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 54 of 59: from “trackpoint” to “txt”.
- trackpoint noun An individual record within a GPS of a visited location.
- tractable adj Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.
- traffic light noun In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of four blinkers that are orthogonally equidistant from a central point.
- trailer noun The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise invalid value that sorts last alphabetically…
- train noun A software release schedule.
- training noun The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.
- trampoline verb To rewrite (computer code) to use trampoline instructions.
- transaction noun An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a…
- transaction time noun The time during which a fact stored in the database, represented by all the information in a row, is considered to be true and in effect.
- transactional memory noun A concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory.
- transactionality noun The degree to which a database or other system is transactional.
- transceiver noun A device that performs transmitting and receiving functions, especially if using common components.
- transclude verb To replace a template or other input with its rendered text, such as when parsing wikitext.
- transclusion noun The inclusion of part of one hypertext document in another one by means of reference rather than copying.
- transcompilation noun The translation of source code in one programming language into source code for another programming language.
- transcompiler noun A translating compiler that takes the source code of a programming language as its input and outputs the source code into either another…
- transcribe verb To transfer data from one recording medium to another.
- transcriber noun A device or program that transcribes data.
- transducer noun A state machine that generates output based on a given input.
- transient noun A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.
- transition function noun A function from (state, input symbol) to state describing what state to move to on receiving a given input in a given state.
- transitive dependency noun An attribute of a relation that depends on a key but also on a third attribute which is not a key; this is a violation of third normal form.
- translator noun A machine that converts inputs into a pattern of holes on a punch card.
- transmiss verb To transmit.
- transparency noun Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.
- transparent adj Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the…
- transputer noun A single chip with CPU, memory and communications capability, used in grids to form parallel processing computers.
- trap noun An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
- trapdoor verb To subvert (a cryptographic scheme) by means of a secret parameter that makes the trapdoor function easy to compute.
- trapdoor function noun A function that is easy to compute in one direction but difficult to compute in the opposite direction (finding its inverse) without…
- trash noun Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
- trashbox noun An electronic folder for deleted electronic mail.
- traversable noun Any object that can be navigated by traversal.
- traverse verb To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- tray noun A notification area used for icons and alerts.
- treap noun A type of randomized binary search tree where nodes are labelled with randomly chosen priority values and which is simultaneously a heap on…
- tree noun A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- tree-maker noun A software program that constructs family trees.
- treebank noun A database (corpus) of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.
- treelist noun A user interface control that displays a list of items in an expandable hierarchy.
- trellis noun A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each…
- tri noun triangle
- triage noun The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
- triangulate verb To divide into triangles.
- tribrid modeller noun A CAD system that is capable of modelling three-dimensional objects as combinations of surfaces, solids and polygons
- trie noun An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.
- trigger noun An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity.
- trigram noun An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.
- trigraph noun A three-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
- triple noun A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple.
- triple fault noun An exception thrown by the CPU while trying to handle a double fault, typically resulting in immediate rebooting.
- triple-click noun The action of pushing the button on a mouse three times in quick succession in order to perform a different task that would be performed…
- triplestore noun A database designed for the storage and retrieval of RDF (Resource Description Framework) metadata in the form of triples representing…
- tristate noun A variable, etc. that can take any of three distinct values.
- trit noun The ternary equivalent of a bit; a fundamental unit of information that may take any of three distinct states.
- trixel noun A triangle assigned a single color based on the colors of the pixels inside it, used in medical imaging systems.
- troglodyte noun A person who chooses not to keep up to date with the latest software and hardware.
- trojan noun Malware that appears to perform or actually performs a desired task for a user while performing a harmful task without the user's knowledge…
- troubleshooter noun A software program or routine that attempts to diagnose a problem with the system.
- truel noun A duel fought between three people.
- trunk noun In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds")…
- trust noun Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
- trustless adj Which does not need any trust, or a trusted third party.
- truthiness noun The property of being truthy, i.e. evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
- truthy adj Evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
- try noun A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.
- TTY noun A command line interface or terminal emulator.
- tub file noun A technique used to speed the generation of datafiles on a punch card, involving multiple copies of frequently used cards that were…
- tunable noun A setting that can be configured.
- tunnel verb To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
- tunneling noun A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and…
- tuple noun A single row in a relational database.
- turbo adj Causing or relating to increased speed.
- turbofish noun A syntactic element in Rust, ::<>, with arguments between < and >, that specifies the generic arguments of a function in an expression.
- turboload noun A software mechanism that loads data from cassette tape more rapidly than usual, saving time and making software piracy more difficult.
- Turing degree noun A measure of the level of algorithmic unsolvability of the decision problem of whether a given set of natural numbers contains any given…
- Turing jump noun In computability theory, an operation that assigns to each decision problem X a successively harder decision problem X′ with the property…
- Turing machine noun An abstract computing machine that has a finite number of possible internal states and operates on an infinite memory tape by first reading…
- Turing reduction noun A reduction that solves a problem if the solution to another problem is already known, i.e. an algorithm that could be used to solve A if…
- Turing switch noun A logical construction modelling the operation of the network switch, just as in theoretical computer science a Turing machine models the…
- Turing tape noun The infinitely long memory tape on which a Turing machine would operate, consisting of individual cells that can be read or written.
- Turing tarpit noun The situation in which a programming language is only minimally Turing complete, so that "everything is possible but nothing is easy".
- Turingery noun A manual cryptanalysis technique used in breaking the Lorenz cipher during World War II, based on deducing the wheel settings of the…
- turmite noun A two-dimensional variant of a Turing machine in which the head has an orientation in addition to a position and state.
- turn-by-turn navigation noun A feature of GPS devices, particularly smartphones, that continuously gives directions as the person or vehicle approaches navigation…
- turtle noun A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a…
- turtle graphics noun Vector graphics generated by a turtle that moves according to relative coordinates on a Cartesian plane, as in the Logo programming…
- tutorial noun A video or text guide or instruction about a specific topic (generally a how-to).
- tweak noun An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.
- tweak freak noun A person who modifies software or hardware in order to enhance its performance beyond their normal and acceptable standards.
- tweakable adj Of a block cipher: accepting a second input (the "tweak"), used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the…
- tweener noun A computing device that is smaller than a traditional laptop, but larger than a PDA.
- twiddle verb To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits).
- twist morphism noun An isomorphism between a pair of products which have the same components but in swapped order, which isomorphism commutes with the two…
- twistie noun Alternative form of twisty.
- twisty noun A collapsible element having a marker such as a small triangle that rotates between horizontal and vertical positions to indicate whether…
- twit verb To ignore or kill file (a user on a bulletin board system).
- two seconds to black noun The situation where a computer monitor displays a correct screen image when first switched on, but then quickly blanks out, typically…
- two's complement noun The number obtained by complementing every bit of a given number and adding one. A number and its complement add to 2ⁿ, where n is the word…
- txt noun a .txt file