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(computer hardware, software) A software extension or hardware peripheral that provides additional functions or customization for a core application or system.
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(computing) A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
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(computing) a small program module that runs under the control of a larger application, typically a web browser
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(banking) A device that provides bank customers with cash withdrawal and other services without the need for a human teller.
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(computing) That part of a hardware or software system that is farthest from the user; the internals rather than the user interface.
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(computing, informal) A shell command specific to the Bash interpreter.
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(manufacturing, computing) A computerized list of materials and components, structured in a manner to support computer-based materials procurement and production scheduling.
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(computing) A stripped-down server with a modular design, optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy.
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(computing) A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.
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(databases) Synonym of natural key
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(military) Any combination of characters or pronounceable words, which identifies a communication facility, a command, an authority, an activity, or a unit; used primarily for establishing and maintaining communications.
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A small sticker, usually placed on the front of a personal computer, stating the name of the company who produced the computer.
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(computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
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(computing, dated) A directory listing.
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(computing) A specialized server that retrieves chunks of data.
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(computing) The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
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(computing) describes computer software usually comprising a number of client modules, and a server module to which they are connected in some way. The clients make requests of the server; the server processes the requests and returns the results to the appropriate client.
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(computing, Microsoft Windows) A specialized .NET class implementing a particular operation in Windows PowerShell.
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(computing) A Business Intelligence technology, produced by Canadian company Cognos software, which was bought by IBM.
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(computing) A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.
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(computing) The text prompt presented to the user in a command line interface.
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(computing) Alternative form of command line interface [(computing) A user interface in which the user interacts with the computer through lines of text instead of graphical images.]
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(obsolete) A person employed to carry out computations.
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(archaic) A mechanical device that performs computation.
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(computing) the ability to operate a personal computer and its associated software and hardware, and to understand most of the underlying concepts (but not necessarily the electronics, or a programming language)
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(software engineering) a computer program, or network of computers, that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system.
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(rare) Based on computer technology.
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(dated) A computer user.
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(sometimes informal or humorous) The study of computers, or any kind of work with computers; computing.
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(informal) Of or pertaining to computers.
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(obsolete) A person who calculates or computes
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(computing) A small software application intended to assist in the configuration of a particular part of the system.
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(computing) A software component that provides access from an application program to an external database or data source, such as a JDBC connector.
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(computing) Synonym of cons
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(computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.
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(retail) An alphanumeric code used to identify the offer associated with a coupon.
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A fax machine that transmits the electronic data in an encrypted form
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Alternative spelling of data centre [A facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.]
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A facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.
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(computing) The transfer of data between the components of a computer
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(computing) A piece of software that performs desktop publishing.
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(computing) a public key certificate
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The use of the idle time of large numbers of networked computers to work on projects too large for any single group.
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(computing) a network server that stores the installation files for distribution over a network.
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(computing, mechanical engineering) Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.
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(computing) An application which allows software to run in protected mode, even though the host operating system runs only in real mode.
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(computing) A computer program which aids in the downloading of files.
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(computing) A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
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(computing) A computer folder to which files may be dragged and dropped and from which users of other computers on the network can access those files.
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(computing) A particular visual or WYSIWYG text editor (first written by Richard Stallman in 1975 but since reimplemented by others in several distinct versions), distinguished by its use of control characters as editing commands, by its lack of distinct "insert" and "edit" modes, and by its featurefulness and extensibility.
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(computing) The use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications.
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(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
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(computing) A Windows executable file.
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Any of a series of file systems that use one or more FATs.
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A short series of text characters at the end of a computer filename, used to indicate the type of contents and the software that will be required to operate or open it.
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(computing) Alternative form of fileserver [(computing) A server used to share files with other computers.]
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Alternative spelling of file system [A physical system for organizing documents, as in a library or office.]
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(computing) An identifier indicating the type of information contained in an electronic format.
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(computing) Something in between hardware and software. Like software, it is created from source code, but it is closely tied to the hardware it runs on.
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(computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
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(computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
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(transport, networking) Being or relating to a topology, whether for the physical distribution of goods or for telecommunications, that has a central "hub" connecting a number of outlying "spokes".
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(computing) A firmware or software system that provides a virtual machine and allows it to operate directly on underlying hardware (instead of via emulation), but within specified constraints.
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(computing) Synonym of issue tracking system
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(computing) The processing of data using computers, and the movement of data between computers.
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(computing) The accuracy, consistency and reliability of the information content, processes and systems, especially with regard to database corruption.
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Any data processing system, either manual or computerized.
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(computing) The computing department of an organization.
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The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
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(computing) A task (in a mainframe computer) that initiates multiple jobs.
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Alternative spelling of interprocess communication [(computing) A set of techniques for the exchange of data among two or more threads in one or more processes.]
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(computing) The connection between a user and a machine.
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(computing) A software application that is in charge of unattended background executions known for historical reasons as batch processing.
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Alternative spelling of keyserver [(cryptography) In public key cryptography, the server that stores and distributes the public key files.]
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(computing) Synonym of thin client
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(computing) An old computer system or application program that continues to be used because the user (typically an organization) does not want to replace or redesign it.
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One who works with mainframe computers.
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(management) A computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content, especially for loading to a website
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(software) A window or application whose purpose is to give the user the control over some aspect of the system.
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(computing) A software application for the playback of audio and video files.
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A proposed computer system, implemented with electromechanical controls and microfilm equipment, that would permit a researcher to follow and annotate topics of interest, analogous to later hypertext technologies.
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(computing) depending mainly on messaging
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(computing) A directory service that lists other directory services.
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(computing) A protocol that dictates the form of other protocols.
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(sometimes science fiction) A digital database of a person's life, seen as a mechanism for preserving human knowledge or consciousness.
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(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.
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(networking) The transmission of data from multiple nodes of a mobile phone network to an individual mobile device simultaneously
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(Internet) The practice of designing separate versions of a website for various different types of mobile device, and serving the appropriate version to each visitor.
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Alternative spelling of name server [(Internet) A program or server that maps human-readable names to computer addresses, especially as part of the Domain Name System.]
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(computing, sometimes attributive) A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.
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(nursing, computing) Informatics as applied to nursing: the application of information science and information technology to nursing science and practice.
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(computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
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(computing, of software) Installed and run on computers on the premises of the organisation that uses it, and not elsewhere (such as in a server farm or in the cloud).
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(management) Describing a service operation at which all of a customer's needs may be satisfied by a single server, without waiting in a second queue.
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(computing) A system allowing hardware and software from different manufacturers to be used together seamlessly.
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The office of an operator
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(computing) A hand-held micro-computer that will perform specific tasks; can be used as an electronic diary, alarm clock, recorder of memos and notes, a portable database etc.
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The first part of a United Kingdom postcode, before the space.
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(computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another.
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(computing) a task or process that periodically checks for a condition being satisfied, such as the availability of new data
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(computing) A computer user who seeks and uses products having the most features and the fastest performance.
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(radio) specific code from the aforementioned set
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Alternative spelling of Q code [(radio) code used as a shorthand for common messages, consisting of sequences all beginning with Q]
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A two-dimensional barcode, typically used to link to a website.
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(computing, finance) A computer system or service that provides stock market quotations
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(computing) A database of configuration settings etc. maintained by the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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(computing) A technology that allows a computer program to cause a subroutine or procedure to execute in another address space, commonly on another computer on a shared network, without the programmer explicitly coding the details for this remote interaction.
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(networking) A message sent over a network to a server.
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(computing) Using REST (Representational State Transfer).
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(computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment.
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(computing) An isolated area where a program can be executed with a restricted portion of the resources available.
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(computer science) An operating system component responsible for allocating several resources, most commonly the use of processors by different concurrent processes or threads.
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(computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.
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(computing) A text box for the input of text to be searched for in a database, on the Internet, etc.
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(computing) A noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way.
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(computing) A computer dedicated to running such programs.
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(computing, networking) Synonym of server
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(computing) A server-side directive in a certain scripting language used on the World Wide Web, allowing the contents of external files to be included at specified points within a web page.
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(computing) A document, used in the design of an IT project, that specifies the requirements from the viewpoint of the client and defines how these are actually fulfilled from a technical and organizational point of view
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(computing) The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored.
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(computing) A prewritten list of commands, and perhaps other control information, to be executed (interpreted) by a shell or other command interpreter.
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(computing, security) An indirect source of information about what a system is doing, such as execution time, version number, etc.
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(derogatory, informatics) A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.
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(computing, telecommunications) Of a operating system, etc., only capable of serving one user at a time, not many users simultaneously.
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(computing) A speech recognition and intelligent personal assistant application developed by Apple Inc. for its iOS operating system.
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(computing) One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
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(computing) Standard error: a stream to which error messages are sent, often the same stream as stdout.
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(transitive, networking) To break (a network) into subnets.
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(computing) A group of related computer programs distributed together.
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(computing, informal) A data store on a user's computer that can be accessed by websites and used as a more persistent form of cookie.
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(dated, computing) Synonym of information superhighway
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(computing) A user with complete access to the operating system and its configuration.
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(computing) A computerized request for assistance with a particular issue.
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(computing, attributive) Abbreviation of system. [(derogatory) Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.]
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(computing) A group of connected IBM mainframe systems that share resources.
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(computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
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(computing) A person who oversees the day-to-day operation of a computer system
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(computing) A new computer part that has not been unpacked, but is excess inventory from an end-of-lifed system configuration.
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(computing) The software associated with an operating system and supporting utilities, database systems etc.
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(computing) A person whose job is to perform systems analysis by being responsible for researching, planning and recommending software and system choices to meet an organization's business requirements.
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Alternative spelling of system software [(computing) The software associated with an operating system and supporting utilities, database systems etc.]
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(computing) Abbreviation of system tray. [(computing, graphical user interface) The portion of the taskbar that displays the system time and icons for running processes, which can often launch menus for those processes.]
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(computing) A utility which displays information about the status of the individual processes and applications running on a computer and information regarding the general status of the running computer, and, in some implementations, allows the user to manually launch, modify, or terminate individual processes and applications.
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(computing) A kind of simple task in some operating systems.
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(computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
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Any of a set of words that share the same numeric combination as another when typed using a mobile phone that uses predictive text
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(computing) A minimal client that relies on the server to do most of its processing.
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A company that is contracted, by a bank etc., to conduct some part of a financial transaction process; especially a company that provides software or hardware for such a process
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(computing) A technique that allows many users to use a central computer simultaneously through remote terminals.
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(multimedia) A method of synchronizing audio, especially in SMIL or SVG.
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(computing) A set of software tools or components.
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(computing) A set of utility programs, subroutines or similar software.
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(computing) a person who creates utility programs
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(computing) A standard software protocol and applications programming interface (API) that regulates communication between software applications and imaging devices such as scanners and digital cameras.
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Short for ubiquitous computing. [A concept of computing as pervasive and ambient, not limited to particular devices or locations.]
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(computing) A client application used by an end user, typically for a network protocol such as HTTP or FTP.
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(computing) The desired, expected, or actual experience of a user interacting with a product, especially as it relates to the design of the product's user interface.
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(computing, often attributive) A level of privilege on a system allowing users to run programs etc. safely without full access to the operating system.
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(often attributive) An information retrieval service of the 1970s and 1980s permitting subscribers to access a remote database and receive requested data on a video display.
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(computing) A computer system that is implemented in software rather than hardware and that runs bytecode.
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(computing) Synonym of hypervisor
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(computing) A virtualized server cohosted with other virtual server instances on the same hardware.
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(computing) Software that provides virtualization services.
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(computing) A spoken instruction to a computer.
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(computer hardware) the computer on which such software runs.
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(computing) The creation, input, editing and formatting of documents and other text using software on a computer.
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A device similar to a simple computer, designed for word processing.
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(computing) A file (or system of files) in which related software and data can be manipulated or developed in isolation from others.
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(computing) Software that allows editing on screen what the printed version would be like; software with a what-you-see-is-what-you-get display interface.
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