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 59 of 59: from “working directory” to “🔙”.
- working directory noun The current directory (container for files etc.), on which commands will operate unless otherwise specified.
- working-storage section noun The part of the data division of a COBOL program that describes the format of local variables and constants to be used by the program
- workspace noun A file (or system of files) in which related software and data can be manipulated or developed in isolation from others.
- workstation noun A desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics.
- world noun The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
- worm noun A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.
- worm drive noun A write once, read many drive; data storage technology that allows information to be written to a disc a single time and prevents the drive…
- wormhole noun A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.
- wrap verb To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
- wrap around verb To move (text or other content) to the beginning of the next line when unable to fit it at the end of the current line.
- wraparound noun Word wrap, the word processing feature that moves text to the beginning of the next line if it will not fit at the end of the current line.
- wrapping noun The breaking of a section of text into lines so that it will fit into the available width of a display area.
- writable adj Capable of being written to.
- write noun The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
- write blocker noun A hardware device that allows a computer to read a peripheral such as a hard disk without making any changes to its contents, useful in…
- write-around adj Being or relating to a kind of cache where data at the location of a missed write is not loaded to cache, but written directly to the…
- write-only memory noun A type of computer memory to which data can be written, but from which it cannot be read.
- writethrough noun An operation in which data written to a cache is then immediately copied to permanent storage, ensuring that cache and storage are always…
- wrong-endian adj Stored in big-endian format on a little-endian machine, or vice versa.
- WTF noun A bafflingly bad or unwise design decision.
- WYSIWYG noun A type of software that maintains a close correspondence between the screen image and the printed image.
- WYSIWYM phrase what you see is what you match.
- X out verb To close a window (typically by clicking a button marked with an X symbol).
- X-machine noun A theoretical computer that operates on some fundamental data type X. It is a structurally the same as a finite-state machine, but each…
- xenobot noun An artificial construct built from cells extracted from Xenopus embryos, and designed to move, consume, and build piles.
- xor verb To perform the XOR function upon.
- XPU noun Any unit of computing hardware designed to accelerate a particular workload, often used in artificial intelligence applications.
- XSL noun Extensible stylesheet language, any of a family of languages in which code can be written to describe how XML files are to be transformed.
- xvalue noun A value representing an object near the end of its lifetime whose resources can be reused, typically by moving them.
- XYZ noun Describing a URL scheme for providing map tiles, where X and Y refer to coordinates, while Z refers to zoom level.
- Y10K noun Abbreviation of year 10000.
- Y2K noun Millennium bug.
- year 2038 problem noun A time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable to represent times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.
- yield verb Of a running thread or process: to give control back to the parent program or operating system so that other threads or processes can be…
- yo-yo mode noun The condition of having repeated intermittent failures, such that the system alternates between being up and down.
- yobibyte noun Strictly, 2⁸⁰ (1024⁸, 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) zebibytes, as opposed to a yottabyte.
- Yoda condition noun A logical condition with the usual order of operands reversed for various reasons, such as avoiding the accidental misuse of = (assignment)…
- Yoneda embedding noun An embedding of a category 𝒞 within the category of functors from 𝒞 to the category of sets. Such an embedding is effected by a Yoneda…
- Yoneda functor noun A functor from a given category to the category of functors from that given category to Set (the category of sets) which maps any object of…
- Yoneda lemma noun Given a category 𝒞 with an object A, let H be a hom functor represented by A, and let F be any functor (not necessarily representable) from…
- yottabit noun One septillion (10²⁴, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 zettabits.
- yottabyte noun One septillion (10²⁴, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 zettabytes.
- your mileage may vary phrase It may work differently in your situation, or be different in your experience.
- z-buffer noun A buffer for the purpose of tracking the relative depths of different objects in a scene and determining which are closer to the observer…
- z-culling noun The elimination of certain objects from the display that should not be rendered because they are behind objects that are closer to the…
- z-fighting noun A phenomenon in three-dimensional rendering where two or more primitives have similar values in the z-buffer, causing flickering as one is…
- z-order noun The order in which objects should be drawn in order to display correctly.
- z-test noun A comparison to determine which object should be at the front of the z-buffer.
- zebibyte noun Strictly, 2⁷⁰ (1024⁷, 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) exbibytes, as opposed to a zettabyte.
- Zeno machine noun A hypothetical computational model, related to Turing machines, that would be capable of carrying out computations involving a countably…
- zero one infinity rule noun The rule that a database, a user interface, etc. should allow for either zero, one, or an indefinite number of an entity.
- zero out verb To fill with zeros, replacing any previous contents.
- zero-based adj Of an array or list: such the first element of the array or list is called the zeroth.
- zero-day adj Of warez, released less than a day after the official product release.
- zero-knowledge proof noun An interactive method for one party to prove to another that a (usually mathematical) statement is true, without revealing anything other…
- zero-length adj Having a length of zero; containing no elements, text characters, etc.
- zero-sum adj Of a system, where all gains are offset by exactly equal losses.
- zero-sum game noun A game (or a similar political or economic system) in which the gains of some players must equal the losses of others.
- zeroization noun The erasure of sensitive parameters from a cryptographic module to prevent their disclosure if the equipment is captured.
- zettabit noun One sextillion (10²¹, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 exabits.
- zettabyte noun One sextillion (10²¹, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 exabytes.
- zilde noun In the APL programming language, the symbol ⍬ (a zero crossed by a tilde), representing an empty numeric vector.
- zip verb To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.
- zip bomb noun A malicious zip file designed to produce a very large output, and consume a great deal of processing resources, during decompression.
- Zip drive noun A storage device, similar to a floppy disk drive but using disks with a much larger capacity (100, 250, or 750 MB, compared to a normal…
- zip up verb To convert a computer file into a smaller package.
- zipper noun A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).
- zombie noun A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent…
- zombie client noun Computer software that takes directions from a remote computer and uses the infected computer to perform malicious tasks as directed.
- zombie computer noun A computer connected to the Internet that has been compromised by a hacker by means of a computer virus, computer worm, or Trojan horse…
- zombie process noun A child process that has terminated but is still listed in the process table, having not yet been reaped by its parent process.
- zombie program noun Any computer program that has been revived or reinstalled by an operating system and is very difficult to uninstall.
- zombie software noun A program or application which has been maintained beyond its expiration date or end-of-life status.
- zombie state noun Synonym of zombie process.
- zombie system noun Synonym of zombie computer.
- zombie user noun A logged in or registered user that should no longer exist but has not been fully deleted from the system.
- zombied adj In a zombie state (said either of a zombie process or of a computer covertly controlled by malware).
- zombify verb To take control of (a computer) in order to use it covertly and illicitly.
- zone noun That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
- zone punch noun A hole punched (normally in the top two or three positions) of a punched card in addition to another in order to designate a different…
- zoom box noun A clickable box that maximizes a window to fill the screen or (clicked a second time) restores the window to its previous size and position.
- 🆘 symbol Indicates an emergency service or emergency response
- 🔙 symbol Backspace.