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 50 of 59: from “stepping” to “subsite”.
- stepping noun A specific iteration of a model of central processing unit, often distinguished by the addition or removal of features compared to earlier…
- stereotype noun An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added…
- steward noun Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they…
- stick noun A memory stick.
- sticky adj Persistent.
- sticky bit noun A flag applied to an inode, formerly indicating that an executable program should be kept in memory after it terminates, but on modern…
- sticky keys noun A feature where modifier keys (such as Shift, Ctrl and Alt) can be pressed individually rather than simultaneously.
- still life noun A pattern that does not change from one generation to the next.
- stitch verb To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.
- stitching noun Synonym of z-fighting.
- stop list noun A list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation.
- stop word noun A word, usually one of a series in a stop list, that is ignored when searches are conducted on a database, search engine, etc.
- storage noun Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than main memory.
- storage hypervisor noun A hardware-independent supervisory software program that operates as a transparent virtual layer across consolidated disk pools providing…
- storage unit noun A device or medium that stores data and information for long-term or permanent use.
- store noun Memory.
- storeback noun The storage of a previously retrieved value back into memory.
- story noun Ellipsis of user story.
- story point noun In agile software development, a relative unit of measure denoting the amount of effort required to complete a task or user story.
- STP noun Initialism of spanning tree protocol.
- strategyproof adj Of an asymmetric game where players have private information: such that there is no incentive for any of the players to hide or lie about…
- stratum noun The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.
- stream noun A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
- stream cipher noun a symmetric-key cipher in which plaintext digits are combined with a pseudorandom cipher digit stream
- stream deck noun A customizable keypad for online video streamers, with buttons controlling features such as muting the microphone or launching a program.
- streamer noun A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a…
- streaming noun The transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it.
- streaming encoder noun A tool that converts raw video and audio signals into a digital format suitable for transmission over the Internet.
- streaming media noun The continuous delivery and playback of audio and video content over a network without the need to first download the entire file.
- streaming tape noun A data storage technology using magnetic tape where the tape is in constant motion while reading or writing data.
- street BASIC noun Any variety of the BASIC programming language that lacks good structure and encourages poor programming practices.
- stress test noun A DDoS
- stride noun The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
- strikeout verb To cancel a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.
- string noun An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- string distance noun Any of several metrics that represent the degree of similarity between two strings of characters, based on the smallest number of…
- string substitution noun The semantics-free search and replacement of one sequence of text characters with another.
- stringable adj Able to be converted to a string of text characters.
- stringly-typed adj Characterized by an excessive use of strings to represent non-textual data.
- stringy adj Resembling or involving text strings.
- stripe verb To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
- strobe noun An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read.
- stroke noun In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").
- strong typing noun A system that places any of various kinds of restriction on the interactions between objects of different data types.
- strongly-typed adj Belonging to a type system that enforces variables matching (or easily convertible to) the expected types.
- strop verb To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in…
- struct noun A data structure, especially one that serves to group a number of fields (in contrast to an object-oriented class with methods) or one that…
- structure noun Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
- structured programming noun A style of programming that relies on blocks of code, subroutines and the absence of simple tests and jumps
- stub noun A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
- stubbify verb To make (something) use stubs (placeholder procedures).
- stubify verb To make something use stubs (placeholder procedures).
- studly caps noun Synonym of upper camel case.
- stuff verb To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- stylable adj Capable of being formatted with styles.
- style noun A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as boldface or italics.
- stylesheet noun A document consisting of markup that describes the layout and presentation to be used when displaying other documents.
- stylus noun A small device resembling a pen used to input handwritten text or drawings directly into an electronic device with a touch-sensitive screen.
- subaddress noun A secondary or subsidiary part of an address.
- subagent noun An autonomous process that is launched by and communicates with another agent in order to handle part of the task that is the objective of…
- subcategory noun A subclass of a category which is itself a category, whose arrows are a restriction of the arrows of the parent category, and whose…
- subchannel noun A distinct part of an I/O channel associated with a specific device.
- subclass verb (in object-oriented programming) To create a subclass of (some class).
- subcommand noun A command that makes up part of a larger command.
- subcookie noun A cookie-like piece of data stored with others in a single cookie (so as to circumvent restrictions on the number of cookies a single web…
- subcube noun A subset of a cube (data structure).
- subdialog noun A dialog box opened from another dialog box.
- subdisk noun Any of the disks making up a RAID array.
- suberror noun A specific error belonging to a general class of errors.
- subform noun A secondary window opened from another (parent) window.
- subfunctor noun A functor such that all of the objects it maps are mapped by the parent functor, and for any arrow it maps the parent functor includes the…
- subgame noun A subset of a game that can be considered a game in its own right.
- subinterface noun A division of one physical interface into multiple logical interfaces.
- subject indexing noun The act of describing a document by index terms to indicate what the document is about or to summarize its content, the index terms often…
- subject-oriented adj Of or pertaining to a software paradigm in which the state (fields) and behavior (methods) of objects are not seen as intrinsic to the…
- subjoin noun A subordinate or secondary join.
- subkey noun A partial key.
- sublanguage noun A subset of a language, in particular of a programming language.
- subleaf noun A particular value of the ECX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction within a certain leaf (the value of EAX); each subleaf…
- submachine noun A part of a real or virtual machine which acts as a machine in its own right.
- subnet verb To break (a network) into subnets.
- subnormal adj denormal
- subobject noun An object and a monomorphism from it to another object, which monomorphism is interpreted as an inclusion. Actually it is an equivalence…
- subobject classifier noun An object which serves as the codomain of a classifying morphism, together with a "true" global element of the said object.
- subpath noun A file or resource path relative to another path.
- subprocedure noun A procedure that can be called by higher-level procedures as part of their operation.
- subquery noun A query embedded within a more extensive query, relating only to the data returned by the parent query.
- subrange noun A subset of a given range or numeric set.
- subregister noun A secondary or subsidiary register (area for number storage).
- subround noun A subsidiary stage of encryption, part of a round.
- subscribe verb To register for notifications about an event or similar.
- subscriber noun A system or component that subscribes to something, such as an event, made available by a publisher.
- subscript noun An index into an array or hash.
- subselect noun A select query inside another select query.
- subsequence noun A subset of an array with the same ordering.
- subset verb To extract only the portions of (a font) that are needed to display a particular document.
- subset classifier noun The subobject classifier restricted to the category Set.
- subsetting noun The production of a subset.
- subshell noun A child process launched by a shell.
- subsite noun A website that is subordinate to another website and hosted in its entirety under that site's domain name.