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 18 of 59: from “endif” to “exponentiate”.
- endif noun A directive, in several programming languages, that marks the end of an if statement, especially one containing multiple if ... then ...…
- endpoint noun The entity at one end of a connection.
- engine noun A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
- engineered spaceship noun Any spaceship, often a large one, made of discrete parts that is designed through human effort, often through the aid of computer programs…
- engineering sample noun A non-final version of an integrated circuit meant for product development, validation, or demonstration purposes.
- ENOTUITS intj A fictitious error code indicating that a person has run out of round tuits (i.e. they don't have any time to spare on the task being…
- enregister verb To store in a register of the CPU.
- enter noun Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”).
- enterprise application integration noun The use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications.
- enterprise architecture noun the disposition and interrelationship of all the management, information and computing systems within an organization
- enterprisey adj Of, pertaining to, or resembling the sort of software that would be developed for a large commercial enterprise.
- entitize verb To convert a character into a character entity reference.
- entity noun Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual…
- entity alignment noun The process of identifying entities that refer to the same real-world object in different knowledge bases.
- Entity Bean noun A type of Enterprise JavaBean, a server-side Java EE component that represents persistent data stored in a database.
- entity tag noun In the HTTP protocol, an identifier assigned to a version of a resource, such that if the resource’s content changes, it is given a new…
- entropy noun Shannon entropy
- entry point noun A location in a program or software library that can be called from outside, and from which the execution of code begins.
- enumerated adj Defined to consist of a specified list of possible values.
- enumeration noun A data type that allows variables to have any of a predefined set of values.
- envelope noun The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
- environment noun The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
- environment division noun The part of a COBOL program that specifies the hardware on which it is designed to run, the symbolic names to be used by files, and certain…
- environmental noun Any factor relating to the physical environment in which hardware is operated, such as the room temperature or the number of racks used to…
- ephemeron noun A type of weak reference in a garbage collected programming language that does not permit an object to be kept alive by its finalizer.
- epic noun A large or extended user story.
- epilogue noun A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.
- epoch noun A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
- epsilon noun Something negligible or insignificant.
- epsilon-machine noun A deterministic automaton consisting of a system of causal states and the transitions between them, functioning as the smallest possible…
- equalize verb to precompose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to yield the same composite morphism.
- equalizer noun A morphism whose codomain is the domain of a parallel pair of morphisms and which forms part of the limit of that parallel pair.…
- equate noun A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.
- equijoin noun A join whose predicate uses only equality comparisons.
- equivalent adj Of two categories, (informally) such that one is essentially a relabeling of the other; (formally) related by a pair of functors such the…
- erase noun The operation of deleting data.
- eraser noun An overwriter program used to prevent data recovery.
- eraser dust noun A font that simulates wide hand-drawn letters with a slightly mottled appearance and irregular edges.
- erasure code noun A forward-error-correction (FEC) code for the binary erasure channel, which transforms a message of k symbols into a longer message with n…
- ergodic adj Of or relating to a literary work that requires nontrivial effort on the reader's part to traverse.
- erm noun Initialism of enterprise relationship management.
- errno noun A value or variable that identifies the kind of error (or lack thereof) that has occurred during the execution of a program or subroutine.
- error verb To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
- error correct verb To debug.
- error diffusion noun A form of halftoning in which the quantization residual is distributed to neighbouring pixels that have not yet been processed.
- escape noun escape key
- escape character noun A single metacharacter, usually a control code, which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative…
- escape sequence noun An escape character together with subsequent characters, not output as written, but specifying a particular behaviour.
- escaper noun A program or algorithm for escaping text.
- escrowable adj Suitable for partitioning.
- esoteric programming language noun A programming language with highly unconventional syntax or operation, designed as an experiment or as a joke rather than for the serious…
- estate noun An organization's collective information technology resources.
- eta conversion noun One of the three rewrite rules of lambda calculus, which expresses a sort of tautology about function application. The rule says that a…
- Eurocard noun A printed circuit board card in a standard European format, designed to plug into a standardized subrack.
- eval verb To evaluate (or execute) source code held in a string during run time.
- evaluate verb To compute or determine the value of (an expression).
- evaluation noun Determination of the value of a variable or expression.
- event noun A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event…
- event-based adj Synonym of event-driven.
- event-driven architecture noun A software architectural pattern promoting the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events.
- eventing noun The ability of one system or part of a program to send notifications to another, by raising events.
- evergreen adj Of a document, a piece of software, or a data set: kept continually up to date (as opposed to being published at regular intervals and…
- evict verb To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.
- evidence-gathering noun The collection of potential evidence, which may be present in computer or network logs, on deprecated websites, or the collection of data…
- evil adj Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
- evil twin noun A rogue wireless access point installed near a legitimate one for purposes of eavesdropping or phishing.
- evolutionarily stable strategy noun A strategy that, when adopted by a population, is effective and not foreseeably likely to be replaced by another strategy.
- exabit noun One quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 petabits.
- exabyte noun One quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes.
- exbibyte noun Strictly, 2⁶⁰ (1024⁶, 1,152,921,504,606,846,976) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) pebibytes, as opposed to an exabyte.
- exception verb To throw an exception.
- exceptionless adj Without the use of an exception-handling mechanism.
- exclusive or noun Exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two predicates, one is true and one is false (without specifying which is which)…
- exec verb To execute; to run.
- executable noun A file that can be run directly by a computer's hardware or a p-code interpreter with no further processing.
- executable code noun Instructions for a computer in a form the computer can directly use (i.e. which it can execute). Derived from source code by compiling or…
- execute verb To start, launch, or run.
- execution noun The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.
- execution time noun The amount of time required for a program or task to complete a single instruction on a computer system.
- executive noun A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.
- executor noun A component of a system that executes or runs something.
- existential noun Ellipsis of existential type (“in a type system: a type that hides the underlying concrete type(s)”).
- existential type noun In a type system: a type that hides the underlying concrete type(s).
- exit verb To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
- exit program noun A computer program which exits cleanly from an application, or on computer shutdown
- exogenous adj Having no meaning in itself, such as an automatically generated sequential identifier.
- expand verb In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to show the subentries of (an entry).
- expanded memory noun On x86-compatible PCs, a way to increase available memory beyond the 640 kilobytes usable by DOS, through use of bank switching.
- expander noun A control that expands to show more options or commands, keeping them hidden until needed.
- expansion card noun A circuit board that connects to the motherboard of a computer in order to allow additional capabilities.
- expansion pack noun A module that adds new content to an existing piece of software.
- expensive adj Taking a lot of system time or resources.
- expire verb To cause to lapse; to invalidate.
- explode verb To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
- exploit noun A program or technique that takes advantage of a vulnerability in other software.
- explorer noun A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.
- explosive adj Of a specific cellular automaton rule, tending to exhibit infinite and unpredictable growth when starting from finite random patterns.
- exponent noun The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.
- exponential object noun An object which indexes a family of arrows between two given objects in a universal way, meaning that any other indexed family of arrows…
- exponentiate verb To apply a mathematical exponentiation function.