variadic

/vɛəɹiˈædɪk/

C's printf is one of the most widely used variadic functions.

There are some functions and predicates which we tend to think of as being able to take any number of parameters – of being of variable arity or variadic.

1983, Alan Bundy, The Computer Modelling of Mathematical Reasoning, Academic Press, page 48

The variadic functions that increase the valence of the input relation through the addition of a circumstance to the set of its argument-roles can be represented by means of an operator (or rather, a family of operators) ‘Circ’.

2004, François Récanati, Literal Meaning, Cambridge University Press, page 109

However, the real max procedure of Scheme is a variadic procedure, which means that it accepts any positive number of arguments: ¶ (max 5 1 3 8 9 7 2 6 4) => 9

2006, Nils M. Holm, Sketchy LISP: An Introduction to Functional Programming in Scheme, 2nd edition, Lulu.com, page 53

(programming, mathematics, linguistics) Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.

prinimajuščij peremennoje čisló parametrov

принимающий переменное число́ параметров

each variadic argument

(programming) Belonging to a variadic function.


variadic

/vɛəɹiˈædɪk/

PHP 5.6 introduced variadics that explicitly accept a variable number of parameters.

2017, Andrew Beak, PHP 7 Zend Certification Study Guide, page 44

(programming) A function that takes a variable number of arguments.


pretranslation

en-noun

pretranslation (usually uncountable, plural pretranslations)

(computing) Translation performed in advance.


cloner

Higher-end hard disk cloners have the ability to create multiple copies simultaneously.

2014, Darren R. Hayes, A Practical Guide to Computer Forensics Investigations

(computing) A software program that duplicates media.


rekt

Get rekt!

M8, u just got rekt bru, lol

Although investors who entered the market in 2018 got “rekt,” those who invested a year earlier experienced astounding gains.

2019, Mark Grabowski, Cryptocurrencies: A Primer on Digital Money, Routledge, page 40

(Internet slang, video games) Nonstandard spelling of wrecked.


response time

vasteaika

time between step change and instrument display update

(computing) The period of time between a request for a service and the associated response; typically the request is caused by a user at a terminal hitting the return key, and the response is displayed on a screen.

vasteaika

time between request and computer service response


CPU time

CPU time (countable and uncountable, plural CPU times)

central processing unit
central processing unit

(computing) The length of time that a central processing unit takes to process instructions for a particular program or task.


metacircular

en-adj

metacircular (comparative more metacircular, superlative most metacircular)

more metacircular (comparative)
most metacircular (superlative)

(computing, programming) Exhibiting metacircularity.


devoice

en-verb

devoice (third-person singular simple present devoices, present participle devoicing, simple past and past participle devoiced)

devoices (present singular third-person)
devoicing (participle present)
devoiced (participle past)
devoiced (past)

(transitive, Internet) To remove the voice flag from a user on IRC, preventing them from sending messages to the channel.


snackbar

Users can now look forward to seeing a snackbar open up each time a download completes.

2015 September 24, Cody Toombs, “Chrome Dev For Android Now Shows A Snackbar For Completed Downloads”, in Android Police

Chrome Dev. on Google's own Android platform received a new update where users would be able to see a snackbar when downloads complete.

2015 September 25, Taha Qureshi, “Android Chrome Dev. Shows A 'Snackbar' When Downloads Complete”, in Tech News Today

Chrome 47 for Android now shows a snackbar at the bottom of the screen whenever a download has been completed.

2015 December 4, “Google Chrome 47 for Android Brings Download 'Snackbar' and More”, in NDTV

A Snackbar generally slides up from the bottom, while a Toast usually fades into the center of the screen.

2019, Shaun Lewis, Mike Dunn, Native Mobile Development: A Cross-Reference for iOS and Android, O'Reilly Media, page 165

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A temporary banner informing the user of some action which happened or is about to happen, less interactive than a message box window and more interactive than a toast overlay


Russification

From Russify + -ification, from Russian.

(computing, rare) Enabling a computer system to work with the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.


nonpaged

nonpaged memory


treewidth

(mathematics, computing) The width (maximum number of nodes or leaves at any level) of a tree.


BSL

The BSL is a ‘Source Available’ license that freely allows using the code for development and other non-production work such as testing. Production use of the software requires a commercial license from Lightbend.

2022 September 8, Paul Kunert, quoting Jonas Bonér, “Open source biz sick of FOSS community exploitation overhauls software rights”, in The Register

(software, copyright law) Initialism of Business Source License.


fluxonium

(physics, electronics) A superconducting artificial atom modelled from Josephson junctions


security through obscurity

This security through obscurity proved adequate for our prototype, but it was unacceptable for a turnin service in wide use.

1990, W Cattey, The Evolution of turnin A Classroom Oriented File Exchange Service, USENIX Summer Conference

According to security-through-obscurity advocates, if we carefully hide our gaping vulnerabilities from our enemies, the bad guys will give up in frustration when they cannot easily find holes.

2006, Harold F. Tipton, Micki Krause, Information Security Management Handbook

Things such as security through obscurity become common practices that usually have damaging results.

2008, Shon Harris, CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide

(computer security) The habit or practice of relying on a potential attacker's lack of knowledge will maintain security.


strat

With Tiny, it is good as a surprise strat. If another team doesn't realize where he fits into the whole lineup, then you can really throw the opposition off balance.

2014 March 19, Free to Play (Film), Toby Dawson (actor)

(video games, slang) Clipping of strategy.


minification

en-noun

minification (countable and uncountable, plural minifications)

magnification

antonym(s) of “reduction in apparent size”

Minification is the process of eliminating white space, comments, and other non-essential parts of the JavaScript code to decrease the size of the JavaScript files that need to be transferred from the server to the browser.

2010, Stoyan Stefanov, JavaScript Patterns,, O'Reilly, page 36

(computing) The removal of white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to reduce its size and improve download time.


async

The tradeoff is that the first time an async event causes a scheduling point, it incurs the thread creation overhead that it has avoided.

2002, Peter Dibble, Real-time Java platform programming

(computing) Abbreviation of asynchronous.


feedreader

(computing, Internet) A software program that gathers content from newsfeeds.


minify

en-verb

minify (third-person singular simple present minifies, present participle minifying, simple past and past participle minified)

minifies (present singular third-person)
minifying (participle present)
minified (participle past)
minified (past)

When code is minified, all comments are removed, as well as unneeded whitespace characters (space, newline, and tab).

2008, Steve Souders, High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers,, O'Reilly, page 69

(computing) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to reduce its size and improve download time.


templatizable

They are equally templatizable and inlinable.

1998 September 21, John Potter, "Re: operator+(C c1, const C& c2)", in comp.lang.c++.moderated, Usenet

Closures would be reassignable and templatizable, and of course used as values, leading to some ugly syntax without typedefs, but one could contemplate something along the following lines: […]

2006 August 22, The Ghost In The Machine, “Re: Java FACT ?”, in comp.lang.java.advocacy (Usenet)

One can also split the problem into pieces, which gets kind of ugly in C, but might be templatizable in C++: […]

2006 December 17, "The Ghost In The Machine" (username), "Re: Goto's labels makes code _Tons_ more readable ( and lest nested ).", in sci.physics and alt.usenet.kooks, Usenet

Next, TTBOMK you need to do your classes in header files if you are going to make them into generic templates...well, putting them into headers isn't strictly a requirement but the other restrictions for (templatizable code) would encourage only using headers.

2007 January 22, "noone" (username), "work related dig regarding separation of definitions and implementations", in comp.lang.c++, Usenet

(computing, rare) Able to be templatized.


superpath

(graph theory) The path that contains a particular subpath.


subpath

(computing) A file or resource path relative to another path.

(graph theory) A path making up part of a larger path (the superpath).


QKD

(cryptography) Initialism of quantum key distribution.


AVC

Advanced Video Coding
w:Advanced Video Coding

(video compression) Initialism of Advanced Video Coding.


emailer

Pakistani police said on Tuesday that they have launched a hunt for an emailer whose threatening message to New Zealand cricketers nearly jeopardised their tour to Pakistan.

18 November 2003, Independent Online - Manhunt for emailer who threatened cricketershttps://web.archive.org/web/20100414115105/http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=4

16 April 2007, Manchester Evening News - Golden rules of e-mailinghttp://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/technology/s/1004/1004551_golden_rules_of_emailing.html
Other lessons on so-called `netiquette' the book dishes out are of a more moral tone - for instance, it says that an emailer should never mention anyone in an email who they would not be happy to show the content to.

I also asked whether there had been any complaints (having been made aware by an emailer that he had put in a formal complaint to the website).

2009 October 1, “Roy Greenslade: BBC's 'soft' interview with ignorant BNP members”, in Guardian


carriage control character

en-noun

carriage control character (plural carriage control characters)

(computing) A character, added to the beginning of each line of text to be printed on a line printer, that controls the movement of paper through the printer before each new line is printed


ASA character

From the initialism for the American Standards Association.

carriage control character
carriage control character

(computing) A standard carriage control character added to the start of each line of text to be printed on a line printer


read-eval-print loop

read–eval–print loop (plural read-eval-print loops)

read–eval–print loop (canonical)
read-eval-print loops (plural)

It is easier to experiment in languages that provide a read-eval-print loop.

(programming) An interactive programming language interpreter.


ISV

ISV (countable and uncountable, plural ISVs)

independent software vendor
w:independent software vendor

(business, software) Initialism of independent software vendor (organization specializing in making and selling software; a software publisher)


IGRP

Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, a distance vector interior routing protocol (IGP) invented by Cisco


(networking) An Internet transition mechanism for migrating from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6.


split horizon

(computing) A method of preventing routing loops in distance-vector routing protocols by prohibiting a router from advertising a route back onto the interface from which it was learned.


landing page

A good international landing page should have languages in some type of graphic that all browsers can read, followed by a selection of other languages that the user can shoot to quickly.

1996, Robert F. Breedlove, Web Programming Unleashed, Indianapolis: Sams.net, page 910

When the user arrives at that landing page the content is not generic (as the home page will be) but specific

2007, Richard Gay with Alan Charlesworth and Rita Esen, Online marketing: a customer-led approach, page 294

Your most important information on the landing page should be above the fold.

2008, Susan Sweeney, 101 Ways to Promote Your Tourism Business Web Site, page 104

If they see their user-generated scent of information (keywords) on a website's landing page, they believe the page will help ... Searchers become confident that the landing page is giving them what they need.

2009, Shari Thurow with Nick Musica, When Search Meets Web Usability, page 71

Is your landing page clearly about that keyword, and is the keyword used repeatedly on the landing page?

2010, Perry S. Marshall with Bryan Todd, Ultimate Guide to Google Ad Words, page 110

(web design, marketing) A web page at which a user first arrives at a website, now especially one optimized for a marketing campaign or for lead generation.


line printer

(computing) A high-speed impact printer, most often used by older mainframes, that prints an entire line in a single operation


tunnel broker

(networking) A service that provides a network tunnel.


astrostatistics

(astronomy, computing) The application of statistics to the study and analysis of astronomical data.


astroinformatics

(astronomy, computing) The processing of large amounts of astronomical data


multicart

I have a Vectrex in great working shape along with a multicart that contains every game for the Vectrex except a couple of the lightpen games.

2001, Spud, “FS/FT: Vectrex & Multicart!”, in van.forsale (Usenet)

[…] many of my friends also had their first on-hand experience of the game with this version, or via one of the numerous Famicom multicarts that inundated the black market […]

2014, Rob Strangman, Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman, page 221

(video games) A cartridge containing several separate games.


von Neumann machine

von Neumann machine (plural von Neumann machines)

For John von Neumann, Hungarian mathematician

máquina de von Neumann

any computer that has a central processing unit and can store programs in memory

von Neumann architecture
von Neumann architecture

(computing) A computer that implements the von Neumann architecture.


exfiltrate

en-verb

exfiltrate (third-person singular simple present exfiltrates, present participle exfiltrating, simple past and past participle exfiltrated)

exfiltrates (present singular third-person)
exfiltrating (participle present)
exfiltrated (participle past)
exfiltrated (past)

There are multiple ways to exfiltrate files from a compromised system. Since you have ssh access, you can always use sftp or scp, but I want to show you another way of moving files using netcat.


pseudodata

(computing) Data that is artificially generated in order to test a program; test data.


inode

Uncertain, but possibly short for index node.

(computing) A data structure representing an object such as a file or a directory in a Unix (or similar) file system.


flowcharting

(computing) the design and construction of flowcharts


zone punch

(computing) A hole punched (normally in the top two or three positions) of a punched card in addition to another in order to designate a different (sometimes related) character or to add a plus or minus sign


knightship

(cellular automata) A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.


BHO

browser helper object
w:browser helper object

(Internet) Initialism of browser helper object.


speed dial

en-noun

speed dial (countable and uncountable, plural speed dials)

(Internet) A web browser feature that displays frequently or recently visited websites for quick access.


mark and sweep

(programming) A form of garbage collection in which every accessible object in memory is flagged, leaving unflagged only those that are no longer reachable and can thus be discarded.


scummer

(video games, derogatory) One who engages in scumming.


topsite

Topsites demand that all of the groups affiliated with them pre-release directly to their site.

2005, Paul Craig, Ron Honick, Mark Burnett, Software piracy exposed

Some topsites are run by specific groups...

2009, Nathan W. Fisk, Understanding Online Piracy: The Truth About Illegal File Sharing

(Internet, slang) A high-speed FTP server used to store and distribute warez.


distance vector

Distance-vector protocols are more suited to external routing as they don't require a consistent world-view.

(networking) A class of routing protocol based on sending global state between neighbouring nodes.


link state

A link-state protocol can quickly update the network to route around failure.

(networking) A class of routing protocol based on sending local status updates to every node in the network.


Wikinewsie

From Wikinews + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

However, many Wikinews stories rely on traditional news organizations' reports as source material, although the site is designed to point out original reporting by Wikinewsies

2006, Janet Kolodzy, Convergence journalism: writing and reporting across the news media, page 238

The wiki ethic at the heart of Wikinews invites a particular type of relationship with its volunteer journalists, or 'wikinewsies' as they are sometimes called, that revolves around their continued good will […]

2006, Stuart Allan, Online news: journalism and the Internet, page 136

Wikinews—part of Wikipedia, the largest community public encyclopedia of information—promises to deliver “the free news source you can write” and enlists an army of Wikinewsies who contribute thousands of news reports.

2008, Michele Weldon, Everyman news: the changing American front page, page 70

(Wikimedia jargon) A reporter or user at Wikinews.


CCM

CCM (countable and uncountable, plural CCMs)

constrained conditional model
w:constrained conditional model

(computing) Initialism of constrained conditional model.


subterm

(mathematics, law, computing) A subordinate term.


mh

(jargon, social media) Initialism of mental health.


ts

no way people tryna justify ts


multi-touch

The PowerPad is used to produce multi-touch, multi-color graphics.

1983, Personal Computing, volume 7, page 347

Mr. Jobs seized on the multitouch technology after Apple product designers proposed it as a “safari pad,” a portable Web surfing appliance.

2007 June 29, John Markoff, “Chiefs Defend Slow Network for the iPhone”, in New York Times

Its trackpad is multi-touch and quite comfortable, though we found its sensitivity too high.

2008, “Asus Eee PC 901” (review), in MaximumPC (December), South San Francisco: Future US, p 64

The multi-touch support on the iPhone provides a series of touch events consisting of smaller, individual parts of a single multi-touch gesture. For example, placing your finger on the screen generates one event, placing a second finger on the screen generates another, and moving either finger generates yet another.

2009, Jonathan Zdziarski, IPhone SDK Application Development: Building Applications for the AppStore, Sebastopol, Cal.: O'Reilly, page 118

(computing) Of a computer tablet or touch-screen interface, accepting more than one touch at the same time.

multitàctil

accepting more than one touch at same time


multi-touch

But the performance of multi-touch is not so impressive.

2004, Wontaek Seo, Beom-joon Cho, “Efficient Segmentation Path Generation”, in Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications: 11th International Conference, Springer, page 445

One incredible example comes from Thomas Robinson [. . .] ; he creates a virtual light table that pulls in Flickr photos, then uses multitouch to allow you to use two fingers to pinch, zoom, rotate, or simply move the images around on the screen (Figure 12–16).

2009, Brian Fling, Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps, Sebastopol, Cal.: O'Reilly, page 227


re-up

en-verb

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

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

(Internet, informal) Clipping of reupload.


re-up

(Internet, informal) Clipping of reupload (“file which has been reuploaded”).


ZWJ

(computing, typography) Acronym of zero-width joiner.


ZWNJ

(computing, typography) Initialism of zero-width non-joiner (“non-printing character used to avoid ligatures”).

zero-width non-joiner

neobʺjedinjájuščij símvol nulevój širiný

необъединя́ющий си́мвол нулево́й ширины́


SO-DIMM

(computing, electronics) Alternative form of SODIMM


SODIMM

dual-inline memory module
w:Dual-inline memory module

(computing, electronics) Acronym of small-outline dual-inline memory module.


raycaster

(computer graphics) A program or algorithm that performs ray casting.


object-based

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) Encapsulating states and operations inside objects.


red-black tree

From the colours traditionally used for nodes in diagrams of such trees.

(computing) A type of self-balancing binary search tree, typically used to implement associative arrays.


supercookie

The SharedObject class is familiar to many Flash programmers as a way to create a kind of supercookie; a local shared object (LSO) can store ActionScript data on the client between sessions.

2005, Brian Lesser, Giacomo Guilizzoni, Robert Reinhardt, Programming Flash Communication Server

While doing an online security scan, I was told I can a vulnerability because of the presence of a supercookie.

2005, Boojum, “Supercookie”, in microsoft.public.security (Usenet)

I use the SR Ware Iron Browser, always on Incognito, and set to remove all data when i close the pane. I also remove all records after each day. Can you tell me, does this remove the supercookies?

2009, Billy, “Adobe's Flash Player sets "supercookies"”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet)

(computing, informal) A data store on a user's computer that can be accessed by websites and used as a more persistent form of cookie.


fangame

(fandom slang) A video game created unofficially by fans of an existing game, and based on it.


PBM

(file format) Initialism of portable bitmap.


unswizzle

unswizzle (third-person singular simple present unswizzles, present participle unswizzling, simple past and past participle unswizzled)

unswizzles (present singular third-person)
unswizzling (participle present)
unswizzled (participle past)
unswizzled (past)

(programming, transitive) To convert memory-dependent pointers to portable symbols or positions during serialization.


automap

(video games) A partial map that is automatically updated with new areas as the player discovers them.


click fraud

Regardless of whether CJ have / haven't been accurate with any accusations of click-fraud - soon it won't matter either way!

2001 June 18, Robert Bast, “Re: Re; Pay per click affiliates”, in alt.www.affiliate (Usenet), retrieved 2016-09-13, message-ID <3b2dede7.14622914@news.dingoblue.net.au>

(Internet) A type of fraud in which a computer program is used to simulate mouse clicks on advertisements, driving revenue to the advertiser, who is paid per click.


real mode

Coordinate term: unreal mode

(computing) The default operational mode of x86-compatible CPUs, offering direct software access to all memory and peripherals but without the advanced features of protected mode.


protected mode

(computing) An operational mode of x86-compatible CPUs, in which software can use features such as virtual memory, paging, and safe multitasking.


The x functions as a wildcard; the processors immediately succeeding the original 8086 and using the same architecture (with progressively greater expansions) also had names ending in 86 (the 80186, 80286, 80386, and 80486; Intel shifted away from this numerical nomenclature after the 80486, but other manufacturers of x86 processors continued the series with -586- and -686-branded processors).

The x86 version of Windows 7 only supports a maximum of 4 GiB of RAM; 64-bit Windows can support a lot more.

(computing) Any of a family of instruction set architectures based on that used by the Intel 8086 microprocessor.

Specifically, the 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture.

(rare) Specifically, the original, 16-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture.


step chart

(video games) A sequence of steps to be performed in a dance game.


meat puppet

(Wikimedia jargon) A user who makes unconstructive edits on behalf of another user.


deblock

deblock (third-person singular simple present deblocks, present participle deblocking, simple past and past participle deblocked)

deblocks (present singular third-person)
deblocking (participle present)
deblocked (participle past)
deblocked (past)

(transitive, computing) To separate the logical records that have been combined into a physical block for storage.

(transitive, computing) To process (digital video) so as to remove block-shaped artifacts of encoding.


deblocked

(computing, of a physical block) Separated into logical records


VLIW

This machine has a VLIW architecture.

(computing, chiefly attributive) Initialism of very long instruction word: an explicitly created set of processor instructions to be executed simultaneously.


unpassworded

Until they do, however, the server will allow unpassworded access to those users, so we strongly discourage this approach.

2003, Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz, Practical UNIX and Internet security

(computing) Not protected with a password.


geodatabase

(geography, databases) A database containing geographical and spatial data


webform

While this is longer it is both clearer to understand and to implement as a webform where the user will select an instrument.

2008, R Wright, “A Semantic Data Grid for Satellite Mission Quality Analysis”, in The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008

(Internet) A collection of user interface components on a website designed to solicit information from a user.


LGTM

Said to have originated within Google, early 2000s, originally to give positive feedback on other people's work in a code review.

The primary end goal of a code review is to get another engineer to consent to the change, which we denote by tagging the change as “looks good to me” (LGTM). We use this LGTM as a necessary permissions “bit” (combined with the other bits noted below) to allow the change to be committed.

2020, Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright, “Code Review”, in Software Engineering at Google […], O'Reilly


DTO

software engineering
software engineering

data transfer object
data transfer object#English

(software engineering) Initialism of data transfer object.


prelight

prelight (third-person singular simple present prelights, present participle prelighting, simple past and past participle prelit or prelighted)

prelights (present singular third-person)
prelighting (participle present)
prelit (participle past)
prelit (past)
prelighted (participle past)
prelighted (past)

(transitive, chiefly computer graphics) To illuminate in advance.


antiphishing

(computer security) Opposing or countering phishing.


glue record

(Internet) a record that provides the IP address of the next nameserver in the Domain Name System


RTF

(file format) Initialism of Rich Text Format.


waker

From Middle English wakere, equivalent to wake + -er. Compare West Frisian wekker (“alarm clock”, literally “waker”), Dutch wekker, German Wecker.

cog

programming language
programming language

(programming) In the Rust programming language, a handle that "wakes up" a task by notifying its executor that it is ready to be run.


autoindexing

(computing) The programmed retrieval of words from a document for use in building an index


gameland

en-noun

gameland (countable and uncountable, plural gamelands)

To Keith and everyone at the Coriolis Group who took part in this project, and to everyone out there in gameland, I extend my heartfelt appreciation...

1995, Lary L. Myers, Keith Weiskamp, Amazing 3-D games adventure set

The PlayStation 2 still sells (and likely will for years, given its $130 price tag), but the buzz in gameland has moved on to “next-generation” machines like Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s own more than $500 PlayStation 3, which is packed with so much silicon that it makes its predecessor look like an alarm clock.

2007 March 16, Seth Schiesel, “A Game With New Tricks for an Old System”, in New York Times

By setting guidelines, you can send your kids off to gameland with some moral and emotional equipment, which can help them put their activities into perspective — this is a game, not life.

2007, Kathy Ivens, Home Networking for Dummies

(fandom slang, uncountable, rare) The world or sphere of video games.


nongreedy

In modern versions of Perl, you can force nongreedy, minimal matching by placing a question mark after any quantifier.

2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl


antispoof

(computer security) Countering spoofing.


d/l

en-verb

l (third-person singular simple present ls, present participle ling, simple past and past participle led)

l (canonical)
ls (present singular third-person)
ling (participle present)
led (participle past)
led (past)


transmon

Abbreviation of transmission line shunted plasma oscillation qubit.

Two additional transmon circuits can be positioned at the resonator edges, where the resonator voltage is maximum.

2019, Thi Ha Kyaw, Towards a Scalable Quantum Computing Platform in the Ultrastrong Coupling Regime, Springer, page 93

Those bits are then converted into pulses of microwaves and sent down through wires and pipes to a series of 50 small superconducting devices called “transmons” — the qubits — dangling at the bottom.

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

(physics) A particular form of superconducting qubit.


nondirty

The share locks are used to make sure that each individual read of the database's rows contains non-dirty data […]

2002, Heather Wright, ADO.NET: From Novice to Pro, Visual Basic .NET Edition, page 269


microapp

(computing) A very small application, often one of a group that are integrated into a website


bookmarkable

Our online catalogue is one long page: can we make individual products bookmarkable?

(Internet) That can be bookmarked (stored as a placeholder to be visited again later).


antidictionary

From anti- (“opposite of, reverse”, prefix) + dictionary.

prefix

An antidictionary method is based on an inverse kind of knowledge. Such a method maintains an antidictionary with strings that do not appear in the input. Using the antidictionary, the encoder can often predict the next data symbol […]

2010, David Salomon, Giovanni Motta, Handbook of Data Compression, Springer Science & Business Media, page 430

computational linguistics
computational linguistics

(computational linguistics) The set of all words of minimal length that never appear in a particular string.


precomposed

For example, the middle letter of naïve could be represented using the combining character approach by U+0069 U+0308, or as a single, precomposed unit using the already prepared character U+00EF. Around 500 precomposed Latin letters, for instance, in the Unicode standard are superfluous, in that they can be represented using combining character sequences.

2009, Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, David M. Nichols, How to Build a Digital Library, 2nd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, page 383

(computing) Describing a character that can also be represented an equivalent string of other characters (typically a letter and a diacritical mark).


localizer

(computing, translation studies) A person who localizes (adapts a product for use in a particular country or region, or adapts translated text to fit a local culture).


biosimulation

(biology, computing) The computer simulation of a biological system


arraylike

en-adj

arraylike (comparative more arraylike, superlative most arraylike)

more arraylike (comparative)
most arraylike (superlative)

an arraylike data structure

(computing) Resembling or characteristic of an array.


preread

(computing) An operation in which data is read in advance of its being needed.


JRE

(computing) Initialism of Java runtime environment


googleable

googleable (comparative more googleable, superlative most googleable)

more googleable (comparative)
most googleable (superlative)

[N]ews being in the title makes it easily googlable without actually knowing any news websites.

2010, Michael Jayfox, E. Chas McSween, Intravenus DeMilo, Enron Hubbard, Hunter McKenzie-Smythe, Flash Johnson, Things Bogans Like, Sydney: Hachette, page 189

(informal) Able to be searched for or found using Google or another similar internet search engine.

დაგუგლვადი

able to be found through a search engine


marshaler

The CLR includes a marshaler that knows how to convert parameters and return values between .NET types and unmanaged types. In this example, the int parameters translate directly to 4-byte integers that the function expects […]

2007, Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari, C# 3.0 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, page 723

(computing) A mechanism for marshalling data.


bit depth

A bit depth of eight corresponds to a palette of 256 possible colours, because 2⁸ = 256.

(computer graphics) The number of bits (binary digits) used to represent the colour of a single pixel.

длабочина на бојата

computer graphics: the number of bits (binary digits) used to represent the colour of a single pixel


yottabit

Assuming a steady traffic growth similar to that created by the Internet over the last 3 years, we could actually be consuming a yottabit of bandwidth by the year 2015!

2000, Roberto Saracco et al., The Disappearance of Telecommunications, page 38


DDL

(databases) Initialism of Data Definition Language.

(Internet) Initialism of Direct Download Link (an Internet link to a file, for immediate download, instead of via file sharing)


botherder

After securing the computer against antivirus tools, previous hackers, and detection by the user, the botherder might check to see what else might be here.

2007, Larry Chaffin, Craig Schiller, Anton Chuvakin, Infosecurity 2008 Threat Analysis

Most bots use a central C&C server for communicating with their botherder, and normally they use the standard IRC protocol for that purpose.

2009, John Hoopes, Virtualization for security

(Internet, computer security) A malicious hacker who controls a botnet.


multidigraph

(graph theory) A directed graph that is permitted to have multiple arcs connecting the same source and target nodes.


vtable

Shortening of virtual method table or virtual function table.

This solution allows the Command executor to iterate through a collection of unrelated objects with no vtables and pick out the right method for each one.

Note that nonvirtual functions do not appear in a vtable.

2003, John C. Mitchell, Concepts in programming languages

The most likely result will be a crash when the code tries to use a vtable entry that contains random garbage.

2003, Steve Heller, C++: a dialogue: programming with the C++ standard library

(programming) A table of memory pointers to different implementations of a virtual function.


sys

(computing, attributive) Abbreviation of system.


awaiter

From Middle English awaytur; equivalent to await + -er.

(programming) An object that waits for the completion of an asynchronous task.


fillrate

(computer graphics) A measurement of the number of pixels a video card can render in a certain time period.


renderable

(computer graphics) Any object that can be rendered to the display.


devkit

A devkit basically contains a set of software tools, and several of them can be installed into a target.

2007, Frank H. P. Fitzek, Frank Reichert, Mobile Phone Programming and Its Application to Wireless Networks, page 178

Sony's devkits are large, to say the least. The Dreamcast, on the other hand, was very much a Microsoft animal and friendlier to code and test.

2009, Luis Levy, Jeannie Novak, Game Development Essentials: Game QA & Testing

(computing) A set of development tools that allow the creation of software for a particular platform or framework.


upcall

(computing, programming) A call from a lower-level subsystem, such as a kernel or framework, to a higher-level subsystem, such as user code.


subcommand

This command accepts additional subcommands as parameters.

(computing) A command that makes up part of a larger command.


beta reduce

en-verb

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

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

The term (#x5C;lambdax.#x5C;,x)#x5C;,y can beta reduce to y#x5C;#x21;.

(computer science, transitive or intransitive) To syntactically replace a function call by the result of calling that function.


glhf

(Internet slang, video games) Initialism of good luck, have fun.


patcher

It is hidden in an installer, license key generator or patcher that you will need to access the offered video or software.

2006, Elizabeth Drake, 50 Plus One Tips to Preventing Identity Theft, page 26

(computing) A process or program that applies a software patch.


social network

The trends in recent years have focussed on online social networks, in which the social network is enabled as an internet application. Some examples of such networks are Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace.

2011, Charu C. Aggarwal, Social Network Data Analytics, Springer Science & Business Media, page xiii

(Internet) A service allowing users to manage and interact with their network of friends or contacts on the Internet. (Called a social network application in precise usage that reserves social network to its original sense.)


recordset

(databases) A data structure consisting of a group of database records.


social profile

(Internet) A web page on a social media site that displays an individual user's activity, friends list, etc.


supersample

supersample (third-person singular simple present supersamples, present participle supersampling, simple past and past participle supersampled)

supersamples (present singular third-person)
supersampling (participle present)
supersampled (participle past)
supersampled (past)

As mentioned earlier, supersampling will at least decrease the sampling rate at which aliasing begins.

1994, David S. Ebert, Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, page 65

(transitive, computer graphics) To antialias by taking samples at several points inside each pixel and choosing an average colour value.


parallel port

Coordinate term: serial port

(computing) A physical interface capable of transmitting multiple bits of data simultaneously.


SLOC

(programming) Initialism of source lines of code.


workalike

(computing) A computer capable of running software designed for another.

(computing) A piece of software that has the same function as another.


beta reduction

A natural deduction tree can be put in exact correspondence with typed λ-calculus (that can be considered as just a notation for such deductions), and the cut-elimination in Natural Deduction corresponds exactly to β-reduction in λ-calculus.

1996, Roberto DiCosmo with Vincent Danos, The Linear Logic Primer, Université de Paris VII, retrieved 2016-04-18, page 43

(computing theory) One of the three rewrite rules of the lambda calculus, which states that the application of a lambda abstraction (λx.t) to a term s yields an expression t[s/x], "t with s instead of x", where all free instances of x in t have been replaced by s.


rebuffering

(computing) A second or subsequent buffering.


rebuffer

rebuffer (third-person singular simple present rebuffers, present participle rebuffering, simple past and past participle rebuffered)

rebuffers (present singular third-person)
rebuffering (participle present)
rebuffered (participle past)
rebuffered (past)

This avoids client-side buffer underflows and rebuffering interruptions.

2005, Stephen B. Weinstein, The multimedia Internet

(transitive, computing) To buffer (data) again.


XY

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon X and Y.


e-card

A computerized greeting card, typically hosted on a website to which the recipient is directed by an email message.


new up

new up (third-person singular simple present news up, present participle newing up, simple past and past participle newed up)

news up (present singular third-person)
newing up (participle present)
newed up (participle past)
newed up (past)

The keyword new creates an object in C++ and derived languages.

If an exception occurs trying to new up bar1 or bar2, the TFoo part of the object won't have changed […]

So you just new up the object you want and once its internal reference count drops to 0, the language deletes it (during a free time as a background thread).

2003, Jonathan Hoyle, “Pointers?”, in comp.lang.basic.realbasic (Usenet)

(programming, informal, transitive) To create (an object) by calling its constructor.


pseudonymized

en-adj

pseudonymized (not generally comparable, comparative more pseudonymized, superlative most pseudonymized)

more pseudonymized (comparative)
most pseudonymized (superlative)

(computing, law) Synonym of pseudonymous


autodeletion

Many BBS features are also available, including autodeletion of old messages.

1987, Patrick R. Dewey, 101 software packages to use in your library

This is no different from the way you handle autodeletion in any other public folder.

2003, Barry Gerber, Mastering Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

(computing) Automatic deletion; the process of autodeleting.


left-drag

en-verb

left-drag (third-person singular simple present left-drags, present participle left-dragging, simple past and past participle left-dragged)

left-drags (present singular third-person)
left-dragging (participle present)
left-dragged (participle past)
left-dragged (past)

(transitive, computing) To drag an item using the left mouse button.


right-drag

right-drag (third-person singular simple present right-drags, present participle right-dragging, simple past and past participle right-dragged)

right-drags (present singular third-person)
right-dragging (participle present)
right-dragged (participle past)
right-dragged (past)

(transitive, computing) To drag an item using the right mouse button.


sunrise period

(Internet) The period of time at the launch of a new top-level domain or second-level domain during which trademark owners may register domain names containing their trademarks (to prevent cybersquatting).


input/output

(computing, usually used attributively) The flow of information to and from human users or other client systems.


nonspace

en-noun

nonspace (countable and uncountable, plural nonspaces)

For instance, spaces in a filename shipped from a DOS client are not translated to nonspace characters...

2006, Mark Lutz, Programming Python, Volume 10

(computing) A text character that is not a space (or not whitespace).


housekeep

en-verb

housekeep (third-person singular simple present housekeeps, present participle housekeeping, simple past and past participle housekept)

housekeeps (present singular third-person)
housekeeping (participle present)
housekept (participle past)
housekept (past)

The clock burst which enables the supervisor to housekeep the console input and output and to change program status is currently set to 200 ms.

1965, P. A. Crisman, The compatible time-sharing system: a programmer's guide, page 14

(transitive, intransitive, computing) To perform the general tasks of housekeeping.


computation history

en-noun

computation history (plural computation histories)

(computer science) a sequence of steps taken by an abstract machine in the process of computing its result.


metatable

(programming, Lua) A table (of key-value pairs) associated with another object, which uses the functions (or other data) it contains to define the behaviour of that object under certain conditions.


multisampling

(computer graphics) A form of supersampling in which some components of the final image are not fully supersampled.


metamethod

metamethod (countable and uncountable, plural metamethods)

(programming, Lua) A method belonging to a metatable.


chromeless

The chromeless player is intended to be implemented by experienced web programmers who want to design a customized video player for their users.

2009, John Rittinghouse, James F. Ransome, Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security

(computing, graphical user interface) Without chrome (basic visual elements).


bitboard

(computing) A specialized data structure, a bitset with each bit representing a game position or state, commonly used in computer systems that play board games.


tablebase

(chess) A computerized database that contains precalculated exhaustive analysis of a chess endgame position, typically used by a computer chess engine during play.


CLUT

colour look-up table
w:colour look-up table

(computer graphics) Initialism of colour look-up table.


game port

(computing) An I/O port, on earlier PCs, used for the attachment of a joystick or similar hardware


segmentation fault

segmentation fault (plural segmentation faults)

(computing) A software error that occurs when a program attempts to access a memory location that it is not permitted to access.

muistialueen ylitys

software error — see also access violation


lolspeak

The standards are still being fract^H^H^H^H^Hwritten for the language, but the availability of Suitable Wordings from lolspeak verges on the frightening at times.

2007, David DeLaney, “Re: As Others See Us, in this case the DHS”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet)

Study the lolcat version of the book of Genesis, accessible as nltk.corpus.genesis.words('lolcat.txt'), and the rules for converting text into lolspeak at http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=How_to_speak_lolcat. Define regular expressions to convert English words into corresponding lolspeak words.

2009, Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper, chapter 3, in Natural Language Processing with Python, page 127

Now, in this first ever feline gospel, they retell 50 popular Bible stories in LOLspeak.

2010, Martin Grondin, LOLcat Bible: In Teh Beginnin Ceiling Cat Maded Teh Skiez An Da Urfs N Stuffs

Of course, for every feature of LOLspeak we discuss, it is likely that you will find numerous counter examples, as such is the nature of language play. LOLspeak is nothing if not creative.

2011, Lauren Gawne, Jill Vaughan, “I can haz language play: The construction of language and identity in LOLspeak”, in M. Ponsonnet, L. Dao, M. Bowler, editors, Proceedings of the 42nd Australian Linguistic Society Conference

(Internet slang, neologism) The speech of lolcats, consisting of spelling variations of English, imitating the speech of children and some regional accents.


scorebox

Video games are notorious for having relatively unchanging areas on the screen (ie the scorebox), which can quickly be burned into the screen.

1994, Coyt D Watters, “Projection TVs and SEGA”, in rec.games.video.sega (Usenet)

Recall that our arcade game is to have a scorebox that knows how to increase itself, and observe that this implies there is a score.

2001, Matt Neuburg, REALbasic: the definitive guide, page 64

(video games) A box overlaid on the screen to display the player's score.


antiregular

(graph theory) Of a graph: having either zero or two vertices of the same degree.


talkboard

(Internet) A chatroom or bulletin board.


multipartition

en-verb

multipartition (third-person singular simple present multipartitions, present participle multipartitioning, simple past and past participle multipartitioned)

multipartitions (present singular third-person)
multipartitioning (participle present)
multipartitioned (participle past)
multipartitioned (past)

(computing) To logically divide a hard disk into multiple partitions


schemaless

a schemaless XML document


subcube

(computing) A subset of a cube (data structure).


WAE

(computing) Acronym of Web Application Extension.


declarator

(programming) A construct in source code that declares something, such as a variable.


pathwidth

(graph theory) A measure of a path decomposition of a graph.


jumpstation

From jump + station, from the name of an early search engine, JumpStation.

Future Fantasy offers a searchable online book catalog and notifies readers of current events at the store and in the field in general. It also provides a jumpstation of hyperlinks to other stores, publishers, online magazines, original fiction, […]

1997, Gary Gach, Writers.net: Every Writer's Essential Guide to Online Resources and Opportunities

If you right-click on a website listed on a jumpstation, you will be given various options including 'open in new window'.

(Internet) A web site that acts as a portal, offering links to many other sites on a particular topic.


wrist rest

A padded platform that raises the wrists above a keyboard.


unreserve

unreserve (third-person singular simple present unreserves, present participle unreserving, simple past and past participle unreserved)

unreserves (present singular third-person)
unreserving (participle present)
unreserved (participle past)
unreserved (past)

(transitive, chiefly computing) To undo or cancel a reservation.


shapelet

(computing) A stylized shape used in pattern recognition systems to correspond to a real object


pushdown

From push + down; by analogy with a spring-loaded stack of plates in a cafeteria.

(computing) Describing a stack in which items are removed in a LIFO manner from the end at which they were added.


quadbit

(computing) Four bits (binary digits), half a byte; a nibble.


tebibit

(computing) Strictly, 2⁴⁰ (1024⁴, or 1,099,511,627,776) bits or 2¹⁰ (1024) gibibits, as opposed to a terabit.


terabit

(computing) One trillion (10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 gigabits.


Zorkian

en-adj

Zorkian (comparative more Zorkian, superlative most Zorkian)

more Zorkian (comparative)
most Zorkian (superlative)

I won't say anything else about the Zorkian characters or combat for fear of detracting from each exhilarating discovery.

Your character doesn't understand any of the Zorkian languages in which the book's jokes are written and must have them translated by others.

Restless patrons are calling for the standard Zorkian conclusory fanfare!

1997, Rick Barba, Michael Knight, Rod Harten, CD-ROM Classics

(video games) Of or pertaining to the Zork series of early computer games (originating in the 1970s), works of interactive fiction set in a sprawling underground labyrinth.


nonbooting

Your data is still safe, despite being locked up inside an otherwise nonbooting machine.

2004, Rael Dornfest, James Duncan Davidson, Mac OS X Panther hacks


sublanguage

DML is considered a sublanguage of SQL. It's concerned with manipulating data stored in the database. DML consists of four commonly used statements: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE.

2015, Miguel Cebollero, Michael Coles, Jay Natarajan, Pro T-SQL Programmer's Guide, Apress, page 4

(computing) A subset of a language, in particular of a programming language.


automounter

(computing) A software system that handles automounting.


automount

en-verb

automount (third-person singular simple present automounts, present participle automounting, simple past and past participle automounted)

automounts (present singular third-person)
automounting (participle present)
automounted (participle past)
automounted (past)

(transitive, computing) To mount (a file system) automatically.


automount

It can manage devices, automounts, paths, sockets, and other things.

2015, Christopher Negus, Linux Bible, page 567

(computing) The automatic mounting of a file system.


metoo

(Internet) Deliberate misspelling of me too, used to indicate agreement.


superpixel

(computer graphics) A polygonal part of a digital image, larger than a normal pixel, that is rendered with uniform colour and brightness.


multifactor

(computing) Involving more than one distinct authentication mechanism, such as both a password and facial recognition.


thumbstick

Occasionally, when playing any given PC port, you’ll experience disorienting frame drops when using a mouse to control a camera that clearly was designed to move only as fluidly as console thumbsticks would allow.

2023 May 25, Nic Reuben, “The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review”, in The Guardian

(video games) A small joystick, generally part of a larger game controller, that can be operated with the thumb.


multibuffered

en-adj

multibuffered (comparative more multibuffered, superlative most multibuffered)

more multibuffered (comparative)
most multibuffered (superlative)

(computing, chemistry) Involving more than one buffer.


LUN

logical unit number
w:logical unit number

(computing) Initialism of logical unit number.


oplock

(computing) An opportunistic lock on a file system object, used for caching purposes rather than to avoid modifications by multiple users at once.


network neutrality

Coined by media law professor Tim Wu in 2003.

coin

The promotion of network neutrality is no different than the challenge of promoting fair evolutionary competition in any privately owned environment, whether a telephone network, operating system, or even a retail store.

2003, Tim Wu, “Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination”, in Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, volume 2, page 142

(networking) A principle proposed for user-access networks participating in the Internet that advocates no restrictions by ISPs or government on the content, sites, platforms, equipment, and modes of communication over the network.


NIS

Network Information Service
w:Network Information Service

(computing) Initialism of Network Information Service.


urbiscript

(computing) A scripting language used to orchestrate C++ (and other) components in robotics software


URBI

(computing) Acronym of Universal Real-Time Behavior Interface.


garbage in, garbage out

Officials explained that the quality of the computer's work depends on the quality of the data fed into it. Neil Hoke, administrative assistant to Stewart, quoted an adage of computer men: "Garbage in, garbage out."

1963 April 1, Raymond Crowley, “Robot Tax Collector Seeks Indications of 'Fudging'”, in Times Daily, Alabama, USA, retrieved 2010-07-26

The old caveat "GIGO"—garbage in, garbage out—is as valid in architectural design as in any other computer-aided activity.

2008, Roger K. Lewis, "'In Architectural Design, Brains and Talent Trump the Best Software," Washington Post, 19 July (retrieved 26 July 2010)

information technology
information technology

(computing, information technology, translation studies) If input data are not complete, accurate, and timely, then the resulting output is unreliable and of no useful value.

eiserchómena dedoména exerchómena dedoména

εισερχόμενα δεδομένα εξερχόμενα δεδομένα

му́сор на вхо́де — му́сор на вы́ходе (músor na vxóde — músor na výxode)

ask a silly question, get a silly answer


procedure division

en-noun

procedure division (plural procedure divisions)

The procedure division contains the imperative, arithmetic, conditional, and other statements that create and manipulate the data.

1971, Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

The procedure division contains program logic to compute, manipulate data, and to iterate and branch through program execution.

1999, Gordon Bitter Davis, The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of management information

In the following alternative formulation of the procedure division, the PERFORM statement is used to execute a sequence of paragraphs.

2003, Robert C. Seacord et al., Modernizing legacy systems

(computing) The part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to execute


data division

The data division is that portion of the program set aside to identify explicitly all the format characteristics of data received by the program, created within the program, and produced as output.

It is best to define the variables within the data division before writing the procedure division.

1997, Peter Groves, Sourcebook on intellectual property law

We use the data division to control the definition of these fields.

2002, Earl H. Parsons, Structured Programming with COBOL Examples

(computing) The part of a COBOL program in which the format and layout of external files and databases, and internally-used variables and constants are defined


environment division

environment division (plural environment divisions)

The developers of Cobol made explicit recognition of this problem by providing an environment division for programs, into which as many as possible of the machine- dependent aspects of a process are collected.

The environment division comprises two sections: the configuration section which holds information about the way in which a specific machine implements COBOL, and the input-output section, which describes external devices that will be accessed during execution of the program.

The environment division is the link between the COBOL program and the computer and input-output devices the program uses.

2006, Knute Axelson, Mary Bellino, Dave Harper, Coding: The Handbook for Information Technology

(computing) The part of a COBOL program that specifies the hardware on which it is designed to run, the symbolic names to be used by files, and certain other specifications.


identification division

identification division (plural identification divisions)

Identification Division This division is the smallest and simplest division of a COBOL program. As the name indicates, it supplies identifying data about the program. It has no effect on the execution of the program but is required as a means of identifying the program to the computer's operating system.

1988, Allen Kent, James G. Williams, Encyclopedia of microcomputers

The identification division gives the name of the program, its author, the date the program was written and other information that other users may find helpful in understanding or maintaining the program.

The identification division is used to establish the identification of the program and its author.

2006, Prakash Dhara, Computer in Biological Sciences

(computing) The (sometimes optional) part of a COBOL program that identifies the name of the program (and optionally of its programmer)


data entry

(computing) The act of inputting data into a computer, such as by typing out handwriting, capturing data from scanned documents, taking responses from telephone interviews, etc.


JCL

Job Control Language
w:Job Control Language

(computing) Initialism of Job Control Language.


linkage section

linkage section (plural linkage sections)

(computing) The part of the data division of a COBOL program that describes the format of variables and constants passed to the program as parameters, either from JCL or from a calling program


input-output section

input-output section (plural input-output sections)

environment division
environment division

(computing) The part of the environment division of a COBOL program that specifies the symbolic names of external files accessed by the program


file section

(computing) The part of the data division of a COBOL program that describes the format of the logical records associated with external files to be accessed by the progrem


working-storage section

working-storage section (plural working-storage sections)

(computing) The part of the data division of a COBOL program that describes the format of local variables and constants to be used by the program


configuration section

configuration section (plural configuration sections)

(computing) The part of the environment division of a COBOL program that specifies the computer that the compiled code is to run on, and hence the instruction set that the compiler should use.


pythonic

en-adj

pythonic (comparative more pythonic, superlative most pythonic)

more pythonic (comparative)
most pythonic (superlative)

(programming) Alternative letter-case form of Pythonic


undefine

en-verb

undefine (third-person singular simple present undefines, present participle undefining, simple past and past participle undefined)

undefines (present singular third-person)
undefining (participle present)
undefined (participle past)
undefined (past)

(programming, transitive) To remove the definition of; to return to an undefined state.


hacking run

It'll take a hacking run to find the roots of such a Byzantine bug.

(computing) A hacking session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours; sometimes an all-nighter.


schlockware

From schlock (“shoddy or inferior commodity”) + -ware, from Yiddish שלאַק (shlak).

af

As someone else wrote, "interesting thread you have here." Having worked in a group that has implemented 70,000 seats of M$ schlockware for a single customer, I can testify that having that many seats in your environment, barely draws any attention from the boyz in Redmond.

1997, Vincent M. Hanchon, “The best GUI that ever was”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet)

1998, Larry Wall, quoted in "Open source gurus convene", C-Net E-Magazine, April 8, 1998.
You'll do us all a big favor if you disassociate freeware from schlockware.

(computing, derogatory, slang) Software that is of shoddy or inferior quality.


sigless

Incidentally, the recent sigless posts were mine, not forgeries. I just had to reinstall Agent and forgot to enable them.

1997, Robert Pfeifer, “Sigless posts”, in alt.fan.elite (Usenet)

Fred, stay sigless until you decide what to do. I'd far rather have someone put their name at the end of their post rather than a broken 'thingy'.

2000, Jim Crowther, “Another Satisfied Customer? & other info.”, in alt.internet.providers.redhotant (Usenet)

(Internet) Without a sig (electronic signature appended to one's messages).


misclick

Coordinate term: mistap

It takes time, dedication, curiosity, and a hint of stubbornness to get past the missteps and misclicks. Every image you work on today teaches you strategy and skills for the image you'll open tomorrow.

2005, Katrin Eismann, Wayne Palmer, Photoshop restoration and retouching

(computing) A click of a computer mouse that is inaccurate and therefore fails to perform the desired action.


misclick

en-verb

misclick (third-person singular simple present misclicks, present participle misclicking, simple past and past participle misclicked)

misclicks (present singular third-person)
misclicking (participle present)
misclicked (participle past)
misclicked (past)

Coordinate term: mistap

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To perform an erroneous click with a computer mouse.


microoperation

(computing) Any of several simpler operations that form a more complex machine instruction


Zeldaesque

en-adj

Zeldaesque (comparative more Zeldaesque, superlative most Zeldaesque)

more Zeldaesque (comparative)
most Zeldaesque (superlative)

SoulBlazer is a very good game! It is very Zeldaesque.

1993, John Brooks, “Need another game like Zelda III”, in rec.games.video.nintendo (Usenet)

The combat system is unique, somewhat Zeldaesque, but with an experience point system.

1998, C-Coal, “Final Fantasy Adventure Map”, in alt.games.final-fantasy (Usenet)

That game was simply titled "Jurassic Park" as was totally different from the SNES game where you ran around the complex killing raptors and trying to get to the helicopter in a Zeldaesque game.

1999, Wyvern, “Nostalgia”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet)

You pretty much build your story using timelines (like you would do for a presentation) you can download a demo game from them that is kinda Zeldaesque.

2001, Scott McDonnell, “game engine?”, in comp.games.development.design (Usenet)

(video games) Reminiscent of the Legend of Zelda series of fantasy action adventure video games.


waitable

waitable (comparative more waitable, superlative most waitable)

more waitable (comparative)
most waitable (superlative)

This function cancels a waitable timer operation. The timer remains in its current state and will not restart until explicitly started […]

1997, Daniel Appleman, Dan Appleman's Visual Basic 5.0 programmer's guide to the Win32 API, Ziff-Davis Press, page 1160

In a [certain] Win32 application, you need to process messages, but you also want to wait for kernel-level waitable objects, and coordinate several activities.

2005, Alex Martelli et al., Python Cookbook, Second Edition, O'Reilly Media, Inc., page 381

(computing) Implementing a wait/notify functionality.


blogish

blogish (comparative more blogish, superlative most blogish)

more blogish (comparative)
most blogish (superlative)

I don't believe in Jesus but I believe in *Jeebus*.. I'm cocreator of a Jeebus group blogish thing and a mailing list/message board.. Jeebus ::dreamy sigh::

2001 August 10, "Verpertilian", “Re: call the roll”, in alt.utensils.spork (Usenet)

I've been trying to launch of print zine for over 18 months now, but it looks like I'll be splitting the projec tup into a ~shudder~ blogish sort of socion political though e-zine and possibly and smaller (by a large scale) retroscifish,early punk/metal, industrial style zine that's part online (downloadable PDF) as well as a ink and paper (with VERY limited print run).

2004 December 5, "AlphaTrionTJW", “Re:Virtual Zine Fest”, in alt.zines (Usenet)

Flikr seems tb more blogish and SmugMug seems tb more professional.

2006 December 31, PeteCresswell, “Best Photo Management Site?”, in rec.photo.digital (Usenet)

Having the characteristics of a blog; resembling a blog


unmarshal

en-verb

unmarshal (third-person singular simple present unmarshals, present participle unmarshalling or unmarshaling, simple past and past participle unmarshalled or unmarshaled)

unmarshals (present singular third-person)
unmarshalling (participle present)
unmarshaling (participle present)
unmarshalled (participle past)
unmarshalled (past)
unmarshaled (participle past)
unmarshaled (past)

(computing, transitive) To decode from a marshalled state.


antijoin

(algebra, databases) A type of join, denoted by ▷, such that R▷S yields only those tuples in R for which S has no corresponding tuple of the same value.


terascale

(computing) Describing any computer operating at a speed measured in teraflops


pathname

(computing) The full name of a computer file, including the names of any directories or subdirectories in the path needed to access it.


multibuffering

(computing) The use of more than one buffer.


Microshaft

Blend of Microsoft + shaft (in slang sense; see shafted).

(computing, slang, derogatory) The computer company Microsoft.


Winblows

Blend of Windows + blows (in the slang sense where something that "blows" is worthless or inferior). First use appears c. 1997 in the periodical Working Woman.

Winblows regrets that it is "Not Justice Department Approved."

1998, Newsweek, Incorporated, Newsweek, Volume 131, page 12

Ring me when Winblows becomes free, or when there are free dev tools for it!

1999, John Purcell (editor), Linux, The Complete Reference; The Advanced Reference · Book 2, page 319

While many users run versions of Linux or Unix on their PCs, most PC users run some flavor of Windows (often referred to by Mac and Unix users as WinDoze or WinBlows).

2003, David Chappelle, Protect Yourself Online, How to Cover Your Assets Every Time You Log On, page 27

(computing, slang, derogatory) The Microsoft Windows operating system.


palettization

(computer graphics) The act or process of palettizing.


modelessness

(computing) The property of being modeless.


domaining

(Internet) The buying and selling of domain names.


modeless

(computing) Not modal; not having separate modes in which user input has different effects.

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

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

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) Not modal; not requiring immediate user interaction and thus allowing interaction with other widgets.


suboption

(chiefly computing) A secondary option available as part of a main option.


nondialup

The method used is to connect the autoanswer modem between the telephone line and a line to the nondialup network.

1989, James Arlin Cooper, Computer and communications security: strategies for the 1990s

Here is a more complicated example in which we upload a text file to an IBM mainframe through a direct (nondialup) linemode connection.

1992, Christine M. Gianone, Using MS-DOS Kermit: connecting your PC to the electronic world

However, lock-and-key also works over nondialup links.

2004, Richard A. Deal, Cisco router firewall security


linemode

This example, since it is via telnet, uses the linemode browser. The user will be able to explore the web, but will not be able to use a hypertext-based interface.

1993, A. Heck, Fionn Murtagh, Intelligent information retrieval

In line-at-a-time or linemode, basically all the character processing including backspacing is done by the client, with the desired characters sent to the server only when the enter key is pressed.

2000, J. Scott Haugdahl, Network analysis and troubleshooting

(computing) A mode of interaction with a remote server where all incoming text characters are printed to the current line, without the possibility of updating the text of previous lines.


vuln

(computing, informal) A vulnerability (weakness in software etc. that can be maliciously exploited).


ragequit

ragequit (third-person singular simple present ragequits, present participle ragequitting, simple past and past participle ragequit or ragequitted)

ragequits (present singular third-person)
ragequitting (participle present)
ragequit (participle past)
ragequit (past)
ragequitted (participle past)
ragequitted (past)

/ˈɹeɪd͡ʒˌkwɪt/

Having had my share of ragequitting teammates and unfinished campaigns -- I still haven't completed a L4D2 campaign on Expert -- I'll take a positive outlook and say that the complaints about difficulty amount to a longer and taller learning curve, that will give this game a longer lifespan than the first.

2009 November 28, rms, “What have you been playing... IN NOVEMBER 2009?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet), message-ID <herjp3$ucc$1@news.eternal-september.org>

Cheap insta-kill attacks have made me ragequit at least twice.

2010 February 8, Chris Whitworth, “Pow, Wallop & Bam”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), message-ID <slrnhn0725.gik.usenet.chris@parm.vs.topper.me.uk>

(intransitive, slang, video games) To quit an online video game in anger.


ragequit

/ˈɹeɪd͡ʒˌkwɪt/

Hardison: I don't know what happened. I had 'em and then I just—
Nate: Didn't anticipate the ragequit.
Hardison: You know gamer terminology?
Nate: I know the key to a good game is balancing boredom and frustration. Now the game — the puzzle's too easy, then the mark — the player — gets bored and walks away. The puzzle's too hard, then the player gets frustrated, and quits in a rage: ragequit.

2012 January 1, “The Gold Job”, in Leverage, season 4, episode 16 (Television), spoken by Alec Hardison and Nate Ford (Aldis Hodge and Timothy Hutton)

(slang, video games) The act of quitting an online video game in anger.


premaster

premaster (third-person singular simple present premasters, present participle premastering, simple past and past participle premastered)

premasters (present singular third-person)
premastering (participle present)
premastered (participle past)
premastered (past)

(computing) To make a master copy of data on a hard disk before writing it to optical disc.


reskin

reskin (third-person singular simple present reskins, present participle reskinning, simple past and past participle reskinned)

reskins (present singular third-person)
reskinning (participle present)
reskinned (participle past)
reskinned (past)

The editor can be reskinned. In other words, the color scheme and look and feel of the buttons can be changed.

2007, Quentin Zervaas, Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP, page 291

(computing, transitive) To change the skin, or visual appearance, of an application.


WOFF

Web Open Font Format
w:Web Open Font Format

(Internet) Initialism of Web Open Font Format.


informetrics

(mathematics, computing) The study of quantitative aspects of information


drive-by download

en-noun

drive-by download (plural drive-by downloads)

(computer security, Internet) A download triggered by scripts etc. on a website, without prompting the user, usually for malicious purposes.


metaclass

That is, all metaclasses (such as Collection class, Object class and Set class) are instances of the class Metaclass. This is because all metaclasses have the same behavior. They define the structure, definition and behavior of a class.

1997, John Hunt, Smalltalk and Object Orientation: An Introduction, Springer Science & Business Media, page 345

First, the class can explicitly specify its metaclass by either setting a __metaclass__ class variable (Python 2), or supplying the metaclass keyword argument in the tuple of base classes (Python 3).

2009, David Beazley, Python Essential Reference, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 139

(object-oriented programming) A class that serves as a template for other classes rather than objects.


autofill

(computing) Any software feature that fills in (fields of a form, cells of a spreadsheet, etc.) automatically.


Metroidvania

Metroidvania (countable and uncountable, plural Metroidvanias)

Blend of Metroid and Castlevania, two influential games of this type.

The Castlevania games share similarities with the Metroid series, in particular the free-roaming design in which new abilities allow access to different areas. Because of this, fans often refer to such games as "Metroidvania" in style.

2008, Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition

It's got Metroidvania elements - it's structured like one, I guess, in that it's lots of exploration with a fair bit of backtracking and getting new abilities that unlock previously unopened areas and that sort of thing.

2009 September 1, Chris Whitworth, “Batman Arkham Asylum 24.99”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), message-ID <slrnh9qqa3.giu.usenet.chris@parm.vs.topper.me.uk>

Pure Metroidvania... with 3D in-engine cutscenes.

2009 September 14, Jonah Falcon, “Shadow Complex Great Game”, in alt.games.video.xbox (Usenet), message-ID <RpWdnUTaXZXTRjPXnZ2dnUVZ_hWdnZ2d@earthlink.com>

Metroidvanias are an inherently clever genre, and the cleverness can sometimes sap a little of the energy.

2019 June 18, Christian Donlan, “Gato Roboto review - a pet-sized Metroidvania filled with delights”, in Eurogamer

(video games, informal) A (genre of) platform game with role-playing game elements and inventory items, involving more exploration than a traditional linear platform game, particularly revisiting previously explored areas.


bullshot

Blend of bullshit + screenshot, coined in 2005 in the webcomic Penny Arcade.

Exhibit A is a textbook example of a bullshot, an image ginned up by marketing and foisted on people who don't know any better.

2005 September 12, “Potent New Lingo”, in Penny Arcade, retrieved 2012-06-15

Even the world's most technically proficient game-makers — industry leaders in graphical and gameplay innovation — seem shy to release actual screenshots of their forthcoming games, preferring instead to unleash super-scaled bullshots, or enhanced videos.

2009 August 15, Richard Leadbetter, “Media Manipulation: the "Bullshot" phenomenon”, in Eurogamer, retrieved 2012-06-15

Sometimes they’ll fall under the ambiguous label of ‘visual target renders’, the small-print description of bullshots at the highest level.

2012 March 19, Ryan King, “7 Marketing Trends That Need To Stop”, in Play, →ISSN, retrieved 2012-06-16

(neologism, video games) A phony screenshot created for promotional purposes.


prepopulate

en-verb

prepopulate (third-person singular simple present prepopulates, present participle prepopulating, simple past and past participle prepopulated)

prepopulates (present singular third-person)
prepopulating (participle present)
prepopulated (participle past)
prepopulated (past)

However, in addition to disabling the billing fields, we are also prepopulating them with data from the shipping fields.

(transitive, computing) To populate (form fields, a database, etc.) in advance.


sploit

Other exploit creators were less careful, turning out garbage sploits that sometimes wouldn't work at all or would even crash a target service most of the time.

2006, Ed Skoudis, Tom Liston, Counter hack reloaded

In other words, some script-kiddie blindly launching a “sploit” to a range of addresses does not exactly embody the essence of this category.

2007, Thomas W. Shinder, Thorsten Behrens, The Best Damn Firewall Book Period

(informal, computing) exploit (program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software)


translational bioinformatics

(genetics, biology, computing) The branch of bioinformatics that uses genomic data as its source


netplay

Can somebody help me? I have a PowerMac 6100/60 and a Powerbook 1400 Localtalk networked. I can't get Abuse to work in netplay. Both machines have 16 MB of RAM but when I try to start a netgame, the loading screen comes up then the ocmputer quits... Any ideas?

1997, Kip, “Abuse netplay problems!”, in comp.sys.mac.games.action (Usenet)

most emulators support netplay, like SNES9x or RockNes. is anyone interested?

2002, Mark Canavan, “netplay”, in alt.games.video.emulation (Usenet)

(video games) Multiplayer gameplay over a network.


multiplay

The team has never done networked multiplay for a racing game. We aren't completely sure we can do it.

2008, Jesse Schell, The art of game design, page 93

(video games) The ability of more than one player to participate in a game at the same time (especially by means of a network).


power gamer

(video games) A regular gamer who plays computationally demanding games on state-of-the-art hardware.


e-crime

en-noun

e-crime (countable and uncountable, plural e-crimes)

When asked what e-crimes were committed against their organizations in 2004, respondents cited virus or other malicious code as most prevalent (82%)...

2007, Jay D. White, Managing information in the public sector

The National Hi Tech Computer Crime Unit was established as a specialist e-crime unit and was folded into the Serious and Organised Crime Agency in 2006.

2009, Lord Carter, Digital Britain: final report


cyberflaneur

The attraction that it exerts on the millions that stroll through its maze of information might be used to reinvigorate our cities. Cyberflaneurs have become captivated with the Internet's ready supply of huge amounts of information...

1997, Nan Ellin, Architecture of fear, page 292

What about the widely heralded hope that cyberspace will be the new street, the piazza in our sprawling cities of connected isolation; that cyberflaneurs will promenade around the Net like Baudelaire taking a stroll around Paris?

1997, Nathan Gardels, The changing global order: world leaders reflect, page 174

The implied cyberflaneur is the male adult, because kids have their own link, as do women (and this half of the human race is construed as being interested foremost in family and beauty).

2001, Richard Maxwell, Culture works: the political economy of culture, page 214

(Internet) A person who idly surfs the Internet


Wiktionary

→ Esperanto: Vikivortaro (calque)

→ Finnish: Wikisanakirja (calque)

desc

→ Greek: Βικιλεξικό (Vikilexikó) (calque)

וִיקִימִלּוֹן

→ Hebrew: וִיקִימִלּוֹן (vikimilón) (calque)

→ Irish: Vicífhoclóir (calque)

/ˈwɪkʃəˌnɛ(ə)ɹi/

/ˈwɪkt͡ʃəˌnɛ(ə)ɹi/

/ˈwɪkʃəˌnɛɹi/

The site was brought online in English on December 12, 2002; on March 29, 2004, the first non-English Wiktionaries were initiated in French and Polish. Wiktionaries in over 200 languages now exist, and more than 100 have more than 100 definitions.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, “Wikimedia Commons and Other Sister Projects”, in How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, San Francisco, Calif.: No Starch Press, page 430

A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).

Wikiwoordeboek

the collaborative project; a particular version of this project written in a certain language

Wikizziunariu m (italianized spelling adopted for the relative project)


baby duck syndrome

From the tendency of newly hatched ducks or other birds to imprint on the first thing they see.

Lotus 1-2-3 has become the spreadsheet package chosen by most people and is still widely used. This is sometimes called the "baby duck syndrome," meaning that once a person uses one certain spreadsheet and becomes familiar with it, he will not try another package even though it may be easier to use and better suited to his needs.

1991, Andrew W. Lai, “Graphical Decision Aids: Spreadsheets”, in Allen Kent, James G. Williams, editors, Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, volume 8 (Geographic Information System to Hypertext), New York, N.Y., Basel: Marcel Dekker, page 82

The tools go back on the shelf, mostly unused, for a number of reasons, not just the baby-duck syndrome.

1993, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, page 78, column 3

The phenomenon of baby duck syndrome is well known – it's what happens when users judge new and upcoming systems by comparing them with the first system they learned. This means that users generally prefer systems similar to those they learned on and dislike unfamiliar systems. […] This syndrome has substantial impact on user interface design. Developers must take into account previous user experiences to make users comfortable if they want these users to move or upgrade to their system. Baby duck syndrome can also make usability studies difficult as users familiar with a given system almost invariably describe deviations from it as confusing or problematic.

2005 March 2, Peter Seebach, “The Cranky User: Baby Duck Syndrome: Imprinting on Your First System Makes Change a Very Hard Thing”, in IBM developerWorks, archived from the original on 2012-04-19

Most people acquainted with a personal computer system exhibit the baby duck syndrome. Ducklings (and birds generally) bond to the first caregiver they see, usually a parent duck. […] The same occurs with people who bond to one kind of computer system, say Windows or Mac, and become fixed on that system as the natural way that computers should be.

2013 April 22, Ted Herman, “General Landscape of Computing Languages”, in A Functional Start to Computing with Python (Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, page 13

Frankly speaking, baby duck syndrome is detrimental because users block themselves from trying new and better methods, even though the learning curve of the new tool is worth the climb.

2022, Chong Ho Alex Yu, “Cutting Edge Data Analytical Tools”, in Data Mining and Exploration: From Traditional Statistics to Modern Data Science (A Science Publishers Book), Boca Raton, Fla., New York, N.Y.: CRC Press, →DOI, page 47

(computing, humorous) The tendency of computer users to think the system (software or usage paradigm) they originally started using is better than others.


CTCP

client-to-client protocol
w:Client-to-client protocol

(Internet) Initialism of client-to-client protocol.


filestore

The manipulation of files and related data in an OSI environment is achieved by mapping the real filestores of real systems on to virtual filestores that have standard interfaces to the OSI communications networks.

1994, Andy Sloane, Computer communications: principles and business applications, page 200

(computing) A conceptual space where files are stored.


reparent

en-verb

reparent (third-person singular simple present reparents, present participle reparenting, simple past and past participle reparented)

reparents (present singular third-person)
reparenting (participle present)
reparented (participle past)
reparented (past)

If the client reparents the window away from root, the window is no longer a top-level window.

1995, Adrian Nye, David Flanagan, Programmer's supplement for release 6 of the X Window System

(transitive, computing) To change the parent of an object in a data structure.


nondraggable

This game covers the whole screen with a single, nondraggable window, but the menu bar is visible and events are processed.

1995, Jamie McCornack, Ingemar Ragnemalm, Paul Celestin, Tricks of the Mac game programming gurus, page 291


pseudorelational

(databases) Having certain elements of a relational database.


dequantization

en-noun

dequantization (usually uncountable, plural dequantizations)

(computing) A quantum algorithm once thought to have quantum advantage has been efficiently replicated using classical algorithms with suitable data access


call graph

(computing) A directed graph that represents relationships between called and calling subroutines in a computer program, used in code analysis.


i/o

i/o devices are pieces of hardware used to communicate with a computer.

(computing, also nominalised) in/out, input/output (descriptive of data flow)


picture box

Visual Basic has a picture box control in its toolbox, represented by a cactus (the same icon as is used by Developer Studio to represent a bitmap resource).

1998, Mike Collins, Windows NT infrastructure design, page 325

Displaying images on a form is very simple with a picture box. Just set the image property to a file on your hard drive.

2004, Kate Gregory, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003: kick start, page 65

(computing, graphical user interface) A user interface control for displaying an image.


dedent

en-verb

dedent (third-person singular simple present dedents, present participle dedenting, simple past and past participle dedented)

dedents (present singular third-person)
dedenting (participle present)
dedented (participle past)
dedented (past)

Dedent Region If there were any need to prove that Python was a programmer's tool, and not something written for anyone with the slightest grasp of the English language, instead of the Python language, this menu option would dissuade them from that belief. Really, who would call something dedent? ... Unlike the indenting command, dedenting (can this really be used as a verb?) a block can cause problems.

2008, Matthew A. Telles, Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide

If the body of the if statement, the failwith, was dedented four spaces and therefore lined up with the if keyword, the F# compiler would yield a warning.

2009, Chris Smith, Programming F#, page 7

Items within a block structure are sequential code statements indented the same amount to indicate that they are related. The first line of code dedented (moved back a notch) after a block structure does not belong to the block structure.

2016, Laura Tateosian, Python For ArcGIS, page 24

(computing, transitive, primarily Python) To outdent; to remove an indent from.


dedent

(computing, transitive, primarily Python) An outdent.


centroidal

(graph theory, of a tree) Having a single centroid.


relightable

A relightable model requires more than 20 GB of raw image data.

2007, Markus Gross, Hanspeter Pfister, Point-based graphics, page 78

(computer graphics) Capable of being rendered again with different simulated lighting conditions.


SVGA

Super Video Graphics Array
w:Super Video Graphics Array

(computer graphics) Initialism of Super Video Graphics Array.


retopology

(computer graphics) Modification of the topology of an object.


nonmodem

external clocking A term often used to describe nonmodem clocking; clocks located outside of a modem; because of confusion in the use of the term, it is better to use the terms "modem clocking" and "nonmodem clocking"...

1985, Malcolm G. Lane, Data communications software design

If you want faster or nonmodem access, you can also purchase a dedicated phone line connection with special hardware.

1997, Brian J. Thomas, The Internet for scientists and engineers: online tools and resources, page 7

(computing) Not of or pertaining to a modem.


modemless

Although a modemless interface to these non-PCM networks is possible, they are limited in data speed to 4,800 b/s or less […]

1986, James Harry Green, The Dow Jones-Irwin handbook of telecommunications, page 314


white knight

(figurative, derogatory) Someone who unnecessarily defends someone else.

(informal, derogatory, Internet) A man who defends a woman in debate etc. in an attempt to gain her favour.


multisession

multisession (third-person singular simple present multisessions, present participle multisessioning, simple past and past participle multisessioned)

multisessions (present singular third-person)
multisessioning (participle present)
multisessioned (participle past)
multisessioned (past)

(computing) To operate multiple simultaneous sessions, for example allowing many users to be active at one time.


paste bomb

(Internet) Any snippet of irrelevant text or data which is pasted into an online conversation to disrupt it.


webstream

Dog lovers will be able to watch Crufts despite the BBC's decision to drop the show, thanks to a live webstream announced yesterday.

2009 February 28, “UK news in brief”, in The Guardian

(Internet) A streaming media delivery method which uses the Internet to deliver audio and video playback to the end user.


webstream

webstream (third-person singular simple present webstreams, present participle webstreaming, simple past and past participle webstreamed)

webstreams (present singular third-person)
webstreaming (participle present)
webstreamed (participle past)
webstreamed (past)

(Internet) To send live media over the Internet in order to deliver audio and video playback to the end user.


scenegraph

(computer graphics) A data structure representing a graphical scene.


autoboxed

The error indicates that we cannot typecast and modify data of an autoboxed variable.

2006, Christian Gross, How to code .NET, page 38

In the second statement the value 85.1 is autoboxed in order to conform to the type of Double.

2006, David D. Riley, The object of Java, page 484

(object-oriented programming) Automatically boxed (mapped from a primitive type to a complex object).


RIA

rich Internet application
rich Internet application#English

(computing) Initialism of rich Internet application.


autoblock

en-noun

autoblock (usually uncountable, plural autoblocks)

From the online vendor documentation, we determined that this version of the WatchGuard Firebox enabled an autoblock feature by default.

2004, TechRepublic, IT security survival guide

(computing) (An) automatic blocking (inhibition of a feature etc.).


autoblock

en-verb

autoblock (third-person singular simple present autoblocks, present participle autoblocking, simple past and past participle autoblocked)

autoblocks (present singular third-person)
autoblocking (participle present)
autoblocked (participle past)
autoblocked (past)


nonpointer

(computing, chiefly attributive) A variable, etc. that is not a pointer.


gewd

(Internet, slang) Alternative spelling of good, along the lines of kewl


fileserver

(computing) A server used to share files with other computers.


softmodem

(computing) A modem with minimal hardware capabilities, designed to use a host computer's resources to perform most of the tasks performed by dedicated hardware in a traditional modem.


Winmodem

Blend of Windows + modem; from a trademark of U.S. Robotics.

Coordinate term: Linmodem

(computing) A softmodem designed to work with the Microsoft Windows operating system.


subprocedure

(computer science) A procedure that can be called by higher-level procedures as part of their operation.


jump drive

(USB flash drive): A trademark name of flash drives owned by Lexar.


IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force
w:Internet Engineering Task Force

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Engineering Task Force.


ABAC

attribute-based access control
w:Attribute Based Access Control

(computing) Initialism of attribute-based access control.


autonumbering

Luckily for us, that's where FrameMaker's autonumbering feature comes in. In documents, autonumbering does just what its name implies: It automatically numbers your paragraphs so you don't have to.

2001, Lisa Jahred, FrameMaker 6: Beyond the Basics, page 40


unblogged

Although 99 percent of my life is unblogged, these people think that they know me.

2006, Axel Bruns, Joanne Jacobs, Uses of blogs, page 133

Company CEOs are outed for participating on message boards with pseudonyms, and it sometimes seems that no bad deed goes unblogged.

2008, Rohit Bhargava, Personality Not Included, page 20


bloggable

en-adj

bloggable (comparative more bloggable, superlative most bloggable)

more bloggable (comparative)
most bloggable (superlative)

If you aren't sure whether something is bloggable, ask whether you can blog about it or run it by your boss first.

2008, Susannah Gardner, Shane Birley, Blogging For Dummies, page 64

You can't always be at your computer to blog — sometimes you're out there living life, and bloggable stuff happens!

2010, Melanie Nelson, Shannon Lowe, TypePad For Dummies, page 306

Even from the start, the greatest compliment that Carles could pay to a song would be to call it “highly bloggable.”

2012 January 19, Rob Trump, “Watching Hipster Runoff Eat its Own Tail”, in New York


marketspace

From market + space, modelled on marketplace.

(Internet, marketing) A virtual marketplace on the Internet.


DFSG

(computing) Initialism of Debian Free Software Guidelines.


DIMM

dual in-line memory module
w:dual in-line memory module

(computer hardware) Initialism of dual in-line memory module.


TV tuner

(computing) A hardware component that allows a computer to receive television signals.


nmu

A: hey

B: 'sup?

A: nmu

(Internet) Initialism of not(or nothing) much, you?


hbu

A: 'sup

B: nm, hbu?

(Internet) Initialism of how 'bout you?.


memoried

memoried (comparative more memoried, superlative most memoried)

more memoried (comparative)
most memoried (superlative)

Recently, such price-reduction strategies have been replaced by a stable pricing system for our much more powerful, large-memoried machines of today.

1992, The Journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, page 105

(poetic, literary or computing, in combination) Having a memory (of a given kind).


fieldset

From field + set, the name of an HTML element.

Paragraphs, lists, and fieldsets are all sorted out with CSS.

2006, Simon Collison, Beginning CSS web development: from novice to professional, page 308

Use fieldsets to define multiple fields into logical groups within the form.

2009, Sue Jenkins, Richard Wagner, Dreamweaver CS4 All-in-One For Dummies

(Internet) A group of related user interface controls that make up one portion of a form.


QVT

UML models may be automatically transformed to other representations (e.g. Java) by means of QVT-like transformation languages, supported by the OMG.

(software) Initialism of Query/View/Transformation (a standard for model transformation in a certain model-driven architecture.)


WSGI

(Internet) Initialism of Web Server Gateway Interface.


SDL

(computing) Initialism of Simple Declarative Language.

(databases) Initialism of Schema Definition Language.


writeback

(computing) An operation in which data previously read into a cache is written back to permanent storage.


RESTful

The RESTafarians — or REST zealots — are probably right that a RESTful approach is best for retrieving information, but it is obviously inappropriate whenever the remote procedure call has side effects.

2005, David Paul Megginson, Imperfect XML: Rants, Raves, Tips, and Tricks, page 124

In this chapter, we'll build a RESTful web service on top of the MoviesService and OrdersService applications.

2008, Dan Chak, Enterprise Rails, page 279

representational state transfer
representational state transfer#English

(computing) Using REST (representational state transfer).


JSR

(computing) Initialism of Jump to Subroutine: (an assembler command)

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Java Specification Request.


data-bound

(computing) Synchronised with a data source by means of data binding.


readahead

en-noun

readahead (countable and uncountable, plural readaheads)

(computing) The operation of reading data from a storage medium in advance so that it is immediately available when requested.


spooler

The print spooler sends each page to the printer when it is ready for it.

(computing) A program or process that spools (places data in a queue to be accessed later)


multimediocrity

multimediocrity (usually uncountable, plural multimediocrities)

Blend of multimedia + mediocrity, used in the early 1990s.

(slang, computing, rare) Poor-quality multimedia material.


onion skinning

(computer graphics) A technique in animation in which consecutive frames are layered translucently to aid the animator.


unencode

en-verb

unencode (third-person singular simple present unencodes, present participle unencoding, simple past and past participle unencoded)

unencodes (present singular third-person)
unencoding (participle present)
unencoded (participle past)
unencoded (past)


uuencode

uuencode (third-person singular simple present uuencodes, present participle uuencoding, simple past and past participle uuencoded)

uuencodes (present singular third-person)
uuencoding (participle present)
uuencoded (participle past)
uuencoded (past)

After the Unix program uuencode (Unix-to-Unix encoding), for encoding binary data for transmission over the UUCP mail system.

(transitive, computing) To encode (binary data) into a text-based format for transmission.


LUG

(computing) Initialism of Linux user group.


Crayette

From Cray + -ette; coined by the industry magazine Datamation.

(computing, informal, dated) Any minisupercomputer with an instruction set compatible with those of Cray supercomputers.