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 52 of 59: from “tab stop” to “throbber”.
- tab stop noun A horizontal column in a text document to which the cursor jumps when the Tab key is pressed, used for alignment.
- tabbed adj Having tabs (the user interface element).
- tabber noun A user who switches between tabs.
- table noun A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
- tablet noun A graphics tablet.
- tabling noun The uses of a table that contains the results of subproblems which can then be used later in the solving of a problem when the same…
- tabulation noun A printout
- tabulator noun A tab character.
- tacit programming noun A programming paradigm in which function definitions do not identify the arguments (or "points") on which they operate. Instead, the…
- tactical noun A combinator of proof tactics.
- tag verb To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- tag soup noun Poorly structured code in a markup language that uses tags (such as HTML), especially when it violates specifications.
- tagalong noun A pattern that attaches to the back of a spaceship, moving along with it.
- tagger noun A program or algorithm that adds tags for purposes of categorization, e.g. grammatical information to words in a document, or genres to…
- tagline noun A pithy quotation habitually appended to a signature in email, newsgroups, etc.
- tail merging noun The grouping together of the final partial blocks of multiple files, so as to save space in a file system.
- tail recursion noun The technique of writing a function so that recursive calls are only done immediately before function return, particularly when recursive…
- tailable adj Of a cursor: not closed when the end of the resultset is reached, but able to be used as further documents are added to the collection.
- taint verb To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
- take verb To accept (zero or more arguments).
- tap noun An act of touching a button, icon, or specific location on the touch screen of an electronic device such as a mobile phone to invoke a…
- tape drive noun A cassette drive.
- tar noun A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
- tarball verb To archive into a tarball.
- tarbomb noun A tarball (archive file) containing numerous files that are extracted into the working directory, potentially causing inconvenience by…
- target verb To produce code suitable for.
- target language noun The machine language into which source code is to be compiled.
- tarpit verb To delay by means of a tarpit service.
- task noun A process or execution of a program.
- task manager noun A system monitor program used to provide information about the processes and applications running on a computer, as well as the general…
- task-specific adj Referring to domain-specific languages that are designed around supporting specific user tasks.
- taskboard noun In Agile software development, a kind of notice board listing outstanding development tasks and who is responsible for them.
- taskpad noun A graphical user interface that gathers several tasks into a single display, giving each one an icon.
- tasto noun key of a keyboard
- tattleware noun Software that monitors employees' computer activity so that their supervisor can track what they are doing.
- tear verb To be interrupted midway through.
- tear off noun A pull-down menu that can be detached from its parent menu bar and dragged around the screen.
- tearing noun Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames.
- tearout noun A feature allowing a tab or other entity to be dragged out of a window and to create its own new window.
- tebibyte noun Strictly, 2⁴⁰ (1024⁴, or 1,099,511,627,776) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) gibibytes, as opposed to a terabyte (10¹² bytes).
- technical debt noun The implied cost of additional future work caused by choosing an easy but inferior solution originally.
- tee verb To redirect output to multiple destinations.
- teleprocessing noun The exchange of data between computers, or between a central computer and terminals, via telecommunications links; data communications
- telework verb To telecommute.
- telnet noun A network protocol that enables one computer to communicate with another via a local area network or the Internet.
- temp noun Synonym of temporary (“short-term variable”).
- template noun A file or document serving as a basis for others.
- template metaprogramming noun A form of metaprogramming in which templates are used by a compiler to generate temporary source code, which is then merged with the rest…
- template method noun A special method of an abstract class used in the template method pattern that prescribes an algorithm for its subclasses.
- template method pattern noun A behavioural software design pattern that defines the flow of the algorithm with the template method.
- templated adj Based on a template that is instantiated by means of parameters; parametrized.
- templatize verb To convert into a template or to represent by means of a template, for purposes of genericizing, automating, tracking, etc.
- temporary noun A short-term variable used to store an intermediate result.
- tenant noun Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
- tensor noun A multidimensional array with (at least) two dimensions.
- terabit noun One trillion (10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 gigabits.
- terabyte noun A tebibyte.
- terascale adj Describing any computer operating at a speed measured in teraflops
- term noun A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- terminal noun A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a…
- terminal object noun An object within a category which receives arrows from all other objects in that category, and such that each of these arrows is unique.
- terminator noun A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.
- ternary noun The ternary operator.
- ternary operator noun An operator taking three operands, specifically the operator ?: used in many programming languages to select one of two values depending on…
- terp noun An interpreter (program that parses and executes another program).
- test case noun Any of a set of conditions and variables used to test an application.
- test double noun An object or procedure that looks and behaves like its release-intended counterpart, but is actually a simplified version to reduce…
- test suite noun A container that has a set of tests with similar test cases to show that it has some specified set of behaviours.
- test-driven development noun A software development process that relies on the repetition of a minimal development cycle where the developer writes an (initially…
- tethered adj connected (especially a mobile phone to a computer, for use as a wireless modem)
- tetherless adj wireless; pertaining to a wireless network
- tetradecimal adj Based on the number 14; using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C and D.
- tetrasexagesimal noun The Base64 text encoding scheme.
- texel noun An image representing the smallest unit of a texture that may be repeated to tile a region of the display.
- text noun Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- text box noun A rectangular widget that accepts textual input on an interactive electronic display.
- text editor noun A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.
- text file noun A datafile containing only plain, human-readable text, distinct from documents with embedded formatting.
- text hooker noun Software that reads text from other software that is being executed, often for the purpose of replacing the text with its translation in…
- text simplification noun An operation used in natural language processing to modify, enhance, classify or otherwise process an existing corpus of human-readable…
- texture noun An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.
- texture map noun A matrix of data, representing texture, added to a polygon or polyhedron in the process of texture mapping
- texturize verb To apply a visual texture to.
- texturizer noun A program or process that applies a visual texture.
- theme verb To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).
- themer noun One who develops a visual theme for software.
- theology noun Subjective marginal details.
- thesaurus noun A hierarchy of subject headings: canonical titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
- thesis noun A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
- thicket noun The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation…
- third normal form noun A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in second normal form and all non-key attributes are mutually…
- third party adj Of products, created or published by an independent publisher or manufacturer or its internal development teams, as opposed to first-party…
- third-class object noun An entity of which the value can neither be passed as a parameter, nor be returned from a function, nor assigned to a variable. (According…
- thrash verb To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- thrashing noun Excessive paging within virtual storage.
- thread noun A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- thread count noun The total number of threads that a single processor core can run simultaneously.
- threadable adj Suitable for multithreading.
- threaded adj Of messages: arranged in a thread or threads.
- throbber noun A widget consisting of a static image that animates during execution of a task.