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 14 of 59: from “deauthenticate” to “depth”.
- deauthenticate verb To revoke the authentication of; to cause no longer to be authenticated.
- deblock verb To separate the logical records that have been combined into a physical block for storage.
- deblocked adj Separated into logical records
- debounce verb To discard events or signals that should not be processed because they occurred too close together.
- debug verb To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.
- debug mode noun The mode of a compiler or IDE that allows for debugging, with the availability of information such as variable names and line numbers from…
- debuggable adj That can be debugged.
- debugger noun A computer program that helps the user to test and debug other programs, by enabling their step-by-step execution controlled by the user…
- debugging noun The process of finding and resolving bugs or defects that prevent correct operation of computer software or a system.
- decal noun A texture overlaid on another texture to provide extra details.
- decay verb To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
- decidable adj describing a set for which there exists an algorithm that will determine whether any element is or is not within the set in a finite amount…
- decide verb Of a Turing machine: to return a correct answer (for some yes-or-no problem) on every possible input.
- decider noun A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input.
- decimal adj Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.
- decimate verb To replace (a high-resolution model) with another of lower but acceptable quality. (Usually algorithmically)
- decimation noun A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling
- decision problem noun A question in some formal system with a yes-or-no answer, depending on the values of input parameters.
- deck noun A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
- declaration noun The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents.
- declarative adj That declares a construct.
- declarator noun A construct in source code that declares something, such as a variable.
- declare verb To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.
- declarer noun A statement that declares the properties of a variable or contributes to doing so.
- decloud verb To transfer data off of the cloud and onto local storage.
- decodable adj Of a code, having a non-singular extension; being a lossless encoding.
- decode noun A product of decoding
- decollate verb To separate the copies of a multipart computer printout.
- decollator noun a machine that decollates (separates) the parts of multipart computer printout and discards the carbon paper
- decommit verb To deactivate or decommission.
- decommitment noun Deactivation or decommission.
- decompactor noun A program or algorithm for decompressing data.
- decompress verb To restore (compressed data) to its original form.
- decompression bomb noun A usually malicious file with a very high compression ratio, thus expected to consume a large amount of memory and disk space when…
- deconfigure verb To remove or cancel the configuration of; to reset.
- deconflict verb To resolve contradictory conclusions or responses to queries in a rule-based or deductive reasoning system.
- decorate verb To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.
- decorator pattern noun A structural (and partitioning) design pattern that allows behaviour to be added to an existing object dynamically.
- dedent verb To outdent; to remove an indent from.
- deduplication noun The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
- deep color noun Graphics with 30 or more bits of storage per pixel, allowing for billions of distinct colors.
- deep copy noun A copy of a data structure duplicating not only the structure itself, but all structures to which it is linked.
- defactor verb To modify source code to remove design patterns and structure, for example to make it harder to reverse-engineer.
- default noun the original software programming settings as set by the factory
- default gateway noun The node in a computer network using the Internet Protocol suite serving as the forwarding host to other networks when no other route…
- defenestrate verb To remove a Windows operating system from (a computer).
- defenestration noun The act of removing the Microsoft Windows operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.
- defensive design noun The practice of planning for contingencies in the design stage of a project so as to make the misuse of the software impossible, or to…
- defensive programming noun A form of defensive design aiming to ensure the continuing functioning of a piece of software in spite of unforeseeable usage of it.
- deferred noun Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
- deferred time noun The time when a deferred operation eventually takes place.
- define noun A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.
- definition noun A statement which provides a previous declaration with a value or body of a subroutine (in the case of function).
- deflate verb To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
- defloat verb To cause (a visual element such as a tool palette) no longer to float over the rest of the application.
- deforestation noun A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.
- defragment verb To run a process that collects fragments of files and sorts them into contiguous sections on one or more hard disks or hard disk…
- defunct adj Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a…
- defunctionalization noun A compile-time transformation which eliminates higher-order functions, replacing them by a single first-order apply function.
- degrade gracefully verb Of a system: to maintain at least some of its functionality when portions are not working, or when certain features are not available.
- dehost verb To cause (a website etc.) to lose connection with its host.
- Delaunay triangulation noun For a given set P of discrete points in a plane: a triangulation DT(P) such that no point in P is inside the circumcircle of any triangle…
- delay noun Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
- delay slot noun A slot for an additional instruction that is executed out of sequence, before the instruction (typically a jump or branch) that immediately…
- delegate verb (of a subdomain) To give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own.
- delegation noun A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
- delete noun A deletion.
- delete character noun the last character in the ASCII repertoire, coded as 127, designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape
- delimiter noun A unique character or series of characters that indicates the beginning or end of a specific statement, string or function body set.
- delineator noun Synonym of delimiter.
- delouse verb To remove malicious software, such as viruses, trojans, spyware, or worms, from.
- delta verb To calculate the differences between the characters in an enciphered text and the characters a fixed number of positions previous.
- delta time noun The actual time between two events occurring in a system, used to adjust a process (such as the frame rate of graphics, or the transmission…
- dememorization noun A process, within an algorithm, that removes any dependency upon a previous (especially an initial) value or state
- demilitarized zone noun A subnetwork of a LAN, exposed to the internet or another untrusted network but firewalled off from the rest of the LAN.
- demo noun An edition of limited functionality to give the user an example of how the program works.
- demomaker noun A person who creates demos.
- demoparty noun A party organised by and for the demoscene, typically involving socializing, computer programming, and competitions.
- demoscene noun The informal computer art subculture that produces and watches demos (audiovisual computer programs).
- demostyle adj Of a musical style popular in the demoscene, involving tracker modules usually assembled from samples played at various pitches.
- demountable adj Designed to be removed from the read mechanism.
- demultiplexer noun A device or piece of software used to separate signals that were previously combined using a multiplexer.
- denormal adj Smaller than the smallest normal number but larger than zero, thus serving to fill the underflow gap.
- denormalize verb To add redundancy to (a database schema), the opposite of normalization, typically in order to optimize its performance.
- denormalized adj Denormal.
- denotation noun Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
- denotational semantics noun An approach to formalizing the meanings of programming languages by constructing mathematical objects called denotations which describe the…
- deoptimize verb To reverse a previous optimization, typically when the assumptions that made it valid prove to be incorrect.
- dep noun A dependency.
- dependee noun An agent that is depended on by a depender, the target of a dependency (used in agent-oriented programming)
- dependency noun Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.
- dependency hell noun The situation when installed software packages have conflicting, incompatible dependencies on specific versions of other software packages.
- dependency theory noun A subfield of database theory which studies implication and optimization problems related to logical constraints.
- depender noun An agent that depends on another agent, the dependee; the subject of a dependency, a dependent (used in agent-oriented programming)
- deploy noun Deployment.
- deployment noun Ellipsis of software deployment, the installation of software, in particular on servers.
- deprecate verb To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.
- deprecated adj Said of a function or feature planned to be phased out, but still available for use.
- deprovision verb To free up or delete the accounts, resources, etc. of (a system, or a user who will no longer be using a system).
- depth noun the total palette of available colors