This page gathers the 5,883 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Computing”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 13 of 59: from “cue sheet” to “deallocation”.
- cue sheet noun A text file that details the layout of tracks on a compact disc.
- cull verb To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.
- Cupertino effect noun The replacement, by a spell checker, of words that are real (such as proper nouns or alternate spellings), but missing from its internal…
- curation noun The manual updating of information in a database.
- curiously recurring template pattern noun An idiom in which a class X derives from a class template instantiation using X itself as template argument.
- curlies noun Curly brackets.
- curly-bracket language noun A programming language whose syntax uses curly brackets to enclose blocks, such as C, C++, Java, or C#.
- currency sign noun A specific graphic symbol (¤) which replaced the dollar sign ($) in some international text encoding systems, starting with ISO 646.
- curry verb To perform currying upon.
- currying noun The technique of converting a function that takes multiple arguments into a sequence of functions that each take a single argument.
- curse of dimensionality noun A problem in the analysis of multidimensional systems caused by the sparse nature of the available data.
- cursor verb To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
- custom snowball noun A cascading chain reaction in which a single non-standard feature, modification, or workaround forces the creation of subsequent custom…
- cut verb To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- cut and paste verb To delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or a different one.
- cut out noun A piece of clip art.
- cutaway adj Having selected portions of the outside removed so as to give an impression of the interior.
- cutline noun In software testing, a hypothetical line that separates tests that will be performed from tests that may not be performed due to lack of…
- cutter and paster noun Anyone who copies text from one source and pastes it to another, using a computer.
- CVE noun Initialism of collaborative virtual environment.
- cyberflashing noun The unsolicited sending of sexually explicit pictures of oneself to another person by means of a computer or telecommunication network.
- cyberinfrastructure noun The research environments that support advanced data acquisition, storage, management, integration, visualization etc. over the Internet.
- cyberterrorism noun The deliberate, large-scale disruption of networks of computers, especially of computers attached to the Internet, by means of viruses etc.
- cyberworld noun The world of intercomputer communication
- cybrary noun An online collection of reference material.
- cycle sort noun A sorting algorithm based on the idea that the permutation to be sorted can be factored into cycles that can be rotated individually to…
- cycle time noun The total elapsed time to complete an operation or set of operations.
- cycler noun A task in a cycle of tasks where the status of being active task is passed around the loop.
- cyclic redundancy check noun A type of hash function that produces a checksum used to detect and correct transmission errors in data.
- cyclomatic adj Of or relating to a software metric that measures the complexity of a program based on the number of linearly independent paths through the…
- cyclomatic complexity noun A quantitative measure of the number of linearly independent paths (branches) through a program's source code which indicates the…
- cylinder noun The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
- cylinder-head-sector noun An addressing system of hard drives where the hard drive is addressed by its cylinders, heads, and sectors.
- D/L verb download
- daemon noun A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.
- daemonize verb Of a computer program or script, to prepare to go in to the background and become a daemon.
- daisy chain verb To connect (several computer devices or peripherals, or other components) in sequence with each other, usually such that the output of one…
- daisywheel printer noun A printer that operates by striking the page with moulded characters from a rotating circular arrangement, obsolete since the late 1980s.
- dammit operator noun The operator ! in the C# programming language, used to indicate to the compiler that a possibly null reference will not be null at that…
- dancing links noun A technique for reverting the deletion of a node from a circular doubly-linked list, particularly useful for efficiently implementing…
- dangling else noun A potential ambiguity in a programming language that occurs when an else clause can be associated with either a nested conditional or with…
- dangling pointer noun A pointer (variable that holds the address of a memory location) that does not reference a valid object.
- Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition noun An algorithm for solving linear programming problems with special structure, relying on delayed column generation for improving the…
- dark pattern noun A user interface that is intentionally designed to trick users into doing things that are not in their own best interest, such as giving up…
- dash noun A hyphen or minus sign.
- dashboard noun A graphical user interface for changing settings.
- dat noun Digital Audio Tape, a digital data storage tape format using a dual-spooled cartridge and magnetic tape, used for digital audio and data…
- data noun A representation of information in a computer (as symbols, quantities, sound, images or videos) which is stored, processed or transmitted…
- data access object noun An object in programming that provides an abstract interface to some type of persistence mechanism, providing some specific data operations…
- data acquisition noun The process of sampling signals that measure real-world physical conditions and converting the resulting samples into digital numeric…
- data binding noun A general technique that binds together two data sources (or two separate representations of the same data) and keeps them synchronized.
- data bus noun A hardware subsystem that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers.
- data collection tree noun A network topology used to gather and aggregate data from a collection of sensor nodes into a single node, which then propagates the…
- data communications noun The movement of data between computers, or between central computers (especially mainframes) and remote terminals.
- data compression noun Any of several techniques for reducing the number of bits needed to represent an item of digital data, either to save storage or to use…
- data controller noun A clerk who scheduled batch jobs on a mainframe computer, and who distributed printed output
- data division noun The part of a COBOL program in which the format and layout of external files and databases, and internally-used variables and constants are…
- data entry noun The act of inputting data into a computer, such as by typing out handwriting, capturing data from scanned documents, taking responses from…
- data flow noun The route between origin, via nodes, to a destination taken by a packet of data
- data glove noun A glove containing sensors to detect movement of the hand and fingers, used to control a computer-generated virtual reality environment.
- data mining noun A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that…
- data model noun A result of applying a data modeling to some particular application, using a database model such as relational.
- data object noun A self-contained unit of information that represents a specific entity or interaction within a system.
- data path noun The part of a central processing unit that stores data to be immediately operated on and performs logic and arithmetic operations on it…
- data plane noun The part of a network that carries user traffic, as opposed to those parts handling network topology and signalling.
- data processing machine noun An accounting machine or tabulating machine.
- data race noun A problematic situation where one thread could potentially read or write a memory location while another thread is writing to it.
- data recovery noun The process of retrieving deleted, inaccessible, lost, corrupted, damaged, or formatted data from secondary storage, removable media or…
- data room noun A space used for housing data, usually of a secure or privileged nature in the context of mergers and acquisitions.
- data scraping noun A technique in which a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from another program.
- data scrubbing noun An error-correction technique that periodically inspects main memory or storage for errors, then correct detected errors using redundant…
- data set noun A file of related records on a computer-readable medium such as a disk, especially one on a mainframe computer.
- data synchronization noun The establishment of equivalence between data collections (typically on different servers, and sometimes between trading partners), where…
- data table noun Any display of information in tabular form, with rows and/or columns named
- data type noun A classification or category of various types of data, that states the possible values that can be taken, how they are stored, and what…
- data warehouse noun A collection of data, from a variety of sources, organized to provide useful guidance to an organization's decision-makers.
- data wipe noun The process of deleting all data from a device or account.
- data-driven programming noun A programming paradigm where data, rather than explicit control flow logic, guides a program's behavior.
- data-oriented adj Of or pertaining to a software engineering approach that focuses on data as the central point of an application.
- database noun A set of tables and other objects (queries, reports, forms) in the form of a structured data set.
- database administrator noun A person who is responsible for the logical and physical design of databases, and normally for all aspects of their recoverability…
- database dump noun The act of exporting the contents and structure of an entire database into a single file to create a backup or migrate to a new system.
- database engine noun The underlying component that a database management system uses to create, retrieve, update and delete data.
- database key noun A unique identifier in the database management system IDMS, which indicates the record occurrence's physical location in the database.
- database management system noun A suite of interrelated computer programs designed to manage message processing and database update in a tightly controlled manner.
- datagram noun A packet of data passed across a network.
- datalink noun The protocol layer that transfers data between adjacent network nodes in a wide area network or between nodes on the same local area…
- datasheet noun A display of the records in a table, arranged in rows and columns.
- datestamp noun The date on which an event occurred, often included in a log to track the sequence of events.
- DC verb To become disconnected from a network.
- DD noun Initialism of Debian developer.
- DDD noun Initialism of domain-driven design (“methodology and set of priorities for object oriented programming”).
- DDR noun Double-data-rate computer RAM.
- de-archive verb To render a file that has been archived available for editing.
- dead code noun Instructions that, when executed, have no effect on the running of the program.
- dead pixel noun a miscolored pixel on an image where it is otherwise not intended to be.
- deadlock noun An inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation.
- deadstart noun A bootup procedure.
- deallocate verb To return previously allocated memory.
- deallocation noun The release of a portion of storage that had previously been allocated to a specific task.