code

en-noun

code (countable and uncountable, plural codes)

desctree

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

→ Japanese: コード (kōdo)

→ Korean: 코드 (kodeu)

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

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

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

I wrote some code to reformat text documents.

This HTML code may be placed on your web page.

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


code

en-verb

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

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

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

We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.


virtual

/ˈvɜːt͡ʃʊəl/

/ˈvɜɹt͡ʃuəl/

/ˈvɵːt͡ʃuəl/

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

der

a virtual assistant    a virtual personal trainer

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

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

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

etä-

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

virtual machine virtual memory virtual private network

The virtual world of his computer game allowed character interaction.

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

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

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

virtual

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


virtual

en-noun

virtual (countable and uncountable, plural virtuals)

/ˈvɜːt͡ʃʊəl/

/ˈvɜɹt͡ʃuəl/

/ˈvɵːt͡ʃuəl/

näennäinen

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

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


carry

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

der

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

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

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


farm

→ Dutch: farm

→ Finnish: farmi

→ German: Farm

→ Portuguese: farme, farma

→ Yiddish: פֿאַרם (farm)

→ Spanish: farmear

→ Thai: ฟาร์ม (faam)

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

cog

a render farm

a server farm

(computing) A group of coordinated servers.


request

→ Japanese: リクエスト (rikuesuto)

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

der

The server returned a 404 error to the HTTP request.

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


preferences

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

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

ayar

user-specified settings of parameters in computer software


random

en-adj

random (comparative more random, superlative most random)

more random (comparative)
most random (superlative)

→ German: random

→ Hungarian: random

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

cog

The rand function generates a random number from a seed.

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


reference

en-noun

reference (countable and uncountable, plural references)

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

verwysing

academic writing: identification of a source

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

отправка

computing: object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere

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

kromnomo

programming: special sequence used to represent complex characters


reference

en-verb

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

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

The given pointer will reference the actual generated data.

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

viitata

to contain the memory address of another value


form

en-noun

form (countable and uncountable, plural forms)

→ Korean: 폼 (pom)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: form

From Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreement, etc.”), borrowed from Old French forme, from Latin fōrma (“shape, figure, image, outline, plan, mold, frame, case, etc., manner, sort, kind, etc.”).
In sense "division grouping school students" (now dated), derived from public school nomenclature later adopted by state schools. It is sometimes said to be from the sense of "bench", where students of certain ages would sit together, though this is disputed, or alternatively from the sense of "established method of expression or practice".

der

imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

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

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

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

(computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.


potato

en-noun

potato (countable and uncountable, plural potatoes)

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).

When most people refer to their computers as a potato they're being hyperbolic, but not Ethan. He plays Overwatch at 800x600 resolution with all settings on low and is excited when he gets 30 fps.

2017 March 17, Steven Messner, “Overwatch community donates PC parts to fan who could barely run it at 800x600”, in PC Gamer:

If you want to have a go right now, then Famitracker will let you compose songs for the NES and it'll run on a Windows-operated potato.

2019 September 22, Benjamin Burns, “Meet the people making music with Mega Drives, Game Boys and gAtaris”, in Eurogamer:

Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.

(humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.


history

history (countable and uncountable, plural histories)

Pitcairn-Norfolk: histrei

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

der

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

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

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

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

geskiedenis

computing: record of previous user events


flip-flop

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

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

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

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

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


guest

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

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


concatenate

en-verb

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

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

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

uder

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

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


service

en-noun

service (countable and uncountable, plural services)

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

This machine provides the name service for the LAN.

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

服務 /服务

computing: function provided by one program or machine for another


reliable

en-adj

reliable (comparative more reliable, superlative most reliable)

more reliable (comparative)
most reliable (superlative)

/ɹɪˈlaɪəbəl/

(signal processing, of a communication protocol) Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't


trust

en-noun

trust (countable and uncountable, plural trusts)

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

cog

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


BBS

en-noun

BBS (countable and uncountable, plural BBSes or BBSs)

(computing) Initialism of BIOS boot sequence.

(computing) Initialism of BIOS boot specification.


hawk

Sranan Tongo: aka

From Middle English hauk, hauke, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc (“hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *habuk, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, controversially derived from a Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos, perhaps ultimately derived from *keh₂p- (“seize”).
See also West Frisian hauk, German Low German Haavke, Dutch havik, German Habicht, Swedish hök, Danish høg, Norwegian Bokmål hauk, Norwegian Nynorsk hauk, Faroese heykur, Icelandic haukur, Finnish haukka, Estonian haugas; also Latin capys, capus (“bird of prey”), Albanian gabonjë, shkabë (“eagle”), Russian ко́бец (kóbec, “falcon”), Polish kobuz (“Eurasian Hobby”)).

(game theory) An uncooperative or purely selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the prisoner's dilemma, a.k.a. the Hawk-Dove game.


ADO

ActiveX Data Objects
w:ActiveX Data Objects

(computing) Initialism of ActiveX Data Objects.


AGP

AGP (countable and uncountable, plural AGPs)

accelerated graphics port
accelerated graphics port#English

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


ASCII art

Japanese: AA (AA)

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

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


roman

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


double

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

The sine function returns a double.

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


UV

UV (countable and uncountable, plural UVs)

UV mapping; UV coordinates; UV texturing

(computer graphics, attributive) The axes of a two-dimensional texture, as opposed to those (X, Y, Z) of the three-dimensional model to which it is applied.


UAE

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


UAE

(computing) Initialism of Unix Amiga emulator.


pretty

en-adj

pretty (comparative prettier, superlative prettiest)

prettier (comparative)
prettiest (superlative)

desc

→ Japanese: プリティー (puritī), プリティ (puriti), プリチー (purichī)

From Middle English prety, preti, praty, prati, from Old English prættiġ (“tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattug, from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”), corresponding to prat (“trick”) + -y. Doublet of pratty.
Cognate with Dutch prettig (“nice, pleasant”), Low German prettig (“funny”), Icelandic prettugur (“deceitful, tricky”). For the semantic development, compare canny, clever, cute.

cog

(programming, of code) Matching commonly accepted principles of formatting and syntax, for the sake of readability.


manifold

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

cog

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


include

en-verb

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

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

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

der

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

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


include

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

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

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


evergreen

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

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

(often figuratively) Continually fresh or self-renewing.

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


ghost

en-noun

ghost (countable and uncountable, plural ghosts)

→ Japanese: ゴースト (gōsuto)

Inherited from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst (which was the word for “spirit” as well as “ghost”; the original sense survives in Modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, derived from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”).
The ⟨h⟩ in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton's Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the ‘Holy Ghoost’, likely introduced by Caxton's assistant, Wynkyn de Worde, as a result of Flemish influence, where it was spelled gheest at the time. Doublet of geist.

(computing) An image of a file or hard disk.

彁 is a ghost character from the Japanese JIS X 0208 character set.

(attributive, linguistics, computing) A formerly nonexistent character that was at some point mistakenly encoded into a character set standard, which might have since become used opportunistically for some genuine purpose.


ghost

en-verb

ghost (third-person singular simple present ghosts, present participle ghosting, simple past and past participle ghosted)

ghosts (present singular third-person)
ghosting (participle present)
ghosted (participle past)
ghosted (past)

(computing) To copy a file or hard drive image.

ghostol

computing: to copy a file or hard drive image — see also copy

Whenever a menu or menu item is inappropriate or unavailable for selection, it should be ghosted. Never allow the user to select something that does nothing in response.

1991, Amiga User Interface Style Guide, page 76:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.

kiszürkít

graphical user interface: to gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable — see also gray out


informatics

[ˌɪnfɚˈmæɾɪks]

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

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


pool

→ German: Pool

→ Japanese: プール (pūru)

→ Swedish: pool c

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

cog

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

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

varanto

computing: set of resources kept ready to use


lexeme

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -eme, a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure, on the model of phoneme.

Near-synonym: token

en:token or similar entity, in computing

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

詞素 /词素

computing: continuous character sequence without spaces


lexical

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

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


log

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

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

日誌 /日志

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


paginate

en-verb

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

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

From Medieval Latin paginare, from Latin pagina.

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


pagination

en-noun

pagination (countable and uncountable, plural paginations)

/ˌpæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/

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

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


recent

Borrowed from Latin recēns (genitive recentis).

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

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

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


RPG

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


leaf

leaf (countable and uncountable, plural leaves)

Tok Pisin: lip

From Middle English leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (“leaf, rind”)
See also West Frisian leaf, Low German Loov, Dutch loof, German Laub, Danish løv, Swedish löv, Norwegian Nynorsk lauv, Icelandic lauf; also Irish luibh (“herb”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Lithuanian lúoba (“bark”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Latvian luba (“plank, board”), Russian луб (lub, “bast”).
(Internet slang: Canadian): In reference to the maple leaf as national symbol.

flat-leaf parsley

Petroselinum crispum neapolitanum group; syn. Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum

The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed:

(computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.

blad

computing, mathematics: tree node without descendants


trunk

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

der

the apple does not fall far from the trunk

software engineering
software engineering

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


label

→ Danish: label

→ Dutch: label

→ French: label

desctree

→ Japanese: ラベル (raberu)
→ Korean: 라벨 (rabel)

→ Korean: 레이블 (reibeul)

→ Malay: label

→ Polish: label

→ Welsh: label

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

cog

Storage devices can be given by label or ID.

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

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

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


local

en-adj

local (comparative more local, superlative most local)

more local (comparative)
most local (superlative)

From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”).
The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior.

der

local disk drive

local file

The panel shows both local and remote sites.

(computing, of a resource) Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.

(computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.


local

Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.

Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereas locals are visible only in the function in which they're declared.

2012, Cesar Otero, Rob Larsen, Professional jQuery, page 25:

(programming) A locally scoped identifier.


curry

en-verb

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

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

Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.

named-after

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

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

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

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

(transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.


defunct

en-adj

defunct (comparative more defunct, superlative most defunct)

more defunct (comparative)
most defunct (superlative)

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

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


rope

en-noun

rope (countable and uncountable, plural ropes)

→ Irish: rópa

Tok Pisin: rop

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

der

give him enough rope and he'll hang himself

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

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


system

en-noun

system (countable and uncountable, plural systems)

→ Japanese: システム (shisutemu)

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

sisteem

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

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

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

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

系統 /系统

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


eater

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


focus

en-noun

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

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

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

bor+

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

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


focus

en-verb

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

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

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

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

kohdistaa

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


stratum

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

bor

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

2006, Roderick W. Smith, Linux Samba Server Administration:

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


synthesis

en-noun

synthesis (countable and uncountable, plural syntheses)

From Latin synthesis, from Ancient Greek σύνθεσις (súnthesis, “a putting together; composition”), from συντίθημι (suntíthēmi, “put together, combine”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “set, place”). Doublet of sandhi.

der

(signal processing) Creation of a complex waveform by summation of simpler waveforms.


thesis

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

der

Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.

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


pattern

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

skemo

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

There were no files matching the pattern *.txt.

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

(software engineering, in compounds) A design pattern.

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

2008, Karen Collins, Game Sound, page 59:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


table

→ Assamese: টেবুল (tebul)

→ Bengali: টেবিল (ṭebil)

→ Gujarati: ટેબલ (ṭebal)

→ Japanese: テーブル (tēburu)

→ Korean: 테이블 (teibeul)

→ Maori: tēpu

→ Nepali: टेबुल (ṭebul)

→ Odia: ଟେବଲ୍ (ṭebal)

→ Sylheti: ꠐꠦꠛꠥꠟ (ṭebul)

→ Telugu: టేబులు (ṭēbulu)

From Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavla.

der

(computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.


trailer

→ Armenian: թրեյլեր (tʻreyler)

→ Estonian: treiler

→ Finnish: traileri

→ Galician: tráiler

→ Greek: τρέιλερ (tréiler)

→ Japanese: トレーラー (torērā)

→ Portuguese: trailer

→ Romanian: treiler

→ Russian: тре́йлер (tréjler)

→ Spanish: tráiler

→ Swahili: trela

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

תווית סוף

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

The linked list terminates with a trailer record.

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

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

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

aanhangwagen

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


collapse

en-verb

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

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

From Latin collāpsus (past participle of collābor).

(transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to hide the subentries of (an entry).

plegar

computing: to hide additional directory (folder) levels


envelope

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

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

kirjekuori

computing: routing information of an email


abend

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

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

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

(computing) The abnormal termination of a program.


abend

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

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

The nightly invoicing job abended at 3 a.m.


lex

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

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

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

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

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

2004, Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis:

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

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

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


heuristic

en-adj

heuristic (comparative more heuristic, superlative most heuristic)

more heuristic (comparative)
most heuristic (superlative)

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

إرشادي

relating to general strategies or methods for solving problems

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

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

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

ευρετικός

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


heuristic

(computing) A heuristic algorithm or method.


suitcase

→ Japanese: スーツケース (sūtsukēsu)

→ Korean: 슈트케이스 (syuteukeiseu)

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


empty

en-adj

empty (comparative emptier, superlative emptiest)

emptier (comparative)
emptiest (superlative)

From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”). Related to Old English ġeǣmtigian (“to empty”), ǣmetta (“leisure”), mōtan (“can, to be allowed”). More at mote, meet.
The interconsonantal excrescent p is a euphonic insertion dating from Middle English.

der

(computing, programming, mathematics) Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).


job

→ Antillean Creole: djòb

→ French: job

→ Louisiana Creole: djòb

From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.

(computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).

зада́ча

computing: task(s) carried out in batch mode


entity

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

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

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

資料物件 /资料物件

computing: anything about which data can be stored


estate

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

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

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

information technology
information technology

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


guard

From Middle English garde, from early Middle French or late Old French guarde (“a guardian, warden, keeper”) (whence modern French garde), from the verb guarder. Doublet of garda, which is from Irish.

(programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.


dragon

→ Fijian: drekoni

→ Japanese: ドラゴン (doragon)

desc

→ Korean: 드래곤 (deuraegon), 드래건 (deuraegeon)

→ Marathi: ड्रॅगन (ḍrĕgan)

→ Marshallese: tūrāikōn

→ Niuean: tarākoni

→ Swahili: dragoni

→ Tamil: டிராகன் (ṭirākaṉ)

→ Yoruba: dírágónì

From Middle English dragoun, borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin dracō(n), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”). Displaced native Old English draca—a doublet of dragon, as are Draco, dracone, and dragoon.

taniwha

Maori mythological creature similar to a dragon

Daemons and Dragons. The print spooler is an example of a DAEMON, a program that executes in the background and provides a service […] Strictly speaking, a dragon is a daemon that is not invoked explicitly but is always there, waiting in the background […]

1995, Harley Hahn, The UNIX Companion, page 420:

Many of the postmaster functions are actually handled by computer software such as dragons and mailer daemons.

2018, J. K. Petersen, Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary:

(computing, rare) A background process similar to a daemon.


vaporware

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

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

Vaporware appeals widely to industrial and consumer buyers.

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

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

2015, Richard Severson, Ethical Principles for the Information Age:

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

fumiciel

An advertised product, whose launch is questionable


conversation

en-noun

conversation (countable and uncountable, plural conversations)

[ˌkʰɒɱ.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩]

[ˌkʰɑɱ.vɚˈseɪ.ʃn̩]

From Middle English conversacioun, from Old French conversacion and its etymon, Latin conversātiōnem, accusative singular of conversātiō (“conversation”), from conversor (“abide, keep company with”). Doublet of conversazione.
Morphologically converse + -ation.

(computing, networking) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.


hop

From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”). Cognate with Dutch hoppen (“to hop”), German hopfen, hoppen (“to hop”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”).

der

(networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.

hyppy

sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey


mode

From Old French mode (masculine), from Latin modus (“measure, due measure, rhythm, melody”). Doublet of modus.

tila

mathematics, physics: state of a system represented by an eigenfunction of that system

In insert mode, characters typed are directly inserted into the buffer.

(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.

рэжы́м

computing: one of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours


scale

en-verb

scale (third-person singular simple present scales, present participle scaling, simple past and past participle scaled)

scales (present singular third-person)
scaling (participle present)
scaled (participle past)
scaled (past)

From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“I climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala.

That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.

(intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.


iso

en-noun

iso (countable and uncountable, plural isos)

(category theory) Clipping of isomorphism.


IP

IP (countable and uncountable, plural IPs)

Coordinate term: cursor

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

insertion point

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

initial permutation
initial permutation#English

(cryptography) Initialism of initial permutation.


IP

IP address

Internet Protocol
Internet Protocol#English

(Internet, networking) Initialism of Internet Protocol.


thread

From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s, from *terh₁- (“rub, twist”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), West Frisian tried, Dutch draad, German Draht, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish tråd, and Icelandic þráður. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw.

cog

(computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.


poke

en-verb

poke (third-person singular simple present pokes, present participle poking, simple past and past participle poked)

pokes (present singular third-person)
poking (participle present)
poked (participle past)
poked (past)

From Middle English poken, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken, both from Proto-West Germanic *pukōn or similar, which is itself of uncertain origin, but may be from an imitative Proto-Germanic root *puk-. Doublet of poach.

onomatopoeic

imitative

you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire

Coordinate term: peek

The 200 UDGs may be used either by paging between 10 sets of 20 UDGs or, alternatively, by displaying 96 different characters by poking the system variable CHARS with 256 less than the starting address of your graphics.

1984 July 21, Franco Frey, “SPECGRAFFITI”, in Crash, number 6:

If you try to poke a value outside this range into a byte, Basic will beep you with an ILLEGAL QUANTITY error.

1985, Tom Weishaar, Bert Kersey, The DOStalk Scrapbook, page 44:

(transitive, computing, dated) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).

kirjoittaa

computing: to modify the value stored in a memory address


poke

imitative

better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick

better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail

better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick

[…] everywhere you see listings festooned with Goto statements and peppered with peeks and pokes.

1984, Electronics & Wireless World, volume 90, page 6:

One of the major limitations is that the Commodore 64 does not easily support auto-repeat (it must be turned on by a poke instruction from BASIC).

1984, Northcon/84, Mini/Micro Northwest-84 Conference Record:

Perhaps all those super hackers who so regularly produce infinite lives etc. could produce pokes to be used by 128K users.

1988 July 21, Lloyd Mangram, “Forum”, in Crash, number 54:

(computing, dated) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.


foo

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

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

der

Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar.

metasyntactic variable
metasyntactic variable#English

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


worm

From Middle English worm, werm, wurm, wirm, from Old English wyrm (“worm, snake”), from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis, possibly from *wer- (“to turn”). Doublet of vermin and wyrm, the latter of which is a fairly recent borrowing directly from the Old English.
(computing): First computer usage by John Brunner in his 1975 book The Shockwave Rider.
Cognates
Germanic cognates include Dutch worm, West Frisian wjirm, German Wurm, Swedish orm (“snake”), Norwegian Nynorsk orm (“earthworm or snake”), Danish orm and Yiddish וואָרעם (vorem).
Indo-European cognates include Latin vermis (“worm”), Lithuanian var̃mas (“insect, midge”), Albanian rrime (“rainworm”), Ancient Greek ῥόμος (rhómos, “woodworm”).

шнек

something helical, especially the thread of a screw

When Trevor opened his email, a worm spread to 100 people in his address book.

(computing) A self-replicating malware that propagates through a network.


seed

en-noun

seed (countable and uncountable, plural seeds)

From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-West Germanic *sād, from Proto-Germanic *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, throw”).
Cognate with West Frisian sied (“seed”), Dutch zaad (“seed”), Low German Saad (“seed”), German Saat (“sowing; seed”), Icelandic sæði (“seed”), Danish sæd (“seed”), Swedish säd (“seed”), Latin satiō (“seeding, time of sowing, season”). More at sow.

alkutilanne

initial state, condition or position of a process

If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.

As suggested in [3], space can be saved by using a deterministic pseudo random number generator (PRNG) and storing only the seed of that PRNG.

2009, Daniel J. Bernstein, Johannes Buchmann, Erik Dahmen, editors, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Springer, →ISBN, page 44:

Seeds are Minecraft's way of generating terrain. Each biome you spawn in is determined by the seed. With a custom seed, you can have a desert biome right next to a mesa biome.

2015, Jesse Stay, Thomas Stay, Jacob Cordeiro, Minecraft For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 242:

pseudorandom number generator
pseudorandom number generator

(countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.

(cryptography) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system. (seed number)


root

en-noun

root (countable and uncountable, plural roots)

→ Irish: rúta

From Middle English rote, root, roote (“the underground part of a plant”), from late Old English rōt, from Old Norse rót (Icelandic rót), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”); Doublet of wort, radish, and radix.

the love of money is the root of all evil

(graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.

rod

graph theory: node in a tree that has no parent

I have to log in as root before I do that.

(computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.

ĉefuzanto

computing: user account at the root of the directory structure

root

Coordinate term: home directory

I installed the files in the root directory.

(computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.

juurihakemisto

computing: highest directory of a directory structure


root

en-verb

root (third-person singular simple present roots, present participle rooting, simple past and past participle rooted)

roots (present singular third-person)
rooting (participle present)
rooted (participle past)
rooted (past)

We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.

I want to root my Android phone so I can remove the preinstalled crapware.

(computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.


wipe

wipe (third-person singular simple present wipes, present participle wiping, simple past and past participle wiped)

wipes (present singular third-person)
wiping (participle present)
wiped (participle past)
wiped (past)

From Middle English wipen, from Old English wīpian (“to wipe, rub, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīpōn (“to wipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around”). Cognate with German wippen (“to bob”), Swedish veva (“to turn, wind, crank”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍀𐌰𐌽 (weipan, “to wreathe, crown”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”), Sanskrit वेपते (vépate, “to tremble”). More at swivel, swift.

cog

I accidentally wiped my hard drive.


thumbnail

desc

→ Japanese: サムネイル (samuneiru), サムネール (samunēru), サムネ (samune) — clipping

→ Portuguese: thumbnail

→ German: Thumbnail

From thumb + nail. The phrase thumbnail sketch was first attested 1852. Verb sense attested 1930s.

(chiefly computing) A small picture, used as a compact representation of a larger image.


thumbnail

en-verb

thumbnail (third-person singular simple present thumbnails, present participle thumbnailing, simple past and past participle thumbnailed)

thumbnails (present singular third-person)
thumbnailing (participle present)
thumbnailed (participle past)
thumbnailed (past)

(transitive, computing) To create a smaller representation of (a larger image).


canvas

From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp.

(computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.


cart

My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.

(computing, video games, informal) A cartridge for a computer or video game system.


natural numbers

en-noun

natural numbers pl (normally plural, singular natural number)

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


blame

From Middle English blame, borrowed from Old French blame, blasme, produced from the verb blasmer, which in turn is derived from Late Latin blastēmāre, variant of blasphēmāre, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blaspheme. Displaced native Old English tǣling (“blame”) and tǣlan (“to blame”).

(computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.


crack

en-verb

crack (third-person singular simple present cracks, present participle cracking, simple past and past participle cracked)

cracks (present singular third-person)
cracking (participle present)
cracked (participle past)
cracked (past)

From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian (“to resound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to resound, cry hoarsely”).
Cognate with Scots crak (“to crack”), West Frisian kreakje (“to crack”), Dutch kraken (“to crunch, creak, squeak”), Low German kraken (“to crack”), German krachen (“to crash, crack, creak”), Lithuanian gìrgžděti (“to creak, squeak”), Old Armenian կարկաչ (karkačʻ), Sanskrit गर्जति (gárjati, “to roar, hum”).

cog

there's more than one way to crack an egg

you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette

That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.

Nobody really knows how much actual damage cracking does to the software companies. But as the industry rolls apprehensively toward the uncertain future of an ever-more frictionless electronic marketplace, almost everyone thinks piracy will increase.

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

(transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.


crack

en-noun

crack (countable and uncountable, plural cracks)

Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?

(computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.

破解

program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions on software


copy

en-verb

copy (third-person singular simple present copies, present participle copying, simple past and past participle copied)

copies (present singular third-person)
copying (participle present)
copied (participle past)
copied (past)

Etymology tree
Middle English copien
English copy
From Middle English copien, from Old French copier and Medieval Latin cōpiō.

etymon

First copy the files, and then paste them in another directory.

(transitive, computing) To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.


steward

From Middle English steward, stiward, from Old English stīweard, stiġweard (“steward, housekeeper, one who has the superintendence of household affairs, guardian”), from stiġ (“a wooden enclosure; house, hall”) + weard (“ward, guard, guardian, keeper”), equivalent to sty + ward. Compare Icelandic stívarður (“steward”). More at sty, ward.

управител

any administrator of the property or affairs of another

(information technology) Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.


address

Tok Pisin: adres

→ Bole: adireshi

→ Cebuano: adres

→ Sinhalese: ඇඩ්රස් (æḍras)

→ Tagalog: adres

From Middle English adressen (“to raise erect, adorn”), from Old French adrecier (“to straighten, address”) (modern French adresser), from a- (from Latin ad (“to”)) + drecier (modern French dresser (“to straighten, arrange”)), from Vulgar Latin *dīrectiō, from Latin dīrēctus (“straight or right”), from the verb dīrigō, itself from regō (“to govern, to rule”). Cognate with Spanish aderezar (“to garnish; dress (food); to add spices”).

osoite

property — see also location, property, premises, residence

valmistautuminen

(obsolete in English) act of getting ready — see also preparation

The program will crash if there is no valid data stored at that address.

(computing) A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory; a string of characters identifying a location on the internet or other network; sometimes (specifically) an e-mail address.


address

en-verb

address (third-person singular simple present addresses, present participle addressing, simple past and past participle addressed or (obsolete) addrest)

addresses (present singular third-person)
addressing (participle present)
addressed (participle past)
addressed (past)
addrest (obsolete participle past)
addrest (obsolete past)

(transitive, computing) To refer to a location in computer memory.

adreçar

to refer to a location in computer memory


allegory

en-noun

allegory (countable and uncountable, plural allegories)

/ˈæl.ɪˌɡɔː.ɹi/

/ˈæl.əˌɡɔɹ.i/

From Middle English allegorie, from Old French allegorie, from Latin allēgoria, from Ancient Greek ἀλληγορία (allēgoría), from ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “I speak”).

(mathematics, category theory) A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalisation of that category.


rogue

→⇒ Irish: rógaire

→⇒ Irish: rógánta

Uncertain. From either:
* Earlier English roger (“a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge”), possibly from Latin rogō (“I ask”).
* Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre (“aggressive”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”), for which see Icelandic hroki (“arrogance”), though OED does not document this.
* Celtic; see Breton rog (“haughty”).

der

An entry in the Microsoft Malware Protection Center's Threat Research & Response Blog shows that rogue AV, also known as scareware, is ruling the malware roost, as 6 top of the 10 malicious programs removed by the MSRT (Malicious Software Removal Tool) in the US in October were 'rogues'.

2009 October 29, Larry Seltzer, “Scareware Tops Microsoft's Malware List”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Next, click the "Installed on" heading in the Windows 7 uninstaller to sort the list by date, and see if any programs have the same date and time stamps as your rogues.

2013 October 31, “Windows PUPs: how do I remove potentially unwanted programs?”, in The Guardian:

Now though researchers at Microsoft's Malware Protection Center are reporting a downward trend in the traffic generated by some of the most popular rogues over the past 12 months.

2014 August 20, Ian Barker, “Microsoft detects fall in fake antivirus traffic”, in BetaNews:

(computing) Malware that deceitfully presents itself as antispyware.

invasor

malware that presents itself as antispyware


library

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: लाइब्रेरी f (lāibrerī)

Urdu: لائبریری f (lāibrerī)

→ Iban: librari

→ Japanese: ライブラリー (raiburarī)

→ Korean: 라이브러리 (raibeureori)

→ Yoruba: láíbìrì

/ˈlaɪˌbɹɛɹi/

From Middle English librarie, from Anglo-Norman librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium (“bookcase, chest for books”), from librarius (“concerning books”), from liber (“the inner bark of trees; paper, parchment, book”), probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *leub(ʰ)- (“to strip, to peel”). Displaced native Middle English bochous, bokhus (literally “book house”), from Old English bōchūs (compare bookhouse).
Romance cognates often mean “bookshop” instead: French librairie, Italian libreria, Spanish librería, Romanian librărie and Portuguese livraria. This is a relatively recent innovation (16th century in French), which ended up displacing the earlier sense.

ncog

why buy a book when you can join a library

why buy a book when you can join the library

Coordinate term: framework

A static library is much like any other library in that it contains a bunch of code for your application to use.

2014, John Paul Mueller, Jeff Cogswell, C++ All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 307:

(programming) A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.


ATM

en-noun

ATM (countable and uncountable, plural ATMs)

(computing) Initialism of Adobe Type Manager.


token

From Middle English token, taken, from Old English tācn (“sign”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikn, from Proto-Germanic *taikną, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show, instruct, teach”) with Germanic *k rather than *h by Kluge's law. The verb is from Middle English toknen, from Old English tācnian. Cognate with German Zeichen, Dutch teken and Danish tegn.

der

that and a token will get you on the subway

For each lexeme, the scanner creates a small data package known as a token and passes this data package on to the parser.

2004, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code: Understanding the Machine, page 68:

en:lexeme or similar entity, in computing

(computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.

(computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.

(computing) A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.


source

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. See surge.

der

Coordinate term: target

(mathematics, category theory) The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.


deep copy

Don't try to make a deep copy of that: you'll pull in half the database.

(computing) A copy of a data structure duplicating not only the structure itself, but all structures to which it is linked.


shallow copy

If you modify that, you'll modify all the shallow copies of the header that points to it.

(computing) A copy of a data structure which shares any linked structures with the original.


gig

Sense 1 is a clipping of gigabyte, while sense 2 is a clipping of giga- (prefix multiplying the unit to which it is attached by one billion).

This picture is almost a gig; don’t you want to resize it?

My new computer has over 500 gigs of hard drive space.

The restore would get through between 13 and 20 gigs of data, and then the tape would fail.

2003, IT Professional's Guide to E-mail Administration, CNET Networks Inc., →ISBN, page 88:

(informal, computing) Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).


destroy

en-verb

destroy (third-person singular simple present destroys, present participle destroying, simple past and past participle destroyed)

destroys (present singular third-person)
destroying (participle present)
destroyed (participle past)
destroyed (past)

From Middle English destroyen, from Old French destruire, Vulgar Latin *destrugō, from Classical Latin dēstruō, from dē- (“un-, de-”) + struō (“I build”).

The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.

изтри́вам

(computing) to remove data (e.g., from memory)


portal

From Middle English portal, porttol, from Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from porta.

jet bridge

elevated corridor permitting access to a plane from an airport

(computer graphics) A connecting window between volumes, in portal rendering.


abandonware

en-noun

abandonware (countable and uncountable, plural abandonwares)

→ Polish: abandonware

RR> Never heard of Wildscan. Is it shareware or is there a^([sic]) evaluation
RR> version available?
It's abandonware ala Joe Martin inc.:)

1996 October 12, John Hentsch, “Re: Converting file areas (one more time)”, in alt.bbs.wildcat (Usenet), retrieved 2017-02-08, message-ID <ff1_9610122110@mb.fidonet.org>:

Abandonware is software that is no longer being sold or supported by its author, copyright owner, or licensed distributor. Software that is still being sold, but no longer supported, is sometimes also referred to as abandonware.

2014, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 1:

(software, chiefly video games) A software product that is no longer updated or maintained, or whose copyright is no longer defended or which is no longer marketed even by the company who made it.

programari descatalogat

software which has been abandoned by its developer


recursion

recursion (countable and uncountable, plural recursions)

/ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən/

Borrowed from Latin recursiō (“the act of running back or again, return”), from recurrō (“run back; return”), from re- (“back, again”) + currō (“run”).

bor

This function uses recursion to compute factorials.

When an algorithm makes two recursive calls, we say that it uses binary recursion.

2011, Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, David M. Mount, Data Structures and Algorithms in C++, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 144:

(programming) The invocation of a procedure from within itself.

تَسَلْسُل

the invocation of a procedure from within itself


locale

From French local (adj), nominal use of the adjective.

(computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.


recursive

en-adj

recursive (comparative more recursive, superlative most recursive)

more recursive (comparative)
most recursive (superlative)

/ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/

Learned borrowing from New Latin recursīvus. Equivalent to recurse + -ive

lbor

filtered-popping recursive transition network

(computing, not comparable) of a program or function that calls itself

rekurzivní

computing: of a program or function that calls itself

(computing theory, not comparable, of a function) which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time

recursief

computing: of a function which can be computed in a finite amount of time

(computing theory, not comparable, of a set) whose characteristic function is recursive (4)

recursief

computing: of a set whose characteristic function is recursive

recursively enumerable

of a set, whose characteristic function is recursive


recurse

en-verb

recurse (third-person singular simple present recurses, present participle recursing, simple past and past participle recursed)

recurses (present singular third-person)
recursing (participle present)
recursed (participle past)
recursed (past)

/ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)s/

The algorithm then recurses on the children of the current tree node.

(intransitive, computing) To execute a procedure recursively.


recur

recur (third-person singular simple present recurs, present participle recurring, simple past and past participle recurred)

recurs (present singular third-person)
recurring (participle present)
recurred (participle past)
recurred (past)


trap

en-noun

trap (countable and uncountable, plural traps)

From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-West Germanic *trappjā (“trap, snare”), from Proto-West Germanic *trappjan (“to step”), from Proto-Germanic *trapjaną (“to tread, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *drebʰ- (“to step, trip, trample”).
Cognate with Dutch trap (“trap, snare”), German Low German Trapp (“trap”). Akin also to West Frisian traap (“stepping, treading, stairway”), German Treppe (“step, stair”), Old English træppan (“to step, tread”). Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". French trappe and Spanish trampa are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.

vēuháutsīe

a type of trap to catch birds using bait with adjustable loop

(computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.


trap

en-verb

trap (third-person singular simple present traps, present participle trapping, simple past and past participle trapped)

traps (present singular third-person)
trapping (participle present)
trapped (participle past)
trapped (past)

(computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.

paikallistaa

computing:to capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it


up

down

antonym(s) of “traveling towards a major terminus”

From Middle English up, from Old English upp, from Proto-Germanic *upp, see more there.

Is the server back up?


up

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

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

100 new apps and games have just been upped.

(computing, slang, transitive) To upload.


vendor

vendor (third-person singular simple present vendors, present participle vendoring, simple past and past participle vendored)

vendors (present singular third-person)
vendoring (participle present)
vendored (participle past)
vendored (past)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”) + dare (“to give”).

I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.

(transitive, software engineering) To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.

Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.

(transitive, software engineering) As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.


theology

en-noun

theology (usually uncountable, plural theologies)

From Middle English theologie, from Middle French theologie, from Old French theologie, from Latin theologia, from Koine Greek θεολογία (theología), from θεολόγος (theológos, adjective), from θεός (theós) + λόγος (lógos). By surface analysis, theo- + -logy.

While those folks are caught up in theological arguments about LISP versus PROLOG, […]

1986 December 9, Jim Seymour, “In plain English”, in PC Mag, volume 5, number 21, Ziff Davis, →ISSN, page 96:

(uncountable, computing, slang) Subjective marginal details.


thumbshot

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

(computing) A thumbnail snapshot of an electronic document.


thumbshot

en-verb

thumbshot (third-person singular simple present thumbshots, present participle thumbshotting, simple past and past participle thumbshotted)

thumbshots (present singular third-person)
thumbshotting (participle present)
thumbshotted (participle past)
thumbshotted (past)

(computing, transitive) To take a snapshot of (an electronic document).


acquire

acquire (third-person singular simple present acquires, present participle acquiring, simple past and past participle acquired)

acquires (present singular third-person)
acquiring (participle present)
acquired (participle past)
acquired (past)
acquire (infinitive)

From Middle English acqueren, from Old French aquerre, from Latin acquirō; ad- + quaerō (“to seek for”). See quest.

(computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.


active

en-adj

active (comparative more active, superlative most active)

more active (comparative)
most active (superlative)

Albanian: aktiv

From Middle English actyf, from Old French actif, from Latin activus, from agere (“to do, to act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti.
Morphologically act + -ive.

I think it should be upgraded to Visual BASIC, but I'm no good at that. So maybe someone here would like to take a crack at it. There are only 40 lines of active code, plus a few REMs. About 100 BASIC commands altogether.

2006 December 24, David Williams, “satellite program”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc (Usenet):

Edge uses green text for comments. This makes it easier for you to quickly differentiate between active code and comments.

2012, Chris Grover, “Triggering Actions”, in Adobe Edge Preview 5: The Missing Manual, 3rd edition, Sebastopol: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 98:

(computing, of source code) Eligible to be processed by a compiler or interpreter.


stale

stale (comparative staler, superlative stalest)

staler (comparative)
stalest (superlative)

From Middle English stale, from Old French estale (“settled, clear”), but probably originally from Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): compare West Flemish stel in the same sense for ‘beer’ and ‘urine’.

The bug was found to be caused by stale data in the cache.

(computing) Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.


phishing

Respelling of fishing (“trying to find”). In Usenet newsgroups, cracker and pirate groups used variant spellings of phish and warez (i.e. wares) to evade scans and filters by mainstream servers policing the ARPAnet/Internet. Compare other respelling slang like phat and phreak.

Holonym: social engineering

(computing) The malicious act of keeping a false website or sending a false e-mail with the intent of masquerading as a trustworthy entity in order to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.


intro

Clipping of introduction, from Latin intrōductiō (“lead-in, introduction”) – the abbreviation removes the second part of the compound; the first part ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). The demoscene sense comes from the fact that they were originally prepended to pirated copies of computer games.

der

If the rules specify that the DLLs' size will be added to the 64K limit, there's not a lot of space to code an intro.

1999, brainpower / digital artists, “Win32 demos”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

Are there any sites that have original copies of games? (ie: Summer/Winter/World Games with Fast Loading). Just looking for games without the trainers/intros.

2001, LJames4728, “Good C64 Game Sites?”, in alt.c64 (Usenet):

Games, demos, intros. They were the same, this was the scene. The trend was that you cracked and made demos and intros.

2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1:

(demoscene) A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition.


escape

en-verb

escape (third-person singular simple present escapes, present participle escaping, simple past and past participle escaped)

escapes (present singular third-person)
escaping (participle present)
escaped (participle past)
escaped (past)

From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre, literally "get out of one's cape, leave a pursuer with just one's cape," from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade.

If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before forming the URI.

1998 August, Tim Berners-Lee et al., Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8

Character Data tags allow you to place complex strings as the text of an element—without the need to manually escape the string.

2002, Scott Worley, “Using XML in ASP.NET Applications”, in Inside ASP.NET, →ISBN, page 214:

Therefore, what follows is a list of typical output functions; your job is to determine if any of the functions print out tainted data that has not been passed through some sort of HTML escaping function.

2007, Michael Cross, “Code Auditing and Reverse Engineering”, in Developer's Guide to Web Application Security, →ISBN, page 213:

When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.

Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.

(transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.

轉義 /转义

to prefix a special key in order to make it an ordinary key

(computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

stoppen

to halt a program by pressing a combination of keys


escape

You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.

(programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).


administrator

Borrowed from Latin administrātor (literally “he that is near to attend”). Doublet of administrador.

bor

(computing) One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network

адміністра́тар

computing: one who responsible for software and maintenance of a computer or network


compare

en-noun

compare (countable and uncountable, plural compares)

From Middle English comparen, from Old French comparer, from Latin comparare (“to prepare, procure”), from compar (“like or equal to another”), from com- + par (“equal”). Displaced native Old English metan (“to compare,” also “to measure”).

[…] including addition and subtraction, memory operations, compares, shifts, logic operations, and condition operations.

1998, International Conference on Computer Design: Proceedings, IEEE, page 490:

2013, Paolo Bruni, Carlos Alberto Gomes da Silva Junior, Craig McKellar, Managing DB2 for z/OS Utilities with DB2 Tools Solution Packs
It is always advisable to run a compare between your source and target environments. This should highlight whether there are differences in the lengths of VARCHARs and then the differences can be corrected before you clone.

(countable, programming) An instruction or command that compares two values or states.


moustache

Used in English since the 16th century. Via Middle French moustache from Italian mostaccio, from Early Medieval Latin mustācium, from Byzantine Greek μουστάκιον (moustákion), diminutive of (Doric) Ancient Greek μύσταξ (mústax, “upper lip”), of unknown origin (probably a Pre-Greek substrate). Replaced native English kemp (“moustache”), from Old English cenep.

der

In this example, the first is a string of text that contains the name property in double curly brackets (or “mustaches”)—this is the syntax for a tag.

2013, Peter Gasston, The Modern Web: Multi-device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 102:

(computing, informal) A curly bracket, { or }.


interpolation

en-noun

interpolation (countable and uncountable, plural interpolations)

/ɪnˌtɜː(ɹ)pəˈleɪʃən/

From French interpolation, from Latin interpolatio.
Morphologically interpolate + -ion.

(computing) The process of including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program; see interpolate.

интерполя́ция

computing: process of including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program


groom

en-verb

groom (third-person singular simple present grooms, present participle grooming, simple past and past participle groomed)

grooms (present singular third-person)
grooming (participle present)
groomed (participle past)
groomed (past)

From Middle English grom, grome (“man-child, boy, youth”), of uncertain origin. Apparently related to Middle Dutch grom (“boy”), Old Icelandic grómr, gromr (“man, manservant, boy”), Old French gromme (“manservant”), and also to Middle Dutch grom (“fish guts”), Middle Low German grôm (“fish guts”), from the same Proto-Germanic root. Possibly from Old English *grōma, from Proto-West Germanic *grōmō, *grōm (“swollen belly, stomach tumour, womb-child, fish roe, fish guts”), from Proto-Germanic *grōaną (“to grow”).
Alternative etymology describes Middle English grom, grome as an alteration of gome (“man”) with an intrusive r (also found in bridegroom, hoarse, cartridge, etc.), with the Middle Dutch and Old Icelandic cognates following similar variation of their respective forms.

(transitive, software engineering) In agile software development, to review and prioritize the items in the development backlog.


pepper

en-noun

pepper (countable and uncountable, plural peppers)

Tok Pisin: pepa

→ Hawaiian: pepa

→ Marshallese: pepa

From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”). The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the Old World spice. Cognate with Scots pepar, Saterland Frisian Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of falafel and peepul.

cog

(cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.


croak

en-verb

croak (third-person singular simple present croaks, present participle croaking, simple past and past participle croaked)

croaks (present singular third-person)
croaking (participle present)
croaked (participle past)
croaked (past)

From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcettung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk- (compare Swedish kråka, German krächzen), from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g- (compare Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati from *greh₂-k-), of onomatopoeic origin.

The accessor croaks if it's not an appropriate object reference.

2002, Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Perl, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 200:

(programming slang, Perl) To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error.


agent

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).

(computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.

agentti

computing: part of the system that performs action on behalf of a client or server


aggressive

en-adj

aggressive (comparative more aggressive, superlative most aggressive)

more aggressive (comparative)
most aggressive (superlative)

From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif.

rīrā

Spreading rapidly of a disease or tumour

This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.

1996, Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6, Springer, →ISBN, page 59:

Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.

2001, Paul Feautrier, edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal, Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems, Springer, →ISBN, page 173:

However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.

2002, Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 465:

The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.

2002, Shpeisman, T. ; Lueh, G.-Y. ; Adl-Tabatabai, A.-R., PACT 2002: 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques : proceedings : 22-25 September, 2002, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press →ISBN, page 249

This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.

2003, Susanna Pelagatti, edited by Fethi Rabhi and Sergei Gorlatch, Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Springer, →ISBN, page 182:

The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on.

2011, Wen-mei W. Hwu, GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 11:

(especially programming, of a method or process) Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.


agile

agile (comparative agiler or more agile, superlative agilest or most agile)

agiler (comparative)
more agile (comparative)
agilest (superlative)
most agile (superlative)

From earlier agil, borrowed from Latin agilis (“agile, nimble”), from agō (“do, act; move”). See agent.

agile methods

(chiefly software engineering) Of or relating to agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams.


agile

(chiefly software engineering) Agile software development.


register

/ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/

/ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stɚ/

/ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ə.stɚ/

From Medieval Latin registrum, from Late Latin regesta (“list, items recorded”), from Latin regerō (“to record, to carry back”), from re- + gerō (“to carry, bear”). Compare Latin registoria (“a treasurer”). Some senses influenced by association with unrelated Latin regō (“to rule”).

der

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:

If you can trace back through the disassembly to where the variable is first loaded into a register, you can often discover its value or its address by inspecting that register.

2014, Jason Gregory, Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition, page 90:

central processing unit
central processing unit

(computing) A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit, and is mostly used to store inputs, outputs, or intermediate results of computations.

регистър

computing: part of the central processing unit used to store and manipulate numbers


chord

Variant of cord, with spelling alteration due to Latin chorda (“cord”), ultimately from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”). No relation to French accord (“chord”) and its derivations.

Ctrl-K is the default first key for chords, but you can create chords using any keys that you want.

2005, James Avery, Visual Studio hacks, page 99:

(computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.


alias

From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.

bor

(computing) An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.

kromnomo

abbreviation that replaces a string of commands (computing)

(signal processing) An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.


alias

en-verb

alias (third-person singular simple present aliases, present participle aliasing, simple past and past participle aliased)

aliases (present singular third-person)
aliasing (participle present)
aliased (participle past)
aliased (past)

(computing) To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.

sinonimi

to assign an additional name to an entity

When the signal frequency reaches half the sampling frequency, there are only two samples per cycle, which is the absolute minimum needed to record a waveform. A higher frequency would cause the digitization system to alias.

1989, Ken C. Pohlmann, The compact disc: a handbook of theory and use, page 22:

Finally, as it is a frequency detection technique, color Doppler US has the potential to alias

1999, Carlo Bartolozzi with Riccardo Lencioni, Liver malignancies: diagnostic and interventional radiology, page 59:

This technique can be used to alias the L1 and L2 bands of the GPS into the baseband

2005, James Bao-yen Tsui, Fundamentals of global positioning system receivers, page 106:

(signal processing, of two signals, transitive, intransitive) To make or become indistinguishable.