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 48 of 59: from “skype” to “spam”.
- skype verb To make (a telephone call) using Skype software.
- skysphere noun A sphere with a texture on its inner face, used to simulate the sky or similar backdrop around a three-dimensional playfield; a skydome.
- slab noun The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
- slashdot verb To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site.
- slate noun Synonym of tablet computer (“a hand-held portable computer in the form of a tablet with a touch screen interface”).
- slave noun A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
- sleep verb To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
- sleep mode noun the state of a computer system in which the drives and interfaces are switched off, and the only task running is monitoring external…
- sleeping barber problem noun A problem of interprocess communication and synchronization where one process responds to requests from multiple other threads and sleeps…
- slice noun A contiguous portion of an array.
- slice category noun A category whose objects are morphisms (of some given category) with a common codomain, and whose morphisms are commuting triangles where…
- slicer noun A kind of data filter used in data visualization.
- slide noun A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
- slider noun A widget allowing the user to select a value or position on a sliding scale.
- sliding window noun A descriptor for a data analysis technique where overlapping chunks of data of fixed size are analyzed.
- slipstream verb To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.
- slosh noun backslash, the character \.
- slot noun A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
- slot time noun The amount of time required for an electronic pulse to travel the length of the maximum theoretical distance between two nodes.
- slugify verb To transform (a text string) into a slug (resource name), such as "Paris, France" into "paris-france".
- slurpy adj In the Raku programming language: being a form of variadic parameter list that can capture additional parameters.
- SMAC noun social, mobile, analytics, cloud: a group of technologies
- smart quotes noun Curly quotes automatically inserted into text as a replacement for the straight quotes typed by the user.
- smart-reference proxy noun A proxy that provides additional actions whenever an object is referenced, such as counting the number of references to the object.
- smash the stack verb To corrupt the call stack, causing execution to jump to a random address, sometimes used as a malicious attack on a system.
- smelly adj Having signs that suggest a design problem; having a code smell.
- smoothsort noun A sorting algorithm based on heapsort but using the Leonardo numbers, tending to perform better than heapsort in cases where the items to…
- snackbar noun A temporary banner informing the user of some action which happened or is about to happen, less interactive than a standard window and more…
- snap verb To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- snap in noun A plug-in.
- snapshot verb To capture the state of, in a snapshot.
- snarf verb To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole.
- sneakernet noun A method of transferring a computer file from one computer to another by copying it to a floppy disk, thumb drive, or some other external…
- sniff verb To intercept and analyse packets of data being transmitted over a network.
- sniffer noun A software or hardware tool for intercepting and logging network traffic.
- snippet verb To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.
- snoopware noun Software covertly installed on a computer in order to monitor the user's activity or to steal confidential data.
- snowflake verb To arrange (data) into a snowflake schema.
- snowflake schema noun A logical arrangement of tables in a multidimensional database such that the entity relationship diagram resembles a snowflake shape.
- sociometer noun A wearable sensor device to measure face-to-face interactions of people.
- socket noun One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
- socketless adj Without the use of network sockets.
- soft noun A piece of software.
- soft break noun A soft line break: any of certain kinds of line break (depending on implementation details) that cause a newline (i.e., line feed plus…
- soft deletion noun An operation in which a flag is used to mark data as unusable, without erasing the data itself from the database.
- soft error noun A type of transient error where a signal or datum is momentarily wrong, caused for example by an ionizing particle striking a chip.
- soft hyphen noun A generally invisible text character marking a point where hyphenation can occur without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if…
- soft real-time adj Being or relating to a system that is ideally real-time but in practice can tolerate some latency that only reduces the quality of service.
- soft reboot noun Synonym of warm boot.
- soft reset noun A process of restarting an electronic device without diminishing its power, typically by using the device's built-in restart function.
- soft return noun The type of newline that represents either a natural line break resulting from word wrap, or one specifically inserted inside a paragraph…
- soft sectoring noun The recording of layout data onto a magnetic or optical recording medium in order to designate the sector locations, as opposed to using…
- soft-dotted adj Of a character: having a dot that is removed when an accent is applied, as for example with the character i becoming í.
- softcode verb To construct a program in a way which ensures that certain values and methods of operation are adjustable at run time.
- softfloat adj (especially of a platform) Does not have hardware implementations of floating-point numbers and require software implementations (soft…
- softlifting noun The purchasing of a single licensed copy of a software program and the loading of it on several machines, contrary to terms of agreement.
- softmask verb To convert hard edges in an image to soft ones, by the use of a "fuzzy" mask.
- softmodem noun A modem with minimal hardware capabilities, designed to use a host computer's resources to perform most of the tasks performed by dedicated…
- softography noun A comprehensive list of the software made by a particular software engineer or organization, usually appearing on a resume, curriculum…
- software noun Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM).
- software archaeology noun The study of poorly documented or undocumented legacy software implementations, as part of maintaining those systems.
- software architect noun An architect (not to be confused with a designer) of software based on technology, who prepares plans and superintends construction of that…
- software assurance noun The level of confidence that software is free from vulnerabilities, either intentionally designed or accidentally inserted at any time.
- software crisis noun The difficulty of writing useful and efficient computer programs in the required time, due to the rapid increases in computer power and the…
- software escrow noun The holding of software source code by a third party in order to protect customers against the future insolvency of the software supplier
- software framework noun An abstraction used in software development to provide generic functionality for application-specific software.
- software package noun A suite of programs that function as a single entity to accomplish a task, or group of related tasks.
- softwire noun A type of tunnelling protocol that creates a virtual "wire" that transparently encapsulates another protocol as if were an anonymous…
- softy noun A software expert who is ignorant of the workings of hardware.
- solid-state device noun Any device which employs the electric, magnetic or optical properties of a solid, especially of semiconductors.
- solid-state drive noun A solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies to store data persistently, typically using flash memory, and…
- Solomonoff induction noun A form of induction, involving Bayes' theorem, that derives the posterior probability of any computable theory, given a sequence of…
- solvable adj Such that the set of inputs for which the answer is yes is recursively enumerable.
- son noun The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.
- sort noun An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
- sortable noun A component that allows a sequence of items to be reordered via drag and drop.
- Soundex noun A phonetic algorithm for indexing names by their English pronunciation, based on the most probably significant consonants, so that a search…
- soundiness noun A state of being mostly sound; the condition of being rigorously sound in all but some well-defined areas; a best approximation of…
- soundy adj Mostly sound; sound in all but a few well-defined areas.
- soup noun Any random starting pattern, typically studied to see what sorts of resultant more stable patterns emerge when evolved over subsequent…
- source noun Source code.
- source code noun Human-readable instructions in a programming language, to be transformed into machine instructions by a compiler, assembler or other…
- source configuration management noun The management of changes to files such as source code, documents, large web sites, or other collections of information.
- source control noun A technology that handles access to computer files containing source code so that several users can work on the files without interfering…
- source language noun The language of the source code to be compiled.
- source-available adj Whose source code can be viewed, and in some cases modified, but which itself is not necessarily open-source.
- Sourcemod noun a Folder on Valve games to put Custom Add-ons
- sourcerer noun A programmer, a coder, someone who works with source code.
- space bar noun A key, in the shape of a bar, near the bottom of a keyboard, that generates a space character when pressed.
- space complexity noun A measure of the amount of space, or memory required by an algorithm to solve a given decision problem. An informal analogy would be the…
- space dust noun A part of a spaceship or oscillator that appears to consist of a random mixture of alive and dead cells, usually making it very difficult…
- space-cadet keyboard noun A style of computer keyboard, traditionally used on MIT Lisp machines, equipped with seven modifier keys and three shift keys, arranged to…
- space-time trade-off noun A case where an algorithm or program trades increased space usage with decreased time, in which space refers to the data storage consumed…
- spacecut noun An animated visual effect in which one polyhedron intersects another, forming an empty space where their volumes overlap.
- spacefiller noun A pattern that grows quadratically by filling space with still life.
- spaceship noun A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
- spaghetti noun Ellipsis of spaghetti code (“unstructured or poorly structured program source code, especially code with many GOTO statements or their…
- spaghetti code noun Unstructured or poorly structured program source code.
- spaghetti sort noun A linear-time algorithm for sorting a sequence of items, analogous to standing a number of strands of spaghetti of different lengths…
- spam noun Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.