tombstone

en-verb

tombstone (third-person singular simple present tombstones, present participle tombstoning, simple past and past participle tombstoned)

tombstones (present singular third-person)
tombstoning (participle present)
tombstoned (participle past)
tombstoned (past)

One of the many improvements in Windows 2000 WINS (and NT4 SP4) is the capability to selectively delete or tombstone records.

2000, William Boswell, Inside Windows 2000 Server, page 211:

(transitive, computing, Microsoft Windows) To replace (an object or data) with a tombstone marker.


busy beaver

(computing theory) A Turing machine that attains the maximum number of steps performed, or number of non-blank symbols finally on the tape, among all Turing machines in a certain class.


combining form

As far as possible this specification uses non-combining characters, however, in the cases tdot, TripleDot and DotDot Unicode only has combining forms of the accents, and so the entity replacement text starts with a space, to avoid the possibility that the expansion of the entity combines with preceding text.

2014 April 10, “XML Entity Definitions for Characters (2nd Edition)”, in David Carlisle, Patrick Ion, editors, w3.org, World Wide Web Consortium, retrieved 2015-03-22:

(computing, typography) A character encoded from a sequence of other characters instead of a precomposed character.


workaround

(computing) A procedure or a temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows a user to continue working until a better solution can be provided.

väliaikainen korjaus

(computing) a procedure or a temporary fix


compression

en-noun

compression (countable and uncountable, plural compressions)

Borrowed from Middle French compression, from Latin compressiō.

Due to the presence of long-range correlations in language [21], [22] it is not possible to compute accurate measures of the entropy by estimating block probabilities directly. More efficient nonparametric methods that work even in the presence of long-range correlations are based on the property that the entropy of a sequence is a lower bound to any lossless compressed version of it [15]. Thus, in principle, it is possible to estimate the entropy of a sequence by finding its length after being compressed by an optimal algorithm. In our analysis, we used an efficient entropy estimator derived from the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm that converges to the entropy [19], [23], [24], and shows a robust performance when applied to correlated sequences [25] (see Materials and Methods).

2011, Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damián H. Zanette, “Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families”, in PLoS ONE, retrieved 2012-09-26:

(computing) The process by which data is compressed.

компресиране

(computing) the process by which data is compressed


skype

en-verb

skype (third-person singular simple present skypes, present participle skyping or skypeing, simple past and past participle skyped)

skypes (present singular third-person)
skyping (participle present)
skypeing (participle present)
skyped (participle past)
skyped (past)

(transitive, computing) To make (a telephone call) using Skype software.

(transitive, computing) To send (a message or file) with Skype.

I'll skype you tomorrow. We can skype for a couple of hours.

While spatial mobility does cause discontinuity in social relationships and result in losing the support system from their home country (Rangaswamy 2000), yet the social ties of our participants have not dissolved as they have been able to maintain supportive networks in India through physical visits, e-mails, ‘skypeing’ to contacts in foreign places.

2013, S. Irudaya Rajan, editor, India Migration Report 2013: Social Costs of Migration, Routledge, →ISBN:

‘Where’s 007? He invited too?’ ‘He’s skypeing his mum. He’ll meet us down there.’

2015, Alan Carter, Bad Seed, Fremantle: Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 123:

And so Andy went home, still on a caffeine high, feeling excited about life as a graduate student, and instead of skypeing with Anja or going for a beer, he went online and read up on some of the relevant particle physics.

2015, Denis O’Sullivan, The Anthropist: A Curious Tale of Parallel Monogamy, Sex, Religion, Quantum Mechanics and Volleyball, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 21:

(transitive, intransitive, computing) To contact (a person) via Skype.


DDD

en-noun

DDD (countable and uncountable, plural DDDs)

(software design) Initialism of domain-driven design (“methodology and set of priorities for object oriented programming”).


blacklist

The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.

(law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.


whitelist

(law, computing) A list or collection of people or entities that are known, trusted, or explicitly permitted.


doublet

From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et.

zeke

(historical in English) a man’s waistcoat

(computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.


target language

target language (plural target languages)

(computing) The machine language into which source code is to be compiled.


source language

source language (plural source languages)

(computing) The language of the source code to be compiled.


decode

If and when the remaining Allied intercepts and decodes are opened up, we may expect to learn a great deal more about the later stages of the Holocaust.

2004, David Cesarani, Holocaust: Responses to the Persecution and Mass Murder of the Jews, page 148:

The British picked up a decode in November 1942 indicating that guards at Auschwitz would need six hundred gas masks.

2005, Richard Breitman, U.S. Intelligence And The Nazis, page 31:

Decodes stating that Hollandia airfields were becoming overcrowded with IJA aircraft waiting to stage forward to Wewak led to pre-emptive strikes by Allied air forces and the destruction of more than 300 Japanese aircraft on the ground.

2006, Ian Pfennigwerth, A Man of Intelligence, page 223:

He was sure that references to AK in the intercepts stood for Midway, but none of the decodes made the identification certain.

2011, Hervie Haufler, Codebreakers' Victory, page 192:

This version includes more than 400 decodes that cover everything from legacy decodes to popular decodes and new or updated decodes for such protocols as voice over IP H.323, Server Message Block, Border Gateway Protocol Version 4, and Internet Inter-ORB Protocol

1999, Laura Wonnacott, “Sniffer Pro sees some switches”, in Info World, page 37:

(computing) Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols


plain text

plaintext usually a single compound word in cryptography

Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket.

(cryptography) Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).

(computing) Data which consists only of human-readable unformatted text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatted/structured text. In this sense, the character data in between XML tags may be called "plain text".

raakateksti

data that consists only of human-readable text


plain text

(cryptography, computing) Alternative spelling of plaintext


-ware

From software. See also ware and warehouse.

(computing) Used to form mass nouns denoting specific classes of computer software, based on use, function, or method of distribution.


impostor

Borrowed from Middle French imposteur, respelled in the Latin manner; ultimately from Latin impositor, agent form of Latin imponere (“to impose”).

Coordinate term: billboard

(computer graphics) A sprite or animation integrated into a three-dimensional scene to look like part of the 3D world.


combo

→ Portuguese: combo

Combos and lists are two very powerful controls that allow the user to select from a predetermined set of values.

2000, Marcia Akins, Andy Kramek, Rick Schummer, 1001 Things You Wanted to Know about Visual FoxPro, page 127:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, informal) A combo box.


laptop

From lap (“upper legs of a seated person”) + top, modeled after desktop.

com

Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.

2006, Corey Sandler, Upgrading and Fixing Laptops For Dummies, page 8:

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

ܚܲܫܘܼܒ݂ܵܐ ܡܙܝܼܥܵܢܵܐ

ḥašūḇā mzīˁānā

hordozható számítógép

scarcely used, chiefly when talking to non-english speakers who tend not to understand the two loanwords


footer

→ Malay: pengaki (calque)

From Middle English footer, equivalent to foot + -er.

(computing) A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)

zápatí

line of information at the bottom of a page


clipping

en-noun

clipping (countable and uncountable, plural clippings)

(uncountable, signal processing) The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level.

(uncountable, computer graphics) The use of a mask to hide part of an object or image.


corrupted

en-adj

corrupted (comparative more corrupted, superlative most corrupted)

more corrupted (comparative)
most corrupted (superlative)

It proved impossible to recover any data from the corrupted disk.

(chiefly computing, software) Containing errors.


PCMCIA

w:Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

(computing) Initialism of Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, a plug and play peripheral device interface, typically for laptop computers.


PCMCIA

(computing, humorous, from the above) Initialism of people can't memorize computer industry acronyms.


GPU

graphics processing unit
graphics processing unit#English

electronic circuit
electronic circuit#English

(computer hardware) Initialism of graphics processing unit (an electronic circuit dedicated to generating graphics and displaying images).


crossover

(computing, of an Ethernet cable) Configured so that the transmit signals at one end are connected to the receive signals at the other.


nonet

From Italian nonetto, from nono (“ninth”).

The 9-bit nonet is a much more sensible representation.

2005, Mark R. Crispin, RFC 4042: UTF-9 and UTF-18:


graphical

(computing) Of, related to, or using graphics.


speller

But Word's spelling program still isn't fully integrated into the word processor. For one thing, any changes and corrections you make from the speller's menus don't appear on-screen until you get back to your original file.

1987, PC Mag, volume 6, number 17, page 358:


SPC

(software) Initialism of Software Productivity Consortium.


brouter

(computing) A network device that acts as both a bridge and a router by routing packets for known protocols and forwarding all others, as a bridge would.


WML

(computing) Initialism of wireless markup language: an XML-based document description language for creating content and user interfaces targeted at narrow-band devices implementing WAP such as mobile telephones and pagers.


unification

en-noun

unification (countable and uncountable, plural unifications)

Either from unify + -ification or from French unification

5.7.T ( Unification theorem ) For any two terms or formulas
 without quantifiers X and Y, the following holds.
(i) The unification algorithm UNIF₁, applied to X, Y,
 terminates after a finite number of steps.
(ii) {X, Y} is unifiable iff UNIF₁ so indicates upon ter-
 mination. Moreover, the substitution σ then available as out-
 put is a most general unifier of {X, Y}.

1982, Wolfgang Bibel, Automated Theorem Proving, Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, →ISBN, page 94:

specialisation order
specialisation order

(mathematical logic, computer science) Given two terms, their join with respect to a specialisation order.

合一

in mathematical logic or computer science


crufty

en-adj

crufty (comparative cruftier, superlative cruftiest)

cruftier (comparative)
cruftiest (superlative)

From cruft + -y. Arose after 1959, presumably mid-1960s. Perhaps influenced by cruddy, crusty.

(computing, informal) Relating to or containing cruft.

(computing, informal) Poorly built and overly-complex, and unpleasant.


killer poke

killer + poke (“the storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a computer program”).

killer poke n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped control register; used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and crash analog electronics in the monitor.

[1996, Eric S[teven] Raymond, comp., The New Hacker's Dictionary, 3rd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 270:

[F]rom what I recall the "killer poke" was POKE 59458,62 […] [W]hat it did was change an I/O line from input to output. The line connected to a signal related to vertical sync. The ROM routines that wrote to the display would wait until it was in vertical blank to avoid the "video snow" that otherwise resulted. The killer POKE would fool it into seeing the display always in vertical blank so it would write whenever. […] That this stressed the electronics was clear from the fact that the brief stint in the "killer" mode (a fraction of a second) often produced a bright flash followed by a dimmed and shrunk video display that would re-expand to its former self over the course of two seconds or so. Of course the later hardware also had the video snow thing fixed and the ROM no longer checked for vertical retrace, so the killer POKE disappeared.

1999 November 9, Markus Wandel, “Blowing Processors”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet), message-ID <809ej1$2ip$1@bcarh8ab.ca.nortel.com>:

Is frying someone's laptop remotely with a killer poke even possible? Even if it is, it may not achieve the desired effect, says Dave Dittrich, a computer specialist at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory, who is a specialist in the topic. "How expensive is it to buy a new one? $500? Cyber is not the same as physical when it comes to disabling 'weapons' to remove a threat."

2015 March 9, Danny Bradbury, “Should we hack the hackers?: Western companies are being fleeced for hundreds of millions by cybercriminals. Is it time to give them a dose of their own medicine?”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-03-06:

(computing) Any method of inducing physical harm to a computer or peripheral by software means, especially by inserting invalid values into a control register or by building up harmonic oscillations in a hard disk, etc.


Fido

From Spanish or Italian fido from Latin fīdus (“faithful”). Popularly claimed to be directly from Latin fīdō (“I trust, rely on”) instead of the Romance intermediary, but this might be folk etymology. The stereotypical dog's name is evidently very old; a newspaper from 1760 cites, "[a] small white Greyhound with a Collar, answers to the Name of Fido."


genned in

[…] a special set of console vectors is patched over the genned-in set to handle the PMMI modem instead of the normal horizon drivers.

1982, Lifelines, the Software Magazine, volume 3, page 27:

(informal, computing) Having had certain characteristics generated or installed.


STR

en-noun

STR (countable and uncountable, plural STRs)

(computing) Initialism of suspend to RAM.


DSO

(computing) Initialism of dynamic shared object.


occlusion

occlusion (countable and uncountable, plural occlusions)

Borrowed from Late Latin occlūsiō, occlūsiōnis (“occluding, obstruction”), from the Classical Latin occlūdō (“I shut up or close up; I restrain”), from ob + claudō (“I shut or close”).

der

(computing) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.


texel

Blend of texture + element, by analogy with pixel.

(computer graphics) An image representing the smallest unit of a texture that may be repeated to tile a region of the display.


time bomb

Donald Gene Burleson was prosecuted on felony charges for planting a time bomb that, shortly after he was fired, deleted more than 168,000 brokerage records of USPA & IRA in Fort Worth, Texas.

1994, Peter G. Neumann, Computer-Related Risks, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN:

(computing) A malicious program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date or time.

aikapommi

computing: program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date and/or time


supervisor

Attested since the 15th century C.E.; from Middle English supervisor, supervisour, supervysor, supervysour, from Latin supervīsor, from supervideō, in turn from super + videō. By surface analysis, supervise + -or.

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

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

(computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.


ERD

en-noun

ERD (countable and uncountable, plural ERDs)

entity-relationship diagram
entity-relationship diagram#English

(databases) Initialism of entity-relationship diagram.


injection

injection (countable and uncountable, plural injections)

/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/

Nicolas Bourbaki
Éléments de mathématique

Borrowed from Middle French injection, from Latin iniectio. The mathematical sense is from French injection, introduced by Nicolas Bourbaki in their treatise Éléments de mathématique.

(category theory) A morphism from either one of the two components of a coproduct to that coproduct.


timeserver

/ˈtʌɪmˌsəːvə/

(computing) A device, node or program that transmits the correct time to clients in a network.


time-share

en-verb

time-share (third-person singular simple present time-shares, present participle time-sharing, simple past and past participle time-shared)

time-shares (present singular third-person)
time-sharing (participle present)
time-shared (participle past)
time-shared (past)

timesharen

(transitive, computing) To use (a computer or communications band) by time-sharing.


time-sharing

(computing) A technique that allows many users to use a central computer simultaneously through remote terminals.

osituskäyttö

computing: technique to allow multiple users share a computer resource


clobber

clobber (third-person singular simple present clobbers, present participle clobbering, simple past and past participle clobbered)

clobbers (present singular third-person)
clobbering (participle present)
clobbered (participle past)
clobbered (past)

British slang from 1941; possibly onomatopoeic of the sound of detonated bombs in the distance.

It is therefore clear that the system itself must be truly "clobber proof"; that is, no user may be capable of changing anyone else's program or tying up the system in any way that would disrupt normal service to other users.

1965 November, Charles W. Adams, “Responsive time-shared computing in business its significance and implications”, in AFIPS '65 (Fall, part I): Proceedings of the November 30--December 1, 1965, fall joint computer conference, part I, New York, N.Y.: Association for Computing Machinery, archived from the original on 2022-05-11, page 486:

In the slang of computer programmers, the second re-entry address is likely to "clobber" the machine's memory of the original re-entry address.

1966, George A. Miller, “Thinking machines: myths and actualities”, in Daniel Bell, Irving Kristol, editors, The Public Interest, volume 2, New York, N.Y.: National Affairs, Inc., archived from the original on 2022-05-11, page 104:

Inferences made in accordance with this reason are defeated by finding that the merged plan clobbers one of the causal-links in one of the constituent plans.

1999, Michael J. Wooldridge, Anand Rao, Foundations of Rational Agency, page 74:

The cp command does one thing as it clobbers a file; mv and ln do another.

2004, John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young, Unix for Dummies, page 314:

These functions collide, and we can see in Figure 7-1 that the debug() function for SexyWidgets clobbers the developer′s debug() function. The last function declared with the same name in the same scope will silently clobber the earlier function definition.

2007, Billy Hoffman, Bryan Sullivan, Ajax Security, unnumbered page:

If you create your own mood instance attribute without being aware of the name clash, you will clobber the mood attribute used by the methods inherited from Dog.

2022, Luciano Ramalho, chapter 11, in Fluent Python, 2nd edition, O'Reilly, →ISBN:

(transitive, computing, slang) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.

přepsat

to overwrite or override, often unintentionally


pragma

From the Ancient Greek root πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “a thing done, a fact”). May be a back-formation from pragmatic.

This pragma stops the compiler from generating those warnings we don't care about.

(computing, programming) A compiler directive; data embedded in source code by programmers to indicate some intention to a compiler.

(computing, programming) In HTTP version 1.0 and 1.1, a general-header that specifies some implementation-specific directive, to any recipient, and may specify that the HTTP response should not be cached.


uncompress

uncompress (third-person singular simple present uncompresses, present participle uncompressing, simple past and past participle uncompressed)

uncompresses (present singular third-person)
uncompressing (participle present)
uncompressed (participle past)
uncompressed (past)

(computing, transitive) To restore a compressed file to its normal size.


decompress

decompress (third-person singular simple present decompresses, present participle decompressing, simple past and past participle decompressed)

decompresses (present singular third-person)
decompressing (participle present)
decompressed (participle past)
decompressed (past)

(transitive, computing) To restore (compressed data) to its original form.


niladic

(computing) Of an operator or function in a program, having no arguments.


toolbar

Some UIs tend to improve this by displaying toolbars only when they are related to any object manipulated (e.g., an image, a rectangle) and undisplaying them afterwards.

2005, Maria Francesca Costabile, Fabio Paternò, Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2005, page 199:

(graphical user interface) A row of buttons, usually marked with icons, used to activate the functions of an application or operating system.

alətlər paneli

row of icons in a graphical user interface


toolsmith

(computing) a person who creates utility programs


prologue

From Middle English prologue, prologe, from Old French prologue, from Latin prologus, from Ancient Greek πρόλογος (prólogos).

(computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.


crossgrade

crossgrade (third-person singular simple present crossgrades, present participle crossgrading, simple past and past participle crossgraded)

crossgrades (present singular third-person)
crossgrading (participle present)
crossgraded (participle past)
crossgraded (past)

Also if you are “crossgrading” from another platform such as Apple Logic, Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) Digital Performer, or Steinberg Cubase, you may be looking for features or trying to use keyboard commands that you are used to and wondering where these are in Pro Tools.

2009, Mike Collins, Pro Tools 8, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 7:

(computing, transitive) To upgrade (a software application) so that it is able to run on a different platform.


crossgrade

If you install the upgrade or cross-grade first and then perform your migration, you may accidentally wind up with corrupted application settings.

2009, Elna Tymes, Charles Prael, Switching to Microsoft Windows 7, Que Publishing, →ISBN:

(computing) An upgrade of a software application that enables it to run on a different platform.


caps

device caps

(programming) Abbreviation of capabilities.


hygienic

en-adj

hygienic (comparative more hygienic, superlative most hygienic)

more hygienic (comparative)
most hygienic (superlative)

/hʌɪd͡ʒɪˈɛnɪk/

From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.

Of course, anyone with a Scheme background is probably howling at this point because they have a hygienic macro system that makes unintended variable capture impossible. Allowing variable capture when we really, really want it makes Clojure's macro system technically more dangerous than hygienic systems.

2014, Colin Jones, Mastering Clojure Macros: Write Cleaner, Faster, Smarter Code, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:

(programming slang, of a macro) Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.


DM

en-noun

DM (countable and uncountable, plural DMs)

dimensional modeling
w:dimensional modeling

(computing, DWH) Initialism of dimensional modeling.


data transfer rate

data transfer rate (plural data transfer rates)

(computing) The transmission speed of a communications channel; measured in bits or bytes per second.


baitware

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

(computing) Freeware of deliberately poor quality with some, but generally not all, of the features of a software application, intended to entice those who download the freeware to buy the complete application.


finalize

en-verb

finalize (third-person singular simple present finalizes, present participle finalizing, simple past and past participle finalized)

finalizes (present singular third-person)
finalizing (participle present)
finalized (participle past)
finalized (past)

(transitive, computing, programming) To prepare (an object) for garbage collection by calling its finalizer.


dot-commer

Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels, laid-off dotcommers who aren't at strip clubs or absorbed into massively multiplayer online games […]

2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 448:

(computing) Someone who works (or worked) for a dotcom company.


database administrator

en-noun

database administrator (plural database administrators)

database administrators (plural)
as DBA (abbreviation)

(databases) A person who is responsible for the logical and physical design of databases, and normally for all aspects of their recoverability, integrity, security, availability and performance.


database analyst

database analyst (plural database analysts)

(computing) a person who is responsible for the logical and physical design of databases


munge

en-verb

munge (third-person singular simple present munges, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)

munges (present singular third-person)
munging (participle present)
munged (participle past)
munged (past)

Variant of mung; likely a misconstructed back-formation from munging, munged or munger.

As a part of the code review with the development team, notify them that you want to have these options as a part of the installation script, rather than you munging the installation scripts during deployment.

2011, Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration:

(transitive, computing, informal) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner, as for example when data wrangling requires nonsystemic or nonsystematic edits.

pulauttaa

transform data in an undefined/unexplained manner

Munging is effective — it prevents unwanted email from reaching you by keeping your real email address out of the clutches of the address-harvesting programs.

1998, Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel, Stopping spam:

(transitive, computing, informal) To add a spamblock to (an email address).


spamblock

(computing) Text inserted into an email address in order to make it invalid, though still readable to a human being. For example, in "jsmith-[AT]-example-[DOT]-com", the "@" and "." symbols have been replaced with literal text to prevent automated spambots from finding the email address while still leaving it readable.


spamblock

spamblock (third-person singular simple present spamblocks, present participle spamblocking, simple past and past participle spamblocked)

spamblocks (present singular third-person)
spamblocking (participle present)
spamblocked (participle past)
spamblocked (past)

(computing) To obfuscate (an email address) with a spamblock.


addressing

en-noun

addressing (usually uncountable, plural addressings)

(computing) Any of several methods of locating and accessing information within storage

adresado

any of several methods of locating and accessing information


hot spot

titik panas

location which has a higher temperature or amount of radiation than surrounding areas

пизэке

(figuratively) A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.

A part of an application that consumes a significant amount of execution time.

(graphical user interface) A part of a control (“an interactive interface element”) that responds dynamically as a user moves a pointer over it (for example, a part of an image map that contains a hyperlink which can be clicked on with a cursor).

(Internet, networking) A location in which Wi-Fi Internet access is available.


Tom, Dick and Harry

Three common first names; many languages have similar formations, see translations.

(business, programming, uncommon) Three hypothetical customers, user personas, or similar constructs.


flyweight pattern

flyweight pattern (plural flyweight patterns)

structural design pattern
structural pattern

(computing, object-oriented computing) A structural design pattern in which an object contains no pointers to data type methods.


design pattern

software engineering
software engineering

(architecture, software engineering) A formal way of documenting a general reusable solution to a design problem in a particular field of expertise.

návrhový vzor

general solution to a variety of similar problems


data type

(programming) A classification or category of various types of data, that states the possible values that can be taken, how they are stored, and what range of operations are allowed on them.


Ravenscar

Recorded as Rauenesere 1312, from Old Norse hrafn + sker, so Peak must have been a later renaming.
The computing term was derived from the name of the village, the location of the 8th International Real-Time Ada Workshop (IRTAW 8).

(computing) Acronym of Reliable Ada Verifiable Executive Needed for Scheduling Critical Applications in Real Time.


monomorphic

/ˌmɑnoʊ̯ˈmɔɹfɪk/

From mono- (“one”) + -morphic (“of a form”).

(programming, of a function) Taking only a single data type.


troubleshooter

(computing) A software program or routine that attempts to diagnose a problem with the system.


MSP

Message Send Protocol
w:Message Send Protocol

(networking) Initialism of Message Send Protocol.


subscriber

An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn't care if there are any subscribers.

2013, Addy Osmani, Developing Backbone.js Applications, page 175:

(programming) A system or component that subscribes to something, such as an event, made available by a publisher.


sign in

en-verb

sign in (third-person singular simple present signs in, present participle signing in, simple past and past participle signed in)

signs in (present singular third-person)
signing in (participle present)
signed in (participle past)
signed in (past)

(computing) To take some action to access a secured program or web page on a computer; to log in.


bluescreen

bluescreen (third-person singular simple present bluescreens, present participle bluescreening, simple past and past participle bluescreened)

bluescreens (present singular third-person)
bluescreening (participle present)
bluescreened (participle past)
bluescreened (past)

From blue + screen; derived from "blue screen of death".

His computer bluescreened because of the prerelease software.

(intransitive, computing) To experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware.


wheel war

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From wheel (“superuser on certain systems”) + war.

compound

WHEEL WARS. A period during which student wheels hack each other by attempting to log each other out of the system, delete each other’s files, or otherwise wreak havoc—usually at the expense of the lesser users. A battle of Titans (heh heh).

[1983, Guy L. Steele Jr., Donald R. Woods, Raphael A. Finkel, Mark R. Crispin, Richard M. Stallman, Geoffrey S. Goodfellow, The Hacker’s Dictionary: A Guide to the Computer Underground, New York: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 123:

Wikipedia policy prohibits “wheel wars”—cases in which a Wikipedia administrator repeatedly undoes the action of another—just as it prohibits edit wars.

2008, Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 290:

Many of us prefer to ask a colleague to intervene in a situation in which we risk entering a “wheel war” (when two or more editors revert each others’ edits over and over) or when we believe we need a consultation with a fresh eye.

2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 52:

(computing, slang) A conflict in which users of a given computer system or (later) wiki who have administrative privileges try to lock each other out of the system or repeatedly attempt to reverse each other’s administrative actions.


executable code

Other types of macros, shell scripts, batch files, interpretable source code, even Postscript files also contain executable code, and are, in theory, vulnerable to virus attack.

2003, Maximum Security, fourth, →ISBN, page 324:

The script itself contains variable and command substitution, the read command, and a while loop to get everything done in less than 10 lines of executable code!

2008, Arnold Robbins, Nelson H. F. Beebe, Classic Shell Scripting: Hidden Commands that Unlock the Power of Unix, →ISBN, page 158:

“Scripts” are distinct from the executable code of the application, as they are usually written in a different language with distinct semantics.

2012, Ivan Ivanov, Marten van Sinderen, Boris Shishkov, editors, Cloud Computing and Services Science, →ISBN, page 7:

(computing) Instructions for a computer in a form the computer can directly use (i.e. which it can execute). Derived from source code by compiling or assembling and linking.

可執行代碼 /可执行代码

code in the form a computer can directly use


USN

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of update sequence number.


elasticity

en-noun

elasticity (countable and uncountable, plural elasticities)

(computing) A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.

(computing) A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.


timestamp

From time + stamp (noun); the verb sense derives from the noun.

(especially computing) A variable containing the date and time at which an event occurred, often included in a log to track the sequence of events.


timestamp

en-verb

timestamp (third-person singular simple present timestamps, present participle timestamping, simple past and past participle timestamped)

timestamps (present singular third-person)
timestamping (participle present)
timestamped (participle past)
timestamped (past)

(transitive, especially computing) To record the date and time of (an event, etc).


ascii

(computing) Alternative letter-case form of ASCII


briefcase

You create a briefcase called Files where you store all your important documents. The briefcase is stored on your Tablet PC's C: drive, and the source files reside on your server.

2004, Craig Forrest Mathews, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Tablet PCs, page 202:

(computing) In Microsoft Windows, a folder that supports file synchronization between itself and another folder.


flashback

→ German: Flashback

→ Spanish: flashback

→ Norwegian: flashback

→ Portuguese: flashback

As noted, that method provides limited support for multi-table flashbacks.

2004, Kevin Loney, Oracle Database 10g The Complete Reference, page 497:

[…] less used and specialized types of queries, including composite queries, hierarchical queries, version flashbacks, and parallel queries.

2004, Gavin J. T. Powell, Carol McCullough-Dieter, Oracle SQL: Jumpstart with Examples, page xxv:

(databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.


keypress

(computing) The buffered electrical signal resulting from such an event, sometimes distinguished from the release.


code signing

(computing) the attachment of a digital certificate (from a certification authority) to an executable program to ensure its legitimacy


typecast

typecast (third-person singular simple present typecasts, present participle typecasting, simple past and past participle typecast or typecasted)

typecasts (present singular third-person)
typecasting (participle present)
typecast (participle past)
typecast (past)
typecasted (participle past)
typecasted (past)

Does anyone know how to typecast a String in Java into an int?

(programming) To cast (change of data type of a variable or object).

конверти́ране на ти́пове

to change an entity of one datatype into another


control panel

(by extension, graphical user interface) A computer display offering a number of controls or options.


clustering

(computing) The undesirable contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.


motherboard

→ Bengali: মাদারবোর্ড (madarbōrḍ)

→ Japanese: マザーボード (mazābōdo)

→ Chinese: 母板 (mǔbǎn) (calque)

→ Dutch: moederbord (calque)

→ Estonian: emaplaat (calque)

→ Finnish: emolevy (calque)

→ Icelandic: móðurborð (calque)

→ Irish: máthairchlár (calque)

→ Italian: scheda madre (calque)

→ Portuguese: placa-mãe (calque)

desc

матери́нская пла́та

→ Russian: матери́нская пла́та (materínskaja pláta) (calque)

матери́нська пла́та

→ Ukrainian: матери́нська пла́та (materýnsʹka pláta) (calque)

/ˈmʌðɚˌbɔɹd/

Compound of mother + board. Attested since 1965.

An electronics shop was selling ugly refurbished computers. They were small black and grey things with exposed motherboards and cracked cases.

2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 8:

central processing unit
central processing unit

(computer hardware) The primary circuit board of a personal computer, containing the circuitry for the central processing unit, keyboard, mouse and monitor, together with slots for other devices.


central processing unit

en-noun

central processing unit (plural central processing units)

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Coordinate term: graphics processing unit

(computer hardware) The part of a computer that fetches, decodes and executes instructions; attached directly to the memory.

中央演算処理装置

ちゅうおうえんざんしょりそうち


sanitize

en-verb

sanitize (third-person singular simple present sanitizes, present participle sanitizing, simple past and past participle sanitized)

sanitizes (present singular third-person)
sanitizing (participle present)
sanitized (participle past)
sanitized (past)

Remember to sanitize your query parameters to avoid SQL injection exploits.

(transitive, computing) To filter (text) to ensure it does not contain any characters that will cause problems for or be interpreted in an adverse way by the receiving system.

(transitive, computing) To remove sensitive or personal data from (a database or file).


blowhole

(computer hardware) A vertical opening in the top of a computer case that lets hot air (primarily from the CPU heat sink) escape quickly.


proxy server

(computing) A hardware server that acts as an intermediary between a user and another server, usually on the Internet.


modulo

/ˈmɒd͡ʒələʊ/

/ˈmɑd͡ʒəloʊ/

From Latin modulō, ablative of modulus (“a measure”).

(computing) The operation or function that returns the remainder of one number divided by another.


biochip

(computing) A microchip made from biological macromolecules (especially DNA) rather than a semiconductor.


ATAPI

(computing) Initialism of Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface.


parametric

[pæɹ.əˈmɛt͡ʃ.ɹɪk]

/ˌpɛɹ.əˈmɛt.ɹɪk/

[ˌpɛɹ.əˈmɛt͡ʃ.ɹɪk]

parametric designs

parametric programming

(mathematics, design, engineering, computing) Of, relating to, or defined using parameters. In mathematics, this typically means related to parametrization / parametric equation.

parameterized

often synonymous, when agency of imposing such nature is relevant


thunk

ALGOL 60
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Said by the inventors to be from the irregular jocular past tense of think (see Etymology 1), being coined when they realised that the type of an argument in ALGOL 60 could be predetermined at compile time (with a little compile-time “thought”).

Coordinate term: closure

Not surprisingly, a thunk is more expensive to store than a single number[…].

2009, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, Real World Haskell, O'Reilly, page 97:

functional programming
functional programming

(computing, functional programming) A delayed computation.

(computing) In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.

If the provider of these DLLs has not updated the code to a 32-bit environment, you will have to switch to a new 32-bit library or write thunks between your 32-bit code and the 16-bit DLL.

1995 October 10, PC Mag, volume 14, number 17, page 326:

(computing) A specialized subroutine that one software module uses to execute code in another module.


thunk

thunk (third-person singular simple present thunks, present participle thunking, simple past and past participle thunked)

thunks (present singular third-person)
thunking (participle present)
thunked (participle past)
thunked (past)

Not surprisingly, a thunk is more expensive to store than a single number, and the more complex the thunked expression, the more space it needs. For something cheap such as arithmetic, thunking an expression is more computationally expensive than calculating it immediately.

(computing, functional programming, transitive) To delay (a computation).

This efficiency is offset by the fact that some of the calls made by Win32 apps must now be thunked down to 16 bits, something that isn't necessary in Windows NT and OS/2.

1995 May 16, Andrew Schulman, “DOS is Dead? Look Again”, in PC Mag, volume 14, number 9, page 150:

(computing, transitive) To execute (code) by means of a thunk.


ghost imaging

(computing) The process of creating a ghost image of all the contents of a hard drive as a backup that may be stored and later retrieved if needed.


petabyte

As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to — well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies.

2008 June 23, Chris Anderson, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete”, in Wired, →ISSN:

The Hadron Collider has gone from producing 320 terabytes of data a week to a petabyte a second. In short, it has been said that the total amount of data created worldwide in 2011 was about one zetabyte^([sic]) (or 1,000,000 petabytes) and that this figure will increase by 50%–60% in each subsequent year.

2017, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Higher Education under Late Capitalism, Springer, →ISBN, page 82:


backscatter

en-noun

backscatter (countable and uncountable, plural backscatters)

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(computing) The sending of IP packets to essentially random addresses in response to incoming packets that have a spoofed origin.


daisy chain

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(computer engineering) A bus wiring scheme in which a series of devices are connected in sequence: A to B, B to C, C to D, etc.


DES

(cryptography) Initialism of Data Encryption Standard.


mickey

* (potato): From the common Irish name; compare murphy (“a potato”).
* (computer mouse resolution): An allusion to the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.

(computing) The resolution of a mouse: the smallest measurable distance it can move the cursor, used as a unit of length.


caller

From Middle English callar, equivalent to call + -er.

If the called function throws an exception, the caller should be prepared to handle the error.

(programming) A function that calls another (the callee).


intern

en-verb

intern (third-person singular simple present interns, present participle interning, simple past and past participle interned)

interns (present singular third-person)
interning (participle present)
interned (participle past)
interned (past)

From French interner, from interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), compare Etymology 2.

Strings are automatically interned if they are assigned to a literal string within code.

2004, Mark Schmidt, Simon Robinson, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook, page 81:

(transitive, programming) To internalize.


memory leak

I tracked down my program’s memory leak to a function that didn’t release graphics resources properly.

(computing) Any of several faults in the memory allocation logic of a computer or program whereby parts of memory become hidden or unusable.

內存洩漏 /内存泄漏

any of several faults in the memory allocation logic of a computer or program


Scriptol

programming language
programming language

(computing) an object-oriented programming language that uses an internal data structure based on XML.


object-oriented

en-adj

object-oriented (comparative more object-oriented, superlative most object-oriented)

more object-oriented (comparative)
most object-oriented (superlative)

/ˈɒbdʒɛkt ɔɹɪəntɪd/

/ˈɒbdʒɪkt ɒɹɪəntɪd/

(programming) Using entities called objects that can process data and exchange messages with other objects.


coaster

Hollywood Dream – The Ride
Universal Studios Japan

From coast (“to glide along without adding energy; to make a minimal effort; to slide downhill (especially, to slide on a sled upon snow or ice)”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Coast is derived from Middle English costeien (“to travel along a border or coast; to go alongside (something), skirt; to accompany, follow; to travel across, traverse; to be adjacent to, to border;”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman [Term?], Old French costoier (“to be at the side of”) [and other forms] (modern French côtoyer (“to pass alongside; (figuratively) to rub shoulders”)), from Latin costicāre, from costa (“rib; side, wall”); see further at etymology 1.
The sense 2.1 (“small stand or tray”) is from the fact that the object and the decanter or wine bottle on it “coast” or travel around a tabletop from person to person. The sense 2.2.2 (“useless compact disc or DVD”) refers to the fact that the object is only useful as a drink coaster.

nb...

cost, costay, coste, costey, costie, coost, coostie, costen, costien

kelkka

something that coasts or is used to coast

Something that coasts or is used to coast.

(computing, slang) A useless compact disc or DVD, such as one that was burned incorrectly or has become corrupted.


preview

From pre- + view; compare Old French preveü, past participle of preveoir (“to foresee”).

(computing) A facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.


preview

en-verb

preview (third-person singular simple present previews, present participle previewing, simple past and past participle previewed)

previews (present singular third-person)
previewing (participle present)
previewed (participle past)
previewed (past)

(computing, transitive) To show something in advance, a facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.


sync

sync (third-person singular simple present syncs, present participle synching or syncing, simple past and past participle synched or synced)

syncs (present singular third-person)
synching (participle present)
syncing (participle present)
synched (participle past)
synched (past)
synced (participle past)
synced (past)

(informal, computing) To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.


right-click

right-click (third-person singular simple present right-clicks, present participle right-clicking, simple past and past participle right-clicked)

right-clicks (present singular third-person)
right-clicking (participle present)
right-clicked (participle past)
right-clicked (past)

(intransitive, computing) To press the right-hand button on a computer mouse.

højreklikke

to activate by pressing right-hand button of a mouse

You can download Google's deskbar for free […] It automatically installs itself as a toolbar on the Windows XP taskbar, but you have to turn it on by right-clicking the taskbar and choosing Toolbars → Google Deskbar.

2005, Preston Gralla, Windows XP Power Hound: Teach Yourself New Tricks, page 179:

(transitive, computing) To activate (an item on the screen) by right-clicking while the pointer is over it.


left-click

left-click (third-person singular simple present left-clicks, present participle left-clicking, simple past and past participle left-clicked)

left-clicks (present singular third-person)
left-clicking (participle present)
left-clicked (participle past)
left-clicked (past)

(intransitive, computing) To press the left button on a computer mouse.

(transitive, computing) To activate an item on the screen by left-clicking while the pointer is over it.

venstreklikke

to activate an item on the screen by left-clicking


open proxy

(computing) A proxy server that may be accessed by any Internet user.


open proxy server

en-noun

open proxy server (plural open proxy servers)

(computing) a proxy server that may be accessed by any Internet user


spam relay

(computing) An open proxy used to send spam.


restart

en-verb

restart (third-person singular simple present restarts, present participle restarting, simple past and past participle restarted)

restarts (present singular third-person)
restarting (participle present)
restarted (participle past)
restarted (past)

⇒ Czech: restartovat

/ˈɹiːˌstɑɹt/

/ˈɹiːˌstɑːt/


information technology

en-noun

information technology (countable and uncountable, plural information technologies)

Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

(computing) The practice of creating and/or studying computer systems and applications.

تِقْنِيَّة اَلْمَعْلُومَات

the practice of creating and/or studying computer systems and applications

(computing) The computing department of an organization.

information and communications technology


information and communications technology (countable and uncountable, plural information and communications technologies)

(computing) The processing of data using computers, and the movement of data between computers.

informatie- en communicatietechnologie

(computing) The creation of computer systems and applications, especially those that move data around a computer network, between clients and servers, or over the Internet.

tieto- ja viestintäteknologia

(computing) The computing and communications department of an organization.

tieto- ja viestintäteknologian osasto

information and communication technology


NLS

(computing) Initialism of National Language Support.


delouse

en-verb

delouse (third-person singular simple present delouses, present participle delousing, simple past and past participle deloused)

delouses (present singular third-person)
delousing (participle present)
deloused (participle past)
deloused (past)

A deloused computer may still be considered no longer trustworthy.

(computing, transitive) To remove malicious software, such as viruses, trojans, spyware, or worms, from.


VS

(computing) Initialism of Visual Studio: an integrated development environment.


gripper

/ˈɡɹɪ.pə(ɹ)/

To move the options bar from its default location at the top of the screen to a new location, click the gripper on the option bar's left edge and drag it to its new location.

2004, Micah Laaker, Christopher Schmitt, Adobe Photoshop CS in 10 Simple Steps or Less, page 43:

(graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.


Algol

He was the defiant homesteader, the crusty senior member of a research team who understood Algol and Fortran but couldn't read the secrets of his own heart.

Algol, on the other hand, introduced the notion of block structure, in which the programmer could group lists of statements, effectively creating one instruction out of a list of instructions.

2004, Edward G. Nilges, Build Your Own .NET Language and Compiler, Apress, →ISBN, page 2:

(computer languages) Alternative letter-case form of ALGOL


ALGOL

Devised as an acronym of algorithmic language.

Later, ALGOL was used as the basis of JOVIAL, MAD, NELIAC, and ALGO. In 1960, a division occurred based on unresolved disagreements and ALGOL 60 was born.

2007, April J. Wells, Grid Application Systems Design, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 17:

(computer languages) An influential early high-level programming language designed for solving mathematical and scientific problems.


high-level

en-adj

high-level (comparative higher-level, superlative highest-level)

higher-level (comparative)
highest-level (superlative)

(computing, of a programming language) Consisting of relatively natural language-like commands and mathematical notations which, after compilation or interpretation, become a set of machine language instructions.

vysokoúrovňový

programming: based on commands resembling natural language


algorithmic

/ˌælɡəˈɹɪðmɪk/

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In an age when the charts have become an algorithmic spaghetti of streaming plays, radio and downloads, the purest way of measuring who is up and who is down in pop might be the Billboard Social 50, a sub-chart that measures reach across social networks.

2017 May 23, Gavin Haynes, “Why BTS are the K-pop kings of social media”, in The Guardian:

(mathematics, computing) Of, relating to, or being an algorithm.


userpass

(computing, rare) A combination of username and password.


stateless

無狀態 /无状态

(computer science) without remembering state

A stateless server treats each request independently.

(computer science) Of a system or protocol, such that it does not keep a persistent state between transactions.


telecommuter

(computing) Someone who telecommutes, using a computer connected to an employer's network or via the Internet.


polymorphic

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catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia

Polymorphic redefinition in C++ is achieved by the use of virtual functions.

1996, Rod Ellis, Data abstraction and program design:

A polymorphic call looks like a procedural call, but where a procedural call has only one possible target subroutine, a polymorphic call can result in the execution of one of several different subroutines.

2012, Karel Driesen, Efficient Polymorphic Calls, page 1:

(programming, of a function) Having or relating to the ability to take multiple data types for a single parameter.


plaintext

There are weak keys in the sense that their use by foisting chosen plaintexts can be proved, which could be interesting for chip cards with a ‘burnt-in key’.

2007, Reinhard Wobst, “Life After DES: New Methods, New Attacks”, in Angelika Shafir, transl., Cryptology Unlocked, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, →ISBN, section 3 (IDEA: A Special-Class Algoritmh), subsection 5 (Cryptanalyzing IDEA), page 239:

(cryptography, computing) Alternative spelling of plain text


plaintext

(computing) Consisting only of plain text.


kernel hacker

(computing) A developer who maintains the Linux kernel code.


steal

From Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan, from Proto-West Germanic *stelan, from Proto-Germanic *stelaną.
Compare West Frisian stelle, Low German stehlen, Dutch stelen, German stehlen, Danish stjæle, Swedish stjäla, Norwegian Bokmål stjele, Norwegian Nynorsk stela, Sanskrit स्तेय (steya); see below for more.
For the meaning development compare with Russian красть (krastʹ, “to steal”) and Russian кра́сться (krástʹsja, “to stalk, to prowl, to slink”).
etymology notes
Proposed etymologies beyond Germanic are numerous and include
* Proto-Indo-European *ster-: compare Welsh herw (“theft, raid”), Ancient Greek στερέω (steréō, “to deprive of”)
* Proto-Indo-European *stel(H)- (“to stretch”): compare Albanian pë/mbështjell (“I confuse, mess up, mix, wrap up”), Old Church Slavonic стєлѭ (steljǫ, “I spread out (bed, roof)”), Ancient Greek τηλία (tēlía, “playing table”)
* Proto-Indo-European *tsel- (“to sneak”): compare Sanskrit त्सरति (tsárati, “creep, sneak up on”) and other forms under Pokorny 5. *sel- "schleichen, kriechen"

cog

(computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.


flash memory

en-noun

flash memory (usually uncountable, plural flash memories)

(computer hardware) A rewritable memory chip that retains its data without a power supply.


tearing

tearing (usually uncountable, plural tearings)

Even in this case, tearing still results if the swap occurs in the middle of a refresh cycle.

2003, David P. Luebke, Level of detail for 3D graphics, page 303:

(computer graphics) Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames.

yāihyāih

sound produce when ripping clothes or flat sheets


instant message

instant message (plural instant messages)

(communication, computing) A message conveyed through an instant messaging program.


instant message

en-verb

instant message (third-person singular simple present instant messages, present participle instant messaging, simple past and past participle instant messaged)

instant messages (present singular third-person)
instant messaging (participle present)
instant messaged (participle past)
instant messaged (past)

(communication, computing) To convey a message via an instant messaging program.


fixture

Alteration of older fixure, on the model of mixture.

(computing, programming) A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.


nibbler

A-Copier. MegaSoft, Ltd. Full Featured Nibbler.

1988, The Software Encyclopedia, volume 2, page 688:

We used a program call Fast Hack 'Em. It had what was called a 'Nibbler'. It had the copy protection schemes for various games stored on one of the program disks, and you would load that up before copying the game. It then 'nibbled' away the protection from the data as it was copied.

a. 2005, Kleener (Internet forum user) quoted in 2005, Fiona Macmillan, New Directions in Copyright Law (page 234)

(computing, historical) A kind of program for copying protected floppy disks.


XOR

XOR can be used to add bits without carrying.

(programming) The symbolic representation that implements "exclusive or".


XOR

XOR (third-person singular simple present XORs, present participle XORing, simple past and past participle XORed)

XORs (present singular third-person)
XORing (participle present)
XORed (participle past)
XORed (past)

The XORed sequence has the same period as the sequence that is not XORed.

1989, IEEE Communications Society, Conference Record:

XORing different constants into the four s-boxes in such a cipher has exactly the same effect as XORing a single constant into each round function output.

1998, Stafford Tavares, Henk Meijer, Selected Areas in Cryptography:

There are weak keys in the sense that their use by foisting chosen plaintexts can be proved, which could be interesting for chip cards with a ‘burnt-in key’. First of all, however, these keys can be easily avoided—one only needs to XOR all subkeys with the hexadecimal number 0x0dae—and second, the probability that such a key can be caught is 2⁻⁹⁶; that is about one out of 10²⁹ randomly selected keys (this number even has a name: 100 quadrilliards).

(transitive, computing) To perform the XOR function upon.


quantifier

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 4. Unsubstantiality

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 78. Generality

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 100. Plurality

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 101. Zero

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 102. Multitude

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 103. Fewness

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 105. Infinity

(computing) A symbol or symbols in a regular expression indicating the number of characters to be matched.


blocker

→ Polish: bloker, blokers

From Middle English blocker, blokker, bloker, blokkere, equivalent to block + -er.

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Likewise, any connections shared between your child (the blocker) and the user being blocked will also be broken.

2013, Elizabeth Laugeson, The Science of Making Friends:

Agent noun of block (“obstruct or prevent”); something that blocks something else.

(computing) One who prevents another user from contacting them electronically.

an ad blocker

a content blocker

(computing) An application that stops / impedes unauthorised access to a programme.

bloqueador

(computing) An application that stops unauthorised access to a programme

(computing) A bug or issue that prevents software from being released.


ESS

(software, IBM) Initialism of Enterprise Storage Server.


diff

(computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.

edit diff

I didn't want to waste people's time telling them things they already knew. It's more efficient just to give them the diffs.

2004, Paul Graham, Great Hackers, Essay:

(computing) The output of a diff program, a diff file.


diff

diff (third-person singular simple present diffs, present participle diffing, simple past and past participle diffed)

diffs (present singular third-person)
diffing (participle present)
diffed (participle past)
diffed (past)

As we move through this chapter, you will quickly see the benefits of diffing code changes to drivers, libraries, and applications.

2011, Gray Hat Hacking : The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, 3rd edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 484:

(transitive, computing) To run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file.

(transitive, computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.


diff

(computing) A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.


APDU

application protocol data unit
application protocol data unit#English

(computing) Initialism of application protocol data unit.


application protocol data unit

en-noun

application protocol data unit (plural application protocol data units)

application protocol data units (plural)
as APDU (abbreviation)

(networking) A packet of data exchanged between two application programs across a network.


IP tracker

(computing, networking) Software that converts an IP address into a hostname and provides location and other information.


Alexa

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* Alex + -a. A feminine form of Alex.
* Short for Alexandra.

Coordinate term: Siri

(computing) A speech recognition and intelligent personal assistant application developed by Amazon Inc.


placeholder

(graphical user interface) A non-editable caption initially displayed in a blank text box to indicate its function.


interactive

en-adj

interactive (comparative more interactive, superlative most interactive)

more interactive (comparative)
most interactive (superlative)

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an interactive digital map with zoom and pan features

(computer science) Offering or involving interaction with the user.


utility program

en-noun

utility program (plural utility programs)

(computing) any of a large range of software, often included with the operating system, that runs specific tasks associated with the computer or its environment


ACL

access control list
access control list#English

(computing) Initialism of access control list.


downstream

en-adj

downstream (comparative farther or further downstream, superlative farthest or furthest downstream)

farther (comparative)
further downstream (comparative)
farthest (superlative)
furthest downstream (superlative)

en:figuratively, in general
en:figuratively, of computer networks

(figurative) Occurring later than something else; (also, usually, especially) influenced by something else; being a consequence of something else.

(computer networking) In the direction from the server to the client.


jellybean

These were mainly used to implement glue logic, and it was possible to replace fifty or more jellybean devices with a single ASIC.

2008, Clive Maxfield, Bebop to the Boolean Boogie:

(slang, electronics, programming) of an electronic component, or software algorithm: generic, standard, vanilla, easy to find


web content

(computing) Elements making up a web page as delivered to the client, including text, images, hyperlinks, audio and video content; may be generated statically or dynamically.


applet

From app + -let, but perhaps also influenced by Apple (the term originated in AppleScript).

Holonyms: app, application, program

If a component must run on different kinds of client systems and if the limitations imposed by sandboxing are acceptable or outright desirable, then building that component as a Java applet makes sense.

1996, Network World, volume 13, number 22, page 48:

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

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

(computing) A small program module that runs under the control of a larger application, typically a web browser.

miniaplicació

a small program module that runs under the control of a larger application


FOSSer

(computing, informal) A user or advocate of free open source software.


strobe

a memory strobe; a data strobe

(computing) An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read.


certificate authority

en-noun

certificate authority (plural certificate authorities)

(computing) An organization that issues digital certificates for use by other parties.

urząd certyfikacji

computing: an organization that issues digital certificates for use by other parties


digital certificate

digital certificate (plural digital certificates)

public key certificate
public key certificate


public key certificate

public key certificate (plural public key certificates)

(computing) A certificate that uses a digital signature to bind together a public key with an identity — used to verify that a public key belongs to a particular person.

varmenne

certificate used to verify authenticity of a public key


launcher

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(computing) An application that launches another or others, often holding icons or menus for frequently used programs.

lanceur

computing: an application that launches another or others


bikeshed

From bike + shed.
Technical meaning coined by Poul-Henning Kamp in 1999.

(figuratively, chiefly software engineering) A topic that is attracting debate out of proportion to its actual importance.


bikeshed

en-verb

bikeshed (third-person singular simple present bikesheds, present participle bikeshedding, simple past and past participle bikeshedded)

bikesheds (present singular third-person)
bikeshedding (participle present)
bikeshedded (participle past)
bikeshedded (past)

I'd like to bikeshed a little on the name.

2012, Guido van Rossum, Discussion message: Expose dict_proxy internal type as types.MappingProxyType:

(chiefly software engineering) To discuss a minor detail rather than focusing on more important issues.


redefine

redefine (third-person singular simple present redefines, present participle redefining, simple past and past participle redefined)

redefines (present singular third-person)
redefining (participle present)
redefined (participle past)
redefined (past)

Next the "key redefiner" software came along. These were special programs that could "redefine" the keys on your keyboard , while still permitting you the normal use of the keys.

1992, Herman Holtz, Databased Marketing, page 170:

(transitive) To define again or differently.

(transitive, computing) To define a previously defined area of storage etc. in a different manner, e.g. changing it from textual to numeric.

määritellä uudelleen

to define an area of storage, that has already been defined, in a different manner


dimensionality

[dɪˌmɛn.ʃəˈnæl.ə.ɾɪ]

That is to say, it is the Analogue of Space, not in the sense in which we formerly regarded Space as the negation of Matter; but in the sense of Infinite Dimensionality, or of Dimensionality in all directions, as a vague generalization from the three spatial dimensions Length, Breadth, and Thickness.

1864, Edward B. Freeland, "Corresponding First Discriminations in Thought and Language", article two of The Scientific Universal Language, as serialized in The Continental Monthly, number 35 (volume 6, number 5), November 1864, bound as The Continental Monthly, volume 6, page 583 http://books.google.com/books?id=w3lBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA583&dq=dimensionality

This often happens, for example, when a two-dimensional solution is obtained for data whose appropriate dimensionality is higher.

1978, Joseph B. Kruskal, Myron Wish, Multidimensional Scaling, →ISBN, page 44:

Finite Dimensionality of de Rham Cohomology:
Proposition 5.3.1. If the manifold M has a finite good cover, then its cohomology is finite dimensional.

1982, Raoul Bott, Loring W. Tu, Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology, →ISBN, page 43:

As well as the low dimensionality of the Bloch electron states, […]

1995, T. Ogawa, "Dimensionality and Optical Responses of Materials", chapter 1 in, T. Ogawa and Y. Kanemitsuu, editors, Optical Properties of Low-Dimensional Materials, page 6 http://books.google.com/books?id=yToRBYgdMcMC&pg=PA6&dq=bloch

The difficulties in implementing classification algorithms as is, on high volume databases, derives from the increase in the number of records/instances in the database and of attributes/features in each instance (high dimensionality).

2010, Lior Rokach and Oded Maimon, "Supervised Learning", chapter 8 in, Oded Maimon and Lior Rokach, editors, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook, second edition, doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09823-4, page 142 http://books.google.com/books?id=alHIsT6LBl0C&pg=PA142&dq=dimensionality

The programming language does not impose any restrictions on the dimensionality of the arrays.

2010, Basavaraj S. Anami, Shanmukhappa A. Angadi, Sunilkumar S. Manvi, Computer Concepts and C Programming, second, →ISBN, page 139:

A vector v=(22,38,52,12) defines a four-dimensional space with a point at the stated co-ordinates, and so on to any dimensionality n. Vector spaces of dimensionality greater than three are impossible to visualise directly […]

2011, Hermann Moisl, "Hypothesis Generation", chapter 4 in, Warren Maguire and April McMahon, editors, Analysing Variation in English, page 82 http://books.google.com/books?id=TjirdzcZKZgC&pg=PA82&dq=dimensionality

(chiefly mathematics and computing) The number of dimensions something has.


internalize

internalize (third-person singular simple present internalizes, present participle internalizing, simple past and past participle internalized)

tlb

(American spelling, Oxford British English)

internalizes (present singular third-person)
internalizing (participle present)
internalized (participle past)
internalized (past)

(transitive, programming) To store (a string or other structure) in a shared pool, such that subsequent items with the same value can share the same instance.


equalizer

(category theory) A morphism whose codomain is the domain of a parallel pair of morphisms and which forms part of the limit of that parallel pair. Equivalently, a morphism which equalizes a parallel pair of morphisms in a limiting way, which is to say that any other morphism which equalizes that parallel pair factors through this limiting morphism; and moreover such factorization is unique.


DMS

en-noun

DMS (countable and uncountable, plural DMSs)

document management system
document management system#English

(uncountable, computing) Initialism of document management system.

database management system
database management system#English

(uncountable, databases) Initialism of database management system.


DMS

Defense Message System
w:Defense Message System

(networking) Initialism of Defense Message System.


lifter

From filter with the first syllable reversed. Modelled on the derivation of cepstrum from spectrum.

(signal processing) A filter that operates on a cepstrum.


whaling

whaling (countable and uncountable, plural whalings)

Whaling attacks typically take specific responsibilities of these executive roles into consideration, using focused messaging to trick the victim.

2017, Prithviraj Gohel, Cyber Attacks: are we really secure?:

(computing) A form of highly personalized cyberattack that targets a senior business executive.


Bluetooth

From blue + tooth, calque of Old Norse Blátǫnn (modern Danish Blåtand).
* (networking): The networking standard is named after the king because the technology unites computers and mobile devices similarly to the way he united the Danish tribes.

personal area network
personal area network

(networking, trademark) An industrial specification for wireless personal area networks.


Bluetooth

en-verb

Bluetooth (third-person singular simple present Bluetooths, present participle Bluetoothing, simple past and past participle Bluetoothed)

Bluetooths (present singular third-person)
Bluetoothing (participle present)
Bluetoothed (participle past)
Bluetoothed (past)

The widespread use of mobile phones which support free Bluetoothing has enabled promotional videos to be distributed virally between handsets.

2009, Seema Gupta, Branding and Advertising, page 303:

Everyone's bluetoothing each other the latest ring tones and pictures. Telling the most crazy stories ever.

2010, Katie Taylor, Confessions of a Teenager: The Diaries of Three Troubled Teens, page 92:

(transitive, intransitive, networking) To transmit or communicate by Bluetooth.


synchronous

en-adj

synchronous (comparative more synchronous, superlative most synchronous)

more synchronous (comparative)
most synchronous (superlative)

Translingual: ␖

/ˈsɪŋkɹənəs/

Borrowed from Late Latin synchronus, from Ancient Greek σύγχρονος (súnkhronos, “contemporaneous”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “with, together”) + χρόνος (khrónos, “time”). By surface analysis, syn- + chron- + -ous = synchrony + -ous; however, all related words (e.g., synchronic, synchrony, synchronicity, diachronous, diachronic, diachrony, diachronicity) were coined later, either as back-formations from, or otherwise by analogy with the surface analysis of, synchronous.

surf

Coordinate term: plesiochronous

Post is a “fire and forget” where the UI thread work is performed asynchronously; Send is synchronous in that the call blocks until the UI thread work has been performed.

2014, Richard Blewett, Andrew Clymer, Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET, page 25:

(computing, of communication) Single-threaded; blocking; occurring in the same thread as other computations, thereby preventing those computations from resuming until the communication is complete.


puffer

From puff + -er.
The cellular automata definition is a clipping of puffer train.

This is the next best thing, which is a pseudo-puffer made by converting a stream of spaceships into puffer output using several c/3 spaceships.

1993 March 16, David Bell, “Life program (part 2/18)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

Might be interesting to see if the debris from this puffer can be suppressed somehow -- assuming somebody hasn't already done that, but I don't see any sign of previous attempts.

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

The switch engine is unstable but a number of them working in combination can form stable puffers, spaceships and rakes.

2015, Paul Rendell, Turing Machine Universality of the Game of Life, page 133:

(cellular automata) A finite pattern that moves like a spaceship but leaves a trail of debris.


gateway

portti

point that represents the beginning of a transition

(computing, networking, telecommunications) In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc.


magic number

We replaced the magic number 31 with a constant called MAX_DAYS_IN_MONTH.

A number which is manually entered into source code, rather than defined somewhere as a named constant; especially one which is arbitrary or lacks explanation.

A sentinel value which cannot occur in normal use, typically used as a placeholder (e.g. a fictitious date such as 2000-02-32).

A hash code, such as those used by some webmail servers to keep track of sessions.

These files have a "magic number" stored in a particular place near the beginning of the file that tells the UNIX operating system that the file is a binary executable, and which of several types thereof.

A number or pattern in a binary file that identifies the filetype.


marquee

From marquise, from French marquise. Ultimately from same root as march (“border country”), margin (“edge”). Ultimately cognate with marque.

Rectangular Marquee Tool

(computing) In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.


marquee

en-verb

marquee (third-person singular simple present marquees, present participle marqueeing, simple past and past participle marqueed)

marquees (present singular third-person)
marqueeing (participle present)
marqueed (participle past)
marqueed (past)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) To select (an object or region) with the marquee selection tool.


unspeakable

en-adj

unspeakable (comparative more unspeakable, superlative most unspeakable)

more unspeakable (comparative)
most unspeakable (superlative)

From Middle English unspekable, equivalent to un- + speakable.

an instance of an unspeakable type

unspeakable field names

2008, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2008, page 509:

(programming, not comparable) That cannot be referenced in source code, due to having no usable name.


loader

(computing) A program that prepares other programs for execution.


adminship

en-noun

adminship (countable and uncountable, plural adminships)

Someone nominated him for adminship.

(computing) The role of an administrator; administratorship.

administratorship

any kind of administrator, not just computing contexts


CSP

CSP (countable and uncountable, plural CSPs)

(computing) Initialism of communicating sequential processes.


lockout

(computing) A situation where the system is not responding to input.


sculpt

From French sculpter, from Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”).

der

(computer graphics) A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance.


jailbreak

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(computing) A modification to the firmware of an electronic device (typically a mobile phone or tablet) to allow the installation and use of software not officially supported by the device's manufacturer.


jailbreak

en-verb

jailbreak (third-person singular simple present jailbreaks, present participle jailbreaking, simple past jailbroke, past participle jailbroken)

jailbreaks (present singular third-person)
jailbreaking (participle present)
jailbroke (past)
jailbroken (participle past)

Unofficially, it has been possible to “Jailbreak” iOS and gain access to the underlying Unix and kernel environment, but this voids the warranty.

2012, Ole Henry Halvorsen, Douglas Clarke, OS X and iOS Kernel Programming, Apress, →ISBN, page 21:

In order to gain true root access to a mobile device, a user has to either jailbreak (iOS) or root (Android/Windows) the device.

2016, Mike Meyers, CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Ninth Edition (Exams 220-901 & 220-902), McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 1172:

(transitive, computing) To modify the firmware of an electronic device, especially a mobile phone, in order to remove restrictions that prevent it from running unofficial software.


bookmark

From Middle English *boke-merk, *boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmark”)), equivalent to book + mark. Cognate with Danish bogmærke (“bookmark”), Swedish bokmärke (“bookmark”), Norwegian bokmerke (“bookmark”), Icelandic bókamerki (“bookmark”). Eclipsed non-native Old English æstel (“bookmark”), from Old Irish astal, from Latin hastula (“little spear, splint”).

(computing) A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.

(databases) A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap


bookmark

bookmark (third-person singular simple present bookmarks, present participle bookmarking, simple past and past participle bookmarked)

bookmarks (present singular third-person)
bookmarking (participle present)
bookmarked (participle past)
bookmarked (past)

(computing, transitive) To create a bookmark.


Semapedia

(computing) A former project using Semacode nodes to connect Wikipedia articles to their relevant places in physical space.


Semacode

Marketing coinage, perhaps from semantic code.

(computing) A machine-readable two-dimensional barcode used primarily to code website addresses.


neurode

Each of these neurodes connected to several others, perhaps even to all other neurodes in the net.

1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 19:

(computing) An artificial neuron, a simple processing element of a neural network having several input signals and one output signal.


scag

scag (third-person singular simple present scags, present participle scagging, simple past and past participle scagged)

scags (present singular third-person)
scagging (participle present)
scagged (participle past)
scagged (past)

Unknown. Compare scat (“heroin; whiskey”), slag (“waste; a prostitute”), skank (“a disreputable woman”).

That last power hit scagged the system disk.

(computing) To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the file system or by causing media damage.


point of contact

en-noun

point of contact (plural points of contact)

(computing) A person who is associated with a defined Internet entity.

yhteyshenkilö

person associated with an internet entity


arg

The first arg needs to be an int.

(programming, informal) An argument; a value passed as a parameter.


rendering

rendering (countable and uncountable, plural renderings)

(computer graphics) The process of producing an image from an internal model, or the image thus produced.


Cartesian product

Cartesian product (plural Cartesian products)

From Cartesian + product, after French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist René Descartes (1596–1650), whose formulation of analytic geometry gave rise to the concept.

(databases) All possible combinations of rows between all of the tables listed.


interaction design

(software design) The structure and definition of the behavior of a system, the surrounding environment, corresponding artifacts, and the elements that communicate the aforementioned behavior.


UTM

UTM (countable and uncountable, plural UTMs)

Universal Turing machine
w:Universal Turing machine

(computer science) Initialism of Universal Turing machine.


complexity theory

The professor of complexity theory says that the problem can be solved in polynomial time.

(computer science) The study and classification of decision problems by the computational resources—such as time and space—needed by the programs that solve the problems.

kompleksisuusteoria

the study and classification of decision problems by the computational resources


hostname

(networking) The unique name by which any device attached to a computer network is known.

и́ме на хост

fully qualified hostname
fully qualified hostname

(computing, Internet) A computer or other network device's Internet domain name; a fully qualified hostname.

unqualified hostname
unqualified hostname

(computing, Internet) The portion of a computer's Internet domain name that comes before the first period; an unqualified hostname.


typed

A typed variable can only store one kind of data.

(computing, of a variable, expression, or value) Having a specific data type.

expression; or value; expression; or value

Scheme is a typed language.

(computing, of a programming language) In which variables are typed.


div

(mathematics, computing) A function, implemented in many programming languages, that returns the result of a division of two integers.

Coordinate term: section break

(web design) A section of a web page, or the div element that represents it in HTML code.


data stream

(computing) a sequence of digitally encoded coherent signals used in a transmission


ephemeron

ephemeron (plural ephemerons or ephemera)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐφήμερον (ephḗmeron), neuter form of ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros).

Beyond type safety, OCaml has several features that closely interact with the garbage collector. These include weak references, finalisers, ephemerons, and lazy values, whose semantics will have to be preserved with the new GC so as to not break programs that use those features.

2020, KC Sivaramakrishnan et al., Retrofitting Parallelism onto OCaml:

(programming) A type of weak reference in a garbage collected programming language that does not permit an object to be kept alive by its finalizer.


SMART

w:self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology

(computer hardware) Acronym of self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology; also S.M.A.R.T.: a monitoring system included in computer HDDs and SSDs in order to detect and report various indicators of drive reliability with the intent of anticipating imminent hardware failures.


peripheral device

peripheral device (plural peripheral devices)

(computer hardware) An electronic device that is outside the computer's system unit (external to the computer's enclosing case), but used by the computer to which it is connected, such as a printer or a scanner.


SOAP

The specified system will use SOAP for message exchange.

(computing) Acronym of Simple Object Access Protocol. (A standard Internet protocol for exchanging structured information in a distributed environment.)


impersonate

en-verb

impersonate (third-person singular simple present impersonates, present participle impersonating, simple past and past participle impersonated)

impersonates (present singular third-person)
impersonating (participle present)
impersonated (participle past)
impersonated (past)

From im- + person (verb-forming suffix) + -ate.

af

(transitive, computing) To operate with the permissions of a different user account.


altname

(programming, library cataloguing) An alternative name.


edit conflict

(computing) An instance of two people trying to edit the same file or document simultaneously.

編輯衝突 /编辑冲突

two people trying to edit simultaneously


head

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

(computing) A 7-bit character set and character encoding. Based on the Roman alphabet as used in modern English, the code is employed almost universally on computing machinery, and has been integrated into the newer Unicode standard.

美國資訊交換標準代碼 /美国资讯交换标准代码

mei⁵ gwok³ zi¹ seon³ gaau¹ wun⁶ biu¹ zeon² doi⁶ maa⁵

美國信息交換標準代碼 /美国信息交换标准代码

mei⁵ gwok³ seon³ sik¹ gaau¹ wun⁶ biu¹ zeon² doi⁶ maa⁵

美國信息交換標準代碼 /美国信息交换标准代码

Měiguó Xìnxī Jiāohuàn Biāozhǔn Dàimǎ, Měiguó Xìnxí Jiāohuàn Biāozhǔn Dàimǎ

Code américain normalisé pour l’échange d’information


headless

From Middle English heedles, hevedles, from Old English hēafodlēas (“headless”), equivalent to head + -less. Cognate with Dutch hoofdloos (“headless”), Danish hovedløs (“headless”), Swedish huvudlös (“headless”), Icelandic höfuðlaus (“headless”).

/redirect. Used for console redirection in headless servers.

2003, William Boswell, Inside Windows Server 2003, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 62:

Routers typically run headless, without a keyboard or monitor.

2007, Carla Schroder, Linux Networking Cookbook, O’Reilly Media, published 2008, →ISBN, page 47:

This is not unexpected for a Windows system running as a virtual machine or a headless server[…]

2010, Charles Bell et al., MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 278:

(computing) Running without a graphical user interface; running without any attached output device (e.g., monitor) or input device (e.g., keyboard, mouse).


executable

The program as written by the programmer is generally processed into an executable that can be run.

(computing) A file that can be run directly by a computer's hardware or a p-code interpreter with no further processing.


lexicographic

en-adj

lexicographic (comparative more lexicographic, superlative most lexicographic)

more lexicographic (comparative)
most lexicographic (superlative)

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


I/O

In addition to the synchronous blocking I/O explored in the last two chapters, NIO also supports nonblocking I/O.

It reduces I/O latency, for selected eligible I/Os, to the point that z/OS no longer needs to undispatch the running task.

2021, Peter Kimmel, Sherri Brunson, Lisa Martinez, IBM DS8900F Performance Best Practices and Monitoring (page 22)

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(computing, electrical engineering) Abbreviation of input/output.


lockup

(computing) A condition where a system stops responding to inputs; a freeze.


normalize

en-verb

normalize (third-person singular simple present normalizes, present participle normalizing, simple past and past participle normalized)

normalizes (present singular third-person)
normalizing (participle present)
normalized (participle past)
normalized (past)

palauttaa

rail transport, transitive: to return to the normal position

palautua

rail transport, intransitive: to return to the normal position

(computing, databases, transitive) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).


linkage

en-noun

linkage (countable and uncountable, plural linkages)

Genetic linkage
Linkage (linguistics)
Linkage (mechanical)
Linkage (policy)
linkage

(software compilation) The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.


reserved word

(programming) A string of characters that is a verb, command, or other part of a programming language, and therefore cannot be used as the name of a variable, constant, function, or procedure.

保留字

a word in a programming language that has a fixed meaning


JavaScript

From Java (“a programming language”) + script, although the language is not closely related to Java and was originally to be called LiveScript.

(computer languages) A scripting programming language most commonly used to add interactive features to webpages.


MDT

MDT (countable and uncountable, plural MDTs)

model-driven testing
model-driven testing#English

(software, testing) Initialism of model-driven testing.


ZIP

ZIP (countable and uncountable, plural ZIPs)


PPP

Point-to-Point Protocol
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(computing) Initialism of Point-to-Point Protocol.


connector

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presentation software
presentation software

(computing) A line connecting two shapes in presentation software.

(computing) A software component that provides access from an application program to an external database or data source, such as a JDBC connector.


shell script

(computing) A prewritten list of commands, and perhaps other control information, to be executed (interpreted) by a shell or other command interpreter.

سْكْرِبْت شِل

file containing instructions for the shell


ul

(computing) Alternative form of UL (“upload”)


ul

en-verb

ul (third-person singular simple present uls, present participle uling, simple past and past participle uled)

uls (present singular third-person)
uling (participle present)
uled (participle past)
uled (past)


difference engine

en-noun

difference engine (plural difference engines)

(computing, historical) A mechanical special-purpose computer used to generate tables of values of polynomials.


analytical engine

analytical engine (plural analytical engines)

(computing) A mechanical general-purpose computer, designed by Charles Babbage but never built.


application domain

application domain (plural application domains)

Next we create a new thread, and that thread creates a new application domain, loads, and executes an assembly.

2002, Michael Stiefel, Robert J Oberg, Application development using C# and .NET:

.NET Remoting can be used for accessing objects in another application domain.

2004, Simon Robinson, Christian Nagel, Karli Watson, Jay Glynn, Morgan Skinner, Bill Evjen, Professional C#:

All managed code in the .NET Framework needs to run within an application domain.

2006, Stefan Schackow, Professional ASP.NET 2.0 security, membership, and role management:

(computing, .NET) An isolated context, with its own virtual address space, in which an application runs, analogous to a process in an operating system.


squiggly

If you have dynamic spell checking enabled, your pamphlet will become a sea of red squigglies.

2007, Pariah S. Burke, Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production, page 72:

Coding errors have colored squigglies beneath them to indicate the kind of error. For example, syntax errors appear with red squigglies beneath them...

2008, Rick Leinecker, Vanessa L. Williams, Visual Studio 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, page 484:

The next blue squiggly is in the word Dimm. That should be an easy fix. Change it to Dim. Again, that swats two bugs with one fix.

2010, James S. McKeown, Jim McKeown, Programming in Visual Basic 2010: The Very Beginner's Guide, page 75:

(computing, informal) A wavy underline used to indicate an error in text or source code.


lexicographical

en-adj

lexicographical (comparative more lexicographical, superlative most lexicographical)

more lexicographical (comparative)
most lexicographical (superlative)

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


bixie

From BIX, acronym for the Byte Information Exchange, a BBS on which these emoticons became popular.

(computing, dated) A type of emoticon such as <@_@>, which represents an unrotated expression, unlike a smiley.


checkpoint

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After the crash, we rolled back the database to the last checkpoint.

(computing) A situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be returned in the event of a crisis by using a combination of backups and logs; the data stored at this event.


cablegami

(computing) A technique used in the building of computer systems that involves the complex folding of flat ribbon cables as if they were origami, or the routing and organization of non-flat cables.


regular expression

en-noun

regular expression (plural regular expressions)

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(computing theory) A concise description of a regular formal language with notations for concatenation, alternation, and iteration (repetition) of subexpressions.

正則表達式 /正则表达式

computing: a concise description of a pattern to be matched

(computing, more generally) Any pattern for text matching or searching, frequently offering more or less functionality than a theoretical regular expression.


cutline

(software) In software testing, a hypothetical line that separates tests that will be performed from tests that may not be performed due to lack of time.


Ceylon

Borrowed from Portuguese Ceilão, from Old French Seilan (Marco Polo), from Persian سیلان (saylān), ultimately from Pali sīhaḷa, from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala). Doublet of Sinhala.

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) An object-oriented, strongly statically typed programming language with an emphasis on immutability.


DACL

(computing) Initialism of discretionary access control list.


MDX

MultiDimensional eXpressions
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(databases) Short for MultiDimensional eXpressions.

(computing) Short for markdown extended.


multiplicity

multiplicity (countable and uncountable, plural multiplicities)

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering, UML) The number of instances that can occur on a given end of a relationship.


deterministic

en-adj

deterministic (comparative more deterministic, superlative most deterministic)

more deterministic (comparative)
most deterministic (superlative)

On the other hand, if the genetic algorithm has many advantages, their computation cost is higher as compared with deterministic algorithms.

2014, Hélder Rodrigues et al., editors, Engineering Optimization, volume IV, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 311:

(computing, of an algorithm) For a given particular input, always producing the same output through the same sequence of states.

determinista

computing, producing the same output for a given input


GIMP

en-noun

GIMP (countable and uncountable, plural GIMPs)

superWIMP

the form of superWIMP that only interacts gravitationally

(uncountable, software) Acronym of GNU Image Manipulation Program. A computer program capable of editing and manipulating digital images.