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 53 of 59: from “throughput” to “trackmo”.
- throughput noun The rate at which data is transferred through a system.
- throw verb To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- throwable adj Capable of being thrown in the manner of an exception.
- throwbot noun A small, throwable robotic device, typically used by military and law enforcement for reconnaissance and situational awareness.
- thumb noun The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
- thumbnail verb To create a smaller representation of (a larger image).
- thumbshot noun A thumbnail snapshot of an electronic document.
- Thunderbolt chassis noun An electronics chassis, physically external to a host system, that provides a means to connect PCI Express cards to that host using the…
- thundering herd noun The undesirable situation where a large number of processes waiting for an event are awoken whenever the event occurs, and then engage in a…
- thunk noun A delayed computation.
- tick noun A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- tickable adj Of a program instruction: counted for the purpose of generating periodic signals every few instructions.
- tickless adj Having interrupts occur only when required, rather than at regular intervals.
- tie verb In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- tier verb To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.
- tiff noun An image stored in the TIFF format.
- tight loop noun A loop which contains few instructions and iterates many times.
- tile noun A rectangular graphic.
- tilemap noun A two-dimensional grid made up of rectangular tiles of equal size, each of which can display an image.
- tiling noun A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.
- tilt-shift noun The blurring of parts of a photograph or video so that it looks like a photograph of a miniature scale model.
- time algorithm noun An algorithm which specifies the amount of time required to solve a problem as a function of its input size.
- time bomb noun A malicious program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date or time.
- time complexity noun The amount of time an algorithm requires to run, as a function of the amount of input, measured in such a way as to ignore constant terms…
- time elapsed counter noun A type of stopwatch or timer in a computer system that tracks the passage of time of a compiling, download, or other task.
- time hierarchy theorem noun A theorem that demonstrates that allowing Turing machines additional computation time strictly increases the class of languages that they…
- time of origin noun The point in time in which a message is released for transmission.
- time parameter noun A function used to specify the maximum CPU utilization time permitted for the job to execute.
- time reversal signal processing noun A technique that either creates an optimal carrier signal for communication, reconstructs a source event, or focuses on high-energy waves…
- time scale noun The ratio of the duration of time of an event as simulated by an analog computer to the actual duration of time of the event in the…
- time travel noun The ability to access previous states of a database.
- time travel debugging noun A form of software debugging allowing the user to step back and forward through the recorded prior execution of a program.
- time-domain averaging noun A method for processing and analyzing signals, particularly when there is a requirement to reduce the impact of short-term fluctuations or…
- time-frequency analysis noun A technique that studies a signal in both the time and frequency domains simultaneously, using various time-frequency representations.
- time-loop logic noun A hypothetical system of computation that exploits the Novikov self-consistency principle to compute answers much faster than possible with…
- time-of-check to time-of-use noun A class of software bugs caused by a race condition involving the checking of the state of a part of a system, such as a security…
- time-serving noun The functionality of a timeserver.
- time-share verb To use (a computer or communications band) by time-sharing.
- time-sharing noun A technique that allows many users to use a central computer simultaneously through remote terminals.
- time-slicing noun A technique used to share a processor in a round robin manner with all of the tasks of the same priority, allowing lower priority tasks…
- time-space complexity noun The combination of the measure of the amount of time and space in which an algorithm requires to run or solve a given decision problem.
- timeserver noun A device, node or program that transmits the correct time to clients in a network.
- timestamp noun A variable containing the date and time at which an event occurred, often included in a log to track the sequence of events.
- timestomp verb To modify a timestamp (for example, the time when a file was accessed) so as to obfuscate the details of one's activity on a system.
- timewheel noun A circular array of items sorted by time.
- title bar noun The bar at the top of a window or a dialogue box displaying the name of the application or open document.
- title case noun The capitalization of text in which the first letter of each major (important) word is set as a capital.
- titlecase noun The variant of the letter that is used when this letter appears in the beginning of the sentence.
- tivoization noun The creation of a system that incorporates software under the terms of a copyleft software license, but uses hardware to prevent users from…
- tivoize verb (of a hardware system) To use software under the terms of a copyleft software license, but at the same time to impose a hardware…
- TOAD attack noun Abbreviation for “telephone-oriented attack delivery attack”: a type of fraud where a criminal contacts someone by phone, text or email and…
- toast noun A transient, informational pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.
- toast rack noun The ZX Spectrum 128k+ home computer, having a large heat sink built into the keyboard, shaped like a toast rack.
- toaster noun A low-end or outdated personal computer.
- toeprint noun A very small footprint (amount of physical surface taken up by equipment).
- tofu noun A box or rectangle, empty or with a question mark or hexadecimal code inside, displayed by some systems in place of a character not…
- toggle switch noun A control resembling such a switch, allowing a setting to be enabled or disabled.
- token noun An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- token bucket noun A fixed-capacity data structure to which tokens or packets are added at a fixed rate; used in algorithms to check whether sufficient tokens…
- token grabbing noun The act of using malware or social engineering to illicitly obtain an authentication token, specifically for services like Discord…
- token ring noun A network standard invented by IBM and later defined by the 802.5 subcommittee of the IEEE which provides for a network with a star ring…
- token-pasting operator noun The operator ## in the C or C++ preprocessor, which permits separate tokens to be joined into a single token.
- tokenize verb To reduce to a token or set of tokens by lexical analysis.
- Tom, Dick and Harry noun Three hypothetical customers, user personas, or similar constructs.
- tombstone noun A marker that takes the place of deleted data, allowing for replication of the deletion across servers etc.
- tombstoning noun The process of (automatically) initiating software sleep mode on an app.
- tone mapping noun The technique of mapping one set of colors to another, to approximate the appearance of a higher dynamic range than is actually available.
- tool noun A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
- toolbar noun A row of buttons, usually marked with icons, used to activate the functions of an application or operating system.
- toolbox noun A set of pre-existing routines for use in writing new programs.
- toolchain noun A set of tools for software development, often used in sequence so that the output of one tool comprises the input of the next.
- toolkit noun A set of software tools or components.
- toolset noun A set of utility programs, subroutines or similar software.
- toolsmith noun a person who creates utility programs
- toolstack noun A collection of software tools to work on different parts of a related system, often used on information technology infrastructure…
- toolsuite noun A set of related tools (software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations) that are distributed together.
- tooltip noun An element of a graphical user interface in the form of a box of text that appears when a cursor is made to hover over an item; normally…
- top-level noun read-eval-print loop
- top-level domain noun The last component of a domain name, such as .com, .edu, .gov, .net, .org, .mil, .mobi or any of the newer generic top-level domains, or…
- topic noun A component similar to a message queue which supports multiple subscribers.
- topological sort noun An ordering of the vertices of a directed graph such that if an edge goes from vertex u to vertex v then u precedes v in the ordering.
- topology noun The arrangement of nodes in a communications network.
- topos noun A category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or, more generally, on a site).
- torn write noun A write operation, such as to a hard disk drive or database, which only partially completes, being cut off midway through.
- tosser noun A program that forwards or redirects messages on a bulletin board system.
- totalistic adj Having the state of each cell represented by a number, and the value of a cell dependent only on the sum of the values of nearby cells.
- touch verb To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- touch screen noun An input and output device that allows the user to interact with the computer by touching the display screen.
- touchpad noun A flat surface which is sensitive to touch, used mostly in laptop computers to control an on-screen cursor.
- tourist noun A guest user on a computer system.
- trace verb To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- trace scheduling noun An optimization technique for compilers that rearranges traces (instruction sequences) according to their frequency of execution, and…
- traceback noun Determination of origin; the process of tracing something back to its source.
- tracelet noun A short fragment of the trace of execution of a computer program, used in automated systems that attempt to understand and optimize source…
- tracer noun A process that traces something, such as the path of execution of a program during debugging.
- traceroute noun The route taken by packets over an IP network.
- track verb To create music using tracker software.
- trackback noun A method to keep track of links to content, especially blog entries.
- tracker noun A type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines.
- trackmo noun A demo that is loaded directly from the physical tracks of a floppy disk instead of loading through the file system.