float

That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float.

If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats.

2011, Rubin H. Landau, A First Course in Scientific Computing, page 214:

floating-point number
floating-point number

(programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.

Because margin floats don't collapse together, the actual spacing between two floats sitting next to each other will be 6 pixels […]

2004, Eric A. Meyer, More Eric Meyer on CSS, page 36:

When a float cannot fit next to another float, it moves down below it. A float's position, size, padding, borders, and margins affect the position of adjacent floats and adjacent inline content.

2007, Michael Bowers, Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns, page 93:

(computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.


flow

en-noun

flow (countable and uncountable, plural flows)

From Middle English flowe, from the verb (see below). The psychology sense “state of focus” was coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975.

coin

login flow

search flow

I'm setting up event tracking for a pretty standard, multi-step signup flow, and I'm wondering [...]

2015, Dan, “Best practices for tracking progress through a sign up flow”, in snowplow-user mailing list:

(software) The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.


flow

en-verb

flow (third-person singular simple present flows, present participle flowing, simple past and past participle flowed)

flows (present singular third-person)
flowing (participle present)
flowed (participle past)
flowed (past)

From Middle English flowen, from Old English flōwan (“to flow”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōan, from Proto-Germanic *flōaną (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw-, lengthened o-grade form of *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian flouje (“to flow”), West Frisian floeie (“to flow”), Dutch vloeien (“to flow”), Norwegian flo (“to flow”). Compare also English float. Not cognate with Latin fluō despite similarity.

(transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.


fog

en-noun

fog (countable and uncountable, plural fogs)

Origin uncertain; but probably of North Germanic origin. Probably either a back-formation from foggy (“covered with tall grass; thick, marshy”), from the earlier-attested fog (“tall grass”) (see below), or from or related to Danish fog (“spray, shower, drift, storm”), related to Icelandic fok (“spray, any light thing tossed by the wind, snowdrift”), Icelandic fjúka (“to blow, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *feukaną (“to whisk, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug- (“billow, bulge, drift”), from *pew-, *pow- (“to blow, drift, billow”), in which case related to German fauchen (“to hiss, spit, spray”).


full

en-adj

full (comparative fuller or more full, superlative fullest or most full)

fuller (comparative)
more full (comparative)
fullest (superlative)
most full (superlative)

empty

antonym(s) of “containing the maximum possible amount”

empty

antonym(s) of “satisfied, in relation to eating”

→ Gulf Arabic: فُل (ful)

→ Japanese: フル

From Middle English ful, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).
Germanic cognates include West Frisian fol, Low German vull, Dutch vol, German voll, Danish fuld, and Norwegian and Swedish full (the latter three via Old Norse). Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇá).
See also fele and Scots fou (whence the English doublet fou (“drunk”)). For the "drunk, intoxicated" sense, compare also Swedish full and other Scandinavian languages.

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

nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs

(category theory, of a functor between locally small categories) Surjective as a map of morphisms

Complete; with nothing omitted.
Surjective as a map of morphisms

(category theory, of a subcategory S of C) Including all morphisms. Formally: Such that for every pairs of objects (X, Y) in S, the hom-sets operatorname Hom_S(X,Y) and operatorname Hom_C(X,Y) are equal.


vacuum

en-verb

vacuum (third-person singular simple present vacuums, present participle vacuuming, simple past and past participle vacuumed)

vacuums (present singular third-person)
vacuuming (participle present)
vacuumed (participle past)
vacuumed (past)

Borrowed from Latin vacuum (“an empty space, void”), noun use of neuter of vacuus (“empty”), related to vacare (“be empty”).

bor+

But the advantage of an auto-vacuumed database is that when B-tree pages are no longer needed, they are moved to the end of the database file and then the database file is truncated, thus returning the unused pages back to the filesystem.

2010, Ivan Litovski, Richard Maynard, Inside Symbian SQL: A Mobile Developer's Guide to SQLite, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 337:

(transitive, databases) To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.


plenum

From Latin plēnum, noun use of neuter of plēnus (“full”). The sense of "legislative meeting" is a semantic loan from Russian пле́нум (plénum, “plenary session”), from the same Latin source.

sl

(computing) A type of network cabling which satisfies plenum-ratings issued by the National Electrical Code. These cables produce less smoke and fumes in the event of fire.


volume

en-noun

volume (countable and uncountable, plural volumes)

From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).

(computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

том

computing: accessible storage area with a single file system


lift

en-verb

lift (third-person singular simple present lifts, present participle lifting, simple past lifted or (rare, regional, obsolete) lift, past participle lifted or (rare, regional, obsolete) lift or (obsolete) yleft)

lifts (present singular third-person)
lifting (participle present)
lifted (past)
lift (obsolete past rare regional)
lifted (participle past)
lift (obsolete participle past rare regional)
yleft (obsolete participle past)

From Middle English liften, lyften, from Old Norse lypta (“to lift, air”, literally “to raise in the air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftijaną (“to raise in the air”), related to *luftuz (“roof, air”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”) or from a root meaning roof (see *luftuz). Cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål løfte (“to lift”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish lyfta (“to lift”), German lüften (“to air, lift”), Old English lyft (“air”). See above. 1851 for the noun sense "a mechanical device for vertical transport".
(To steal): For this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐍆𐍄𐌿𐍃 (hliftus) "thief", cognate with Latin cleptus and Greek κλέπτω (kléptō)).

der

(category theory, transitive) Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.18)

Finally, we can lift a partial function into a regular (total) function that returns an Option or a Some(value) when the partial function is defined for the input argument or None when it isn't.

2021, Dean Wampler, chapter 2, in Programming Scala, 3rd edition, O'Reilly, →ISBN:

(programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.

nostaa

programming: to transform into a different context


lift

en-noun

lift (countable and uncountable, plural lifts)

→ Cantonese: 𨋢 /䢂 (lip¹)

→ Dutch: lift
→ Papiamentu: left

→ Malay: lif

desctree

→ Russian: лифт (lift)
→ Armenian: լիֆտ (lift)
→ Georgian: ლიფტი (lipṭi)
→ Kazakh: лифт (lift)
→ Mongolian: лифт (lift)
→ Uyghur: لىفت (lift)
→ Uzbek: lift
→ Yakut: лифт (lift)

→ Swahili: lifti

→ Swedish: lift

For a covering space p#58;#92;tildeX#92;toX a path #92;gamma [i.e. a continuous map #91;0,1#93;#92;toX] in X has a unique lift #92;tilde#92;gamma starting at a given point of p#123;-1#125;(#92;gamma(0))

2001, Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, page 69:

(category theory) A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g).


key

From Middle English keye, kaye, keiȝe, from Old English cǣġ (“key, solution, experiment”) (whence also Scots key and kay (“key”)), of uncertain origin. The only sure cognates are Saterland Frisian Koai (“key”), West Frisian kaai (“key”), and North Frisian kay (“key”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *kēgaz, *kēguz (“stake, post, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵogʰ-, *ǵegʰ-, *ǵegʰn- (“branch, stake, bush”), which would make it cognate with Middle Low German kāk (“whipping post, pillory”), and perhaps to Middle Dutch keige (“javelin, spear”) and Middle Low German keie, keige (“spear”). For the semantic development, note that medieval keys were simply long poles (ending in a hook) with which a crossbar obstructing a door from the inside could be removed from the outside, by lifting it through a hole in the door. Liberman has noted, however, "The original meaning of *kaig-jo- was presumably '*pin with a twisted end.' Words with the root *kai- followed by a consonant meaning 'crooked, bent; twisted' are common only in the North Germanic languages."

шпи́лка

object used to maintain the orientation between two others

Key in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Press the Escape key.

(computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.

sleutel

button on a typewriter or computer keyboard

(cryptography) A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.

sleutel

cryptography: piece of information used to encode or decode

(databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).

sleutel

computing: field of a database constrained to be unique

sleutel

computing: field in a record used as a search argument

(computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.

sleutel

computing: value uniquely identifying entry in associative array

You can easily create this type of user interface by creating a bitmap with certain portions set to a predefined color you want to use as the transparency key.

2004, Mark Schmidt, Simon Robinson, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook, page 195:

There are key controls that adjust the “slice level” or the level at which the key kicks-in and starts cutting a hole for the “fill” […] Chroma key is another form of keying, which derives the key cutter or hole from a selected color.

2016, Jerry C. Whitaker, The SBE Broadcast Engineering Handbook:

(computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.


key

en-verb

key (third-person singular simple present keys, present participle keying, simple past and past participle keyed)

keys (present singular third-person)
keying (participle present)
keyed (participle past)
keyed (past)

Our instructor told us to key in our user IDs.

(computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.


engine

→ Afrikaans: enjin

→ Bengali: ইঞ্জিন (injin)

→ Hindi: इंजन (iñjan)

→ Iban: injin

→ Japanese: エンジン

→ Hakka: 引擎 (ên-chín)

→ Min Nan: 引擎 (ia̋n-jín)

→ Korean: 엔진 (enjin)

→ Malay: enjin

Indonesian: enjin

→ Scottish Gaelic: einnsean

→ Swahili: injini

→ Shanghainese: 引擎 (in¹-jin⁶)

→ Chinese: 引擎 (yǐnqíng)

From Middle English engyn, from Anglo-Norman engine, Old French engin (“skill, cleverness, war machine”), from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, (in Late Latin) a war-engine, battering-ram”), related to ingignō (“to instil by birth, implant, produce in”). Compare gin, ingenious, engineer.

der

a graphics engine

a physics engine

(computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).


field

→ Japanese: フィールド (fīrudo)

From Middle English feeld, feld, from Old English feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fjild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German Feld (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”). Related also to Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at fold.

veld

land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country

fushë

sports: area reserved for playing a game

Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain

Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ring

Read-only fields allow you to establish a point of data whose value is not known at compile time, but that should never change once established.

2007, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# with .NET 3.0, Special Edition, page 82:

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.

A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.

(computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.

en:computing: area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value


malleable

en-adj

malleable (comparative more malleable, superlative most malleable)

more malleable (comparative)
most malleable (superlative)

From Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from Latin malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of *melh₂- (“crush, grind”).

(cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext


state

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Latin statuslbor.
Old French estatbor.
Middle English stat
English state
From Middle English stat (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin status (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stare (“to stand”). Doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek στέω (stéo), Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar.

der

something is rotten in the state of Denmark

there is something rotten in the state of Denmark

In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.

A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.

(computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.

وَضْع

computing: the stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle

The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.

(computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.

estat

computing: the set of all parameters relevant to a computation

A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.

(computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.

estat

computing: the values of all parameters at some point in a computation


federation

en-noun

federation (countable and uncountable, plural federations)

desc

ဖယ်ဒရေးရှင်း

→ Burmese: ဖယ်ဒရေးရှင်း (hpaida.re:hrang:)

/ˌfɛdəˈɹeɪʃn̩/

Borrowed from French fédération, from Late Latin foederatio, from Latin foederare; equivalent to federate + -ion.

(computing, telecommunications) A collection of network or telecommunication providers that offer interoperability.


MDM

en-noun

MDM (countable and uncountable, plural MDMs)

master data management
master data management#English

(computing) Initialism of master data management.


handle

desctree

→ Japanese: ハンドル (handoru)
→ Hokkien: 捍多路 (hăn-tó͘-luh)
→ Sakizaya: handulu

From Middle English handel, handle, from Old English handle (“a handle”), from handlian (“to handle, feel, deal with, discuss”). See verb below. Cognate with Danish handel (“a handle”).

This article describes how to find the module name from the window handle.

A handle for a type instance is similar to an open file descriptor; it is used to reference that type instance when performing operations on it.

1989, Petrus Maria Gerardus Apers, Gio Wiederhold, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Very Large Data, page 383:

By contrast, when a host function creates a handle for a nested function and returns that handle to a calling program, the host function's workspace is created and remains in existence for as long as the function handle remains in existence.

2008, Stephen J. Chapman, MATLAB programming for engineers, →ISBN, page 354:

(computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.

句柄

computing: reference to an object or structure


display

en-noun

display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)

desctree

→ Russian: диспле́й (displéj)
→ Kazakh: дисплей (displei)

From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.

der

(computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.

(computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.


attachment

en-noun

attachment (countable and uncountable, plural attachments)

From French attachement. By surface analysis, attach + -ment.

(computing) A file sent along with a message, usually an email.


h

If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).

1989, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers:

The commands assume that the NV memory is addressed beginning at 8000h in external data memory.

1994, Jan Axelson, The microcontroller idea book, page 47:

(computing) Abbreviation of hexadecimal (following a number)


k

(computing) A kilobyte (more formally KB or kB).

(computing) A kilobit (more formally kb), especially in measuring Internet connection.


wedge

en-verb

wedge (third-person singular simple present wedges, present participle wedging, simple past and past participle wedged)

wedges (present singular third-person)
wedging (participle present)
wedged (participle past)
wedged (past)

From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.

My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.

(computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.


stroke

The noun is derived from Middle English strok, stroke (“blow from a weapon, cut”), from Old English strāc, from Proto-West Germanic *straik, from Proto-Germanic *straikaz (“stroke”), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike”).
Sense 3.6.2.2 (“the oblique, slash, or virgule (‘/’)”) is a contraction of oblique stroke, a variant of oblique which was originally used in telegraphy.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* German Streich (“stroke”)
* Middle Low German strēk (“stroke, trick, prank”)
* Scots strak, strake, straik (“blow, stroke”)

isku

one of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished

ход

single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; length of this movement

خَطّ

line or mark made on a surface by an implement for drawing, writing, etc.

A single movement of a paintbrush, chisel, pen, pencil, or similar implement; a line or mark made by such an implement.

(computing) In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").


cylinder

→ Japanese: シリンダー (shirindā)

→ Korean: 실린더 (sillindeo)

From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calander and calender.

(computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.


batch

From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.

խմբաքանակ

quantity of baked goods made at one time

The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.

(computing) A set of data to be processed at one time.


batch

en-verb

batch (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)

batches (present singular third-person)
batching (participle present)
batched (participle past)
batched (past)

The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning.

(transitive, computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.


prefix

Borrowed from Late Latin praefīxum, from Latin praefīxus, past participle of praefīgō (“I (fix, fasten, set up) in front”, “I fix on the (end, extremity)”) (from prae- (“before”) + fīgō (“I fix”, “I fasten”, “I affix”)), equivalent to pre- + -fix. Doublet of the archaic synonym prefixum.

The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".

(computing) An initial segment of a string of characters.

prefiks

computing: initial segment of a string of characters


flash

flash (third-person singular simple present flashes, present participle flashing, simple past and past participle flashed)

flashes (present singular third-person)
flashing (participle present)
flashed (participle past)
flashed (past)

In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

In order to flash a custom ROM to a phone, the boot loader must be unlocked first.

(transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).

uudelleenkirjoittaa

computing: to write to the memory of an updatable component


flash

en-noun

flash (countable and uncountable, plural flashes)

→ Catalan: flaix

→ Polish: flesz

onomatopoeic

imitative

The hybrid drive has 500 gigabytes of hard disk space for bulk storage and 2 gigabytes of high-speed flash for caching frequently-accessed files.

(computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.


pass

→ Tibetan: སྤ་སེ (spa se)

From Middle English pas, pase, pace, from passen (“to pass”).

Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.

(computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.


pass

Anyone want to trade passes?

If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.

1999, Jonny Durango, “IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!!”, in alt.hackers.malicious (Usenet):

(computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).


hammer

en-verb

hammer (third-person singular simple present hammers, present participle hammering, simple past and past participle hammered)

hammers (present singular third-person)
hammering (participle present)
hammered (participle past)
hammered (past)

From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion.
(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.

sense

the nail that sticks out gets hammered down

So we'll be hammering the server in an unrealistic manner, but we'll see how the additional clients affect overall performance. We'll add two, three, four, and then five clients, […]

1995, Optimizing Windows NT, volume 4, page 226:

(transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).


array

en-noun

array (countable and uncountable, plural arrays)

From Middle English arrayen, from Anglo-Norman arraier (compare Old French arraier, areer (“to put in order”)), from Medieval Latin arrēdō (“to put in order, arrange, array”), from *rēdum (“preparation, order”), from Frankish *raid or *raidā (“preparation, order”) or Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “ready, prepared”), from Proto-Germanic *raidaz, *raidiz (“ready”). Compare Old English rād (“condition, stipulation”), Old High German antreitī (“order, rank”). Doublet of ready.

cog

(programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.


annotation

en-noun

annotation (countable and uncountable, plural annotations)

/ˌænəˈteɪʃən/

From Latin annotātiōnem, accusative singular of annotātiō (“remark, annotation”), from annotātus, perfect passive participle of annotō (“note down, remark”). Equivalent to annotate + -ion.

(computing) Metadata added to a document or program.


coalesce

en-verb

coalesce (third-person singular simple present coalesces, present participle coalescing, simple past and past participle coalesced)

coalesces (present singular third-person)
coalescing (participle present)
coalesced (participle past)
coalesced (past)

/ˌkəʊ.əˈlɛs/

From Latin coalēscō, from co- + alēscō (“grow up”).

You can improve the display by coalescing the ID columns. As I note in Chapter 9, the COALESCE expression takes on the value of the first non-null value in a list of values.

2018, Allen G. Taylor, SQL For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(databases, SQL) To convert a null value to a defined value.


domain

range

antonym(s) of “domain of definition of a function”

From Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame, and compare demain, danger, dungeon. Doublet of demesne, domino.

definisieversameling

(mathematics) the set on which a function is defined

2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.

(computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.

(computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.

(computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.

(computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.

(computing) Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.


profile

en-verb

profile (third-person singular simple present profiles, present participle profiling, simple past and past participle profiled)

profiles (present singular third-person)
profiling (participle present)
profiled (participle past)
profiled (past)

From French profil, from Italian profilo (“a border”), later also proffilo (“a side-face, profile”), from Latin pro (“before”) + filo (“a line, stroke, thread”), from filum (“a thread”); see file. Doublet of purfle.

[…] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications.

(computing, transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.


home

From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
Cognates
Germanic cognates: see *haimaz.
Cognate with Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).

cog

it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home

it takes a lot of living to make a house a home

inici

home directory — see also home directory


read-only memory

en-noun

read-only memory (countable and uncountable, plural read-only memories)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-read-only memory.wav

(computing) A computer memory chip that stores values but does not allow updates, in which the values are nonvolatile in that they are retained even when the computer is unpowered.

միայն կարդալու հիշողություն

memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates


random access memory

random access memory (usually uncountable, plural random access memories)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-random access memory.wav

(computing, electronics) Computer memory, usually volatile, that stores program and data values during operation and in which each word of memory may be directly (randomly) accessed.

operativ yaddaş qurğusu

computer memory in which each byte of memory may be directly accessed — see also RAM

隨機存取存儲器 /随机存取存储器

suíjī cúnqǔ cúnchǔqì, suíjī cúnqǔ cúnchúqì


platform

From Middle French plateforme (“a flat form”), from plate (“flat”) (from Old French plat, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”)) + forme (“form”) (from Latin fōrma (“shape; figure; form”)); compare flatscape.

der

That program runs on the X Window System platform.

“We used to produce our publication on the Mac, but the Wintel platform is cheaper and there are just as many applications available. So it just seemed to make sense to give up the religious war and get on with the business of doing our job,” said the information systems manager at a New York-based magazine, who asked not to be named.

1996 September 23, “Intel attacks Mac publishing niche”, in Computerworld, volume 30, number 39, →ISSN, page 56:

computing platform
computing platform#English

(computing) Ellipsis of computing platform: a particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software, and/or a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used to describe a particular environment for running other software.

مَنَصَّة

computing: particular type of operating system or environment


fact

en-noun

fact (countable and uncountable, plural facts)

From Old French fact, from Latin factum (“an act, deed, feat, etc.”); also Medieval Latin for “state, condition, circumstance”; neuter of factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Old/Middle French later evolved it into faict and fait. Doublet of feat.

der

(databases) An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.


asset

Back-formation from assets, from Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez (“enough”). Compare Middle English asseth.

(software) Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.

resurssi

software: any component, etc. that can be leveraged or reused


gem

en-noun

gem (countable and uncountable, plural gems)

Inherited from Middle English gemme, gimme, yimme, ȝimme, from Old English ġimm, from Proto-West Germanic *gimmu (“gem”) and Old French gemme (“gem”), both from Latin gemma (“a swelling bud; jewel, gem”). Doublet of gemma and Gemma.

der

programming language
programming language

(computing) A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.


mock

marque (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)

From Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer, moquier (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Proto-West Germanic *mokkijan, *mukkijan (“to low, bellow; mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijaną, *mūhaną (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūg-, *mūk- (“to low, mumble”). Cognate with Dutch mokken (“to sulk; pout; mope; grumble”), Old High German firmucken (“to be stupid”), Modern German mucksen (“to utter a word; mumble; grumble”), West Frisian mokke (“to mope; sulk; grumble”), Swedish mucka (“to murmur”), dialectal Dutch mokkel (“kiss”).

cog

You can, if you must, create a mock that derives from a concrete class. The problem is that the resulting class represents a mix of production and mocked behavior, a beast referred to as a partial mock.

2013, Jeff Langr, Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development:

Mocks replace the objects with which your methods under test collaborate, thus offering a layer of isolation.

2020, Cătălin Tudose, JUnit in Action, 3rd edition, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139:

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) A mockup or prototype; particularly, ellipsis of mock object., as used in unit testing.


mock

en-verb

mock (third-person singular simple present mocks, present participle mocking, simple past and past participle mocked)

mocks (present singular third-person)
mocking (participle present)
mocked (participle past)
mocked (past)

They can also mock other integration points such as backend, database, or any other external resource.

2016, Murat Yener, Onur Dundar, Expert Android Studio, page 233:

(software engineering, transitive) To create a mockup or prototype of.


black hole

desc

→ Bengali: ব্ল্যাকহোল (blêkhol), ব্ল্যাক হোল (blêk hol)

→ Japanese: ブラックホール (burakku hōru)

→ Korean: 블랙홀 (beullaekhol)

en:Black Hole of Calcutta
en:Hong-Yee Chiu
en:John Archibald Wheeler
en:black hole (disambiguation)

In reference to celestial bodies, physicist Hong-Yee Chiu attributed the term to his colleague Robert H. Dicke, who stated around 1960–1961 that the objects were "like the Black Hole of Calcutta". The first known usage in print was by journalist Ann Ewing in 1964. Widespread popularization of the term is generally credited to a 1967 lecture by physicist John Wheeler.

(programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.


delegate

From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus.

Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.

2010, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2010, page xxvi:

(computing) A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.


delegate

en-verb

delegate (third-person singular simple present delegates, present participle delegating, simple past and past participle delegated)

delegates (present singular third-person)
delegating (participle present)
delegated (participle past)
delegated (past)

/ˈdɛlɪˌɡeɪt/

(computing, Internet, transitive) (of a subdomain) To give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own.


grooming

en-noun

grooming (usually uncountable, plural groomings)

Child grooming
Groom (disambiguation)#Grooming

(software engineering) In agile software development, the reviewing and prioritization of items in the development backlog.


World Wide Web Consortium
w:World Wide Web Consortium

(software, Internet) Initialism of World Wide Web Consortium.


upcast

From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.

(computing) A cast from subtype to supertype.


upcast

en-verb

upcast (third-person singular simple present upcasts, present participle upcasting, simple past and past participle upcast or upcasted)

upcasts (present singular third-person)
upcasting (participle present)
upcast (participle past)
upcast (past)
upcasted (participle past)
upcasted (past)

(transitive, computing) To cast from subtype to supertype.


device

From Middle English devis, devise, devyce, devys, devyse, from Old French devis and devise, from Latin dīvīsus, past participle of dīvidō (“to divide”). Doublet of devise (noun).

(computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.


menu

→ Cebuano: menu

→ Gulf Arabic: منيو (minyu)

→ Japanese: メニュー

→ Thai: เมนู (mee-nuu)

→ Tok Pisin: menyu

Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of menudo and minute.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, gaming) A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface

قَائِمَة

computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed


organizer

/ˈɔɹɡənaɪzɚ/

I'll add that meeting to my organizer.

(computing) A hand-held micro-computer that will perform specific tasks; can be used as an electronic diary, alarm clock, recorder of memos and notes, a portable database etc.


hand-held

personal digital assistant
personal digital assistant

(computing) A personal digital assistant or video game console that is small enough to be held in the hands.


log in

log in (third-person singular simple present logs in, present participle logging in, simple past and past participle logged in)

logs in (present singular third-person)
logging in (participle present)
logged in (participle past)
logged in (past)

By analogy with clock in. First use of the term appears in 1963 in the publication Compatible Time-Sharing System from the MIT Computation Center.

I would like to log in to check my e-mail, but I can't remember my password.

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.

войти́

в систему v sistému


password

From pass + word; the sentry-passing sense predates the cryptographic sense and was its inspiration.

A strong password has a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.

(computing, cryptography) A string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, and so on; archetypally a word but nowadays often an alphanumeric string or a phrase.

wagwoord

computing: string of characters known only to a user

passkey

coordinate in its sense contrasted with passwords

keyphrase

used either coordinately or hyponymously; equivalent except for containing spaces


password

password (third-person singular simple present passwords, present participle passwording, simple past and past participle passworded)

passwords (present singular third-person)
passwording (participle present)
passworded (participle past)
passworded (past)

(computing, transitive) To protect with a password.


scrub

scrub (third-person singular simple present scrubs, present participle scrubbing, simple past and past participle scrubbed)

scrubs (present singular third-person)
scrubbing (participle present)
scrubbed (participle past)
scrubbed (past)

From Middle English scrobben (“groom a horse with a currycomb”); from Middle Dutch schrobben (“clean by scrubbing”).

der

The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.

(databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets


dump

From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.

onomatopoeic

imitative

The new XML dump is coming soon.

(computing) An act of dumping, or its result.

(computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.


dump

en-verb

dump (third-person singular simple present dumps, present participle dumping, simple past and past participle dumped)

dumps (present singular third-person)
dumping (participle present)
dumped (participle past)
dumped (past)

→ French: domper

onomatopoeic

imitative

to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge

(transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.

dumpata

to copy data from a system to another place or system

(transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.


evil

en-adj

evil (comparative eviller or eviler or more evil, superlative evillest or evilest or most evil)

eviller (comparative)
eviler (comparative)
more evil (comparative)
evillest (superlative)
evilest (superlative)
most evil (superlative)

From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (compare Saterland Frisian eeuwel, Dutch euvel, Low German övel, German übel, Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 (ubils, “bad, evil”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂up(h₁)élos, a deverbal derivative of *h₂wep(h₁)-, *h₂wop(h₁)- (“treat badly”). Compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸelos, and Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣 (huwapp-ⁱ, “to mistreat, harass”), 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒉺𒀸 (huwappa-, “evil, badness”). See -le for the supposed suffix.
Alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h₃ewp- (“down, up, over”).

cog

Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.

(computing, programming, slang) Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.


pipe

→ Bengali: পাইপ (paip)

desc

→ Gulf Arabic: پيپ (pēp, bēb, “smoking pipe”), پايپ (pāyp, bāyb, “medium of transportation (sense 2.1)”)

→ Hindi: पाइप (pāip)

→ Japanese: パイプ (paipu)

→ Korean: 파이프 (paipeu)

→ Malay: paip

→ Maori: paipa

→ Russian: пайп (pajp)

→ Urak Lawoi': ปาเฮะ (pahëq)

From Middle English pīpe, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old English pīpe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Doublet of fife.
The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pīpe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), from pīpe (above) and Old French pipe (“liquid measure”). In specific contexts, calques similar units of measure such as Portuguese pipa.
The verb is from Middle English pīpen, pypyn (“to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone”), from Old English pīpian (“to pipe”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

inh

(computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.

roura

computing: mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another

A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.

(computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.

pleca

data backbone or broadband Internet access

While parseing an xml document( sax parser ), trying to replace ' | ' with ' & ' , it finds the pipe, but won't replace with amper.

2001 July 13, JimmyMac, “java and xml”, in comp.lang.java.help (Usenet):

(computing, typography) The character |.

Meanings relating to computing.
The character |.


pipe

en-verb

pipe (third-person singular simple present pipes, present participle piping, simple past and past participle piped)

pipes (present singular third-person)
piping (participle present)
piped (participle past)
piped (past)

onomatopoeic

imitative

(transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.


quiet

en-adj

quiet (comparative quieter or more quiet, superlative quietest or most quiet)

quieter (comparative)
more quiet (comparative)
quietest (superlative)
most quiet (superlative)

From Middle English quiete, from Old French quiet (adjective) and quiete (noun), from Latin quiētus, past participle of quiēscere (“to keep quiet, rest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“rest”). Doublet of coy, quit, quite, and quietus. Largely displaced native English still in the sense of "with little or no sound".

doublet

a quiet install

(software) Requiring little or no interaction.


mask

Borrowed from Middle French masque (“a covering to hide or protect the face”), from Italian maschera (“mask, disguise”), from (a byform of, see it for more) Medieval Latin masca, mascha, a borrowing of Proto-West Germanic *maskā from which English mesh is regularly inherited.
Replaced Old English grīma (“mask”), whence grime, and displaced non-native Middle English viser (“visor, mask”) borrowed from Old French viser, visier.
Compare also Hebrew מַסֵּכָה (masseiḥa).

maski

two-color bitmap used to create transparency in an image

(computing, programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.

maski

(computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.


mask

en-verb

mask (third-person singular simple present masks, present participle masking, simple past and past participle masked)

masks (present singular third-person)
masking (participle present)
masked (participle past)
masked (past)

That is, the lower nibble (the 4 bits 1010 = A) has been masked to zero. This is because ANDing anything with a zero produces a zero, while ANDing any bit with a 1 leaves the bit unchanged[…]

1993, Richard E. Haskell, Introduction to computer engineering, page 287:

(transitive, computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.

Some hardware interrupts can be masked, or disabled; that is, the CPU is told to ignore them.

1998, Rick Grehan, Robert Moote, Ingo Cyliax, Real-Time Programming: A Guide to 32-bit Embedded Development, page 199:

(transitive, computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.

piilottaa

computing: to disable by setting or unsetting the associated bit


generation

en-noun

generation (countable and uncountable, plural generations)

/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/

Inherited from Middle English generacioun, from Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin generātiō, from generāre (“to beget, generate”). By surface analysis, generate + -ion.

inh+

It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders.

1989 November 20, Dean Hickerson, “Life: glider gun origin”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

The glider is fast--it moves 2 cells every 3 generations. There is also a spinning thing (sixty degrees every 21 generations)

1999 June 15, hexatron, “A new hexagonal CA with a new glider”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

In B37/S23, it goes symmetrical after 10 ticks, and produces a familiar pair of B-heptominoes after 23 ticks (the next generation after this can be found in the rotor of a standard B3/S23 p46 oscillator):

2008 June 25, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

(cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.


drag

en-verb

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

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

From Middle English draggen (“to drag”), early Middle English dragen (“to draw, carry”), confluence of Old English dragan (“to drag, draw, draw oneself, go, protract”) and Old Norse draga (“to draw, attract”); both from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, drag”).
Verb sense influenced due to association with the noun drag (“that which is hauled or dragged”), related to Low German dragge (“a drag-anchor, grapnel”). Cognate with Danish drægge (“to dredge”), Danish drage (“to draw, attract”), Swedish dragga (“to drag, drag anchor, sweep”), Swedish draga (“to draw, go”), Icelandic draga (“to drag, pull”). Doublet of draw.

cog

look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards

Drag the file into the window to open it.

(graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.

trække

computing: to move a cursor while holding down a button on the mouse


localization

en-noun

localization (countable and uncountable, plural localizations)

/ˌləʊkəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/

From localize + -ation; compare French localisation.

გაქართულება

specifically meaning localization to Georgian only

(software engineering) The act, process, or result of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region.

localització

software engineering: act or process of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region

översättning c (applicable to translation)

(translation studies, chiefly software, marketing) The act, process, or result of adapting translated text to fit a local culture; domestication.


localize

en-verb

localize (third-person singular simple present localizes, present participle localizing, simple past and past participle localized)

localizes (present singular third-person)
localizing (participle present)
localized (participle past)
localized (past)

From local + -ize. Compare French localiser.

We need to localize our software for the Japanese market.

en:adapt to a particular place, transitively

(software engineering, marketing, transitive) To adapt (a product or service) for use in a particular country or region, typically by translating text into the language of that country and modifying currencies, date formats, etc.

локализирам

to adapt a product for use in a particular country or region

the ethical dilemma faced when to localize is to self-censor

(translation studies, chiefly software, marketing) To adapt translated text to fit a local culture; to domesticate.


synthesizer

→ Hebrew: סינתיסייזר (síntisayzer)

sintetizues

music: an electronic keyboard instrument

سِنْثِسَيْزَر

music: an electronic instrument module without a keyboard

(software) A software program that allows a computer to be used as a musical instrument – virtual instrument


alert

From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l’erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).

(computing) Synonym of bell (“bell character”).


information

en-noun

information (usually uncountable, plural informations)

/ˌɪn.fəˈmæɪ.ʃən/

From Middle English informacion, enformacion, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”).

der

information and communications technology

(computing, formally) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.

(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.

information technology
information technology

(information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).


directory

From Middle English directorie, dyrectorye, from Medieval Latin dīrectōrium. Doublet of directorium.

/dɪˈɹɛktəɹi/

(computing) A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.

(computing) A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other directories may be stored. The files and subdirectories in a directory are usually related.


group

→ Gulf Arabic: قروب (grūp)

→ Japanese: グループ (gurūpu)

→ Korean: 그룹 (geurup)

→ Tongan: kulupu

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Frankish *krupp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”). In the sense of group theory coined (in French, as groupe) by Évariste Galois.
Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.

(computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.


stealth

en-verb

stealth (third-person singular simple present stealths, present participle stealthing, simple past and past participle stealthed)

stealths (present singular third-person)
stealthing (participle present)
stealthed (participle past)
stealthed (past)

From Middle English stelthe, from Old English stǣlþ, from Proto-Germanic *stēliþō, equivalent to steal + -th. Compare Old English stalu (“theft, stealth”), Old High German stāla (“theft”), German Diebstahl (“theft”).

(especially military, computing) To conceal or infiltrate through the use of stealth.


bulletin board system

en-noun

bulletin board system (plural bulletin board systems)

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As companies increase their use of microcomputer-based bulletin board systems, microcomputer managers are finding themselves saddled with the responsibility of being system operators for the boards.

1986 April 21, Melissa Calvo, “Managers Say Bulletin Boards Part of Job”, in InfoWorld, volume 8, number 16, →ISSN, page 18:

Hackers and hacker clubs primarily communicate by means of bulletin board systems. It is estimated that there are about 1,300 underground bulletin boards in the U.S.

2001, Sanjiv Purba, Architectures for E-Business Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 702:

(computing, historical) A type of computer system, now largely obsolete, used to exchange messages and data over a telecommunications network.

電子佈告欄 /电子布告栏

computer system to exchange messages and data


context

context (countable and uncountable, plural contexts)

(programming) The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.


kernel

→ Japanese: カーネル (kāneru)

From Middle English kernel, kirnel, kürnel, from Old English cyrnel, from Proto-West Germanic *kurnil, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kurną (“seed, grain, corn”), equivalent to corn + -le. Cognate with Yiddish קערנדל (kerndl), Middle Dutch kernel, cornel, Middle High German kornel. Related also to Old Norse kjarni (“kernel”).

der

The Linux kernel is open-source.

(computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.

نَوَاة

(computing) central part of many computer operating systems

(computing) The core engine of any complex software system.

(programming) The simplified input to an algorithm that has undergone kernelization.

(mathematics, category theory) For a category with zero morphisms: the equalizer of a given morphism and the zero morphism which is parallel to that given morphism.


fast

en-adj

fast (comparative faster, superlative fastest)

faster (comparative)
fastest (superlative)

slow

antonym(s) of “occurring or happening within a short time”

From Middle English fast, fest, from Old English fæst (“firm, secure”), from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology.
The development of “rapid” from an original sense of “secure” apparently happened first in the adverb and then transferred to the adjective; compare hard in expressions like “to run hard”. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now slightly archaic, but retained in the related fasten (“make secure”). Also compare close meaning change from Latin rapiō (“to snatch”) to Latin rapidus (“rapid, quick”), from Irish sciob (“to snatch”) to Irish sciobtha (“quick”).

алас

moving or capable of moving with great speed

masalusu

velocity of a flowing liquid in a body of water

don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly

But at the microlevel it consists of an unimaginable number of atoms connected by springy chemical bonds, all jiggling around at a rate that even our fastest supercomputer might envy.

2007 November 18, Jim Holt, “Mind of a Rock”, in The New York Times:

(computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.

nopea

computing: able to transfer data in a short period of time


file

→ Armenian: ֆայլ (fayl)

→ Azerbaijani: fayl

→ Belarusian: файл (fajl)

→ Bulgarian: файл (fajl)

→ Bengali: ফাইল (phail)

→ Burmese: ဖိုင် (hpuing)

→ Dutch: file

→ Estonian: fail

→ Finnish: faili

→ German: File

→ Hindi: फ़ाइल (fāil)

→ Hungarian: fájl

→ Italian: file

→ Japanese: ファイル (fairu)

→ Korean: 파일 (pail)

→ Lao: ໄຟລ໌ (fain)

→ Latvian: fails

→ Lithuanian: failas

→ Macedonian: фајл (fajl)

→ Malay: fail

→ Maltese: fajl

→ Oromo: faayila

→ Persian: فایل (fâyl)

→ Portuguese: file

→ Russian: файл (fajl)

→ Kazakh: файл (fail)

→ Kyrgyz: файл (fayl)

→ Mongolian: файл (fajl)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: фајл

Latin script: fajl

→ Slovak: fajl

→ Swahili: faili

→ Tajik: файл (fayl)

→ Thai: ไฟล์ (faai)

→ Turkmen: faýl

→ Ukrainian: файл (fajl)

→ Urdu: فائل (fāil)

→ Uzbek: fayl

→ Welsh: ffeil

From Old French fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”). Doublet of filum.

I'm going to delete these unwanted files to free up some disk space.

(computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.

(computing) The primary item on the menu bar, containing commands such as open, save, print, etc.


edit

Back-formation from editor, influenced by French éditer (“edit, publish”) and Latin editus.

(computing) A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.


edit

en-verb

edit (third-person singular simple present edits, present participle editing, simple past and past participle edited)

edits (present singular third-person)
editing (participle present)
edited (participle past)
edited (past)

Wikipedia is an interactive encyclopedia which allows anybody to edit and improve articles.

(computing) To change the contents of a file, website, etc.


view

model

antonym(s) of “part of computer program”

→ Japanese: ビュー (byū)

→ Korean: 뷰 (byu)

→ Persian: ویو (viyu)

From Middle English vewe, from Anglo-Norman vewe, from Old French veue f (French vue f), feminine past participle of veoir (“to see”) (French voir). Cognate with Italian vedere, as well as Portuguese and Spanish ver. Doublet of veduta and vista.

(computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.

(computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with

view

computing: user interface part of program


image

German: Image

Slovak: imidž

Russian: и́мидж (ímidž)

Armenian: իմիջ (imiǰ)

From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Displaced native Old English biliþe (“an image, a representation, resemblance, likeness; pattern, example”). Doublet of imago.

cog

Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.

(computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)


image

en-verb

image (third-person singular simple present images, present participle imaging, simple past and past participle imaged)

images (present singular third-person)
imaging (participle present)
imaged (participle past)
imaged (past)

(transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.


help

en-noun

help (usually uncountable, plural helps)

From Middle English help, from Old English help (“help, aid, assistance, relief”), from Proto-Germanic *helpō (“help”), *hilpiz, *hulpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- (“to help”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälpe (“help”), West Frisian help (“help”), Dutch hulp (“help”), Low German Hülp (“help”), German Hilfe (“help, aid, assistance”), Danish hjælp (“help”), Swedish hjälp (“help”), Norwegian hjelp (“help”).

inh

Southern US, African-American Vernacular, dated

I can't find anything in the help about rotating an image.

(computing) Documentation provided with computer software that could be accessed using the computer.

ndihmë

textual support of a software application


link

Azerbaijani: link

Belarusian: лінк (link)

Bulgarian: линк (link)

Catalan: link

Chinese:

Hong Kong Cantonese: link (ling1), 拎 (ling1)

Czech: link

Danish: link

Dutch: link

Estonian: link

Finnish: linkki

Georgian: ლინკი (linḳi)

German: link

Hebrew: לינק (línk)

Hindi: लिंक (liṅk)

Hungarian: link

Italian: link

Japanese: リンク (rinku)

Korean: 링크 (ringkeu)

Lower Sorbian: link

Macedonian: линк (link)

Persian: لینک (link)

Polish: link

Portuguese: link

Romanian: link

Serbo-Croatian: линк, link

Slovak: link

Spanish: link

Russian: линк (link)

Thai: ลิงก์ (líng)

Turkish: link

Ukrainian: лінк (link)

Yiddish: לינק (link)

From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chainlink”) and Old Norse *hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.

tejlidhje

computing: short for hyperlink — see also hyperlink

a chain is only as strong as its weakest link

A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.

(computing) The connection between buses or systems.

enllaç

computing: connection between buses or systems


link

en-verb

link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)

links (present singular third-person)
linking (participle present)
linked (participle past)
linked (past)

(software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.


window

en-noun

window (countable and uncountable, plural windows)

From Middle English wyndowe, wyndown, from Old Norse vindauga (“window”, literally “wind-eye; wind-hole”), equivalent to wind + eye. Cognate with Scots windae and windock, Faroese vindeyga, Norwegian Bokmål vindu, Norwegian Nynorsk vindauge, Danish vindue, archaic Swedish vindöga, Elfdalian windog and older German Windauge. Displaced native Old English ēagþȳrel (literally “eye hole”) (the rare direct descendant is eyethurl (“window, pupil, etc.”)). The “windows” among early Germanic peoples were just unglazed holes (eyes) in the wall or roof that permitted wind to pass through .

ncog

not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

(graphical user interface) A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.

(signal processing) A function multiplied with a signal to reduce spectral leakage when performing a Fourier transform.


window

en-verb

window (third-person singular simple present windows, present participle windowing, simple past and past participle windowed)

windows (present singular third-person)
windowing (participle present)
windowed (participle past)
windowed (past)

(transitive, signal processing) To apply a window function to (a signal).


hardware

→ Amharic: ሃርድዌር (hardəwer)

From Middle English hardware; equivalent to hard + -ware; attested since the mid-15th century.

Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.

1952, R.L. Michaelson, “Binary Arithmetic”, in The Incorporated Statistician, volume 3, number 1 (Feb. 1952), pages 35–40:

(computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.


refresh

refresh (third-person singular simple present refreshes, present participle refreshing, simple past and past participle refreshed)

refreshes (present singular third-person)
refreshing (participle present)
refreshed (participle past)
refreshed (past)

From Middle English refreshen, refreschen, refrisschen, from Old French refrescher (“to refresh”) (modern French rafraîchir), equivalent to re- + fresh.

virkistää

computing: to perform periodic energizing

She refreshed the page. She was still the high bidder. Good.

2007, Beth Harbison, Shoe Addicts Anonymous:

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To reload (a document, especially a webpage) and show any new changes.

обновявам

computing: to reload a document, web page etc.

You can save your code, refresh your browser, and see a change instantly. This simple trick turns a lowly web browser into a development environment […]

2007, Philip C Plumlee, Test Driven Ajax (on Rails):

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To cause (a web browser or similar software) to refresh its display.

aktualigi

computing: to cause to refresh a display


refresh

(computing) The update of a display (in a web browser or similar software) to show the latest version of the data.


memory

en-noun

memory (countable and uncountable, plural memories)

From Anglo-Norman memorie, Old French memoire etc., from Latin memoria (“the faculty of remembering, remembrance, memory, a historical account”), from memor (“mindful, remembering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (to remember), related to Ancient Greek μνήμη (mnḗmē, “memory”) μέρμερος (mérmeros, “anxious”), μέριμνα (mérimna, “care, thought”), Old English ġemimor (“mindful, remembering”). More at mimmer. Doublet of memoir and memoria. Displaced native Old English ġemynd.

cog

This data passes from the CPU to the memory.

My first microcomputer had 12K of memory. When I expanded to a full 64K, I thought I had all the memory I'd ever need. Hah. I know better now.

1987 July 27, Jerry Pournelle, “Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full”, in InfoWorld, volume 9, number 30, InfoWorld Media Group Inc, page 46:

(computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).


execute

en-verb

execute (third-person singular simple present executes, present participle executing, simple past and past participle executed)

executes (present singular third-person)
executing (participle present)
executed (participle past)
executed (past)

From Old French executer (French exécuter), from Latin exsecutus, past participle of exsequor (“to follow (up/through)”, particularly in the sense “to go through with a deed or punishment”), from ex- (“out”) + sequor (“to follow”).

نَفَّذَ

to start a defined process, without regard to whether it runs to completion or not

to execute a program

(transitive, computing) To start, launch, or run.

نَفَّذَ

to start a defined process and run it to completion

The program executed, but data problems were discovered.

(intransitive, computing) To run, usually successfully.


APL

(computer language): From the book A Programming Language (1962).

The language APL presents a number of novel problems for a compiler writer: weak variable typing, run time changes in variable shape, and a host of primitive operations, among others.

1988, Timothy Budd, An APL Compiler, Springer, →ISBN, page 1:

(computer languages) An early programming language using mathematically derived symbols for many of its operations.


(cryptography) Initialism of Message Digest 5, a cryptographic hash function.


GB

MB equals 10⁶ bytes and GB equals 10⁹ bytes

1989, IBM 3390 Direct Access Storage Reference Summary, IBM, page 7:

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of gigabyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of gibibyte.


ASP

application service provider
w:application service provider

(computing) Initialism of application service provider.


PHP

Originally an initialism of personal home page, used to describe a set of tools written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. With the advent of PHP 3 which was no longer a limited language it was renamed to a recursive backronym: PHP: hypertext preprocessor.

(computer languages) A scripting language widely used to write Web applications.


PS

(computing, file format) PostScript, a page description language.


host

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis
Proto-Indo-European *pótis
Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis
Proto-Italic *hostipotis
Latin hospes
Old French ostebor.
Middle English hoste
English host
From Middle English hoste, from Old French oste (French: hôte), from Latin hospitem, accusative of hospes (“a host, also a sojourner, visitor, guest; hence, a foreigner, a stranger”), from *hostipotis, an old compound of hostis and the root of potis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis (“master of guests”), from *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, enemy”) and *pótis (“owner, master, host, husband”). Used in English since 13th century.

der

(computing, Internet) Any computer attached to a network.

ܡܐܲܪܚܵܢܵܐ

computing: computer attached to a network


host

en-verb

host (third-person singular simple present hosts, present participle hosting, simple past and past participle hosted)

hosts (present singular third-person)
hosting (participle present)
hosted (participle past)
hosted (past)

Kremvax hosts a variety of services.

CMU/TEK TCP/IP software uses an excessive amount of cpu resources for terminal support both outbound, when accessing another system, and inbound, when the local system is hosting a session.

1987 May 7, Selden E. Ball, Jr., “Re: Ethernet Terminal Concentrators”, in comp.protocols.tcp-ip (Usenet):

(computing, Internet) To run software made available to a remote user or process.

ܐܲܪܸܚ

computing: run software for a remote user or process


kata

From Japanese 型 (literally “pattern, model”).
In English use since the 1950s.

These kata will give you the C# syntax for inheritance.

2020, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, Head First C#, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 728:

(by extension, programming) A short programming exercise to improve one's skills through practice and repetition.


call

call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle called or (archaic) call'd)

calls (present singular third-person)
calling (participle present)
called (participle past)
called (past)
call'd (archaic participle past)
call'd (archaic past)
call (infinitive)

→ Kashubian: kolowac (United States)

From Middle English callen, from Old English ċeallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *golH-so- (“voice, cry”), from *gel(H)- (“to vocalize, call, shout”).
Cognates
* Scots call, caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”)
* Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”),
* German kallen (“to call”)
* Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”)
* Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”)
* Danish kalde (“to call, name”)
* Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”)
* Welsh galw (“to call, demand”)
* Polish głos (“voice”)
* Lithuanian gal̃sas (“echo”)
* Russian голос (golos, “voice”)
* Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).

meegaan

to match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet

call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel

call someone everything but a child of God

desperate times call for desperate measures

is that what the kids are calling it these days

A recursive function is one that calls itself.

(transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.


call

en-noun

call (countable and uncountable, plural calls)

→ Armenian: քոլ (kʻol)

→ Georgian: ქოლი (koli)

the call is coming from inside the house

(computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.

crida

computing: act of jumping to a subprogram


defenestrate

en-verb

defenestrate (third-person singular simple present defenestrates, present participle defenestrating, simple past and past participle defenestrated)

defenestrates (present singular third-person)
defenestrating (participle present)
defenestrated (participle past)
defenestrated (past)

Back-formation from defenestration, from Latin de- (“out”) + fenestra (“window”).

This posting was written on a Windows 95 PC,
Defenestrate it immediately. Install Linux. :-)

1998 December 17, Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.com.uk>, "Re: Coding speccy games in the good 'ole days", message-ID <48B60EA729%news@youmustbejoking.demon.com.uk>, comp.sys.sinclair, Usenet http://google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/msg/8b00481a8be589d2

◦ Enable one-click uninstalls of unwanted OS and application features with a Defenestrate icon.

2001 July 21, "Packet Rat" (pseudonym), "Judge Rat calls for a Microsoft defenestration", on GCN: Government Computer News

2007 May 16, Richard Stallman, speech, Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works,
Now of course people who want freedom shouldn't use Windows at all, you've got to defenestrate your computer, which means either you throw Windows out of the computer, or you throw the computer out the window.

(computing, transitive, humorous, slang) To remove a Windows operating system from a computer.


magic

en-noun

magic (usually uncountable, plural magics)

→ Japanese: マジック (majikku)

From Middle English magik, magyk, from Old French magique (noun and adjective), from Latin magicus (adjective), magica (noun use of feminine form of magicus), from Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós, “magical”), from μάγος (mágos, “magus”). Ultimately from Old Iranian, probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to be able to, to help; power, sorcerer”). Displaced native Old English ġealdor (survived in Middle English galder), and dwimmer.

toorkuns

use of rituals or actions exploiting the supernatural

աճպարարություն

illusion performed to give the appearance of magic or the supernatural

The stringstream class hides a lot of string parsing magic from us at this point.

2017, Jacek Galowicz, C++17 STL Cookbook, page 257:

Something producing successful and remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.

(computing, slang) Complicated or esoteric code that is not expected to be generally understood.


magic

The code is full of magic numbers and we can't figure out what they mean.

(programming) Being a literal number or string value with no meaning or context, not defined as a constant or variable


splash

Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-).

When the splash appears with Please wait, wait for Windows to start configuration.

2008, Ron Carswell, Heidi Webb, Guide to Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005:


ABC

en-noun

ABC (countable and uncountable, plural ABCs)

Atanasoff-Berry computer
w:Atanasoff-Berry computer

(computing) Initialism of Atanasoff-Berry computer.

artificial bee colony
artificial bee colony#English

(computing) Initialism of artificial bee colony.


ABC

(computer languages) An imperative general-purpose programming language, intended for teaching or prototyping.


ABC

Like QWERTY, the name is based on the first letter keys.

(computing, typography) A keyboard layout in which all keys are arranged in alphabetical order in English.


output

output (countable and uncountable, plural outputs)

From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.

a six-page output; six pages of output

That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.

(computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another.

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(computing, electrical engineering) The terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.


output

en-verb

output (third-person singular simple present outputs, present participle outputting, simple past and past participle output or outputted)

outputs (present singular third-person)
outputting (participle present)
output (participle past)
output (past)
outputted (participle past)
outputted (past)

When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.

(computing) To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another.


kick

kick (third-person singular simple present kicks, present participle kicking, simple past and past participle kicked)

kicks (present singular third-person)
kicking (participle present)
kicked (participle past)
kicked (past)
kick (infinitive)

→ German: kicken

→ Welsh: cicio

From Middle English kyken (“to strike out with the foot”), from Old Norse kikna (“to sink at the knees”) and keikja (“to bend backwards”) (compare Old Norse keikr (“bent backwards, the belly jutting forward”)), from Proto-Germanic *kaikaz (“bent backwards”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kī-, *kij- (“to split, dodge, swerve sidewards”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyH- (“to sprout, shoot”). Compare also Dutch kijken (“to look”), Middle Low German kīken (“to look, watch”). See keek.

штовхну́ти

ного́ю; нога́ми

In the meantime, it is possible for the embedded software to “kick” the watchdog timer, to reset its counter to the original large number.

1999, Michael Barr, Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++, page 98:

From now on the process has to periodically kick the watchdog timer in intervals shorter than the initialization interval.

2012, Tarek Sobh, Khaled Elleithy, Emerging Trends in Computing, Informatics, Systems Sciences, and Engineering, page 763:

(computing, transitive) To reset (a watchdog timer).


CD

en-noun

CD (countable and uncountable, plural CDs)

Abbreviation of various terms and phrases.

collision detection
collision detection#English

(networking) Initialism of collision detection.

Coordinate term: CI

continuous delivery
continuous delivery#English

(software engineering) Initialism of continuous delivery/deployment.


PET

PET (countable and uncountable, plural PETs)

The name of the computer (sense 4) derives from the 1970s pet rock fad; the acronym was invented afterwards.

Why is the order of graphical characters in the PETSCII table so seemingly haphazard? The answer is that arrangement was dictated by the PET keyboard design, a hardware-driven decision.

2014, Nick Montfort et al., 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 225:

personal electronic transactor
w:Commodore PET

(countable, historical, computing, backronym) Acronym of personal electronic transactor, a line of personal computers produced by Commodore International.


GCC

* (GNU Compiler Collection): GCC was originally an acronym for "GNU C Compiler", now a backronym for "GNU Compiler Collection".
* (Gulf Cooperation Council): Initialism of Gulf Cooperation Council.

(computing) Initialism of GNU Compiler Collection. It is a collection of compilers for C, C++, Fortran, etc. aiming to be standards-compliant and correct.


division

division (countable and uncountable, plural divisions)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin dīvīsiō, dīvīsiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.

remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.


dev

dev (countable and uncountable, plural devs)

French: dev


dummy

From dumb + -y. Pacifier sense from dummy teat where dummy is in the sense of a nonfunctional replica.

мор

bridge: the partner of the winning bidder, who shows his or her hand

If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.

(programming) An unused parameter or value.


Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin nūllus.

(computing) The null character; the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, which indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.

Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null.

(computing) The attribute of an entity that has no valid value.


en-verb

null (third-person singular simple present nulls, present participle nulling, simple past and past participle nulled)

nulls (present singular third-person)
nulling (participle present)
nulled (participle past)
nulled (past)

A nulled or a cracked plugin is basically a hacked version of a paid plugin that offers its premium functionalities for free.

2020, Tejas Mayekar, Destroyed In Seconds: 10 Mistakes That Will Destroy Your Website, page 6:

(computing, slang, transitive) To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).


void

→ Welsh: foed

From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.

In particular, the roll method is void — it has no return value.

2005, Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns:

The return value can safely be ignored if it is a void function.

2007, Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development:

(programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.


ping

Partly onomatopoeic, and partly continuing Middle English pingen (“to push, shove, pierce, stab, prod, goad, urge, feel remorse, incite”), from Old English pyngan (“to prick”), in turn likely from pungere. Compare English pang.

inh

The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.

(networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.

ping

a packet which a remote host is expected to echo

2000 April 4, CaPRubberchecks, “Low-Ping servers...YIKES!”, in alt.games.starsiege.tribes (Usenet):

"You low ping c**t, you only win cos of your ping!"
> > And other such insights into why I was winning.

2000 November 8, the_mad...@my-deja.com, “HL DM with a low ping.......”, in alt.games.half-life (Usenet):

2001 August 2, Asha, “high ping in cs low ping outside cs??”, in alt.games.half-life.counterstrike (Usenet):

Your best bet to negate lag is to go to a server using the zero ping mutator. This will compensate for your high ping when using a pistol, sniper or […]

2002 June 24, drip, “Bandwidth - Lagtime”, in alt.games.unreal.tournament (Usenet):


ping

en-verb

ping (third-person singular simple present pings, present participle pinging, simple past pinged or (nonstandard) pang, past participle pinged or (nonstandard) pung)

pings (present singular third-person)
pinging (participle present)
pinged (past)
pang (nonstandard past)
pinged (participle past)
pung (nonstandard participle past)

Coordinate term: poll

I'm pinging their server.

The server pings its affiliates periodically.

Just because you cannot ping a server or telnet to it does not mean that the server is down or inaccessible.

2008, Allan Reid, Jim Lorenz, Working at a Small-to-Medium Business or ISP, Cisco Press, →ISBN:

(networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.

pinguejar

to send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present


STS

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
w:SharePoint

(software) Initialism of SharePoint Team Services (the first name given to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation).

SharePoint Team Services

(software) Initialism of Spring Tool Suite.


alpha

en-noun

alpha (countable and uncountable, plural alphas)

From the Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha), the first letter of the Greek alphabet, from the Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, “aleph”). Doublet of alif and aleph.

We will assume you got the .tgz version—later 2.x series versions such as 2.5.2 or 2.6.0 should be okay, provided they are production releases (not alphas, betas, or release candidates).

2007, Mark Summerfield, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming, Pearson Education, →ISBN:

(software engineering) The first versions of a program, usually only available to the developer, and only tested by the developer.

(computer graphics) The level of translucency of a color, as determined by the alpha channel.

(computer graphics) Ellipsis of alpha layer.


beta

beta (countable and uncountable, plural betas)

From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.

The company is offering a public beta program to test the software.

(uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.

He quickly deduced our goal—ship a quality beta—but he also quickly discerned that we had no idea about the quality of the product because of our pile of untriaged bugs.

2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans, page 107:

Before Evolve had even seen its first beta, the game's publisher dipped its toe into presenting it as an eSport.

2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica:

(countable) Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.

beta levels; beta characters; beta items in a video game

(proscribed, uncountable) Any kind of content from early development that was not used in the final product.


beta

(computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.


beta

en-verb

beta (third-person singular simple present betas, present participle betaing, simple past and past participle betaed)

betas (present singular third-person)
betaing (participle present)
betaed (participle past)
betaed (past)

(computing) To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.


gamma

en-noun

gamma (countable and uncountable, plural gammas)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γάμμα (gámma). Doublet of gimel.

gamma correction
gamma correction#English

(computer graphics) Synonym of gamma correction.


download

en-verb

download (third-person singular simple present downloads, present participle downloading, simple past and past participle downloaded)

downloads (present singular third-person)
downloading (participle present)
downloaded (participle past)
downloaded (past)

→ Danish: downloade

→ Dutch: downloaden

→ German: downloaden; herunterladen (calque)

desc

→ Lao: ດາວໂຫຼດ (dāo lōt)

→ Lao: ດາວໂຫຼດ (dāo lōt)

→ Malay: muat turun (calque)

→ Maltese: ddawnlowdja

→ Thai: ดาวน์โหลด (daao-lòot)

Download
Scientific American
Times Record News

From down- + load. Verbal form first appears c. 1962 in the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times. Nominal form first appears c. 1977 in Scientific American.

Voiceover: You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow and then steal it again. Downloading films is stealing. If you do it you WILL face the consequences.
Roy: Man, these anti-piracy ads are getting really mean.

2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3

You can download a trial version of the program for thirty days to determine whether you want to purchase the full version.

(transitive, computing) To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.

نَزَّلَ

to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one


cloudlet

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

The idea is to use the cloudlet as a flexible gateway or portal to access the distant cloud. The cloudlet can be implemented on PCs, workstations or low-cost servers.

2017, Kai Hwang, Min Chen, Big-Data Analytics for Cloud, IoT and Cognitive Computing, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(computing) A small-scale cloud data center deployed at the edge.


delta

From Ancient Greek δέλτα (délta), borrowed from a Phoenician word for "door", ultimately from Proto-Semitic *dalt-. Doublet of dalet.
* (river): from the triangular shape of the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ
* (USSF): from the delta wing, symbol of the USSF, a triangular wing, shaped like the majuscule Greek letter delta Δ

When you update the file, the system will only save the deltas.

(computing) The set of differences between two versions of a file.

muutos

computing: set of differences between two versions of a file

This will slow the main code path down, but only by delta.

(computing, informal) A small but noticeable effect. Compare epsilon.


delta

en-verb

delta (third-person singular simple present deltas, present participle deltaing, simple past and past participle deltaed)

deltas (present singular third-person)
deltaing (participle present)
deltaed (participle past)
deltaed (past)

Turingery worked on deltaed key to produce the deltaed contribution of the chi-wheels. Turing's discovery that delta-ing would reveal information otherwise hidden was essential to the developments that followed.

2007, B. J. Copeland, “Tunny and Colossus: Breaking the Lorenz Schlüsselzusatz traffic”, in Karl de Leeuw, Jan Bergstra, editors, The History of Information Security: A Comprehensive Handbook, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 458:

(cryptography) To calculate the differences between the characters in an enciphered text and the characters a fixed number of positions previous.

The primary function of this command is to delta the product version file (if it has been retrieved for edit). However, prior to deltaing the product version file, the work source tree is searched to verify that no other source files are still waiting to be deltaed.

1992, Israel Silverberg, Source File Management With SCCS, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 166:

(computing) To compare two versions of the same file in order to determine where they differ (where a programmer has made edits).


epsilon

en-noun

epsilon (countable and uncountable, plural epsilons or epsila)

From Ancient Greek ἒ ψιλόν (è psilón, “simple Ε”).

uder

All right, okay. My interest is epsilon.

2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 106:

Yes, we have to convert all the symbol names to upper case at startup, but that’s epsilon.

(computing, colloquial) Something negligible or insignificant.


graph

Clipping of graphic formula. From 1878; verb from 1889.

(category theory, of a morphism f) A morphism Γ_f from the domain of f to the product of the domain and codomain of f, such that the first projection applied to Γ_f equals the identity of the domain, and the second projection applied to Γ_f is equal to f.


binary code

en-noun

binary code (countable and uncountable, plural binary codes)

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

(computing) A code that uses the binary digits (1 and 0), usually in groups of eight, to represent characters, machine instructions or other data.


arity

arity (countable and uncountable, plural arities)

From -ary (taken from unary/binary/ternary [function/operator]) + -ity. Compare adicity and adinity.

(logic, mathematics, computer science) The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian product.

(mathematics, computer science) The maximum number of child nodes that any node in a given tree (data structure) may have.


CBS

(software) Initialism of Component-Based Servicing.


UPN

User Principal Name
w:User Principal Name

(computing) Initialism of User Principal Name.


feather

en-verb

feather (third-person singular simple present feathers, present participle feathering, simple past and past participle feathered)

feathers (present singular third-person)
feathering (participle present)
feathered (participle past)
feathered (past)

From Middle English feþer, from Old English feþer, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”).
See also West Frisian fear, German Low German Fedder, Dutch veder, veer, German Feder, Yiddish פֿעדער (feder), Danish fjer, Swedish fjäder, Icelandic fjöður, Faroese fjøður, Norwegian Bokmål fjær, fjør, Norwegian Nynorsk fjør. Also Ancient Greek πέτομαι (pétomai), Albanian shpend (“bird”), Latin penna, Old Armenian թիռ (tʻiṙ).

inh

(computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.


paragraph

/ˈpæɹəɡɹɑːf/

From Middle English paragraf, from Middle French paragraphe from Latin paragraphus (“sign for start of a new section of discourse”), from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos), from παρά (pará, “beside”) and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of paragraphos.

der

(computing) An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.


prune

en-verb

prune (third-person singular simple present prunes, present participle pruning, simple past and past participle pruned)

prunes (present singular third-person)
pruning (participle present)
pruned (participle past)
pruned (past)

From Middle English prunen, prounen, proinen, from Old French proignier (“to trim the feathers with the beak”), earlier prooignier, ultimately from Latin pro- ("front") + rotundus (“round”) 'to round-off the front'.

der

(transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.


lambda

From Ancient Greek λάμβδα (lámbda). Doublet of lamed.

lambda expression
lambda expression#English

(programming) Short for lambda expression.

(programming) Short for lambda function.


TM

en-noun

TM (countable and uncountable, plural TMs)

(computing) Initialism of Turing machine.


dl

(computing) Download; Alternative form of DL.


dl

en-verb

dl (third-person singular simple present dls, present participle dling, simple past and past participle dled)

dls (present singular third-person)
dling (participle present)
dled (participle past)
dled (past)


atom

→ Swahili: atomi

From Middle English attome, from Middle French athome, from Latin atomus (“smallest particle”), from Ancient Greek ἄτομος (átomos, “indivisible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”). Atoms are so named because historically the notion was that they were indivisible, given that chemically they are indeed so; the splitting of atoms awaited a later era of science and technology, and nonchemical means.

atoom

historical: theoretical particle of matter

atom

mathematics: member of a Boolean algebra

बूलियन बिजगणितीय प्रणालीतील एक घटक

(computing, programming, Lisp) An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value.


echo

en-noun

echo (countable and uncountable, plural echoes or echos)

From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.

(computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.

kaiutus

When someone asks an off-topic question […] they are usually quickly told to knock it off. You can't ask a question about modems in an echo devoted to local-area networks.

(computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.


echo

en-verb

echo (third-person singular simple present echoes, present participle echoing, simple past and past participle echoed)

echoes (present singular third-person)
echoing (participle present)
echoed (participle past)
echoed (past)

The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.

1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy:

(computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.


MSN

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft Network.

(computing, informal) Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger), an instant messaging client from Microsoft.


(software, publishing, typography) Abbreviation of PostScript Level 2.


bus

→ Arabic: بَاص (bāṣ)

⇒ Burmese: ဘတ်စ်ကား (bhatcka:)

→ Cantonese: 巴士

→ Mandarin: 巴士 (bāshì)

→ German: Bus m

→ Hindi: बस (bas)

→ Irish: bus

desctree

→ Japanese: バス (basu)
→ Hakka: 巴士 (pa-sṳ́)
→ Hokkien: 巴士 (bá-suh)
→ Kavalan: basu
→ Sakizaya: basu

→ Korean: 버스 (beoseu)

→ Kurtöp: བས (bas)

→ Malay: bas

→ Pashto: بس

⇒ Sanskrit: बसयान (basayāna)

→ Scottish Gaelic: bus

→ Thai: บัส (bát)

→ Tibetan: འབའ་སེ ('ba' se)

→ Urdu: بس

→ Welsh: bws

Clipping of omnibus. Formerly often spelt 'bus. The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.

(networking) A network topology with each computer connected to a single cable.


buggy

en-adj

buggy (comparative buggier, superlative buggiest)

buggier (comparative)
buggiest (superlative)

This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!

(computing) Containing programming errors.


PC

en-noun

PC (countable and uncountable, plural PCs)

(computing) Initialism of program counter.