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 21 of 59: from “form” to “Garden of Eden”.
- form noun A window or dialogue box.
- form feed noun A control character traditionally used to cause the printer to eject the current page of output and start a new page, more recently…
- formal noun A formal parameter.
- formal grammar noun A precise mathematical description of a formal language, consisting of terminal symbols, nonterminal symbols, a nonterminal symbol serving…
- formal language noun A set of finite strings (called words) made of symbols (from a finite set of symbols, called an alphabet).
- formal parameter noun An abstract representation, typically including a name and a type, of a parameter expected to be passed to a method or function.
- formal semantics noun the rigorous mathematical study of the meaning of programming languages
- formalism noun One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory.
- format verb To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.
- formation noun A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to…
- formatted adj That has been physically arranged to be in a state ready for the storage of data
- formfactor noun The ratio of energy radiating out from one patch to the energy absorbed by another patch, used in the calculation of radiosity.
- fortune cookie noun A quote-of-the-day feature (especially on *nix systems.)
- forty weepy weepy noun The cryptanalysis of an Enigma message which was a continuation of a previous message sent at a known time.
- forward compatibility noun The capability of an electronic device, a piece of software, etc., to interoperate with anticipated future systems.
- forward declaration noun The declaration of an identifier before it is given a complete definition, so that the compiler can know its data type and memory size.
- forward echo noun Synonym of pre-echo.
- forward proxy noun A server that routes traffic between a client and another system, which is in most occasions external to the network.
- forward reference noun The actual use of an entity before any declaration.
- forward rendering noun A traditional three-dimensional rendering pipeline that sorts light sources applicable to models in world space prior to rasterization.
- foundation model noun An AI model trained on comprehensive data, enabling its application across various use cases such as chatbots and generative AI.
- Four-Russians noun Method of Four Russians: a technique for speeding up certain matrix operations by partitioning the matrix into smaller blocks associated…
- foursquare noun A four-square cipher.
- fourth normal form noun A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in Boyce-Codd normal form and all multi-valued dependencies…
- fractionate verb To divide each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols as a preliminary stage of encryption.
- fractionation noun A preliminary stage of encryption that divides each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols.
- fraggle attack noun A particular variation of the smurf attack, using UDP traffic bearing the victim's spoofed IP address sent to certain standard ports.
- fragment noun An incomplete portion of code.
- fragmentation noun The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
- frame noun An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
- frame problem noun The problem of finding an adequate collection of axioms making up a viable description of the world for a robot or artificial intelligence.
- frame rate noun The measurement of how quickly an imaging device can produce unique consecutive images called frames, most often expressed in frames per…
- frame store noun Synonym of framebuffer
- framebuffer noun A video output device that drives a display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of graphical data.
- frameless adj Without frames.
- frameskip noun A software feature that skips the display of certain frames of animation to improve performance at the expense of visual smoothness.
- framestore noun Synonym of framebuffer.
- framework noun A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
- Frankenstein PC noun A custom-built or heavily repaired PC (type of computer) assembled from a mix of mismatched, repurposed, or discarded spare parts rather…
- frecency noun Any heuristic that combines the frequency and recency into a single measure, typically used to predict page revisits in a web browser.
- free verb To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.
- free category noun A category that is induced by a multidigraph thus: it has as its objects the vertices of the multidigraph and its morphisms are paths in…
- free list noun A data structure, used in dynamic memory allocation, that connects free (unallocated) regions of memory together in a linked list.
- free software noun Software that can be freely copied, redistributed and modified, including source code; software that is libre.
- free store noun A region of memory used for dynamic memory allocation, often synonymous with the heap.
- free variable noun A variable that is not bound to a storage location.
- freebooting noun Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content.
- freestanding adj Of a computer program: that runs directly on a computer's hardware, without being managed by an operating system.
- freeware noun Complete and functional software that does not require payment or other compensation (such as viewing advertising) for its use. Freeware…
- freeze noun The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
- freezer noun A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.
- friend-to-friend adj Describing a restricted type of peer-to-peer network in which only persons who know each other participate.
- friendly name noun The everyday name of a hardware device, displayed to the user instead of the internal or technical designation.
- frob verb To manipulate in some ill-defined way; to tweak or mess about with.
- front controller pattern noun A structural (and partitioning) design pattern that provides a centralized entry point for handling requests and is an extension to the…
- front door noun The normal portal page to a website.
- front end noun That part of a hardware or software system that is conceptually closest to the user; the user interface.
- front-end processor noun A small computer that interfaces with the host computer and handles operations such as network access or peripheral control.
- fsck noun A *nix file system check to detect damage to, or corruption of, files or filesystem structures.
- FTP verb To transfer using File Transfer Protocol.
- fuckings noun Public abuse directed at rival demosceners, often included in the scrolltext of a demo; the negative equivalent of greets.
- full adj Surjective as a map of morphisms
- full disclosure noun The disclosure of all security flaws in a product.
- full 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…
- full outer join noun A join yielding a set of records for two tables, where all rows of the "left" table are enlisted with all rows of the "right" table, even…
- fullwidth adj Of a text character, occupying the space of two alphanumeric characters in a monospace font, or two "normal" text columns.
- function noun A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
- function code noun Any character used to specify a function of a piece of software or hardware (such as carriage return of a printer)
- function key noun Any of a set of keys on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used to activate a predefined or programmable function, especially a…
- functional noun An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).
- functional programming noun Programming in a style that, in lieu of assignment, uses procedure calls to bind variables to values, so that referential transparency is…
- functional requirement noun Any of the functions of a software system, described formally.
- functionalize verb To adapt into a form that uses functional programming.
- functoid noun A tool that transforms data from one form to another as it is routed from a source to a destination.
- functor noun A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows (either…
- functor category noun A category whose objects are functors (from some fixed given domain category to some fixed given codomain category) and whose morphisms are…
- fuse noun An otherwise stable arbitrarily long repeating pattern that, when perturbed from one end, destructively carries that perturbation at a…
- fusker noun A program or algorithm that downloads images or media from a web site that have not been publicly linked, based on guessing at similar URLs.
- futex noun A mechanism for basic locking, based on an atomic integer in userspace that may be operated upon from multiple processes or threads.
- future noun An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
- fuzz noun The random data used in fuzz testing.
- fuzzy adj Employing or relating to fuzzy logic.
- fuzzy search noun A type of search algorithm that includes results similar to the query (but not necessarily exactly matching), such as words with similar…
- G-buffer noun A screen space representation of geometry and material information, generated by an intermediate rendering pass in deferred shading…
- Gabor atom noun A kind of function used in the analysis proposed by Dennis Gabor in 1946 in which a family of functions is built from translations and…
- Gabor transform noun A special case of the short-time Fourier transform, used to determine the sinusoidal frequency and phase content of local sections of a…
- Gabor wavelet noun A form of wavelet designed so as to minimize the product of its standard deviations in the time and frequency domain.
- gadget noun A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
- gallery noun A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
- Galois connection noun A type of correspondence between partially ordered sets (posets), also applicable to preordered sets.
- gamma noun Synonym of gamma correction.
- gamma correction noun A nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.
- gap buffer noun A dynamic array that allows efficient insertion and deletion operations clustered near the same location.
- garbage noun Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
- garbage collect verb To reclaim resources which are no longer in use; to run a garbage collector.
- garbage collected adj Featuring garbage collection.
- garbage collection noun An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that are no longer in use.
- garbage collector noun An algorithm, procedure or thread dedicated to garbage collection: reclaiming resources which are no longer in use.
- garbage in, garbage out proverb If input data are not complete, accurate, and timely, then the resulting output is unreliable and useless. If the input is junk, then the…
- Garden of Eden noun A pattern that can only exist as an initial state and is not attainable from any other state.