"homeserver" meaning in English

See homeserver in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: homeservers [plural]
Etymology: Compound of home + server. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Compound}} Compound, {{com|en|home|server||||||||alt1=|alt10=|alt2=|alt3=|alt4=|alt5=|alt6=|alt7=|alt8=|alt9=|g1=|g10=|g2=|g3=|g4=|g5=|g6=|g7=|g8=|g9=|id1=|id10=|id2=|id3=|id4=|id5=|id6=|id7=|id8=|id9=|lang1=|lang10=|lang2=|lang3=|lang4=|lang5=|lang6=|lang7=|lang8=|lang9=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|pos1=|pos10=|pos2=|pos3=|pos4=|pos5=|pos6=|pos7=|pos8=|pos9=|t1=|t10=|t2=|t3=|t4=|t5=|t6=|t7=|t8=|t9=|tr1=|tr10=|tr2=|tr3=|tr4=|tr5=|tr6=|tr7=|tr8=|tr9=}} home + server, {{com+|en|home|server}} Compound of home + server Head templates: {{en-noun}} homeserver (plural homeservers)
  1. (computing) A server that facilitates communication using the Matrix protocol. Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-homeserver-en-noun-8sxlMoov Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for homeserver meaning in English (3.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Compound"
      },
      "expansion": "Compound",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "10": "",
        "2": "home",
        "3": "server",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "alt1": "",
        "alt10": "",
        "alt2": "",
        "alt3": "",
        "alt4": "",
        "alt5": "",
        "alt6": "",
        "alt7": "",
        "alt8": "",
        "alt9": "",
        "g1": "",
        "g10": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "g4": "",
        "g5": "",
        "g6": "",
        "g7": "",
        "g8": "",
        "g9": "",
        "id1": "",
        "id10": "",
        "id2": "",
        "id3": "",
        "id4": "",
        "id5": "",
        "id6": "",
        "id7": "",
        "id8": "",
        "id9": "",
        "lang1": "",
        "lang10": "",
        "lang2": "",
        "lang3": "",
        "lang4": "",
        "lang5": "",
        "lang6": "",
        "lang7": "",
        "lang8": "",
        "lang9": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "pos1": "",
        "pos10": "",
        "pos2": "",
        "pos3": "",
        "pos4": "",
        "pos5": "",
        "pos6": "",
        "pos7": "",
        "pos8": "",
        "pos9": "",
        "t1": "",
        "t10": "",
        "t2": "",
        "t3": "",
        "t4": "",
        "t5": "",
        "t6": "",
        "t7": "",
        "t8": "",
        "t9": "",
        "tr1": "",
        "tr10": "",
        "tr2": "",
        "tr3": "",
        "tr4": "",
        "tr5": "",
        "tr6": "",
        "tr7": "",
        "tr8": "",
        "tr9": ""
      },
      "expansion": "home + server",
      "name": "com"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "home",
        "3": "server"
      },
      "expansion": "Compound of home + server",
      "name": "com+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Compound of home + server.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "homeservers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "homeserver (plural homeservers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 12, Charlie Osborne, “Matrix.org hack forces servers offline, encrypted chat history lost”, in ZDNET, archived from the original on 2023-03-31",
          "text": "The disruption has caused hours of ongoing downtime, in which Matrix.org said the organization had run into issues \"rebuilding production from scratch.\" Websites, databases, synapse, LBs, and media repositories were all impacted. Modular.im homeservers, however, are unscathed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 July 15, Richard Speed, “60 million in the Matrix as users seek decentralized messaging”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2023-06-03",
          "text": "That figure is therefore the total number of addressable users visible to the matrix.org homeserver, but doesn't include servers or users not viewable on the public network or those that don't report usage stats.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 28, Dan Goodin, “Serious vulnerabilities in Matrix's end-to-end encryption have been patched”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 2023-05-27",
          "text": "The first two attacks provide a simple confidentiality break by exploiting the homeserver's control over the users and devices that are permitted to join a private room.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A server that facilitates communication using the Matrix protocol."
      ],
      "id": "en-homeserver-en-noun-8sxlMoov",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "server",
          "server#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A server that facilitates communication using the Matrix protocol."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "homeserver"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Compound"
      },
      "expansion": "Compound",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "10": "",
        "2": "home",
        "3": "server",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "alt1": "",
        "alt10": "",
        "alt2": "",
        "alt3": "",
        "alt4": "",
        "alt5": "",
        "alt6": "",
        "alt7": "",
        "alt8": "",
        "alt9": "",
        "g1": "",
        "g10": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "g4": "",
        "g5": "",
        "g6": "",
        "g7": "",
        "g8": "",
        "g9": "",
        "id1": "",
        "id10": "",
        "id2": "",
        "id3": "",
        "id4": "",
        "id5": "",
        "id6": "",
        "id7": "",
        "id8": "",
        "id9": "",
        "lang1": "",
        "lang10": "",
        "lang2": "",
        "lang3": "",
        "lang4": "",
        "lang5": "",
        "lang6": "",
        "lang7": "",
        "lang8": "",
        "lang9": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "pos1": "",
        "pos10": "",
        "pos2": "",
        "pos3": "",
        "pos4": "",
        "pos5": "",
        "pos6": "",
        "pos7": "",
        "pos8": "",
        "pos9": "",
        "t1": "",
        "t10": "",
        "t2": "",
        "t3": "",
        "t4": "",
        "t5": "",
        "t6": "",
        "t7": "",
        "t8": "",
        "t9": "",
        "tr1": "",
        "tr10": "",
        "tr2": "",
        "tr3": "",
        "tr4": "",
        "tr5": "",
        "tr6": "",
        "tr7": "",
        "tr8": "",
        "tr9": ""
      },
      "expansion": "home + server",
      "name": "com"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "home",
        "3": "server"
      },
      "expansion": "Compound of home + server",
      "name": "com+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Compound of home + server.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "homeservers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "homeserver (plural homeservers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 12, Charlie Osborne, “Matrix.org hack forces servers offline, encrypted chat history lost”, in ZDNET, archived from the original on 2023-03-31",
          "text": "The disruption has caused hours of ongoing downtime, in which Matrix.org said the organization had run into issues \"rebuilding production from scratch.\" Websites, databases, synapse, LBs, and media repositories were all impacted. Modular.im homeservers, however, are unscathed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 July 15, Richard Speed, “60 million in the Matrix as users seek decentralized messaging”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2023-06-03",
          "text": "That figure is therefore the total number of addressable users visible to the matrix.org homeserver, but doesn't include servers or users not viewable on the public network or those that don't report usage stats.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 28, Dan Goodin, “Serious vulnerabilities in Matrix's end-to-end encryption have been patched”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 2023-05-27",
          "text": "The first two attacks provide a simple confidentiality break by exploiting the homeserver's control over the users and devices that are permitted to join a private room.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A server that facilitates communication using the Matrix protocol."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "server",
          "server#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A server that facilitates communication using the Matrix protocol."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "homeserver"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (384852d and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.