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 28 of 59: from “kindless” to “lexicographic”.
- kindless adj Having no specific kind, unspecified, general.
- kingmaker noun A player who is unable to win but powerful enough to decide which of the other viable players will eventually win.
- kit noun A full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade.
- kitchen table software noun A set of computer programs developed by an entrepreneurial advanced amateur or self-employed professional computer programmer in their own…
- Kleene closure noun The set of all strings of finite length made up of elements of a given set. (Then the Kleene closure is said to be of that given set. For a…
- Kleene plus noun The plus symbol, +, used as an operator to concatenate one or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.
- Kleene star noun The asterisk, *, used as an operator to concatenate zero or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.
- kludge noun An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts.
- klunker noun An old, slow, or decrepit computer; a clunker.
- knapsack noun A set of values from which a subset is chosen.
- knightship noun A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the…
- knowbot noun a bot that roams a distributive network (especially the Internet) to gather or distribute information
- knowledge mining noun An emerging discipline in artificial intelligence that uses a combination of intelligent services to quickly learn from large amounts of…
- known-plaintext attack noun An attack on a cryptosystem that relies on the attacker's knowledge of not just some ciphertexts encrypted with that system and key, but…
- Knuthian adj Of or relating to the work, or theory developed from the work, of American computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth.
- Kolmogorov complexity noun The complexity of an information object—such as a book or an image—informally defined as the length of the shortest program that produces…
- KSH noun Korn shell
- kung fu noun A mastery of or expertise in computer programming, hacking, or cracking
- L1 noun The first-level cache of a processor, closer to the processor than the second-level cache.
- L2 noun The second-level cache of a processor, farther away from the processor than the first level cache.
- L3 noun The third-level cache of a processor, farther away from the processor than the second-level cache.
- label noun A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
- lag verb To respond slowly.
- lag time noun The time delay (latency) between the action of the user and the reaction of the server supporting the task, which requires resending to the…
- laggy adj Tending to lag, or respond slowly because of network latency.
- lakehouse noun Ellipsis of data lakehouse.
- lambda noun Ellipsis of lambda expression.
- lambda abstraction noun A lambda term of the form (λx.t) where x is a variable and t another lambda term. Any free instance of x within t (considered by itself)…
- lambda calculus noun Any of a family of functionally complete algebraic systems in which lambda expressions are evaluated according to a fixed set of rules to…
- lambda function noun An anonymous function; a function that is defined in an inline, ad-hoc manner, and often doesn't have a name (not bound to an identifier).
- lame duck noun A server that continues to serve ongoing requests while refusing new ones, allowing for graceful shutdown.
- Lamport timestamp noun A timestamp generated by a certain algorithm used to determine the order of events in a distributed system.
- LAN noun Acronym of local area network.
- LAN party noun A social event based around a LAN (local area network) where participants engage in computer activities such as multiplayer gaming.
- Landauer limit noun A theoretical lower limit on the energy consumption of a computation, derived from Landauer's principle.
- landing page noun A web page at which a user first arrives when visiting a website, now especially one optimized for a marketing campaign or for lead…
- landscape noun a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
- lane noun Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
- language noun A computer language; a machine language.
- language lawyer noun An expert of a programming language who is extremely well-versed in its specification.
- language server noun A server, implemented in software, that provides language-related services to client applications such as source code editors, based on the…
- language-oriented adj Of or pertaining to a software development technique that involves creating a new programming language to solve problems, in which the…
- lapheld adj Held on one's lap; being a laptop computer.
- laplet noun A type of tablet computer that includes a (removable) keyboard which may double as a screen cover.
- laptop noun A laptop computer.
- laptronica noun Musical output made with a laptop computer combined with electronic devices, portable enough for live performances.
- large-scale adj Of a map or image, drawn large so as to show detail.
- LART noun A luser attitude readjustment tool; something with which a clueless person is struck.
- Las Vegas algorithm noun A randomized algorithm that always gives a correct result rather than merely giving a probably correct result.
- lasagna code noun Computer program code characterized by several well-defined and separable layers forming a hierarchy of subsystems.
- laser card noun A software storage medium resembling a credit card and read by a laser.
- laser printer noun A computer printer that uses a laser beam to produce an image on a rotating drum before transferring it to the paper.
- lasso noun An image-editing function allowing the user to capture an irregularly-shaped object by drawing an approximate outline.
- last in first out adj Of or pertaining to any situation where the last to arrive is the first to go, or a data structure where the most recently added item is…
- last known good phrase The most recent configuration that works properly, used to roll back changes that might later prove problematic.
- latch verb To use a latch (kind of lightweight lock).
- latency time noun The amount of time required for data to pass from one point on a network to another.
- lathe verb To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
- launch verb To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
- launcher noun An application that launches another or others, often holding icons or menus for frequently used programs.
- launder verb To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference…
- lawbot noun A piece of software designed to complete minor but repetitive legal tasks automatically or on command.
- layer noun One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they…
- lazy adj Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
- lazy evaluation noun Any of a variety of computing techniques that delay the computation of expressions until (and unless) the results are needed.
- lazy initialisation noun A creational design pattern that uses the tactic of delaying an expensive process, like the creation of an object, until the first time it…
- leaderboard noun An advertisement on a web page spanning the width of the page and shallow in height.
- leaf noun In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- leaf node noun A node, in a tree, that has no children.
- leafwise adj In terms of the leaves of a tree or similar data structure.
- leak noun The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
- leaky bucket noun A counter or variable that is incremented whenever an event of interest occurs, and also periodically decremented; used in algorithms to…
- leaning toothpick syndrome noun The situation in which a quoted string expression becomes difficult to read because it contains a large number of escape characters…
- leap smearing noun The handling of a leap second by gradually distorting hours of surrounding time, rather than changing the system clock by a whole second at…
- lease verb To assign a temporary IP address to (a networked device).
- least significant bit noun The bit (binary digit) that represents the smallest fraction of a value, its position depending on the endianness of the system.
- least significant byte noun The byte of a multibyte number with the least importance: that is, the byte stored last on a big-endian system or first on a little-endian…
- left inverse noun For a given morphism f : X → Y, its right inverse (if it has one) is a morphism s : Y → X such that s∘f= mbox id_X.
- left 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…
- left shift noun A bit shift to the left, in which all of the bits of an operand are shifted by a given number of positions to the left.
- left-click verb To press the left button on a computer mouse.
- legacy adj Left over from the past; old and no longer current.
- legacy system noun An old computer system or application program that continues to be used because the user (typically an organization) does not want to…
- legacy-free adj Lacking certain older components such as a floppy disk drive, legacy ports, and ISA or other expansion bus.
- legalizer noun A tool that takes invalid input and creates valid output, such as for chip placement to move digital standard cell gates into legal…
- length operator noun An operator that returns the length of a string in bytes, characters, or code points, or the number of consecutive numerically indexed…
- lens noun A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
- lerp verb To interpolate linearly.
- letter bomb noun A virus contained within an email or similar file.
- level noun Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
- Levenshtein distance noun The number of edits (replacements, deletions and insertions) required to change one string into another.
- lex verb To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
- lexeme noun An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis.
- lexical adj Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.
- lexical analysis noun The conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens; normally to simplify parsing.
- lexical resource noun A linguistic asset comprising information about the words and their meanings within one or more languages.
- lexical simplification noun A subtask of text simplification that swaps words or phrases in a text to make it simpler and easier to understand, reducing its complexity.
- lexical substitution noun The task of replacing a word with another word while maintaining the meaning and context of the original sentence or phrase.
- lexically scoped adj Of an identifier: having its scope limited to the block of source code text that respectively declares or defines the identifier.
- lexicographic adj Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.