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 6 of 59: from “black top-hat transform” to “broadcaster”.
- black top-hat transform noun A form of the top-hat transform that finds the elements in the input image that are darker than their surroundings.
- black-box testing noun Any form of testing in which knowledge of the internals of the system being tested are unknown and unimportant.
- blacklist noun A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.
- blade noun Ellipsis of blade server.
- blade server noun A stripped-down server with a modular design, optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy.
- blame noun A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
- bleep censor noun A software module, manually operated by a broadcast technician, putting a five-second broadcast delay on the live content, providing time…
- blindable adj Such that, given an encrypted bit (binary digit), anybody can create a random ciphertext decrypting to the same bit.
- blink noun A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
- blinkenlights noun The flashing lights on an electronic device such as a modem, router, or network hub (originally the front-panel lights on old computers).
- blinker noun In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each…
- blit noun A logical operation in which a block of data is rapidly moved or copied in memory, most commonly used to animate two-dimensional graphics.
- blivet noun A program that has messy source code.
- bloated adj Excessively overloaded with features, like bloatware.
- bloatware noun Software that is packed with too many features and therefore slow or unwieldy; software that is inefficiently designed and occupies an…
- block noun In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- block cellular automaton noun A cellular automaton in which the grid is divided into distinct blocks in a uniform pattern, with the blocks being shifted by a certain…
- block cipher noun Any deterministic cipher that operates on fixed-size groups of bits (binary digits), called blocks, with an unvarying transformation…
- block device noun An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks.
- blocker noun One who prevents another user from contacting them electronically.
- blocking noun A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
- blocklist noun A list of websites or other material to be blocked.
- blockwise adj In terms of blocks of data.
- blogcast noun A short video aor audio clip published within a blog.
- Bloom filter noun A space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positive matches are…
- blorph noun A visual effects technique in which an entire setting morphs from one appearance into another (as opposed to the morphing of an object or…
- blort noun A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.
- blow away verb To delete (data, files, etc.).
- blowback noun Synonym of backscatter.
- blowhole noun A vertical opening in the top of a computer case that lets hot air (primarily from the CPU heat sink) escape quickly.
- Blu-ray Disc noun An optical disc storage medium used for data and video, introduced in 2006, having the same physical dimensions as a CD or DVD but greater…
- blue screen noun Ellipsis of blue screen of death.
- blue screen of death noun An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes…
- blue-green deployment noun The technique of rolling out changes to a system by alternating the production and staging servers each time. One server is referred to as…
- bluescreen verb To experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware.
- blur verb To transfer the input focus away from.
- boat noun In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.
- bob noun A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
- body noun The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
- BogoMIPS noun A crude informal measurement of CPU speed, made by the Linux kernel while booting and used to calibrate an internal busy loop.
- bogon noun The imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon.
- bogosort noun An intentionally poor sorting algorithm that operates by randomly permuting the elements repeatedly until they happen to fall into the…
- bogus adj Incorrect, useless, or broken.
- bohrbug noun A software bug which manifests reliably under a well-defined, but possibly unknown, set of conditions.
- boilerplate noun A standard piece of program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor.
- boink noun A real-world social gathering of computer users.
- bolt-on adj Used to extend an existing system, operating as an add-on or plug-in.
- bomb verb To crash.
- bombe noun An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.
- bonding noun A method of aggregating multiple network interfaces on a computer into a single logical interface
- bookkeeping noun General tasks for maintaining a system.
- bookmark verb To create a bookmark.
- bool noun A Boolean variable (one whose value is either true or false).
- Boolean noun A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.
- Boolean algebra noun Specifically, an algebra in which all elements can take only one of two values (typically 0 and 1, or "true" and "false") and are subject…
- Boolean function noun Any function based on the operations AND, OR and NOT, and whose elements are from the domain of Boolean algebra
- boom noun An instance of booming.
- boot verb To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
- boot block noun A dedicated block usually at the beginning (first block on first track) of a storage medium that holds special data used to start a system.…
- boot sector noun A dedicated sector, usually at the beginning (first sector on first track) of a storage medium, that holds special data used to start a…
- boot storm noun The situation where many users attempt to boot their computers at the same time, causing excessive demand on the network.
- boot time noun The amount of time required to load the kernel of an operating system, its device drivers, and the initialization of the hardware.
- bootable adj That can be booted; from which one can boot the system.
- booter noun A program or process that boots.
- bootflash noun A flash memory used at bootstrap time for a device, commonly containing a bootloader and simple configuration information.
- booting noun The act by which a computer is booted.
- bootload noun The work done by a boot loader; the startup of an operating system.
- bootstrap verb To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.
- bootstrapper noun A process that performs bootstrapping.
- border noun A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
- borrow noun In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of…
- bot noun A piece of software designed to perform a task (often a minor but repetitive one) automatically or on command, especially when operating…
- botless adj Without bots; without a bot participating or running. (a piece of software designed to perform a task (often a minor but repetitive one)…
- botty adj Resembling a bot (automated software process); botlike.
- bounce verb To turn power to (a device) off and back on; to reset; to reboot.
- bound variable noun A variable that is associated with a value, and therefore a variable that has an allocated storage location. If the programming language…
- box noun A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- Boyce-Codd normal form noun A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in third normal form and all determinants are candidate keys.
- bps noun Initialism of bit per second, a measure of speed of digital communication.
- brain-damaged adj Poorly designed; obviously wrong.
- branch verb To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- branch predictor noun A digital circuit that tries to predict which way a branch structure will go, so as to improve the flow in the instruction pipeline.
- brancher noun That which branches, or jumps to another instruction location within a program.
- breadbox noun A Commodore 64 computer.
- breadcrumb noun A single link in a chain indicating the hierarchical location of a directory, web page or similar, used as a navigation aid.
- break noun The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- break down verb To stop functioning.
- break movie noun A crude form of text-based animation created in ATASCII, using special control characters to move the cursor and overwrite previous…
- break the Internet verb To overwhelm a web server through organic user-driven demand, such that the server goes offline or is in danger of doing so.
- breaking change noun A change in one part of a software system that potentially causes other components to fail; occurs most often in shared libraries of code…
- breakpoint noun A point in a program at which operation may be interrupted during debugging so that the state of the program at that point can be…
- breeder noun A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies…
- brick verb To make (an electronic device) non-functional and usually beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
- bricked adj Not functional, broken, especially permanently.
- bricking noun The state of an electronic device being rendered completely unusable by a failed or corrupted firmware or software change.
- bridge verb To connect two or more computer buses, networks etc. with a bridge.
- bridge pattern noun A structural design pattern that decouples an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently.
- briefcase noun In Microsoft Windows, a folder that supports file synchronization between itself and another folder.
- brittle adj Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the…
- broadcaster noun A piece of equipment used to transmit data over a computer network.