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 19 of 59: from “export” to “fire hose”.
- export verb To send (data) from one program to another.
- expose verb To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
- expression noun A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
- expression template noun A template that builds structures representing a computation at compile time, where expressions are evaluated only as needed to produce…
- expressive adj Able to represent a number of ideas or concepts.
- EXPTIME noun The set of all decision problems that are solvable by a deterministic Turing machine in exponential time.
- expunge verb To delete permanently (e-mail etc.) that was previously marked for deletion but still stored.
- extensibility noun A quality of design that takes possible future advances into consideration and attempts to accommodate them.
- extension noun Ellipsis of file extension.
- extensive form game noun Informally, a representation of a game as a tree of decision nodes, with the game beginning at a unique initial node, and flowing through…
- extent noun A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
- extern noun In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same…
- external noun A variable that is defined in the source code but whose value comes from some external source.
- external coupling noun A coupling where two modules share an externally imposed communication protocol, data format, or device interface.
- extranet noun A private computer network that uses Internet protocols and can be accessed by authorized individuals via the Internet.
- extreme programming noun A software engineering methodology that promotes agility and simplicity, typically involving pair programming and a cycle of frequent…
- F Lock noun A lock key that toggles the behaviour of the function keys between their traditional (application-defined) behaviours and a set of new…
- fabric noun Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
- facade noun An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.
- facade pattern noun A structural design pattern that provides an object that is a simplified interface to a larger body of code, such as a class library.
- facemail noun Face-to-face communication, as opposed to other non-personal forms of communication.
- facet noun A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
- fact noun An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
- factor through verb Said of a morphism: to be equal to a composition of two morphisms, one of which is the given morphism (that is being said to be "factored…
- factory noun In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
- factory class noun A class that creates an object having a non-trivial creation process, implementing the factory method pattern.
- factory method pattern noun A creational design pattern that decouples the object creation by using an abstract method in the class.
- factory reset noun A process that restores an electronic device to its factory setting by erasing all user data and personalized configurations.
- fade time noun The time during which a wireless signal is too faint to be accurately received.
- fader noun A program or algorithm for fading out colors.
- Fagan inspection noun A structured process of trying to find defects in source code, specifications, and other design documents.
- fail fast verb To report immediately any condition likely to cause a failure, rather than attempting to continue.
- fail over verb To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component.
- failback noun The restoration of a system in a state of failover back to its original state (before the failure occurred).
- failover noun An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical…
- fair cake-cutting noun A kind of fair division problem in which there is a divisible heterogeneous resource that must be divided among several partners in a…
- fair division noun the problem of dividing a set of resources among several people who have an entitlement to them, such that each person receives their due…
- faithful functor noun A functor which maps morphisms from its source to its target category in such a way that the restriction of that mapping to any source…
- fall over verb Of a computer program or system, to crash.
- fall through noun In certain programming constructs, the situation where execution passes to the next condition in a list unless explicitly redirected.
- false sharing noun A performance-degrading usage pattern where the size of units in a cache means that the system may reload entire units even when it is not…
- family tree noun A data structure that organizes resources or machines in a distributed system, consisting of nodes connected by edges, in which each node…
- far adj Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
- farm noun A group of coordinated servers.
- fast adj Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
- fat noun Acronym of file allocation table.
- FAT16 noun The original version of this file system, storing both the number of (real or virtual) disk sectors and the number of sector clusters in a…
- FAT64 noun exFAT.
- fatal noun A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.
- fatal system error noun An error that occurs when an operating system halts, because it has reached a condition where it can no longer operate safely.
- father noun The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- fault verb To undergo a page fault.
- fault injection noun A technique for testing a computer system by subjecting it to unusual stresses, such as high voltage or temperature, or the deliberate…
- favicon noun An icon associated with a particular website, and typically displayed in the address bar of a browser viewing the site.
- feather verb To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
- feature noun A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
- featurization noun The development of additional features.
- federated adj Interconnected, as a federation or supernetwork of independent and interoperable services.
- federation noun A collection of network or telecommunication providers that offer interoperability.
- federator noun A component that integrates access to various services.
- feechur noun An undesirable or misimplemented feature (software or hardware capability).
- feed drive noun A drive mechanism for CD-ROMs etc in which no tray is used; the medium is inserted in a slot and is pulled in
- Feistel cipher noun A symmetric structure used in the construction of block ciphers. It is an iterated cipher with an internal function called a round function.
- fence noun A memory barrier.
- Fenwick tree noun A data structure that maintains prefix sums over a list of numbers while allowing dynamic updates and queries in logarithmic time.
- fetch noun An act of fetching data.
- fiber noun The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
- fiber bundle noun An abstract object in topology where copies of one object are "attached" to every point of another, as hairs or fibers are attached to a…
- fibre noun Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
- field noun An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- fieldbus noun A member of a family of industrial digital communication networks used for real-time distributed control.
- fifteener noun A book or other printed item that was printed in the 15th century (thus, during the first half-century of printing).
- fifth normal form noun A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in fourth normal form and every join dependency is implied by…
- file noun An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
- file allocation table noun A table used internally by the operating system to keep track of the structure of a disk and where files are stored on it.
- file association noun The association of a file type with a program, so that the chosen program is the default for opening files of that type.
- file carving noun The process of reassembling computer files from fragments in the absence of file system metadata, based on the extrapolation of a file's…
- file descriptor noun A process-unique identifier for a file or other input/output resource, such as a pipe or network socket.
- file section noun The part of the data division of a COBOL program that describes the format of the logical records associated with external files to be…
- file sharing noun The process of making files available to others to download from the Internet.
- file shredder noun A software program designed to overwrite the contents of a data file (or other space on a disk) to prevent recovery of the file contents.
- file system noun A method of organizing blocks of data on a storage device into files and directories.
- filepath noun The location of a file in a directory structure. Also known as the path of a file. A path can be absolute or relative.
- filer noun A software program for managing files.
- filetype noun An identifier indicating the type of information contained in an electronic format.
- filler noun In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that contains no data relevant to a given context (normally capitalised when in a…
- fillet noun A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- fillrate noun A measurement of the number of pixels a video card can render in a certain time period.
- filmstrip noun A file containing a sequence of images or video frames.
- filter bank noun An array of band-pass filters that separates the input signal into multiple components, each one carrying a single frequency subband of the…
- finalize verb To prepare (an object) for garbage collection by calling its finalizer.
- findability noun The quality of a particular object being locatable.
- finger noun A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
- finger tree noun A purely functional tree-like data structure offering amortized constant time access to its "fingers" (leaves), used for the efficient…
- fingerprint noun A unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.
- finite-state machine noun A formalism for describing computation, consisting of a finite set of states and a transition function describing when to move from one…
- finitely generated adj Such that the functor operatorname Hom_( mathcal )C(X,·) preserves those filtered colimits of monomorphisms.
- fire verb To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
- fire and forget noun The practice of transmitting or raising something, such as an event, and then proceeding without checking for any result or response.
- fire hose noun A feed of all updates to a website.