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 32 of 59: from “mickey” to “monoidal category”.
- mickey noun The smallest distance that a computer mouse can move a cursor on a screen, which is used to measure the device's resolution or sensitivity.
- micro noun Clipping of microcomputer.
- microaddress noun A location or address within the control memory (microcode store) of a microprogrammed control unit, used to fetch or branch to a specific…
- microarchitecture noun The architecture of the data processing parts of a microcomputer.
- microcode noun The collective microprograms in a CPU, used to run machine instructions.
- microcomputer noun A computer designed around a microprocessor, smaller than a minicomputer or a mainframe.
- microcontroller noun A microcomputer on a single chip, used to control some device such as an automobile engine or a toy.
- microdata noun Data stored in a microformat.
- microdisk noun A diskette
- microdocument noun A short subsection of a document.
- microdrive noun A miniature hard disk.
- microinteraction noun Any very small-scale interaction between a user and the system they are using.
- microlibrary noun A compact, minimalistic library (set of routines).
- microprogram noun A set of microinstructions in a CPU, used to implement machine instructions.
- microsequencer noun A device that generates addresses in a microprogram
- microservice noun A small independent process that communicates with other processes, used to break down a complex task into many simpler components.
- Microsoft tax noun The licence fee for the Microsoft Windows operating system software that is pre-installed on many home computer systems.
- microtexture noun A small-scale texture used to produce fine detail.
- midclick noun A point in time when the user is clicking something.
- middle-click verb To press the middle button on a computer mouse.
- middleware noun Software that functions at an intermediate layer between applications and operating system or database management system, or between client…
- midframe adj During a frame; before the completion of a discrete chunk of data.
- MIDlet noun An application that uses the Mobile Information Device Profile of the Connected Limited Device Configuration for the embedded Java…
- midrise adj Having a zero-valued classification threshold (analogous to a riser of a stairway).
- midscale adj Of middling size.
- midstring adj Within a string of text characters.
- mig noun Initialism of Multi Input Gateway.
- migratable adj Suitable for being migrated.
- migrate verb To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.
- migration noun Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.
- migrator noun A computer program that helps move objects between locations, e.g. from a legacy system to a new technology.
- min-entropy noun The smallest of the Rényi family of entropies, corresponding to the most conservative way of measuring the unpredictability of a set of…
- mine noun A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
- minesweep verb To click or hover the cursor over inconspicuous areas to find a hidden link.
- minesweeper noun Any of various logic-based computer games in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on…
- minidisc noun A disc/disk in MiniDisc format
- minidriver noun A device-specific plug-in that connects to a generic utility that is supplied with the operating system to form a device driver.
- minidump noun A small core dump comprising 64 kilobytes of memory (on 32-bit systems) or 128 kilobytes (on 64-bit systems).
- minification noun The removal of white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to reduce its size and improve download time.
- minifloat noun A floating-point number represented with very few bits (such as 8 or 16, when a more common size would be 32 or 64 bits).
- minify verb To remove white space and unnecessary characters from source code in order to reduce its size.
- minimax noun A decision rule used for minimizing the maximum possible loss, or maximizing the minimum gain.
- minimize verb To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
- minisupercomputer noun A computer capable of vector processing and small-scale multiprocessing, a cheaper alternative to a full supercomputer in the 1980s.
- mipmap noun A precalculated, optimised collection of images accompanying a main texture, used to increase rendering speed and reduce aliasing artifacts.
- mirror noun A website or server that contains replicated data from another site.
- mirror server journal noun A mechanism used to maintain data consistency and support recovery by recording any changes that are made in data.
- misclick noun A click of a computer mouse that is inaccurate and therefore fails to perform the desired action.
- misfetch noun An error that occurs when the wrong block of code is fetched in advance.
- misrecognize verb To recognize in error
- misrelay noun The modification or dropping of routing packets, causing a disruption of communication between nodes in a network.
- miss noun The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
- miswrite noun A failed write operation.
- Mitchell-Netravali filter noun Any of a group of bicubic reconstruction filters often used for antialiasing or for scaling raster graphics.
- mix-in noun Alternative form of mixin.
- mixed alphabet noun The mapping from plaintext to ciphertext characters in a substitution cipher, when it is not merely a shift or reversal but an arbitrary…
- mixed initiative noun A computer-human interaction in which either the computer or the human can take initiative and decide what to do next.
- mixed raster content noun An image that has been stored as multiple layers under different types of compression, typically a bitonal text and line-art layer, a…
- mixfix adj Being or relating to a kind of operator that can combine any of the infix, prefix, postfix, and closed notations.
- MMR noun Initialism of meet-me room.
- mnemonic noun The human-readable, textual form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands.
- mob programming noun A software development approach where the whole team works on a single project at a single computer at the same time.
- mobbing noun Mob programming.
- mobileness noun Suitability for mobile devices.
- mobo noun A motherboard.
- mock noun A mockup or prototype; particularly, ellipsis of mock object, as used in unit testing.
- mock out verb To replace (source code or other software elements) with a stub that exhibits the desired behaviour, typically for use in automated testing.
- mockable adj Of which a mockup or prototype may be made.
- mod noun A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
- modal noun A modal (etymology 1, adjective sense 7) window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
- mode noun One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.
- model noun In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.
- model-based design noun A mathematical and visual method of addressing problems associated with designing complex control, signal processing and communication…
- model-based testing noun An application of model-based design for designing and optionally also executing artifacts to perform software testing.
- model-driven architecture noun A software design approach for the development of software systems that provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications…
- model-first adj Of a software development approach, where a conceptual data model is created first, and then the database schema and corresponding code are…
- model-view-controller noun A type of computer user interface that separates the representation of information from the user's interaction.
- model-view-presenter noun A derivative of the model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern, where the presenter assumes the functionality of the "middle-man".
- modeler noun a computer program that simulates a physical system
- modeless adj Not modal; not having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
- modeling language noun An artificial language used to express information, knowledge, or systems in a structured way defined by a consistent set of rules.
- modem noun A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog telephone signals and vice versa, allowing computers to communicate over a phone…
- modified Harvard architecture noun A variation of the Harvard computer architecture, allowing the contents of the instruction memory to be accessed as data.
- modifier noun A keyword that qualifies the meaning of other code.
- modifier key noun A key (on a computer keyboard) that may be pressed simultaneously with certain other keys to activate predefined functions.
- module noun A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines.
- module pattern noun A structural design pattern to implement the concept of software modules (modular programming) in a programming language that lacks support…
- modulo noun The operation or function that returns the remainder of one number divided by another.
- modulus noun An operator placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.
- mojibake noun Corrupt characters or letters, especially resulting from being displayed or transferred through an inappropriate character set or encoding.
- Molex to SATA, lose all your data phrase Using a Molex-to-SATA adapter to power a storage device may lead to loss of data, as a poorly designed and unreliable connector may cause…
- monad noun A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category.
- monic adj Of a morphism: that it is a monomorphism.
- moniker noun An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location.
- monitor noun A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
- monkey patch noun A patch which alters the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.
- mono noun Clipping of monomorphism.
- monoalphabetic adj Of a substitution cipher, using the same fixed mappings from plaintext to cipher letters across the entire text.
- monocase adj Supporting or consisting of only one case of letters; either all uppercase or all lowercase; (also), case insensitive, treating upper and…
- monoidal category noun A category 𝒞 with a bifunctor ⊗:𝒞×𝒞→𝒞 which may be called tensor product, an associativity isomorphism α_(A,B,C):(A⊗B)⊗C≃A⊗(B⊗C), an object…