realia

From Late Latin realia, neuter plural of realis (“real”).

"We acquire entire collections of materials for research purposes," explains Saundra Taylor, curator of manuscripts at the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington. "That inevitably includes something that's not books or manuscripts."

2002 April 14, Lev Grossman, “Catalog This”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2021-05-21, Education Life, page 26:

(libraries, information science) Physical objects in a library collection that do not fit into traditional categories of media, whose media are the objects themselves, as opposed to their informational content, such as artifacts, tools, memorabilia, and naturally-occurring specimens.


desktop

Laptops are often more expensive than desktops.

(computing) A personal computer, as opposed to computers for business or server purposes.

I installed a new application and it added its icon to my desktop.

Important menus, such as the root menu or Workspace menu, are "pinnable," which means that you can pin them up and keep them on your desktop […]

1994, Linda Mui, Valerie Quercia, X User Tools, page 312:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:desktop.

(computing, graphical user interface, synecdochically) The wallpaper of this interface.


desktop

desktop browser

(computing) Of an application or website, designed to be run or viewed on a personal computer.

asztali

computing: of an application or website, designed to be run or viewed on a personal computer


isosynchronous

(computing) of a communications system in which the source and target are each synchronized but each transmission contains a start bit and a stop bit.


cadence

en-noun

cadence (countable and uncountable, plural cadences)

Borrowed from Middle French cadence, from Old Italian cadenza (“conclusion of a phrase of music”), from Latin *cadentia (literally “a falling”), form of cadēns, the present participle of cadō (“I fall, I cease”). The Latin verb is inherited, via Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱad-e- (“to fall”, thematic present). Doublet of cadenza and chance.

der

In this third case, releasing more frequently, the PSI cadence becomes a planning cadence, rather than a release cadence.

2010 12, Dean Leffingwell, Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 317:

We recommend aiming for a release cadence of no more than six months, with a goal of getting it down to three months or shorter.

2012, Scott Ambler, Mark Lines, Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise, IBM Press, page 227:

This happens when the installation cadence in production is slower than the release cadence of the development teams.

2016 9, Jaokim Verona, Michael Duffy, Paul Swartout, Learning DevOps: Continuously Develop Better Software, Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 47:

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.


NFS

Network File System
w:Network File System

(computing) Initialism of Network File System.


upgradability

(computing, of electronic equipment) Capability of being improved in functionality by the addition or replacement of components.


upload

en-verb

upload (third-person singular simple present uploads, present participle uploading, simple past and past participle uploaded)

uploads (present singular third-person)
uploading (participle present)
uploaded (participle past)
uploaded (past)

→ Chinese: 上載 /上载 (calque)

→ Danish: uploade

→ Dutch: uploaden

→ German: uploaden; hochladen (calque)

desc

→ Greek: αναφορτώνω (anafortóno) (calque)

→ Icelandic: hlaða upp (calque)

→ Indonesian: aplod

→ Irish: uaslódáil, lódáil suas (calque)

→ Japanese: アップロード (appurōdo)

→ Malay: muat naik (calque)

→ Portuguese: upload

→ Scottish Gaelic: luchdaich a-nìos (calque)

→ Swedish: ladda upp (calque)

→ Welsh: llwytho i fyny (calque)

You will have to convert your photograph to a jpg format if you wish to upload it.

(transitive, intransitive, computing) To transfer data to a computer on a network, especially to a server on the Internet.


voxel

(computer graphics) The three-dimensional analogue of a pixel; a volume element representing some numerical quantity, such as the colour, of a point in three-dimensional space, used in the visualisation and analysis of three-dimensional (especially scientific and medical) data.


workgroup

/ˈwəːkɡɹuːp/

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When you set up a network, Windows creates a workgroup and gives it a name automatically[…]

2008, Chris Fehily, Microsoft Windows Vista:

(computing) A computer network created for use by such groups.

työryhmäverkko

a computer network created for use by such groups


FURPS

(software engineering, mnemonic) Acronym of functionality, usability, reliability, performance, supportability Used to help remember the major requirements of software.


write once

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(computing, computer hardware) Of a type of storage technology in which data, once written, cannot be erased or modified.


mapping

en-noun

mapping (countable and uncountable, plural mappings)

(computing) Assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network.

mappage

computing: assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network


search box

(computing) A text box for the input of text to be searched for in a database, on the Internet, etc.

søgefelt

computing: A text box for the input of text to be searched for in a database, on the Internet, etc.


INTERCAL

programming language
programming language

(programming) A parody programming language created in 1972.


converter

time stretch analog-to-digital converter

Coordinate term: unit convertor

units of measurement
unit of measurement

(computing) A program that converts one file format to another one, or which converts between different units of measurement, such as miles to meters.


normalization

normalization (countable and uncountable, plural normalizations)

[ˌnoː.məˌlɑɪˈzæɪ.ʃn̩]

From normal + -ization or normalize + -ation.

(databases) In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.

atomization

separating data into an optimized relational data model


first normal form

Abbreviation: 1NF

(databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which repeating groups and attributes have been eliminated by putting each into a separate table connected by a primary-key/foreign-key relationship.


second normal form

second normal form (plural second normal forms)

(databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which it is in first normal form and every non-key attribute is dependent upon the entire primary key.


third normal form

third normal form (plural third normal forms)

(databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in second normal form and all non-key attributes are mutually independent (no transient dependencies.)


Boyce-Codd normal form

Developed in 1974 by Raymond F. Boyce and Edgar F. Codd.

(databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in third normal form and all determinants are candidate keys.


fourth normal form

Boyce-Codd normal form
Boyce-Codd normal form

functional dependencies
functional dependencies

(databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in Boyce-Codd normal form and all multi-valued dependencies are functional dependencies.


fifth normal form

(databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in fourth normal form and every join dependency is implied by the candidate keys.


relational database

relational database (plural relational databases)

From the use of relation to denote a set of ordered tuples, i.e. a table in the context of a relational database.

(databases) A database consisting of separate tables, having explicitly defined relationships, and whose elements may be selectively combined as the results of queries.


hierarchical database

hierarchical database (plural hierarchical databases)

(databases) A database whose records are linked in a tree-like structure, each child record having a single primary parent.


XSLT

(computer languages, XML) Initialism of Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformations.


screenname

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Women “absolutely love playing the victim” a man using the screenname michael2222 vehemently claims, asserting that women have taken a men’s issue, Incel, and made it about themselves (through the creation of femcels) because “they feel the need to be victimized by absolutely everything” (November 12, 2019).

2020, Lee Williams, "Inside the Incelosphere: Tracing the Origins and Navigating the Contradictions", thesis submitted to the University of Regina, pages 93-94

(computing) a string of characters used to identify a user of a bulletin board, e-mail etc.


meatball

→ Japanese: ミートボール

→ Korean: 미트볼 (miteubol)

(graphical user interface) A menu icon of three horizontal dots.


bundler

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(computing) One who bundles software, etc. with another product.


antiviral

(computing) Eliminating or inhibiting the action of a computer virus.


antivirus

(computing) A piece of software that is used to detect, delete and or neutralize computer-based viruses.


dumb terminal

(computing) A computer terminal consisting of a monitor (usually in monochrome) and keyboard, but (unlike a personal computer) having almost no processing capability, used to provide input to and receive output from a remote server, minicomputer, or mainframe.

啞終端 /哑终端

computer terminal consisting of a monitor and keyboard


wonky

en-adj

wonky (comparative wonkier, superlative wonkiest)

wonkier (comparative)
wonkiest (superlative)

From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).

inh

(informal, computing) Suffering from intermittent bugs.


chomp

U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash”).
(computing storage unit): An allusion to byte, which sounds like bite.

An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps.

The Timico engineering team has started to use the word chomp to represent two bytes or the 4 Hex character block in IPv6.

2011 March 22, Trefor Davies, “Bit Nibble Byte Chomp – a call to action”, in trefor.net:

(computing, rare) A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.


chomp

en-verb

chomp (third-person singular simple present chomps, present participle chomping, simple past and past participle chomped)

chomps (present singular third-person)
chomping (participle present)
chomped (participle past)
chomped (past)

Coordinate term: chop

(computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).


elevated

en-adj

elevated (comparative more elevated, superlative most elevated)

more elevated (comparative)
most elevated (superlative)

Install all the required tools from an elevated console.

(computing) Running with administrator rights.


encoding

Coordinate term: codification

(computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.


spaghetti code

The descriptive name for logically snarled program statements is spaghetti code, because the logic is as hard to follow as one noodle through a plate of spaghetti. Not only is spaghetti code confusing, but also the programs that contain it are prone to error, difficult to reuse, and hard to use as building blocks for larger applications.

2017, Joyce Farrell, Programming Logic & Design, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 88:

(programming, derogatory, informal) Unstructured or poorly structured program source code; especially code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent.


goto

Overall, experience in the two decades that followed the publication of Dijkstra's letter showed the folly of producing goto-laden code.

(computing) Alternative letter-case form of GOTO


ravioli code

(programming) Overly structured program source code, with many small sections, functions, etc. that should be combined.


convolution

en-noun

convolution (countable and uncountable, plural convolutions)

Borrowed from Latin convolutus (“to roll together”), past participle of convolvere, from con- + volvere (“to roll”), with the suffix -tion. Equivalent to convolute + -ion. The mathematical sense is a semantic calque from Faltung.

(computing) A function which maps a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples.


overflow

overflow (countable and uncountable, plural overflows)

/ˈəʊvəˌfləʊ/

/ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ/

From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, equivalent to over- + flow.

(computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.

přetečení

computing: situation where a value exceeds the available range


overflow

en-verb

overflow (third-person singular simple present overflows, present participle overflowing, simple past overflowed, past participle overflowed or (sometimes proscribed) overflown)

overflows (present singular third-person)
overflowing (participle present)
overflowed (past)
overflowed (participle past)
overflown (participle past proscribed sometimes)

/ˈəʊvəˌfləʊ/

/ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ/

Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.

Some programs, especially online games, tend to have coding problems that leave them with memory holes - in other words, they don't delete information from your PC's memory once they're finished with it, they just keep adding and adding until everything overflows. Eventually, this can cause the game to crash to desktop, but adding more memory can help prevent this.

2008, Adam Oxford, Windows Vista - Autumn 2008, Future US, →ISSN, page 67:

(intransitive) To exceed limits or capacity.

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range.

aiheuttaa ylivuoto

computing: to exceed the available numeric range


gulp

From Middle English gulpen, probably from West Flemish or Middle Dutch gulpen, golpen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps of imitative origin, or related to Dutch galpen (“to roar, squeal”), English galp, gaup (“to gape”).
Related to German Low German gulpen (“to gush out, belch, gulp”), West Frisian gjalpe, gjalpje, gjealpje (“to gush, spurt forth”), Danish gulpe, gylpe (“to gulp up, disgorge”), dialectal Swedish glapa (“to gulp down”), Old English galpettan (“to gulp down, eat greedily, devour”). More at galp.

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

(rare, computing) An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.


SSI

en-noun

SSI (countable and uncountable, plural SSIs)

Server Side Include
Server Side Include#English

(computing) Initialism of Server Side Include.


dotted

en-adj

dotted (comparative more dotted, superlative most dotted)

more dotted (comparative)
most dotted (superlative)

The dotted name java.util.Scanner is the fully qualified name of the Scanner class.

2012, Barry A. Burd, Michael Burton, Donn Felker, Java and Android Application Development For Dummies eBook Set:


circuit rider

circuit rider (Religious)
circuit rider (Technology)

(computing) A computer consultant who advises non-profit organizations.


ragged

ragged (comparative more ragged, superlative most ragged)

more ragged (comparative)
most ragged (superlative)

From Middle English ragged, from North Germanic. Compare with Old Norse rǫgvaðr (“tufted”) and Norwegian ragget (“shaggy”).

a ragged hierarchy

a ragged array, consisting of a number of arrays of varying size

(computing) Of a data structure: having uneven levels.


file sharing

(computing) The process of making files available to others to download from the Internet.

(computing) The use of a file sharing network, or peer-to-peer software.


casting

en-noun

casting (countable and uncountable, plural castings)

From Middle English castyng, castinge, equivalent to cast + -ing.

(programming) The act of converting between data types.


bonding

(networking) A method of aggregating multiple network interfaces on a computer into a single logical interface

bonding

method of aggregating computer network interfaces


(computing) Unicode Transformation Format-8, a variable-width encoding scheme for Unicode characters, using sequences of one to four one-byte (eight-bit) code units per character.


softy

(computing, slang) A software expert who is ignorant of the workings of hardware.


semantic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σημαντικός (sēmantikós). Compare French sémantique.

(software design, of code) Reflecting intended structure and meaning.


ARC

ARC (countable and uncountable, plural ARCs)

automatic reference counting
w:automatic reference counting

(programming, uncountable) Acronym of automatic reference counting.


stepping

stepping (countable and uncountable, plural steppings)

From Middle English steppynge; equivalent to step + -ing.

The 80386's early steppings have quite a lot of bugs, so some software specifically tests to make sure that the processor isn't one of those old versions.

central processing unit
central processing unit

(computing) A specific iteration of a model of central processing unit, often distinguished by the addition or removal of features compared to earlier examples of the same processor, or the presence, or lack thereof, of specific bugs.


Julia

From Latin Iūlia, feminine form of the Roman gens name Iūlius. Further popularized by early Christian saints. Doublet of Julie.

89 Julia
Julia
Julia (programming language)

And then came Julia, a general purpose programming language designed according to the requirements of scientific and technical computing, providing performance comparable to C/C++, and with an environment productive enough for prototyping like the high-level dynamic language of Python.

2016, Anshul Joshi, Julia for Data Science, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 8:

scientific computing
scientific computing

(computer languages) A programming language suited for numerical analysis and scientific computing.


/ˈfɔːɹəʊˌfɔː(ɹ)/

From the HTTP error status code 404, meaning Not Found, returned by a web server responding to a request for a URL at which no resource exists.

Bill was 404 all morning.

(computing, slang) Not found, especially of a web page on the Internet.


/ˈfɔːɹəʊˌfɔː(ɹ)/

Return 404s for all deleted pages. Some search engine marketers suggest redirecting old products to semantically related products instead of 404ing. This preserves link equity, whereas a 404 does not.

2007, Cristian Darie, Jaimie Sirovich, Professional Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET: A Developer's Guide to SEO, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 113:

(computing) An error indicating that a web page could not be found.


en-verb

404 (third-person singular simple present 404s, present participle 404ing, simple past and past participle 404ed or 404'd)

/ˈfɔːɹəʊˌfɔː(ɹ)/

(computing) To return an error indicating that a web page could not be found.


prefab

(programming) A reusable object in a video game world.


hardened

en-adj

hardened (comparative more hardened, superlative most hardened)

more hardened (comparative)
most hardened (superlative)

a hardened air base

a hardened server

(computing, military) Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.


DIP

en-noun

DIP (countable and uncountable, plural DIPs)

dependency inversion principle
dependency inversion principle#English

(programming) Acronym of dependency inversion principle.


formalism

formalism (countable and uncountable, plural formalisms)

/ˈfɔɹml̩ˌɪzm̩/

(computing) One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory.

Dirac approaches quantum mechanics by means of a so-called symbolic method, the bracket formalism. Although this formalism has a mathematical flavour, in fact, it is based upon bold claims which lack mathematical foundation.

1986, S. J. L. van Eijndhoven, J. de Graaf, A Mathematical Introduction to Dirac's Formalism, Elsevier (North-Holland), page ix:

1992, tuart M. Shieber, Constraint-based Grammar Formalisms, The MIT Press, page 51,
It is this abstraction that justifies considering these methods as characterizing constraint-based formalisms in general, rather than an individual formalism.

(linguistics, computing, mathematics) A formal expression of a grammar; a formal grammar; a set of rules of syntax that, without reference to semantics, determine whether a sequence of symbols is a well-formed sentence in a given formal language.


access time

access time (countable and uncountable, plural access times)

quote-web

access time

1948, in the meaning defined above

(Can we date this quote?), “access time”, in Merriam-Webster:
1948, in the meaning defined above

Random access files have a fast access time, but they cannot easily produce sequential lists.

1986, Roger R Flynn, An Introduction to Information Science:

(computing) The time interval between the issuing of a request to read data from or write data to a storage device and the completion of this action.

atingotempo

time interval between requesting and completing

It is difficult to monitor both the access time and the change time, because monitoring the file attributes resets the access time […]

2005, Brian Wotring, Bruce Potter, Marcus J Ranum, Rainer Wichmann, Host Integrity Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain:

(computing) An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed.


WASD

(computing) A set of four keys on a keyboard used as directions to control player characters in certain video games. (W, A, S and D represent up, left, down and right, respectively.)


QWERTY

en-noun

QWERTY (countable and uncountable, plural QWERTYs)

Christopher Latham Sholes
Henry Holt and Company

From the first six letters on one of the upper rows of such a keyboard.

It was the Monotype model D keyboard introduced in 1907 which became the standard for printers, with a "qwerty" typewriter lay and removable keybars which made the keyboard independent of the matrix case arrangement.

1978, Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E[lwood] Daily, editors, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, volumes 24 (Printers and Printing to Public Policy, Copyright), New York, N.Y., Basel: Marcel Dekker, →ISBN, page 109:

The older children we came to know had had a great deal of experience with written language, and they certainly had a firm grasp of the alphabetic sequence. They were annoyed with the arrangement of letters on the typewriter keyboard, which begins at the second from the top row and proceeds left to right with the letters, "Q," "W," "E," "R," "T," and "Y." Computer professionals, who refer to this arrangement as the "QWERTY keyboard," have pointed out that, although it originated in order to avoid jam-ups of frequently used keys on the manual typewriter, the QWERTY arrangement is now completely obsolete but apparently here to stay. Third and fourth graders knew only that QWERTY had no logic that they could discern, and, until they developed basic keyboard familiarity, it greatly delayed their attempts at finding the keys they needed.

1991, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Cynthia L. Paris, Jessica L. Kahn, “Hunting, Pecking, and Checking: Learning to Write with Word Processing”, in Learning to Write Differently: Beginning Writers and Word Processing (Language and Educational Processes), Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing, →ISBN, page 137:

[…] The Dvorak typewriter keyboard is, it has been claimed, ergonomically superior to the standard "Qwerty" arrangement. But having settled on the current standard keyboard, largely by historical accident, now manufacturers are supposedly reluctant to produce Dvorak keybboards so long as almost all typists are trained on Qwerty, while typists don't want to train on Dvorak when almost all keyboards are Qwerty. Even the inferior keyboard as a matched choice is superior to failing to coordinate at all.

1992, Jack Hirshleifer, John G. Riley, “Strategic Uncertainty and Equilibrium Concepts”, in The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information (Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, section 9.1 (Nash Equilibrium), page 330:

The ‘QWERTY’ layout of keyboards is also a cause for concern. The design means that the fingers of the left hand (the less dominant hand for most Westerners) do 57 per cent of the work in typing English text. RSI symptoms are often found to be more intense in the left hand of keyboard users.

1993 September 11, John Ballard, “RSI on Trial: More People Suffering from Repetitive Strain Injury are Seeking Compensation in Court as Fresh Evidence Comes to Light about the Symptoms and Causes of this Crippling Disorder”, in New Scientist, London: New Scientist Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-13:

The typewriter using separate characters on type bars striking on a cylinder soon dominated the market. Because adjacent striking bars tended to jam when struck rapidly, manufacturers abandoned the alphabetical placement of letters on the keyboard in favor of the left-to-right "qwerty" disposition that takes into account the frequency and sequence of letters in English.

1994, Henri-Jean Martin, “Beyond Writing”, in Lydia G. Cochrane, transl., The History and Power of Writing, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 465:

(uncountable, computing, typography) A standard layout of keys on a keyboard for typing, in which the leftmost keys of the top lettered row are Q-W-E-R-T-Y.

كويرتي

If you need to get a grip on a remote workstation, remote-control software can put your fingers on the pearly white QWERTYs of any computer, even half a world away.

1995 February 20, “Windows remote-control software: Reaching beyond your grasp”, Product Comparison, in InfoWorld, volume 17, number 8, San Mateo, Calif.: InfoWorld Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 66:

(countable, computing, typography) A keyboard with such a layout.


navigate

en-verb

navigate (third-person singular simple present navigates, present participle navigating, simple past and past participle navigated)

navigates (present singular third-person)
navigating (participle present)
navigated (participle past)
navigated (past)

From Middle English navigate, from Latin nāvigō, from nāvis (“ship”) + agō (“do”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”).

It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.

(transitive, computing) To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.


time scale

(computer science) The ratio of the duration of time of an event as simulated by an analog computer to the actual duration of time of the event in the physical system under study.


boink

(computing, slang) A real-world social gathering of computer users.


WSS

(computing) Initialism of Web Security Service.

(computing) Initialism of Windows Search Service.

Windows Server System
w:Windows Server System

(computing) Initialism of Windows Server System.

(computing) Windows SharePoint Services, former name of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation

Windows Storage Server
w:Windows Storage Server

(computing) Initialism of Windows Storage Server.

Windows Sound System
w:Windows Sound System

(computing) Initialism of Windows Sound System.

(computing) Initialism of WS-Security. (meaning Web Services Security)


suffix tree

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(computing) (of a string) a radix tree containing all suffixes of the string


descending

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تَنَازُلِيّ

ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element

We used a descending sort.

Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element. (of a sequence)

(computing) Causing a sequence to follow a descending order.

تَنَازُلِيّ

causing a sequence to follow an descending order


responsive

en-adj

responsive (comparative more responsive, superlative most responsive)

more responsive (comparative)
most responsive (superlative)

From Middle French responsif, from Late Latin responsivus.

Now, let's briefly explore two different approaches for creating sites for a multiple audience: multiserving and responsive design.

2012, Dino Esposito, Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise:

(graphical user interface) automatically resizing and repositioning elements to fit the available space


ascending

We used an ascending sort.

Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (of a sequence)

(computing) That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.

تَصَاعُدِيّ

computing: that causes a sequence to follow an ascending order


evict

en-verb

evict (third-person singular simple present evicts, present participle evicting, simple past and past participle evicted)

evicts (present singular third-person)
evicting (participle present)
evicted (participle past)
evicted (past)

From Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.

(computing, transitive) To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.


emacs

(computing) Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.


road map

→ French: roadmap

→ German: Roadmap

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CPU speeds continue to increase with no end in sight. For instance, Sun's UltraSPARC processor roadmap, shown in Figure 16-2, show CPU speed increasing from 143 MHz in 1995 to 1.5 Ghz in 2002, roughly doubling every year as predicted by Moore's Law.

1999, Marc Hamilton, Software Development: Building Reliable Systems, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 236:

In the software business, a product roadmap gives an overview how a product is going to develop over the strategic timeframe of up to 5 years in terms of new releases or versions, their schedules and major themes.

2008, Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Peter N. Clough, Software Product Management and Pricing, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 77:

(originally computing, computer hardware) A structured representation of objects to display a development plan, used in business for strategic planning and communications.


buffer

Agent noun from obsolete verb buff (“make a dull sound when struck”) (mid-16c.), from Old French buffe (“blow”).
The “boatswain's mate” sense is said to be popularly explained by the mate being a “buffer”, that is intermediary, between officers and men, but various other explanations have also been proposed.

bufro

anything used to isolate or to minimise the effects of one thing on another

Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

(computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.


buffer

buffer (third-person singular simple present buffers, present participle buffering, simple past and past participle buffered)

buffers (present singular third-person)
buffering (participle present)
buffered (participle past)
buffered (past)

inperken

to isolate, to minimise the impacts of one thing on another

(transitive or intransitive, computing) To store (data) in memory temporarily while it is awaiting processing.


SSB

en-noun

SSB (countable and uncountable, plural SSBs)

(databases) Initialism of star schema benchmark.


doco

From documentary + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

- Can you use asterisks in a filename?
- I don't know. Check the doco.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of documentation.


OSS

OSS (countable and uncountable, plural OSSes or OSS's or OSSs)

OSSes (plural)
OSS's (plural)
OSSs (plural)

(computing) Initialism of open-source software


bitty box

(computing, derogatory, informal) A computer of limited memory and computing power.


casing

The replacement string should have the same casing as the matched text.

(uncountable, computing) The state of letter case across a whole phrase or whole lines of text; the collective state/arrangement of uppercase and lowercase letters.


postcardware

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(computing) A software product whose author requests as payment a postcard from the user's hometown.


Peggy

Coordinate term: Victor

(cryptography) Placeholder name for the party that supplies a proof.


adoption

adoption (countable and uncountable, plural adoptions)

Borrowed from French adoption, from Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”).

Our company is considering the adoption of a four-day week.

(computing) The transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.


hork

en-verb

hork (third-person singular simple present horks, present participle horking, simple past and past participle horked)

horks (present singular third-person)
horking (participle present)
horked (participle past)
horked (past)

Onomatopoeia or imitative. For “cough up” sense, compare hawk/hock (16th century), which are almost homophonous in non-rhotic accents. For “throw” sense, compare huck. The “foul up” sense is presumably influenced by bork (late 1990s), from broken. The “steal” sense may be related to hook, which has the same slang meaning.

I downloaded the program, but something is horked and it won't load.

(computing) To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.


IDS

intrusion detection system
w:intrusion detection system

(computing) Initialism of intrusion detection system.


HT

en-noun

HT (countable and uncountable, plural HTs)

(computing) Initialism of hyperthreading.


BB

BB (countable and uncountable, plural BBs)

(computing) Initialism of bulletin board.


BI

(business, informatics) Initialism of business informatics.

business intelligence
business intelligence#English

(business, informatics) Initialism of business intelligence.


PSB

PSB (countable and uncountable, plural PSBs)

(computing, IBM) Initialism of program specification block.


SFC

System File Checker
w:System File Checker

(computing) Initialism of System File Checker.


spammer

(computing, Internet) Someone who sends spam.


outliner

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(computing) A software system for organizing text into a hierarchy.


endian

From end + -ian (suffix meaning ‘one from, belonging to, like, or relating to’ forming nouns, and meaning ‘from, like, or related to’ forming adjectives), originally in the noun Big-Endian coined by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) in his novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726). Swift wrote of an emperor of Lilliput who, after his son cuts his finger when opening an egg at the large end, commands his subjects to open them at the small end; those who rebel by opening their eggs at the large end are called “Big-Endians”.
The term was applied in the computing context by the Israeli-American computer scientist Danny Cohen (1937–2019) in 1980.

nb...

A Conversation between the Author and a Principal Secretary Concerning the Affairs of that Empire: The Author’s Offers to Serve the Emperor in His Wars.

In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships

at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-street

endian-neutral code

In Ken Turkowski's article on the big and little endian addressing used on the 68020 he commented that Motorola's approach "proved" that a machine with consistant^([sic]) bit addressing (e.g., all little or big endian) was impossible. I assume that he was joking.

1984 August 25, Ian Kaplan, “Inconsistent bit addressing in the 68020: big- AND little-endian”, in net.micro.68k (Usenet):

most significant byte
most significant byte

(computing) Preceded by a qualifying word: of a computer: storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a particular memory address; for example, at the smallest address (big-endian) or the largest address (little-endian).


multibyte

The computer stored the number in a multibyte location: it took 32 bits or four entire bytes to store so large a value.

(computing) Contained in more than one byte.


big-endian

pezkomenca

computing: storing the most significant byte at a lower address

Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian.

1999, W. Curtis Preston, Unix Backup and Recovery, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 132:

least significant byte
least significant byte

(computing) Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a lower address than the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.

The network octet order for all protocols in the TCP/IP protocol suite is big-endian. A big-endian computer system need not perform any conversion in building TCP/IP protocol headers from integers stored in its memory.

1994, James Martin, Joe Leben, TCP/IP Networking: Architecture, Administration, and Programming, Prentice Hall, page 203:

(networking) Transmitting the most significant byte of a multibyte number before transmitting the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.


little-endian

(computing) Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a higher address than the least significant byte; that is, "little end" first.


TST

en-noun

TST (countable and uncountable, plural TSTs)

ternary search tree
w:ternary search tree

(computer science) Initialism of ternary search tree: a type of trie.


instant messaging

(communication, computing) A form of realtime communication where two or more people exchange text messages, usually short, using computers or other devices with communications capabilities.


blinkenlights

Mock German from blink and lights; see the Wikipedia article for history.

The back of the NIRT truck was crowded with consoles and flashing panels of blinkenlights, battered laptops plastered with security inventory stickers...

2007, Charles Stross, The Merchants' War:

I am talking about — of course — LED blinkenlights, the usually-blue glowing pimples that pepper routers, speakers, computers and even USB hubs.

2011 June 6, Charlie Sorrel, “LightDims: Tiny Sunglasses for Blinkenlights”, in Wired, archived from the original on 2011-06-08:

Through a friend at hswaw [Warsaw Hackerspace], I have obtained a launchpad mini while working on this project (thanks drozdziak1!). ar jokingly suggested that I should velcro it to the [computer's] case and use it as blinklichter, and.. that was too good of an idea not to.

2023 August 27, sdomi, “Building a luggable computer (for absolutely no reason)”, in sdomi's webpage (weblog), archived from the original on 2023-09-03:

(computing, slang) The flashing lights on an electronic device such as a modem, router, or network hub (originally the front-panel lights on old computers).


OBP

OBP (countable and uncountable, plural OBPs)

object-based programming
object-based programming#English

(programming, uncountable) Initialism of object-based programming.


replication

replication (countable and uncountable, plural replications)

/ɹɛplɪˈkeɪʃən/

Inherited from Middle English replicacioun, replicacion, from Anglo-Norman replicacioun and Old French replicacion (“reply, answer”), from Latin replicātiō, replicātiōnem. By surface analysis, replicate + -(at)ion.

surf

(computing) The process of frequent electronic data copying a one database in one computer or server to a database in another so that all users share the same level of information. Used to improve fault tolerance of the system.


backspace

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(computing) A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards.

(computing) A non-printable text character representing a backspace.


backspace

en-verb

backspace (third-person singular simple present backspaces, present participle backspacing, simple past and past participle backspaced)

backspaces (present singular third-person)
backspacing (participle present)
backspaced (participle past)
backspaced (past)

So once you hit 'E', just backspace.

2024 April 17, SMii7Y, 1:20 from the start, in Content Warning Footage That Should Never Be Uploaded, spoken by SMii7Y:

(computing) To remove a character behind a cursor.

(computing) To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.


endianness

en-noun

endianness (countable and uncountable, plural endiannesses)

When reading and writing data a byte at a time, it is necessary to know the endianness of the computer you are working on.

The Unicode standard does not specifically does not require a particular endianness of text written in Unicode; both big- and little-endian encodings are allowed.

1999, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java Input/Output:

Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little.

2006, Michael Barr, Anthony Massa, Programming Embedded Systems, page 99:

An endianness difference can cause problems if a computer unknowingly tries to read binary data written in the opposite format from a shared memory location or file.

2012, Albert J. Marcella, Cyber Forensics, page 116:

(computing) The property of being either big-endian or little-endian.

位元組順序 /位元组顺序

the property of being either big-endian or little-endian


(computing) Old abbreviation for JavaME.


least significant byte

least significant byte (plural least significant bytes)

(computer science) The byte of a multibyte number with the least importance: that is, the byte stored last on a big-endian system or first on a little-endian system.


MSB

most significant bit
most significant bit#English

(computing) Initialism of most significant bit.

most significant byte
most significant byte#English

(computing) Initialism of most significant byte.


LSB

least significant bit
least significant bit#English

(computing) Initialism of least significant bit.

least significant byte
least significant byte#English

(computing) Initialism of least significant byte.


LSB

Linux Standard Base
w:Linux Standard Base

(computing) Initialism of Linux Standard Base.


Winchester

French: Bicêtre

Hungarian: vincseszter

Russian: винчестер (vinčester)

From Middle English Wynchester, Winchestre, from Old English Wintanċeaster, from Latin Venta Belgārum (literally “Venta of the Belgae”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Celtic *wentā (“town, place”), Proto-Indo-European *h₁wen- (“place (?)”) + Old English ċeaster, from Latin castra (“camp”).
The bottle is named for the former customary units of the English city. The rifle is named named after American businessman Oliver Winchester (1810–1880). The computer disk is named for the rifle.

named-after

And besides, Winchesters of the nonremovable sort work fine—why bother complicating things with cartridges[…]

1984 February 7, PC Mag, volume 3, number 2, page 234:


in-line

BBC BASIC allows the programmer to write in-line assembly language.

(computing, of source code) Of a different language than the outer enclosing code.

nội tuyến

of a different language than the outer enclosing code

Now the paragraph to which you applied the inline style should be light gray, as the inline CSS is overriding the embedded CSS and the linked style sheet. Any other default paragraphs should still be dark gray based on the embedded style.

2007, Simon Collison, Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional:

(web design, Cascading Style Sheets) Of a style: inserted in the style attribute of an HTML element instead of in a separate stylesheet.


data synchronization

(computing) The establishment of equivalence between data collections (typically on different servers, and sometimes between trading partners), where each data element in one item maps to a data item in the other, and their data is equivalent.


trigger

Originally tricker, from Dutch trekker (“pull”, noun, as in drawer-pull, bell-pull), from Dutch trekken (“to drag, draw, pull”).

laukaisin

music: electronic transducer allowing a percussion instrument to control an electronic device

referential integrity
referential integrity

(databases) An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity.


bombe

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(computing) An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.


PAE

Physical Address Extension
w:Physical Address Extension

(computing) Initialism of Physical Address Extension.


PAM

en-noun

PAM (countable and uncountable, plural PAMs)

pluggable authentication module
w:pluggable authentication module

(computing) Initialism of pluggable authentication module.


NIC

network interface card
network interface card#English

(networking) Acronym of network interface card (or controller): used to interface a computer to a network.


ALU

arithmetic logic unit
arithmetic logic unit

(computer hardware) arithmetic logic unit.


AD&D

2016, Diego Lo Giudice, “How AI Will Change Software Development And Applications”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)^([1]), pages Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals need to understand the potential benefits AI will bring, not only to how they build software but also to the nature of the applications themselves.:

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Initialism of application development and delivery.


network topology

network topology (plural network topologies)

(computing) The physical arrangement of a network; the way in which cables are arranged in order to connect computers in a network.


EIA

Electronic Industries Alliance
w:Electronic Industries Alliance

(computing) Initialism of Electronic Industries Alliance.


DLL

(computing) Initialism of Data Link Layer.

(computing) Initialism of doubly-linked list.

dynamic-link library
dynamic-link library#English

(computing, file format) Initialism of dynamic-link library.


exogenous

(databases, of a key) Having no meaning in itself, such as an automatically generated sequential identifier.


MOS

operating system
operating system#English

(computing) Initialism of maintenance operating system.

(computing) Initialism of mobile operating system.


VDL

(computing) Initialism of virtual digital library.


VDL

(computing) Initialism of View Design Language.

(computing) Initialism of Vienna Definition Language.


CSMA

(computing) Initialism of carrier sense, multiple access.


bus topology

(networking) A (computer) network topology in which the nodes are all connected at different points to a line called a bus.


coupling

coupling (countable and uncountable, plural couplings)

From Middle English couplynge; equivalent to couple + -ing.

Coordinate term: cohesion

The lack of coupling means that the elements of our system are better isolated from each other and from change. This isolation makes it easier to understand each element of the system.

2009, Robert C. Martin, chapter 10, in Clean Code, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 150:

(software engineering) The degree of reliance between two or more software modules.

kytkentä

(software engineering) degree of reliance between two program modules


real-time

в реа́льном вре́мени

производи́мый

The projects, which are due to start in November, are: Real-time prediction and mitigation of disruption through personalised passenger communications - [...]

2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23:

(computing) Of a system: that responds to events or signals within a predictable time after their occurrence; specifically the response time must be within the maximum allowed, but is typically synchronous.


back end

Together, the MathDocument and PaperController classes comprise the MathPaper application's front end, while the Evaluator makes up the application's back end. This technique of having separate front and back ends is a common […]

2002, Simson Garfinkel, Michael K. Mahoney, Building Cocoa Applications: A Step-by-step Guide, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 295:

(computing) That part of a hardware or software system that is farthest from the user; the internals rather than the user interface.

後端 /后端

computing: part of a system that is farthest from the user


DVMT

dynamic video memory technology
w:dynamic video memory technology

(computing) Initialism of dynamic video memory technology.


nouse

Our noses are no longer just for smelling things, but can be used for moving things too in operating a nouse, a device which has the same pointing function as a computer mouse but is controlled by movements of the nose.

2007, Kerry Maxwell, Brave New Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the 21st Century, page 128:

(computing, neologism) A form of computer mouse operated with the nose.


Numeronym representing globalization as "g" followed by 11 more letters, followed by "n".

(software engineering) Abbreviation of globalization.


Numeronym representing personalization as "p" followed by 13 more letters, followed by "n".

(software engineering) Abbreviation of personalization.


cohesion

cohesion (usually uncountable, plural cohesions)

Attested from the late 17th century, borrowed from French cohésion, from Latin cohaesiō, cohaesiōnem.

Coordinate term: coupling

In general, it is neither advisable nor possible to create such maximally cohesive classes; on the other hand, we would like cohesion to be high. When cohesion is high, it means that the methods and variables of the class are co-dependent and hang together as a logical whole.

2009, Robert C. Martin, chapter 10, in Clean Code, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 140:

(software engineering) Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together.

cohesió

the degree to which functionally related elements belong together


CWD

CWD (countable and uncountable, plural CWDs)

(computing, countable) Initialism of current working directory.


ADB

(computing, Android) Initialism of Android Debug Bridge.

(computing, legacy Apple hardware) Initialism of Apple Desktop Bus.


RMS

Richard M. Stallman
w:Richard M. Stallman

(computing) Initialism of Richard M. Stallman.


EDP

EDP (countable and uncountable, plural EDPs)

(computing) Initialism of electronic data processing.


encapsulate

en-verb

encapsulate (third-person singular simple present encapsulates, present participle encapsulating, simple past and past participle encapsulated)

encapsulates (present singular third-person)
encapsulating (participle present)
encapsulated (participle past)
encapsulated (past)

From en- + capsule + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

af

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(software, object-oriented programming) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.

ներպարունակել

object-oriented programming: To enclose objects in a common interface

(networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.


ISF

Ink Serialized Format
w:Ink Serialized Format

(computing) Initialism of Ink Serialized Format.


TrackBack

(software, Internet, blogging) A protocol for a system that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it.


breadcrumb

/ˈbɹɛdˌkɹʌm/

From bread + crumb. The computing and figurative senses allude to the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to find the way back home when venturing into the woods.

Breadcrumbs usually look something like this: "Home > About Us > Staff" and are positioned near the top navigation. […] The words in the breadcrumbs are links to pages at higher levels of the website.

2010, Mark Stephenson, Web-Empower Your Church:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, chiefly in the plural) A single link in a chain indicating the hierarchical location of a directory, web page or similar, used as a navigation aid.

If you believe the system can merrily proceed despite an assertion failure, code the exception handler to log the error, leaving debugging breadcrumbs behind, and return.

2004, Jack Ganssle, The Firmware Handbook, page 276:

[…] track metrics used to improve performance, or log a series of breadcrumbs to track an application's progress, […]

2012, Wallace B. McClure, Nathan Blevins, John J. Croft IV, Wrox Cross Platform Android and iOS Mobile Development Three-Pack:

(programming, chiefly in the plural) A fragment of data that serves to log the actions taken by a program, used in debugging.


breadcrumb

en-verb

breadcrumb (third-person singular simple present breadcrumbs, present participle breadcrumbing, simple past and past participle breadcrumbed)

breadcrumbs (present singular third-person)
breadcrumbing (participle present)
breadcrumbed (participle past)
breadcrumbed (past)

/ˈbɹɛdˌkɹʌm/

Along those same lines, creating separate folders can enable you to use "breadcrumbing," which is another navigation aid (discussed in the section "Determining How to Organize the Information," later in this chapter).

2003, Sybex Inc., HTML complete, page 155:

One navigational technique—breadcrumbing—is like having a “You Are Here” store directory in each aisle.

2003, Kreta Chandler, Karen Hyatt, Customer-centered Design: A New Approach to Web Usability, →ISBN:

The most striking change from previous versions of Windows is that Vista displays the path using a method called breadcrumbing.

2007, John Rizzo, Moving to Microsoft Windows Vista: Visual Quickproject Guide, →ISBN, page 93:

(graphical user interface, intransitive) To add navigational breadcrumbs to (a web page or user interface).


collisionless

A token ring network is collisionless, but an Ethernet network is not.

(computing theory) Without the possibility of data packets colliding on the network.

a collisionless hash

(computing theory) Without the possibility of items having the same value, which would prevent reliable lookup.


OWA

(Internet, computing) Initialism of Outlook Web Access.


dongle

Unknown. Likely a descendant of dangle, reflecting that electronic accessories such as computer peripherals often are plugged in via a flexible cable (although wirelessness is also often relevant). Claims that the word comes from a man named "Don Gall" were made up by an advertisement. First usage 1980-1985.

FreedomPop will offer three different flavors of broadband: a USB dongle that allows you to connect your computer to the internet, a WiFi hotspot device, and an iPhone case that allows you to override the phone's existing network and use it as a FreedomPop hotspot.

2012, Tecca, FreedomPop offering 1GB of free wireless data, hopes you’ll pay for more, via Yahoo! Tech, link:

(computer hardware) Any small device that plugs into an electronic device, typically a computer, and alters its functionality. Common examples include wireless modems, digital media players, software copy protect devices, and adapters.

Take the dongle, for example. It is the summit of copy protection, an explicit melding of software and hardware. Without the right hardware key—the dongle—plugged into the machine's parallel port, the software won't run.

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

(computer hardware) A hardware device used by a specific application for purposes of copy protection.

motxilla

A hardware device utilized by a specific application for purposes of copy protection


beta version

(computing) An early version of a program or application that contains most of the major features, but is not yet complete. Sometimes these versions are released only to a select group of people, or to the general public, for testing and feedback. This is the second major stage of development following the alpha version, and comes before the release candidate.


alpha version

(computing, technology) An early version of a program or application, typically unstable, but useful to show what the product will do. Sometimes this stage is referred to as a preview version. Sometimes no more features are added after this release, but bug fixes continue. This release comes after a pre-alpha version and before a beta version. As opposed to a beta version an alpha version is usually not feature complete.


training

en-noun

training (usually uncountable, plural trainings)

(computing) The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.


HW

HW (countable and uncountable, plural HWs)

Coordinate term: SW


release candidate

release candidate (plural release candidates)

(software engineering) A version of a program that is nearly ready for release but may still have a few bugs; the status between beta version and release version.


release version

release version (plural release versions)

(computing, software) A version label given to packaged computer software that has been made available to one or more target audiences.


linked

en-adj

linked (comparative more linked, superlative most linked)

more linked (comparative)
most linked (superlative)

(computing) having links (between modules, records etc)


NLA

(computing) Initialism of network location awareness.


RPC

remote procedure call
remote procedure call#English

(computing) Initialism of remote procedure call.


ICS

Ice Cream Sandwich
w:Android Ice Cream Sandwich

(computing, Android) Initialism of Ice Cream Sandwich.


ICS

en-noun

ICS (countable and uncountable, plural ICSs)

(Internet, computing) Initialism of Internet connection sharing.


topology

topology (countable and uncountable, plural topologies)

From Late Latin topologia, from Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place, locality”) + -(o)logy (“study of, a branch of knowledge”).

der

(computing) The arrangement of nodes in a communications network.


depender

(programming) An agent that depends on another agent, the dependee; the subject of a dependency, a dependent (used in agent-oriented programming)


battle of the sexes

en-noun

battle of the sexes (plural battles of the sexes)

(game theory) A situation in which two people want to do different things, but do them together.


holy war

(computing, Usenet) A long-running and acrimonious debate or flame war over personal preferences in technical matters, such as the choice between little-endian and big-endian representation.

luftë e shenjtë

a type of war — see also war of religion


descriptor

That which describes; a word, phrase, etc. serving as a description.

(computing, information science) A name associated with certain data or documents in an information storage and retrieval system; an index term.


closed-source

From closed + source, in reference to source code.

(chiefly software) Whose constituent makeup, or source code, is not made publicly available.


bento

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Borrowed from Japanese 弁(べん)当(とう) (bentō).

(graphical user interface) A menu icon of nine squares in a grid.


prod

prod (countable and uncountable, plural prods)

We've hit ten million users in prod today.

(programming, slang, uncountable) Short for production (“the live environment”).

Check our BBS for the latest prods.

(demoscene, slang, countable) A production; a created work.


root kit

(computing) Alternative spelling of rootkit


YAGNI

(software engineering, informal) Acronym of you ain't gonna need it: the principle that software developers should not add functionality to software until it is required.


peripheral

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Ancient Greek περί (perí)
Ancient Greek περῐ- (perĭ-)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō
Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō)
Ancient Greek περιφέρω (periphérō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek περιφερής (peripherḗs)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.
Ancient Greek -ια (-ia)
Ancient Greek περιφέρεια (periphéreia)bor.
Latin peripheriabor.
Middle French peripheriebor.
English periphery
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English peripheral
From peripher(y) + -al.

etymon

Check your peripheral's manual for the information you'll need.

1984, Human Connection, Making MS-DOS & PC-DOS work for you:

Check your peripheral's owners' manual to see at what speed your peripheral transmits or receives information, and then record this on the DIP Switch Information chart in the column at the left.

1986, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Turn on the Mac, and check your peripheral. Since you've already installed your device driver, it should be available where you need it....

1994, Steve Birchall, Upgrading and repairing Macs:


dec

(programming) Abbreviation of decrement.


MAU

(computing) Initialism of media/multiple attachment unit: a connectivity device for a token ring network.


token ring

(computing) A network standard invented by IBM and later defined by the 802.5 subcommittee of the IEEE which provides for a network with a star ring topology, and which operates by passing a token frame around the logical ring.


ring topology

(computing) A network topology in which, in the physical case, every node of a network is connected to exactly two other nodes: one node designated as upstream and the other as downstream. A given node receives data from its upstream node and sends data to its downstream node.

toipeolaíocht fháinneach

a network topology in which every node of a network is connected to exactly two other nodes


punch card

перфокарта

card with have holes or notches used for storing data

Programming by typing C++ or Python yourself might eventually seem as ridiculous as issuing instructions in binary onto a punch card.

2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:

A card that can have holes or notches cut in it, especially one for storing data, that can be sorted according to combinations of holes present or absent.

(computing, historical) Such a card, the size of a US dollar bill and having 80 columns of 12 rows, used in early mainframe computers.


meridiem

en-noun

meridiem (countable and uncountable, plural meridiems)

Back-formation from the phrases ante meridiem and post meridiem (more commonly a.m. and p.m.), from Latin merīdiem, accusative of merīdiēs (“midday, noon”).

The terminal responds N HH MM CR where N, HH, and MM are the meridiem, hour, and minutes, as above.

1986 March, “Operation”, in Ampex 230 plus: Video Display Terminal: Operation Manual, section 10 (Setting the Time), page 3-42:

If a 12-hour clock is specified, the eighth field (the meridiem indicator) is required.[…]If this input string is entered, the parse still recognizes “feb” as the month name and “am” as the meridiem indicator, even though the format string specified both of these fields as uppercase, and the month name as unabbreviated.

1994 March, “System Time Operations”, in OpenVMS Programming Concepts Manual, Maynard, Mass.: Digital Equipment Corporation, section 6 (Date/Time Formatting Routines), subsection 2 (Selecting a Format), subsubsection 3 (Specifying Input Formats at Run Time), pages 5–25:

if (hour < 12) { meridiem = 'am'; } else { meridiem = 'pm'; }

2008 July, David Sawyer McFarland, “Working with Words, Numbers, and Dates”, in JavaScript: The Missing Manual, Pogue Press, →ISBN, part one (Getting Started with JavaScript), chapter section “Dates and Times”, subsection “Getting the Time”, page 143:

To the right of the radio buttons, complete the Start Time and End Time fields and select the meridiem from the AM/PM menu to define the time during which the schedule is in effect.

2014 December, “Customize Firewall Protection”, in ProSAFE Dual WAN Gigabit SSL VPN Firewall: Model FVS336Gv3: Reference Manual, Netgear, section “Manage Firewall Objects”, subsection “Define a Schedule”, page 295:

Ensure the meridiem (AM/PM) specification is set accordingly.

2015, “IP Environment Setup”, in STB-3000: HD Commercial Interface Set-top Box: Commercial Mode Setup Guide, LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc., section “Pro:Centric Setup”, page 56:

Finally, we’ll write the method to render the appointment slot radio buttons. To do this we first have to filter the slots by availabity and by whether AM or PM is selected. Both are simple checks; for the first we see if it exists in state.schedule, for the later, we check the meridiem part with moment().format('a').

2020 March 13, Tony Spiro, “Build an Appointment Scheduler Using React, Twilio and Cosmic JS”, in HackerNoon:

The meridiem for a DateTime can be accessed by the "a" format token: DateTime.local().setZone(z).toFormat("a") //=> "PM" The Luxon Info methods are for finding out what the meridiems are called in different human languages.

2021 June 24, snickersnack, “How to get the actual meridiems in luxonjs?^([sic])”, in Stack Overflow, archived from the original on 2024-12-05:

The digital clock has four parts: hour, minute, second, and meridiem.[…]Assigning the Current Meridiem (AM/PM) / Since the Digital Clock is in a 12-hour format, you need to assign the appropriate meridiem according to the current hour.

2021 June 27, Yuvraj Chandra, “How to Create a Digital Clock Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript”, in MUO:

(countable, computing) The property of a timestamp of being either a.m. or p.m.


lamer

Phil and his counterparts in Asia and the US are deployed to infiltrate pirate groups; to study IRC; to get under the skin of the lamers, the dabblers, and the professionals; to chat, seduce, charm, and interact with the denizens of this bizarre over-underworld.

Other accounts mention that the lamers are constantly asking for advice on coding routines.

2009, John Impagliazzo, Timo Järvi, Petri Paju, editors, History of Nordic Computing 2 […] , Springer, →ISBN, page 298:

(slang, derogatory, demoscene, gaming, warez, dated) A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence.

peelo

a person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence


Defined by collaboration among five major computer companies in Taiwan.

(computing) A character encoding method for Traditional Chinese characters.


monolithic

en-adj

monolithic (comparative more monolithic, superlative most monolithic)

more monolithic (comparative)
most monolithic (superlative)

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From French monolithique; by surface analysis, monolith + -ic.

Monolithic kernels perform all operating system duties in kernel space.

In the monolithic architecture software system is deployed as a single solution, in which functionally distinguishable aspects are all interwoven.

2020, L. S. Jayashree, G. Selvakumar, Getting Started with Enterprise Internet of Things […] , Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 103:

(software engineering) Consisting of a single program or codebase.


punched card

(computing) A punch card (especially one that has had holes punched in it).

hulkort

punch card, especially one that has had holes punched in it


plug-in

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(computing) A module or device that interacts with another to add a specific feature or function.


minimize

en-verb

minimize (third-person singular simple present minimizes, present participle minimizing, simple past and past participle minimized)

minimizes (present singular third-person)
minimizing (participle present)
minimized (participle past)
minimized (past)

I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.

(computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.

նվազեցնել

(computing) to cause a window to disappear


Lisa

Diminutive of Elisabeth in several European languages. The computer is named after Lisa Brennan-Jobs, officially explained as an acronym for “Locally Integrated Software Architecture”.

Both Macs and Lisas, along with Imagewriter printers, are part of the convention network organized by Sytek of Mountain View, California.

1984 July 23, Peggy Watt, “Democrats Computerize Politics”, in InfoWorld, volume 6, number 30, page 24:

(computing, historical) Ellipsis of Apple Lisa.


negative-sum

(game theory) of a situation in which there is a net loss


ACID

SQLite relies on native file locking and page journaling to implement ACID properties.

2007, Sibsankar Haldar, Inside SQLite, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 31:

database transaction
database transaction

(databases) Acronym of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability, a set of properties that guarantee database transactions are processed reliably.


assignment

en-noun

assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments)

assignment (computer science)
homework assignment
sex assignment

From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.

(programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

присвояване

operation(s) that assign a value to a variable


photoshop

en-verb

photoshop (third-person singular simple present photoshops, present participle photoshopping, simple past and past participle photoshopped)

photoshops (present singular third-person)
photoshopping (participle present)
photoshopped (participle past)
photoshopped (past)

From Adobe Photoshop, a widely-used graphics editor. This may in turn have been derived from its usage to refer to the camera room in the offset lithography process, where laid up pages could be extensively retouched before being transferred to the printing plates.

(Internet, media, computing, transitive, sometimes intransitive) To digitally edit or alter a picture or photograph.


side effect

The Eiffel programming language is somewhat purist in insisting that functions have no side effects.

unintended consequence
unintended consequence

An unintended consequence, or secondary result, of any action, in addition to the main or intended consequence of that action.

(programming) A change in state outside of the local environment of the function being called.

vedlejší účinek

computing: a state change caused by a function call


SR

en-noun

SR (countable and uncountable, plural SRs)

speech recognition
speech recognition#English

(uncountable, computing) Initialism of speech recognition.


BSAA

w:Business Software Association of Australia

(Australia, computing) Initialism of Business Software Association of Australia.


BPL

(Internet, networking) Initialism of broadband over power line.


digitization

digitization (countable and uncountable, plural digitizations)

(computing) The conversion of data or information from analog to digital or binary.

(computing) Hence, the transformation of a process or system from mainly analogue form to digital form


high-level language

high-level language (plural high-level languages)

Alternative form: (initialism) HLL

programming language
programming language

(programming) A programming language requiring a compiler to translate it into a form that a particular machine understands, focusing on user-friendly code development by automating core tasks such as accessing memory.

высокоу́ровневый язы́к программи́рования


showstopper

Any impediment that prevents all further progress.

(computing) A software bug that must be fixed before any further development is possible.


clustered

(databases, of a primary key) Used as the clustering key of a clustered index.


NWS

(computing) Initialism of not work safe.


triangulate

en-verb

triangulate (third-person singular simple present triangulates, present participle triangulating, simple past and past participle triangulated)

triangulates (present singular third-person)
triangulating (participle present)
triangulated (participle past)
triangulated (past)

/tɹaɪˈæŋɡjəleɪt/

(geometry, computer graphics) To divide into triangles.


word wrap

(computing) A word processing feature which automatically adjusts lines of text to fit within the page margins. Words exceeding the margins are set to begin a new line.


word wrap

word wrap (third-person singular simple present word wraps, present participle word wrapping, simple past and past participle word wrapped)

word wraps (present singular third-person)
word wrapping (participle present)
word wrapped (participle past)
word wrapped (past)

(computing) To adjust lines of text in this manner.


SOC

en-noun

SOC (countable and uncountable, plural SOCs)

separation of concerns
separation of concerns#English

(programming) Initialism of separation of concerns.


deadlock

deadlock (countable and uncountable, plural deadlocks)

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If synchronization is always performed in least-first order with respect to object tags, then situations can never arise in which one thread has the synchronization lock for x while waiting for y and another has the lock for y while waiting for x. Instead, they will both obtain the locks in the same order, thus avoiding this form of deadlock.

2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 88:

(computing) An inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation.

死鎖 /死锁

computing: inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation


dumper

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Protected programs implement various measures of counteraction against debuggers, disassemblers, dumpers, and other hacker tools.

2005, Kris Kaspersky, Hacker Debugging Uncovered, page 51:

(computing) A program that outputs the contents of storage or a data structure.


jukebox

1939, juke (“roadside café”) + box, replacing older collocational terms such as nickel-in-a-slot phonograph, coin-in-the-slot phonograph, and coin-operated phonograph.

Before you export a movie to tape, double-check the following: Make sure all unnecessary programs are closed, including your e-mail program, MP3 jukebox, and Web browser.

2011, Keith Underdahl, Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies:

(computing, by extension) A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection.

(computing) An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.


federated

(computing, telecommunications) Interconnected, as a federation or supernetwork of independent and interoperable services.


Elvis

From the anglicisation of the Irish name of Saint Ailbe (Saint Elvis), also known as Saint Eilfyw or Eilfw. Ultimate origin is uncertain.


CLAF

(graphical user interface) Acronym of change look and feel.


CLAF

(graphical user interface) Acronym of custom look and feel.


distributed

en-adj

distributed (comparative more distributed, superlative most distributed)

more distributed (comparative)
most distributed (superlative)

distributed computing

distributed ray tracing

(computing) Involving numerous separate computers or entities, rather than the traditional one.


folio

From Middle English folio (“leaf of a book”), borrowed from Medieval Latin foliō, Late Latin foliō, Latin foliō, the ablative singular form of Late Latin folium (“leaf or sheet of paper”), Latin folium (“leaf of a plant”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“bloom, flower”). Doublet of foil and folium, and distantly related to phyllo and phyllon.
Senses 1, 2, 3.1, 5, and 6 relating to a leaf or page are derived from Medieval Latin foliō in references; sense 5 (“page in an account book”) may be derived from Italian foglio (“rectangular sheet of paper”), from Latin folium. Senses 3.2 and 3.3 relating to a paper size are from Italian in foglio or its etymon Latin in foliō.

der

(computing) A protective case with a flap that folds to cover the screen of a mobile device.


TDR

(computer networking) Initialism of Time Domain Reflectometer: a type of cable tester which can find where a break is located.


PCI

(computing, initialism) Initialism of Peripheral Component Interconnect (a type of expansion slot on a motherboard.)


Perl

A respelling of its original name Pearl, a reference to Matthew 13:46.
A common backronymic explanation is “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language”.

Perl attracted the attention of Unix system administrators, who needed a language that was easier to use than the C programming language and more powerful than scripting languages such as Borne^([sic]) and C-shell.

1999, Eric Herrmann, Mastering Perl 5, Sybex, →ISBN, page 5:

(computer languages) A family of high-level programming languages, particularly used for text processing.


compressor

From compress + -or, or from New Latin compressor.

(computing) A program or algorithm for compressing data.

pakkausohjelma (program)

computing: program or algorithm for compressing data


hotbox

While you can do everything you wish in Maya without ever using the hotbox, once you get used to the way the hotbox conserves space and puts nearly all of Maya's tools in easy reach, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it .

2000, Perry Harovas, John L. Kundert-Gibbs, Peter Lee, Mastering Maya Complete 2 - Volume 1, page 63:

Another way to easily access menus is by using the hotbox, which appears when you press the spacebar.

2006, George Maestri, Maya 8 at a Glance, page 4:

The features available in the hotbox further depend on the type of the object that is under the cursor when the hotbox is invoked.

2012, Kang Zhang, Software Visualization: From Theory to Practice, page 122:

(graphical user interface) A context-sensitive dialog that duplicates many of the commands on the menu for users of the Maya Embedded Language.


alpha testing

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(software, testing) A process where a software application approaching full functionality is made available to a group of sophisticated users.


ghost image

After the Norton Ghost disk-cloning and backup software tool, itself an initialism of general hardware-oriented system transfer.

(computing) A copy of all the contents of a hard drive, used as a backup.


plotter

(computing) An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.


minesweeper

en-noun

minesweeper (countable and uncountable, plural minesweepers)

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(uncountable, computing, video games) A logic-based computer game in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on numerical hints.


reverse configure

en-verb

reverse configure (third-person singular simple present reverse configures, present participle reverse configuring, simple past and past participle reverse configured)

reverse configures (present singular third-person)
reverse configuring (participle present)
reverse configured (participle past)
reverse configured (past)

(transitive, computing) To determine an item's characteristics solely based on an identifier such as material number, catalog code, or part number.


synchicity

(computing) The degree of synchronization between multimedia elements, e.g. between audio and video or between audio and subtitles.


CBD

en-noun

CBD (countable and uncountable, plural CBDs or CBD's)

software engineering
software engineering

component-based development
component-based development#English

(software engineering) Initialism of component-based development.


CCA

CCA (countable and uncountable, plural CCAs)

continuous configuration automation
w:continuous configuration automation

(computing) Initialism of continuous configuration automation.


compositor

From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.

(computer graphics) A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.


NaN (countable and uncountable, plural NaNs)

(computing) Acronym of not a number: applied to numeric values that represent an undefined or unrepresentable value, such as zero divided by itself.


(computing) Alternative form of NaN (not a number)


repartition

(computing) The formatting of a hard drive, a database, etc. into different partitions.


repartition

en-verb

repartition (third-person singular simple present repartitions, present participle repartitioning, simple past and past participle repartitioned)

repartitions (present singular third-person)
repartitioning (participle present)
repartitioned (participle past)
repartitioned (past)

(transitive, computing) To format (a hard drive, a database, etc.) into different partitions.


speculate

speculate (third-person singular simple present speculates, present participle speculating, simple past and past participle speculated)

speculates (present singular third-person)
speculating (participle present)
speculated (participle past)
speculated (past)

Borrowed from Latin speculātus, past participle of speculor (“look out”), from specula (“watchtower”), from speciō (“look at”).

(intransitive, programming) To anticipate which branch of code will be chosen and execute it in advance.


close out

close out (third-person singular simple present closes out, present participle closing out, simple past and past participle closed out)

closes out (present singular third-person)
closing out (participle present)
closed out (participle past)
closed out (past)

(computing) To terminate a computer program.


is-a

Coordinate term: has-a

A special slot, the Is-a slot, short for is-a-member-of-the-class, ties instances to the classes they are members of.

1992, Patrick Henry Winston, Artificial Intelligence, 3rd edition, page 180:

(programming) The relationship between two entities in which one entity inherits from the other.

(programming, ontologies) Such a relationship expressed as an ontology component (regardless of whether the OOP paradigm per se is implemented).


has-a

Coordinate term: is-a

(programming) The relationship between a class and any member of that class in object-oriented computer programming.


voiced

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

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

(signal processing, of a signal) That contains voice.


paper tape

en-noun

paper tape (usually uncountable, plural paper tapes)

(computing, historical) An early sequential digital storage medium originally used with teletype machines, consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being encoded as a pattern of punched holes.

ponsband

early sequential digital storage medium consisting of a long roll of paper


punched tape

punched tape (usually uncountable, plural punched tapes)

ref

From the collection of The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, in the United Kingdom.

Train positions and speeds were established by a track magnet at each milepost, which produced a suitable mark on the punched recording tape whenever a train passed.

1960 December, “Talking of Trains: Recording Electric Operation”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 707:

paper tape

(computing, historical) Synonym of paper tape (“an early sequential digital storage medium originally used with teletype machines, consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being encoded as a pattern of punched holes”)

Bletchley Park
The National Museum of Computing


computerize

en-verb

computerize (third-person singular simple present computerizes, present participle computerizing, simple past and past participle computerized)

computerizes (present singular third-person)
computerizing (participle present)
computerized (participle past)
computerized (past)

(transitive, computing) To convert a manual function or system into a computer system.

(transitive, computing) To equip with a computer or a computer system.

камп'ютарызава́ць

(transitive, computing) To enter data into such a system.


ALUA

(computing) Initialism of asymmetric logical unit access.


AVVID

(computing) Initialism of architecture for voice, video, and integrated data.


file size

en-noun

file size (countable and uncountable, plural file sizes)

(computing) The length of a file, often specified in bytes.


addressability

addressability (countable and uncountable, plural addressabilities)

64-bit addressability means that a single machine instruction can operate on a value stored in eight bytes.

(computing) The capability of a microprocessor etc. to deal with values of a certain size using a single instruction.

bitness

capability to deal with values of certain size

(computer graphics) The capability of a display surface or storage device to accommodate a specified number of uniquely identifiable points.


blue screen of death

blue screen of death (plural blue screens of death)

First use appears c. 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. See cite below.

The only remaining problem is--NT still locks up the machine at exactly the same point. The only difference is that I don't get the blue screen of death--NT just freezes.

1993 October 10, tay...@saturn.brooks.af.mil, “NT Patch--doesn't fix Services for Macintosh”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup (Usenet):

A Blue Screen of Death is like an encrypted message from your computer telling you there's a problem. We're going to help you make sense of the gobbledygook so you can fix whatever's ailing your PC!

2007, Paul Lilly, “BSOD Crash Course”, in Maximum PC, page 40:

(computing, informal) An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes the system to shut down.


tweener

Trailing a little behind that in hype are the ’tweeners: the larger-format Windows CE Palm Pro portables. They’re not quite notebooks or subnotebooks, but they’re bigger than handhelds.

1999 January 4, Cathy Gagne, “Flashback ’98 Tech review: Handheld Dandies”, in Computerworld, volume 33, number 1, Framingham, Mass.: Computerworld, Inc., →ISSN, page 106:

(informal) A person or thing that is between two categories, classes or age groups.

(computing) A computing device that is smaller than a traditional laptop, but larger than a PDA.


collocation

collocation (countable and uncountable, plural collocations)

1605. Learned borrowing from Latin collocātiō (“a putting together”). By surface analysis, col- (“together”) + location. The technical sense in linguistics was established in 1951, although it may actually be earlier.

surf

As usual, nothing of significance will be asked, and most certainly, answered, but do expect the dollar (and, inversely, ES) to go up, then down, then up, and so forth as random vacuum tubes blow in NYSE's ultramodern Mahwah collocation facility.

2011, "Tyler Durden", Zero Hedge, Watch Bernanke's Q&A With FOMC Approved Sycophants Live Here

(computing) A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.


containerization

en-noun

containerization (countable and uncountable, plural containerizations)

These cloud deployments become simple due to well-defined and matured cloud technologies such as containerization, virtual infrastructure, orchestration, CI/CD, etc.

2022, Pethuru Raj, Anupama C. Raman, Harihara Subramanian, Cognitive Internet of Things: Enabling Technologies, Platforms, and Use Cases, CRC Press, →ISBN:

(computing) Software virtualization at the level of the operating system.


TSO

Time Sharing Option
w:Time Sharing Option

(computing) Initialism of Time Sharing Option.

TCP segmentation offload
TCP segmentation offload


pop out

en-verb

pop out (third-person singular simple present pops out, present participle popping out, simple past and past participle popped out)

pops out (present singular third-person)
popping out (participle present)
popped out (participle past)
popped out (past)

In the menu that then pops out, select the number of degrees you want to rotate the image (90° if the image is lying on its left side, 180° if the image is upside down, or 270° if the image is lying on its right side).

2005, Rickford Grant, Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 182:

(computing, intransitive) To appear on the screen as a temporary window or menu.


reflective

en-adj

reflective (comparative more reflective, superlative most reflective)

more reflective (comparative)
most reflective (superlative)

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)


multilingualization

(software engineering) The act of adapting or localizing something to, into, or for multiple languages


refinement

en-noun

refinement (countable and uncountable, plural refinements)

(software engineering) Synonym of grooming (“review and prioritization process”)


bulletin board

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Some bulletin board subscribers can now dial up displays for their IBM PC or PC XT in living color—and see the results in less than a second.

1984 September 3, Judith Walters von Alten, “Color for Bulletin Boards”, in InfoWorld, volume 6, number 6, InfoWorld Media Group, →ISSN, page 35:

bulletin board system
bulletin board system#English

(computing) Ellipsis of bulletin board system.


throughput

throughput (countable and uncountable, plural throughputs)

(networking) The rate at which data is transferred through a system.


metalanguage

metalanguage (countable and uncountable, plural metalanguages)

(computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language


modal

en-adj

modal (comparative more modal, superlative most modal)

more modal (comparative)
most modal (superlative)

From Middle French modal, from Medieval Latin modālis (“pertaining to a mode”), from Latin modus (“mode”); equivalent to mode + -al. Compare to French, Spanish, and Portuguese modal and Italian modale.

der

(computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.

Dialogs can be modal, in which case the user is required to provide necessary information before work in the main window can continue, or modeless. Modeless dialogs do not prevent the user from interacting with any of the other windows in the application.

a. 2011, “Dialog Windows”, in Qt Widgets Documentation, archived from the original on 2020-02-07:

a modal dialog; a modal window

(graphical user interface) Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.

modaal

requiring immediate computer user interaction


modal

Modal screen elements are subtrees which, when activated, disable all elements external to them. Examples of modals are yes-no message boxes and the application itself.

1996, OOPSLA '96: Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, volume 31, numbers 10-12:

(graphical user interface) A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.


signed

It wasn't until they tried to subtract 3 from 1 that the elementary school students realized they needed signed numbers.

(mathematics, computer science) Having both positive and negative varieties.

有符號 /有符号

(mathematics, computer science) having both positive and negative varieties


unsigned

We use an unsigned variable to store the employee's salary, since it will never be less than zero.

(computing) Not accepting negative numbers; having only a positive value (or zero).

無符號 /无符号

not accepting negative numbers; having only a positive value


unsigned

For compilers which produce two-byte unsigneds, the maximum cumulative frequency is 16,383 if we wish to avoid the use of long arithmetic.

1999, Steve Heller, Optimizing C++, page 107:

(computing) A numeric value or variable that has no sign and can only be positive.


prettify

en-verb

prettify (third-person singular simple present prettifies, present participle prettifying, simple past and past participle prettified)

prettifies (present singular third-person)
prettifying (participle present)
prettified (participle past)
prettified (past)

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turbo

From turbocharged (“increased power”). Also figurative, from the action of a turbocharger, which increases the speed of an automobile through the increase in power of an engine.

a turbo button on a controller; a PC equipped with a turbo mode

(computing, video games) Causing or relating to increased speed.


posting

[…] Internet postings, speeches, heckling, cartoons, faxes, composites, noises, threats, incitements, videos, ads, prayers, classes, live and filmed nudity (frontal, sideal, backal), defamation, blasphemy, and digital communication [...]

2013, Alan M. Dershowitz, Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law, Crown, →ISBN, page 106:

(computing) A message posted to a computerized bulletin board, a newsgroup, a blog, etc.


middleware

en-noun

middleware (usually uncountable, plural middlewares)

database management system
database management system

(computing) Software that functions at an intermediate layer between applications and operating system or database management system, or between client and server.

(computing) Networking software or hardware that is deployed in the middle of, as opposed to serviced by, a packet network to enhance or provide some network function, such as caching, filtering, or firewall functionality.


grammar checker

grammar checker (plural grammar checkers)

I ran the grammar checker on my novel, but the strange names confused it.

(computing) A software application, like a spell checker, that attempts to verify the grammar in a document.


protected

en-adj

protected (comparative more protected, superlative most protected)

more protected (comparative)
most protected (superlative)

(programming, of a variable, method, etc.) Having the protected access modifier, indicating that a program element is accessible to subclasses but not to the program in general.


deprecated

deprecated (comparative more deprecated, superlative most deprecated)

more deprecated (comparative)
most deprecated (superlative)

From Latin dēprecātus, past participle of deprecari (“to pray against (a present or impending evil), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from de (“off”) + precari (“to pray”).

Foo() has been deprecated; it outputs a debug message and then calls Foo2()

Note that deprecated functions are not removed yet.

A deprecated element or attribute is one that has been outdated by newer constructs.

1999, Dave Raggett, et. al., “Conformance: requirements and recommendations”, in HTML 4.01 Specification, W3C:

Just because an element or attribute is deprecated doesn't mean that it can't be used on a webpage.

2002, Steven E. Callihan, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example:

(computing) Said of a function or feature planned to be phased out, but still available for use.


alignment

en-noun

alignment (countable and uncountable, plural alignments)

From French alignement, by surface analysis, align + -ment.

(bioinformatics) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.

yhteensovittaminen

a way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences


angry fruit salad

angry fruit salad (countable and uncountable, plural angry fruit salads)

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From the bright colors associated with anger, and the unnaturally bright colors of many canned "fruit cocktail" mixtures.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, slang) A web page or user interface that is poorly designed and overuses color.

Klickibunti

bad interface design that overuses color

(graphical user interface, slang) Such a design in general.


thrashing

(computing) Excessive paging within virtual storage.


persistence

persistence (countable and uncountable, plural persistences)

Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.

(computer science) Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.


unload

en-verb

unload (third-person singular simple present unloads, present participle unloading, simple past and past participle unloaded)

unloads (present singular third-person)
unloading (participle present)
unloaded (participle past)
unloaded (past)

When you unload a DLL, the memory and other system resources it is using will become available for use by other applications.

1993, Tony Martin, Lisa C Towell, The NewWave agent handbook:

(transitive, computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.


uncomment

uncomment (third-person singular simple present uncomments, present participle uncommenting, simple past and past participle uncommented)

uncomments (present singular third-person)
uncommenting (participle present)
uncommented (participle past)
uncommented (past)

(programming, transitive) To convert (text that has been commented out) back into source code so that it will no longer be ignored by the compiler or interpreter.


locality

en-noun

locality (countable and uncountable, plural localities)

From French localité, from Late Latin localitas, equivalent to local + -ity.

This shows temporal locality of reference in action because the CPU accesses i at three points in a short time period. This program also exhibits spatial locality of reference.

2004, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine, page 154:

(uncountable, mathematics, computing) The condition of being local.

paikallisuus

maths, computing: condition of being local


tombstone

If you attempt to restore a backup that is older than the tombstone lifetime, it may introduce objects that were deleted […]

2008, Laura E. Hunter, Robbie Allen, Active Directory Cookbook, page 739:

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A marker that takes the place of deleted data, allowing for replication of the deletion across servers etc.

This actually results in a crash dump, which is written to the log and to a tombstone file.

2014, Joshua J. Drake, Zach Lanier, Collin Mulliner, Android Hacker's Handbook, page 186: