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 35 of 59: from “nonbrowser” to “omelette”.
- nonbrowser noun In Microsoft Windows, a computer that is not capable of maintaining and distributing a browse list.
- noncaching adj Not caching.
- noncapture adj Synonym of noncapturing
- noncapturing adj That does not store its matched text for later processing.
- nonce noun A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
- noncharacter noun That which is not a character (unit of text).
- nonclustered index noun a type of database index that contains a series of sorted pointers pointing to the physical data rows, which are organized either in a heap…
- nonconcurrency noun A property of systems where several processes execute sequentially, not at the same time.
- nondeterminism noun Dependence on factors other than initial state and input.
- nondeterministic polynomial time noun A class of decision problems for which a yes solution can be verified by a deterministic Turing machine in polynomial time, or…
- nondeterministic Turing machine noun A variant of a Turing machine whose governing rules may specify more than one possible action for any given combination of the state of the…
- nonet noun A byte of nine bits.
- nonexecuting adj Not executing; not running.
- nonfree adj With copyright restrictions that prevent unrestricted distribution or reuse.
- nonfunction noun Anything that is not a function.
- nonfunctional adj Not of the functional programming paradigm.
- nonhit noun Failure to match any record in an information retrieval system.
- nonimpact noun A printer that is not an impact printer.
- noninherited adj Not derived from a superclass through inheritance.
- nonliteral noun That which is not a literal.
- nonlocal noun An identifier that is not locally scoped.
- nonmanifold adj Not representing a continuous, closed surface (i.e. of a solid object)
- nonmemory adj Not of or pertaining to memory (computer storage).
- nonprimitive noun An object that is not a primitive.
- nonprogrammable noun A device that cannot be programmed.
- nonregister adj Not a register.
- nonspace noun A text character that is not a space (or not whitespace).
- nontemporal adj Without temporal locality, describing data not expected to be accessed again in the near future
- nontrivial adj Needing significant computing power to solve; intractable.
- nonwindowed adj Not windowed: not presented in a graphical window.
- nop noun A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
- NOP sled noun A series of identical values in memory that instruct the CPU to take no action and proceed to the next instruction, used in shellcode etc.…
- norm noun A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
- normal adj Which is the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively.
- normal form noun Any of various forms of a relational database providing criteria for determining a table's degree of vulnerability to logical…
- normal form game noun Formally, a structure (P, mathbf S, mathbf F) where P = {1,2, ...,m} is a set of players, mathbf S=(S_1,S_2,…,S_m) is an m-tuple of pure…
- normalization noun In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.
- normalize verb To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
- northbridge noun A microchip connected directly to the CPU (unlike the southbridge) and thus responsible for tasks that require the highest performance.
- notebook noun A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.
- notebook computer noun A class of laptop computer that is around the size of a paper notebook with A4 or letter-sized pages.
- nothing-up-my-sleeve number noun A number which, by its construction, is above suspicion of having hidden properties; used in creating cryptographic functions such as…
- notification noun A message, alert, or signal displayed by a system or application to inform the user of an event, update, new message, etc.
- noun noun An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
- NP-complete adj That is both NP (solvable in polynomial time by a non-deterministic Turing machine) and NP-hard (such that any (other) NP problem can be…
- NP-easy adj Solvable in polynomial time by a deterministic Turing machine with an oracle for some decision problem in NP.
- NP-hard adj A problem H is NP-hard if and only if there is an NP-complete problem L that is polynomial time Turing-reducible to H.
- NPC noun Initialism of non-printing character.
- nroff verb To format (text) using the nroff program, which produces output suitable for simple fixed-width printers and terminal windows.
- NTIME noun In computational complexity theory, the complexity class that is the set of decision problems that can be solved by a nondeterministic…
- nub noun A pointing stick.
- nugatory adj Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.
- nugget noun A partial description gleaned from data mining.
- null noun The null character; the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, which indicates no character and is sometimes used as…
- null modem noun A means of directly connecting two pieces of equipment (computer, printer, etc.) using a serial cable.
- null object noun An object that is both an initial and terminal object.
- null-terminated adj Stored in memory followed by a null character, so that its length can be detected without having to be explicitly stored.
- nullable noun A variable, etc. that is allowed to have a null value.
- nullary adj Taking no arguments.
- nullified adj Whose value has been set to null
- nullipotent adj Describing an action which has no side effect. Queries are typically nullipotent: they return useful data, but do not change the data…
- Num Lock noun A key on a standard extended keyboard which, when pressed, toggles the keys of the numeric keypad between cursor control functions and…
- number cruncher noun A program, algorithm, or hardware with a focus on numerical calculation.
- numeric complement noun The number obtained by changing the numeric sign of a number. This may or may not be the twos complement, depending on the way numbers are…
- numeric promotion noun The conversion of a numeric data type into one that can hold more information. For example, the conversion of a long into a double.
- numerical linear algebra noun The study of numerical analysis algorithms to solve mathematical problems in the field of linear algebra.
- nursing informatics noun Informatics as applied to nursing: the application of information science and information technology to nursing science and practice.
- ob symbol The set of objects of a category.
- obfuscate verb To alter code while preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.
- obfuscation noun The alteration of computer code to preserve its behavior while concealing its structure and intent.
- obfuscator noun A software program that modifies another program to make it harder to decompile or reverse-engineer.
- object noun An instance of one of the two kinds of entities that form a category, the other kind being the arrows (also called morphisms).
- object code noun The output of a compiler or assembler; it is not necessarily executable directly without linking to other modules
- object graph noun A view of an object system at a particular point in time that details the relationships between class instances.
- object language noun target language; the language of the object code, the output of a compiler (not necessarily executable machine code)
- object pool pattern noun A creational design pattern that uses a set of initialised objects kept ready to use, rather than allocating and destroying them on demand.
- object request broker noun A piece of middleware in distributed software that enables program calls from one computer to another via a network.
- object-based language noun Any programming language that encapsulates the state and operations inside objects that may or may not support inheritance.
- object-based programming noun A programming paradigm that encapsulates states and operations inside "objects" to design applications and computer programs.
- object-oriented language noun Any programming language that encapsulates the state and operations inside objects that support inheritance.
- object-oriented programming noun A programming paradigm that uses hierarchies of objects, instantiated from templates called classes, to design applications and computer…
- oblique verb To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
- oblivious transfer noun A transfer in which a sender sends some information to a receiver but does not know what is received.
- observability noun The ability to collect data about the execution of distributed programs, especially the interaction among its components.
- OC noun Initialism of overclock.
- occlusion noun The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.
- octal noun The number system that uses the eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
- octave noun Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
- octet noun A byte of eight bits. Abbreviation: o
- off-by-one error noun A logic error where a value, typically the number of iterations of a loop, is specified incorrectly, being either 1 less or 1 more than it…
- office noun A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
- office suite noun A bundle of applications intended to be used together for productivity purposes, such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation…
- offline verb To take (a system, etc.) offline; to demote from an active or online state.
- offline installer noun A single-executable installer for a program that already contains the full program. It does not need to connect to the Internet.
- offset noun The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- offside rule noun In some programming languages, the convention by which the indentation of a line of source code affects its meaning.
- offspring noun A process launched by another process.
- OK verb To confirm by activating a button marked OK.
- ole noun Initialism of Object Linking and Embedding.
- omelette noun A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to…