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 20 of 59: from “fire up” to “forkable”.
- fire up verb To launch; to run.
- firebrick noun The X11 color name of RGB hexadecimal value #B22222.
- firm error noun A type of error where a signal or datum becomes wrong and remains wrong until the equipment is power-cycled, but does not physically damage…
- firmware noun A permanent form of software that provides a low-level control of computing device hardware.
- first class adj Of or relating to a treatment like that for a first-class object.
- first in first out noun A type of queue data structure in which the oldest added items are retrieved first.
- first normal form noun A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which repeating groups and attributes have been eliminated by putting each into a…
- first party adj Of products, created or published by the company responsible for the platform on which it is released (or its internal developers), as…
- first-chance exception noun An exception (error condition) when handled by a debugger, such that the programmer has the first chance to study it; such an exception…
- first-class citizen noun Synonym of first-class object.
- first-class continuation noun A continuation that can be used like any other value in a programming language, granting it a powerful ability to control the flow of…
- first-class object noun An entity that can be constructed at run-time, passed as a parameter, returned from a function, or assigned into a variable.
- first-fit adj Of or relating to a fast but non-optimal algorithm for the Bin packing problem, placing each item into the first bin in which it will fit.
- fish noun A spaceship.
- Fisher-Yates shuffle noun A particular algorithm for generating an unbiased random permutation of a set. It selects elements randomly from the initial set until none…
- fit and finish noun Those features that are not essential functionality of the software, but are otherwise important or useful, such as localization or…
- fixed point noun A fractional-number representation with a fixed number of digits after the decimal point. Compare floating point and integer.
- fixed-point number noun A representation of fractional numbers by storing a fixed number of digits of their fractional part.
- fixity noun The position of an operator relative to its operand (prefix, postfix) or operands (infix).
- fixture noun A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.
- flag noun A variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain…
- flag day noun A day designated for changing to an incompatible system.
- flamegraph noun A visual representation of hierarchical data used to analyze system and application performance metrics.
- flamer noun One who flames, or posts vitriolic criticism.
- flap verb To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
- flapping noun The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by…
- flash noun Clipping of flash memory.
- flashback noun A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
- flasher noun A software developer who uses the Flash multimedia technology.
- flat design noun A user interface style that that is characterized by the lack of shadows, giving a flat, two-dimensional look
- flatbed noun A document scanner with a flat bed.
- flatten verb To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.
- fleeceware noun Malware whose functionality works as advertised but that manipulates users into subscribing instead of using free or much cheaper…
- Fletcher's checksum noun A kind of position-dependent checksum intended to provide error-detection properties approaching those of a cyclic redundancy check but…
- flic noun A data file containing computer animations.
- flicker fixer noun A piece of computer hardware that deinterlaces an output video signal, resulting in a less flickery display on some systems.
- flip verb To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
- flip-flop noun A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable…
- flip-flop operator noun An operator specifying a range of conditions, such that the related code executes only if the first condition is true, and only until the…
- flippy noun A flippy disk.
- flippy disk noun An 8-inch or 5.25-inch floppy diskette that has been modified to be double-sided, allowing data storage on both sides of the disk.
- flippy-floppy noun A two-sided floppy disk; a flippy disk.
- flit noun A flow control unit or flow control digit.
- float noun A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
- floating point adj Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers.
- floating point operation noun Any simple operation, such as addition, multiplication or division, performed on floating point numbers using a single operation.
- floating-point number noun A real number held as a pair of integers, one representing the mantissa and the other representing the exponent. The base is normally 10…
- floating-point unit noun A microprocessor that performs floating-point arithmetic. In older models of computer the FPU was not integrated into the central…
- flood fill noun A means of filling a discrete area with colour, based on colouring every pixel that can be recursively reached from a starting point.
- flop noun Synonym of flop.
- floppy noun A floppy disk.
- floppy disk noun A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
- flops noun One flop per second.
- floptical adj Using a combination of magnetic and optical technology.
- floptical disk noun A form of floppy disk whose head tracking was optically controlled (superseded by compact disc technology).
- flotilla noun A spaceship made of one or more central mutually stabilizing overweight spaceships flanked by lightweight, middleweight, or heavyweight…
- flow verb To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
- flow control noun The management of the data transmission rate between two nodes to prevent a fast sender from outrunning a slow receiver.
- flower box noun A comment in source code that spans several lines, serving to introduce the source code that follows, and bordered by asterisks.
- fluent adj Being or relating to a fluent interface.
- fluent interface noun An object-oriented application programming interface whose design relies extensively on chaining methods together, with the aim of…
- flush noun The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- flyaround noun The animated passage of the camera around a model, to show it from different angles.
- flyby noun A three-dimensional animated sequence in which the camera moves past an object or scenery.
- flying mouse noun An input device like a mouse that can be lifted from a surface and moved in three dimensions.
- flyout noun A popup menu that branches off some other visual element.
- fnord noun A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.
- focal point noun A solution that people will tend to use in the absence of communication, because it seems natural, special, or relevant.
- focus verb To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so that it receives subsequent input.
- focusable adj Able to receive the input focus.
- fog noun Distance fog.
- foistware noun Software that is installed without the user's knowledge or consent, often bundled with another product.
- fold noun The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- folder noun A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are…
- folding noun Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
- folio noun A protective case with a flap that folds to cover the screen of a mobile device.
- fond noun A group of records having shared provenance.
- font noun A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
- font name noun Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see font, name: the name of a font (typeface).
- foo noun A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the…
- foobar noun A metasyntactic variable name, a place holder for words; compare foo, bar.
- footer noun A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)
- footgun noun Any feature likely to lead to the programmer or user shooting themselves in the foot.
- footprint noun The amount of hard drive space required for a program.
- footroom noun Extra bandwidth for lower-than-expected values.
- for loop noun A section of code in which an instruction or group of instructions is executed a specific number of times depending on the value of a loop…
- forcing function noun An aspect of interface design that restricts a user's abilities in order to streamline completion of a task.
- foreach loop noun A section of code similar to a for loop, but repeating a series of instructions for every item in a collection.
- forebeam noun The support section of a robot arm that goes from the main body of the robot to the gripper.
- forecolour noun A prominent colour, especially one that is superimposed and visible over other colours.
- foreground noun The application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others.
- foreign key noun A column (or group of columns) in a relational table that identifies another table, so that items in the two tables can be conceptually…
- forest noun A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
- forge noun A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
- forgetful functor noun A functor that forgets or drops some or all of its input's structure or properties before mapping to the output.
- forgiving adj User-friendly, such that harmful mistakes are not easily made.
- fork verb To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- fork bomb noun A program that creates a large number of self-replicating tasks or processes in a computer system in order to cause a denial of service.
- fork-join noun A pattern for parallel computing where execution parallelizes (or forks) at designated points in the program, to later merge (join) again…
- forkable adj Capable of being split into separate processes.