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 22 of 59: from “gate” to “groom”.
- gate noun A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- gatekeeper noun A provider of core platform services with specific characteristics (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council)
- gateway noun In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN…
- gatewaying noun The action or use of a gateway or access point; the connection or transmission using one or more gateways.
- gating noun The control of the flow of signals based on certain conditions or criteria.
- gem noun A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
- general availability noun A release of software which is good enough to be made available outside the originating company, to the general public.
- generation noun A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
- generator noun A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.
- generic adj Of a procedure, written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
- generic programming noun A style of computer programming in which algorithms are written in terms of to-be-specified-later types that are then instantiated when…
- genericize verb To make more generic: to be usable in more contexts.
- generics noun The use of templates, etc., to create generic source code that can be used in many situations.
- generification noun The process of making generic; the conversion to use generics.
- genetic memory noun An artificial neural network combination of genetic algorithm and the mathematical model of sparse distributed memory.
- genetic programming noun A search heuristic that explores the space of computer programs and is based on biological evolution.
- genned in adj Having had certain characteristics generated or installed.
- genome assembly noun The process of taking a large number of short DNA sequences and putting them back together to create a representation of the original…
- geo-blocking noun The use of geolocation software to deny access to content to users from certain regions or countries.
- geofacet noun A technique for visualising data for a range of geographic regions, in which a series of identically-sized plots (for instance, bar charts)…
- geofence noun A virtual perimeter around a geographic area, typically enforced by monitoring the positions of trackable mobile devices inside or outside…
- geometric pen noun A configurable drawing tool for creating lines that has a width specified in logical units, as opposed to device units (pixels), and…
- geometry shader noun A type of shader that can process three-dimensional model geometry, for example by turning one primitive into another.
- georestriction noun The deliberate limitation of a (digital) product or service so that it is only available to users in certain geographic regions.
- geospatial adj Describing the combination of spatial software and geographic data.
- gesture noun A motion made with a pointing device, or on a touchscreen, that is recognised by the system as a command.
- GGEV noun A routine in LAPACK for computing eigenvalues.
- ghost verb To gray out (a visual element) to indicate that it is unavailable.
- ghost character noun A kanji included erroneously in the JIS X 0208 character set (not traceable to the sources used to compile JIS X 0208).
- ghost image noun A copy of all the contents of a hard drive, used as a backup.
- ghost imaging noun The process of creating a ghost image of all the contents of a hard drive as a backup that may be stored and later retrieved if needed.
- ghosting noun Ghost imaging.
- gi noun Initialism of global illumination.
- giant noun An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- GIF noun A bitmap image in a particular format with support for multiple images per file or animations, and up to 256 distinct colors per frame…
- gig noun Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).
- giga- prefix Multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 2³⁰ or 1,073,741,824.
- gigabit noun One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 megabits.
- gigabyte noun One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes.
- gigaflop noun A unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion (10⁹) floating point operations per second.
- gigaword noun A unit of storage or capacity equal to (or 2³⁰ = 1,073,741,824) words. It is given the "giga" prefix because of the relative proximity of…
- gimped adj Modified by means of the GIMP image editor.
- gist noun A sharable snippet of source code, especially on the version controlled pastebin-hosting site GitHub Gist.
- given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow proverb Given a large enough beta tester and codeveloper base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be obvious to…
- glassmorphism noun A user interface style characterized by panels with a blurred translucency effect over background elements, mimicking frosted glass.
- glenzing noun A technique for simulating translucency by storing extra colour values in the palette that represent the combined colours of intersecting…
- glider noun In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the…
- glob noun A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.
- global noun A globally scoped identifier.
- global illumination noun The realistic lighting of a rendered scene by means of algorithms that take into account not only the direct illumination from light…
- glyph noun A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style.
- go down verb To stop functioning, to go offline.
- go gold verb To be released to manufacturing in its final form, so that copies can be made and shipped.
- go to noun The branching construct GOTO.
- God object noun A poorly designed object that does more than one thing and thus violates the single responsibility principle of SOLID.
- god-king noun A tyrannical maintainer of a collaborative project.
- gold adj In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.
- golden record noun A single authoritative record on an individual customer etc. that draws from various other data sources.
- golf verb To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)
- golfer noun One who takes part in code golf or regex golf.
- goodput noun Application-level throughput, i.e. the number of useful bits per unit of time forwarded by a network from source to destination, excluding…
- gopher noun A Go programmer.
- goshwow adj Of or pertaining to a sense of wonder; awe inspiring; amazement causing.
- gossip noun Communication done using a gossip protocol.
- gotcha noun A feature of a system or a program that works in the way it is documented but is counter-intuitive and almost invites mistake or…
- GOTO noun Any construct which produces an unstructured jump in the flow of execution.
- Gouraud shading noun A method of simulating the effects of light and colour across the surface of an object, based on estimates of the surface normal of each…
- GPT noun Initialism of GUID partition table.
- grab handle noun A visual cue indicating where a displayed object can be activated for resizing, etc. using the pointing device.
- graceful adj Gradual and non-disruptive.
- graceful degradation noun The ability of a system to maintain at least some of its functionality when portions are not working, or when certain features are not…
- graduate verb To approve (a feature) for general release.
- grammar noun A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
- grammar induction noun The process of constructing a model that captures the characteristics of observed objects by learning a formal grammar.
- grandfather noun The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
- graph noun A morphism Γ_f from the domain of f to the product of the domain and codomain of f, such that the first projection applied to Γ_f equals…
- graphical adj Of, related to, or using graphics.
- graphical user interface noun A type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and…
- graphics noun The pictorial representation and manipulation of data; the process by which a computer displays data.
- graphics processing unit noun A specialized electronic circuit designed to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.
- graphics tablet noun An input device that enables a user to draw images by hand, as if with a pencil, and import them into a computer system.
- graphing calculator noun A hand-held (usually programmable) electronic calculator which is capable of solving equations, plotting graphs and performing other tasks…
- gray hat noun A hybrid between a white hat and a black hat hacker, who hacks for no personal gain, and does not have malicious intentions, but does…
- gray out verb To make (a visual element) gray or lighter in colour to indicate that it is disabled or unavailable.
- graymap noun A grayscale bitmap.
- greedy adj That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.
- greek verb To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.
- greeking noun Nonsense text or graphics inserted into a document as a placeholder to create a dummy layout, or to demonstrate a type font; the practice…
- green thread noun A thread of execution that is scheduled by a virtual machine, not natively by the underlying operating system.
- greenfield adj Of a completely new development, without the need to integrate with legacy systems, etc.
- grep verb To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
- grey-box testing noun A combination of black-box testing and white-box testing, where knowledge about the internal data structures and algorithms is used to…
- greyware noun Software that is not outright malicious but is generally undesirable or annoying, such as adware.
- grid noun A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific…
- grim trigger noun A strategy that always cooperates as long as the opponent does not defect, in which case thereafter the strategy always defects.
- grind verb To automatically format and indent code.
- grip noun A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved by dragging with a mouse or finger.
- gripper noun A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
- gronk verb Of a floppy disk drive: to produce mechanical sounds of operation.
- groom verb In agile software development, to review and prioritize the items in the development backlog.