route

來自中古英語 route，源自古法語 route、rote (“道，路，徑”)（對比現代法語 route），來自拉丁語 (via) rupta (“用強力打開的（道路）”)，源自rumpere viam（“開闢道路”）。中國古代行政區劃的義項是意譯自漢語 路 (lù)。


route

Google Glass has come under fire from privacy advocates because it can record video without subjects being aware of it, and that any video will be routed through Google's servers.

2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, 出自 The Guardian:


interface

[电子电机工程]界面；介面；接口


consensus

源自拉丁語 cōnsēnsus (“同意，一致”)，來自cōnsentiō (“共感；同意”)；參見consent。


estate

繼承自中古英語 estat，來自盎格魯-諾曼語 estat和古法語 estat（法語：état），來自拉丁語 status。state和status的同源對似詞。

estate car, station sedan, station wagon, wagon

一個配置的集體資訊科技資源

This time, however, it only includes the static parameters that you expect to be consistent across your estate.

2015, Peter Carter, Pro SQL Server Administration，頁號 82:


disk operating system

磁碟作業系統，磁盘操作系统


access time

電腦資料在存取所需的時間

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

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

表明文件最後一次被訪問時間的元數據項目

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

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


acquisition

源自中古英语 ← 古法语acquisicion ← 拉丁语acquisītiō、acquirere；相当于：acquire + -ition。

（信號）獲得，探測，目標顯示


accessibility

來自accessible + -ity，按照晚期拉丁語 accessibilitas所造，來自拉丁語 accessibilis。

為有某些障礙的用戶增加軟件可用性的功能

為有某些障礙的用戶增加軟件可用性的功能

The purpose of this study is to measure West Virginia University's website accessibility for students and users who are blind or visually impaired and compare that measurement to the measurement of other websites of […]

2007, Accessibility of WVU Websites for Individuals with Vision Impairments, ProQuest ISBN 9780549459835, page 4


accelerator

* 1611年初次使用。
* (機動車)： 1900年首次使用。
* accelerate + -or

If they had allowed single-character accelerators, Windows wouldn't be able to determine whether the character was input or a shortcut.

2002, Davis Howard Chapman, Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++ .NET in 21 Days，頁號 187:


defenestration

來自新拉丁語 defenestratio，來自dē (“自；外”) + fenestra (“窗戶”) + -atio (表示動作或過程的後綴)；對照中古法語 défenestrer (現代法語 défenestrer)、défenestration、意大利語 defenestrazione、德語 Fenstersturz。動詞defenestrate是後來形成的。

將微軟視窗操作系統從計算機中移除，以安裝替代系統的行為

Defenestration might be an option too. May I recommend Linux?

1998 November 1, “Dorian Bliss”, “He’s dead, Jim”, 出自 rec.humor.oracle.d (Usenet), message-ID <363DA726.C27FA5F@spamfree.land>:

It's defenestration day in Redmond today. A clearly stunned Microsoft did what it could to pretend that Judge Jackson's findings of fact were "just one step", as [Bill] Gates put said in the prepared statement that he read at a press conference last night, but it was hopeless.

1999 November 6, Graham Lea, “Stunned MS vows to fight on for freedom: ‘Integrity, partnership, quality … giving’ – (takes out onion)”, 出自 The Register，於2014-08-19歸檔自原頁面:

No defenestration here. Ask questions about all aspects of Windows programming, get help on Microsoft technologies covered in Apress books, or provide feedback on any Apress Windows book.

2002, John Kilburn, Palm Programming in Basic, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →ISBN，頁號 392:

What's needed is defenestration – throwing out the Windows mindset along with Microsoft's licenses and software – but that's not as simple as changing a boot CD or even migrating a whole raft of servers. What's involved is fundamental change both in how IT operates and in what it does.

2004 February 12, Paul Murphy, “What does Linux cost?”, 出自 LinuxInsider: Linux News & Information from around the World，於2016-03-11歸檔自原頁面:

Traditionally, the verb defenestrate means to throw out of a window. But as Australian companies take their first timid steps towards installing non-proprietary software on corporate desktops, defenestration is starting to be linked to the throwing out of Windows software.

2005 December 1, D. Braue, P. Gray, L. Colquhoun, J.-V. Douglas, “Leaders of the pack”, 出自 MIS Asia: Managing Information Strategies，於2007-10-07歸檔自原頁面:


dovetail

鴿子尾巴
榫頭
類似燕尾榫的線
名詞衍生自dove + tail。動詞衍生自名詞。

將算法或子程序交織，使其能夠同時運作

However, we can construct a single master algorithm M that DPExact learns from unknown distribution D by simply dovetailing the algorithms A. The precise way in which we dovetail the algorithms depends on whether our goal is time or query efficiency.

2002, Nader H. Bshouty, Jeffrey C. Jackson, Christino Tamon, “Exploring Learnability between Exact and PAC”, 出自 Computational Learning Theory: 15th Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory, COLT 2002, Sydney, Australia, July 8–10, 2002: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNAI); 2375; Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN，頁號 248:


environmental

與硬體運行的物理環境有關的任何因素

The process to enable migration from the vendor-supplied configuration to a new architecture depends on many system environmentals.

2014, Kenneth Barrett, Stephen Norris, Running Mainframe z on Distributed Platforms，頁號 136:


viewport

Dragging the scroll-bar changes which part of the picture is visible within the viewport.

拖动滚动条可以改变视口内图片的可见部分。


viewport

調整（圖像或區域）以與視角適配

Some general ideas on clipping, viewporting, and windowing can be found in Rogers and Adams.

1979, Tutorial: Computer Graphics，頁號 80:

Viewporting is an operation that takes the portion of the picture that has been mapped into the square region delimited by -1,+1,-1,+1 and further maps it into a rectangular subregion of the screen (a viewport).

1980, MTS, the Michigan Terminal System, 卷 17，頁號 42:

The main thing I want you to take away from this chapter is knowing where to start and creating a very simple viewported web site using nothing more than an extra <meta> tag and simple HTML.

2012, Scott Preston, Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for iOS:


hexadecimal

源自1952年，由 hexadeca- + decimal 組成；更多訊息請見英語維基百科條目。

以十六進位／十六進制表達的數


incantation

来自中古英語 incantacioun，来自古法語 incantation，来自拉丁語 incantatio。详见enchant。


memo

部分結果的記錄，不用重新計算便可重複使用。


negate

借自拉丁語 negātus，negāre (“拒絕、否決”)的過去分詞，源自*nec-aiare（或相似的形式），源自nec (“非；亦非”) + aiere (“說”)。


mailbox

郵箱，存儲收發電子郵件的地址


messenger

源自中古英語 messengere、messingere、messangere，源自古法語 messanger，古法語 messagier（對比現代法語 messager）的變體，等同於message + -er。messager的同源對似詞。
代替本土的古英語 boda (“信使，使者”) 和 ǣrendraca (“信使，特使”)。
至於 -ager 被 -enger、-inger、-anger代替的現象，對比passenger、harbinger、scavenger、porringer。這樣做可能只添加了一個 n，或可能是與其他後綴，如中古英語 -ing的混淆。對比古法語 -ange、-enc、-inge、-inghe (對應英語的 -ing) 與 古法語 -age (對應英語的 -age) 的關係。

Have them meet you on your favorite messenger program. IMs provide a means of instant chat without waiting on someone to respond back to you.

2010, Tim Collins, A Woman's Guide to Internet Dating, A Male Perspective (page 49)


acquire

來自中古英語 acqueren，來自古法語 aquerre，來自拉丁語 acquirō；ad- + quaerō (“在……中搜索”)。參見quest。

attain, come by, earn, gain, obtain, procure, secure, win


random access memory

同類詞： read-only memory、ROM、write-only memory、WOM、flash memory


information technology

information and communications technology / ICT

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

2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, 出自 The Economist, 卷 408, 期 8845:


ones' complement

1之補數（從0到 2ⁿ⁻¹-1或從0到 -(2ⁿ⁻¹-1), n）


wild card

wildcard (“通配符”)的另一種寫法


compression ratio

未壓縮和有壓縮檔案之間的比率


shift register

移錄器；移位寄存器；移位暫存器


local area network

/ˈləʊklˌɛːrɪəˌnɛtwəːk/

A Local Area Network connects all of the computers in our office.

局域網連接我們辦公室的所有電腦。

一個網路，其上的所有設備都使用OSI模型設備層尋址進行通信


ALGOL

國際演算語言；ALGOL語言


read-only memory

mask read-only memory, masked read-only memory


short circuit

short circuits
short circuiting
short circuited

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

2002, Paul Kimmel, Visual Basic.Net Unleashed:

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

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

The "Demand" is done to ensure that you have indeed been granted this permission before using the "Assert" to short-circuit the stackwalk.

2006: Jay Hillard & Stephen Teilhet, C# Cookbook


American Standard Code for Information Interchange


device driver

The identity of the device driver process is returned by the process manager to the file manager[…]

1978, Dennis M. Ritchie, Unix Time-Sharing System，頁號 2064:


Domain Name System

The purpose of this document is to explain the installation and upkeep of the BIND software package, and we begin by reviewing the fundamentals of the Domain Name System (DNS) as they relate to BIND. ... The Domain Name System (DNS) is the hierarchical, distributed database. It stores information for mapping Internet host names to IP addresses and vice versa, mail routing information, and other data used by Internet applications.

BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html


file allocation table

[…] , although their access involves traversing the indirection in the file allocation table.

2006, Dhananjay M. Dhamdhere, Operating Systems: A Concept-based Approach, 2ⁿᵈ edition, Tata McGraw-Hill, page 346:

The file allocation table needs just a single entry for each file, […]

2008, A. A. Puntambekar, I. A. Dhotre, Systems Programming, 3ʳᵈ revised edition, Technical Publications Pune, page 13:20:

For the file allocation table type of file systems, an entire file system allocation table is large and requires many disk sectors to store, […]

2008, Bruce Jacob, Spencer W. Ng, David T. Wang, Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk, Morgan Kaufmann, page 691:


undeletion

/ˌʌndɪˈliːʃən/

/ˌʌnˈdɪliːʃən/

取消刪除，恢復先前刪除的內容


von Neumann architecture

同類詞： Harvard architecture


brown-paper-bag bug

字面意思是「牛皮紙袋臭蟲」，指製造臭蟲的作者感到尷尬，得在頭上戴著牛皮紙袋才不會被認出來。Linux 2.2於1999年初發布後開始流行，並在林納斯·托瓦茲的道歉貼文中被使用。

令人慚愧的程式／程序錯誤


bulletin board system

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

1986 April 21, Melissa Calvo, “Managers Say Bulletin Boards Part of Job”, 出自 InfoWorld, 卷 8, 期 16, →ISSN，頁號 18:

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

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


personal digital assistant

個人數碼助理，個人數位助理

The device, about the size of a fat paperback book, represents the most ambitious attempt yet by computer and communications companies to pool their resources in hopes of finally creating a market for what the industry calls "personal digital assistants."

（請為本引文添加中文翻譯）]

[1994 September 28, Lawrence M. Fisher, “Personal Digital Assistant, Part III”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:

Already, Sharp owns at least 60 percent of the market for personal digital assistants, or P.D.A.'s, with its Wizard line, ranking far ahead of Hewlett-Packard, Casio, Apple Computer and other competitors past and present.

1994 December 18, Laurie Flynn, “Sharp Unveils a New Breed of Personal Digital Assistant”, 出自 The New York Times, →ISSN:


first in first out

first-in-first-out; first-in first-out; first in, first out; first-in, first-out


log out

Please don't forget to log out after you finish your work.

完成工作後，請不要忘記登出。


run-time

a run-time error

（請為本使用例添加中文翻譯）


chroot

來自Unix系統操作的名字，「change root」的簡寫。

作用於正在執行的行程和它的子行程，改變它外顯的根目錄


I started creating 8-bit music around 2002 when I picked up nanoloop […]

2007, Nick Collins, Julio d'Escriván, The Cambridge companion to electronic music (page 189)

來自或類似8位元電腦時代藝術或音樂的

Typically far more complex than the songs of the 8-bit games, songs in Amiga games had a highly varied structure, but usually followed the same basic principles seen in the 8-bit games (shorter loops with fewer distinct sections for battle music, and longer loops with more distinct sections for in-game music).

2008 January 1, Karen Collins, Game Sound: An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Game Music and Sound Design, MIT Press, →ISBN:

Much of La-Mulanas 8-bit' aesthetic is tied to its self-imposed graphical limitations. To start, the native resolution of 256 × 192 pixels is (as we would expect) much less than that of contemporary standards[…]

2008 November 12, Brett Camper, “Retro Reflexivity: La-Mulana”, 出自 Bernard Perron, Mark J.P. Wolf 編, The Video Game Theory Reader 2, Routledge, →ISBN:


tutorial

形容詞是來自tutor (名詞) + -ial，源頭來自拉丁語 tūtor (“觀察者，監護人，防守者”)。名詞是從形容詞轉變來的。


blue screen of death

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

2007, Paul Lilly, “BSOD Crash Course”, 出自 Maximum PC，頁號 40:


application programming interface

application programming interfaces (plural)


data source name

資料來源名稱；数据来源名称


CCR

commitment, concurrency, recovery (“承諾，同時及復原”)的合稱。


Oracle

由甲骨文公司開發的資料庫／數據庫管理系統（及其相關軟體／軟件）


supertype

本詞語需要翻譯為漢語。請協助添加，並移除{{rfdef}}模板。


DC

Since the patch I have been randomly DCing and it's at times completely game-breaking. For example,just now my Paladin was questing in Thou Needles, and I DC'd several times within a few minutes.

2012 February 3, "ToolPackinMama", “Random DC to Login since patch”, 出自 alt.games.warcraft (Usenet):


TeX

名稱中的字母是希臘字母Τ (tau)、Ε (epsilon)、Χ (chi)，因為TeX是古希臘語 τέχνη (tékhnē)的縮寫，也是technical的詞根。

一种数字排版系统，主要用于数学公式的排版。

TFFI-mode makes it possible for BibTeX to work on plain TeX documents as well.

1986, Jacques Desarmenien, TEX for Scientific Documentation: Second European Conference, Strasbourg, France, June 19-21, 1986. Proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 9783540168072, page 41


back-end

back-end database

back-end developer


x的作用是通配符；緊隨最初的8086之後，使用相同架構（逐步擴大）的處理器名稱也用86結尾（80186、80286、80386、80486；英特爾在80486之後不再使用這種命名法，但其他x86處理器製造商繼續使用-586-和-686-作為處理器品牌名稱）。

泛指一系列基於Intel 8086且向下相容的中央處理器指令集架構
特別指32位元版本的x86指令集架構

The x86 version of Windows 7 only supports a maximum of 4 GiB of RAM; 64-bit Windows can support a lot more.

（請為本使用例添加中文翻譯）

泛指一系列基於Intel 8086且向下相容的中央處理器指令集架構
特別指原始的16位元版本的x86指令集架構


Winchester

源自中古英語 Wynchester，Winchestre ← 古英語 Wintanceastre ← 拉丁語 Venta Belgarum（“万塔比尔格鲁姆”），可能最初源自原始凱爾特語 *wentā（“城鎮，地方”），原始印歐語 *h₁wen- + 古英語 ceastre（源自拉丁語 castra（“營地”））。


sed

源自stream editor (字面意思是“流編輯器”)。

一種非交互文本編輯器 ⁽ʷᵖ⁾


Unicode

於1988年作為建議草案而出現，“旨在提出一個獨特的、統一的、通用的編碼”。來自uni- + code。

This character isn't in Unicode.

統一碼標準，以及將字符表示為位元的標準

convert to Unicode


Unicode

來自不同語境的文字，通常以非標準的方式使用。有時被用作拉丁字母的反義詞。

Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes.

因為網站的大部分使用者來自西方，所以我們已禁止在所有文本輸入框內使用Unicode。


CDC

连接设备配置（Connected Device Configuration 的缩略）。


init

在连续第六次系统初始化之后，他不得不承认数据库已损坏。

After the sixth successive system init he had to concede that the database was corrupt.


applet

小应用程序；小程序，一種小型程序模块，运行在一个更大的应用程序（如網頁瀏覽器）的控制之下。


barf

The program barfed as a result of the invalid input.

因为输入了无效的数据，程序出毛病了。


dep

*多個 以“dep”開頭的詞之縮寫。
*多個 以“dep”開頭的詞 的截斷形式。


address bar

This trick is quite practical; since almost everyone keeps the address bar visible, being able to search from it doesn't add any gunk to your browser window […]

2006, Sarah Milstein, J. D. Biersdorfer, Matthew MacDonald, Google: the missing manual


feechur

feature的視覺方言拼法。

不受歡迎或誤用的特色（軟體性能）。


agnostic

由托馬斯·亨利·赫胥黎在1870年造出。源自古希臘語 ἄγνωστος (ágnōstos, “無知的，不知道的”)，或源自a- + Gnostic，派生自古希臘語 ἀ- (a-, “不”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “知道”)。

more agnostic (comparative)
most agnostic (superlative)

無關的，不依賴的，中立的，獨立的

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

套接字通信層與其底層的傳輸機制無關——它是“傳輸獨立”的。


self-encrypting

a self-encrypting hard disk


input method editor

輸入法（程式），輸入法編輯器


input method

輸入法（編碼方案，方便輸入物理鍵盤上沒有標識的外文符號）

輸入法（程式），輸入法編輯器


WORM

「一次寫入，多次讀取」、「單寫多讀」（write once read many/write once read multiple）的縮寫。參見 write once。


open proxy

開放代理，能被所有網路用戶訪問的開放代理伺服器


cryptoworm

加密蠕蟲，以蠕蟲形式傳播，並加密受害者數據的電腦病毒


argumentless

沒有自變量的；沒有引數的


源自HTTP狀態碼 404。當伺服器／服務器無法為客戶端正常提供網頁訊息，或是無法回應且不知原因時，就會返回此代碼。

/ˈfɔːɹəʊˌfɔː(ɹ)/

找不到（尤其是網際網路／互聯網上的網頁）

Bill was 404 all morning.

整個早上都找不到比爾人。


找不到（尤其是網際網路／互聯網上的網頁）

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

對所有已刪除的頁面返回404。一些搜索引擎營銷人員建議將舊產品重定向到語義相關的產品，而不應返回404。這麼做可以保留連結的價值，而404則不能。

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


返回「找不到網頁」的錯誤


regexp

/ˈɹɛd͡ʒˌɛksp/

I guess it also can come in handy when trying to learn regexps because it is possible to experiment with them.

我想在嘗試學習正規表示式時它也會派上用場，因為可以對它們進行實驗。

1999, Tim Altom, Mitch Chapman, Programming with Python, Prima Tech, →ISBN:


autocomplete

Tools like spellcheck, autocomplete, and speech-to-text impose someone's ideas of the rules of English automatically—invisible authorities that we can defy but not avoid.

2019, Gretchen McCulloch, 章號 2, 出自 Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN: