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(software engineering) A design pattern that may be commonly used, but is ineffective or counterproductive in practice.
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A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
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(regular expressions) A grouping in a regular expression that stores the value it matches.
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Alternative spelling of coroutine [(programming) A piece of code that performs a task, and that can be passed new input and return output more than once.]
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Having very many connections or a high degree of connectivity.
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(computing) A classifier that operates on other classifiers.
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(neurolinguistic programming) A thinking pattern which determines what information a person takes note of and what information they screen out.
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A template which forms the basis for other templates.
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An accountant or other person who deals with the calculation of numbers as a profession.
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(databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
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(computer science) the act of checking some sequence of tokens for the presence of the constituents of a pattern
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Of, relating to, or using a step-by-step program, especially a computer program.
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(computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
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A dataset composed of pseudodata
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(computing, more generally) Any pattern for text matching or searching, frequently offering more or less functionality than a theoretical regular expression.
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Initialism of ready-to-wear. [Describing apparel that does not need any tailoring (for example hemming) before it can be worn.]
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(computing, programming) A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does).
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(computing) An application making up part of a larger application.
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A block (of data, etc.) making up part of a larger block.
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(computing) A subordinate catalogue
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(computing) A chunk (block of data) forming part of a larger chunk.
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(chiefly computing) A conversation making up part of a larger conversation.
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(databases) A database making up part of a larger database.
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A device making up part of a larger device.
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(computing) Abbreviation of subdirectory. [(computing) A directory located inside another directory.]
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(computing) A directory located inside another directory.
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(computing) Any of the disks making up a RAID array.
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(computing) A folder within another folder.
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(computer science) A history (sequence of events or actions) making up part of a larger history.
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(computing) A match forming part of a larger match, for example in a text string being searched.
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(Internet) A secondary or subsidiary mirror.
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(computing) A namespace within another namespace.
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(computing theory) A node within another node of a network or element in a data structure.
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(computing) An operation making up part of a larger operation.
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(object-oriented programming) A package situated hierarchically below another package.
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(computing) A file or resource path relative to another path.
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(computing) A program contained within a larger program
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(chiefly programming) A property of another property.
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(databases) A query embedded within a more extensive query, relating only to the data returned by the parent query.
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(computing) Short for subrepository. [A repository comprising part of a larger repository.]
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(chiefly computing) A resource making up part of a larger resource.
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(computing) A secondary or subsidiary root.
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(computing) An inner scope contained within an outer scope.
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(chiefly signal processing) A slice that makes up part of a larger slice.
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(computing) A stream contained within another stream.
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(computing, rare) A subroutine called from another subroutine.
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(databases) A transaction making up part of a larger transaction.
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(computing) A partial write operation making up part of a larger one.
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A generic model or pattern from which other objects are based or derived.
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