This page gathers the 841 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Programming”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 9 of 9: from “variable” to “zipper”.
- variable noun A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
- variadic adj Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.
- variance noun Covariance and contravariance generally.
- variant noun A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
- vector noun A kind of dynamically resizable array.
- vend verb To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.
- verb noun A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
- vibe verb To vibe code.
- vibe coder noun Someone who generates source code by repeatedly prompting a large language model, and has a very limited awareness of how the code actually…
- vibe coding noun A method of programming in which a developer generates code by repeatedly prompting a large language model.
- view noun The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with
- view model noun An abstraction of a view, especially in the context of the MVVM architectural pattern.
- virtual noun A virtual (adjective sense 3.3) member function of a class.
- visibility noun The scope within which a variable, function, etc. is able to be accessed directly.
- visual programming language noun A programming language that lets users create programs by manipulating program elements graphically rather than by writing code.
- void adj Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
- volatile noun A variable that is volatile, i.e. has its associated memory immediately updated with any change in value.
- voodoo programming noun A slapdash approach to programming involving guesswork or plagiarism rather than proper analysis and comprehension.
- VRAM noun video memory (an area of a computer's memory used to hold data used by a graphics processing unit)
- wakelock noun A lock that can be acquired by software for the purpose of preventing the mobile device from going into a locked standby state during a…
- waker noun In the Rust programming language, a handle that "wakes up" a task by notifying its executor that it is ready to be run.
- wart noun Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
- watchpoint noun A debugging mechanism whereby execution is suspended every time a specified memory location is modified; or, any of various similar such…
- weak typing noun A system that does not place any restriction on the interactions between objects of different data types.
- weakly-typed adj Belonging to a type system that likely will not result in an error if a passed variable does not closely match the expected type.
- while loop noun A section of computer code in which an instruction or group of instructions is repeated only while a certain condition continues to be met.
- widen verb To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.
- widening conversion noun A conversion from one data type to another where the new data type’s size is the same or greater than the old one’s, guaranteeing that…
- wild pointer noun An uninitialized pointer.
- wormhole noun A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.
- wraparound noun The wrapping of numerical values in case of underflow or overflow.
- writable adj mutable
- WTF noun A bafflingly bad or unwise design decision.
- xor noun The symbolic representation that implements "exclusive or".
- xvalue noun A value representing an object near the end of its lifetime whose resources can be reused, typically by moving them.
- yield noun The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
- Yoda condition noun A logical condition with the usual order of operands reversed for various reasons, such as avoiding the accidental misuse of = (assignment)…
- zero-based adj Of an array or list: such the first element of the array or list is called the zeroth.
- zero-length adj Having a length of zero; containing no elements, text characters, etc.
- zip verb To subject to the convolution mapping function.
- zipper noun A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).