tilt

tilt (third-person singular simple present tilts, present participle tilting, simple past and past participle tilted)

tilts (present singular third-person)
tilting (participle present)
tilted (participle past)
tilted (past)

From Middle English tilte, from Old English *tyltan, *tieltan (“to be unsteady”), related to the adjective tealt (“unsteady”), from Proto-West Germanic *talt, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”), see also Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Cognate with Icelandic tölt (“an ambling pace”).
The nominal sense of "a joust" appears around 1510, presumably derived from the barrier which separated the combatants, which suggests connection with tilt "covering". The modern transitive meaning is from 1590; the intransitive use appears 1620.

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

Even the best players can tilt which can cause their performance to drop significantly. Players often tilt when they're on a losing spree or frustrated with the game.

2022 September 2, Gökhan Çakır, Harrison Thomas, “How to get better at VALORANT”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2023-03-15

This was yet another surprising momentum swing, with Nepomniachtchi seemingly having addressed his tendency to tilt after a loss, and with Ding crashing back down to Earth after having squared the ledger in the previous game. Is this a new Nepomniachtchi, capable of digging deep and avenging losses?

2023 April 19, Ben Tippett, “Haymakers Are Flying At The World Chess Championship”, in Defector, archived from the original on 2023-06-05

(originally poker, video games, chess, slang) To enter a state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.


tilt

to go on tilt

In his landmark book, The Mental Game of Poker, sports psychologist Jared Tendler defines "tilt" as "anger + bad play". In short, you lose your mental equilibrium and start playing below your best, often making big mistakes. Tilt is caused by many different factors and Tendler defines seven types of tilt.

2014 September 10, Amit Varma, “Magnus Carlsen's weakness”, in The Economic Times, Mumbai: Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-09-19

In his follow-up video below, ScrapComputer goes into a long list of suggestions for stopping and avoiding tilt while you play League of Legends.

2016 February 26, Philip Kollar, “What is 'tilt' in League of Legends, and how can you avoid it?”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 2023-04-01

As long as you know that being consistent and sticking to a strategy in the long run, will win you money, you can avoid tilt and negative emotions.

2022 March 16, “Online poker: from beginner to pro”, in Times of Malta, archived from the original on 2022-04-21

(uncountable, poker, video games, chess, slang) A state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.


proc

en-verb

proc (third-person singular simple present procs, present participle proccing, simple past and past participle procced)

procs (present singular third-person)
proccing (participle present)
procced (participle past)
procced (past)

Dunno the weapons' stats, except they both procced fairly frequently - lightning sword procced decapitation (instant death), and the whip procced fire reel (or whatever it was called) which reeled to target into the balor's body, engulfing you in searing flames for big damage.

2000, S H, “The baddest weapons/armor”, in rec.games.mud.diku (Usenet)

Establish a proccing percentage of a weapon by putting it in the primary hand and then put it in your offhand and check the proccing percentage with varying levels of dual wield skill (while keeping level and dex constant).

2000, Billy Shields, “The truth about offhand procs”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet)

(video games) To cause a special event to occur.


hot corner

en-noun

hot corner (countable and uncountable, plural hot corners)

Because many hard-hit balls are hit there

You can also configure a hot corner to open the Expo screen, or install the Expo applet.

2021, Richard Petersen, Linux Mint 20.2: Desktops and Administration

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, countable) A corner of the screen configured to perform an action when the pointer is moved there.


FLOP

A syllabic acronym from floating-point operation.


FLOPS

An acronym for floating-point operations per second.


megaflop

Back-formation of megaflops in the computing sense – the final ⟨s⟩ is not the plural suffix but stands for “second”.

floating point operation
floating point operation#English

(computing) megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second)


mouse pad

(US, Australia, computing) A pad with surface used to enhance the movement of a computer mouse.


floating point operation

floating point operation (plural floating point operations)

(computing) Any simple operation, such as addition, multiplication or division, performed on floating point numbers using a single operation.


graph theory

graph theory (countable and uncountable, plural graph theories)

The type of graph studied in graph theory is formally described as an ordered pair G#x3D;(V,E) comprising a set V of vertices, or nodes, and a set E of pairs (either ordered or unordered) of vertices, each representing an (directed or undirected) edge; if desired, the vertices and/or edges can be labelled.

In graph theory there are two concepts of "sameness" whereby graphs are judged to be "the same", namely equality and isomorphism.[…]An indication of the pervasive role isomorphism has in graph theory is the fact that isomorphism has virtually captured the word "is".

1993, Richard J. Trudeau, Introduction to Graph Theory, Dover, page 47

Extremal problems are at the very heart of graph theory. Interpreting it broadly, extremal graph theory encompasses most of graph theory, in its narrow sense, it contains many of the deepest and most beautiful results in graph theory.

1998, Béla Bollobás, Modern Graph Theory, Springer, page 103

We aim to highlight the role of graph theory in modern timetabling research and provide some pointers to the relevant literature for the interested reader.

2004, Edmund Burke, Dominique de Werra, Jeffrey Kingston, “5.6: Applications to Timetabling”, in Jonathan L. Gross, Jay Yellen, editors, Handbook of Graph Theory, CRC Press, page 445

(uncountable, mathematics) The branch of mathematics dealing with the properties of graphs (networks of vertices and edges).

գրաֆների տեսություն

study of graphs (networks of nodes and edges)


floating point

(computing) Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers.


carry-out

A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain. This approach is most common in chip design because the wiring for the carry-lookahead tree is hard to design and area-consuming.

2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design

(computing) A command that exports a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) from the current column of an addition operation.


systems analysis

systems analysis (countable and uncountable, plural systems analyses)

(computing) A range of techniques used especially in commercial computing in which the needs of a company or its staff are analysed and translated into a technical description of the necessary software - which is then created by programmers.


systems analyst

systems analyst (plural systems analysts)

(computing) A person whose job is to perform systems analysis by being responsible for researching, planning and recommending software and system choices to meet an organization's business requirements.


still life

still life (plural still lifes or still lives)

still lifes (plural)
still lives (plural)

I think you're talking about a configuration known as "eater," a still life in 6-8 cells. If the glider hits the right spot, the eater will form a bridge and destroy the glider while undergoing little change before reverting.

1992 May 5, Holocaust-->Travesty, “the Hodge Podge machine”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Thus, a natural question, apparently proposed very early, was whether there exists a still life (i.e. period 1 oscillator) that reflects a glider.

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

I haven't tested yet, but I expect hlife to win by a very large margin since the puffer train has lots of still life and blinkers to make Gosper's algorithm look good, and hlife's low-level implementation is quite good at handling the more random parts.

2003 December 12, Tony Finch, “Implementing Conway's Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

(cellular automata, usually countable) A pattern that does not change from one generation to the next.


PAP

password authentication protocol
w:password authentication protocol

(networking) Initialism of password authentication protocol.


DoS

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

(computing, Internet) A denial-of-service attack.


DoS

en-verb

DoS (third-person singular simple present DoSes, present participle DoSing, simple past and past participle DoSed)

DoSes (present singular third-person)
DoSing (participle present)
DoSed (participle past)
DoSed (past)

In addition to out-of-spec traffic, malicious packets can contain payloads that cause a system to crash. A packet's payload is taken as input into a service. If the input is not properly checked, the application can be DoSed.

2003, Jack Koziol, Intrusion Detection with Snort, Indianapolis, IN: Sams Publishing, page 15

(transitive, computing, Internet) To commit a denial-of-service attack against.


botnet

Then they blacklisted addresses used by spammers. In response, senders started using botnets (networks of otherwise innocent computers).

2010 November 20, “Long life spam”, in The Economist

(Internet, computer security) A collection of compromised computers that is gradually built up and then unleashed as a DDOS attack or used to send very large quantities of spam.


virtual private network

en-noun

virtual private network (plural virtual private networks)

Most Chinese users watch HBO through virtual private networks, or VPNs.

(computing) A network set up for use by a limited number of individuals, such as employees of a company, operating over a large area. The network typically uses encryption to keep information secure.


benchmark

From bench + mark. Originally (attested circa 1842) a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a "bench" (from 19th century land surveying jargon, meaning a type of bracket), to mount measuring equipment. Figurative sense attested circa 1884.

(computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.

бенчмарк

computing: program executed to assess performance


DDOS

(Internet, cybersecurity) A distributed denial-of-service attack, one that originates from many different (geographically and network topographically) sources, on a network of networks such as the Internet.


DDOS

en-verb

DDOS (third-person singular simple present DDOSes, present participle DDOSing, simple past and past participle DDOSed)

DDOSes (present singular third-person)
DDOSing (participle present)
DDOSed (participle past)
DDOSed (past)

With this approach, the noncritical traffic could be DDOSed to death, but the important stuff would still move.

2002, James F. Dunnigan, The Next War Zone: Confronting the Global Threat of Cyberterrorism, Citadel Press, page 209

It’s as if the networked public sphere, and indeed traditional institutions of democracy, can be DDOSed via releasing large numbers of flares, each attracting and consuming attention, thus making focus and sustained conversation impossible.

2017, Zeynep Tufekci, “Epilogue: The Uncertain Climb”, in Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, page 274

Being offline would be expensive for a server owner if, say, they were DDOSed by a botnet. If you controlled a botnet and threatened to DDOS them, you could make some money.

2018, Charles Arthur, “The internet of hacked things: Mirai”, in Cyber Wars: Hacks that Shocked the Business World, Kogan Page, page 186

(Internet, cybersecurity, transitive) To attack by DDOS.


LV

en-noun

LV (countable and uncountable, plural LVs)

(computing) Initialism of logical volume.


ITIL

(computing) Acronym of IT Infrastructure Library: a set of practices for IT management in business.


KB

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of kilobyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of kibibyte.


KB

(computer science) Initialism of knowledge base.


palmtop

From palm + top, as used in one's palm; by analogy with desktop and laptop.

A taxonomy of small computers—laptops, palmtops, and kneetops—was just emerging.

1994, PC Mag, volume 13, number 6, page 4

personal digital assistant
personal digital assistant

(computing) A personal digital assistant.


Pretty Good Privacy

public-key cryptography
public-key cryptography

(computing) software that encrypts and decrypts messages, for transmission over the Internet, using public-key cryptography


EB

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of exabyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of exbibyte.


preloaded

(computing) Of software, already installed on a personal computer at the time of purchase.


public-key cryptography

A form of cryptography which allows users to communicate securely without previously agreeing on a shared secret key (abbreviation PKC)


overloaded

en-adj

overloaded (comparative more overloaded, superlative most overloaded)

more overloaded (comparative)
most overloaded (superlative)

(computing) of a name, used for more than one variable or procedure etc; differentiated by the compiler based on context


(networking) Initialism of peer-to-peer.

(online gaming) Initialism of pay-to-play.


phase diagram

(physics, chemistry) A graph, with axes representing temperature and pressure, showing the equilibrium conditions for a given substance to be a solid, liquid or gas.


PKC

public-key cryptography
public-key cryptography#English

(cryptography) Initialism of public-key cryptography.


pull-down

en-noun

pull-down (countable and uncountable, plural pull-downs)

(computing) A dynamic menu; a list of options in a computer application which appears below a heading when it is selected, and remains only as long as the user needs it.


dep

dep (countable and uncountable, plural deps)

*Abbreviation of several English terms that begin with "dep"
*Clipping of several English terms that begin with "dep"


peer-to-peer

(computing) Of a network of two or more computers: connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals.

vertaisverkko-

of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners


Tetris

From Russian Те́трис (Tétris), coined by the creator of the game, Alexey Pajitnov, from the Russian numerical prefix тетра- (tetra-, “tetra-”) (as all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and те́ннис (ténnis, “tennis”), his favourite sport.

There is one nice moment in the music, but it's not the moment identified by the owner of the system, and one idiot goes so far as to gush, "This is better than Tetris!"

2001, Matt O'Keefe, You Think You Hear, page 25

From the kitchen the guy said, "I write science fiction. Or I'm trying to write. I've been staring at that screen for three days. You just interrupted a one-hour Tetris marathon. I need to talk to a real human being."

2007, David Skibbins, The Star: A Tarot Card Mystery, page 147

[…]there were some other guys there who were into cosplay—that's costume play—and their thing was, they were dressed as Tetris blocks.

2008, Daniel Radosh, Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture, page 213

A puzzle video game in which falling tetrominoes must be manipulated to form complete lines, which are then cleared from the grid.

Тэ́трыс

game in which falling shapes must be manipulated


Tetris

For some it's staying low on the play field, steadily advancing through the levels, for others its trying to clear the board entirely or scoring an unprecedented number of tetrises.

See figure 3 for an example of a logical decision tree that indicates whether there is a possibility to score a tetris.

1995, Kurt Driessens, “Relational Reinforcement Learning”, in Recent Trends in Data Type Specification, page 276

Maximizing the number of tetrises (the number of times that four rows are cleared in a Tetris game) is NP-complete.

2003, Tandy Warnow, Binhai Zhu, Computing and combinatorics: 9th annual international conference

Score two Tetrises in two drops playing Marathon.

2007, Barbara Smith, Chad Yancey, Video Game Achievements and Unlockables

(video games, by extension) The act of clearing four lines at once (the maximum possible) in Tetris.


isomorphism

en-noun

isomorphism (countable and uncountable, plural isomorphisms)

Isomorphism on Encyclopedia of Mathematics

Natural Isomorphism on Wolfram MathWorld

(computer science) a one-to-one correspondence between all the elements of two sets, e.g. the instances of two classes, or the records in two datasets.


front door

(computing) The normal portal page to a website.


popup blocker

pop-up advertisement
pop-up advertisement

(computing) a piece of software that prevents pop-up advertisements from being displayed


pop-up advertisement

pop-up advertisement (plural pop-up advertisements)

(Internet, advertising) An advertisement that takes the form of a window that appears automatically on a computer screen when certain websites are visited.


blockquote

From the name of an HTML element for this purpose, from block + quote.

(Internet) a lengthy quotation that is formatted so as to be set off from the main text on a webpage, as by italicization and indentation


tebibyte

(computing) Strictly, 2⁴⁰ (1024⁴, or 1,099,511,627,776) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) gibibytes, as opposed to a terabyte.


eMac

(computing) A computer of a line of low-end computers made by Apple Inc.


stanza

From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.

der

Definition of XML Stanza: An XML stanza is the basic unit of meaning in XMPP.

2011, P. Saint-Andre, RFC 6120 - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core

Whenever an XMPP client generates an XML stanza, it typically constructs the XML of the stanza by building up a structured document […]

2009, Tim Riley, Adam Goucher, Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software

Technically speaking, federation is the ability for two XMPP servers in different domains to exchange XML stanzas.

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

(computing) An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.

(computing) A section of a configuration file consisting of a related group of lines.


iMac

1998, i- (“internet”) + Mac (“Macintosh”)

prefix

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Macintosh</i>

her face bathed in the blue light of her hypnotically addictive 24-inch iMac

2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 115

(trademark) One of a line of all-in-one Macintosh computers made by Apple Inc.


invoke

en-verb

invoke (third-person singular simple present invokes, present participle invoking, simple past and past participle invoked)

invokes (present singular third-person)
invoking (participle present)
invoked (participle past)
invoked (past)

From Middle English *invoken, envoken, borrowed from Old French envoquer, from Latin invocāre (“to call upon”), itself from in- + vocare (“to call”). Doublet of invocate.

Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.

[…]the selling price and cost of a particular item are derived by the system through a table lookup and assigned to the item at invoking time.

1974 August 7, “Wholesalers Gain Basic Facts”, in Computerworld

C++ lets you invoke an operator function either by calling the function or by using the overloaded operator with its usual syntax.

(transitive, computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.

call

cause a program or subroutine to execute


floppy drive

A computer hardware device used for reading and writing on removable floppy disks, such as 3+¹⁄₂″, 5+¹⁄₄″ or 8″ diskettes.


pop-up

(Internet) A pop-up advertisement; an advertisement that is triggered to appear on a computer screen when the user accesses a particular web page.

anunci emergent

advertisement that pops up when one accesses an Internet page


scoped

(programming) Limited to a particular scope.


terabyte

/ˈtɛɹəˌbaɪt/

[ˈtʰɛɹəˌbaɪ̯t]


iBook

A trademark, apparently a blend of iMac + notebook computer, and by surface analysis, i- + book.

(laptops) A computer of a line of lower-end laptop computers formerly manufactured by Apple Computer.


datagram

(networking) A packet of data passed across a network.


sed

(computing) A noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way.


hosting

en-noun

hosting (countable and uncountable, plural hostings)

(computing) Running and maintaining a computer system on someone's behalf.

寄存服務

running and maintaining a computer system


comparator

(computing) An application or program that compares prices, rates, tariffs of flights, smartphones, cars, etc.

comparateur

computing: application that compares prices


microprocessor

When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.

1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47

(computer hardware) The entire CPU of a computer on a single integrated circuit (chip).


hard drive

(computing, computer hardware) An electromechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid, rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

hardeskyf

device used for storing large amounts of data

ഹാർഡ് ഡിസ്ക് ഡ്രൈവ്

hāṟḍŭ ḍiskŭ ḍraivŭ


flash drive

So called because it is a memory drive that uses flash memory.

(computer hardware) A small electronic device used to store digital data, more portable and robust than a hard drive.

قُرْص وَامِض m (qurṣ wāmiḍ) (a literal translation prescribed by some purists, though virtually unused)

Flash-Laufwerk

a literal one, not the usual term for a USB stick


implode

en-verb

implode (third-person singular simple present implodes, present participle imploding, simple past and past participle imploded)

implodes (present singular third-person)
imploding (participle present)
imploded (participle past)
imploded (past)

(computing, programming, PHP) The opposite of explode, array to string conversion.

I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work […]

1992, Steve Tibbett, “PKZIP Implode compression/decompression.”, in comp.compression (Usenet)

(transitive, computing) To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.


punch out

punch out (third-person singular simple present punches out, present participle punching out, simple past and past participle punched out)

punches out (present singular third-person)
punching out (participle present)
punched out (participle past)
punched out (past)

(transitive, intransitive, computing) To extract data from a computer by the use of a keyboard.


MSF

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
w:Microsoft SharePoint Foundation

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.


back door

Scoring three goals at home should guarantee you three points, but when you go on the attack a little bit more, you leave the back door open. That's not always a good idea with this team.

2021 November 29, Alan Shearer, “Why Newcastle have to win their next two games to give them hope of staying in the Premier League - Alan Shearer analysis”, in BBC Sport

A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something.

(computer security) A secret means of access to a program or system.


back door

back door (third-person singular simple present back doors, present participle back dooring, simple past and past participle back doored)

back doors (present singular third-person)
back dooring (participle present)
back doored (participle past)
back doored (past)

Now that we have backdoored the notepad.exe binary, we will go back to the Meterpreter session and upload our backdoor: 3. Then, we need to start a listener so we. meterpreter > upload notepad-backdoored.exe [*] uploading[…]

2018 February 26, Abhinav Singh, Nipun Jaswal, Monika Agarwal, Daniel Teixeira, Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook: Evade antiviruses, bypass firewalls, and exploit complex environments with the most widely used penetration testing framework, 3rd Edition, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 213

As an example, the generation algorithm for backdoored Dual EC picks a fixed group element Q, a random exponent d, and outputs as public key the pair P = Qd and Q. The secret key is d. (We use multiplicative notation for simplicity.)[…]

2015 April 13, Elisabeth Oswald, Marc Fischlin, Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2015: 34th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 26-30, 2015, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, page 103

Back in the session, we will rename the httpd.exe file to httpd.exe.backup, upload the backdoored version, and rename it to httpd.exe: msf exploit(handler) > sessions -i 1 [*] Starting interaction with 1... meterpreter > cd[…]

2019 July 18, Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari, Daniel Teixeira, Abhinav Singh, Improving your Penetration Testing Skills: Strengthen your defense against web attacks with Kali Linux and Metasploit, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 453

(computer security) To add a backdoor (a secret means of access) to a program or system.


short circuit

short circuit (third-person singular simple present short circuits, present participle short circuiting, simple past and past participle short circuited)

short circuits (present singular third-person)
short circuiting (participle present)
short circuited (participle past)
short circuited (past)

For example, to short-circuit the "LoggedIn()" or "LogIn()" "if" conditional, replace the "Or" with "OrElse" and the statement is interpreted to mean "if not logged in, then log in".

2002, Paul Kimmel, Visual Basic.Net Unleashed

If you would like to short-circuit, you must replace "And" with the "AndAlso" keyword and "Or" with the "OrElse" keyword, as follows....

2002, Jose Mojico, C# and VB.NET Conversion Pocket Reference

2006: Jay Hillard & Stephen Teilhet, C# Cookbook
The "Demand" is done to ensure that you have indeed been granted this permission before using the "Assert" to short-circuit the stackwalk.

(transitive, computing) To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.


autoclave

Borrowed from French autoclave, formed with prefix auto- + Latin clavis (“key”).


BCC

blind carbon copy
blind carbon copy#English

Alternative letter-case form of bcc; Initialism of blind carbon copy.


inheritance

en-noun

inheritance (countable and uncountable, plural inheritances)

Inherited from Middle English enheritaunce, inheritaunce, borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old French enheritaunce, from enheriter.
Equivalent to inherit + -ance.

inh+

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(programming, object-oriented programming) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

继承

programming: mechanism for making parts of superclass available to subclass


SCADA

(electricity, software) Acronym of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (electrical network typically containing at least IED's, RTU's, and a master station equipped with an HMI. Used to monitor and control process automation systems, such as those used by electrical and water utilities.)


mixer

→ Dutch: mixer

→ French: mixer

→ Polish: mikser

→ Romanian: mixer

desc

→ Russian: ми́ксер (míkser), ми́кшер (míkšer)

→ Turkish: mikser, mixer


EMI

en-noun

EMI (countable and uncountable, plural EMIs)

external machine interface
w:EMI (protocol)

(networking) Initialism of external machine interface.

external memory interface
w:external memory interface

(computer hardware) Initialism of external memory interface.


donationware

(software) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.


accelerated graphics port

accelerated graphics port (plural accelerated graphics ports)

(computing) A high-speed port used to attach a display adapter to a personal computer.


crippleware

(uncountable, computing, chiefly derogatory) A program whose functionality is severely limited beyond that of shareware, often in the interest of its author having the crippleware user make a purchase of the uncrippled program.


demoware

(computing) A cut-down demonstration version of a computer program so that it can be tried before purchase.


trialware

From trial + -ware, a contraction of software.

(Internet) Software that can be tried for a limited time, after which it expires or has limited functionality.


POS

POS (countable and uncountable, plural POSes or POSs)

operating system
operating system#English

(computing) Initialism of proprietary operating system.


POS

Hang on, POS ... can you tell me about it later?

(Internet, text messaging) Initialism of parent over shoulder (i.e. observing the young user's conversation).


quiesce

en-verb

quiesce (third-person singular simple present quiesces, present participle quiescing, simple past and past participle quiesced)

quiesces (present singular third-person)
quiescing (participle present)
quiesced (participle past)
quiesced (past)

From Latin quiēscō ("I rest, repose, become quiet").

(computing, transitive) To pause or reduce the activity of (a device or application), for example to prepare it for backups or other maintenance.


rootkit

(computer security) A set of software tools used by a third party to gain unauthorized access to a computer system and control the system while concealing itself from the user.


SSDD

(computing, of a diskette) Initialism of single-sided, double density.


speedy

speedy (third-person singular simple present speedies, present participle speedying, simple past and past participle speedied)

speedies (present singular third-person)
speedying (participle present)
speedied (participle past)
speedied (past)

From Middle English spedy, spedi, from Old English spēdiġ (“having good speed, lucky, prosperous; having means, wealthy, opulent, rich in material wealth; rich in, abounding in, abundant, plenteous, copious; powerful”), from Proto-Germanic *spōdigaz (“successful, hurried”), equivalent to speed + -y. Cognate with Scots spedie (“speedy”), Dutch spoedig (“speedy, swift, rapid, quick”), German sputig, spudig (“industrious, speedy”).

cog

The guy is *not* so obviously insignificant that speedying him is appropriate.

(transitive, Wikimedia jargon) To apply the speedy rule in an online community (often the deletion rule); to speedy delete.


thickness

en-noun

thickness (countable and uncountable, plural thicknesses)

mental acuity

antonym(s) of “property of being stupid”

From Middle English thikkenesse, thiknesse, from Old English þicnes (“thickness, viscosity, density, hardness; obscurity, cloud, darkness; thicket; depth, a thick body, anything thick or heavy”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwīnassī (“thickness”), equivalent to thick + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian tsjokkens (“thickness”), Old High German dickinessī, dikkinissi, diknissi (“thickness, density”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English crassitude (“thickness”) from Latin crassitūdō (“thickness”).

inh

(graph theory, countable) The minimum number of planar subgraphs which a given graph can decompose into.


NCSA

(US, computing) Initialism of National Center for Supercomputing Applications.


IDE

en-noun

IDE (countable and uncountable, plural IDEs)

(computing, countable) Initialism of integrated development environment.


openness

openness (usually uncountable, plural opennesses)

From Middle English *opennesse, from Old English openness (“openness, publicity”), equivalent to open + -ness. Cognate with Old High German offannussi (“disclosure, revelation, openness”).

cog

(computing, education) degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify in a shared environment with legal rights generally held in common and preventing proprietary restrictions on the right of others to continue viewing, using, modifying and sharing.


initialization

en-noun

initialization (countable and uncountable, plural initializations)

(programming) An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable

初始化

programming: assignment of initial value of variable


trojan

/ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/

/ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/

(computing) Malware that appears to perform or actually performs a desired task for a user while performing a harmful task without the user's knowledge or consent.


trojan

en-verb

trojan (third-person singular simple present trojans, present participle trojaning, simple past and past participle trojaned)

trojans (present singular third-person)
trojaning (participle present)
trojaned (participle past)
trojaned (past)

/ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/

/ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/

(computing, transitive) To infect (a system) with a trojan.


squawk

First attested in 1821. Unknown, but probably of imitative origin (compare dialectal Italian squacco (“small-crested heron”)).

The function-hiding code above, for instance, goes through a different (but widely used) compiler with nary a squawk.

2012, Scott Meyers, Effective C++ Digital Collection: 140 Ways to Improve Your Programming

(programming, informal) A warning message indicating a possible error.


squawk

squawk (third-person singular simple present squawks, present participle squawking, simple past and past participle squawked)

squawks (present singular third-person)
squawking (participle present)
squawked (participle past)
squawked (past)
squawk (infinitive)

That way, if you type = instead of ==, the compiler will squawk because you can't assign something to a constant.

You want the compiler to squawk if you try to instantiate for a type that doesn't implement IPrioritizable.

2013, Bill Sempf, Chuck Sphar, Stephen R. Davis, C# 5.0 All-in-One For Dummies

(programming, intransitive, informal) To produce a warning message, indicating a possible error.


trellis

From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”).

der

communication theory
communication theory

(computing theory, telecommunications) A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.


deviant

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

Alternative form: Deviant

In contrast to Flickr, deviantArt offers a broad range of user affordances, enabling both synchronous and asynchronous interpersonal and group communication, as well as networking with other deviants and the surveillance of the work of others (through the deviantWATCH affordance).

2014, Peter Mechant, Lieven De Marez, “Studying Web 2.0 Interactivity: A Research Framework and Two Case Studies”, in Cyber Behavior: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Information Science Reference, page 1709

While I myself have no problems as far as favoriting instead of commenting is concerned, since a lot of deviants are like this, I thought it was right to tell people how to comment correctly.

2009, Grekkikay, post on how to critique art; quoted in Linda Vigdor, “Constructing Learning through the Creative Evaluation of Visual Arts Production”, in Hiesun Cecilia Suhr, editor, Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture), New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, 2015, section “Creative Evaluation as Practiced in Three Critique Environments”, exhibit 2 (DeviantArt.com), pages 87–88

Our data stem from these DD’s and galleries of the corresponding deviants and were acquired directly from dA Headquarters.

2013 February 22, Alkim Almila Akdag Salah, Albert Ali Salah, “Flow of innovation in deviantArt: following artists on an online social network site”, in Mind & Society, volume 12, pages 137–149

Many deviants strongly criticized the sharing features as facilitating art theft (Herr-Stephenson & Perkel, 2008; Perkel, 2011).

2016, Brian Lee Jones, “Deviously Deviant: The Strange Tapestry that is deviantART.com”, in Barbara Guzzetti, Mellinee Lesley, editors, Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media (Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts), Information Science Reference, page 390

“Deviants continue to own their own works,” [Angelo] Sotira wrote. “In the future, there's a possibility Wix might provide opportunities for you to license your work — only if you want to — to more people around the world.”

2017 February 24, Natt Garun, “Wix has acquired DeviantArt, which may let artists license their work for the site builder”, in The Verge

(Internet) A member of the online art community DeviantArt.


Trojan

/ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/

/ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/

From old forms Troyan, Troian, Middle English Troiā̆n, from Old English Trōiān, from Latin Trōiānus, from Trōia (“Troy”) + -ānus, from Ancient Greek Τροίᾱ (Troíā).

Trójan

astronomical object residing at a Trojan point


Trojan

/ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/

/ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/

(programming) Of, or relating to, a certain type of malware.


NCR

numeric character reference
w:numeric character reference

(computing) Abbreviation of numeric character reference.


Trojan horse

Worse than what could be observed about the program was the fear that it might be a Trojan horse program -- apparently innocent, but carrying a string of code instructing the computer to carry out a specific damaging instruction at some later time.

1991, Katie Hafner, John Markoff, Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, revised edition, Simon and Schuster, pages 255–256

(computer security) A malicious program that is disguised as legitimate software.


Trojan horse

en-verb

Trojan horse (third-person singular simple present Trojan horses, present participle Trojan horsing, simple past and past participle Trojan horsed)

Trojan horses (present singular third-person)
Trojan horsing (participle present)
Trojan horsed (participle past)
Trojan horsed (past)

You will disarm a group or person that holds simplistic attitudes—about relationships, education, financial success, morality, business ethics, religion, raising children—by giving that group or person Trojan Horsed instructions seemingly about how to do something mundane and unrelated.

1999, Gary Hoffman, Glynis Hoffman, Adios, Strunk and White, 2nd edition, Huntington Beach, Calif.: Verve Press, page 180

But still, despite my initial shock at being expected to do a grownup job for my new grown-up salary, I was determined to keep the dream alive to some extent, by ticking a few of the sensible boxes while Trojan Horsing (yes, as a verb) some dot com fun in the back […]

2008, Paul Carr, Bringing Nothing to the Party: True Confessions of a New Media Whore, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 88

In its place arose a bilateral treaty that spelled out in basic terms that advances made in freedom of movement would be kept, under safeguards; free trade would be advanced bilaterally; goods imported from third countries would not be Trojan horsed; and countries would cooperate in areas of common interest.

2009, Lee Rotherham, Ten Years On: Britain without the European Union, page 88


killer app

(informal, computing) A killer application.


ARM

Advanced RISC Machine
w:ARM architecture

(computing) Initialism of Acorn RISC Machine or Advanced RISC Machine.


socket

From Middle English socket, soket, from Anglo-Norman soket (“spearhead”), diminutive of Old French soc (“plowshare”), from Vulgar Latin *soccus, a word borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (compare modern Welsh swch (“plowshare”)), literally "pig's snout", from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

套接字

computing interprocess communication channel

interprocess communication
interprocess communication

(computing) One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.

(computing) One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.


RAID

(computing) Acronym of Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks.


rasterize

rasterize (third-person singular simple present rasterizes, present participle rasterizing, simple past and past participle rasterized)

rasterizes (present singular third-person)
rasterizing (participle present)
rasterized (participle past)
rasterized (past)

(transitive, computing) To convert (an image) into a grid of points, such as a bitmap, for display or printing.


redundant array of independent disks

en-noun

redundant array of independent disks (plural redundant arrays of independent disks)

redundant arrays of independent disks (plural)

(computing) A system using multiple hard drives for the sharing or replication of data in order to increase data integrity, fault-tolerance or throughput.

pleonázousa systoichía anexártiton dískon

πλεονάζουσα συστοιχία ανεξάρτητων δίσκων


sector

Sector (Star Trek)
Sector (instrument)
sector

Coordinate term: block

(computer hardware) A fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium.

قِطَاع

fixed-sized unit of sequential data storage


scrollable

(computing) of text or images on a screen, that may be moved by the user to bring other parts of them into view


bitmap

Using the hardware blitter to move bitmaps from VRAM to VRAM is much faster than moving them from system memory to VRAM.

2002, André LaMothe, Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, page 315

(computing) A series of bits that represents a rasterized graphic image, each pixel being represented as a group of bits.


selector

The ID selector targets just one element per page, making it much more specific than a class selector that might target many.

2007, Craig Cook, David Schultz, Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML, Apress, page 28

The selector indicates the query expression to run over the DOM; the context indicates the portion of the DOM from which to run the query.

2009, Dino Esposito, Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX, Microsoft Press, page 140

(computing) A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style.

Phar Lap executables […] provide a protected-mode selector, 34h, that maps to the first megabyte of physical memory.

1990, Byte, volume 15, numbers 11-13, page 256

You will only have to be concerned with DPMI, selectors, and such, if you use Borland C++ in DOS.

1995, Lary L. Myers, Keith Weiskamp, Amazing 3-D games adventure set, page 235

(computing) A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory.

Coordinate term: URL

Gopher selector strings are more liberal in makeup than URLs and may contain any characters other than a tab, return, or linefeed.

1996, Kenneth H. Rosen, UNIX System V, Release 4: An Introduction, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, page 438

(Internet, historical) A text string transmitted to a Gopher server, identifying the resource to be retrieved.

селектор

text string identifying a Gopher resource to be retrieved


feeder

From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.

(video games, derogatory) A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.


rollover

rollover (countable and uncountable, plural rollovers)

(computing) A graphic element that changes its appearance when the cursor moves over it.

osoitettaessa muuttuva elementti

computing: a graphic element that changes its appearance when the cursor moves over it

(computing) A keyboard feature where each key is scanned independently, so that multiple simultaneous keypresses always register correctly.

samanaikaisten painallusten tunnistus

computing: a keyboard feature where each key is scanned independently, so that multiple simultaneous keypresses always register correctly


scroll bar

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A graphical widget in the form of a horizontal or vertical bar, on the edges of a personal computer screen, that is used to move scrollable text or images.


DPP

Pokémon Diamond, Pearl
w:Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum.


link farm

Coordinate term: content farm

(computing) A website containing many hyperlinks, especially one designed to increase the index ranking of other websites to search engines.


reverse engineering

afkykontwerp

The process of analyzing the construction and operation of a product in order to manufacture a similar one.

(computing) Such analysis of an executable or other system in order to recreate its workings.


AT

AT (countable and uncountable, plural ATs)

assistive technology
assistive technology#English

(software) Initialism of assistive technology.


DTP

With state-of-the-art DTP software, he designs an ad.

2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 238

desktop publishing
desktop publishing#English

(computer graphics) Initialism of desktop publishing.


broker

From Middle English broker, brokour, brocour, from Anglo-Norman brocour (“small trader”) (compare also abroker (“to act as a broker”)), from Old Dutch *brokere (“one who determines the usages of trade, manager”), from broke, bruyck, breuck (“use, usage, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkī (“use, custom”), from Proto-Germanic *brūkiz (“use, custom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to use, enjoy”), equivalent to brook + -er.
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Low German brukere (“a broker”), Danish bruger (“a broker, user, handler”), Swedish bruk (“use, custom, trade, business”), Old English broc (“use, profit, advantage, foredeal”). Compare also French brocanter (“to deal in second-hand goods”) from the same Germanic source. More at brook.

cog

(computing) An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.

välittäjä

computing: agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions


IS

information system
information system#English

(computing) Initialism of information system(s).


CIS

(medicine, software, acronym, initialism) Abbreviation of clinical information system.


directive

From Middle French directif. The noun senses are from French directive (feminine form of the adjective).

(programming) A construct in source code that indicates how it should be processed but is not necessarily part of the program to be run.


shininess

en-noun

shininess (usually uncountable, plural shininesses)

(computing) The coefficient of specular reflectivity associated with the surface of an object being displayed.


muffin

→ Chinese: 瑪芬／玛芬 (mǎfēn)

→ Danish: muffin

→ Esperanto: mafino

→ Finnish: muffini, muffinssi, muffinsi

→ French: muffin

→ German: Muffin

→ Japanese: マフィン (mafin)

→ Korean: 머핀 (meopin)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: muffins

→ Polish: muffin

→ Portuguese: muffin

→ Russian: ма́ффин (máffin)

→ Swedish: muffins

→ Yiddish: מאָפֿין (mofin)

From earlier moofin, of uncertain origin. Likely from Low German muffen, plural or possibly a diminutive of Low German muffe (“small cake”), both from Middle Low German muffe (“small pastry”). An alternative theory suggests a connection to Old French moflet (“tender, soft (bread)”).

der

The name/value pairs provided by the PersistenceService are similar to browser cookies. The Java Web Start implementation honors this legacy by naming the pairs "muffins."

2001, JNLP and Java Web Start, Sun Developer Network, Technical Articles and Tips, 30 May 2001

(computing) A mechanism used in the Java Network Launching Protocol analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine.


bot herd

So-called bot herds - networks of compromised PCs under the control of a malicious hacker - continue to be used as launch pads for other types of attack

2005 September 19, “Hackers target net call systems”, in BBC Online

(Internet, computer security) A large collection of compromised systems exploited for malicious purposes.


multipart

(computing) of computer printout that is printed in multiple copies on paper having two or four continuous sheets rolled together with interleaving carbon paper; after printing it is separated on a decollator


decollator

(computing) a machine that decollates (separates) the parts of multipart computer printout and discards the carbon paper


collator

(computing) A program or algorithm that collates.

(computing, historical) A machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards.


decollate

en-verb

decollate (third-person singular simple present decollates, present participle decollating, simple past and past participle decollated)

decollates (present singular third-person)
decollating (participle present)
decollated (participle past)
decollated (past)

(transitive, computing) To separate the copies of a multipart computer printout.


gfx

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of graphics.


SPD

en-noun

SPD (countable and uncountable, plural SPDs)

serial presence detect
w:serial presence detect

(computing) Initialism of serial presence detect.


JCR

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Java Content Repository


SIMM

(computer hardware) initialism of Single in-line memory module


collation

collation (countable and uncountable, plural collations)

From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō (“to bring together”). Not related to English collateral.

(databases) The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.


sleep mode

sleep mode (usually uncountable, plural sleep modes)

Coordinate term: hibernation (“a mode that completely powers off and restores from hard disk”)

random access memory
random access memory

(computing) the state of a computer system in which the drives and interfaces are switched off, and the only task running is monitoring external activity, particularly a key press which restores the system to its active state from the random access memory.


one-liner

(computing) A command or small program consisting of a single line of input.


smexily

en-adv

smexily (comparative more smexily, superlative most smexily)

more smexily (comparative)
most smexily (superlative)

(Internet, colloquial) sexily; in a sexy way


webinar

I just got an email invitation to a webinar on the value of primary sources.

Web conferences or Webinars are a great way to learn about products or subjects of interest.

2002, Ann Rockley, Managing Enterprise Content

Webinars are often painfully short on exposure to the actual product, devoting half of the typical one-hour length to an “expert” disserting on some lofty topic, another fifteen minutes to a fluffy presentation about the company and its strategic direction, and a scant five minutes to a quick demo.

2003, Francoise Tourniaire, Just Enough CRM

It's not that all women aren't interested in learning to download files or take Webinars, it's that their “why bother” factor may well kick in.

2003, Andrea Learned, quoted in Martha Barletta's Marketing to Women http://print.google.com/print?id=hQKnE5aIu5IC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&sig=0Xj5El2z1UkcFVD8xg5WN74mMZQ

Register today for our informative webinar and executive book offer.

2006, Selling Power, Volume 26, Issues 1-9, page 44

One other point: An impressive site design can never rescue poorly written copy, sloppy videos, or boring webinar recordings.

2011, Jon Wuebben, Content is Currency: Developing Powerful Content for Web and Mobile, page 28

Although there are many other tools that are available in a webinar tool, these are the ones you'll find yourself using most often.

2013, Kristin Kipp, Teaching on the Education Frontier, page 82

An interactive seminar conducted via Internet. Usually a live presentation, lecture or workshop that happens in real time, as users participate through text-based chat, voice, video, or file-sharing.


null pointer

(computing) A pointer that does not point to any data object.


TEA

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Initialism of The Elm Architecture.


MW

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of MediaWiki.


autodialer

(computing) malicious software, embedded in a website, that routes dial-up Internet connections to a different telephone number charged at a premium rate


SIMD

Coined by American computer scientist (*1934) Michael J. Flynn in 1966. See Flynn's taxonomy.

coin

single instruction, multiple data
w:single instruction, multiple data

(computing) Acronym of single instruction, multiple data.


all your base are belong to us

Mistranslation of Japanese 君達の基地は、全てCATSがいただいた (literally “we (CATS) have taken all of your bases”). This grammatically incorrect "Engrish" phrase originated in the English subtitles of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the 1989 Japanese arcade game Zero Wing and became a catchphrase/meme on the Internet in the early 2000s.

der

君達の基地は、全てCATSがいただいた

(Internet slang, humorous) Used to tout victory over an opponent, or simply as a humorous catchphrase.


elevate

en-verb

elevate (third-person singular simple present elevates, present participle elevating, simple past and past participle elevated)

elevates (present singular third-person)
elevating (participle present)
elevated (participle past)
elevated (past)

From Latin ēlevātus, past participle of ēlevāre (“to raise, lift up”), from ē- (“out”) + levāre (“to make light, to lift”), from levis (“light”); see levity and lever.

Did you forget that all programs that modify the registry need to be elevated?

(transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.

(computing) To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's request).


KBS

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

Knowledge-based systems
w:Knowledge-based systems

(artificial intelligence) Initialism of Knowledge-based systems.


embedding

word embeddings

“A major reason we chose to study word embeddings is that they have been spectacularly successful in the last few years in helping computers make sense of language,” said Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist at Princeton University and the paper’s senior author.

2017 April 13, Hannah Devlin, quoting Arvind Narayanan, “AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

(machine learning, artificial intelligence) A representation of a unit of text (such as a word or token) as a vector, which encodes the context in which it is used.

machine learning; artificial intelligence; machine learning; artificial intelligence


chrome

en-noun

chrome (usually uncountable, plural chromes)

So, just as a car might have shiny chrome trimming, a bumper, and a grill that cover the vehicle, so the chrome of an OS window surrounds and complements the window itself. Examples of chrome include the title bar, the Minimize/Maximize/Restore buttons, menu bars, and toolbars.

2009, Richard Wagner, Adobe AIR For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons

Similarly [to the chrome exterior of an automobile], in most modern GUIs, the chrome lives around the edges of the screen, surrounding the middle area, which is dedicated to the user's data.

2012 January 29, Jakob Nielsen, “Browser and GUI Chrome”, in Nielsen Norman Group homepage, Nielsen Norman Group, archived from the original on 2013-03-07

I had the idea of making our browser chrome match the actual hardware you were on. If your Mac’s bezel was Bondi blue, we’d make our UI Bondi blue.

2020 January 4, Jimmy Grewal, quoting Maf Vosburgh, “Internet Explorer 5 for Mac: twentieth anniversary”, in Jimmy's Blog, archived from the original on 2020-01-09

(graphical user interface) The basic structural elements used in a graphical user interface, such as window frames and scroll bars, as opposed to the content.


streamer

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

(computing) A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.

However, integration of a bandwidth estimation algorithm into an adaptive video streamer is not an easy task. Firstly, bandwidth estimation requires sending extra burst packets that brings a considerable overhead into the system.

2004, Cevdet Aykanat, Tugrul Dayar, Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004: 19th International Symposium, page 157

(networking) Any mechanism for streaming data.

Coordinate term: broadcaster

For starters, the business models for American broadcasters like NBC and streamers like Netflix (or Hulu, or Amazon) are drastically different.

2016 February 23, Jason Mittell, “Why Netflix Doesn’t Release Its Ratings”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2022-11-01

So where HBO used to boast that it was “not TV,” modern streamers send the message, “We’ll give you a whole lot of TV.”

2024 April 27, James Poniewozik, “The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.

Most streamers are on Twitch

There was perhaps no group of creators more prepared for the horrors of 2020 than streamers. Sitting in front of their cameras, often alone, talking for hours to the camera is what they do, and many are excellent at it.

2020 December 18, Taylor Lorenz, “In 2020, These Things Came Out on Top”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.


god-king

(derogatory, computing) A tyrannical maintainer of a collaborative project.


trapdoor

(computing) A secret method of obtaining access to a program or online system; a backdoor.

(mathematics, cryptography) The special information that permits the inverse of a trapdoor function to be easily computed.


trapdoor

en-verb

trapdoor (third-person singular simple present trapdoors, present participle trapdooring, simple past and past participle trapdoored)

trapdoors (present singular third-person)
trapdooring (participle present)
trapdoored (participle past)
trapdoored (past)

(cryptography, transitive) To subvert (a cryptographic scheme) by means of a secret parameter that makes the trapdoor function easy to compute.


isosynchronous

(computing) of a communications system in which the source and target are each synchronized but each transmission contains a start bit and a stop bit.


NFS

Network File System
w:Network File System

(computing) Initialism of Network File System.

(video games) Initialism of Need for Speed.


upgradability

(computing, of electronic equipment) Capability of being improved in functionality by the addition or replacement of components.


firewall

From fire + wall. Compare West Frisian brânmuorre, Dutch brandmuur, German Brandmauer, Feuermauer, Swedish brandvägg, brandmur, Icelandic eldvegg. The verb sense for using maximum power or acceleration comes from the engine's firewall being the limit of forward movement of the throttle controls on many simpler vehicles; thus, to get the maximum engine output, one would push the throttle levers or pedal all the way to the firewall.

(computer security) The software that monitors traffic in and out of a private network or a personal computer and allows or blocks such traffic depending on its perceived threat.


firewall

firewall (third-person singular simple present firewalls, present participle firewalling, simple past and past participle firewalled)

firewalls (present singular third-person)
firewalling (participle present)
firewalled (participle past)
firewalled (past)

(transitive, computer security) To protect with a firewall.

(transitive, computer security) To block with a firewall.


FURPS

(software engineering, mnemonic) Acronym of functionality, usability, reliability, performance, supportability Used to help remember the major requirements of software.


write once

(computing, computer hardware) Of a type of storage technology in which data, once written, cannot be erased or modified.


voxel

(computer graphics) The three-dimensional analogue of a pixel; a volume element representing some numerical quantity, such as the colour, of a point in three-dimensional space, used in the visualisation and analysis of three-dimensional (especially scientific and medical) data.


INTERCAL

programming language
programming language

(programming) A parody programming language created in 1972.


workgroup

/ˈwəːkɡɹuːp/

When you set up a network, Windows creates a workgroup and gives it a name automatically[…]

2008, Chris Fehily, Microsoft Windows Vista

(computing) A computer network created for use by such groups.

työryhmäverkko

a computer network created for use by such groups


search box

(computing) A text box for the input of text to be searched for in a database, on the Internet, etc.

søgefelt

computing: A text box for the input of text to be searched for in a database, on the Internet, etc.


fourth normal form

Boyce-Codd normal form
Boyce-Codd normal form

functional dependencies
functional dependencies

(databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in Boyce-Codd normal form and all multi-valued dependencies are functional dependencies.


first normal form

Abbreviation: 1NF

(databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which repeating groups and attributes have been eliminated by putting each into a separate table connected by a primary-key/foreign-key relationship.


third normal form

en-noun

third normal form (plural third normal forms)

(databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in second normal form and all non-key attributes are mutually independent (no transient dependencies.)


second normal form

second normal form (plural second normal forms)

(databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which it is in first normal form and every non-key attribute is dependent upon the entire primary key.


fifth normal form

(databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in fourth normal form and every join dependency is implied by the candidate keys.


Boyce-Codd normal form

Developed in 1974 by Raymond F. Boyce and Edgar F. Codd.

(databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in third normal form and all determinants are candidate keys.


XSLT

(computer languages, XML) Initialism of Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformations.


hierarchical database

hierarchical database (plural hierarchical databases)

(databases) A database whose records are linked in a tree-like structure, each child record having a single primary parent.


screenname

Women “absolutely love playing the victim” a man using the screenname michael2222 vehemently claims, asserting that women have taken a men’s issue, Incel, and made it about themselves (through the creation of femcels) because “they feel the need to be victimized by absolutely everything” (November 12, 2019).

2020, Lee Williams, "Inside the Incelosphere: Tracing the Origins and Navigating the Contradictions", thesis submitted to the University of Regina, pages 93-94

(computing) a string of characters used to identify a user of a bulletin board, e-mail etc.


LEO

Lyons Electronic Office
w:Lyons Electronic Office

Acronym of Lyons Electronic Office (an early British computer).


LEO

I got the impression he’d been in the military somewhere in his past. But then at least a third of all LEOs were estimated to be veterans.

2022, Ben Aaronovitch, Winter’s Gifts, Orion Fiction, page 62


relational database

relational database (plural relational databases)

From the use of relation to denote a set of ordered tuples, i.e. a table in the context of a relational database.

(databases) A database consisting of separate tables, having explicitly defined relationships, and whose elements may be selectively combined as the results of queries.


mapping

mapping (countable and uncountable, plural mappings)

(computing) Assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network.

mappage

computing: assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) conversion of data types between incompatible type systems.

映射

object-oriented programming: conversion of data types between incompatible type systems


bundler

(computing) One who bundles software, etc. with another product.


MS-DOS

In its MS-DOS, Version 6.22, Microsoft added a legally correct version of data compression and enhanced the operating system's safety features.

1994 August 29, John M. Goodman, “The DOS heavyweights go another round”, in InfoWorld, page 87

Initialism of Microsoft Disk Operating System, an operating system for IBM-compatible personal computers in the 1980s and 1990s, eventually succeeded by standalone versions of Microsoft Windows.


dumb terminal

(computing) A computer terminal consisting of a monitor (usually in monochrome) and keyboard, but (unlike a personal computer) having almost no processing capability, used to provide input to and receive output from a remote server, minicomputer, or mainframe.

啞終端

computer terminal consisting of a monitor and keyboard


converter

time stretch analog-to-digital converter

Coordinate term: unit convertor

units of measurement
unit of measurement

(computing) A program that converts one file format to another one, or which converts between different units of measurement, such as miles to meters.


normalization

normalization (countable and uncountable, plural normalizations)

[ˌnoː.məˌlɑɪˈzæɪ.ʃn̩]

(databases) In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.

atomization

separating data into an optimized relational data model


spaghetti code

The descriptive name for logically snarled program statements is spaghetti code, because the logic is as hard to follow as one noodle through a plate of spaghetti. Not only is spaghetti code confusing, but also the programs that contain it are prone to error, difficult to reuse, and hard to use as building blocks for larger applications.

2017, Joyce Farrell, Programming Logic & Design, Cengage Learning, page 88

(programming, derogatory, informal) Unstructured or poorly structured program source code; especially code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent.


ravioli code

(programming) Overly structured program source code, with many small sections, functions etc that should be combined.


wonky

en-adj

wonky (comparative wonkier, superlative wonkiest)

wonkier (comparative)
wonkiest (superlative)

From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).

inh

(informal, computing) Suffering from intermittent bugs.


antivirus

(computing) A piece of software that is used to detect, delete and or neutralize computer-based viruses.


bipartite

From Latin bipartītus (“bisected”), perfect passive participle of bipartiō (“I divide into two parts, bisect”).

(graph theory, of a graph) Having vertices that can be divided into two independent sets (see bigraph)


chomp

U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash”).

An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps.

The Timico engineering team has started to use the word chomp to represent two bytes or the 4 Hex character block in IPv6.

2011 March 22, Trefor Davies, “Bit Nibble Byte Chomp – a call to action”, in trefor.net

(computing, rare) A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.


chomp

en-verb

chomp (third-person singular simple present chomps, present participle chomping, simple past and past participle chomped)

chomps (present singular third-person)
chomping (participle present)
chomped (participle past)
chomped (past)

Coordinate term: chop

(computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).


convolution

en-noun

convolution (countable and uncountable, plural convolutions)

Borrowed from Latin convolutus (“to roll together”), past participle of convolvere, from con- + volvere (“to roll”), with the suffix -tion. Equivalent to convolute + -ion. The mathematical sense is a semantic calque from Faltung.

(computing) A function which maps a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples.


elevated

en-adj

elevated (comparative more elevated, superlative most elevated)

more elevated (comparative)
most elevated (superlative)

Install all the required tools from an elevated console.

(computing) Running with administrator rights.


circuit rider

circuit rider (Religious)
circuit rider (Technology)

(computing) A computer consultant who advises non-profit organizations.


cadence

en-noun

cadence (countable and uncountable, plural cadences)

Borrowed from Middle French cadence, from Old Italian cadenza (“conclusion of a phrase of music”), from Latin *cadentia (literally “a falling”), form of cadēns, the present participle of cadō (“I fall, I cease”). The Latin verb is inherited, via Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱad-e- (“to fall”, thematic present). Doublet of cadenza and chance.

závěr

(music) chord progression concluding a section or piece

In this third case, releasing more frequently, the PSI cadence becomes a planning cadence, rather than a release cadence.

2010 12, Dean Leffingwell, Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise, Addison-Wesley, page 317

We recommend aiming for a release cadence of no more than six months, with a goal of getting it down to three months or shorter.

2012, Scott Ambler, Mark Lines, Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise, IBM Press, page 227

This happens when the installation cadence in production is slower than the release cadence of the development teams.

2016 9, Jaokim Verona, Michael Duffy, Paul Swartout, Learning DevOps: Continuously Develop Better Software, Packt Publishing, page 47

(software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.


encoding

(computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.


file sharing

(computing) The process of making files available to others to download from the Internet.

(computing) The use of a file sharing network, or peer-to-peer software.


desktop

Laptops are often more expensive than desktops.

(computing) A personal computer, as opposed to computers for business or server purposes.

I installed a new application and it added its icon to my desktop.

Important menus, such as the root menu or Workspace menu, are "pinnable," which means that you can pin them up and keep them on your desktop […]

1994, Linda Mui, Valerie Quercia, X User Tools, page 312

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:desktop.

(computing, graphical user interface, synecdochically) The wallpaper of this interface.


desktop

desktop browser

(computing) Of an application or website, designed to be run or viewed on a personal computer.

asztali

computing: of an application or website, designed to be run or viewed on a personal computer


SSI

en-noun

SSI (countable and uncountable, plural SSIs)

Server Side Include
Server Side Include#English

(computing) Initialism of Server Side Include.


goto

Overall, experience in the two decades that followed the publication of Dijkstra's letter showed the folly of producing goto-laden code.

(computing) Alternative letter-case form of GOTO


meatball

→ Japanese: ミートボール

→ Korean: 미트볼 (miteubol)

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


(computing) Unicode Transformation Format-8, a variable-width encoding scheme for Unicode characters, using sequences of one to four one-byte (eight-bit) code units per character.


SVM

support vector machine
support vector machine#English

(machine learning) Initialism of support vector machine.


dotted

en-adj

dotted (comparative more dotted, superlative most dotted)

more dotted (comparative)
most dotted (superlative)

The dotted name java.util.Scanner is the fully qualified name of the Scanner class.

2012, Barry A. Burd, Michael Burton, Donn Felker, Java and Android Application Development For Dummies eBook Set


bonding

(networking) A method of aggregating multiple network interfaces on a computer into a single logical interface

bonding

method of aggregating computer network interfaces


softy

(computing, slang) A software expert who is ignorant of the workings of hardware.


MOTAS

Mystery of Time and Space
w:Mystery of Time and Space

(video games) Initialism of Mystery of Time and Space.


cascade

From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-.

Don't you hate cascades? I hate cascades!

1993, e.j.barker, “Disassociation”, in alt.slack (Usenet)

Spark a usenet cascade of no less than 300 replies.

1999, anonymous author, “CYBERLIAR SCAVENGER HUNT 1999”, in alt.test (Usenet)

Anyway. I didn't mean to say that everyone who posts URLs is bad and wrong and should lose their breathing privileges. Just that I was getting weary of look-at-this-link posts, sort of like some people get sick of cascades.

2004, swt, “ARRR!”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet)

(Internet) A sequence of absurd short messages posted to a newsgroup by different authors, each one responding to the most recent message and quoting the entire sequence to that point (with ever-increasing indentation).


stepping

en-noun

stepping (countable and uncountable, plural steppings)

From Middle English steppynge; equivalent to step + -ing.

The 80386's early steppings have quite a lot of bugs, so some software specifically tests to make sure that the processor isn't one of those old versions.

central processing unit
central processing unit

(computing) A specific iteration of a model of central processing unit, often distinguished by the addition or removal of features compared to earlier examples of the same processor, or the presence, or lack thereof, of specific bugs.


sealed

(object-oriented programming) Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.


DIP

DIP (countable and uncountable, plural DIPs)

dependency inversion principle
dependency inversion principle#English

(programming) Acronym of dependency inversion principle.


upload

en-verb

upload (third-person singular simple present uploads, present participle uploading, simple past and past participle uploaded)

uploads (present singular third-person)
uploading (participle present)
uploaded (participle past)
uploaded (past)

→ Chinese: 上載／上载 (calque)

→ Danish: uploade

→ Dutch: uploaden

→ German: uploaden; hochladen (calque)

desc

→ Greek: αναφορτώνω (anafortóno) (calque)

→ Icelandic: hlaða upp (calque)

→ Indonesian: aplod

→ Irish: uaslódáil, lódáil suas (calque)

→ Japanese: アップロード (appurōdo)

→ Malay: muat naik (calque)

→ Portuguese: upload

→ Scottish Gaelic: luchdaich a-nìos (calque)

→ Swedish: ladda upp (calque)

→ Welsh: llwytho i fyny (calque)

You will have to convert your photograph to a jpg format if you wish to upload it.

(transitive, intransitive, computing) To transfer data to a computer on a network, especially to a server on the Internet.


antiviral

(computing) Eliminating or inhibiting the action of a computer virus.


ARC

en-noun

ARC (countable and uncountable, plural ARCs)

Automatic Reference Counting
w:Automatic Reference Counting

(programming, uncountable) Acronym of Automatic Reference Counting.


ragged

en-adj

ragged (comparative more ragged, superlative most ragged)

more ragged (comparative)
most ragged (superlative)

From Middle English ragged, from North Germanic. Compare with Old Norse rǫgvaðr (“tufted”) and Norwegian ragget (“shaggy”).

a ragged hierarchy

a ragged array, consisting of a number of arrays of varying size

(computing) Of a data structure: having uneven levels.


prefab

(programming) A reusable object in a video game world.


/ˈfɔːɹəʊˌfɔː(ɹ)/

From the HTTP error status code 404, meaning Not Found, returned by a web server responding to a request for a URL at which no resource exists.

Bill was 404 all morning.

(computing, slang) Not found, especially of a web page on the Internet.


/ˈfɔːɹəʊˌfɔː(ɹ)/

Return 404s for all deleted pages. Some search engine marketers suggest redirecting old products to semantically related products instead of 404ing. This preserves link equity, whereas a 404 does not.

2007, Cristian Darie, Jaimie Sirovich, Professional Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET: A Developer's Guide to SEO, John Wiley & Sons, page 113

(computing) An error indicating that a web page could not be found.


en-verb

404 (third-person singular simple present 404s, present participle 404ing, simple past and past participle 404ed or 404'd)

/ˈfɔːɹəʊˌfɔː(ɹ)/

(computing) To return an error indicating that a web page could not be found.


semantic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σημαντικός (sēmantikós). Compare French sémantique.

(software design, of code) Reflecting intended structure and meaning.


hardened

en-adj

hardened (comparative more hardened, superlative most hardened)

more hardened (comparative)
most hardened (superlative)

a hardened air base

a hardened server

(computing, military) Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.


formalism

en-noun

formalism (countable and uncountable, plural formalisms)

/ˈfɔɹml̩ˌɪzm̩/

(computing) One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory.

Dirac approaches quantum mechanics by means of a so-called symbolic method, the bracket formalism. Although this formalism has a mathematical flavour, in fact, it is based upon bold claims which lack mathematical foundation.

1986, S. J. L. van Eijndhoven, J. de Graaf, A Mathematical Introduction to Dirac's Formalism, Elsevier (North-Holland), page ix

1992, tuart M. Shieber, Constraint-based Grammar Formalisms, The MIT Press, page 51,
It is this abstraction that justifies considering these methods as characterizing constraint-based formalisms in general, rather than an individual formalism.

(linguistics, computing, mathematics) A formal expression of a grammar; a formal grammar; a set of rules of syntax that, without reference to semantics, determine whether a sequence of symbols is a well-formed sentence in a given formal language.


gulp

From Middle English gulpen, probably from West Flemish or Middle Dutch gulpen, golpen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps of imitative origin, or related to Dutch galpen (“to roar, squeal”), English galp, gaup (“to gape”).
Related to German Low German gulpen (“to gush out, belch, gulp”), West Frisian gjalpe, gjalpje, gjealpje (“to gush, spurt forth”), Danish gulpe, gylpe (“to gulp up, disgorge”), dialectal Swedish glapa (“to gulp down”), Old English galpettan (“to gulp down, eat greedily, devour”). More at galp.

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

(rare, computing) An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.


casting

en-noun

casting (countable and uncountable, plural castings)

From Middle English castyng, castinge, equivalent to cast + -ing.

(programming) The act of converting between data types.


overflow

overflow (countable and uncountable, plural overflows)

/ˈəʊvəˌfləʊ/

/ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ/

From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, equivalent to over- + flow.

(computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.

přetečení

computing: situation where a value exceeds the available range


overflow

en-verb

overflow (third-person singular simple present overflows, present participle overflowing, simple past overflowed, past participle overflowed or (US, proscribed) overflown)

overflows (present singular third-person)
overflowing (participle present)
overflowed (past)
overflowed (participle past)
overflown (US participle past proscribed)

/ˈəʊvəˌfləʊ/

/ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ/

Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.

(intransitive) To exceed limits or capacity.

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range.

aiheuttaa ylivuoto

computing: to exceed the available numeric range


catfish

From the 2010 documentary Catfish, supposedly inspired by the practice of fishermen keeping cod active by storing them with catfish (see sense 1) which nip at their tails.

(Internet) Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.


catfish

catfish (third-person singular simple present catfishes, present participle catfishing, simple past and past participle catfished)

catfishes (present singular third-person)
catfishing (participle present)
catfished (participle past)
catfished (past)

Getting catfished is when someone falls for a person online who is not necessarily real. It can involve pictures, phone calls, social media profiles, text messages, e-mails and even phony friends or family members.

2013 January 17, Mary Pilon, “In Te’o Story, Deception Ripped From the Screen”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

[to Abed] You made a profile for a fake dude and lured her into an online relationship. [to Annie] He's catfishing you.

2014 January 16, 12:17 from the start, in Cooperative Polygraphy (Community), season 5, episode 4 (TV), spoken by Troy (Donald Glover), via NBC

(Internet, slang, transitive) To create and operate a fake online profile to deceive (someone).


access time

en-noun

access time (countable and uncountable, plural access times)

Random access files have a fast access time, but they cannot easily produce sequential lists.

1986, Roger R Flynn, An Introduction to Information Science

(computing) The time interval between the issuing of a request to read data from or write data to a storage device and the completion of this action.

atingotempo

time interval between requesting and completing

It is difficult to monitor both the access time and the change time, because monitoring the file attributes resets the access time […]

2005, Brian Wotring, Bruce Potter, Marcus J Ranum, Rainer Wichmann, Host Integrity Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain

(computing) An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed.


blahg

(Internet slang, derogatory) A dull, uninteresting weblog.


WASD

(computing) A set of four keys on a keyboard used as directions to control player characters in certain video games. (W, A, S and D represent up, left, down and right, respectively.)


cinematic

Is there a way to skip this long cinematic?

When you talk about writing in games, some designers think you're speaking only about cinematics. Of all the ways to evoke emotion, however, cinematics are the least game-like portion of any game.

2004, David Freeman, Creating Emotion in Games, New Riders, page 390


QWERTY

From the first six letters on one of the upper rows of such a keyboard.

It was the Monotype model D keyboard introduced in 1907 which became the standard for printers, with a "qwerty" typewriter lay and removable keybars which made the keyboard independent of the matrix case arrangement.

1978, Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E[lwood] Daily, editors, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, volumes 24 (Printers and Printing to Public Policy, Copyright), New York, N.Y., Basel: Marcel Dekker, page 109

The older children we came to know had had a great deal of experience with written language, and they certainly had a firm grasp of the alphabetic sequence. They were annoyed with the arrangement of letters on the typewriter keyboard, which begins at the second from the top row and proceeds left to right with the letters, "Q," "W," "E," "R," "T," and "Y." Computer professionals, who refer to this arrangement as the "QWERTY keyboard," have pointed out that, although it originated in order to avoid jam-ups of frequently used keys on the manual typewriter, the QWERTY arrangement is now completely obsolete but apparently here to stay. Third and fourth graders knew only that QWERTY had no logic that they could discern, and, until they developed basic keyboard familiarity, it greatly delayed their attempts at finding the keys they needed.

1991, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Cynthia L. Paris, Jessica L. Kahn, “Hunting, Pecking, and Checking: Learning to Write with Word Processing”, in Learning to Write Differently: Beginning Writers and Word Processing (Language and Educational Processes), Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing, page 137

[…] The Dvorak typewriter keyboard is, it has been claimed, ergonomically superior to the standard "Qwerty" arrangement. But having settled on the current standard keyboard, largely by historical accident, now manufacturers are supposedly reluctant to produce Dvorak keybboards so long as almost all typists are trained on Qwerty, while typists don't want to train on Dvorak when almost all keyboards are Qwerty. Even the inferior keyboard as a matched choice is superior to failing to coordinate at all.

1992, Jack Hirshleifer, John G. Riley, “Strategic Uncertainty and Equilibrium Concepts”, in The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information (Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2002, section 9.1 (Nash Equilibrium), page 330

The ‘QWERTY’ layout of keyboards is also a cause for concern. The design means that the fingers of the left hand (the less dominant hand for most Westerners) do 57 per cent of the work in typing English text. RSI symptoms are often found to be more intense in the left hand of keyboard users.

1993 September 11, John Ballard, “RSI on Trial: More People Suffering from Repetitive Strain Injury are Seeking Compensation in Court as Fresh Evidence Comes to Light about the Symptoms and Causes of this Crippling Disorder”, in New Scientist, London: New Scientist Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-13

The typewriter using separate characters on type bars striking on a cylinder soon dominated the market. Because adjacent striking bars tended to jam when struck rapidly, manufacturers abandoned the alphabetical placement of letters on the keyboard in favor of the left-to-right "qwerty" disposition that takes into account the frequency and sequence of letters in English.

1994, Henri-Jean Martin, “Beyond Writing”, in Lydia G. Cochrane, transl., The History and Power of Writing, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, page 465

(computing, typography) Denoting a standard layout of keys on a keyboard for typing, in which the leftmost keys of the top lettered row are Q-W-E-R-T-Y.

Christopher Latham Sholes
Henry Holt and Company

كويرتي

denoting a standard layout of keys on a keyboard for typing


Julia

From Latin Iūlia, feminine form of the Roman gens name Iūlius. Further popularized by early Christian saints. Doublet of Julie.

89 Julia
Julia
Julia (programming language)

And then came Julia, a general purpose programming language designed according to the requirements of scientific and technical computing, providing performance comparable to C/C++, and with an environment productive enough for prototyping like the high-level dynamic language of Python.

2016, Anshul Joshi, Julia for Data Science, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 8

scientific computing
scientific computing

(computer languages) A programming language suited for numerical analysis and scientific computing.


shoot 'em up

My wife won't watch this movie; it's a shoot ’em up.

The arcaders have it easy. All they need to do is drop a quarter into a machine to find out how good the latest shoot 'em up game really is. But for the home computer owner, it's another story.

1983 August, Popular Mechanics, volume 160, number 2, page 88

An unmissable shoot 'em up.

1989, Duncan Macdonald, R-Type (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 37, January 1989

(idiomatic, film, television, literature, video games) A piece of media which depicts considerable gunplay.


time scale

(computer science) The ratio of the duration of time of an event as simulated by an analog computer to the actual duration of time of the event in the physical system under study.


suffix tree

(computing) (of a string) a radix tree containing all suffixes of the string


boink

(computing, slang) A real-world social gathering of computer users.


SWIM

SWIM would like to know how to grow marijuana.

(Internet) Someone who isn't me; someone who isn't myself


WSS

(computing) Initialism of Web Security Service.

(computing) Initialism of Windows Search Service.

Windows Server System
w:Windows Server System

(computing) Initialism of Windows Server System.

(computing) Windows SharePoint Services, former name of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation

Windows Storage Server
w:Windows Storage Server

(computing) Initialism of Windows Storage Server.

Windows Sound System
w:Windows Sound System

(computing) Initialism of Windows Sound System.

(computing) Initialism of WS-Security. (meaning Web Services Security)


emacs

(computing) Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.


navigate

en-verb

navigate (third-person singular simple present navigates, present participle navigating, simple past and past participle navigated)

navigates (present singular third-person)
navigating (participle present)
navigated (participle past)
navigated (past)

From Middle English navigate, from Latin nāvigō, from nāvis (“ship”) + agō (“do”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”).

It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.

(transitive, computing) To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.


descending

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

تَنَازُلِيّ

ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element

We used a descending sort.

Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element. (of a sequence)

(computing) Causing a sequence to follow a descending order.

تَنَازُلِيّ

causing a sequence to follow an descending order


airdrop

But Facebook is also likely to carry out what’s known in cryptocurrency circles as an “air drop”, handing out small amounts of currency for free in an effort to kickstart the ecosystem.]

[2019 June 18, Kari Paul, “What is Libra? All you need to know about Facebook's new cryptocurrency”, in The Guardian

(cryptocurrencies) The distribution of free tokens to help bootstrap a new cryptocurrency.


airdrop

airdrop (third-person singular simple present airdrops, present participle airdropping, simple past and past participle airdropped)

airdrops (present singular third-person)
airdropping (participle present)
airdropped (participle past)
airdropped (past)

(cryptocurrencies) To distribute free tokens to help bootstrap a new cryptocurrency.


doco

From documentary + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

- Can you use asterisks in a filename?
- I don't know. Check the doco.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of documentation.


evict

evict (third-person singular simple present evicts, present participle evicting, simple past and past participle evicted)

evicts (present singular third-person)
evicting (participle present)
evicted (participle past)
evicted (past)

From Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.

(computing, transitive) To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.


bitty box

(computing, derogatory, informal) A computer of limited memory and computing power.


postcardware

(computing) A software product whose author requests as payment a postcard from the user's hometown.


SSB

en-noun

SSB (countable and uncountable, plural SSBs)

To get a bit technical for a moment, the specific feature that Mozilla abandoned is called “site-specific browsers,” or SSBs.

2021 January 26, Jared Newman, “Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web”, in Fast Company

site-specific browser
w:site-specific browser

(Internet) Initialism of site-specific browser.

(databases) Initialism of star schema benchmark.


SSB

Super Smash Brothers
w:Super Smash Brothers

(video games) Initialism of Super Smash Brothers.


responsive

en-adj

responsive (comparative more responsive, superlative most responsive)

more responsive (comparative)
most responsive (superlative)

From Middle French responsif, from Late Latin responsivus.

Now, let's briefly explore two different approaches for creating sites for a multiple audience: multiserving and responsive design.

2012, Dino Esposito, Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise

(graphical user interface) automatically resizing and repositioning elements to fit the available space


OSS

OSSes (plural)
OSS's (plural)
OSSs (plural)

(computing) Initialism of open-source software


ascending

We used an ascending sort.

Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (of a sequence)

(computing) That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.

تَصَاعُدِيّ

computing: that causes a sequence to follow an ascending order


Peggy

Coordinate term: Victor

(cryptography) Placeholder name for the party that supplies a proof.


casing

The replacement string should have the same casing as the matched text.

(uncountable, computing) The state of letter case across a whole phrase or whole lines of text; the collective state/arrangement of uppercase and lowercase letters.


road map

→ French: roadmap

→ German: Roadmap

CPU speeds continue to increase with no end in sight. For instance, Sun's UltraSPARC processor roadmap, shown in Figure 16-2, show CPU speed increasing from 143 MHz in 1995 to 1.5 Ghz in 2002, roughly doubling every year as predicted by Moore's Law.

1999, Marc Hamilton, Software Development: Building Reliable Systems, Prentice Hall Professional, page 236

In the software business, a product roadmap gives an overview how a product is going to develop over the strategic timeframe of up to 5 years in terms of new releases or versions, their schedules and major themes.

2008, Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Peter N. Clough, Software Product Management and Pricing, Springer Science & Business Media, page 77

(originally computing, computer hardware) A structured representation of objects to display a development plan, used in business for strategic planning and communications.


EFF

(Internet, electronics, politics) Initialism of Electronic Frontier Foundation.


multibyte

The computer stored the number in a multibyte location: it took 32 bits or four entire bytes to store so large a value.

(computing) Contained in more than one byte.


outliner

(computing) A software system for organizing text into a hierarchy.


little-endian

Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian.

1999, W. Curtis Preston, Unix Backup and Recovery, O'Reilly Media, page 132

most significant byte
most significant byte

least significant byte
least significant byte

(computing) Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a higher address than the least significant byte; that is, "little end" first.


GBC

Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation
w:Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation

Initialism of Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation.


GBC

(video games) Initialism of Game Boy Color.


hork

en-verb

hork (third-person singular simple present horks, present participle horking, simple past and past participle horked)

horks (present singular third-person)
horking (participle present)
horked (participle past)
horked (past)

Onomatopoeia or imitative. For “cough up” sense, compare hawk/hock (16th century), which are almost homophonous in non-rhotic accents. For “throw” sense, compare huck. The “foul up” sense is presumably influenced by bork (late 1990s), from broken. The “steal” sense may be related to hook, which has the same slang meaning.

I downloaded the program, but something is horked and it won't load.

(computing, slang) To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.


HT

en-noun

HT (countable and uncountable, plural HTs)

(computing) Initialism of hyperthreading.


IDS

intrusion detection system
w:intrusion detection system

(computing) Initialism of intrusion detection system.


big-endian

pezkomenca

computing: storing the most significant byte at a lower address

(computing) Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a lower address than the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.

The network octet order for all protocols in the TCP/IP protocol suite is big-endian. A big-endian computer system need not perform any conversion in building TCP/IP protocol headers from integers stored in its memory.

1994, James Martin, Joe Leben, TCP/IP Networking: Architecture, Administration, and Programming, Prentice Hall, page 203

(networking) Transmitting the most significant byte of a multibyte number before transmitting the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.


SFC

System File Checker
w:System File Checker

(computing) Initialism of System File Checker.

(video games) Initialism of Super Famicom.


TST

TST (countable and uncountable, plural TSTs)

ternary search tree
w:ternary search tree

(computer science) Initialism of ternary search tree: a type of trie.