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 8 of 59: from “calligraphic projection” to “check out”.
- calligraphic projection noun A system for displaying or projecting an image composed of a beam of light or electrons directly tracing the image, as opposed to sweeping…
- calligraphics noun The use of calligraphic projection.
- calloc noun A subroutine in the C programming language's standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation.
- callout noun The invocation of an external third-party component.
- calltip noun A pop-up reminder of the signature of a function or method, to aid the programmer while writing code.
- camel case noun Especially in computer programming, and in the names of brands and organizations: a style of typography in which several words are…
- camelize verb To change a variable or object name that consists of several words into camel case.
- camera noun The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
- can noun Abbreviation of controller area network.
- Canadian traveller problem noun A generalization of the shortest path problem to graphs that are only partially observable (i.e. the graph is revealed while it is being…
- canary verb To test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.
- canary release noun A deployment strategy performed in order to reduce the risk of introducing a new software version in production by slowly rolling out the…
- candidate key noun In the design of a database table, a column (or an irreducible group of them) able to identify every row of the table, having a unique…
- canned benchmark noun A computer program designed for the sole purpose of benchmarking the hardware it's being run on.
- Canny edge detector noun An operator that uses a multistage algorithm, involving the calculus of variations, to detect the edges in an image.
- canonical adj In canonical form.
- canonical form noun A standard or normal presentation of a mathematical entity or a text string, etc.
- canoniser noun a software component, algorithm, or process that converts data with multiple possible representations into a single, standard, or…
- canvas noun A region on which graphics can be rendered.
- capability noun A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control.
- capped collection noun In MongoDB, a fixed-size collection that, once the size limit has been reached, replaces the oldest record whenever a new one is added.
- Caps Lock noun An input mode in which all letters of bicameral scripts are generated in capital letters.
- CAPTCHA noun A computerized test requiring the human user to perform a task deemed to be difficult to automate, such as entering a displayed series of…
- capture noun A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
- capture card noun A circuit board allowing a computer to record video from an external source.
- captureless adj (of a lambda function) That has an empty capture list.
- car noun The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.
- card noun A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
- card reader noun A data input device that reads data from a card-shaped storage medium.
- Cardan grille noun A sheet of card or thin metal, etc., used in composing secret messages. The words of the message are written through a number of holes cut…
- cardinal spline noun A series of curves joined to form a larger one, defined by a set of control points and an amount of tension.
- cardinality noun The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or…
- cardware noun Synonym of postcardware.
- cargo culting noun An approach that copies an existing successful approach without properly analysing and understanding it.
- caricature noun In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.
- carousel noun A visual component that displays a horizontal series of items one at a time.
- carriage control character noun A character, added to the beginning of each line of text to be printed on a line printer, that controls the movement of paper through the…
- carriage return noun The control character (0x0D in ASCII, abbreviated as CR) that originally signaled a device to perform a carriage return, but now merely…
- carry noun The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- carry out noun A command that exports a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) from the current column of an addition operation.
- carry-in noun A command that adds a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) to an accumulator for the current digit in an addition…
- carry-lookahead noun A command that checks whether there will be a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) for the current digit in an…
- cart noun A cartridge for a computer or video game system.
- Cartesian closed category noun A category which has a terminal object and which for every two objects A and B has a product A × B and an exponential object Bᴬ.
- Cartesian product noun All possible combinations of rows between all of the tables listed.
- Cartesian square noun A pullback.
- cartridge noun A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
- case noun A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
- case mod noun A modification to the outer case of a computer or video game console, to change its appearance or improve its performance.
- case sensitive adj Distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters. Often used in computer science to indicate a distinction is made in comparison or equality of…
- case sensitivity noun The characteristic of being case sensitive; having different reactions to typed letters based on whether the letters are uppercase or…
- case-based reasoning noun The process of solving new problems based on the known solutions of similar problems encountered in the past.
- casing noun The state of letter case across a whole phrase or whole lines of text; the collective state/arrangement of uppercase and lowercase letters.
- cassette drive noun A cassette tape interface unit for computers, used to read and/or write data to/from a minicassette.
- cast verb To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
- cast away verb To eliminate by means of a cast operation.
- castable adj Capable of being cast to another data type.
- casting noun The act of converting between data types.
- cat noun A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
- catalogue noun A directory listing.
- catcall noun In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type.
- catch verb To handle an exception.
- categorical dual noun For a given category C, its dual category Cᵒᵖ is obtained by reversing the direction of each one of the arrows of C.
- categorification noun A procedure that defines theorems in terms of category theory by mapping concepts from set theory to category theory.
- category reference noun A reference that specifies within some taxonomy or text typology one or more defined categories into which the referenced article, computer…
- caustic noun The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
- cave noun A code cave.
- CD noun Initialism of collision detection.
- cdi noun Initialism of context(s) and dependency injection.
- cdr noun The second part of a cons in Lisp. The remainder of a list when the first element is removed.
- cel shading noun A style of non-photorealistic rendering suggesting the flat, hand-drawn appearance of a comic or cartoon.
- cell noun The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
- cell-oriented programming noun A programming paradigm where the fundamental unit of computation is a self-contained cell that can process and store data and communicate…
- cellular automaton noun An automaton consisting of cells arranged in a regular grid, in one or more dimensions. Each application of an associated rule creates a…
- censor noun An algorithm that approves or rejects something on grounds of taste or morality etc.
- censorware noun Software or hardware used to filter content on the Internet or block Internet access or restrict the running of applications or computer…
- census noun A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.
- centipede game noun An extensive form game in which two players take turns choosing either to take a slightly larger share of an increasing pot, or to pass the…
- central processing unit noun The part of a computer that fetches, decodes and executes instructions from memory, possibly through a cache.
- cepstrum noun The inverse Fourier transform of the logarithm of a magnitude spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
- certificate noun The information needed in order to verify a positive answer to a problem.
- CFG noun Initialism of context-free grammar.
- chain verb To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- chain-of-responsibility pattern noun A behavioural design pattern that consists of a source of command objects and a series of processing objects.
- chaincode noun Alternative form of chain code.
- chained adj Linked in a chain.
- change management noun the controlled implementation of required changes to some system; includes version control and planned fallback
- changelog noun A log that records changes between versions, as in source control.
- char noun A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
- character noun One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
- character encoding noun A well-defined correspondence between text characters and the numeric values used to represent them.
- character set noun The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.
- characterwise adj In terms of text characters.
- charityware noun Software distributed in a way that benefits a charity, as by users being encouraged to donate to the charity in lieu of paying for the…
- charm noun An icon providing quick access to a command or setting.
- chatterbox noun Synonym of chatterbot.
- chatty adj Supplying more information than necessary; verbose.
- cheap adj Taking little of system time or resources.
- check in noun The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
- check out verb To obtain source code (or other material) from a source control repository so that one can modify it (and often later check in the modified…