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 3 of 59: from “architecture” to “autojoin”.
- architecture noun A family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other.
- archive verb To transfer (less used or obsolete data, files, etc.) to a storage medium for long-term storage.
- arf phrase "Abort, Retry, Fail?"
- arg noun An argument; a value passed as a parameter.
- argument noun A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
- aristocrat noun A cipher in which the original punctuation and spacing are retained.
- arithmetic operation noun Any one of the four basic operations in arithmetic: addition, subtraction, multiplication or division; any one of said operations as…
- arity noun The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian…
- armature noun A kinematic chain (a system of bones or rigid bodies connected by joints) that is used to pose and deform models, often character models.
- Armstrong's axioms noun A set of references (or, more precisely, inference rules) used to infer all the functional dependencies on a relational database.
- array noun Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements…
- arraylet noun Any of the subarrays that make up a larger array-like data structure whose elements do not have to be stored contiguously.
- arrow noun A morphism.
- arrow key noun Any of a set of keyboard keys marked with directional arrows, used for navigation through documents and lists etc.
- artifact noun A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or an image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact…
- artificial bee colony noun A metaheuristic-based optimization algorithm inspired by the intelligent foraging behavior of honey bee swarms.
- artificial intelligence noun The branch of computer science dealing with the reproduction or mimicking of human-level intelligence, self-awareness, knowledge…
- artificial language noun A formal language.
- as-if rule noun A rule by which compilers are allowed to apply any optimizing transformation to a program provided that it makes no change to the…
- ASA character noun A standard carriage control character added to the start of each line of text to be printed on a line printer
- ASC noun ASC (“an ASCII-encoded text file”): Ellipsis of ASC file
- ascending adj That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.
- ASCII art noun A form of computer letter art that uses only ASCII characters.
- ASCIIfy verb To convert into ASCII or, more generally, into 7-bit data.
- ash noun The resultant remaining more stable patterns that emerge from the evolution of a soup or a similarly random pattern.
- aspect noun In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
- aspect-oriented adj Describing a system which has been written so that different subsystems appear to add themselves to the main business logic without that…
- aspect-oriented language noun A programming language that aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns.
- aspect-oriented programming noun A programming paradigm that aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns.
- aspectualize verb To use as an implementation for aspects.
- assemble verb To translate from assembly language to machine code.
- assembler noun A program that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code, possibly together with information…
- assembly noun Ellipsis of assembly language.
- assembly language noun A programming language in which the source code of programs is composed of mnemonic instructions, each of which corresponds directly to a…
- assembly time noun The amount of time required for a computer to translate symbolic computer language into instructions of a machine language.
- assert noun Synonym of assertion.
- assertion noun A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
- asset noun Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.
- assign verb To give (a value) to a variable.
- assignment noun An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
- association list noun A data structure that associates keys with data; implemented as a list whose members are paired storage locations (cons cells), one element…
- associative adj Addressable by a key more complex than an integer index.
- associativity noun The property of an operator which determines how it is grouped with operators of the same precedence in the absence of parentheses.
- astonisher noun An exclamation mark, the punctuation mark “!”.
- astral plane noun A Unicode plane (range of code points) above the Basic Multilingual Plane; any plane beyond U+FFFF.
- asymmetric adj Not involving a mutual exchange of keys between the sender and receiver.
- asymptotic throughput noun The value of the maximum throughput for a communication network when the incoming traffic approaches infinity, either due to the size of a…
- asynchronous adj Allowing the node, program or thread of interest to continue during processing.
- at noun Initialism of assistive technology.
- at sign noun The symbol @, used in e-mail addresses to separate the user name from the domain name.
- ATA noun Advanced Technology Attachment; a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. (Renamed PATA…
- atlas noun An image or texture containing a number of other images or textures, so as to reduce the cost of loading them separately.
- ATM noun Initialism of Adobe Type Manager.
- atom noun An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value.
- atomic noun An atomic operation.
- atomic authorization noun (A digitally signed document containing) published rights with cryptographically verifiable integrity, secured independently of the…
- atomic operating system noun A type of system architecture where the core file system is read-only and system updates are applied as a single, indivisible…
- atomicity noun The state of a system (often a database system) in which either all stages complete or none complete.
- atrous adj Dilated (used when describing convolutions).
- attachment noun A file sent along with a message, usually an email.
- attack noun An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- attack vector noun A path or method used by a hacker to gain access to a target system, such as a computer or network server.
- attribute noun An option or setting belonging to some object.
- attribute-oriented adj Of or pertaining to a technique that adds metadata, or attributes, to program code, which affect the system's semantics.
- attribute-oriented programming noun A development technique that embeds metadata (attributes or annotations) within source code to declare behavior or configuration, extending…
- audio mining noun A technique that involves automatically analyzing and searching the content of an audio signal, often for speech recognition.
- audioboard noun A circuit board used for audio processing.
- augmented assignment noun An assignment by which an operator takes a variable as one of its arguments and then assigns the result back to this variable.
- authentication noun Proof of identity required by a user to log on to some network or access some resource.
- authorized term noun A term prescribed by a controlled vocabulary as the one preferable to its synonyms, such as frequency preferable to pitch.
- auto-forwarding noun The capability of forwarding incoming messages from one user account to another user account or from one domain to another.
- auto-reply noun A feature in e-mail software that sends automatic replies, used for instance when the recipient of a message is on holiday.
- auto-shuffle noun A feature that automatically randomly reorders something, such as tracks in a playlist or the cards held in a game.
- auto-tagging noun The automated process of assigning metadata, taxonomy terms, or tracking parameters to digital content.
- auto-tiering noun The automatic movement of data between storage locations based on how often it has been accessed, in order to optimize performance.
- autoaway noun An instant messaging feature that automatically marks a user as being away if the user does not interact with the computer or device in a…
- autoblock noun (An) automatic blocking (inhibition of a feature etc.).
- autoboot verb To boot automatically.
- autochanger noun An automatic tape loader, for switching automatically between several computer backup tapes.
- autoclave adj Synonym of autokey.
- autoclick noun A software feature that simulates the click of a mouse button.
- autoclicker noun A program that simulates the click of a mouse, typically used to automate commands in a graphical user interface.
- autocoded adj Written in an autocode
- autocomplete verb To complete automatically.
- autocompletion noun A software feature permitting form fields, etc., to be autocompleted.
- autocorrect noun A software feature that attempts to correct presumed errors as soon as they are generated.
- autocorrelation noun The cross-correlation of a signal with itself: the correlation between values of a signal in successive time periods.
- autodecrement verb To decrement automatically.
- autodialer noun malicious software, embedded in a website, that routes dial-up Internet connections to a different telephone number charged at a premium…
- autodifferentiation noun The automatic differentiation of a function by a computer.
- autodiscovery noun Automatic discovery, as of newsfeeds for a website or changes to the configuration of machines on a network.
- autoextension noun The automatic growth of a data file when the allocated storage space is exhausted.
- autofill noun Any software feature that fills in (fields of a form, cells of a spreadsheet, etc.) automatically.
- autoflow verb To flow (text) automatically.
- autoflush noun Automatic flushing of a buffer.
- autofocus noun The automatic setting of the focus on an input element.
- autoformat verb To format (a document, etc.) automatically.
- autoincrement verb To increment automatically.
- autoindexing noun The programmed retrieval of words from a document for use in building an index
- autojoin noun A type of join from a table to itself.