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 40 of 59: from “premature optimization” to “proxy”.
- premature optimization noun The act of wasting resources on optimising source code that does not represent a significant bottleneck.
- preorder adj Such that, recursively, the root is visited before the left and right subtrees.
- prepared statement noun A database query that has parameters which are replaced by values when it is executed, instead of the values being part of the statement…
- prepend verb To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix.
- preplay adj Before play begins.
- preread noun An operation in which data is read in advance of its being needed.
- preseeding noun a way to set answers to questions asked during the installation process, without having to manually enter the answers while the…
- preselection noun The process of a jury selecting entries to be shown in a competition when there are too many entries for the audience or schedule. The term…
- presentation logic noun The logic that is concerned with the style or manner in which domain and business objects are displayed to users of the software.
- presenter noun A small handheld device used to remotely control a computerised slide show.
- presheaf noun An abstract mathematical construct which associates data to the open sets of a topological space, generalizing the situation of functions…
- preshift noun A shift performed in advance.
- presignature noun An intermediate value used in forming a signature, unrelated to the contents of the message being signed.
- prestack noun The category c is called a prestack over a category C with a Grothendieck topology if it is fibered over C and for any object U of C and…
- prestate noun The state that exists before an operation.
- prettify verb Synonym of pretty-print.
- pretty adj Matching commonly accepted principles of formatting and syntax, for the sake of readability.
- pretty-print verb To display code in a pretty fashion, matching commonly accepted principles of formatting and syntax, for the sake of readability.
- preview verb To show something in advance, a facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.
- preview-quality noun A type of resolution that is visible in icons, thumbnails, or previews of operations such as scans and printing.
- previewer noun A program that provides a preview of a document or other work.
- prewarm verb To initialize with the illusion of prior activity.
- prewarmed adj Initialized with the illusion of prior activity.
- prewrite noun A write operation that is buffered instead of being applied directly to the database.
- primary key noun In the design of a database table, the primary key (abbreviated PK) is selected among the non-empty set of candidate keys. The PK is a…
- primary storage noun The volatile memory of a computer directly accessible by the central processing unit; the main memory together with cache memory (and…
- primitive noun A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
- primitive recursion noun Recursion to a fixed depth.
- primitive type noun A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.
- principal noun A security principal.
- principle of indifference noun A rule for assigning epistemic probabilities, according to which, in the absence of any relevant evidence, agents should distribute their…
- print verb To display a string on the terminal.
- printable adj Of a text character: having a visual representation, unlike the control characters.
- printed adj Written to a data file.
- printer noun A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing…
- printer buffer noun A hardware or software device that stores a stream of data to be printed until a printer is ready to process it.
- privatize verb To render (a variable, etc.) private in scope.
- privilege noun An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users.
- probvious adj Able to be shown to hold with very high confidence via heuristic arguments, but not formally provable.
- proc noun Abbreviation of procedure.
- procedural adj Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.
- procedure noun A subroutine coded to perform a specific task, which is not permitted a return value when distinguished from a function.
- process noun An executable task or program.
- process-oriented adj Of or pertaining to a programming paradigm that separates the concerns of data structures and the concurrent processes that act upon them.
- processing noun The act of retrieving, storing, classifying, manipulating, transmitting etc. data, especially via computer techniques.
- processing unit noun An electrical component (digital circuit) that performs operations on an external data source, usually memory or some other data stream.
- Procrustean assignment noun A form of assignment to fixed-length string variables in which a shorter value is padded to the necessary length while a longer one is…
- prod noun Clipping of production (“the live environment”).
- product owner noun In the Scrum framework, the manager of the product backlog, responsible for maximizing the value of the product.
- production noun A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on…
- productization noun The act of modifying something, such as a concept or a tool internal to an organization, to make it suitable as a commercial product.
- profile verb To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
- profilee noun A program undergoing profiling.
- profiler noun A software program that measures the performance of different portions of another program in order to locate bottlenecks.
- profinite group noun A topological group that is isomorphic to the inverse limit of some inverse system of discrete finite groups; equivalently, a topological…
- prog noun A program.
- proggie noun A program, especially (historical) an externally produced hacking tool used to attack other users on early America Online services.
- program noun A computer program.
- program counter noun A register that stores the address of the current (or next) instruction to be carried out by the processor.
- program slicer noun A software analysis tool that displays data links and related characteristics to enable a programmer to track the effects of proposed…
- program trading noun High-volume and high-speed buying and selling of investment securities, such as stocks and bonds, which is initiated and executed by…
- programmatically adv Through program code, rather than through a user interface.
- programmer noun One who writes computer programs.
- programming noun The act of writing a computer program.
- programming language noun A code of reserved words and symbols used in computer programs, which give instructions to the computer on how to accomplish certain…
- programming style noun The conventions and patterns used in writing source code, resulting in a consistent and readable codebase.
- progress bar noun A bar that indicates the progression of a task by gradually filling its empty space with solid colour.
- progressive scan noun A method of displaying or transmitting an image or film in which all horizontal lines of a frame are drawn in sequence.
- progressive web application noun A type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and…
- projection noun A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
- projective adj Such that, given an epimorphism e:E→X and morphism f:P→X, f factors through e; that is, there exists a morphism ̃f:P→E with e∘̃f=f.
- projective limit noun Synonym of limit (“the cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely”)
- prologue noun A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
- promiscuous adj The mode in which an NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.
- promise noun A placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation.
- promote verb To treat (a value) as a more capable data type or as having higher priority.
- prompt noun A sequence of characters that is displayed to indicate that a computer is ready to receive input.
- proof of concept noun A proof of technology or pilot project.
- proof of work noun A form of cryptographic proof in which a prover proves to verifiers that a certain amount of a specific computational effort has been…
- propagate verb To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
- property noun An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class; especially (object-oriented programming) one that…
- protected adj Having the protected access modifier, indicating that a program element is accessible to subclasses but not to the program in general.
- protected mode noun An operational mode of x86-compatible CPUs, in which software can use features such as virtual memory, paging, and safe multitasking.
- protection noun An instance of a security token associated with a resource (such as a file).
- protestware noun Software subverted to serve the ends of a political protest, for example by deleting files or displaying propaganda messages.
- Proteus effect noun A phenomenon in which the behavior of an individual, within virtual worlds, is changed by the characteristics of their avatar.
- protocol noun A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.
- protocol stack noun Synonym of stack (“an implementation of a protocol suite (a set of protocols forming a layered architecture)”).
- prototype noun A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
- prototype pattern noun A creational design pattern that determines the type of objects to create by a prototypical instance, which is cloned to produce new…
- prototype-based language noun A programming language in which behaviour reuse (or inheritance) is performed via cloning existing objects that serve as prototypes.
- prototype-based programming noun A programming style, where inheritance is achieved by using existing objects by means of delegation that act as prototypes.
- prototype-based scripting language noun A programming language that uses prototypes to allow objects to inherit properties and methods from other objects.
- prototype-oriented adj Of or pertaining to a style of object-oriented programming that uses existing objects as prototypes to reuse behavior.
- prototype-oriented programming noun A programming paradigm that encapsulates states and operations inside "prototypes" to design applications and computer programs.
- provenance noun The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or…
- provision verb To supply (a user) with an account, resources, etc. so that they can use a system; to install the necessary software on a bare-bones system…
- provisioner noun One who or that which provisions (sets up an account, resources, etc.).
- provisioning noun The installation of software on a system, especially when automated.
- proxy verb To function as a server for a client device, but pass on the requests to another server for service.