This page gathers the 10,257 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Mathematics”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 38 of 103: from “giga-” to “grip”.
- giga- prefix Multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 2³⁰ or 1,073,741,824.
- gigabit noun One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 megabits.
- gigabyte noun One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes.
- gigaflop noun A unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion (10⁹) floating point operations per second.
- gigaword noun A unit of storage or capacity equal to (or 2³⁰ = 1,073,741,824) words. It is given the "giga" prefix because of the relative proximity of…
- gimped adj Modified by means of the GIMP image editor.
- Gingerbreadman map noun In dynamical systems theory, a chaotic two-dimensional map given by the piecewise linear transformation
- Gini coefficient noun A measure of the inequality of a statistical distribution, ranging from 0 (total equality) to 1 (maximal inequality), used in various…
- girth noun The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.
- gist noun A sharable snippet of source code, especially on the version controlled pastebin-hosting site GitHub Gist.
- given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow proverb Given a large enough beta tester and codeveloper base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be obvious to…
- glassmorphism noun A user interface style characterized by panels with a blurred translucency effect over background elements, mimicking frosted glass.
- glenzing noun A technique for simulating translucency by storing extra colour values in the palette that represent the combined colours of intersecting…
- glider noun In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the…
- glissette noun The locus described by any point attached to a curve that moves continuously along another fixed curve, the movable curve having no…
- glob noun A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.
- global noun A globally scoped identifier.
- global illumination noun The realistic lighting of a rendered scene by means of algorithms that take into account not only the direct illumination from light…
- globoid noun A spherical representation or projection of a sphere or ellipsoid.
- glome noun A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also…
- gluing noun A connection between the edges of two planes, or between the points at the ends of two lines.
- glyph noun A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style.
- gnomon noun A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram.
- go down verb To stop functioning, to go offline.
- go gold verb To be released to manufacturing in its final form, so that copies can be made and shipped.
- go into verb To divide, to be a factor of.
- go to noun The branching construct GOTO.
- God object noun A poorly designed object that does more than one thing and thus violates the single responsibility principle of SOLID.
- god-king noun A tyrannical maintainer of a collaborative project.
- Gödel sentence noun An arithmetic statement that can be metatheoretically shown to not be provable or refutable in a formal system.
- Goguen category noun A fuzzy kind of category in which membership is determined not in binary (true-or-false) fashion but by a more general interval.
- gold adj In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.
- Goldbach number noun A positive even integer that can be expressed as the sum of two odd primes; involved in Goldbach's conjecture.
- golden number noun Synonym of golden ratio.
- golden ratio noun The irrational number (approximately 1.618), usually denoted by the Greek letter φ (phi), which is equal to the sum of its own reciprocal…
- golden record noun A single authoritative record on an individual customer etc. that draws from various other data sources.
- golden section noun The division of a whole into two parts such that the ratio of the smaller part to the larger is equal to the ratio of the larger part to…
- golf verb To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)
- golfer noun One who takes part in code golf or regex golf.
- golygon noun A serial isogon of 90 degrees; any polygon with all right angles, whose sides are consecutive integer lengths.
- gömböc noun A convex shape which, if made of a uniformly dense material, has one stable equilibrium orientation and one unstable equilibrium…
- Gompertz curve noun Any of a family of curves, describing demographic growth, that increase exponentially at first before reaching a plateau.
- gonihedric adj of or pertaining to the generalization of the Feynman path integral to an integral over random surfaces
- Goodman and Kruskal's gamma noun A particular measure of rank correlation, i.e., the similarity of the orderings of the data when ranked by each of the quantities.
- goodput noun Application-level throughput, i.e. the number of useful bits per unit of time forwarded by a network from source to destination, excluding…
- Goodstein sequence noun A sequence of natural numbers generated from an initial value m, starting with that value, and proceeding by performing certain operations…
- gopher noun A Go programmer.
- goshwow adj Of or pertaining to a sense of wonder; awe inspiring; amazement causing.
- gossip noun Communication done using a gossip protocol.
- gotcha noun A feature of a system or a program that works in the way it is documented but is counter-intuitive and almost invites mistake or…
- GOTO noun Any construct which produces an unstructured jump in the flow of execution.
- Gouraud shading noun A method of simulating the effects of light and colour across the surface of an object, based on estimates of the surface normal of each…
- Gowers norm noun In the field of additive combinatorics, a class of norms on functions on a finite group or group-like object which quantify the amount of…
- GPT noun Initialism of GUID partition table.
- grab handle noun A visual cue indicating where a displayed object can be activated for resizing, etc. using the pointing device.
- graceful adj Gradual and non-disruptive.
- graceful degradation noun The ability of a system to maintain at least some of its functionality when portions are not working, or when certain features are not…
- grade noun A gradian.
- gradient noun The ratio of the rates of change of a dependent variable and an independent variable, the slope of a curve's tangent.
- gradient descent noun A first-order iterative optimization algorithm for finding a local minimum of a differentiable function.
- grading noun Gradation.
- graduate verb To approve (a feature) for general release.
- grammar noun A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
- grammar induction noun The process of constructing a model that captures the characteristics of observed objects by learning a formal grammar.
- grandfather noun The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
- granocentric adj Describing the formulation of a packing problem based on the free space around a grain (individual particle)
- graph noun A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities…
- graph minor noun A graph which can be formed from some specified graph by performing vertex deletions, edge deletions, and edge contractions on the…
- graph theory noun The branch of mathematics dealing with the properties of graphs (networks of vertices and edges).
- graph toughness noun A measure, expressed by a positive integer (with the exception of complete graphs), of the connectivity of a graph.
- graph-theoretically adv In a manner which uses graph theory
- graphical adj Of, related to, or using graphics.
- graphical user interface noun A type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and…
- graphics noun The pictorial representation and manipulation of data; the process by which a computer displays data.
- graphics processing unit noun A specialized electronic circuit designed to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.
- graphics tablet noun An input device that enables a user to draw images by hand, as if with a pencil, and import them into a computer system.
- graphing calculator noun A hand-held (usually programmable) electronic calculator which is capable of solving equations, plotting graphs and performing other tasks…
- graphoid noun A matroid that has two collections of nonempty subsets called circuits and cocircuits such that the intersection of any circuit and…
- Grassmann algebra noun A direct sum with an exterior product of multivector spaces which are all based on a same underlying finite-dimensional vector space. The…
- gray hat noun A hybrid between a white hat and a black hat hacker, who hacks for no personal gain, and does not have malicious intentions, but does…
- gray out verb To make (a visual element) gray or lighter in colour to indicate that it is disabled or unavailable.
- graymap noun A grayscale bitmap.
- great circle noun A circle defined as the intersection of the surface of a sphere and a plane which passes through the centre of the sphere.
- great icosihemidodecahedron noun A polyhedron having 26 faces, 30 vertices, 60 edges, six self-intersected faces, and six nonconvex faces.
- great rhombicuboctahedron noun An Archimedean solid that is isogonal and has twenty-six regular faces (twelve square, eight hexagonal and six octagonal).
- greatest common divisor noun The largest positive integer (respectively polynomial, element of a given ring) that is a divisor of each of a given set of integers…
- gree noun A degree.
- greedy adj That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.
- greek verb To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.
- greeking noun Nonsense text or graphics inserted into a document as a placeholder to create a dummy layout, or to demonstrate a type font; the practice…
- green thread noun A thread of execution that is scheduled by a virtual machine, not natively by the underlying operating system.
- greenfield adj Of a completely new development, without the need to integrate with legacy systems, etc.
- grep verb To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
- grey-box testing noun A combination of black-box testing and white-box testing, where knowledge about the internal data structures and algorithms is used to…
- greyware noun Software that is not outright malicious but is generally undesirable or annoying, such as adware.
- grid noun A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific…
- grid method noun A visual approach to the multiplication of polynomials through the use of a grid-like structure to represent the multiplicand terms
- grim trigger noun A strategy that always cooperates as long as the opponent does not defect, in which case thereafter the strategy always defects.
- grind verb To automatically format and indent code.
- grip noun A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved by dragging with a mouse or finger.