alive

en-adj

alive (comparative more alive, superlative most alive)

more alive (comparative)
most alive (superlative)

From Middle English alive, alife, olive, olife, on live, on life, from Old English on līfe (“alive”, literally “in life" or "in (the) body”), from on (“on, in”) + līfe, dative singular of līf (“life”). In this sense, replaced Old English cwic (whence English quick). Equivalent to a- + life. Compare Dutch in leven (“alive”, literally “in life”), German am Leben (“alive”, literally “at life" or "at living”).


alternation

en-noun

alternation (countable and uncountable, plural alternations)

Latin alternatio; compare French alternation.
Morphologically alternate + -ion

(computing) A construct in a regular expression that can match any of several specified subexpressions.


pointer

From point + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 10).

күрһәткес

anything that points or is used for pointing

I do consider assignment statements and pointer variables to be among computer science's "most valuable treasures."

1974, Donald Knuth, “Structured Programming with go to Statements”, in Computing Surveys, volume 6, number 5, →DOI, archived from the original on 2009-08-24, pages 261–301:

Anything that points or is used for pointing.

(programming) A variable that holds the address of a memory location where a value can be stored.

مُؤَشِّر

computer programming: variable that stores the address of another variable

The system notifies the user of the progress of a task by changing the appearance of the pointer. System-busy pointers usually adopt a timepiece metaphor.

1995, Aaron Marcus, Nick Smilonich, Lynne Thompson, The Cross-GUI Handbook, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 231:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) An icon that indicates the position of the pointing device, such as a mouse.


migrate

en-verb

migrate (third-person singular simple present migrates, present participle migrating, simple past and past participle migrated)

migrates (present singular third-person)
migrating (participle present)
migrated (participle past)
migrated (past)

From Latin migratus, past participle of migrō (“migrate, change, transport”).

They had finished migrating all of the affected code to the production server by 2:00am, three hours later than expected.

(transitive, computing): To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.


migration

en-noun

migration (countable and uncountable, plural migrations)

From Middle French migration and its source, Latin migrātiō, from the participle stem of migrō (“I migrate”).
Morphologically migrate + -ion

(computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.

হিজরত

computing: changing a platform from an environment to another one


isochronal

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


stuff

en-verb

stuff (third-person singular simple present stuffs, present participle stuffing, simple past and past participle stuffed)

stuffs (present singular third-person)
stuffing (participle present)
stuffed (participle past)
stuffed (past)

From Middle English stuffen (“to equip, furnish”), borrowed from Old French estoffer, estofer (“to provide what is necessary, equip, stuff”), borrowed from Old High German stoffōn, from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn (“to clog up, block, fill”). More at stop.

der

(transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.

pakata

computing: to compress in the StuffIt format


wallpaper

en-noun

wallpaper (countable and uncountable, plural wallpapers)

You can design your own wallpaper using Paintbrush. A wallpaper appears on your desktop in tiles. The number of tiles that are needed to cover the desktop depends on the size of the canvas you use to create a wallpaper.

1997, Richard Dungworth, Philippa Wingate, Windows 3.1 & Windows 95 for Beginners, page 65:

(computing, countable, uncountable) An image or tiled pattern used as the background of a computer desktop.


cursor

Borrowed from Latin cursor (“runner”), from currō (“run”) + -or (agentive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

(graphical user interface) A moving icon or other representation, usually called a pointer, of the position of the pointing device.

նշորդ

GUI: moving icon representing the position of a pointing device

סמן עכבר m (saman akhbár, literally “mouse-cursor”)

འོད་རྟགས ('od rtags, literally “light-sign”)

མདའ (mda', literally “arrow”) (specifically, arrow-shaped cursors)

(computing) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and sometimes called a caret, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.

նշորդ

computing: indicator of where the next insertation or other edit will take place

(databases) A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.

(programming) A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.


cursor

en-verb

cursor (third-person singular simple present cursors, present participle cursoring, simple past and past participle cursored)

cursors (present singular third-person)
cursoring (participle present)
cursored (participle past)
cursored (past)

The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.

1990 May 28, InfoWorld, volume 12, number 22:

(intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.


rip

rip (third-person singular simple present rips, present participle ripping, simple past and past participle ripped)

rips (present singular third-person)
ripping (participle present)
ripped (participle past)
ripped (past)

From Middle English rippen, from earlier ryppen (“to pluck”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rupjaną, *ruppōną (compare West Frisian rippe, ripje, roppe, ropje (“to rip”), Dutch dialectal rippen, Low German ruppen, German Low German röpen, German rupfen), intensive of *raupijaną (compare Old English rīpan, rīepan (“to plunder”), West Frisian rippe (“to rip, tear”), German raufen (“to rip”)), causative of Proto-Indo-European *roub- ~ *reub- (compare Albanian rrabe ‘maquis’, possibly Latin rubus (“bramble”)), variant of *Hrewp- (“to break”). More at reave, rob.

(transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.

opensource is a double-edged sword. while you have a chance of people using and improving on the code, you will also have the chance of lamers ripping it.

2001, rex deathstar, “Opensource on demoscene”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

I don't really care if someone rips my 3d engine, rips effects code, or anything - simply because my 3d engine and effects will be far more advanced when someone manages to use my code.

2001, Maciej Mróz, “thoughts on code-sharing”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

[…]an old demo by some bods called "kellogs and donovan" which had ripped graphics from the game "Barbarian"[…]

2002, Ray Norrish, “Barbarian demo circa 1988?”, in alt.emulators.amiga (Usenet):

(transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.


rip

Some of these CD rips don't sound very good: what bitrate did you use?

(computing, slang) Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.

Well that's because groups are now releaseing^([sic]) music in their packs as well as vgas and rips. It^([sic]) you check out some local area code groups I'm sure you'll find high quality ansi if the group is good enough.

1995, Mark Treiber, “Ansi Artist Wanted!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

Scans and rips sucks, ofcourse^([sic]). But a graphician, redrawing a picture does make him less good. A pixeled image should be judged by the skills and originality in the picture, not by the motive.

2000, Jerker Olofsson, “What to do about rippers....?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

(demoscene, slang) Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.


clairvoyant

en-adj

clairvoyant (comparative more clairvoyant, superlative most clairvoyant)

more clairvoyant (comparative)
most clairvoyant (superlative)

From French clairvoyant, from clair (“clear”) + voyant (“seeing”), present participle of voir (“see”).

(computing) Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given advance information about the problem.


discard

From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar.

Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables.

2017, Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse, Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core, page 120:

(programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.


trace

From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).

der

(programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.


trace

en-verb

trace (third-person singular simple present traces, present participle tracing, simple past and past participle traced)

traces (present singular third-person)
tracing (participle present)
traced (participle past)
traced (past)

From Middle English tracen, from Old French tracer, trasser (“to delineate, score, trace", also, "to follow, pursue”), probably a conflation of Vulgar Latin *tractiō (“to delineate, score, trace”), from Latin trahere (“to draw”); and Old French traquer (“to chase, hunt, pursue”), from trac (“a track, trace”), from Middle Dutch treck, treke (“a drawing, draft, delineation, feature, expedition”). More at track.

der

(computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.

jäljittää

to follow the execution of a program line by line


sketch

→ German: Sketch

→ Italian: sketch

desc

→ Portuguese: esquete (Brasilian), sketch (European)

→ Turkish: skeç

From Dutch schets or German Skizze, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”), from σχεδόν (skhedón, “near, nearby”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Compare scheme.

скеч

brief musical, dramatic or literary work etc.

mathematical structure
mathematical structure

(category theory) A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).


inherit

en-verb

inherit (third-person singular simple present inherits, present participle inheriting, simple past and past participle inherited)

inherits (present singular third-person)
inheriting (participle present)
inherited (participle past)
inherited (past)

From Middle English enheriten, from Old French enheriter, from Late Latin inhereditare (“make heir”). Displaced native Old English ierfan.

وَرَثَ

to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.

ModalWindow inherits all the properties and methods of Window.

(computing, programming, transitive) To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.

For example, the following two code segments, from different assemblies, show how easy it is to inherit a class from another assembly.

2006, Daniel Solis, Illustrated C# 2005:

(computing, programming, transitive) To derive a new class from (a superclass).


variable

Borrowed into Middle English in the 14th century from Old French variable, from Latin variare (“to change”), from varius (“different, various”). Equates to English vary + -able.

(programming) A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.

مُتَغَيِّر

computing: a named mutable piece of storage


demon

Daemon (computing)
Maxwell's demon
en:demon (disambiguation)

From Maxwell's demon; a derivation from “disk and execution monitor” is generally considered a backronym.

(computing) Alternative spelling of daemon


Apache

From American Spanish apache, most likely from Zuni ˀa˙paču (“Navajos”), or possibly from the Yavapai word ʔpačə, meaning "people". The web server software was named to honor the Apache people, although much has been made of the fact that its design was "patchy" (constructed by assembling software patches). See Apache HTTP Server § Name.

This list is necessary so Apache can set the right HTTP headers when a certain file is requested.

2002, Daniel López Ridruejo, Daniel Lopez, Ian Kallen, Sams Teach Yourself Apache 2 in 24 Hours, Sams Publishing, page 62:

This section discusses the process of configuring Apache to participate in WebLogic clusters. Apache is a Web server, the most popular one, actually.

2003, Scott Hawkins, BEA WebLogic Server Administration Kit, page 59:

IBM made an early commitment to support and use Apache as the basis for its web offerings and has dedicated substantial resources to the project because it makes more sense to use an established, proven web server.

2014, Matthew Helmke, Ubuntu Unleashed 2015 Edition: Covering 14.10 and 15.04, Sams Publishing, page 496:

(computing, informal) Apache HTTP Server, a widely used open source web server software suite.


apartment

→ Japanese: アパートメント (apātomento), アパート (apāto)

→ Hokkien: a-phá-tò

→ Korean: 아파트 (apateu)

→ Malay: اڤرتمن (apartmen)

desc

→ Thai: อพาร์ทเมนท์ (à-páat-mén)

→ Thai: อพาร์ทเมนท์ (à-páat-mén)

From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.

APT

The US Postal Service prefers this variant

(computing, COM) A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.


asymmetric

en-adj

asymmetric (comparative more asymmetric, superlative most asymmetric)

more asymmetric (comparative)
most asymmetric (superlative)

From a- + symmetric, as Ancient Greek ἀσυμμετρία (asummetría, “disproportion, deformity”).

der

(cryptography) Not involving a mutual exchange of keys between the sender and receiver.


symmetric

en-adj

symmetric (comparative more symmetric, superlative most symmetric)

more symmetric (comparative)
most symmetric (superlative)

From symmetry + -ic, from Latin symmetria, from Ancient Greek συμμετρία (summetría).

(cryptography) Using the same key (or keys that are trivially related) for both encryption and decryption.


vertex

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin vertex (“whirl, eddy; top, crown, peak, summit”). Doublet of vortex.

der

Mathworld article on vertices of polyhedra

Mathworld article on vertices of polygons

Cartesian coordinates
Cartesian coordinates

(computer graphics) A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.


edge

From Middle English egge, from Old English eċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).
See also Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg; also Welsh hogi (“to sharpen, hone”), Latin aciēs (“sharp”), acus (“needle”), Latvian ašs, ass (“sharp”), Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís, “needle”), ἀκμή (akmḗ, “point”), and Persian آس (âs, “grinding stone”)).

Remember that edge computing refers to data that is processed on edge devices before the result goes to its destination, which could be on a public or private cloud.

2022, Sergio Mendez, Edge Computing Systems with Kubernetes, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 5:

(computing, often attributive) The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.


agnostic

en-adj

agnostic (comparative more agnostic, superlative most agnostic)

more agnostic (comparative)
most agnostic (superlative)

Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1870. Either from Ancient Greek ἄγνωστος (ágnōstos, “ignorant, not knowing”), or from a- + Gnostic, deriving (either way) from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “I know”).

der

The socket communications layer is agnostic with regard to its underlying transport mechanism—it is “transport-agnostic”.

The software's registration key is platform agnostic and will work on both x86 and ARM processors.

(computing, of a software component etc.) Unaware or noncommittal regarding the specific nature of the components or input with which it interacts.


step

From Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-West Germanic *stappjan, from Proto-Germanic *stapjaną (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”).
Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), Walloon steper (“to walk away, leave”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”) and further to Slavic Polish stąpać (“to stomp, stamp, step, tread”), Russian ступать (stupatʹ) and Polish stopień (“step, stair, rung, degree”), Russian степень (stepenʹ). Related to stamp, stomp.

cog

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

Printing from 0 to 9 with a step of 3 will display 0, 3, 6 and 9.

(programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.


flatbed

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(computing) A document scanner with a flat bed.


bootstrap

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From boot + strap. The sense "pull up (without aid)" comes from the phrase pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.

(computing) The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.

arrencada

the process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory — see also boot

(computing) The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.

malvolvo

the process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program


bootstrap

en-verb

bootstrap (third-person singular simple present bootstraps, present participle bootstrapping, simple past and past participle bootstrapped)

bootstraps (present singular third-person)
bootstrapping (participle present)
bootstrapped (participle past)
bootstrapped (past)

(computing) To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.

Bootstrapping means building the GNU C Library, GNU Compiler Collection and several other key system programs.

(computing) To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of a system or program.

自舉 /自举

to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program


move

move (third-person singular simple present moves, present participle moving, simple past and past participle moved)

moves (present singular third-person)
moving (participle present)
moved (participle past)
moved (past)
move (infinitive)

From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian.

cog

We didn’t really want a copy; we just wanted to get the result out of a function: we wanted to move a Vector rather than to copy it.

2013, Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, 4th edition, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, 3.3.2, page 75:

In Rust, for most types, operations like assigning a value to a variable, passing it to a function, or returning it from a function don’t copy the value: they move it.

2018, Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, chapter 4, in Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development, O’Reilly, →ISBN, page 77:

In this paper, we focus on two specific move related issues: using an entity which has already been moved hence making it invalid, and calling move operations when doing so will not have any effect on how the program executes

2023 September, Attila Gyén, Dániel Kolozsvári, Norbert Pataki, “Code Comprehension for the Move Semantics in C++”, in Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Software Quality Analysis, Monitoring, Improvement, and Applications, Bratislava, Slovakia: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, →ISSN, page 3:

(transitive, programming) To transfer the value of one object in memory to another efficiently (i.e., without copying it in entirety).


manager

→ Albanian: menaxher

→ Burmese: မန်နေဂျာ (mannegya)

→ Catalan: mànager

→ Dutch: manager

→ French: manager
→ Turkish: menajer

→ German: Manager

→ Greek: μάνατζερ (mánatzer)

→ Hungarian: menedzser

→ Italian: manager

→ Japanese: マネージャー (manējā)

→ Korean: 매니저 (maenijeo)

→ Polish: menedżer

→ Romanian: manager

→ Russian: ме́неджер (ménedžer)

→ Scottish Gaelic: manaidsear

→ Spanish: mánager

→ Swahili: meneja

→ Ukrainian: ме́неджер (ménedžer)

a file manager; a task manager; Program Manager

(software) A window or application whose purpose is to give the user the control over some aspect of the system.


member

→ Japanese: メンバー (menbā)

→ Korean: 멤버 (membeo)

→ Malay: member

→ Punjabi: ਮੈਂਬਰ (maimbar)

From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Italic *memzrom, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz, “meat, flesh”), Crimean Gothic menus.
Coexists with native Middle English lim, limb (“member, limb, joint”) (from Old English lim (“limb, joint, main branch”)), and displaced Middle English lith (“limb, joint, member”) (from Old English liþ (“limb, member, join, tip”)).

cog

The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members.

(computing) A file stored within an archive file.


functional

en-adj

functional (comparative more functional, superlative most functional)

more functional (comparative)
most functional (superlative)

/ˈfʌŋkt͡ʃənəl/

(computing theory) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.

funkcionální

having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects


functional

/ˈfʌŋkt͡ʃənəl/

(computing) An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).

関数オブジェクト

an object encapsulating a function pointer


drop

en-verb

drop (third-person singular simple present drops, present participle dropping, simple past and past participle dropped or (archaic) dropt)

drops (present singular third-person)
dropping (participle present)
dropped (participle past)
dropped (past)
dropt (archaic participle past)
dropt (archaic past)

From Middle English droppen, dropen (“to fall in drops, drip or trickle down; to scatter, sprinkle; to be covered with a liquid; to give off moisture; of an object: to drop, fall; of a living being: to fall to the ground”) [and other forms], from Old English dropian, droppian (“to drop”), from dropa (“a drop”) (see further at etymology 1) + -ian (suffix forming verbs from adjectives and nouns).

спадам

to decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.

laskea

to move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards — see also lower

laskea

to lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume

The album Hip-Hop Xmas dropped in time for the holidays.

(intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.

ilmestyä

of a programme, software, music, etc.: to enter public distribution

They dropped the album Hip-Hop Xmas in time for the holidays.

That hacker has been threatening to drop my docs [i.e. publish my personal information].

(transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.

julkaista

to release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public

Next, you drop to a shell.

(intransitive, computing) To enter a more basic interface.

The next step drops the user to a recovery shell.

(transitive, computing) To present (the user) with a more basic interface.


programming language

en-noun

programming language (plural programming languages)

/ˈpɹəʊɡɹæmɪŋ læŋɡwɪdʒ/

/ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɪŋ læŋɡwɪdʒ/

(programming) A code of reserved words and symbols used in computer programs, which give instructions to the computer on how to accomplish certain computing tasks.

W:List of programming languages by category


splash screen

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Coordinate term: homescreen

While a splash screen is displayed, project forms can be loaded, databases accessed, local databases initialized, and information validated.

1998, Harold Davis, Visual Basic 6 Secrets, IDG Books, →ISBN, page 400:

(graphical user interface) An initial screen displayed by an application, usually containing a logo, version information, and a copyright notice.

startskærm

graphical user interface: an initial screen displayed by interactive software


CRT

CRT (countable and uncountable, plural CRTs)

A few seconds later, the Angry Man picks up the keyboard and swings it like a baseball bat at his screen—it’s an old PC from the '90s, with a big CRT monitor—whacking it off the desk.

2018 January 12, Joe Veix, “The Strange History of One of the Internet's First Viral Videos”, in Wired, →ISSN:

cathode ray tube
cathode ray tube#English

(electronics, computing) Initialism of cathode ray tube.

(electronics, computing, becoming dated) A display device using a cathode ray tube, such as early televisions or monitors.


IO

IO (countable and uncountable, plural IOs)

Alternative form: I/O

(computing, electronics) Initialism of input and output.


FFT

fast Fourier transform
fast Fourier transform#English

(signal processing) Initialism of fast Fourier transform.


CPU

central processing unit
central processing unit#English

(computer hardware) Initialism of central processing unit.

(computing, slang) The main computer case containing the central components of a personal computer.


TCP

Transmission Control Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol#English

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Transmission Control Protocol.


CAD

CAD (countable and uncountable, plural CADs)

computer-aided design
computer-aided design#English

(computing, engineering) Initialism of computer-aided design.

computer-aided drafting
w:computer-aided drafting

(computing) Initialism of computer-aided drafting.

(computing) Initialism of control alt delete.


PCB

PCB (countable and uncountable, plural PCBs)

(informatics) Initialism of program control block.


Abbreviated from "year 2000", with "K" standing for 1000, as in the prefix kilo- though capital K as a prefix is often used as x1024. The correct S.I. Prefix is lowercase k.


USB

New signage is being installed to enhance wayfinding and USB sockets are being added in the main concourse area and Platform 8's waiting area.

2021 October 6, “Network News: Upgrades start at Cardiff Central”, in RAIL, number 941, page 24:

Universal Serial Bus
Universal Serial Bus#English

(computing, trademark) Initialism of Universal Serial Bus; a serial bus standard for connecting devices.


USB

Helps you to keep your desk clear from small things like pens, rulers, mobile phone and USBs.

2015, “RISSLA Desk organizer, black $12.99”, in Ikea Canada Catalog, retrieved 2015-04-18:

(computer hardware, trademark, informal) A USB flash drive.


AFC

Application Foundation Classes
w:Application Foundation Classes

(computing) Initialism of Application Foundation Classes.


RISC

Coordinate term: CISC

reduced instruction set computer
w:reduced instruction set computer

(computing) Acronym of reduced instruction set computer.


CISC

Coordinate term: RISC

complex instruction set computer
w:complex instruction set computer

(computing, retronym) Acronym of complex instruction set computer.


binary

en-adj

binary (comparative more binary, superlative most binary)

more binary (comparative)
most binary (superlative)

From Late Latin bīnārius (“consisting of two”), from Latin bīnī (“two-by-two, pair”). By surface analysis, bin- + -ary.

двайко́вы

being in a state of one of two mutually exclusive conditions such as on or off

(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.

Division of reals is a binary operation.

(mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.

He downloaded the binary distribution for Linux, then burned it to DVD.

(computing) Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).


binary

en-noun

binary (countable and uncountable, plural binaries)

As our initial exposure to the base 10 number system consisted of learning how to count, it also makes sense that we might begin by learning how to count in binary.

1987, Robert W. McBeth, J. Robert Ferguson, IBM Assembler: An Intuitive Approach, John Wiley, page 5:

(mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.

Now that you have a high-level idea of what binaries look like and how they work, you're ready to dive into a real binary format.

2018, Dennis Andriesse, Practical Binary Analysis […] , No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 31:


kilo-

From French, kilo- irregularly derived from Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi, “one thousand”). The etymologically "correct" form would be chili- or chilo-, resulting in forms such as chiliasme (“chiliasm”) or chilopode (“centipede”); but the French, when creating the prefix, had to avoid a possible (standard) pronunciation of chi as /ʃi/, too close to the vulgar verb chier.

der

(computing) Multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 2¹⁰ (1024)


mega-

From Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “great, large, mighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂s (“great”). Cognate with Latin magnus, Sanskrit मह (maha, “great, massive, large-scale, epic”), and with Germanic words: Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌻𐍃 (mikils), Old English micel, Middle English muchel, English much, Old High German mihhil, Old Norse mikill, Danish meget.

cog

(computing) Multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 2²⁰ (= 1,048,576, the binary number closest to a million). Computing symbol: Mi.

(computing, marketing) Multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 2¹⁰ × 10³ (= 1,024,000, the binary round number closest to a million).


tee

* From Middle English [Term?], from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T).
* (computing): By analogy with a T-shaped pipe that sends fluids in two directions.

(computing) The process of redirecting output to multiple destinations.


tee

en-verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)

tees (present singular third-person)
teeing (participle present)
teed (participle past)
teed (past)

[…] teeing via multiple redirects (ls > file1 > file2) […]

1997, Robin Burk, David B. Horvath, UNIX Unleashed, page 615:

(computing) To redirect output to multiple destinations.


expand

expand (third-person singular simple present expands, present participle expanding, simple past and past participle expanded)

expands (present singular third-person)
expanding (participle present)
expanded (participle past)
expanded (past)
expand (infinitive)

contract

antonym(s) of “to change from a smaller form/size to a larger one”

contract

antonym(s) of “to increase the extent, number, volume or scope of”

factor

to rewrite as an equivalent sum of terms

Recorded in Middle English since 1422 (as expanden, expaunden), from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Latin expandere (“to spread out”), itself from ex- (“out, outwards”) + pandō (“to spread”). Doublet of spawn.

وَسَّعَ

(transitive) to increase the extent, number, volume or scope of

فَصَّلَ

(transitive) to express at length or in detail

enlarge

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


pong

From ping, via the pairing of ping-pong.

(networking) A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.


reduce

reduce (third-person singular simple present reduces, present participle reducing, simple past and past participle reduced)

reduces (present singular third-person)
reducing (participle present)
reduced (participle past)
reduced (past)

From Middle English reducen, from Old French reduire, from Latin redūcō (“reduce”); from re- (“back”) + dūcō (“lead”). See duke, and compare with redoubt.

(transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.


append

append (third-person singular simple present appends, present participle appending, simple past and past participle appended)

appends (present singular third-person)
appending (participle present)
appended (participle past)
appended (past)

From Latin appendere (“to hang up, suspend on, pay out”), via Old French apendre, appendre, via Middle English appenden; from ad (“on, upon, against”) + pendere (“to suspend, hang”), equivalent to ad- + pend. Compare with Old English appenden, apenden (“to belong”). See also pendant.

uder

(computing) To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file, string, or other object.


append

After recursively sorting the two subsets, the situation is (11,28) 35 (45,50,62) and an append of the three pieces gives the final result.

1997, Jeffrey H. Kingston, Algorithms and Data Structures, →ISBN:

Logging can be used to back out bad data, be it an overwrite of existing data or an append of new data.

2007, Jeff LeSueur, Marketing Automation: Practical Steps to More Effective Direct Marketing, →ISBN:

When a file is created or expanded due to an append of new data to the file, new blocks are allocated to the file.

2016, Sibsankar Haldar, SQLite Database System Design and Implementation:

(computing) An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.


expensive

en-adj

expensive (comparative more expensive, superlative most expensive)

more expensive (comparative)
most expensive (superlative)

From Latin *expēnsīvus, from expendō (“to weigh out (money), to pay out”) (whence English expend). By surface analysis, expense + -ive. In the sense of "high-priced" has largely displaced dear.

an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm

(computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.


(computing) shorthand for "eight data bits, no parity, one stop bit", the most common configuration for serial lines, e.g. EIA-232.


fluent

fluent (comparative more fluent, superlative most fluent)

more fluent (comparative)
most fluent (superlative)

From Latin fluens (“flowing”), present active participle of fluō (“I flow”).

The payment processor offers a fluent API.

(programming) Being or relating to a fluent interface.


key off

en-verb

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

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

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This logic keys off the user's social security number.

(computing) To take something as a controlling input datum.


bob

The bob list determines the drawing priority […]

1986, Eugene P Mortimore, Amiga programmer's handbook, Volumes 1-2:

IMHO, youd ^([sic]) be better doing other things with the CPU and letting the blitter draw bobs, esp on a machine with fast ram.

1995, John Girvin, “Blitting bobs”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet):

Changes: This release adds 2 new effects (bobs and unlimited bobs), has a GFX directory for sharing graphics, adds utility functions to the common code

2002, demoeffects, “Demotized 0.0.1 - A collection of demo effects from the early days of the demo scene.”, in fm.announce (Usenet):

(computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.


printer

→ Azerbaijani: printer

→ Georgian: პრინტერი (ṗrinṭeri)

→ Japanese: プリンター (purintā)

→ Korean: 프린터 (peurinteo)

→ Russian: при́нтер (prínter)

→ Serbo-Croatian: prìnter, прѝнтер

The use of the Hughes type printer is extending on the main circuits, where speed of transmission is a great object; but it is highly improbable that it will ever be adopted, except on main circuits.

1872 February 24, “Telegraph Instruments”, in The Mechanics’ Magazine and Journal of Science, Arts, and Manufactures, volume XCVI, London: Mechanics' Magazine Offices, 166, Fleet Street, and 85, Gracechurch Street, E.C., →OCLC, page 172, column 1:

By the use of these keys in conjunction with the other keys, the operator has perfect control over the receiving printer at the distant station.

1903, “The Rowland Multiplex Printing Telegraph System”, in Telegraph Age. A Semi-monthly Journal Devoted to Telegraphy, volume XX, New York, N.Y.: J[ohn] B. Taltavall, →OCLC, page 461, column 1:

For long distance messages, reports, etc., the use of the printer telegraph renders a highly satisfactory and efficient service, especially where the line circuits are derived through a composite or phantom circuit without the exclusive use of wires for this circuit. The Union Pacific recently installed a two-channel multiplex automatic printer on a simplexed circuit, thereby eliminating the necessity for at least one additional overland wire, and also speeding up the service and reducing the cost for each message.

1924, Railway Signaling and Communications, volume 17, number 1, Bristol, Conn.: Simmons-Boardman Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 1:

In a telegraph system, a multiplex transmission circuit in which the signals transmitted comprise equal-impulse code combinations, a receiving distributor for separating the successive combinations into separate channels, a simplex printer for each channel, and local means including said distributor for generating start and rest impulses for each printer.

1928 August 18, Robert F. Dirkes, Vernon R. Kimball, James W. Long, Operating Simplex Printers in a Multiplex System, US Patent US1802240A, claim 3, page 5, column 1:

Top-quality prints in minutes, at savings up to 80%, are said to be possible with the Satellite printer. Printer is sold by Eugene Dietzgen Co, Chicago, Ill.

1959 September, “Compact Printer”, in Air Conditioning, Heating and Ventilating, volume 56, New York, N.Y.: Industrial Press, →OCLC, page 103:

Much like a regular printer can print out a picture or text file, these machines can turn a digital 3-D model into a real, tangible object, and they are becoming more and more widespread. All over the world, makerspaces (places where people can gather, share ideas, learn, and use tools like 3-D printers to let their dreams become reality) are opening the doors.

2015, Nicki Peter Petrikowski, “Introduction”, in Getting the Most out of Makerspaces to Create with 3-D Printers (Makerspaces series), New York, N.Y.: Rosen Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:

(computer hardware) A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects.

rekenaardrukker

computing: device used to print text or images


execution

en-noun

execution (countable and uncountable, plural executions)

From Old French execution (c.1360), from Latin exsecutiō, an agent noun from exsequor (“to follow out”), from ex (“out”) + sequor (“follow”).

The entire machine slowed down during the execution of the virus checker.

(computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.

uitvoering

carrying out of an instruction by a computer


executor

/ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɚ/

/ˈɛɡzɪˌkjuːtɚ/

From Middle English executour, from Anglo-Norman executour, from Latin execūtor, agent noun of exequor.

When searching for a solution is unnecessary, then the program executor "doesn't care" which solution is generated nor how it is obtained.

2014, Robert Kowalski, Thom Frühwirth, Logic for Problem Solving, Revisited, page 114:

(computing) A component of a system that executes or runs something.


hat

Sranan Tongo: ati

From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”). Cognate with North Frisian hat (“hat”), Danish hat (“hat”), Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.

cog

(programming, informal) The caret symbol ^.


serial

desctree

→ Russian: сериа́л (seriál, “TV-series”)
→ Azerbaijani: serial

/ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/

Formed as series + -al, on model of Latin seriālis, from seriēs + -ālis. Cognate to Italian seriale. First use appears c. 1823. See cite below.

Go to these sites for serials, cracks and keygens.

(computing, slang) A serial number, esp. one required to activate software.

serial

serial number required to activate software


rooted

en-adj

rooted (comparative more rooted, superlative most rooted)

more rooted (comparative)
most rooted (superlative)

You are rooted. All your base are belong to us.

(computing, not comparable) Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.


real number

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Even if you pass sqrt an integer, it returns a real number.

floating-point number
floating-point number


identity

en-noun

identity (countable and uncountable, plural identities)

From Middle French identité, from Latin identitās.

(algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.


inverse

Recorded since 1440, from Latin inversus, the past participle of invertere (“to invert”), itself from in- (“in, on”) + vertere (“to turn”).

(category theory, of a category) Whose every element has an inverse (morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse).


inverse

противоположност

opposite of a given due to contrary effects or nature

(category theory) A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.


glider

From Middle English glider, glydare, equivalent to glide + -er.

By the way, what happens to a beehive which is under attack by one or two gliders such as pictured:

1989 December 22, Norbert Roestel, “CA-LETTER”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

I believe it is indeed new -- I've gone back through everything I can find, as far back as the early 90's when Heisenburp devices were first invented, and there don't seem to be any reactions based on a glider suppressing a blinker.

2006 September 28, Dave Greene, “Small Heisenburp device in Conway's Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

In Conway's Life interesting effects can be obtained by colliding gliders.

2008, Derek Abbott, Paul C. W. Davies, Arun Kumar Pati, Quantum Aspects Of Life, page 246:

(cellular automata) In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.

It is a reversible rule, and an interesting one. Shortly after I implemented it, Chris and I were watching it run from a small random configuration of vants, when we noticed a structure consisting of 2 vants propagating away from the others -- it is a glider of sorts, consisting of 2 cooperating vants moving along, erasing each others' trail.

1989 June 11, David Hiebeler, comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

I wanted to test some totalistic automaton and the glider with the B024S1 rule, which Ilmari Karonen described.

2003 May 13, Frank Buss, “Totalistic Explorer and squirm”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

By contrast, consider a rule like Seeds (B2/S) that has "gliders" and oscillators and so forth, so theoretically it might support universal computation somehow.

2007 May 12, Dave Greene, “Wanted: 2D CA, "as complex" but "denser" than Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

(by extension) Any spaceship in a cellular automaton, especially one which exhibits glide reflection.


MBD

MBD (countable and uncountable, plural MBDs)

model-based definition
model-based definition#English

(CAD, computing) Initialism of model-based definition.

(computing, electronics) Initialism of motherboard.

model-based development
model-based development#English

(software, programming) Initialism of model-based development.

model-based testing
model-based testing#English

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


REM

Clippings
* (remaining time): Clipping of remaining.
* (remark): Clipping of remark.

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

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

(computing) A remark (programming language statement used for documentation).


poly

poly (countable and uncountable, plural polys)

The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris.

2009, Andrew Paquette, Computer Graphics for Artists II: Environments and Characters:


case dependent

(computer science) Synonym of case sensitive


case sensitive

(computer science) Distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters. Often used in computer science to indicate a distinction is made in comparison or equality of letters based on case. For example, a case-sensitive password will not recognize "Password" and "password" as the same, but a case insensitive comparison would.

závisející na velikosti písmen

distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters

but see unterscheidet/beachtet Groß- und Kleinschreibung

(periphrasis) kis- és nagybetűk különböznek/eltérnek benne


case insensitive

(computer science) Treating or interpreting upper- and lowercase letters as being the same.

hoofdletterongevoelig

treating upper- and lowercase letters as being the same

but see unterscheidet/beachtet Groß- und Kleinschreibung nicht


single

→ Dutch: single

→ Finnish: sinkku

→ German: Single

→ Indonesian: singel

→ Japanese: シングル (shinguru)

→ Polish: singiel

From Middle English single, sengle, from Old French sengle, saingle, sangle, from Latin singulus, a diminutive derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Akin to Latin simplex (“simple”). See simple, and compare singular.

Coordinate term: double

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

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

(computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.


theme

en-verb

theme (third-person singular simple present themes, present participle theming, simple past and past participle themed)

themes (present singular third-person)
theming (participle present)
themed (participle past)
themed (past)

-iːmi (for the sense dealing with the Byzantine empire only)

From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do). Doublet of thema.

der

(computing, transitive) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).


queue

From Middle English queue, quew, qwew, couwe, from Anglo-Norman queue, keu and Old French cöe, cue, coe (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda. See also Middle French queu, cueue. Doublet of coda.

2005, David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell, p. 234,
Queue implementations are commonly based on insertion order as in first-in, first-out (FIFO) queues or last-in, first-out queues (LIFO queues are also known as stacks).

(computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide.


queue

en-verb

queue (third-person singular simple present queues, present participle queueing or queuing, simple past and past participle queued)

queues (present singular third-person)
queueing (participle present)
queuing (participle present)
queued (participle past)
queued (past)

(computing, transitive) To add to a queue data structure.


panic

en-noun

panic (countable and uncountable, plural panics)

The adjective is borrowed from Middle French panique, a word itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πανικός (panikós, “pertaining to Pan”); Pan, the Greek god of fields and woods, was believed to be the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.
Adjective sense 3 (“pertaining to or resulting from overpowering fear or fright”) is partly an attributive use of the noun.
The noun is derived from the adjective, while the verb is derived from the noun. Verb sense 1.3 (“to highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show”) is derived from noun sense 4 (“a highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show”).

der

If your new driver has an error that panics the system when you load the driver, then the system will panic again when it tries to reboot after the panic. The system will continue the cycle of panic, reboot, and panic as it attempts to reload the faulty driver every time it reboots after panic.

2010, Solaris system engineers, “Managing Devices”, in Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials (Solaris System Administration Series), Santa Clara, Calif.: Sun Microsystems Press, →ISBN, section 9.3.4.2 (Avoiding Recurring Panic):

(countable, computing) Short for kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.


panic

en-verb

panic (third-person singular simple present panics, present participle panicking, simple past and past participle panicked)

panics (present singular third-person)
panicking (participle present)
panicked (participle past)
panicked (past)

espantar

to cause (someone) to feel panic; to frighten (someone) into acting hastily

(computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.

(computing) Of a computer system: to crash.


application

en-noun

application (countable and uncountable, plural applications)

/ˌæplɪˈkeɪʃən/

/ˌæpləˈkeɪʃən/

From Late Middle English applicacioun, borrowed from Old French aplicacion (French application), from Latin applicātiōnem, accusative singular of applicātiō (“attachment; application, inclination”), from applicō (“join to, attach; apply”).

This application can connect to most social networks.

Saeed straightened and held up his phone, directing its camera at the heavens, consulting an application that indicated the names of celestial bodies he did not know.

2017, Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, page 15:

application software
application software

(computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)

(computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.


metasyntactic

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Metasyntactic values, in the sense I'm using here, are descriptive of syntax, as for example the nonterminals of a Chomsky grammar.

(linguistics, computing) Used in describing syntax; relating to metasyntax.


metasyntactic variable

metasyntactic variable (plural metasyntactic variables)

Use metasyntactic variables like foo and bar when you need a name but the particular name doesn't matter.

(chiefly programming) A conventional variable name used for an unspecified entity whose exact nature depends on context.


parameter

[pəˈɹæm.ə.ɾɚ]

From French paramètre, from New Latin parametrum (“parameter”), from Ancient Greek παρα- (para-, “beside”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

(programming) An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.

مَعْلَم

name in a function or subroutine definition

(programming, loosely) An actual value given to such a formal parameter.


tier

en-verb

tier (third-person singular simple present tiers, present participle tiering, simple past and past participle tiered)

tiers (present singular third-person)
tiering (participle present)
tiered (participle past)
tiered (past)

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From Middle French tier, from Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”). Alternatively, from a Germanic source related to Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English tīr (“glory, honour, fame”), Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour, renown”).

cog

(transitive, computing) To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.


pane

→ Japanese: ペイン (pein)

From Middle English pane, pan, from Old French pan, from Latin pannus, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”). Doublet of pagne, pan, and pannus.

pain (except in accents without the pain-pane merger)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A portion of a user interface that typically makes up part of a larger window and may be docked or snapped into position.


toast

en-noun

toast (countable and uncountable, plural toasts)

→ Bulgarian: тост (tost)

→ Czech: toust, toast

→ Dutch: toost, toast

→ French: toast

→ Romanian: toast

→ German: Toast

→ Greek: τοστ (tost)

→ Hebrew: טוסט (tost)

→ Italian: toast

→ Japanese: トースト (tōsuto)

→ Korean: 토스트 (toseuteu)

→ Maori: tōhi

→ Macedonian: тост (tost)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: toast

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: toast

→ Polish: tost, toast

desctree

→ Russian: тост (tost)
→ Armenian: տոստ (tost)

→ Turkish: tost

→ Ukrainian: тост (tost)

→ Welsh: tost

Bill Murray
Dow Jones & Company
Ghostbusters
The Wall Street Journal

From Middle English tost, from the verb tosten (see below).
(person who is honored with a drink): First appears in print at the very end of the 17th century. The conventional assumption is that the use is metaphorical, “the name of a lady being supposed to flavour a drink like a spiced toast.” This is pure speculation, however, as the origin of the sense remains obscure.
(something that will be no more): Ad-libbed by actor Bill Murray in the 1984 film Ghostbusters (see quotation).

With the new Windows Push Notification Service, you can remotely send notifications from a cloud-based web service. In Windows 8, the majority of the Toast messages are standard duration toasts.

2012, Nick Lecrenski, Doug Holland, Allen Sanders, Professional Windows 8 Programming:

(countable, computing, graphical user interface) A transient, informational unclickable pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.


toaster

→ French: toasteur

→ German: Toaster

→ Hebrew: טוסטר

ja-r

トースター (tōsutā)

→ Japanese: トースター (tōsutā)

→ Korean: 토스터 (toseuteo)

→ Polish: toster

→ Russian: то́стер (tóstɛr)

From toast + -er (agent noun suffix) or -er (patient suffix).

For most older computers (pre-486 and even some 486s), it's simply easier to throw them away and start over (and cheaper, too). I know; this probably goes against the grain; after all, you hung onto that old toaster for three years, and now it makes a darn good doorstop.

2000, Jennifer Fulton, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 15:

On the technical side, we had only the old “toaster” Macintosh computers as our environment (only black and white and 512 by 480 screen resolution) and a variety of IBM PCs or equivalents.

2005, Clark N. Quinn, Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 65:

(computing, humorous) A low-end or outdated personal computer.

The Freedom Toaster was developed with backing from Mark Shuttleworth as a vending-machine-style dispenser of free digital products, including Ubuntu Linux.

2008, Michael Jang, Ubuntu Certified Professional Study Guide, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 9:

(computing slang, uncommon) A self-contained software package distributable over the Internet or by burning onto CDs.


package

en-noun

package (countable and uncountable, plural packages)

Equivalent to pack + -age. Possibly influenced by Anglo-Latin paccagium or Old French pacquage.

(software) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.

паке́т

computing: piece of software that it can be installed with a package manager


heterogeneous

en-adj

heterogeneous (comparative more heterogeneous, superlative most heterogeneous)

more heterogeneous (comparative)
most heterogeneous (superlative)

From Medieval Latin heterogeneus, from Ancient Greek ἑτερογενής (heterogenḗs, “of different kinds”), from ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + γένος (génos, “kind”). Compare hetero- and -ous.

der

(computing) Of a network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic underlying architecture; alternatively, of a data resource with multiple types of formats.

heterogeeninen

computing: comprising different types of computers or formats


junction

→ Bengali: জংশন (joṅśon)

→ Japanese: ジャンクション

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/

From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.

(programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.


sock

(computing, networking) Abbreviation of socket.


atomic

en:containing a single change, in version control

(programming, of a commit in a VCS) Containing a single change, as opposed to involving numerous unrelated changes.

In order to avoid race conditions, this operation has to be atomic.

Whenever possible, use atomic types instead of mutexes.

It also provides an atomic compareAndSet method (which if successful has the memory effects of both reading and writing a volatile variable) and, for convenience, atomic add, increment, and decrement methods.

2006, Tim Peierls, Brian Goetz, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, Doug Lea, David Holmes, Java Concurrency in Practice, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 325:

(computing, of an operation) Guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause, and running synchronously when called by multiple asynchronous threads.

atominen

computing: guaranteed to either complete fully, or not at all


kebab

From Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb), partly through Urdu, Persian and Turkish kebap. Doublet of cevapi. See the Arabic entry for more.

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


palimpsest

From Latin palimpsēstus, from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος (palímpsēstos, “scraped again”).

uder

(computing) Memory that has been erased and re-written.


FOSS

(computing) Initialism of Free and Open Source Software.


match

en-verb

match (third-person singular simple present matches, present participle matching, simple past and past participle matched)

matches (present singular third-person)
matching (participle present)
matched (participle past)
matched (past)

From Middle English macchen (“to marry; be paired with”), from the noun (see above).

inh

The behavior matched one or more rules and was rejected by an edit filter.

(transitive, programming) To be an example of a rule or regex.


object

From Old French object, from Medieval Latin obiectum (“object”, literally “thrown against”), from obiectus, perfect passive participle of obiciō (“I throw against”), from ob- (“against”) + iaciō (“I throw”), as a calque of Ancient Greek ἀντικείμενον (antikeímenon). Doublet of objectum and objet.

der

ἀντικείμενον

massive astronomical compact halo object

massive astrophysical compact halo object

Similarly, there is a category whose objects are groups and whose arrows are the homomorphisms from one group to another.

(category theory) An instance of one of the two kinds of entities that form a category, the other kind being the arrows (also called morphisms).

objektum

category theory: instance of a kind of entities forming a category


fire up

en-verb

fire up (third-person singular simple present fires up, present participle firing up, simple past and past participle fired up)

fires up (present singular third-person)
firing up (participle present)
fired up (participle past)
fired up (past)

⇒ Greek: φαερόπ (faeróp) (as adverb)

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Fire up a text editor.

Fire up your computer.

(transitive, computing, informal) To launch; to run.


PSP

en-noun

PSP (countable and uncountable, plural PSPs)

Program Segment Prefix
w:Program Segment Prefix

(computing) Initialism of Program Segment Prefix.


PSP

software engineering
software engineering

personal software process
w:personal software process

(software engineering) Initialism of personal software process.


program

→ Malay: program

→ Tok Pisin: program

/ˈpɹoʊˌɡɹæm/

/ˈpɹoːɡɹɑːm/

From French programme, from Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”), from προγράφω (prográphō, “I set forth as a public notice”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of programma.

der

The program runs on both Linux and Microsoft Windows.

(computing) A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task.

program playback
playing tracks in a custom order


programmer

/ˈpɹəʊɡɹæmə/

/ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɚ/

*program + -er (US) / programme + -er (UK)

(computing) One who writes computer programs; a software developer.


email

en-noun

email (countable and uncountable, plural emails)

The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail. The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail (“to send through the mail”).

He sent me his details via email.

The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.

Please stop sending me “constructive criticisms” via email, or telling me that “ I feel you are being defensive”, especially just after I have told you “you’re loved”. “Rewards” like that are horrible.

(uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network.

e-pos

דואר אלקטרוני \ דֹּאַר אֶלֶקְטְרוֹנִי

ímél

now officially endorsed but still less common

I am searching through my old email.

My inbox used to allow only 50 MB of email at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!

(uncountable) A quantity of messages sent through an email system.

e-byst

He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.

I archive my old emails using a cloud-based service.

(countable) A message sent through an email system.

e-pos

message sent through email an email system

What’s your email?

In this system, your username is your email.

Don’t send personal messages to my work email.


email

en-verb

email (third-person singular simple present emails, present participle emailing, simple past and past participle emailed)

emails (present singular third-person)
emailing (participle present)
emailed (participle past)
emailed (past)

e-pos

(transitive) to send an email or emails to

She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.

(transitive) To send an email or emails to.

I’ll email you the link.

He emailed the file out to everyone.

(transitive, ditransitive) To send (something) through email.

e-pos

(transitive) to send (something) through email

átküld

optionally adding: e-mailen, if the context doesn't make it clear

Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.

(intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.

e-pos

(intransitive) to send, or compose and send, an email or emails


email

Borrowed from Middle French email, from Old French esmal (“enamel”) (modern French émail (“enamel; vitreous enamel; glaze (coating on pottery)”)), from Medieval Latin smaltum (“enamel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”). Doublet of smalt, smalto, and schmaltz.

der

Set Naples courser to an asse, / Fine emerawde vnto greene glasse: / Set rich rubye to redd emayle, / The raven's plume to peacocke's tayle: / [...] / There shall no less an oddes be seene, / In myne from everye other Queene!

1579 January 11, George Puttenham, “[Appendix] Partheniades [No. 15; believed to have been presented to Elizabeth I of England on 1 January 1579 (Julian calendar)]”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor, Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poësy (Miscellanea Poetica Anglicana Antiqua; 1), volume I, London: Printed by Harding and Wright, […], for Robert Triphook, […], published 1811, →OCLC, page xxxiv:

It is reported, that the Pope long ſince gaue them [the people of Iceland] a diſpenſation to receiue the Sacrament in ale, inſomuch as for their vnceſſant froſts there, no wine but was turned to red emayle, as ſoone as euer it came amongſt them.

1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: Printed by Iohn Danter for William Iones, […], →OCLC, signature Diii; republished in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe. In Four Volumes. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, London, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: Printed [by Hazell, Watson, and Viney] for private circulation only, 1883–1884, →OCLC, pages 242–243:

Another part of this Earth being mixt with an equal part of its Salt, and put on the Fire to melt, in part pierc'd thro the Crucible, which was found on the outside, as it were, lin'd with a Brown Email, and the inside of the Crucible was cover'd with a Clear-Red Email.

1684, [Samuel] Du Clos, “The Eighth Class. Of Cold Waters somewhat Aigre and Vinous, which Participate of a Salt Resembling the Nitre of the Ancients.”, in Observations on the Mineral Waters of France, Made in the Royal Academy of the Sciences, […] Now Made English, London: Printed for Henry Faithorne, and John Kersey […], →OCLC, pages 96–97:

(obsolete, rare) Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).


hero

en-noun

hero (plural heroes or (sandwich sense) heros)

→ Hindi: हीरो (hīro)

→ Japanese: ヒーロー (hīrō)

→ Korean: 히어로 (hieoro)

→ Thai: ฮีโร่ (hii-rôo)

[ˈhɪə.ɹəʊ~ˈçɪə.ɹəʊ]

From Middle English heroes, from Old French heroes, from Latin hērōs (“hero”), from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “demi-god, hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”). Related to Latin servo (“protect”). Displaced Middle English heleð, haleð, from Old English hæleþ, hæle.

der

(web design) The eye-catching top portion of a web page, sometimes including a hero image; the portion above the fold.


print

en-verb

print (third-person singular simple present prints, present participle printing, simple past and past participle printed)

prints (present singular third-person)
printing (participle present)
printed (participle past)
printed (past)
print (infinitive)

From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten (“to impress; imprint”) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (“to imprint”), Middle Low German prenten (“to print; write”), Danish prente (“to print”), Swedish prenta (“to write German letters”). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

cog

However, when you print the string you can see only 11 characters (c, a, r, ', s,, w, h, e, e, l).

2010, Chuck Easttom, Advanced JavaScript, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 217:

On the RHS side we write the current date to the variable date and print it to the terminal window, followed by the string "Chris coming home...." .

2015, Othmar Kyas, How To Smart Home: A Step by Step Guide to Your Personal Internet of Things, Key Concept Press, →ISBN:

(computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.

принтирам

computing: to display a string on the terminal


fingerprint

/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/

asymmetric cryptography
asymmetric cryptography

(cryptography) A unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.

بَصْمَة

unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem


complement

en-noun

complement (countable and uncountable, plural complements)

From Middle English complement, from Latin complēmentum (“that which fills up or completes”), from compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (English complete). Doublet of compliment. The verb is from the noun.

der

(computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.

komplementti

The complement of 01100101#95;2 is 10011010#95;2.

diminished radix complement
diminished radix complement

(computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.

The complement of 01100101#95;2 is 10011011#95;2.

(computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.

The complement of −123 is 123.

(computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.


term

(computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.


aristocrat

/ˈæɹɪstəˌkɹæt/

/əˈɹɪstəˌkɹæt/

From French aristocrate (“aristocrat”), attested once in the 16th century but recoined in the Revolutionary era, from aristocratie (“aristocracy”), from Medieval Latin aristocratia, from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατία (aristokratía), from ἄριστος (áristos, “best”) (compare Old English ar) + κράτος (krátos, “rule”). By surface analysis, aristo- + -crat.

ἀριστοκρατία

Coordinate term: patristocrat

(cryptography) A cipher in which the original punctuation and spacing are retained.


shotgun

en-verb

shotgun (third-person singular simple present shotguns, present participle shotgunning, simple past and past participle shotgunned)

shotguns (present singular third-person)
shotgunning (participle present)
shotgunned (participle past)
shotgunned (past)

From shot + gun. Front passenger seat sense comes from ride shotgun.

Understand the problem before fixing it. About the only scenario where shotgunning is useful is if there is a shorted IC and you cannot tell which one it is.

1998, Stuart Ball, Debugging Embedded Microprocessor Systems, page 71:

(computing, slang) To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.


supplicant

From Latin supplicans (“supplicating, bowing down”), from supplicō (“kneel, bow down, request”), from sub- (“lower”) + plicō (“fold”).

der

(networking) A device attempting to authenticate itself to an 802.11 network.


breeder

I was wondering if anyone out there could mail me a base for MIT's 'breeder' - the one with 8? puffer trains forming glider-guns. I've seen in in a few books but can't seem to get it working ...

1992 June 17, Bill Sharp, comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

I later implemented an improved version of the algorithms on an Atari STe, this time the goal was to run the breeder, which it did at 2 gen/sec at the stage when the first glider gun has been assembled.

2002 July 23, Owen Rees, “Wolfram and "general 2D simulators"”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

A glider-emitting breeder pattern can probably also be constructed in this rule, which would out-radiate any chaotic pattern by a considerable margin.

2008 May 31, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

(cellular automata) A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.


computability logic

(computing, mathematics) a formal theory of computability


Unix

A pun on Multics to sound like eunuchs, as Unix was considered to be an emasculated Multics (see multi- and uni-). Probably coined by Brian Kernighan in 1970.

Alternative form: UNIX

(computing) An operating system that shares the original source code by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, currently owned by Novell.

Alternative form: UNIX

(computing) An operating system largely compatible with Unix that qualifies for use of the UNIX trademark, currently owned by The Open Group.


Unix

en-noun

Unix (plural Unixes or Unices or Unixen)

Unixes (plural)
Unices (plural)
Unixen (plural)

Alternative form: unix

GNU is not Unix.

The Linux kernel operating system is one of the most popular Unixes.

(computing, informal) Any of the above plus Unix-like operating systems similar to Unix but not qualifying for use of the UNIX trademark.


PRC

Palm Resource Code
Palm Resource Code#English

(computer science) Initialism of Palm Resource Code (the file format for Palm OS applications.)


stub

From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-West Germanic *stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr, Faroese stubbi (“stub”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”). Doublet of stob.
Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.

Even though the stub is a dummy, it allows us to determine whether the procedure is called at the right time by the program or calling procedure.

2000, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, John W. McCormick, Programming and Problem Solving with ADA 95, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 352:

(programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.

Coordinate term: skeleton

The server performs the server RPC runtime library functions to accept the request and call the server stub procedure. […] After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server.

2002, Judith M. Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7:

(computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.


media

media (countable and uncountable, plural media or medias)

Burmese: မီဒီယာ (midiya)

Turkish: medya

Latinate plural of medium, particularly as a clipping of communications media and often reinterpreted as singular or mass noun, from Latin media, neuter plural form of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).

(computing) Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.


media

Shortening from multimedia, from multi- + media (“forms of communication”).

I have media files stored on an external hard drive.

Adjust media sound in multiple apps


mojibake

/ˌməʊd͡ʒiˈbɑːki/

Borrowed from Japanese 文字化け (mojibake), from 文字 (moji, “character”) + 化ける (bakeru, “to transform, take a different form”, generally in a negative way).

Alas, you'll even see “text” files where some lines have one encoding but other lines have different encodings. You are guaranteed to see mojibake.

2012, Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 285:

The space behind the door is filled with mojibake, more specifically, a mojibake that is made of pieces of my memory. “Why? Why do I like girls?” I hear a younger voice of mine echoing in the room.

2021, Lydia Chen, When the Flowers Withered, Singapore: Partridge Publishing, →ISBN:

(computing) Corrupt characters or letters, especially resulting from being displayed or transferred through an inappropriate character set or encoding.


decimal

Borrowed from Late Latin, Medieval Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus, from decem (“ten”) + adjective suffix -alis.

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

десети́чен

concerning numbers expressed in decimal or calculations using decimal


hexadecimal

hexadecimal (countable and uncountable, plural hexadecimals)

1952. hexadeca- + decimal; see the Wikipedia article for more information.

(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) A number system with base sixteen, using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E and F, most used in computing as a hexadecimal digit can represent four bits, half a standard byte, and thus a single byte can be represented conveniently with two digits.

(countable, computing) A number expressed in the hexadecimal system.


colo

The previous wall outlet tests at their colo facility ran for 6 days straight without issue.

One was a mistake in the colo, where there was a mislabeled circuit, so they cut power to 1/3 of one of our racks.


microcontroller

/ˈmaɪkɹə(ʊ)kənˌtɹəʊlə/

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(computing, electronics) A microcomputer on a single chip, used to control some device such as an automobile engine or a toy.


yum

Please run yum in non-caching mode to correct this header.

Yellowdog Updater, Modified
w:Yellowdog Updater, Modified

(computing) Acronym of Yellowdog Updater, Modified, a popular package manager in Linux.


Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi (countable and uncountable, plural Wi-Fis)

Coined in analogy to Hi-Fi as a trade name developed for the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (later Wi-Fi Alliance).
Often analyzed as a shortened form of wireless fidelity (similar to how hi-fi is short for high fidelity); this is possibly due to the former slogan of the aforementioned Wi-Fi Alliance, The Standard for Wireless Fidelity.

وَاي فَاي

computing: wireless data communication standard

(networking, uncountable) Any of several standards for short-range wireless data transmission (IEEE 802.11).

Mimi gave Fifi access to her Wi-Fi.

This coffee shop has Wi-Fi for its customers.

He asked me if I knew the Wi-Fi password.

2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 13:

(networking, uncountable) Wireless networking using one of these standards.


acquisition

acquisition (countable and uncountable, plural acquisitions)

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French acquisicion, from Latin acquisītiō, from acquirere; equivalent to acquire + -ition.

(computing) The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.


censorware

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(computing) Software or hardware used to filter content on the Internet or block Internet access or restrict the running of applications or computer usage, on the basis of content being regarded as objectionable.

审查商品

software or hardware used to filter content on the Internet


sub

* Shortened form of any of various words beginning with sub-.
* (lend a person money): From subsidize.

The default accessor can be overridden by declaring a sub of the same name in the package.

2002, Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Perl in a nutshell:

So far, all the subs and functions that we have used have been those built into the system, or those written to handle events from controls […]

2004, P. K. McBride, Introductory Visual Basic.NET, page 49:

(computing, programming) Clipping of subroutine. (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does)


wait

From Middle English waiten, from Anglo-Norman waiter, waitier (compare French guetter from Old French gaitier, guaitier), from Frankish *wahtwēn (“to watch, guard”), derivative of Frankish *wahtu (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Germanic *wahtwō (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be fresh, cheerful, awake”). Cognate with Old High German wahtēn (“to watch, guard”), German Low German wachten (“to wait”), Dutch wachten (“to wait, expect”), French guetter (“to watch out for”), Saterland Frisian wachtje (“to wait”), West Frisian wachtsje (“to wait”), North Frisian wachtjen (“to stand, stay put”). More at watch.
In some senses, merged or influenced by Middle English waiten, weiten (“to do good to, lie in wait for, to contrive good or harm on, catch, snare”), from Old Norse veita (“to give help to, assist, grant, cause to happen”), from Proto-Germanic *waitijaną (“to show, guide, advise, direct”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).
Largely overtook native Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan.


wait state

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With memory that slow, the processor is going to spend most of its time on wait states.

(computing) Any of several instances in which a computer's processor cannot execute instructions (either for the entire computer, or just for a specific task) until an I/O operation completes, or until an interrupt is resolved.


office

Tok Pisin: opis

→ Belarusian: о́фіс (ófis)

→ Bulgarian: о́фис (ófis)

→ Cebuano: opis

→ Chichewa: ofesi

→ Central Dusun: upis

→ Hindi: ऑफ़िस (ŏfis)

→ Iban: opis

→ Japanese: オフィス

→ Marshallese: wōpij

→ Malay: opis

→ Russian: о́фис (ófis)

→ Scottish Gaelic: oifis

→ Swahili: afisi

→ Tausug: upis

→ Ukrainian: о́фіс (ófis)

Microsoft Office
office (disambiguation)

From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y”, forming actions), from op- (“work”) + -i- (connective) + -fex (combining form of faciō (“to do, to make”)).
The use in reference to office software is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.

zyrë

room(s) or building used for non-manual work

(computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.


epoch

From Medieval Latin epocha, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ, “a check, cessation, stop, pause, epoch of a star, i.e., the point at which it seems to halt after reaching the highest, and generally the place of a star; hence, a historical epoch”), from ἐπέχω (epékhō, “I hold in, check”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “I have, hold”). Doublet of epoche.

Coordinate term: (cartography, engineering) datum

UNIX epoch; J2000 epoch

Appendix A gives formulae for the calculation of the orbital elements of the planets at any time referred to the mean ecliptic and equinox of the epoch of noon on 1st January 2000; this is called the J2000 epoch.

2000, Carl D. Murray, Stanley F. Dermott, Solar System Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:

There are two major epoch times associated with most timestamps: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 and 1601-01-01 00:00:00. The first, starting in 1970, is traditionally referred to as POSIX time as it is a common timestamp in UNIX and UNIX-like systems.

2016, Preston Miller, Chapin Bryce, Learning Python for Forensics, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 281:

The .NET epoch is midnight at the start of January 1st, AD 1, although that's AD 1 in a proleptic Gregorian calendar, which refers to even more complexity we haven't talked about yet.

2022, Tomasz Lelek, Jon Skeet, Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs: How to Make Good Programming Decisions, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 155:

(chronology, astronomy, computing) A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.


relative

[ˈɹɛl.ə.ɾɪv]

From Middle French relatif, from Late Latin relātīvus, from Latin relātus, perfect passive participle of referō (“to carry back, to ascribe”), from re- (“again”) + ferō (“to bear or carry”).

نِسْبِيّ

conditional; depending on something else

The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http://example.com/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.

(computing, of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.


cab

(software, Windows) Clipping of cabinet file (“a compress library archive file”).


aggregation

en-noun

aggregation (countable and uncountable, plural aggregations)

/æɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən/

From Latin aggregātiō, from aggregō (“aggregate”).

(networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.

聚合

summarizing multiple routes into one route


kit

kit (countable and uncountable, plural kits)

From Middle English kyt, kytt, kytte, from Middle Dutch kitte (“a wooden vessel made of hooped staves”). Related to Dutch kit (“tankard”) (see below). The further etymology is unknown. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kitjō-, *kut-, which would be related to the root of Dutch kot (“ramshackle house”), itself of non-Indo-European origin.
The transfer of meaning to the contents of a soldier's knapsack dates to the late 18th century, extended use of any collection of necessaries used for travelling dates to the first half of the 19th century.
The further widening of the sense to a collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble emerges in US English in the mid 20th century.

der

(computing, informal) A full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade.


try

From Middle English trien (“to try a legal case”), from Anglo-Norman trier (“to try a case”), Old French trier (“to choose, pick out or separate from others, sift, cull”), of uncertain origin. It is probably related to Italian tritare (“to grind; to sort; to analyze”) (see also French trier). Alternatively, believed to be a metathetic variation of Old French tirer (“to pull out, snatch”), from Gothic *𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (*tairan, “to tear away, remove”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”), see tear. Related to Occitan triar (“to pick out, choose from among others”), although the Occitan verb could also be a borrowing from French. Alternatively or by confluence, the Old French is from Gallo-Roman Vulgar Latin *triare, of unknown origin.
Replaced native Middle English cunnen (“to try”) (from Old English cunnian), Middle English fandien (“to try, prove”) (from Old English fandian), and Middle English costnien (“to try, tempt, test”) (from Old English costnian).

cog

[t̠͡ɹ̠̊˔aɪ̯]

[t̠͡ɹ̠̊˔ʷaɪ̯]

(programming) A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.


barf

en-verb

barf (third-person singular simple present barfs, present participle barfing, simple past and past participle barfed)

barfs (present singular third-person)
barfing (participle present)
barfed (participle past)
barfed (past)

Dutch: barfen

bath (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)

Uncertain. Probably of imitative origin.

The program barfed as a result of the invalid input.

(computing, slang, intransitive, by extension) Of a system: to fail.


reboot

reboot (third-person singular simple present reboots, present participle rebooting, simple past and past participle rebooted)

reboots (present singular third-person)
rebooting (participle present)
rebooted (participle past)
rebooted (past)

We need to reboot the system after installing these updates.

The system reboots every weekend after updates are installed.

NASA is once again trying to reboot the Hubble Space Telescope, agency officials said. The telescope’s instruments have been shut down since the end of September, when a router that formats science data for transmission to the ground had an electrical failure.

2008 October 24, Dennis Overbye, “Another Effort to Reboot Telescope”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To execute a computer's boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, possibly after a system failure.

重新啟動 /重新启动

To execute a computer's boot process and reload the operating system


raise

raise (third-person singular simple present raises, present participle raising, simple past and past participle raised)

raises (present singular third-person)
raising (participle present)
raised (participle past)
raised (past)

From Middle English reysen, raisen, reisen, from Old Norse reisa (“to raise”), from Proto-Germanic *raisijaną, *raizijaną (“to raise”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *rīsaną (“to rise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”).
Cognate with Old English rāsian (“to explore, examine, research”), Old English rīsan (“to seize, carry off”), Old English rǣran (“to raise”). Doublet of rear.

whakahī

Referring to lifting the pitch of a musical note

hāpai

Of lifting an object to a higher elevation

hī

Refers to raising an eyebrow in scepticism

aradan qaldırmaq

(military) to remove or break up (a blockade); to relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done

raise oneself up by one's own bootstraps

A division by zero will raise an exception.

Provide some mechanism in the local service class to raise the event. This might take the form of a public method that the host application can invoke to raise the event.

2007, Bruce Bukovics, Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0, page 243:

(programming, transitive) To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).


fold

en-verb

fold (third-person singular simple present folds, present participle folding, simple past folded, past participle folded or (obsolete) folden)

folds (present singular third-person)
folding (participle present)
folded (past)
folded (participle past)
folden (obsolete participle past)

⇒ Czech: foldovat

The verb is from Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”). The noun is from Middle English folde,falde, itself derived from the verb.

(transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.


fold

For example, a story that is "page I, above the fold" is considered very important news. In web page design, the fold signifies the place at which the user has to scroll down to get more information.

1999, Jared M. Spool, Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 77:

(by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.

(programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.


data

→ Turkish: data

Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“I give”). Doublet of date.

Coordinate term: information

(computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.


baud

en-noun

baud (countable and uncountable, plural bauds)

Borrowed from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

To reach the Backroom Bulletin Board, call (718) 849-6699 with a computer, using either the 300 or 1200 baud setting on the modem.

1985 April 13, Stephanie Poggi, “Queer Hackers”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

(computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.

بَاوْد

A rate defined as the number of signalling events per second

(computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.


enter

From Middle English entren, from Old French entrer, from Latin intrō (“enter”, verb), from intrā (“inside”). Has been spelled as "enter" for several centuries even in the United Kingdom, although British English and the English of many Commonwealth Countries (e.g. Australia, Canada) retain the "re" ending for many words such as centre, fibre, spectre, theatre, calibre, sombre, lustre, and litre.

(computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”)

(computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”)


entropy

entropy (countable and uncountable, plural entropies)

First attested in 1867, as the translation of German Entropie, coined in 1865 by Rudolph Clausius in analogy to Energie (“energy”), replacing the root of Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) by Ancient Greek τροπή (tropḗ, “transformation”)).

der

A measure of the disorder present in a system.

(statistics, information theory, countable) A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal.

熵

measure of the amount of information in a signal


POSIX

Icelandic: POSIX-staðall

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

Operating System
operating system#English

(computing) Acronym of Portable Operating System Interface: a set of IEEE standards designed to provide application portability between UNIX variants.

可移植操作系統接口 /可移植操作系统接口

computing: set of standards providing application portability between UNIX variants


boilerplate

en-noun

boilerplate (countable and uncountable, plural boilerplates)

The Star (1788)
boilerplate
boilerplate (spaceflight)

From boiler + plate. First use appears c. 1793 in the periodical Star.

(computing) A standard piece of program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor.


mono

Shortenings, ultimately from the prefix mono- (“one, single”).

(category theory) Clipping of monomorphism.


delete

From Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from dēlēvī, originally perf. tense of dēlinere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”). Original sense first appears c. 1495. In common use for ordering the absence of features of products (such as automobiles) in the 1960s. Computing sense, including the noun form, first appears c. 1977 in Software: Practice & Experience. Not related to deleterious.

Cascading updates and cascading deletes are useful features of the SQL Server database engine.

2003, Jeffrey P. McManus, Jackie Goldstein, Kevin T. Price, Database Access with Visual Basic .NET, page 30:

(computing) The delete character (U+007F or %7F).


Uniform Resource Locator

Uniform Resource Locator (plural Uniform Resource Locators)

(computing, Internet) A universal address for resources on the internet, which is most commonly used for websites.

ΟΕΠ

ομοιόμορφος εντοπιστής πόρων (omoiómorfos entopistís póron)


format

Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“I shape, fashion”).


format

en-verb

format (third-person singular simple present formats, present participle formatting, simple past and past participle formatted)

formats (present singular third-person)
formatting (participle present)
formatted (participle past)
formatted (past)

I lost weeks of work when I inadvertently formatted my hard drive.

(computing) To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.

форматирам

computing: prepare a mass storage medium for initial use


dismount

dismount (third-person singular simple present dismounts, present participle dismounting, simple past and past participle dismounted)

dismounts (present singular third-person)
dismounting (participle present)
dismounted (participle past)
dismounted (past)

From dis- + mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.

The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.

PROBLEM: A volume periodically dismounts. There are two drives with one volume on each. From time to time, the second volume dismounts and the drive shuts down.

1995, Rick Sant'Angelo, NetWare unleashed, page 1130:

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.

卸下

(computing) to make a mounted drive unavailable for use


octet

(computing) A byte of eight bits. Abbreviation: o

This is done by breaking down each set of permissions (user, group, and other) to represent an octet.

2003, Nitesh Dhanjani, Linux and UNIX security portable reference:

(computing, rare) A group of three bits, representing any of eight possible values.


badge

→ Japanese: バッジ (bajji)

→ Korean: 배지 (baeji)

From Middle English badge, bagge, bage, bagy, from Anglo-Norman bage or Medieval Latin bagea, bagia (“sign, emblem”), of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from Medieval Latin baga (“ring”), from Old Saxon bāg, bōg (“ring, ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, bracelet, armband”); or possibly the Anglo-Norman word is derived from an earlier, unattested English word (compare Old English bēag (“ring, bracelet, collar, crown”). Cognate with Scots bagie, badgie, bawgy (“badge”).

cog

(graphical user interface) A small overlay on an icon that shows additional information about that item, such as the number of new alerts or messages.


hover

en-verb

hover (third-person singular simple present hovers, present participle hovering, simple past and past participle hovered)

hovers (present singular third-person)
hovering (participle present)
hovered (participle past)
hovered (past)
hover (infinitive)

Welsh: hofran

Royal Canadian Air Force
United States Coast Guard

The verb is derived from Middle English hoveren (“to float in the air, hover; to stay”), probably from hoven (“hover; of a bird: to fly high in the air, soar”) (which it displaced) + -er- (frequentative suffix). Hoven is probably derived from Old English *hōfian, from hōfon, the plural past indicative form of hebban (“to lift, raise”), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift; to heave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to hold, seize”). The English word is analysable as hove (“(obsolete) to remain suspended, float, hover; to linger, wait”) + -er (frequentative suffix).
The noun is derived from the verb.

suffix

A tooltip appears when you hover over this link.

(computing) Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).

懸停 /悬停

to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over (something on a screen) without clicking, so as to produce a result

placer le curseur au-dessus d’un hyperlien