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(computing) A device file, present in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, that discards all data written to it and yields no output.
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A simple mechanical or electromechanical calculator that could only perform simple calculations such as addition or subtraction
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(computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
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(computing) An electronic device that can read and output printed barcodes to a computer.
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(computing) A software or hardware mechanism that blits.
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(computing, uncountable) A metasyntactic variable similar to foo and bar
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A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations.
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A data structure that uses a single, fixed-size buffer as if it were connected end-to-end.
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An electronic device used by individual students in the classroom to respond to multiple-choice questions, etc.
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A hand-held button-operated device with a numerical display that adds a single digit to a tally with each click of the button.
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(computing) A set of images, distributed as files with other software, that may be copied and pasted into documents or other files.
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Alternative spelling of clip art [(computing) A set of images, distributed as files with other software, that may be copied and pasted into documents or other files.]
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(computing) Synonym of clock speed
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A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses.
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(computer graphics) A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.
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(historical) An early machine for adding numbers and producing a printed record of the sum.
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(computing) The various technologies used to create and manipulate such pictorial data.
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(artificial intelligence) The science and technology of machines that see, concerned with the theory for building artificial systems that obtain information from images, such as a video sequence, views from multiple cameras, or multi-dimensional data from a medical scanner.
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Any of several forms of fixed-length identification number on stamps, books, etc.
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(computing) A scheduler or timer that automatically starts a job, program, task.
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(sciences, statistics) Synonym of p-hacking
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Alternative spelling of data glove [(computing) a glove containing sensors to detect movement of the hand and fingers, used to control a computer-generated virtual reality environment]
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(electronics) A counter that counts in decimal digits, rather than in binary.
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A device that decodes a scrambled electronic signal e.g. of a satellite television signal
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(law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
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(uncountable) Digital equipment or technology.
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That which is digital, binary, or electronic.
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That has been converted from analog to digital
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(computer hardware) An early type of computer that used electromagnetic relays.
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Generated by an electronic device.
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A method of transmission of information non-locally, allowing FTL communication and back-in-time communication, through application of Steven Weinberg's proposed non-linear fields in quantum physics on entangled particles, accessing hidden variables of the Schrödinger equation.
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(computing) A data file containing computer animations.
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(computing) A control character traditionally used to cause the printer to eject the current page of output and start a new page, more recently equivalent to a carriage return.
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(computing) A video output device that drives a display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of graphical data.
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Alternative letter-case form of GIF [To create a GIF file of (an image or video sequence, especially relating to an event).]
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(uncountable, software) The GNU Image Manipulation Program, a computer program capable of manipulating digital images.
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(computing) The master disk image used in the initialization of VMs, hard disks, etc.
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(computing) A circuit board that generates and controls the visual display on a computer screen.
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(computing) Software engine in an application responsible for all functions pertaining to the graphics.
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(computing, graphical user interface) A line that forms part of a grid.
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(science fiction) A holographic disk used as a storage medium.
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(electronics) The horizontal synchronization signal incorporated in a video transmission, such as for a TV broadcast.
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(Internet) An image on a web page that is divided into shaped portions, each of which has an associated hyperlink.
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(computing) A system that creates a digital copy such as a disk image.
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(electronics) something done in the circuit, like a test
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(computing) Any device or circuit that carries out an incrementation operation
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(computing) Spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link.
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A band of magnetic material in which tiny iron-based particles are used for data storage, used on swipecards.
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(computing) In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.
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(computing) A very small application, often one of a group that are integrated into a website
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A very small disk (in any of many contexts)
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Alternative spelling of micro-floppy [(computing, dated) a 3.5-inch floppy diskette]
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(computing) A simple data format that can be embedded in a webpage.
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(programming) A very lightweight framework.
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Alternative spelling of mini-floppy [(computing, dated) a 5.25-inch floppy diskette]
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(computer graphics) Any of a group of computer file formats for the compression and storage of digital video and audio data.
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(of a computer bus) Having all components connected to the same set of electrical wires, each component listening for its own data and negotiating with the others in order to send.
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(video games) The ability of more than one player to participate in a game at the same time (especially by means of a network).
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Alternative spelling of multiplexer [A device that interleaves several activities; a switching device.]
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A combination of software and hardware permitting multiple displays to be shown together on a single display.
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(computing) A printer that receives its print jobs through a print server, as opposed to processing print jobs directly.
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(historical) A nonlisting adding machine.
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(transitive, computing) To format (text) using the nroff program, which produces output suitable for simple fixed-width printers and terminal windows.
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(computing) The electronic identification and digital encoding of printed or handwritten characters by means of an optical scanner and specialized software.
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(computing) A mouse (pointing device) that uses a light source and a light detector (for example, an LED and an array of photodiodes) to detect movement, as opposed to the earlier mechanical mouse.
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(computing) Any device that formats and presents data for display to a user; examples include printers and video monitors
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(computing, graphical user interface) A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.
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(computing, graphical user interface) A user interface control for displaying an image.
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(computing) An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.
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(obsolete) Anything uncommonly precise and exact.
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An electronic device used in precoding.
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(computing) A computer program that performs pretty-printing.
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Alternative form of pretty-print [(computing, informal, transitive) To display code (source code, markup, etc.) in a way that makes it more readable or visually appealing, perhaps using formatting, colour, or indentation.]
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(computing) A hardware or software device that stores a stream of data to be printed until a printer is ready to process it.
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Alternative form of quantizer [An electronic device that samples a varying quantity (e.g. a waveform) and generates a digital response]
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A computer program that performs rasterization.
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A display, particularly one that presents numerical data.
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An electromechanical computer peripheral for blind people, translating on-screen text into tactile braille.
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A device that automatically records a quantity.
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(computer graphics) A software or hardware process that generates a visual image from a model.
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(computing) The result or output of a scanning process.
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Alternative form of scancode [(computing) A numeric code transmitted by a computer keyboard to indicate which keys are currently being pressed.]
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(electronics) One of the horizontal lines that compose a raster scanning pattern, as on a television or computer display.
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Alternative spelling of screen reader [(computing) A software application that speaks aloud information from a computer display, for users with impaired vision.]
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A datum or the aggregate data collected by this means.
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Words and abbreviations used by radio operators and other signalmen to clarify the letters being sent and received, such as the RAF phonetic alphabet.
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Process by which an RFID reader identifies a tag with a specific serial number
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(radio) A distinct division of a channel or frequency band.
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(computing, by extension) A horizontal column in a text document where the cursor stops when the Tab key is pressed. It is used for alignment.
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(physics) To clone a quantum state and subsequently transmit it to a remote site.
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Of or pertaining to telecommunication.
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The science and techniques used to enact this process.
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The use of a teletypewriter.
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(obsolete) Synonym of teletype: a telegraph that automatically prints transmited messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols; the telegrams produced by this device.
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(computer graphics) A program or process that applies a visual texture.
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(chiefly computing) A small picture, used as a compact representation of a larger image.
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(computing) A program that generates thumbnail images.
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(computing) The route taken by packets over an IP network.
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(computing) A unit of measure equal to one twentieth of a point.
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(computing) A device in a computer that takes video data from the CPU and converts it to a serial bitstream in order to generate an output signal.
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Any of several electronic or digital devices or systems for the analysis and/or synthesis of speech.
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A program or device that carries out voice synthesis.
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(databases) A function that performs a calculation using values from several rows, but does not group them into a single row.
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(computing) A word processing feature which automatically adjusts lines of text to fit within the page margins. Words exceeding the margins are set to begin a new line.
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