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 31 of 59: from “marshalling” to “MiBps”.
- marshalling noun The process of transforming the memory representation of an object to a data format suitable for storage or transmission, which is…
- Martian packet noun A network packet whose declared source or destination IP address lies within a reserved address range unavailable for use on the public…
- mashup noun A derivative work consisting of two or more pieces of (generally digital) media joined together, such as a video clip with a different…
- mask verb To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
- mask work noun A type of three-dimensional image or pattern on a layer of materials used to design or manufacture a semiconductor chip.
- mass storage noun Any form of data storage (non-volatile memory) with high capacity relative to that of the faster volatile memory of computers (of its time).
- massively parallel adj having many individual or distributed processing units and thus able to carry out many simultaneous calculations.
- master noun A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- match verb To be an example of a rule or regex.
- Match Demo noun a type of file that recreates a Video game Match using recorded information
- match moving noun A technique that allows the insertion of computer graphics into live-action footage with correct position, scale, orientation, and motion…
- match-merge verb To merge sets of objects while excluding duplicates.
- material noun An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.
- materialization noun The creation of a temporary table containing the results of a database query.
- materialize verb To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.
- matrix noun A two-dimensional array.
- maximax noun A strategy or algorithm that seeks to maximize the maximum possible result (that is, that prefers the alternative with the chance of the…
- maximin noun A rule to identify the worst outcome of each possible option to find one's best (maximum payoff) play.
- maximize verb To expand (a window) to fill the main display area.
- maximum seek time noun The amount of time required for a disk drive to seek through all possible tracks, from the innermost to the outermost or vice versa.
- maximum throughput noun The highest rate at which data can be transmitted or processed in a system over a given period of time.
- MB noun Abbreviation of motherboard.
- MBps noun megabytes per second
- MC noun Initialism of movie clip.
- McKinley noun A processor of Intel’s first Itanium 2 brand, code-named McKinley.
- Mealy machine noun A finite-state machine whose output values are determined by both its current state and its current inputs.
- meatball noun A menu icon of three horizontal dots.
- media noun Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.
- media player noun A software application for the playback of audio or video files.
- mediary adj Storing data that is written by one process so that it can be read by another process.
- medical informatics noun Informatics as applied to medicine: the application of information science and information technology to medical care and any other health…
- mega- prefix Multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 2²⁰ (= 1,048,576, the binary number closest to a million). Computing symbol: Mi.
- megabit noun One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes).
- megabyte noun One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.
- megacharacter noun One million characters of text.
- megaflop noun megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second)
- megahack noun A massive hack of a computer system.
- megahurt noun megahertz.
- megamenu noun A dropdown menu that expands into a relatively large and complex interface rather than a simple vertical list of commands.
- mem noun A memory access as part of processing.
- member noun A file stored within an archive file.
- member function noun A function that belongs to a class and can be called on instances of the object defined by that class.
- member variable noun A variable that is associated with each instance of a class and can be accessed from all its methods.
- memo noun A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.
- memoization noun A technique in which partial results are recorded (forming a memo) and then can be re-used later without having to recompute them.
- memoize verb To store (the result of a computation) so that it can be subsequently retrieved without repeating the computation.
- memoried adj Having a memory (of a given kind).
- memory noun The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
- memory ballooning noun A technique used to eliminate the need to overcommit host memory used by virtual machines by letting each VM effectively "give back" unused…
- memory barrier noun An instruction that enforces an ordering constraint on memory operations issued before and after it.
- memory card noun A solid state digital memory storage format, commonly found on computers, digital cameras and cellphones.
- memory cell noun A fundamental block of computer memory.
- memory chip noun A RAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM or EEPROM microchip that can be plugged into a personal computer to provide temporary or permanent memory.
- memory core noun A (semi-)permanent computer memory storage device that may be extracted, and may or may not be separate from the computer core.
- memory hole noun A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory.
- memory leak noun Any of several faults in the memory allocation logic of a computer or program whereby parts of memory become hidden or unusable.
- memory page noun A fixed-length contiguous block of virtual memory, representing the smallest division of a page table.
- memory safety noun Protection from software bugs and security vulnerabilities resulting from improper memory management, such as buffer overflows and dangling…
- memory stick noun One of a series of memory devices manufactured by the Sony Corporation ranging in size from a USB drive down to a flash card.
- menu noun A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user…
- menuing noun The use of menus in a graphical user interface.
- mergesort noun A divide and conquer sorting algorithm that operates by dividing the items to be sorted into many small lists and gradually merging them…
- meridiem noun The property of a timestamp of being either a.m. or p.m.
- mesh noun A polygon mesh.
- mesh network noun A communications network with at least two pathways to each node, forming a net-like organization. When each node is connected to every…
- meshable adj Capable of being converted to a polygon mesh.
- message board noun A system by which users may send, read and reply to public messages; an electronic bulletin board or forum.
- message broker noun An intermediary program that translates a message from the formal messaging protocol of the sender to the formal messaging protocol of the…
- message queue noun A queue onto which messages may be placed for delivery between components as part of interprocess communication.
- message-driven bean noun A type of Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) designed to process messages asynchronously, acting as a listener for Java Message Service (JMS) or JCA…
- message-oriented middleware noun Hardware or software infrastructure supporting sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems
- messaging pattern noun A network-oriented architectural pattern that describes how two different parts of a message pass system connect and communicate with each…
- messenger noun An instant messenger program.
- metaball noun An n-dimensional object with an organic appearance, characterised by the ability to meld into others when in close proximity.
- metacharacter noun A character used to signify something other than its literal form, such as the asterisk when used as a wildcard.
- metacircularity noun The property of an interpreter that is written in the same programming language that it interprets, and that exploits homoiconicity to…
- metacommand noun A command that is not part of the language being written but serves as a directive to the interpreter or compiler.
- metacompilation noun A computation which involves metasystem transitions from a computing machine to a metamachine which controls, analyzes and imitates the…
- metacube noun A kind of computer architecture derived from the hypercube and intended for use with large-scale parallel systems.
- metadata noun Structured information about a file (date created, creator, software used to create, last modified, file format, file fingerprint, etc).
- metadynamics noun An algorithmic method of simulating rare complex systems and for calculating the free energy associated with them
- metafunction noun A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
- metalanguage noun Any similar language used to define a programming language
- metalearning noun A form of machine learning where automatic learning algorithms are applied to metadata about machine learning experiments, so that the…
- metamethod noun A method belonging to a metatable.
- metamodel noun A model of the modelling process itself.
- metapackage noun A software package that contains no software itself, but serves to install a particular set of other packages.
- metaphor noun The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.
- metaprogram noun A computer program that writes or manipulates other programs as data, or does the work at runtime that would otherwise be done at compile…
- metaprogramming noun The writing of computer programs that write or manipulate other programs or themselves as their data, or that perform operations at runtime…
- metasearch noun A search technology that uses the results from a number of traditional search engines.
- metaspace noun The conceptual space occupied by metaobjects.
- metasurface noun A generalization of the metaball, not necessarily spherical.
- metatable noun A table (of key-value pairs) associated with another object, which uses the functions (or other data) it contains to define the behaviour…
- metatype noun The type of a type.
- metaverse noun A hypothetical future (counterpart or continuation of the) Internet, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and…
- methuselah noun A small pattern that takes many generations to stabilize.
- metric-compatible adj Of a font, having identical metrics as another font, enabling it to serve as a substitute for another font without affecting document…
- Metropolis light transport noun The application of a variant of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm to the rendering equation for generating images from detailed physical…
- MiBps symbol mebibytes per second