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 55 of 59: from “type” to “Unix weenie”.
- type noun A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations.
- type class noun A type system construct that supports ad hoc polymorphism (independent of the type hierarchy), first pioneered in Haskell.
- type erasure noun A compile-time process by which explicit data type annotations are removed from a program, before run-time execution.
- type hinting noun The specification of data types in an otherwise untyped language, to indicate variables having a particular type.
- type juggling noun In the PHP programming language, the automatic treatment of variables as a certain data type depending on the context in which they are…
- type punning noun The circumvention of the system of data types in a programming language in order to achieve an effect that would be difficult or impossible…
- type system noun A way programming language classifies values and expressions into types (data types), how it can manipulate those types, and how they…
- type-safe adj Not susceptible to the class of programming errors that could lead to items of one data type being incorrectly treated as another type.
- typeahead noun A feature of computer software (and some typewriters) that enables the user to continue typing regardless of program or computer operation…
- typecast noun The modification of the data type of a variable or object.
- typechecker noun A system or algorithm that verifies values against their required data types, according to the type system of the language.
- typed adj Having a specific data type.
- typedef noun A statement that declares a name for a data type.
- typeless adj untyped
- typescript noun A file containing a replay of commands typed into a terminal, which can then be automatically typed by a program later on.
- typing noun The assignment of data types for variables.
- uglify verb Synonym of minify.
- ulp noun The value that the least significant digit of a floating-point number represents, used as a measure of accuracy in numeric calculations.
- ultrapeer noun In a peer-to-peer network, a peer capable of routing requests and responses from others rather than always adopting a direct client-server…
- ultraportable noun A subnotebook.
- unacked adj Not having been sent an ACK message (acknowledgement of a packet or a message received from a network).
- unadvertisement noun The withdrawal of an earlier notification.
- unanchor verb To release from a fixed position and allow to be moved.
- unarchive verb To extract from a digital archive.
- unary adj Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter, or input; having domain of dimension…
- unassemble verb To disassemble.
- unassigned adj Without a value assigned to it.
- unassociate verb To remove an association (of e.g. a computer with a network, or a file type with an application program); to disassociate.
- unauthenticate verb To withdraw the authentication of.
- unauthorize verb To withdraw authorization or permissions from.
- unauthorized term noun A term discouraged by a controlled vocabulary in favor of its authorized synonym, such as pitch in favor of frequency.
- unbalanced adj of an expression having different numbers of left and right parentheses
- unbind verb To disable some kind of connection in software, such as a key binding.
- unbless verb To convert (a previously blessed object) back to a simple reference.
- unblind verb To convert (a blind signature) back to the unblinded state (as opposed to the blinded state).
- unbooted adj Not having been booted.
- unbox verb To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed.
- unbrick verb To repair a device that was bricked (rendered inoperative).
- unbuffered adj That operates without a hardware or software buffer.
- uncached adj Not cached.
- uncanny valley noun A range of appearances, mannerisms, or behaviors of a humanoid figure that are subtly different from a human and thereby cause feelings of…
- uncastable adj That cannot be cast (converted to other data types).
- uncheck verb To remove a checkmark.
- unchecked adj Of a check box: not checked (ticked or enabled).
- unchecked exception noun An exception that is not declared in the signature of a method, but results in an abort with a stack trace.
- unclick verb To unselect (an item) by clicking.
- uncode verb To remove the code or coding from.
- uncomment verb To convert (text that has been commented out) back into source code so that it will no longer be ignored by the compiler or interpreter.
- uncommit verb To undo a change that had been applied.
- uncommitted adj Not yet written to disk and logged.
- unconcatenate verb To undo the process of concatenation.
- uncook verb To repair (an MP3 audio file) that has been damaged ("cooked") by being converted through a text format and having line breaks applied to…
- uncurried adj Not curried.
- undecidable adj Incapable of being algorithmically decided in finite time. For example, a set of strings is undecidable if it is impossible to program a…
- undeclare verb To revoke the declaration of (a variable, namespace, etc.) so that it is no longer available.
- undefine verb To remove the definition of; to return to an undefined state.
- undefined noun An undefined value.
- undeletable adj That cannot be deleted; indelible.
- underfilter noun A morphological filter (idempotent operator) whose image is a subset of the domain.
- underflow verb To trigger the condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically…
- underrun noun A condition in which the read/write buffer is fed with data at a slower rate than required; a buffer underrun.
- undersubscribe verb To have insufficient threads available in a multithreaded application so that all threads become blocked and performance suffers.
- undersubscription noun The employment of more ports or bandwidth than necessary to ensure that network communication does not face delays.
- undistributed adj Not employing the technique of distributed computing.
- undo noun An operation that reverses a previous action.
- undoably adv Such that it can be undone; reversibly.
- undock verb To remove from a docking station.
- undrop verb To undelete.
- unemulated adj That is not emulated or is omitted from an emulation.
- unencrypted adj Of something that has been decrypted successfully, or of something that should have been encrypted, but was not.
- unfielded adj Of data: not organised in a set of fields.
- unfilter noun The lack or absence of a filter
- unfocus verb To move the input focus away from.
- unfold noun In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.
- unformatted adj That has not yet been formatted for use; uninitialized
- unfreeze verb To release from a previously locked or frozen state.
- unghost verb To restore from a ghosted state.
- ungolfed adj Not having been written in short form according to the challenge of code golf.
- unhandled adj Not having an associated handler routine.
- unicast adj Being the transmission of messages to a single destination host on a packet switching network.
- Unicode noun Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the…
- unification noun An algorithmic process of solving equations between symbolic expressions.
- uniform noun In OpenGL, a global shader variable whose value does not change between rendering calls, serving as a parameter.
- uninstall verb To completely remove hardware or software from a computer system.
- uninstantiate verb To destroy or annul (an instance of something); to eliminate (a variable, object, etc.) that was created earlier.
- uninstantiation noun The process of uninstantiating; destruction of an instance.
- union noun A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
- unique identifier noun Any identifier that is guaranteed to be unique among all others used for objects and for a specific purpose.
- unique key noun A set of one or more than one columns or fields of a table that uniquely identifies a record in a database table.
- uniquification noun The act of uniquifying.
- uniquify verb To eliminate duplicates from a list, especially when using the *nix command/function uniq.
- unit noun A basic, self-contained component or module that performs a specific function inside a computer system.
- unit record noun A single unit of input or output, as a punch card or line of printout.
- unit test noun An individual test in unit testing
- unit testing noun A software testing methodology in which individual tests (unit tests) are developed for each small part of a program.
- universal morphism noun The terminal object of a comma category from a functor to a fixed object; or, dually, the initial object of a comma category from a fixed…
- Universal Serial Bus noun An international standard for interconnecting personal computer devices using simple plugs and sockets and lightweight cables.
- Unix noun Any of the above plus Unix-like operating systems similar to Unix but not qualifying for use of the UNIX trademark.
- Unix time noun A widely used date and time representation that measures time by the number of nonleap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on…
- Unix weenie noun A Unix system manager.