fetch

The verb is derived from Middle English fecchen (“to get and bring back, fetch; to come for, get and take away; to steal; to carry away to kill; to search for; to obtain, procure”) [and other forms], from Old English feċċan, fæċċan, feccean (“to fetch, bring; to draw; to gain, take; to seek”), a variant of fetian, fatian (“to bring near, fetch; to acquire, obtain; to bring on, induce; to fetch a wife, marry”) and possibly related to Old English facian, fācian (“to acquire, obtain; to try to obtain; to get; to get to, reach”), both from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to hold, seize; to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”).
The English word is cognate with Dutch vatten (“to apprehend, catch; to grasp; to understand”), German fassen (“to catch, grasp; to capture, seize”), English fet (“(obsolete) to fetch”), Faroese fata (“to grasp, understand”), Danish fatte (“to grasp, understand”), Swedish fatta (“to grasp, understand”), Icelandic feta (“to go, step”), West Frisian fetsje (“to grasp”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

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facch, facche, facchen, fach, fache, fæchen, fatche, feccean, fecche, fecchen, fecchenn, fecchyn, fech, fechchen, feche, fechen, fechin, fechyn, fetche, fetchen, fetchyn, focche, focchen, fochche, foche, fotche, vacche, vacchen, vecche, vecchen, vechchen,

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Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete

a fetch from a cache

(also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

(computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.


login

I've forgotten my login again.

If you’re currently confused considering she [Billie Eilish] made $50 million in one year—don’t forget about how high Billie’s taxes must be and how high her expenses presumably are. Anyway, if you need me, I’ll be here using my friend’s ex’s mom’s Netflix log-in.

2024 September 4, Mehera Bonner, Samantha Olson, “Behold, A Breakdown of Billie Eilish's Massive Net Worth”, in Cosmopolitan:

(computing) Credentials: the combination of a user's identification and password used to enter a computer, program, network, etc.

Your login failed because you weren't connected to the office network.

(computing) The process or an instance of logging in.


GOTO

From go to, a keyword for this purpose in many programming languages.

The setjmp/longjmp facility in C is essentially a GOTO.

(programming) Any construct which produces an unstructured jump in the flow of execution.


GOTO

en-verb

GOTO (third-person singular simple present GOTOs, present participle GOTOing, simple past and past participle GOTOed)

GOTOs (present singular third-person)
GOTOing (participle present)
GOTOed (participle past)
GOTOed (past)

If we were GOTOed from 310 we GOTO 320.

1983, Charles Seiter, Robert Weiss, Pascal for BASIC Programmers, Addison Wesley Publishing Company:

You can create loops by telling the computer to GOTO an earlier line.

1983, C. Regena, Programmer's reference guide to the TI-99/4A, page 18:

Cross reference programs show program structure by displaying line numbers that are GOTOed or GOSUBed to from other lines in the program, and listing the line numbers in which different variables appear.

There is no way of falling into or GOTOing a procedure. The procedure can only be invoked by name as a subroutine.

1987, Douglas S. Stivison, Introduction to Turbo Pascal, Sybex, →ISBN:

She and her hosts could not understand one another until Hopper remembered some COBOL commands. "MOVE," she said, pointing to herself. "GOTO Osaka Hotel." The Japanese immediately understood and delivered her to her lodging.

1990, Computer Languages, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 44:

Next - goto the next entity defined in the module

1991, Gerald C. Cohen, Structured Representation for Requirements and Specifications, NASA, page 25:

(programming) To reach (a point in a program) by means of a GOTO instruction.


Hungarian notation

/hʌŋˈɡɛɹi.ən noʊˈteɪʃən/

The notation was invented by Charles Simonyi (born 1948), Hungarian-American computer programmer.

lpsz is Hungarian notation for a 32-bit pointer to a null-terminated string.

(computing, programming) A naming convention in which the name of a variable indicates its data type and intended use by including abbreviations as prefixes.


amortize

amortize (third-person singular simple present amortizes, present participle amortizing, simple past and past participle amortized)

amortizes (present singular third-person)
amortizing (participle present)
amortized (participle past)
amortized (past)

From Middle English amortisen, from Old French amortir (via the stem amortiss-), from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”).

(transitive, computer science) To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time.


LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
w:Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.


swizzle

swizzle (third-person singular simple present swizzles, present participle swizzling, simple past and past participle swizzled)

swizzles (present singular third-person)
swizzling (participle present)
swizzled (participle past)
swizzled (past)

unswizzle

antonym(s) of “convert symbols to pointers”

Unknown etymology, 1813. Original sense “alcoholic drink”, possibly a variant of switchel (“a drink of molasses and water, often mixed with rum”), attested 1790, itself of uncertain origin. Possibly influenced by fizz.
In verb sense “to stir”, from swizzle stick (“stick for stirring alcoholic drinks”), itself attested 1859.

(computer graphics) To permute bits, or elements of a vector.

(programming, transitive) To convert portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization.

If you or a loved one want to implement method swizzling, you may want to consider using a fairly well-tested wrapper package, such as JRSwizzle. Apple may reject applications that appear to use method swizzling in a dangerous way.

2016, David Thiel, iOS Application Security: The Definitive Guide for Hackers and Developers, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 25:

(programming, Objective-C, transitive) To change a class's dispatch table in order to resolve messages from an existing selector to a new implementation.


snapshot

This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.

(computing) A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.

στιγμιότυπο

(Computing) Files captured at a particular time that are capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state


snapshot

snapshot (third-person singular simple present snapshots, present participle snapshotting, simple past and past participle snapshotted)

snapshots (present singular third-person)
snapshotting (participle present)
snapshotted (participle past)
snapshotted (past)

Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.

2007, David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure, page 30:

(transitive, computing) To capture the state of, in a snapshot.


navigator

Although the window looks like a view of files and folders on disk, the “folders” that appear here are called groups; they don't exist on disk. They appear in the navigator because it's convenient to group related files together […]

2012, Richard Wentk, iOS App Development Portable Genius, page 38:

(computing) A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.


all elbows

From the idea that these programs rudely elbow others out of their way.

Multicom goes beyond lame. It's about the worst example of
an 'all elbows' 1984 vintage DOS program that I've seen in
a long time. Yuk!

1995 October 12, Randy Reames, “MFJ-1278 Software?”, in rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc (Usenet):

It /will/ nuke NT's loader, but that's because NT is all
elbows when it comes to booting.

1998 December 20, Iain Georgeson, “Boot sector woes”, in alt.dur.general (Usenet):

Amen, even more than most games poor `all elbows' behavior, modern
games are generally boring to the extreme.

2002 March 22, Dowe Keller, “Hardest Mistake in Comp Arch to Fix”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet):

(computing, dated) of a program that steals whatever resources it needs without consideration for other tasks.


pixelated

en-adj

pixelated (comparative more pixelated, superlative most pixelated)

more pixelated (comparative)
most pixelated (superlative)

The photo may be pixelated if you print it too large.

The free-flowing pixelated compositions, while full of angles, owe something to automatist drawing.

2008 March 14, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times:

(computing) Of an image, visibly made of discrete pixels.

pikselöity

of an image, visibly made of discrete pixels


octal

en-noun

octal (countable and uncountable, plural octals)

(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) The number system that uses the eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

(arithmetic, computing, countable) A digit or value in the octal number system.


octal

(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in octal or mathematical calculations performed using octal.

八進制 /八进制

concerning numbers expressed in octal or mathematics calculations performed using octal


GP

GP (countable and uncountable, plural GPs or GP)

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

genetic programming
genetic programming#English

(uncountable, software, artificial intelligence) Initialism of genetic programming.


ER

ER (countable and uncountable, plural ERs)

(computing) Initialism of entity-relationship.


CMYK

(computing, printing) Initialism of cyan, magenta, yellow, key: the colour model used in colour printing.


thicket

From Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce (“thick”) + Old English nominal suffix -et. Compare similar German Dickicht (“thicket”), which is first attested in the 17th century, however.

(computing, figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.


padding

padding (countable and uncountable, plural paddings)

(computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.

täyte

extra characters such as spaces added to a record

(military, cryptography) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.


DBA

database analyst
database analyst#English

(databases) Initialism of database analyst.

database administrator
database administrator#English

(databases) Initialism of database administrator.


unroll

en-verb

unroll (third-person singular simple present unrolls, present participle unrolling, simple past and past participle unrolled)

unrolls (present singular third-person)
unrolling (participle present)
unrolled (participle past)
unrolled (past)

(transitive, programming, software compilation) To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as an optimization.


RE

en-noun

RE (countable and uncountable, plural REs)

recursively enumerable
recursively enumerable#English

(computing theory, computational complexity theory) Abbreviation of recursively enumerable; the class of decision problems for which a 'yes' answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time.

recursively enumerable

(computing, countable) Abbreviation of run-time environment.


blob

(databases) Alternative spelling of BLOB


Moore's law

Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore.

named-after

The pocket calculator’s fortunes have fallen ever since. It is a victim of “Moore’s Law,” the theory that the number of transistors that can be squeezed on to a microchip will roughly double every two years, thereby increasing computing power at the same rate.

2012 March 4, Alice Rawsthorn, “Farewell, Pocket Calculator?”, in The New York Times:

How will industries and enterprises dependent upon and accustomed to Moore's Law continue to thrive? What might this disruption mean for society? And will the certainty of continued exponential change enshrined in Moore's Law ever become standard again?

2015, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, Rachel Jones, Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(computing) An empirical observation that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years.


C++

→ Polish: C++

From the name of the C language (on which it was based) and ++, the increment operator in both languages, suggesting something added to C.

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) A multi-paradigm high-level compiled programming language that is a more advanced derivative of C.


tuple

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From the ending of the words quintuple, sextuple; from Latin -plus.

(databases) A single row in a relational database.

(computing) A set of comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system as a parameter to a function call.

Both Python and Haskell have a tuple data type as well as a list data type.

Unlike lists, tuples are not formed by consing.

(programming) A fixed-size container data type similar to a list that can hold different types of elements.


quantization

en-noun

quantization (countable and uncountable, plural quantizations)

(uncountable, signal processing) The process of approximating a continuous signal by a set of discrete symbols or integer values


lint

en-verb

lint (third-person singular simple present lints, present participle linting, simple past and past participle linted)

lints (present singular third-person)
linting (participle present)
linted (participle past)
linted (past)

From the lint Unix utility, written in 1979, which analyses programs written in the C language, itself named after the undesirable bits of fiber and fluff found in sheep's wool (see etymology 1).

You should lint your JavaScript code before committing it.

(transitive, computing) To perform a static check on (source code) to detect stylistic or programmatic errors.


ICE

(programming) Initialism of internal compiler error.

(computing) Initialism of in-circuit emulator/emulation.


FSA

finite-state automaton
finite-state automaton#English

(computer science) Initialism of finite-state automaton.


LPN

(networking) Initialism of Low-Power Network.


FW

Alternative form: f/w

(computer hardware, software) Abbreviation of firmware.


ADL

(programming) Initialism of argument-dependent lookup, a feature of C++ in which the compiler chooses a function based on its arguments.


ADR

en-noun

ADR (countable and uncountable, plural ADRs)

/eɪ diː ˈɑː/

software engineering
software engineering

architectural decision record
w:architectural decision

(software engineering) Initialism of architectural decision record.


singleton

From single + -ton, probably following the model of simpleton.

singleton design pattern
singleton pattern

(computing) A class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.


zombify

en-verb

zombify (third-person singular simple present zombifies, present participle zombifying, simple past and past participle zombified)

zombifies (present singular third-person)
zombifying (participle present)
zombified (participle past)
zombified (past)

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These trojans can zombify your machine.

(transitive, computing) To take control of (a computer) in order to use it covertly and illicitly.


shebang

From hash + bang or sharp + bang, after Etymology 1.

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(computing) The character string "#!" used at the beginning of a computer file to indicate which interpreter can process the commands in the file, chiefly used in Unix and related operating systems.


foreground

/ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/

From fore- + ground. Compare Dutch voorgrond (“foreground”), German Vordergrund (“foreground”), Danish forgrund (“foreground”), Swedish förgrund (“foreground”), Norwegian forgrunn (“foreground”), Icelandic forgrunni (“foreground”).

(computing, often attributive) The application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others.


ZF

In the case of the ZF detector, we suppress the interference among the transmit streams by multiplying the received signal vector y with the Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse of the channel matrix […]

2008, Byeong Gi Lee, Sunghyun Choi, Broadband Wireless Access and Local Networks:

However, due to its simplicity, ZF equalization is a good choice when the channel is known and fixed, and also when there is no frequency notch in the channel frequency response […]

2010, Dayan Adionel Guimaraes, Digital Transmission, page 348:

Thus, the importance of the upper bound is in showing that even in the most optimistic case, the achievable rate cannot exceed the ZF rates by more than 10%.

2013, Academic Press Library in Signal Processing, page 308:

(telecommunications, signal processing) Initialism of zero forcing.


LOC

en-noun

LOC (countable and uncountable, plural LOCs)

(programming) Initialism of lines of code.


RPM

(computing) RPM Package Manager, or formerly Red Hat Package Manager, a package management system used by some distributions of the Linux operating system – most importantly those by Red Hat.

.rpm

the RPM package manager package file extension


WP

(software) Initialism of word processor.

(computing) Initialism of word processing.

(computing) Initialism of weakest precondition.


NDC

(networking) Initialism of network daughter card.


RFC

Request for Comments
w:Request for Comments

(computing) Initialism of Request for Comments.


RFC

(computing) Initialism of remote function call.


RC

RC (countable and uncountable, plural RCs)

release candidate
release candidate#English

(software) Initialism of release candidate.


CRC

cyclic redundancy check
cyclic redundancy check#English

(computing) Initialism of cyclic redundancy check.


PMI

PMI (countable and uncountable, plural PMIs)

(software) Initialism of portable management interface.


DAT

(computing, audio) Digital Audio Tape — a digital data storage tape format using a dual-spooled cartridge and magnetic tape, used for digital audio and data storage.


CERT

(computing) Acronym of computer emergency response team.


CPS

CPS (countable and uncountable, plural CPSes)

cyber-physical system
w:cyber-physical system

(computing) Initialism of cyber-physical system.


FTA

FTA (countable and uncountable, plural FTAs)

(computing) Initialism of filetype association.


OT

OT (countable and uncountable, plural OTs)

(informatics) Initialism of operational technology.


upstream

en-adj

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

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

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

(figurative) Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.

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

The outage was caused by an upstream error in a payments library.

You can also check the upstream and/or Debian bug trackers for open and closed bugs and the upstream revision history or newer release(s).

2013, Matthew Helmke, Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition: Covering 12.10 and 13.04, Pearson Education:

If the developer knows the bug is an upstream bug but does not know which bug it is in the upstream bug tracker, he can add an upstream task to the bug report.

2012, Jono Bacon, The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation, O'Reilly Media, Inc., page 141:

Because a user generally does not know the pedigree of the open source, it cannot know whether an upstream developer used intellectual property belonging to a third party in developing that software.

2008, Michael Dennis Scott, Scott on Outsourcing: Law and Practice, Aspen Publishers, page 198:

We'll walk through the steps to build FreeS/WAN using the upstream tarball.

2002, Tony Mancill, Linux Routers: A Primer for Network Administrators, Prentice Hall, page 190:

en:figuratively, in general
en:figuratively, of version control

(software) Maintained, owned, or associated with the original developers of the given software; in contrast to a modified version downstream.


IMS

en-noun

IMS (countable and uncountable, plural IMSes)

Information Management System
w:Information Management System

(computer science) Initialism of Information Management System.


SDI

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

single-document interface
w:single document interface

(graphical user interface) Initialism of single-document interface.


WORM

write once, read many
write once, read many#English

(computing, computer hardware) Initialism of write once, read many.


BST

BST (countable and uncountable, plural BSTs)

(computing, graph theory) Initialism of binary search tree.


GI

GI (countable and uncountable, plural GIs)

global illumination
global illumination#English

(computer graphics) Initialism of global illumination.


diagnostic

(computing) Any tool or technique used to find the root of a problem.


retrofit

en-verb

retrofit (third-person singular simple present retrofits, present participle retrofitting, simple past and past participle retrofitted)

retrofits (present singular third-person)
retrofitting (participle present)
retrofitted (participle past)
retrofitted (past)

/ˌɹɛtɹəʊˈfɪt/

/ˈɹɛtɹə(ʊ)ˌfɪt/

/ˌɹɛtɹoʊˈfɪt/

/ˈɹɛtɹoʊˌfɪt/

The verb is derived from retro- (prefix meaning ‘back; backward’) + fit (“to equip, supply”).
The noun, which is first attested later than the verb, is either derived:
* from the verb (see above); or
* from retro- + fit (“act of fitting; conformity of elements one to another”).

saada jälkikäteisasennuksena

(intransitive) to supply a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed

The bug was so bad that we had to retrofit our patch to the last three releases, as well as the newest release.

(computing) Synonym of backport (“to retroactively supply a fix or feature to a previous version of a software product at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.”)


BCD

binary-coded decimal
binary-coded decimal#English

(computing, electronics) Initialism of binary-coded decimal.

Boot Configuration Data
w:Boot Configuration Data

(computing) Initialism of Boot Configuration Data.


literal

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From Middle English literal, from Old French literal, from Late Latin litteralis, also literalis (“of or pertaining to letters or to writing”), from Latin littera, litera (“a letter”); see letter.

(programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.

直接量

programming: value written in the source code


PPE

en-noun

PPE (countable and uncountable, plural PPEs)

bulletin board system
bulletin board system

(computing, historical) Initialism of PCBoard programming executable: a software component used to extend the features of a bulletin board system.


DOP

DOP (countable and uncountable, plural DOPs)

(computer graphics) Initialism of discrete oriented polytope.


DP

DP (countable and uncountable, plural DPs)

dynamic programming
dynamic programming#English

(computer science) Initialism of dynamic programming.

(computing) Initialism of developer preview.


XR

extended reality
extended reality#English

(computing) Initialism of extended reality.


CR

CR (countable and uncountable, plural CRs)

(computing) Initialism of carriage return.


ABS

acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
anti-lock braking system

(computing) Initialism of Arch build system.


CAM

content-addressable memory
w:content-addressable memory

(computing) Initialism of content-addressable memory.


ODS

OpenDocument Spreadsheet
w:OpenDocument Spreadsheet

(computing) Initialism of OpenDocument Spreadsheet.


MAD

(programming) Acronym of Michigan algorithm decoder, a programming language, a variant of ALGOL, developed in 1959 at the University of Michigan.


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)


UDS

(computing, automotive) Initialism of Unified Diagnostic Services.


ECL

Embeddable Common Lisp
w:Embeddable Common Lisp

(computing) Initialism of Embeddable Common Lisp.


MVP

(software, design) Initialism of model-view-presenter.

(computer graphics) Initialism of model view projection.


ACE

en-noun

ACE (countable and uncountable, plural ACEs)

human recombinant soluble angiotensin-converting enzyme 2

(computing) Initialism of arbitrary code execution.

(computing) Initialism of access control entry.

Because the DNS requires that a domain name be in an ACE format, IDNA proposes that client applications, such as a web browser, manage the character conversion internally.

2003, John Yunker, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies, New Riders, →ISBN:

(computing) Initialism of ASCII-compatible encoding.


DHT

DHT (countable and uncountable, plural DHTs)

distributed hash table
distributed hash table#English

(computing) Initialism of distributed hash table


TPM

Trusted Platform Module
w:Trusted Platform Module

(computing) Initialism of Trusted Platform Module.


DDS

DDS (countable and uncountable, plural DDSs or DDSes)

(computing) Initialism of data distribution service.


PL

programming language
programming language#English

(computing) Initialism of programming language.


BMI

brain–machine interface
w:brain–computer interface

(computing) Initialism of brain–machine interface.


PAC

(computing) Initialism of programmable automation controller.

(computing) Initialism of proxy auto-config (file).

(software design) Initialism of presentation-abstraction-control.


LF

LF (countable and uncountable, plural LFs)


BYOB

This release now supports proper BYOB readers on Fetch and WebTransport, which allows developers to prepare their ArrayBuffer so that it can be reused for read requests and thus saves memory allocation.

2023 August 1, Firefox 116.0 release notes:

(computing) Initialism of bring your own buffer.


flamer

Send a note to the flamer. Tell him that his message was inappropriate. Request that he refrain from posting anything like it again.

1997, Alex J. Packer, Pamela Espeland, How Rude!:

(computing, slang) One who flames, or posts vitriolic criticism.


tactical

The repeat that we use here is called a tactical, or tactic combinator. The behavior of repeat t is to loop through running t, running t on all generated subgoals, running t on their generated subgoals, and so on. When t fails at any point in this search tree, that particular subgoal is left to be handled by later tactics.

2013, Adam Chlipala, Certified Programming with Dependent Types:

(computing) A combinator of proof tactics.


LSM

liquid state machine
liquid state machine#English

(computing) Initialism of liquid state machine.


hacking

hacking (usually uncountable, plural hackings)

From Middle English hackynge, hakkynge, hacckinge, equivalent to hack + -ing.

(computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.

(computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. See also cracker.

hackerství

unauthorized attempts to bypass the IT security mechanisms


CSR

CSR (countable and uncountable, plural CSRs)

(cryptography) Initialism of certificate signature request.


packet

From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et.

(networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).

(networking) A protocol data unit of the Internet Protocol.

The Minecraft server accepts connections from TCP clients and communicates with them using packets. A packet is a sequence of bytes sent over the TCP connection.

2024 September 28 (last accessed), “Protocol”, in wiki.vg, archived from the original on 2024-09-26, Definitions:

(networking) A message sent over a transport layer protocol.


XM

For instance, the rhythm-action game Dance Factory used 24-channel XM tracker music, composed by Allister Brimble decades after his Amiga debut […]

(computing) Initialism of extended module: a tracker music file format


MBR

MBR (countable and uncountable, plural MBRs)

(computing) Initialism of master boot record.


Qt

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing) a free and open-source cross-platform software for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications.


GIS

GIS (countable and uncountable, plural GISs)

geographic information system
w:geographic information system

(computing) Initialism of geographic information system (“computer-based system to analyse and present spatial data”).


MSA

MSA (countable and uncountable, plural MSAs)

A “mail submission agent” (MSA) that accepts outgoing mail from an MUA, grooms it, and submits it to the transport system[.]

2011, Evi Nemeth et al., UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 744:

(computing) Initialism of mail submission agent.


EPS

Encapsulated PostScript
w:Encapsulated PostScript

(computing, publishing, file format) Initialism of Encapsulated PostScript: a typographically set publishing format with vector graphics


IPS

(computing) Initialism of intrusion prevention system.

Internet Provider Security
w:Internet Provider Security

(computing) Initialism of Internet Provider Security.


STA

(computer networking) Abbreviation of station (in IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) terminology)

(computer networking) Initialism of simultaneous thermal analysis.

(computer networking) Initialism of single-threaded apartment (in the Component Object Model)


hr

(computing) Initialism of horizontal rule.


SAN

Storage Area Network
w:Storage Area Network

(computing) Acronym of Storage Area Network.

Subject Alternative Name
w:Subject Alternative Name

(computing) Acronym of Subject Alternative Name.

System Area Network
w:System Area Network

(computing) Acronym of System Area Network.


DSS

decision support system
w:decision support system

(computing) Initialism of decision support system.


PBT

PBT (countable and uncountable, plural PBTs)

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering, uncountable) Initialism of property-based testing.


PBT

w:Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering

(networking) Initialism of Provider Backbone Transport.


wildcard

1968, Digital Equipment Corporation, VAX/VMS 319(5864), page 751, Section 2.1.2 Using Wildcard Characters
A wildcard character is a symbol that you can use with many DCL commands to apply the command to several files at once, rather than specifying each file individually.

If the character * is acting as a wildcard, then the pattern a*m matches each of the words amalgam, atom and alum.

(computing) A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.


wildcard

en-verb

wildcard (third-person singular simple present wildcards, present participle wildcarding, simple past and past participle wildcarded)

wildcards (present singular third-person)
wildcarding (participle present)
wildcarded (participle past)
wildcarded (past)

The unfortunate consequence is that document elements cannot be wildcarded because a schema needs to provide a closed list of possible document elements.

2002, Eric Van der Vlist, XML Schema, page 183:

(computing) To replace or supplement with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values.


qwertz

(computing, typography) A style of keyboard layout used in some European countries.


OTP

(cryptography) Initialism of one-time pad.

(computing) Initialism of one-time password: a password that is valid for only one login session or transaction.


OTP

Opposite Track Path
w:Opposite Track Path

(computing) Initialism of Opposite Track Path.


FIFO

en-noun

FIFO (countable and uncountable, plural FIFOs)

first in first out
first in first out#English

(accounting, operations, computing) Acronym of first in first out.


CAS

CAS (countable and uncountable, plural CASes)

computer algebra system
w:computer algebra system

(mathematics, computing) Initialism of computer algebra system.

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of compare and swap.


mail merge

(computing) A software product that uses a file (or database) of names and addresses, together with a template document, to produce multiple copies of a letter, each personally addressed to a different recipient.


massively parallel

(computing) having many individual or distributed processing units and thus able to carry out many simultaneous calculations.


MPP

MPP (countable and uncountable, plural MPPs)

massively parallel
massively parallel#English

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of massively parallel processing.

(computing, countable) Initialism of massively parallel processor.


CMS

CMS (countable and uncountable, plural CMSes or CMSs)

content management system
content management system#English

(computing) Initialism of content management system.

color management system
w:Color management system

(computing) Initialism of color management system.

conversational monitor system
w:Conversational Monitoring System

(computing) Initialism of conversational monitor system.


mutable

en-adj

mutable (comparative more mutable, superlative most mutable)

more mutable (comparative)
most mutable (superlative)

From Middle English mutable, from Old French mutable, from Latin mutabilis (“liable to change”). By surface analysis, muta- + -able.

A value of a mutable type can change. Objects and arrays are mutable: a JavaScript program can change the values of object properties and array elements. Numbers, booleans, null, and undefined are immutable.

2011, David Flanagan, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide:

(programming, of a variable) Having a value that is changeable during program execution.


broadcaster

/ˈbɹɔːdˌkɑːstə/

From broadcast (“to transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

suffix

(computing) A piece of equipment used to transmit data over a computer network.


filename

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Holonyms: filespec, pathname

Meronyms: filename extension, extension

Comeronyms: filepath, path

Near-synonym: basename

(computing) The name assigned to a file in a file system.


firebrick

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firebrick:

(computer science) The X11 color name of RGB hexadecimal value #B22222.


DOM

The same applies to DHTML. Why can't anyone agree on a single standard? Probably because Micro$oft wants to retain a desktop monopoly in the face of superior technology avaialable on other platforms. Even on Windows, Netscape and IE use different DOMs.

2000 October 8, David Steuber, “Re: Comparing Perl and Java”, in comp.lang.perl.misc (Usenet):

Document Object Model
Document Object Model#English

(computing) Acronym of Document Object Model.

(computing) Initialism of disk on module.


Dx

developer experience
developer experience#English

(programming) Abbreviation of developer experience.


OC

en-noun

OC (countable and uncountable, plural OCs)


memo

The first is that the recursive call finds its subproblem solution in the memo and returns immediately.

2020, Daniel Zingaro, Algorithmic Thinking: A Problem-Based Introduction, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 86:

(programming) A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.


exec

en-verb

exec (third-person singular simple present execs, present participle execing, simple past and past participle execed)

execs (present singular third-person)
execing (participle present)
execed (participle past)
execed (past)

(computing, informal) To execute; to run.


checksum

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(mathematics, computing) A number, derived by applying a suitable algorithm to some data, used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission, storage or data entry.


checksum

checksum (third-person singular simple present checksums, present participle checksumming, simple past and past participle checksummed)

checksums (present singular third-person)
checksumming (participle present)
checksummed (participle past)
checksummed (past)

(mathematics, computing) To compute a checksum.


cyclic redundancy check

en-noun

cyclic redundancy check (plural cyclic redundancy checks)

(computing) A type of hash function that produces a checksum used to detect and correct transmission errors in data (abbreviation CRC).


hash function

(computing) An algorithm that generates a numeric, or fixed-size character output from a variable-sized piece of text or other data; used in database table queries, cryptography and in error-checking.


auth

en-verb

auth (third-person singular simple present auths, present participle authing, simple past and past participle authed)

auths (present singular third-person)
authing (participle present)
authed (participle past)
authed (past)

You can't post messages on the site unless you're authed.


DMA

en-noun

DMA (countable and uncountable, plural DMAs)

direct memory access
w:direct memory access

(computing) Initialism of direct memory access.

(computing) Initialism of direct memory addressing.


Small Computer Systems Interface

(computing) A standard interface and command set for transferring data between devices on a bus.


JIT

In JIT compilation, the running program is reflectively modified by an embedded compiler, which only uses two reflective operations […]

2024, Egon Börger, Vincenzo Gervasi, Structures of Computing: A Guide to Practice-Oriented Theory (page 108)

(operations, computing) Initialism of just-in-time.


JIT

(software) Abbreviation of just-in-time compiler.

(computing) Abbreviation of just-in-time compilation.


JIT

en-verb

JIT (third-person singular simple present JITs, present participle JITing, simple past and past participle JITed)

JITs (present singular third-person)
JITing (participle present)
JITed (participle past)
JITed (past)

(computing) To perform a just-in-time operation (usually compiling).


randomly

en-adv

randomly (comparative more randomly, superlative most randomly)

more randomly (comparative)
most randomly (superlative)

When a file is accessed randomly, the programmer must specify the relative record number.

1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming, page 314:

(computing) By random access; at any point at a given time; not sequentially.


compartmentalization

en-noun

compartmentalization (countable and uncountable, plural compartmentalizations)

(software) The act of dividing complex code into libraries with common functionality to help make the process of programming more manageable and reusable.


LIFO

last in first out
last in first out#English

(computing, accounting, business) Acronym of last in first out.


TIFF

(computer graphics) An image stored in the TIFF format.

(computing) A file using TIFF file format


SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics
w:Scalable Vector Graphics

(computer graphics) Initialism of Scalable Vector Graphics.


SVG

In this chapter we will cover: […] • Creating SVGs with popular image editing packages and services • Inserting SVGs into a page with img and object tags […]

2015, Ben Frain, Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 170:

(computer graphics) A graphic stored in the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format.


PGA

Professional Graphics Adapter
w:Professional Graphics Controller

(computing) Initialism of Professional Graphics Adapter, a video interface card for computers, made obsolete in 1987 by the VGA adapter.


TDD

TDD (countable and uncountable, plural TDDs)

Coordinate term: BDD

test-driven development
test-driven development#English

(uncountable, software engineering) Initialism of test-driven development.


EDA

EDA (countable and uncountable, plural EDAs)

(software) Initialism of event-driven architecture (a pattern promoting the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events.)

event-driven architecture

(software) Initialism of electronic design automation (collective name for software used to design integrated semiconductor circuits.)


OCS

(software) Initialism of Open Computer and Software (an application which inventories IT assets)

Open Computer and Software

(communication, Microsoft, software) Initialism of Microsoft Office Communications Server (a software product)


AMS

AMS (countable and uncountable, plural AMSes)

(computing) Initialism of application management software.


STM

STM (countable and uncountable, plural STMs)

software transactional memory
w:software transactional memory

(computing theory) Initialism of software transactional memory.


isochronous

From Ancient Greek ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) + Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + -ous.

Their entire national telephone network is isochronous, with a clock distribution tree radiating from a single, protected cesium reference clock.

(computing) Of or pertaining to the use of clocks derived from the same clock reference.

These packets belong to an isochronous voice application and need priority handling.

(computing) of or pertaining to data associated with time-sensitive applications.


malware

malware (usually uncountable, plural malwares)

→ Amharic: ማልዌር (malwer)

→ Bengali: মালওয়্যার (malōẇyar)

→ Czech: malware

→ Danish: malware

→ Dutch: malware

→ French: malware; → maliciel (calque)

→ German: Malware

→ Hindi: मैलवेयर m (mailveyar)

→ Italian: malware

→ Japanese: マルウェア (maruwea)

→ Korean: 맬웨어 (maerweeo)

→ Macedonian: малвер m (malver)

→ Portuguese: malware

→ Romanian: malware

→ Serbo-Croatian: malver m

→ Slovak: malvér m

→ Spanish: malware

→ Tagalog: malware

→ Thai: มัลแวร์ (mal-wɛɛ)

In a follow-up attack that hit Kyiv’s power grid a year later, the suspects used a second piece of malware, called Industroyer, to cut power for an hour, the indictment said. The malware, according to experts, posed one of the greatest digital threats to critical infrastructure since Stuxnet, the computer attack by the United States and Israel that took out Iran’s uranium centrifuges in 2009.

2020 October 19, “U.S. Charges Russian Intelligence Officers in Major Cyberattacks”, in New York Times:

(computing) Software which has been designed to operate in a malicious, undesirable manner.

skadelike programmatuur

software developed to cause harm to a computer system


IST

(computing) Initialism of InterSwitch Trunk.


app

A visual tool can be thought of as a graphics app that generates most of your program's GUI code for you

1999 February, Maximum PC, volume 4, number 2:

So is a spreadsheet app, but I'm not going to put those on a web site any time soon.

1999, Jerry Bradenbaugh, JavaScript application cookbook, page xi:

The Web browser was the killer app that kickstarted the Internet and, in turn, enabled it to be embedded in everything

1999 November, AUUGN, volume 20, number 4, page 9:

Want realtime flight and gate updates? A calorie counter? A remote for your DVD player? Chances are there's an app for it. Smartphones separate themselves in another key area: connectivity

2005 May, Popular Science, volume 266, number 5, page 78:

(computing, mobile telephony) An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.


BO

BO (countable and uncountable, plural BOs)

A business object (BO) is simply a software abstraction of a real-world entity.

2004, Chuck Cavaness, Programming Jakarta Struts, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 139:

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Initialism of business object.


BO

(business, computing, historical) Initialism of BusinessObjects, a French enterprise software company specializing in business intelligence.


SAM

A SAM conversion occurs when Java converts the SAM interface into functional code.

2020, Barry Burd, John Paul Mueller, Android Application Development All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 213:

(programming) Initialism of single abstract method.


AST

AST (countable and uncountable, plural ASTs)

(computing) Initialism of abstract syntax tree.


XPDL

(computing) Initialism of XML Process Definition Language.


check out

en-verb

check out (third-person singular simple present checks out, present participle checking out, simple past and past participle checked out)

checks out (present singular third-person)
checking out (participle present)
checked out (participle past)
checked out (past)

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(transitive, programming) To obtain source code (and/or other material) from a source control repository so that one can modify it (and often later "check in" the modified version back).

kuitata ulos

to obtain computer source code from a source code control system


unvoiced

The unvoiced signal is smaller energy than voiced signal and, so, this section is applied the smaller threshold.

1999, ISIE ..., volumes 1-3, IEEE Service Center:

(signal processing, of a signal) That does not contain voice.


millennium bug

Mr Johnson also said the Northern Irish border row had been blown out of proportion and compared fears over disruption over vital goods coming into the UK to "pure millennium bug stuff".

2018 June 7, Lizzy Buchan, “Boris Johnson says Trump could handle Brexit better and warns of ’meltdown’ in explosive leaked recording”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-07:

(computing) A design flaw in computer systems that represented years as two digits (e.g. 84 for 1984), which could cause date calculations to fail if they involved years later than 1999.

千年蟲 /千年虫

a design flaw in computer systems which which could cause date calculations to fail after 1999


morphing

(computing) The smooth transformation of one image into another using digital tweening.


freezer

→ Macanese: friza

[…] "freezer" cartridges (such as the Action Replay), as a convenient way to take control […]

The execution of the program was suspended with a special hardware expansion, the freezer, and the contents of the memory were saved to disk.

2016, Polgár Tamás, Freax: The Brief History of the Computer Demoscene:

(computing) A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.


eval

eval (third-person singular simple present evals, present participle evalling or evaling, simple past and past participle evalled or evaled)

evals (present singular third-person)
evalling (participle present)
evaling (participle present)
evalled (participle past)
evalled (past)
evaled (participle past)
evaled (past)

Of course, it's quite pointless to eval a piece of code that you know at compile time ...

1997, Sriram Srinivasan, Andy Oram, Steve Talbott, Advanced Perl Programming:

(programming, of software) To evaluate (or execute) source code held in a string during run time.


SPAN

Switched Port Analyzer
w:Switched Port Analyzer

(computing) Acronym of Switched Port Analyzer, a Cisco technology


SAP

(software) SAP AG, derived from the German Initialism of Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung. It is one of the world's largest software companies.


AV

access violation
access violation#English

(computing) Initialism of access violation.


repo

en-noun

repo (countable and uncountable, plural repos)

(countable, computing, informal) Clipping of repository (“storage location for files”).


DDR

DDR (countable and uncountable, plural DDRs)

(computing) Double-data-rate computer RAM.


SHTML

(computing) Initialism of server-parsed HTML.


IPC

interprocess communication
interprocess communication#English

(computing) Initialism of interprocess communication.


add-on

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Microdrives that can hold several gigabytes (see Figure 2.20) have been available as add-ons for portable devices.

2010, Kenneth Baldauf, Ralph Stair, Succeeding with Technology, page 77:

(computer hardware, software) A software extension or hardware peripheral that provides additional functions or customization for a core application or system.


interrogate

en-verb

interrogate (third-person singular simple present interrogates, present participle interrogating, simple past and past participle interrogated)

interrogates (present singular third-person)
interrogating (participle present)
interrogated (participle past)
interrogated (past)

/ɪnˈtɛɹ.əˌɡeɪt/

/ɪnˈtɛɹ.ə.ɡæɪt/

Learned borrowing from Latin interrogātus.

lbor

to interrogate a database

(transitive, computing) to query; to request information from.


EMF

Eclipse Modeling Framework
w:Eclipse Modeling Framework

(software) Initialism of Eclipse Modeling Framework.


enabled

en-adj

enabled (comparative more enabled, superlative most enabled)

more enabled (comparative)
most enabled (superlative)

Ajax-enabled

WAP-enabled

(computing) Adapted for use with the specified mechanism or system.


locked

You can't delete a locked computer file.

(computing) Protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.


enable

en-verb

enable (third-person singular simple present enables, present participle enabling, simple past and past participle enabled)

enables (present singular third-person)
enabling (participle present)
enabled (participle past)
enabled (past)

From Middle English enablen, equivalent to en- + able.

давам възможност

to give power, sanction or authorization to; to provide with abilities, means, opportunities

umožnit

to allow a way out or excuse for an action

(chiefly electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

aanskakel

to activate a function of an electronic or mechanical device


systolic

a systolic compiler

(computing) Relating to a systolic array


home computer

Coordinate term: personal computer

This last section is meant to draw your attention to a further sphere of potential use for your home computer, namely letting it monitor and control some activity directly, without your own participation […]

1983, Using Your Home Computer, Macmillan International Higher Education, →ISBN, page 80:

(computer hardware, dated) A computer intended for use in the home.


cardinality

en-noun

cardinality (countable and uncountable, plural cardinalities)

(data modeling, databases) The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many.


workstation

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All train movements on the Far North Line have been controlled by a Radio Electronic Token Block workstation at Inverness since 1995, having already been introduced on the Kyle Line some 11 years earlier.

2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line: Radio Electronic Token Block”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48:

(computing) A desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics.


pathological

en-adj

pathological (comparative more pathological, superlative most pathological)

more pathological (comparative)
most pathological (superlative)

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(computer science) Having properties that cause unusually bad behaviour, especially regarding correctness or performance.


haystack

From Middle English haystak, haystake, hey stak, equivalent to hay + stack.

Both of these functions will look through the haystack for the specified needle and, if they find it, will return the portion of the string from the beginning of the needle to the end of the haystack.

2010, Peter MacIntyre, PHP: The Good Parts, page 39:

needle in a haystack
needle in a haystack

(programming) The text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack)


shard

From Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), from Proto-West Germanic *skard, from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), from *skardaz (“damaged; nicked; scarred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Scots schaird (“shard”), French écharde (“splinter”), Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), German Scharte (“notch”), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”) ( > Danish skår).
The database sense is perhaps derived from the online gaming sense or from SHARD (System for Highly Available Replicated Data), name of a 1980s database product.

cog

(databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.


slider

From slide + -er.
The meaning "small hamburger" was originally used to describe onion-steamed small burgers at White Castle restaurants, formerly spelt "Slyder".
Regarding the senses about control devices or widgets: physical sliders (potentiometers serving as rheostats) predate virtual ones (elements in graphical user interfaces), and the virtual ones are so named because their concept is the abstraction of the physical ones; if more explanation on that topic is needed, it is available in the Wikipedia articles on skeuomorphs, icons, and the desktop metaphor.

In the Vista Volume Mixer tool, when you move the speaker volume slider, the program sliders move along with it.

2008, Paul McFedries, Microsoft Windows Vista Unleashed, page 186:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A widget allowing the user to select a value or position on a sliding scale.

liukusäädin

(software, graphical user interface) a widget allowing the user to select a value or position

(graphical user interface, Internet) A slideshow on a web page.


SNMP

(computing, networking) Initialism of Simple Network Management Protocol.


strikeout

en-noun

strikeout (countable and uncountable, plural strikeouts)

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(computing, wordprocessing) Cancellation of a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.

tāhīpae

(Computing) Cancellation of text items by crossing out rather than deleting


strikeout

en-verb

strikeout (third-person singular simple present strikeouts, present participle strikeouting, simple past and past participle strikeouted)

strikeouts (present singular third-person)
strikeouting (participle present)
strikeouted (participle past)
strikeouted (past)

(computing, textprocessing) To cancel a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.

tāhīpae

(Computing) To cancel text items by crossing them out rather than deleting


enclave

Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave (“enclave”), deverbal of enclaver (“to inclose”), from Old French enclaver (“to inclose, lock in”), from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre (“to lock in”), from in + Latin clavis (“key”) or clavus (“nail, bolt”). Compare inlock.

der

When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave.

2010, Mike Ebbers, Dino Tonelli, Jason Arnold, Co-locating Transactional and Data Warehouse Workloads on System z, page 245:

(computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.


open system

(computing) A system allowing hardware and software from different manufacturers to be used together seamlessly.


DL

en-noun

DL (countable and uncountable, plural DLs)


DL

en-verb

DL (third-person singular simple present DLs, present participle DLing, simple past and past participle DLed or DL'd)

DLs (present singular third-person)
DLing (participle present)
DLed (participle past)
DLed (past)
DL'd (participle past)
DL'd (past)


NMI

non-maskable interrupt
non-maskable interrupt#English

(computing) Initialism of non-maskable interrupt.


buddy system

buddy memory allocation
buddy memory allocation

(computing theory) The use of buddy memory allocation.


sneakernet

en-noun

sneakernet (countable and uncountable, plural sneakernets)

term-label

(computing, humorous, informal, historical)

From sneaker (“running shoe”) + net (“network”), a reference to a person wearing sneakers walking from one computer to another.

compound

Significant advances are occurring to race past sneakernet. But the ideal computer interconnect solution will always be just around the next bend.

1986, Hardcopy, volume 6, Brea, Calif.: Sedlin Pub. Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 143, column 3:

Before complicated networks and E-mail and special-interest bulletin boards, there was Sneakernet. Sneakernet required no special protocol, no special cables and terminal software. To communicate on Sneakernet, all you needed to do was take a disk from your computer to someone else's, stick the disk in that remote drive, and copy some files—instant data transfer. Well, almost instant.

1989 April, David Plotkin, “Compute! Specific”, in Compute!, volume 11, number 4, issue 107, Greensboro, N.C.: COMPUTE! Publications, ABC Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 58, column 2:

Before computer networks came into existence, sneakernet was the only method of file sharing available. Sneakernet is the generally accepted term for the act of loading files that you want to share on removable media (tape, CD, or floppy disk) at one computer, carrying the media to a second computer, and reading the files from that media onto that second computer. [...] Sneakernet is the lowest-tech form of file sharing that has ever been available, and it is still practiced at some sites today.

2001 December, Robin Anderson, Andy Johnston [et al.], “File Sharing”, in Unix Unleashed, 4th edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, part II (Critical Subsystems), page 546:

(uncountable) A method of transferring a computer file from one computer to another by copying it to a floppy disk, thumb drive, or some other external storage device, carrying the device to the other computer, and saving the file there, in contrast to electronic methods used by networked computers to transfer data.

球鞋網絡 /球鞋网络

method of transferring a computer file from one computer to another by copying it to an external storage device, carrying the device to the other computer, and saving the file there

NSA feels there is no reason to use sneakernet anymore when you can distribute software to users through the network. (Sneakernet is the network created by physically walking from location to location to deliver software to users.)

1999, “An Introduction to the Internet for Financial Services Developers”, in Jessica Keyes, editor, Handbook of Technology in Financial Services, Boca Raton, Fla., New York, N.Y.: CRC Press, published 2010, →ISBN, section I (Technology Trends in Financial Services), page 25-7:

Some companies were able to coerce one department's application to read data files written by another's. These lucky organizations often resorted to sneakernets—transferring data on magnetic tape or floppy disks—to avoid the re-keying process. With the advent of LANs and WANs, electronic file transfers replaced most sneakernets.

2003, Doug Kaye, “Application Integration”, in Alison Bing, Cessna Kaye, editors, Loosely Coupled: The Missing Pieces of Web Services, Marin County, Calif.: RDS Press, →ISBN, part II (Concepts), page 66:

Before the days of Internets and intranets, there were sneakernets—users would save files on a floppy disk and simply walk them over to another PC!

2004, Adrian W. Kingsley-Hughes, “What’s What—the Anatomy of a PC”, in The PC Doctor’s Fix-it-yourself Guide, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →DOI, →ISBN, part I (Overview), page 24:

Czechoslovak sneakernets were structured around the geopolitical barriers and foreign trade regulations, but without any direct intervention from the authorities. The networks were improvisational and unruly, but also robust and reliable. [...] Sneakernets were experienced as movement rather than as a service or a set of formalized transactions.

2018, Jaroslav Švelch, “Lighting up the Shadows: Informal Distribution of Game Software”, in Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games, Cambridge, Mass., London: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 151:

(countable) The group of computers involved in this practice.


filler

(programming) In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that contains no data relevant to a given context (normally capitalised when in a data division).


AAR

(computing) Axis2 ARchive file (extension .aar)


test case

(computing) Any of a set of conditions and variables used to test an application.


enqueue

en-verb

enqueue (third-person singular simple present enqueues, present participle enqueuing or enqueueing, simple past and past participle enqueued)

enqueues (present singular third-person)
enqueuing (participle present)
enqueueing (participle present)
enqueued (participle past)
enqueued (past)

(transitive, computing) To add an item to a queue. [from 20th c.]


mouse pad

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


still life

en-noun

still life (plural still lifes or still lives)

still lifes (plural)
still lives (plural)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


hot corner

hot corner (countable and uncountable, plural hot corners)

Because many hard-hit balls are hit there

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

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

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


floating point

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


floating point operation

floating point operation (plural floating point operations)

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


FLOPS

An acronym for floating-point operations per second.


FLOP

A syllabic acronym from floating-point operation.


megaflop

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

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floating point operation
floating point operation#English

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


benchmark

From bench + mark. First use appears c. 1842. Originally a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench (from land surveying jargon in the 19th century, meaning a type of bracket), to mount measuring equipment. The figurative sense first appears c. 1884.

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

бенчмарк

computing: program executed to assess performance


systems analyst

systems analyst (plural systems analysts)

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


carry-out

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

2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design:

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


systems analysis

systems analysis (countable and uncountable, plural systems analyses)

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


PAP

password authentication protocol
w:password authentication protocol

(networking) Initialism of password authentication protocol.


virtual private network

virtual private network (plural virtual private networks)

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

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


LV

LV (countable and uncountable, plural LVs)

(computing) Initialism of logical volume.


DoS

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

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


DoS

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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


KB

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of kilobyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of kibibyte.


KB

(computer science) Initialism of knowledge base.


sed

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


stanza

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

der

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


invoke

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


overloaded

en-adj

overloaded (comparative more overloaded, superlative most overloaded)

more overloaded (comparative)
most overloaded (superlative)

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


dep

en-noun

dep (countable and uncountable, plural deps)

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


EB

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of exabyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of exbibyte.


ITIL

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


peer-to-peer

With the peer-to-peer backup paradigm, each file is copied over to another peer in the system rather than to a central backup site.

2004, Dinesh Verma, Legitimate Applications of Peer-to-Peer Networks, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 98:

(computing, of a network) Connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals; decentralized.

vertaisverkko-

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


(networking) Initialism of peer-to-peer.


palmtop

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

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

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

personal digital assistant
personal digital assistant

(computing) A personal digital assistant.


Pretty Good Privacy

public-key cryptography
public-key cryptography

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


preloaded

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


PKC

public-key cryptography
public-key cryptography#English

(cryptography) Initialism of public-key cryptography.


pull-down

en-noun

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

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

When a TV monitor is in shot, and the film is transferred to video through the normal 2:3 pulldown there will be a strobing effect where the film and video frame rates clash.

2013, David Mellor, Sound Person's Guide to Video, page 216:

(signal processing) The conversion of video footage to a higher frame rate by duplicating certain frames.


isomorphism

isomorphism (countable and uncountable, plural isomorphisms)

Isomorphism on Encyclopedia of Mathematics

Natural Isomorphism on Wolfram MathWorld

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

(category theory) A morphism which has a two-sided inverse; the composition of the morphism and such an inverse yields either one of two identity morphisms (depending on the order of composition).


front door

(computing) The normal portal page to a website.


popup blocker

pop-up advertisement
pop-up advertisement

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


terabyte

/ˈtɛɹəˌbaɪt/

[ˈtʰɛɹəˌbaɪ̯t]


tebibyte

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


hard drive

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

hardeskyf

device used for storing large amounts of data

ഹാർഡ് ഡിസ്ക് ഡ്രൈവ്

hāṟḍŭ ḍiskŭ ḍraivŭ


flash drive

So called because it is a storage device that uses flash memory.

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

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

Flash-Laufwerk

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


eMac

From e- (educational) + Mac (Macintosh).

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


FEC

FEC (countable and uncountable, plural FECs)

forward error correction
w:forward error correction

(information theory, uncountable) Initialism of forward error correction.


comparator

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

comparateur

computing: application that compares prices


short circuit

en-verb

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

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

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

2002, Paul Kimmel, Visual Basic.Net Unleashed:

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

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

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

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


microprocessor

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

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

When you think of current microprocessors (μPs), the Intel Itanium processor with 592 million transistors may come to mind. […] Clearly today's FPGAs will not be able to implement such a top-of-the-range μP with a single FPGA.

2007, Uwe Meyer-Baese, “Microprocessor Design”, in Digital Signal Processing with Field Programmable Gate Arrays, 3rd edition, Berlin: Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 537:

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


scoped

(programming) Limited to a particular scope.


inheritance

en-noun

inheritance (countable and uncountable, plural inheritances)

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

inh+

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

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

继承

programming: mechanism for making parts of superclass available to subclass


hosting

en-noun

hosting (countable and uncountable, plural hostings)

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

寄存服務 /寄存服务

running and maintaining a computer system


datagram

The pseudo header conceptually prefixed to the UDP header contains the source address, the destination address, the protocol, and the UDP length. This information gives protection against misrouted datagrams.

1980 August 28, Jon Postel, “User Datagram Protocol”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 768:

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


implode

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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

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


punch out

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

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

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


autoclave

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


MSF

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
w:Microsoft SharePoint Foundation

(computing) Initialism of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.


POS

en-noun

POS (countable and uncountable, plural POSes or POSs)

operating system
operating system#English

(computing) Initialism of proprietary operating system.


squawk

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

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

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

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


squawk

en-verb

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

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

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

1993, Steve Maguire, Writing Solid Code:

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

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

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


socket

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

套接字

computing interprocess communication channel

interprocess communication
interprocess communication

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

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


SCADA

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


EMI

en-noun

EMI (countable and uncountable, plural EMIs)

external machine interface
w:EMI (protocol)

(networking) Initialism of external machine interface.

external memory interface
w:external memory interface

(computer hardware) Initialism of external memory interface.


accelerated graphics port

accelerated graphics port (plural accelerated graphics ports)

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


crippleware

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


demoware

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


donationware

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


trojan

/ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/

/ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/

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


trojan

en-verb

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

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

/ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/

/ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/

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


openness

en-noun

openness (usually uncountable, plural opennesses)

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

cog

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


quiesce

en-verb

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

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

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

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


SSDD

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


initialization

en-noun

initialization (countable and uncountable, plural initializations)

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

初始化

programming: assignment of initial value of variable


IDE

IDE (countable and uncountable, plural IDEs)

(computing, countable) Initialism of integrated development environment.


NCSA

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


trellis

From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”). However, see OED which claims another Old French form referring to sackcloth, from Vulgar Latin.

der

communication theory
communication theory

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


Trojan

/ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/

/ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/

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

Trójan

astronomical object residing at a Trojan point


Trojan

/ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/

/ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/

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


sector

Sector (Star Trek)
Sector (instrument)
sector

Coordinate term: block

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

قِطَاع

fixed-sized unit of sequential data storage


broker

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

cog

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

välittäjä

computing: agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions


NCR

numeric character reference
w:numeric character reference

(computing) Abbreviation of numeric character reference.


ARM

Advanced RISC Machine
w:ARM architecture

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


killer app

(informal, computing) A killer application.


muffin

→ Chinese: 瑪芬 /玛芬 (mǎfēn)

→ Danish: muffin

→ Esperanto: mafino

→ Finnish: muffini, muffinssi, muffinsi

→ French: muffin

→ German: Muffin

→ Japanese: マフィン (mafin)

→ Korean: 머핀 (meopin)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: muffins

→ Polish: muffin

→ Portuguese: muffin

→ Russian: ма́ффин (máffin)

→ Swedish: muffins

→ Yiddish: מאָפֿין (mofin)

From earlier moofin, probably a diminutive of Low German Muffe ("small cake"; Muffen (plural)), from Middle Low German muffe (“small pastry”). An alternative, and phonologically less plausible theory suggests a connection to Old French (pain) moflet (“roll”, literally “soft (bread)”).

gl

"small cake"; <i class="Latn mention" lang="nds">Muffen</i> (plural)

ncog

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

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

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


selector

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


RAID

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


redundant array of independent disks

en-noun

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

redundant arrays of independent disks (plural)

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

pleonázousa systoichía anexártiton dískon

πλεονάζουσα συστοιχία ανεξάρτητων δίσκων


rasterize

en-verb

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

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

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


bitmap

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

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

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


reverse engineering

afkykontwerp

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

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


directive

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

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


rollover

en-noun

rollover (countable and uncountable, plural rollovers)

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graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, chiefly web design) A graphic element that changes its appearance when the cursor moves over it.

osoitettaessa muuttuva elementti

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

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

samanaikaisten painallusten tunnistus

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


scrollable

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


scroll bar

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


AT

AT (countable and uncountable, plural ATs)

assistive technology
assistive technology#English

(software) Initialism of assistive technology.


IS

information system
information system#English

(computing) Initialism of information system(s).


CIS

clinical information system
w:clinical information system

(medicine, software) Initialism of clinical information system.


link farm

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Coordinate term: content farm

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


DTP

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

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

desktop publishing
desktop publishing#English

(computer graphics) Initialism of desktop publishing.


shininess

shininess (usually uncountable, plural shininesses)

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


SPD

SPD (countable and uncountable, plural SPDs)

serial presence detect
w:serial presence detect

(computing) Initialism of serial presence detect.


collator

(computing) A program or algorithm that collates.

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


collation

collation (countable and uncountable, plural collations)

From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō (“to bring together”).

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


decollate

en-verb

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

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

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


decollator

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


multipart

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


JCR

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


elevate

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

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

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

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

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

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


gfx

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of graphics.


SIMM

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


sleep mode

en-noun

sleep mode (usually uncountable, plural sleep modes)

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

random access memory
random access memory

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


one-liner

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


streamer

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

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

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

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

(networking) Any mechanism for streaming data.


chrome

chrome (usually uncountable, plural chromes)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


TEA

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Initialism of The Elm Architecture.


null pointer

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


trapdoor

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

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


trapdoor

en-verb

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

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

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


SIMD

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

coin

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

(computing) Acronym of single instruction, multiple data.


autodialer

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


embedding

(mathematics) A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.

(category theory) An injective morphism in a concrete category which is also initial.


god-king

devaraja

Southeast Asian, Hindu-Buddhist divine monarch

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