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 9 of 59: from “checkbox” to “clustered”.
- checkbox noun An on-screen box that can be optionally filled with a check mark, to enable or disable a setting.
- checked build noun A special version of a software program that can provide advanced debug information in the event of a fault.
- checkerboard rendering noun A rasterization optimization technique where on every pass only a part of the final resolution is rendered (sometimes in a checkerboard…
- checkpoint noun A situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be…
- checksum noun A number, derived by applying a suitable algorithm to some data, used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission, storage or…
- cherry-pick verb In source control, to commit selected changes from one branch to another.
- chiclet keyboard noun Any of various early computer keyboards having an array of small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys.
- child noun A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
- chinkware noun Software created in China, regarded as being likely to maliciously surveil the user; Chinese spyware.
- chippy noun A chiptune.
- chipset noun A group of integrated circuits that are designed to work together, and are usually marketed as a single product.
- choice machine noun A type of computing model where the next action is not entirely determined by its current state and the symbol it reads.
- chomp noun A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.
- Chomsky hierarchy noun A containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. From least to most specialized, the classes are: recursively enumerable…
- Chomsky Normal Form noun A context-free grammar in which the right hand side of any production rule consists of either one terminal symbol or two non-terminal…
- chooser noun A user interface element allowing something to be selected from a list or group.
- chop verb To remove the final character from (a text string).
- chord noun A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- chorded adj Through which input is supplied by pressing a relatively small number of keys in combinations, as though playing chords.
- chording noun The ability, using a keyboard or similar device, to enter characters or commands in the form of "chords" by pressing several keys…
- chosen-ciphertext attack noun An attack on a cryptosystem that relies on the attacker's ability to choose any ciphertext of their liking and decrypt it into the…
- chosen-plaintext attack noun An attack on a cryptosystem that relies on the attacker's ability to choose any plaintext of their liking and encrypt it into the…
- chrome noun The basic structural elements used in a graphical user interface, such as window frames and scroll bars, as opposed to the content.
- Chromebox noun a generic ChromeOS-based network-terminal-style personal computer (this style of PC is the size of a home modem or home network router)
- chromeless adj Without chrome (basic visual elements).
- chroot verb To change the apparent root directory for a running process, affecting whether or not it can access certain files etc.
- chunk noun A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
- chunker noun A software tool for dividing text into chunks.
- chunking noun The division of memory or data etc. into smaller units for easier processing.
- chunklet noun A group of data points belonging to the same constraint cluster.
- chunkwise adj In terms of chunks; one chunk of data at a time.
- chuntey noun A supposed aura surrounding the cassette loading mechanism of the ZX Spectrum computer, highly sensitive to disruption, which will cause…
- Church-Rosser property noun The property of a rewriting system for which x stackrel *↔y implies x mathbin ↓y for all objects x, y.
- cilly noun Any predictable facet of the Enigma Machine cipher due to operator error or laziness, whose existence helped the Allies to break the code.
- cipher noun A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
- ciphertext-only attack noun An attack on a cryptosystem that relies only on the attacker's knowledge of some ciphertexts encrypted with that system and key. Less…
- circuit breaker noun A design pattern used to detect failures and prevent them from constantly recurring.
- circuit rider noun A computer consultant who advises non-profit organizations.
- circulation time noun The amount of time that elapses in a multiprocess system from the time when a process is loaded for execution until the time when the same…
- cisoid noun Complex sinusoid or complex exponential.
- citizen noun A notional inhabitant of a software system; an object or a software application.
- clairvoyant adj Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given advance information about the problem.
- class adapter pattern noun An adapter pattern where the adapter is created by implementing or inheriting both the interface that is expected and the interface that is…
- class diagram noun A type of static structure diagram that describes the structure of a system by showing the system's classes, their attributes, and the…
- class-based adj Structured by defining classes of objects.
- class-based language noun A programming language in which behaviour reuse (or inheritance) is performed via cloning classes instead of using objects as prototypes.
- classful adj Of or relating to a network-addressing architecture that divides the address space into a number of classes.
- classical cipher noun A cryptographic algorithm was used historically and are easy to solve by hand or using modern technology.
- classical computer noun A computer which is not a quantum computer, nor enjoys any other sort of (yet unknown) mechanism for transcending known computer science; a…
- classifier noun A program or algorithm that classifies.
- classifying morphism noun A morphism from an object to the subobject classifier which corresponds to a unique subobject of the said object, which subobject is the…
- clause noun A constituent (component) of a statement or query.
- CLDC noun Connected limited device configuration
- clean verb To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
- clean code noun Non-redundant software code comprising of focused task-specific modules and functions, written in a systematic manner so that another coder…
- clean URL noun A web address or URL intended to improve the usability and accessibility of a website, web application, or Web service by being immediately…
- cleanroom verb To copy (a design) by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any copyrights.
- clear verb To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
- click verb To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
- click of death noun A clicking sound produced by the unexpected movement of the read-write actuator in a Zip drive or hard drive, associated with hardware…
- clickability noun The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked
- clickable noun Any element that can be clicked by the user.
- clickjacking noun A malicious technique whereby part of a webpage is covered by transparent or misleading content that receives the user’s mouse clicks, thus…
- clicko noun The inadvertent depressing of a computer mouse button on a wrong selection.
- clickwrap license noun A license which is implicitly agreed to when the user clicks on a particular user interface element, such as a button or link.
- client noun The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
- client-server adj describes computer software usually comprising a number of client modules, and a server module to which they are connected in some way. The…
- client-side storage noun The practice of storing data on a user's device, such as a web browser rather than on a remote server.
- clinching noun The distortion of computer tape by wrinkling.
- clip verb To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- clip art noun A set of images, distributed as files with other software, that may be copied and pasted into documents or other files.
- clipboard noun A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from one place within an application to another or…
- Clipper chip noun A microchip promoted by the US government in the mid-1990s as an encryption device to be used by all telecommunications companies, and…
- clipping noun The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level.
- clobber verb To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.
- clock noun A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
- clock cycle noun The time between two adjacent pulses of the oscillator that regulates the tempo of the computer processor.
- clock rate noun Synonym of clock speed.
- clock signal noun A signal that oscillates between a high and a low state and is used like a metronome to coordinate actions of digital circuits.
- clockable adj Of an ordinal such that an infinite-time Turing machine can complete in so many steps of computation.
- cloner noun A software program that duplicates media.
- cloop noun A compression technology for Linux files stored on a read-only block device that allows files to be decompressed on the fly.
- close verb To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- close out verb To terminate a computer program.
- closed adj Not in current use; not connected to as a resource.
- closed beta noun A testing arrangement in which a beta test version of software is distributed to a small group of testers.
- closed platform noun A computing system where the manufacturer retains monopolistic control over installation, distribution, and use of software and services.
- closed shop noun A facility that runs programs on behalf of others, giving them no oversight over execution but merely returning the output at the end.
- closed source adj Whose constituent makeup, or source code, is not made publicly available.
- closing form noun A method to end an implemented functionality.
- closure noun An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular…
- cloud computing noun Computing services provided over the Internet (or the “cloud”), whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to…
- cloud storage noun A model of computer data storage in which data, said to be in the cloud, is stored remotely in logical pools and is accessible to users…
- cloudification noun The conversion and/or migration of data and application programs in order to make use of cloud computing.
- cloudify verb To convert and/or migrate data and application programs in order to make use of cloud computing.
- cloudlet noun A small-scale cloud data center deployed at the edge.
- cloudy adj Using or relating to cloud computing.
- cluon noun The imaginary elementary particle of cluefulness; the anti-particle to the bogon.
- cluster noun A group of computers that work together.
- clustered adj Used as the clustering key of a clustered index.