plural”), from Proto-Germanic *managafalþaz, equivalent to many + -fold. Cognate with Middle High German manecvalt (“manifold”), Icelandic margfaldr (“multiple”). Compare also German mannigfaltig (“various”), Dutch menigvoudig (“various”), Danish mangefold (“multiple”), Swedish mångfald (“diversity”).

cog

(computer graphics) A polygon mesh representing the continuous, closed surface of a solid object


prestige

en-verb

prestige (third-person singular simple present prestiges, present participle prestiging, simple past and past participle prestiged)

prestiges (present singular third-person)
prestiging (participle present)
prestiged (participle past)
prestiged (past)

From French prestige (“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”), from Latin praestīgium (“a delusion, an illusion”). Despite the phonetic similarities and the old meaning of “delusion, illusion, trick”, the word has a different root than prestidigitator (“conjurer”) and prestidigitation.

der

This seriously depends on the prerequisites, but most chars will already have a +1 bow by the time they're thinking of prestiging - or will this stack with the equipment's magic?

2002 July 15, Mark Green, “help in creating prestige class: Sharpshooter”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet)

I'm going to try to stop and move onto a different game once I've prestiged, but the credits/equipment buying arrangement will make prestiging much less of a crippling shock than in previous games, so I may well be stuck playing it for a long time to come.

2010 December 3, Chris Stevens, “PWG 20101203 - The deja double”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet)

However, Treyarch crafts a narrative of leveling up when a player attempts to prestige. The player is stripped of most un-lockable game features and must re-earn them with the ability to repeat this process 15 times. Prestiging allows the empty narrative of online multiplayer first person shooters to continue on a much grander scale.

2013, Brent Kice, “Perceptions of Control: Open World Formats v. Online Multiplayer First Person Shooters”, in Matthew Wysocki, editor, Ctrl-Alt-Play: Essays on Control in Video Gaming, McFarland & Company, page 154

Reached level 50 and prestiged which I have never had the inclination to do in any game before.

2014 April 1, Man of Kent, “Monday, innit”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet)

Prestiging itself is a concept popularized by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, where players can reset their in-game progress after reaching the maximum experience level, and receive a cosmetic token in exchange.

2018, Adam Kramarzewski, Ennio De Nucci, Practical Game Design, Packt, page 420

(video games) To start over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.


code

en-noun

code (countable and uncountable, plural codes)

desctree

→ Hindi: कूट (kūṭ)
→ Sanskrit: कूट (kūṭa)

→ Japanese: コード (kōdo)

From Middle English code (“system of law”), from Old French code (“system of law”), from Latin cōdex, later form of caudex (“the stock or stem of a tree, a board or tablet of wood smeared over with wax, on which the ancients originally wrote; hence, a book, a writing.”). Doublet of codex.

(cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.

Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code.

I wrote some code to reformat text documents.

This HTML code may be placed on your web page.

(programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.


code

en-verb

code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)

codes (present singular third-person)
coding (participle present)
coded (participle past)
coded (past)

I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.

We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.


evergreen

Chrome and Firefox are evergreen browsers: they update automatically and version numbers are only used for internal reference.

2014, Peter Gasston, Book of CSS3, 2nd Edition: A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design, No Starch Press, page 257

(often figuratively) Continually fresh or self-renewing.

(computing) Of a document, a piece of software, or a data set: kept continually up to date (as opposed to being published at regular intervals and outdated in the meantime)


request

From Middle English request, from Old French requeste (French requête), from Vulgar Latin *requaesita, from Latin requīsīta, feminine of requīsītus (“requested, demanded”), past participle of requīrō (“require, ask”), composed of re- + quaerō (“I seek, look for”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”). Compare to French requetér.

der

The server returned a 404 error to the HTTP request.

(networking) A message sent over a network to a server.


random

en-adj

random (comparative more random, superlative most random)

more random (comparative)
most random (superlative)

→ German: random

→ Hungarian: random

From earlier randon, from Middle English randoun, raundon, from Old French randon, from randir (“to run, gallop”) (whence French randonnée (“long walk, hike”)), from Frankish *randiju (“a run, race”) or Old Norse rend (“a run, race”), both from Proto-Germanic *randijō, from *rinnaną (“run”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)r̥-nw- (“to flow, move, run”). Cognate with Middle Low German uprinden (“to jump up”), Danish rende (“to run”). See run.

cog

The rand function generates a random number from a seed.

(computing) Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.


carry

From Middle English carrien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin.

der

On paper, simply add the carry to the next addition; that is, $B2 + $9C + 1. That's fine for paper, but how is it done by computer?

1988, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor, page 45

(computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.


eater

From Middle English eter, etere, etter, from Old English etere; equivalent to eat + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix) (food suitable for eating).

But there are many queen bee configurations in which the debris is neutralized, including placement of a block or eater near the bee's turnaround point, or placing two queen bees in a line or at right angles in various positions and phases.

1989 October 31, Scott Huddleston, “life: glider guns”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

The eater can also destroy a snail, but changes its phase while doing so.

1997 November 30, David Bell, “Day & Night - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 2/5)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Probably even if it didn't fail catastrophically, any design like this would get stuck in an infinite loop pretty quick, upon hitting its first "cleaner-proof" ash -- an eater pattern that happens to absorb the test reaction without itself being altered.

2009 January 13, Dave Greene, “Ash”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) A configuration of cells that appears to consume another configuration by gradually causing it to disappear.


sort

From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (= Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Swedish sort), borrowed from Old French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sortem, accusative form of sors (“lot, fate, share, rank, category”).

Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.

The fastest general algorithm we have considered that sorts keys in a stable manner is the list merge sort, but it does not use minimum storage

2014, Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming. Sorting and Searching

(computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.


recent

Borrowed from Latin recēns (genitive recentis).

Obviously, the first time you launch this app, your Recents list is empty.

2012, Jason R. Rich, Your iPad 2 at Work, page 308

(computing, graphical user interface) A recently viewed or accessed item.


defunct

en-adj

defunct (comparative more defunct, superlative most defunct)

more defunct (comparative)
most defunct (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”).

(computing) Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.


bar

en-noun

bar (countable and uncountable, plural bars)

→ Albanian: bar m

→ Arabic: بَار m (bār)

→ Armenian: բար (bar)

→ Bulgarian: бар (bar)

→ Burmese: ဘား (bha:)

→ Chichewa: bála

→ Cantonese: 吧 (baa¹)

→ Czech: bar m

→ Danish: bar c

→ Dutch: bar m

→ Esperanto: baro

→ Estonian: baar

→ French: bar m
→ Romanian: bar

→ Galician: bar m

→ Georgian: ბარი (bari)

→ German: Bar f

→ Greek: μπαρ n (bar)

→ Gulf Arabic: بار (bār)

→ Hebrew: בָּר (bar), בָּאר (bár)

→ Hungarian: bár (also via German)

→ Icelandic: bar m

→ Irish: beár m

→ Italian: bar m

→ Japanese: バー (bā)

→ Khmer: បារ (baa)

→ Korean: 바 (ba)

→ Lithuanian: bãras m

→ Macedonian: бар m (bar)

→ Malagasy: ba

→ Mandarin: 吧 (bā)

→ Norwegian:

Bokmål: bar m

Nynorsk: bar m

→ Persian: بار (bâr)

→ Polish: bar m

→ Portuguese: bar m

→ Russian: бар m (bar)

→ Serbo-Croatian: ба̑р m, bȃr m

→ Slovene: bȃr m

→ Spanish: bar m

→ Swahili: baa

→ Swedish: bar c (see there for further descendants)

→ Thai: บาร์ (baa)

→ Turkish: bar

→ Xhosa: íbhári

→ Zulu: ibha

From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.

der

Suppose we have four objects, foo, bar, baz and quux.

metasyntactic variable
metasyntactic variable

(programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.

ajn

programming: a second entity following foo


stratum

Borrowed from Latin strātum (“a spread for a bed, coverlet, quilt, blanket; a pillow, bolster; a bed”), neuter singular of strātus, perfect passive participle of sternō (“spread”). Doublet of estrade.

bor

Computers that synchronize themselves to the stratum 1 time servers are known as stratum 2 time servers if they allow others to synchronize to them, and so on.

2006, Roderick W. Smith, Linux Samba Server Administration

(computing) The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.


whore

en-verb

whore (third-person singular simple present whores, present participle whoring, simple past and past participle whored)

whores (present singular third-person)
whoring (participle present)
whored (participle past)
whored (past)

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

non-rhotic, dough-door merger, African-American Vernacular

nonstandard but traditional, several locations

(North American)

From Middle English hore, from Old English hōre, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“loved”), from *keh₂- (“to wish; desire”). Cognate with Latin cārus, Polish kurwa, German Hure. The initial wh- is unetymological.

BTW, that guy whuz still an asshole - camping the BFG and whoring the quad - I usually leave BFG maps but stuck around on that one and suicided quite a bit (3 times I got to about -10 frags, then came back to 0...).

(transitive, slang, video games, vulgar, derogatory) To overuse something.


follower

→ Ukrainian: фоловер (folover)

/ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/

From Middle English folwer, folwere, folȝere, from Old English folgere (“follower; attendant; disciple”), equivalent to follow + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foulger, West Frisian folger, Dutch volger, German Folger, Swedish följare.

inh

Coordinate term: followee

I have over 50 followers on Twitter, but all my tweets only get 10 likes.

Talking bout these other rappers getting old is even getting old / Worrying about your followers, you need to get your dollars up

2012, “Amen”, in Dreamchasers 2, performed by Meek Mill ft. Drake

(social media) An account holder who subscribes to see content from another account on a social media platform.


abend

If the programmer can determine the particular file that was being accessed and that caused the Abend, or was in core at the time of the Abend, the solution would be closer at hand.

1974 August 7, Harmon R. Feig, “Files Can Be Found Through Dump, Register Reviews”, in Computerworld, page 12

(computing) The abnormal termination of a program.


abend

en-verb

abend (third-person singular simple present abends, present participle abending, simple past and past participle abended)

abends (present singular third-person)
abending (participle present)
abended (participle past)
abended (past)

The nightly invoicing job abended at 3 a.m.


service

en-noun

service (countable and uncountable, plural services)

From Middle English servise, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo-s (“guardian”), possibly from *ser- (“watch over, protect”). Displaced native Old English þeġnung.

This machine provides the name service for the LAN.

(computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.

服務

computing: function provided by one program or machine for another


lock

Tok Pisin: lok

→ Hawaiian: laka

From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”). The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Related to luxe via Latin.

der

[T]he application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.

2005, Karl Kopper, The Linux Enterprise Cluster

(computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.


lock

en-verb

lock (third-person singular simple present locks, present participle locking, simple past locked, past participle locked or (obsolete) locken)

locks (present singular third-person)
locking (participle present)
locked (past)
locked (participle past)
locken (obsolete participle past)

unlock

antonym(s) of “to fasten with a lock, to be capable of becoming fastened in place”

(Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.

заключвам

(internet) to stop others contributing to a thread, etc.

Frequently-vandalized pages are generally locked to prevent further damage.

(Internet, wiki jargon, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.


type

→ Japanese: タイプ

→ Korean: 타입 (taip)

From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-. Related to stupid, stupefy and stop.

tyyppiyksilö

biology: individual representative of its taxonomic group

(computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.

tipu

computing theory: tag indicating data type


lex

en-verb

lex (third-person singular simple present lexes, present participle lexing, simple past and past participle lexed)

lexes (present singular third-person)
lexing (participle present)
lexed (participle past)
lexed (past)

Once this is done, each processor parses and lexes its own documents, using conventional programming techniques.

1994, Donna K Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2)

SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree.

2004, Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis

Lexing and parsing do not have to be separated, and there are often convenient .NET methods for extracting information from text in particular formats...

2007, Don Syme with Adam Granicz and Antonio Cisternino, Expert F#

(computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.


thesis

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

From Late Middle English thesis (“lowering of the voice”) and also borrowed directly from its etymon Latin thesis (“proposition, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from Ancient Greek θέσῐς (thésis, “arrangement, placement, setting; conclusion, position, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from τῐ́θημῐ (títhēmi, “to place, put, set; to put down in writing; to consider as, regard”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”)) + -σῐς (-sis, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result). The English word is a doublet of deed.
Sense 1.1 (“proposition or statement supported by arguments”) is adopted from antithesis. Sense 1.4 (“initial stage of reasoning”) was first used by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), and later applied to the dialectical method of his countryman, the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831).
The plural form theses is borrowed from Latin thesēs, from Ancient Greek θέσεις (théseis).

der

Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.

(mathematics, computer science) A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.


main

From Middle English mayn, main, maine, mæine, mæȝen, from Old English mæġen (“strength”), from Proto-Germanic *maginą (“strength, power, might”), *maginaz (“strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ- (“be able”).
The word is cognate with Old High German magen, megin, Old Norse magn, megn, megin, Old Saxon megin. More recent senses are derived from the adjective.

inh

My WoW main has reached level cap and I’m on my way getting my first alt there as well.

(not in generic modern use) That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.

(video games) The primary character that one plays in a video game in which one can play more than one character.


cyberspace

en-noun

cyberspace (countable and uncountable, plural cyberspaces)

Blend of cybernetics + space, equivalent to cyber- + space, coined by American-Canadian speculative fiction writer William Gibson in his 1982 short story collection Burning Chrome and popularized in his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

coin

A world of information accessed through the Internet.

Meanwhile, the pioneers of the computer-mediated communication networks collectively referred to as cyberspace are not willing to wait. Employing whatever tools they can find, they are constantly pushing the techno-cultural envelope. Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive, frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist, and more decentralized than hierarchical.

1993 March, Mitch Kapor, “Where Is the Digital Highway Really Heading?”, in Wired Magazine

However, some have accused cyberspace of provoking a dangerous collapse in the old order of civilised society. The shift in the balance of power online has given rise to a more powerful concern: the rise of the uncivil web.

2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian

“We call on all states, including China, to uphold their international commitments and obligations and to act responsibly in the international system, including in cyberspace,” according to a statement from NATO.

2021 July 19, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, David E. Sanger, quoting NATO, “U.S. Formally Accuses China of Hacking Microsoft”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(by extension, somewhat dated) The Internet as a whole.


guest

From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Cognate with German Gast (“guest”), Norwegian gjest (“guest”). Doublet of host, from Latin.

der

(computing) A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.


pool

→ German: Pool

→ Japanese: プール (pūru)

→ Swedish: pool c

From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-West Germanic pōl, from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bōlos (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), German Low German Pohl, Pool, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“bog, marsh, swamp, pool”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”).

cog

pull (accents with FOOT-GOOSE merger or full-fool merger)

(by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.

varanto

computing: set of resources kept ready to use


form

en-noun

form (countable and uncountable, plural forms)

→ Korean: 폼 (pom)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: form

From Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreement, etc.”), borrowed from Old French forme, from Latin fōrma (“shape, figure, image, outline, plan, mold, frame, case, etc., manner, sort, kind, etc.”).

der

imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

While it is quite amazing how much one can do with Visual Basic with the code attached to a single form, to take full advantage of VB you'll need to start using multiple forms and having the code on all the forms in your project interact.

1998, Gary Cornell, Visual Basic 6 from the ground up, page 426

Throughout this chapter we will work with a form in a new project.

(computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.


personal computer

en-noun

personal computer (plural personal computers)

Often attributed to Stewart Brand (1974), but in use before, see quotes.

“There is no reason to suppose the average boy or girl cannot be master of a personal computer,” he said.

1962 November 3, John Mauchly, quotee, “Pocket Computer May Replace Shopping List”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Meanwhile the research center is nifty as ever. Virtuoso Peter Deutsch is working on interactive systems for secretaries. They're part way along on the Dynabook fantasy with a working personal computer the size of a breadbox.

1974, Stewart Brand, II Cybernetic Frontiers, New York: Random House, page 88

(dated) A small computer, built around a microprocessor, for use by one person at a time.

Apple II
IBM Personal Computer
Stewart Brand

كَمْبْيُوتَر شَخْصِيّ

small computer for use by one person at a time — see also PC

ܚܲܫܘܼܒ݂ܵܐ ܦܲܪܨܘܿܦܵܝܵܐ

ḥašūḇā parṣōpāyā


Internet cafe

The Iranian police have closed down 24 Internet cafes and other coffee shops in as many hours, detaining 23 people, as part of a broad crackdown on immoral behavior, official news media said Sunday.

2007 December 17, “Police in Iran Shut 24 Internet Cafes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

A place where one can use a computer with Internet access for a fee.


wheel

we'll (one pronunciation along with the wine–whine merger)

From Middle English whel, from Old English hwēol, from Proto-West Germanic *hwehwl, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą, *hweulō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷlóm, *kʷékʷlos, *kʷékʷléh₂, reduplication of *kʷel- (“to turn”) and a suffix (literally "(the thing that) turns and turns." See also West Frisian tsjil, Dutch wiel, Danish hjul; also Tocharian B kokale (“cart, wagon”), Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “cycle, wheel”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬑𐬭𐬀 (caxra), Sanskrit चक्र (cakrá)); and Latin colō (“to till, cultivate”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B käl- (“to bear; bring”), Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō, “to come into existence, become”), Old Church Slavonic коло (kolo, “wheel”), Albanian sjell (“to bring, carry, turn around”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (caraⁱti, “it circulates”), Sanskrit चरति (cárati, “it moves, wanders”)). Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cycle, and cyclus.

агьежь

a circular device facilitating movement or transportation

peix gros

(slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.

(computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.


method

en-noun

method (countable and uncountable, plural methods)

From Middle French methode, from Latin methodus, from Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos).

mètode

(programming) subroutine or function in object-oriented languages

my very easy method just speeds up naming planets

When you call the method, you provide values corresponding to these variables in your method call.

2006, David A. Black, David Heinemeier Hansson, Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers, Manning, page 101

(object-oriented programming) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.


heuristic

en-adj

heuristic (comparative more heuristic, superlative most heuristic)

more heuristic (comparative)
most heuristic (superlative)

Irregular formation from Ancient Greek εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “I find, discover”) (compare the proper Greek term εὑρετικός (heuretikós)).

إرشادي

relating to general strategies or methods for solving problems

If a heuristic algorithm works for most of the input data or its maximum percentage error is tolerable, we may prefer the heuristic algorithm to an optimum algorithm that requires a long time.

2002, Te Chiang Hu, Man-tak Shing, Combinatorial Algorithms

(computing, of a method or algorithm) That provides a useful, but not optimal, solution to a problem. Such algorithms are typically employed either because the only known algorithms that provide optimal solutions use too much time or resources, or else because there is no known algorithm that provides an optimal solution.

ευρετικός

in computing, that is not certain to arrive at an optimal solution


heuristic

(computing) A heuristic algorithm or method.


label

→ Danish: label

→ Dutch: label

→ French: label

→ Japanese: ラベル (raberu)

→ Polish: label

From Middle English label (“narrow band, strip of cloth”), from Old French label, lambel (Modern French lambeau), from Frankish *lappā (“torn piece of cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *lappǭ, *lappô (“cloth stuff, rag, scraps, flap, dewlap, lobe, rabbit ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“blade”). Cognate with Old High German lappa (“rag, piece of cloth”), Old English læppa (“skirt, flap of a garment”). More at lap.

cog

Storage devices can be given by label or ID.

(computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.

(computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.

(graphical user interface) A non-interactive control or widget displaying text, often used to describe the purpose of another control.


trait

traditional British pronunciation, now virtually obsolete

Borrowed from Middle French trait (“line, feature”), from Latin tractus (“drawing, pulling”), from Latin trahō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to drag, pull?”), perhaps a variation of *dʰregʰ- (“to pull, draw, drag”). Doublet of tract.

der

Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin.

Traits are parametrized on other methods, which must be provided to create a class using the trait. Using a trait-like mechanism to compose large collections of mutually-dependent classes or traits could lead to parameter explosion.

2006, Nathaniel J. Nystrom, Programming languages for scalable software extension and composition

(object-oriented programming) An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.


vaporware

Our hard-and-fast rule was that if we couldn't see it, it still resided in that special zone called "Vaporware."

1983, Recording Engineer/producer, volume 14, number 3, page 18

Vaporware appeals widely to industrial and consumer buyers.

2015, Randall G. Chapman, BRANDS: a marketing game

Some would say that Microsoft engaged in a subtle form of vaporware by preannouncing its product before it was actually ready to be delivered, then, at the last minute, announcing a short delay.

2015, Richard Severson, Ethical Principles for the Information Age

(computing) An advertised product, often computer software, whose launch has not happened yet and might not ever happen.

fumiciel

An advertised product, whose launch is questionable


system

→ Japanese: システム (shisutemu)

Partly borrowed from Middle French sisteme, systeme, partly directly from its etymon Late Latin systēma (“harmony; musical scale; set of celestial objects; set of troops; system”), from Ancient Greek σύστημα (sústēma, “musical scale; organized body; whole made of several parts or members”), from σῠνίστημῐ (sunístēmi, “to combine, organize”) + -μᾰ (-ma, resultative suffix). σῠνίστημῐ is from σῠν- (sun-, “with, together”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”).
Cognate with Dutch systeem, modern French système, German System, Italian sistema, Portuguese sistema, Spanish sistema. Doublet of systema.

sistem

WIPO [the World Intellectual Property Organization] reported that China had 17 of the top 20 academic organizations filing for AI-related patents. It noted China was especially strong in the fast-growing area of "deep learning." This is a machine learning method that includes speech and facial recognition systems.

2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2019-02-07

A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.

(computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.

系統

(computing) set of hardware and software operating in a computer


focus

en-noun

focus (countable and uncountable, plural foci or focuses or focusses)

foci (plural)
focuses (plural)
focusses (plural)

Borrowed from Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”); see there for more. Doublet of fuel.
Kepler introduced the term into mathematics and the sciences in describing elliptical orbits of planets (quote from Nicholas Mee) :
"One of the interesting properties of an ellipse is that if there were a light bulb at one focus, then all the light that it emits would reflect off the ellipse and converge at the other focus. This is why Kepler originally used the name focus for these points."

bor+

Text entered at the keyboard or pasted from a clipboard is sent to the component which currently has the focus.

(graphical user interface) The status of being the currently active element in a user interface, often indicated by a visual highlight.


focus

en-verb

focus (third-person singular simple present focuses or focusses, present participle focusing or focussing, simple past and past participle focused or focussed)

focuses (present singular third-person)
focusses (present singular third-person)
focusing (participle present)
focussing (participle present)
focused (participle past)
focused (past)
focussed (participle past)
focussed (past)

The text box won't receive the user's keystrokes unless you explicitly focus it.

(computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so that it receives subsequent input.

kohdistaa

(computing, graphical user interface) to transfer the input focus to


collapse

collapse (third-person singular simple present collapses, present participle collapsing, simple past and past participle collapsed)

collapses (present singular third-person)
collapsing (participle present)
collapsed (participle past)
collapsed (past)

From Latin collāpsus (past participle of collābor).

(transitive, computing) To hide additional directory (folder) levels below the selected directory (folder) levels. When a folder contains no additional folders, a minus sign (-) appears next to the folder.

plegar

computing: to hide additional directory (folder) levels


trailer

→ Armenian: թրեյլեր (tʻreyler)

→ Estonian: treiler

→ Finnish: traileri

→ Galician: tráiler

→ Greek: τρέιλερ (tréiler)

→ Japanese: トレーラー (torērā)

→ Portuguese: trailer

→ Romanian: treiler

→ Russian: тре́йлер (tréjler)

→ Spanish: tráiler

→ Swahili: trela

From trail + -er. The film sense derives from the fact that previews were formerly shown after the main feature, rather than before as is usual today.

תווית סוף

in computing: value used to signal the end of a list of data

The linked list terminates with a trailer record.

(computing) The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise invalid value that sorts last alphabetically (e.g., “ZZZZZ”) or numerically (“99999”); especially common in the context of punched cards, where the final card is called a trailer card.

The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.

(networking) The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.

aanhangwagen

in networking: the last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence


curry

curry (third-person singular simple present curries, present participle currying, simple past and past participle curried)

curries (present singular third-person)
currying (participle present)
curried (participle past)
curried (past)

Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.

named-after

The easiest way to curry parameters is to create a function that takes a parameter block and returns a function that will call the original function with the presupplied parameters as defaults […].

2011, Zachary Kessin, Programming HTML5 Applications: Building Powerful Cross-Platform Environments in JavaScript, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", page 21

Next, we curry the avg function to 3 arguments and put it into an option.

2015, Leonardo Borges, Clojure Reactive Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 194

(transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.


spim

en-noun

spim (usually uncountable, plural spims)

(Internet) Unsolicited commercial messages sent via an instant messaging system.


entity

From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 1. Existence

(databases) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual elements or parts of the same type.

entiteetti

computing: anything about which data can be stored


IP address

(Internet) A number assigned to each computer's or other device's network interface, which are active on a network. supporting the Internet Protocol, in order to distinguish each network interface, and hence each networked device) from every other network interface anywhere on the network.

عُنْوَان آي بِي

number assigned to each computer's network interface


log

From logbook, itself from log (above) + book, from a wooden float (chip log, or simply log) used to measure speed.

(computer science) Specifically, an append-only sequence of records written to file.

日誌

(computer) an append-only sequence of records written to disk


IP

IP (countable and uncountable, plural IPs)

(computing) Initialism of insertion point (where text, etc. will be added in a document).

insertion point

(computing) Initialism of instruction pointer (CPU register).

initial permutation
initial permutation#English

(cryptography) Initialism of initial permutation.

This IP made a disruptive edit!

(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) An unregistered user identified by their IP address.

wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon; wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon


IP

IP address

Internet Protocol
Internet Protocol#English

(Internet, networking) Initialism of Internet Protocol.


centaur

From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros), from Κένταυρος (Kéntauros, “a member of a savage race from Thessaly”).

The first—termed “cyborgs” by the authors—intertwined with the AI, moulding, checking and refining its responses, while the second—“centaurs”—divided labour, handing off more AI-suited subtasks while focussing on their own areas of expertise.

2023 November 11, John Burn-Murdoch, “Generative AI and white-collar jobs: reasons to be wary”, in FT Weekend, The FT View, page 8

Programming has not yet gone the way of chess. But the centaurs have arrived. GPT-4 on its own is, for the moment, a worse programmer than I am. Ben is much worse. But Ben plus GPT-4 is a dangerous thing.

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

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(by extension, artificial intelligence) A human and an AI who work together.


envelope

PIE word
 *h₁én
From French enveloppe. The engineering sense is derived from flight envelope. The verb is from the noun.

(networking) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.

kirjekuori

computing: routing information of an email


trust

trust (countable and uncountable, plural trusts)

From Middle English trust (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), itself from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, and so it is considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”). Akin to Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic trausti (“alliance, pact”). Doublet of tryst. More at true, tree.

cog

(computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.


rope

en-noun

rope (countable and uncountable, plural ropes)

→ Irish: rópa

Tok Pisin: rop

table
From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots rape, raip (“rope”), Saterland Frisian Roop (“rope”), West Frisian reap (“rope, cord”), Dutch roop, reep (“rope, cord, ring, strip, bar”), German Low German Reep (“rope”), Swedish rep (“rope”), Danish reb (“rope”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”).

der

give him enough rope and he'll hang himself

you'd complain if you were hung with a new rope

(computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.


pattern

From earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patrōnus (“patron”). Doublet of padrone, patron, and Patronus.

skemo

intelligible arrangement which has a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship

There were no files matching the pattern *.txt.

(computing) A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.

(software engineering, in compounds) A design pattern.

software engineering
software engineering

Pattern 10 is open in figure 3.9, showing the 64 notes in the pattern (each pattern in this song has 64 beats).

2008, Karen Collins, Game Sound, page 59

A MOD file contains a number of short audio samples, and instructions or a “pattern” for how and when those samples are to be played.

2017, Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland, The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories, page 444

(computing, music) A sequence of notes, percussion etc. in a tracker module, usable once or many times within the song.

For example, at one point it claims that in order to view a pattern capable of reproduction and evolution, one would need a computer with a screen the size of the solar system, and the pattern would be so sparse anyway as to be almost unobservable.

1989 May 6, Alan Hensel, “Looking for Life Newsletter”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

The state of the pattern after 1.25 * 10^12 generations is here:

2010 March 20, Adam Goucher, “What is CA for?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

The isotropy means all patterns behave the same regardless of orientation in space, they can be flipped or rotated without changing their behavior.

2022 February 11, Mateon1, “Game of Life with real 8 neighbors”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata) A configuration of cells in a cellular automaton universe.


flag

en-noun

flag (countable and uncountable, plural flags)

From Middle English flag, flagge (“flag”), further etymology uncertain. Perhaps from or related to early Middle English flage (name for a baby's garment) and Old English flagg, flacg (“cataplasm, poultice, plaster”). Or, perhaps ultimately imitative, or otherwise drawn from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”), referring to the shape.
Germanic cognates include Saterland Frisian Flaage (“flag”), West Frisian flagge (“flag”), Dutch vlag (“flag”), German Flagge (“flag”), Swedish flagga (“flag”), Danish flag (“flag, ship's flag”). Compare also Middle English flacken (“to flutter, palpitate”), Swedish dialectal flage (“to flutter in the wind”), Old Norse flögra (“to flap about”). Akin to Old High German flogarōn (“to flutter”), Old High German flogezen (“to flutter, flicker”), Middle English flakeren (“to move quickly to and fro”), Old English flacor (“fluttering, flying”). More at flack, flacker.

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

(computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.

This will be used as a help message if the user passes in the --help flag, like so: […]

2021, Angel Sola Orbaiceta, Hardcore Programming for Mechanical Engineers, pages 19–2

(computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.

о́пция

computer science: notation for optional behaviour


flag

en-verb

flag (third-person singular simple present flags, present participle flagging, simple past and past participle flagged)

flags (present singular third-person)
flagging (participle present)
flagged (participle past)
flagged (past)

onomatopoeic

imitative

The compiler flagged three errors.

Flag the debug option before running the program.

(computing) To set a program variable to true.

aanzetten

computing: to set a programming variable to true


natural numbers

en-noun

natural numbers pl (normally plural, singular natural number)

(mathematics, computer science) The set of non-negative integers, {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.


foo

Bill Holman (cartoonist)
Catch-22
Jack Speer
Joseph Heller
Pogo (comic strip)
Sanxing (deities)
Smokey Stover
Tech Model Railroad Club
The Daffy Doc
foo
fu character

From Chinese 福 (fú, “fortunate; prosperity, good luck”), via its use as 福星 (Fúxīng, “Jupiter”) in Chinese statues of the Three Lucky Stars, picked up from c. 1935 as a nonsense word in Bill Holman's Smokey Stover comic strip, whence it was picked up by Pogo, Looney Tunes, and others. Used by Jack Speer as the name of a mock god of mimeography in the 1930s.
Popularized in computing contexts by the Tech Model Railroad Club's 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language, which incorporated it into a parody of the Hindu chant om mani padme hum, possibly under the influence of WWII military slang FUBAR, which had been repopularized by Joseph Heller's Catch-22.

der

Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar.

(programming) A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.


history

en-noun

history (countable and uncountable, plural histories)

Pitcairn-Norfolk: histrei

From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”), from ἱστορέω (historéō, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ἵστωρ (hístōr, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey.
Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin.

der

I visited a great site yesterday but forgot the URL. Luckily, I didn't clear my history.

When you do that, the browser window has no browser history, so it doesn't report a referrer page to the first site you visit.

2006, Todd Stauffer, Kirk McElhearn, Mastering Mac OS X, John Wiley & Sons, page 344

(countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.

geskiedenis

computing: record of previous user events


trunk

From Middle English tronke, trunke, from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk.

the apple does not fall far from the trunk

(software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.


suitcase

→ Hindi: सूटकेस (sūṭkes)

→ Japanese: スーツケース (sūtsukēsu)

→ Korean: 슈트케이스 (syuteukeiseu)

→ Urdu: سوٹ کیس (soṭ kes)

(computing) In the Classic Mac OS operating system, a file containing fonts, icons, sounds, and other resources.


estate

From Middle English estat, from Anglo-Norman estat and Old French estat (French: état), from Latin status. Doublet of state and status.

This time, however, it only includes the static parameters that you expect to be consistent across your estate.

2015, Peter Carter, Pro SQL Server Administration, page 82

information technology
information technology

(computing) An organization's collective information technology resources.


double

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). Doublet of doppio and duple.

The sine function returns a double.

(programming) A double-precision floating-point number.