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 46 of 59: from “scrum” to “shadow acne”.
- scrum noun In agile software development (specifically Scrum or related methodologies), a daily meeting in which each developer describes what they…
- Scrum master noun In the Scrum framework, a facilitator of a developer team, who is accountable for removing impediments to the ability of the team to…
- scrummage noun Synonym of scrum (“daily meeting”)
- sculpt noun A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance.
- seam carving noun A technique for resizing images so as to preserve the main contents by selectively removing less important regions, as defined by "seams"…
- search engine noun An application that searches for, and retrieves, data based on some criteria, especially one that searches the Internet for documents…
- search space noun The set of all possible points of an optimization problem that satisfy the problem's targets or goals.
- searchability noun The state of being searchable.
- second normal form noun A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which it is in first normal form and every non-key attribute is dependent upon the…
- second preimage attack noun An attack on a cryptographic hash function that is able to find a second preimage for a hash and its preimage; that is, given a hash and an…
- second-class continuation noun A type of continuation whose use is limited or restricted and that cannot be stored, passed around, etc. as freely as other types of value.
- second-class object noun An entity of which the value can be passed as a parameter, but that can neither be returned from a function, nor be assigned to a variable.…
- second-level domain noun A domain that is immediately subordinate to a top-level domain (whose name appears after it, with a period separating the two).
- secret sharing noun Any method for distributing a secret amongst a group of participants, each of whom is allocated a share; the secret can be reconstructed…
- section noun A right inverse of a morphism in some category
- sector noun A fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium.
- securable noun A resource that can be secured.
- security system noun A similar software system that prevents unauthorised access.
- seed noun The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system.
- seed number noun Synonym of seed (“generation”); a pseudorandom number generator or a code that generates a game's world or environment.
- seeder noun A process that seeds a random number generator.
- seek noun The operation of navigating through a stream.
- seek time noun The measurement of time required for the head assembly on the actuator arm of a hard drive to travel to the track of the disk where the…
- seekable adj Through which one can seek back and forth; not purely sequential.
- segfault noun A segmentation fault.
- segment noun An Ethernet bus.
- segment tree noun A data structure that is used to store information about intervals (segments) and perform range queries, or queries on a set of intervals…
- segmentation fault noun A software error that occurs when a program attempts to access a memory location that it is not permitted to access.
- select verb To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.
- selectable noun An item that can be selected by the user.
- selection noun A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- selection sort noun A sorting algorithm that divides the input list into two sublists — items already sorted, and items not yet sorted — and gradually…
- selector noun A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style.
- self-balancing adj Of a data structure: able to maintain a small height (number of levels) regardless of insertions and deletions.
- self-delete verb Of code, to overwrite itself upon completion, usually with 0x00 or 0xFF bytes that represent an unwritten region.
- self-deletion noun The act of self-deleting.
- self-documenting adj Written and structured in such a way that it can be understood without consulting separate documentation.
- self-elevation noun elevation of one's own user privilege level (usually to run software that requires a higher privilege level)
- self-executing adj Consisting of a complete executable package that takes some action with the included data, rather than a pure data file requiring some…
- self-hosting adj Of software: capable of generating new versions of itself.
- self-interpreter noun A metacircular interpreter where the host programming language is also the language being interpreted.
- self-signed adj Of a security certificate: signed by the same entity whose identity it certifies; signed with its own private key.
- semantic adj Reflecting intended structure and meaning.
- semantic analysis noun The phase in which a compiler adds semantic information to the parse tree and builds the symbol table.
- semantic versioning noun A versioning scheme where each release is given a three-part version number of the form major.minor.patch. The major number is incremented…
- semantic-oriented programming noun A software paradigm where code is defined, parsed, and executed based on its underlying meaning or intent rather than rigid syntax.
- semantics noun The meaning of computer language constructs, in contrast to their form or syntax.
- semaphore noun A bit, token, fragment of code, or some other mechanism which is used to restrict access to a shared function or device to a single process…
- semi-decidable adj Of a set, such that there is a deterministic algorithm such that (a) if an element is a member of the set, the algorithm halts with the…
- semi-naive adj Predominantly naive but including modifications that improve efficiency.
- semiclairvoyant adj Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given approximate advance information about the problem, but not fully clairvoyant.
- semicomputable adj partially computable
- semicoroutine noun A type of coroutine with limited control over its execution flow that can yield values multiple times, suspending its execution and…
- semigraphical adj Of or relating to semigraphics.
- semiorthogonal adj Having the property that every subcategory is in the set of orthogonal subcategories of every higher order subcategory.
- semisimple adj Containing a collection of simple objects such that all objects in the category are direct sums of these simple objects.
- semivalue noun A function on a vector space of all coalitional games which verifies linearity, anonymity, positivity, and inessential games.
- semiweak adj Producing only two different subkeys.
- send noun An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to…
- send out noun A networking broadcast transmission.
- sentence noun Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
- sentiment analysis noun The use of computers to process natural language in an attempt to identify and extract information about the writer's affective state.
- sentinel noun A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.
- separate noun A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
- separation of concerns noun The process of separating a computer program into distinct features that overlap functionally as little as possible.
- seqlock noun A locking mechanism for supporting fast writes of shared variables between two parallel operating system routines, incrementing a counter…
- sequence assembly noun The aligning and merging of fragments from a longer DNA sequence in order to reconstruct the original sequence.
- sequence point noun Any point during a computer program's execution at which it is guaranteed that all side effects of previous evaluations will have been…
- sequential adj Executed as a sequence of instructions, without concurrency or parallelism.
- sequential file noun A file which consists of the same record types that is stored on a secondary storage device. The physical sequence of records may be based…
- serial noun A serial number, esp. one required to activate software.
- serial key noun A string of characters or equivalent access code that must be input into a program in order to activate it.
- serial port noun A serial communication physical interface through which data is transferred in or out one bit at a time.
- serialization noun The process of serializing.
- serialize verb To convert an object into a sequence of bytes that can later be converted back into an object with equivalent properties.
- serializer noun A software component that serializes data.
- server noun A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network.
- server farm noun A collection of computer servers that is usually maintained by an organization to supply server functionality far beyond the capability of…
- Server Side Include noun A server-side directive in a certain scripting language used on the World Wide Web, allowing the contents of external files to be included…
- serverless adj Based on a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand.
- serverwide adj Throughout a server.
- service noun A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
- service as a software substitute noun A computing model wherein a user performs personal computing tasks by relying on a remotely operated service, instead of executing software…
- service design package noun A document, used in the design of an IT project, that specifies the requirements from the viewpoint of the client and defines how these are…
- service-oriented architecture noun A software architectural concept that defines the use of services to support the requirements of software users.
- serviceware noun Products and services taken collectively.
- servicification noun The migration from monolithic legacy applications to service-based components and solutions, i.e. a service-oriented architecture.
- session noun The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or…
- session bean noun In Samsung Enterprise Edition specifications of the Java Platform, a type of Enterprise Bean that maintains the state for a particular…
- session cookie noun A temporary text file stored in a user's browser during a single visit to a website, and deleted once the browser is closed.
- session data noun The set of session variables held on a server that allow the continuation of a conversation with the client without the need to continually…
- set function noun A mathematical function whose input is a set (usually of real numbers or a set of points in the Euclidean or some measure space), and whose…
- setup noun An installer.
- SGCAPS noun A Windows keyboard feature that strictly produces an uppercase version of a letter on certain keys whereas Shift produces an unrelated…
- sha noun A cryptographic hash produced with SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm).
- shade verb To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.
- shadebob noun A type of bob (graphical sprite-like element) rendered additively on the display, so that it blends with others but can be easily removed…
- shader noun A set of software instructions used to calculate rendering effects on graphics hardware.
- shadow verb To make (an identifier, usually a variable) inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
- shadow acne noun An undesirable striped or moiré appearance in shadow mapping, resulting from the use of a relatively low-resolution shadow map.