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 17 of 59: from “dropbox” to “endian”.
- dropbox noun A computer folder to which files may be dragged and dropped and from which users of other computers on the network can access those files.
- dropdown adj Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.
- dropdown list noun A user interface control GUI element similar to a list box which allows the user to choose one value from a list.
- dropdown menu noun A user interface (UI) control GUI element similar to a combo box box which allows the user to hide a list of options until activated by a…
- dropfile noun A file used by a bulletin board system (BBS) to pass information about the BBS itself and the current user to an external door.
- droppable noun A component onto which the user can drag other items; a drop target.
- dropper noun A software component designed to install malware on a target system.
- dry adj Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.
- DTE noun Data Terminal Equipment
- DTP noun Initialism of desktop publishing.
- DTW noun Dynamic Time Warping, a pattern matching algorithm
- dual adj Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms.
- dual-boot adj Having two operating systems available, such that either of them can be selected each time the computer is booted.
- duck typing noun A style of dynamic typing in which an object's current set of methods and properties determines the valid semantics, rather than its…
- dumb pipe noun In the context of mobile network operators, a simple network that, with a high enough bandwidth to transfer bytes between a customer's…
- dumb terminal noun A computer terminal consisting of a monitor (usually in monochrome) and keyboard, but (unlike a personal computer) having almost no…
- dummy noun An unused parameter or value.
- dump verb To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- dump core verb To generate a core dump.
- dumper noun A program that outputs the contents of storage or a data structure.
- dunder noun A double underscore, __.
- duospace adj Of a typeface, having characters of only two widths, where the narrower width is typically half that of the wider width.
- Dvorak adj Describing an optimized keyboard layout for the English language, in which the alphabet is arranged in the order PYFGCRL on the top row…
- dwimmery noun A computer program's ability to sense the user's intentions rather than work according to a well-defined specification.
- dword noun A numerical value of twice the magnitude of a word, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus…
- DX noun Abbreviation of double precision.
- dycore noun A computational module within a numerical weather prediction or climate model that solves the fundamental equations governing atmospheric…
- dynamic adj Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.
- dynamic binding noun A form of binding that occurs at runtime, such as the resolution of a virtual method call to a specific subclass's implementation.
- dynamic dispatch noun A dispatch method where the implementation of a function or method is assigned during runtime, as it cannot be assigned during compile time.
- dynamic inconsistency noun A situation in which a decision maker's preferences change over time in such a way that a preference can become inconsistent at another…
- dynamic programming noun An optimization method by which a problem having optimal substructure is recursively broken into simpler subproblems which are solved to…
- dynamic random access memory noun A form of random access memory that requires fewer transistors per bit than SRAM, but in which each bit needs to be refreshed regularly to…
- dynamic typing noun A system in which typechecking is performed at run time and not at compilation, opposed to static typing.
- dynamic-link library noun A software library containing some combination of code, data, and resources, capable of being loaded at run time and shared by multiple…
- dynamization noun Transformation of static data to dynamic ones.
- dynaset noun A data set taken from a larger database and linked back to it, so that local changes to the data are propagated back to the parent database.
- E-format noun A scientific notation for floating point numbers in which e.g. 51.75 would be represented as 0.5175E+02 (meaning 0.5175 × 10²)
- e-inclusion noun The promotion of computer use by all members of society, so as to avoid a reduction in opportunities for those who do not have or cannot…
- eager adj Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
- Easter egg noun An undocumented function hidden in a program or video game, typically triggered by a particular input sequence or combination of keystrokes.
- eat verb To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
- eat one's own dog food verb To use products or services one is selling internally, in order to understand their limitations.
- eater noun A configuration of cells that appears to consume another configuration by gradually causing it to disappear.
- echo verb To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
- echo state network noun A type of reservoir computer that uses a recurrent neural network with a sparsely connected hidden layer. The weights of output neurons can…
- echoplex verb To echo received text characters back to the computer that sent them.
- economic equilibrium noun A situation where economic forces are balanced, and without external influences, the value of economic variables will not change.
- edge noun The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- edge computing noun The practice of processing or analyzing data at or near the point of data production rather than in a central processing facility requiring…
- edge loop noun A set of connected edges across a surface, with the last edge usually meeting the first edge to form a loop.
- edgeware noun Computer software that is noticeably cutting-edge, that is, significantly innovative.
- edit noun A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
- editor noun A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
- effect noun An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
- effectful adj Implementing effects.
- egg noun A would-be spark, especially one created by an overweight spaceship and that leads to a pattern's destruction.
- egg timer noun An hourglass mouse pointer.
- eigenimage noun The set of eigenvectors used by a computer system in the recognition of an image (especially of a face).
- eigenSNP noun A mathematical abstraction of a single-nucleotide polymorphism that is associated with an eigenvector
- eject verb To unmount (a drive).
- elaboration noun Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further…
- elasticity noun A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
- electronic data interchange noun The electronic exchange of structured information, by agreed message standards, between applications with a minimum of human intervention.
- electronic mail noun Email (the system).
- element noun One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
- elementary cellular automaton noun A one-dimensional, two-state cellular automaton in which a cell's state in the next generation depends only on its current state and the…
- elementary spaceship noun Any spaceship, either naturally occurring or found with the aid of computer programs, that cannot be usefully analyzed as consisting of…
- elevate verb To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's…
- elevated adj Running with administrator rights.
- Elvis noun An Elvis operator.
- Elvis operator noun A binary operator that returns its first operand if that operand evaluates to true, and otherwise evaluates and returns its second operand.
- em noun A relative unit of sizing defined in terms of the font size.
- email noun A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and…
- email storm noun A sudden spike in emails within an email list, usually caused by thousands of individuals sending reply all emails within a short period of…
- emailware noun Software whose users are encouraged to send the creator an e-mail message in lieu of payment or registration.
- embed verb To encapsulate within another document or data file.
- embedded system noun A computer system with a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electrical system, often with real-time computing constraints.
- embedding noun An injective morphism in a concrete category which is also initial.
- emit verb To result in specific machine instructions or bytecode when compiled.
- emoji flag sequence noun An emoji sequence, consisting of a country code encoded using regional indicator characters, and representing a particular country or…
- emoji sequence noun A combination of characters that display a particular emoji.
- emoji ZWJ sequence noun A combination of emoji and control characters to display a particular emoji on supported operating systems.
- empty adj Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- emulable adj That can be emulated.
- emulate verb of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
- emulation noun Execution of a program or other software designed for a different system, by simulating parts of the other system.
- emulator noun A piece of software or hardware that simulates another system.
- emuscene noun The subculture or community of people who use emulators to simulate the operation of one computer system on another.
- enable verb To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
- enabled adj Adapted for use with the specified mechanism or system.
- enaction noun The interpretation of consciousness or understanding as a process of meaningfully engaging and interacting with the world in a hierarchy of…
- encapsulate verb To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
- encapsulation noun Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods).
- enclave noun An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
- encloser noun An object, procedure, or other portion of code that defines the scope of a variable.
- encoding noun The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into…
- encrypt verb To transform information using encryption in a way that it is believed only authorized parties can decode.
- encryption noun The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.
- endian adj Preceded by a qualifying word: of a computer: storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a particular memory address; for…