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 58 of 59: from “warm” to “workgroup”.
- warm verb To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
- warm up verb Synonym of warm (“prepopulate a cache”).
- wart noun Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
- WASD noun A set of four keys on a keyboard used as directions to control player characters in certain video games. (W, A, S and D represent up, left…
- watchdog noun Ellipsis of watchdog timer.
- watchdog timer noun An electronic or software timer used to detect and recover from computer malfunctions by generating a timeout signal if it is not…
- watchpoint noun A debugging mechanism whereby execution is suspended every time a specified memory location is modified; or, any of various similar such…
- waterfall noun Short for waterfall model
- waterfall model noun A sequential software development process in which development is seen as flowing steadily downwards (like a waterfall) through the phases…
- watering hole attack noun A computer attack strategy, in which the victim is a particular group (organization, industry, or region), and the attacker guesses or…
- watermark noun A value stored in a datafile to ensure its integrity, so that if the file's contents are changed then the watermark will no longer match…
- wavelet matrix noun A type of data structure that represents a sequence of or the process of sorting elements while allowing query operations.
- weak typing noun A system that does not place any restriction on the interactions between objects of different data types.
- weakly-typed adj Belonging to a type system that likely will not result in an error if a passed variable does not closely match the expected type.
- wear leveling noun A technique for extending the service life of some kinds of erasable storage media, such as flash memory, by arranging data so that…
- wearable noun Ellipsis of wearable computer (“small computer which can be worn on the body”).
- web application noun A software application that is accessed via a web browser, often over a network but sometimes offline.
- web content noun Elements making up a web page as delivered to the client, including text, images, hyperlinks, audio and video content; may be generated…
- web installer noun A single-executable stub installer for a program that downloads the full installer from the Internet on runtime. It may use heuristics to…
- web of trust noun A decentralized cryptographic mechanism for establishing the authenticity of the binding between a public key and its owner.
- Web Ontology Language noun A formal language (or family of languages) used to draw inferences from a large data set, especially from the Semantic Web
- web server noun software that delivers Web pages and other documents to browsers using the HTTP protocol.
- webbook noun Any of several portable computers (or similar) that have access to the Internet and are primarily used to read such books.
- webcam noun A video camera whose output may be viewed in real time over a computer network, originally the World Wide Web.
- websafe adj Of colours used in the design of a web page: not liable to be dithered on any system, thus appearing the same to all visitors to the…
- webtop noun Integration of desktop office-productivity applications with Web-based information and application delivery.
- wedge verb Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- wedged adj Stuck; incapable of proceeding without help, though not having crashed.
- weightmap noun A set of vertex attributes controlling deformation of a three-dimensional model during skeletal animation.
- well noun The region of an interface that contains tabs.
- well-formed adj Correctly written; syntactically correct; expressed in a way that obeys rules for constructing formulas in a certain language.
- well-known adj Generally recognized; reserved for some usual purpose.
- well-pointed adj Said of a category or topos: that it has a terminal object (or that it has no zero object, if it is a topos) and in which any distinct pair…
- wet adj Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of WET; containing much repetition.
- whack noun The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
- whaling noun A form of highly personalized cyberattack that targets a senior business executive.
- what you see is what you get phrase The screen image resembles the printed output.
- wheel noun A superuser on certain systems.
- wheel war noun A conflict in which users of a given computer system or (later) wiki who have administrative privileges try to lock each other out of the…
- whetstone noun Alternative letter-case form of Whetstone (“benchmark”).
- while loop noun A section of computer code in which an instruction or group of instructions is repeated only while a certain condition continues to be met.
- whiskering noun The act of composing a natural transformation and a functor to produce another natural transformation.
- white hat noun A well-meaning hacker who hacks for a good cause or to aid a company, organization, or government without causing harm (for example, to…
- white label adj Unbranded; being a brand name product which has had a white label applied to remove branding so that it can be resold for cheaper without…
- white screen of death noun An error or issue occurring in Apple operating systems and other technologies that causes the computer or device to cease working and…
- white space noun A contiguous collection of one or more characters that each represents horizontal or vertical space in typography.
- white top-hat transform noun A form of the top-hat transform that finds the elements in the input image that are brighter than their surroundings.
- whiteboard noun A collaborative tool allowing several users to write and draw on the same shared display.
- whitelist noun A list or collection of people or entities that are known, trusted, or explicitly permitted.
- whiten verb To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
- whiteout noun The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
- Wi-Fi noun Any of several standards for short-range wireless data transmission (IEEE 802.11).
- wide adj Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
- widen verb To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.
- widening conversion noun A conversion from one data type to another where the new data type’s size is the same or greater than the old one’s, guaranteeing that…
- widget noun Any one of the components of a computer application's graphical user interface, such as a Cancel button or text input box that a user…
- wikitime noun A time standard or timestamp used in Wikipedia and its affiliates, set to Greenwich Mean Time, and encoded as 24-hour time-day-month-year.
- wild card noun Alternative form of wildcard (“substituted text character”).
- wild pointer noun An uninitialized pointer.
- wildcard noun A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.
- win verb To take priority.
- Winchester noun A hard disk.
- window verb To apply a window function to (a signal).
- window down verb To reduce in scope, resolution, capacity, bandwidth, etc. so as to enable or focus on a target.
- window function noun A function that performs a calculation using values from several rows, but does not group them into a single row.
- window up verb To create a window to access (a file, website, etc); to put (a file, website, etc.) in a window.
- windowed adj Occupying only a part of the screen (in a window.)
- windowing noun The use of a graphical user interface divided into windows.
- windowing system noun A software suite that manages separate sections of a display screen, enabling multiple applications to run simultaneously.
- windowlike adj Resembling a window (a rectangular area displaying the output of a program).
- Windows key noun A key on a computer keyboard bearing the Microsoft Windows logo, used to open the Start menu and as a modifier key for various other…
- wingding noun A glyph from a Wingdings font.
- winner's curse noun The phenomenon whereby the winner of an auction is likely to overpay, since each bid represents a bidder's estimate of the item's value…
- winner-take-all adj Of a neural network model: organized so that neurons in a layer compete with each other for activation.
- wipe verb To erase.
- wiper noun A program or process that erases data.
- wire frame noun Alternative form of wireframe.
- wire speed noun The (maximum) rate at which data can flow through a cable
- wireframe noun A visual model of an electronic representation of a three-dimensional object as defined geometrically by line segments.
- wirehead noun A hardware hacker.
- wireless noun A wireless connectivity to a computer network.
- wireless network noun Devices connected to a network using a centralized wireless access point (WAP).
- witness noun An additional database server instance used in failover scenarios to decide whether the mirror should take over.
- Witt group noun given a category with duality, the quotient of isometry classes of symmetric spaces, modulo metabolic spaces.
- wizard noun A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user.
- wonky adj Suffering from intermittent bugs.
- word noun A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has…
- word processing noun The creation, input, editing and formatting of documents and other text using software on a computer.
- word time noun The amount of time required to transfer a machine word between different memory units.
- word wrap noun A word processing feature which automatically adjusts lines of text to fit within the page margins. Words exceeding the margins are set to…
- word-wheeling noun A method of database searching that produces an instantly refreshed list of results as the user enters each character of the term.
- wordify verb To convert (a file) to Microsoft Word format.
- wordmark noun A bit in each memory location on some variable-word-length computers (e.g. IBM 1401, IBM 1620) used to mark the end of a word.
- wordwise adj In terms of words (fixed groups of binary digits); one word of data at a time.
- work stealing noun An algorithm and scheduling strategy for multithreaded computer programs, where a thread can "steal" work from queues of the other threads.
- workalike noun A computer capable of running software designed for another.
- workaround noun A procedure or a temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows a user to continue working until a better solution can be provided.
- workbook noun A collection of spreadsheets stored in the same file.
- worker noun A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.
- workgroup noun A computer network created for use by such groups.