Technology Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Citations in the Category Technology

Technology: computers, Internet, electronics, robots, machines, circuits, etc. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

(1/69 pages) 1 2 3 > Last »

3G n. Third generation networks…will enable users to make video calls and receive high-speed downloads of music, news, even short films. Overseas, 3G content has been dubbed as “girls, games and gambling.” [ Class Acronym Language English Subject Technology] [full cite] (Nov. 2, 2005)

advergaming n. Massive will place billboards and other signs in the games which will refresh automatically as players kill their way through various levels.…Advergaming, the term coined by those smart little spinners, is set to generate hundreds of millions of dollars every year. [English Advertising Technology] [full cite] (Apr. 14, 2005)

Ajax n. Google Suggest and Google Maps are two examples of a new approach to web applications that we at Adaptive Path have been calling Ajax. The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what’s possible on the Web. [English Technology] [full cite] (Mar. 15, 2005)

algo n. Powerful algorithms—“algos,” in industry parlance—execute millions of orders a second and scan dozens of public and private marketplaces simultaneously. They can spot trends before other investors can blink, changing orders and strategies within milliseconds. [English Money & Finance Technology Jargon Abbreviation] [full cite] (Aug. 9, 2009)

analog sunset n. Today is the day the federal government says cell phone companies can stop providing service to analog cellular users. It’s all part of the plan to improve coverage and service options through digital signals.…The industry calls the changeover “analog sunset.” [English Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 21, 2008)

Anonynet n. Here’s how it works—on the Anonynet all packets are anonymous—its not an option, its an inherent feature. You can voluntarily tell someone on the Anonynet who you are, but even then there is no way to prove or disprove that fact based on the Anonynet protocols. Basically the Anonynet becomes the true “Wild West” style Internet that we briefly had after it broke free from the DoD and before the government and its cabal of identity busting media corporations got interested in it. Users of the Anonynet will intereact with each other based on trust—the generally supposition is that incoming packets from it are armed and dangerous, and that they can be responded to in like kind. [English Technology] [full cite] (Dec. 22, 2004)

ant colony optimization n. Ant colony optimisation, as the technique is called, turns on the fact that such insects exploit food in what appears to be an intelligent, but is in fact an entirely mindless, way.…he computer scientists fill their machines with virtual ants and give them the task of finding their way through a maze or graph, leaving a coded signal as they pass until, just like the ants, the fastest route emerges. The technique is used in planning the most efficient design of a phone network, the best use of the gates at Heathrow and the management of wireless messages through a grid of receivers. In the phone system, for example, each message leaves a digital scent-mark as it passes through a node and, as it builds up, the fastest track soon attracts the most traffic. [English Biology Science Technology] [full cite] (Jul. 18, 2007)

anti-phrasing n. Wolfram Alpha works in the same way as Graffiti did: As Steven Wolfram says in his talk at the Berkman Center, people start out writing natural language but pretty quickly trim it down to just the key concepts (a process known in search technology circles as “anti-phrasing.”) In other words, by dint of patience and experimentation, we (or, at least, some of us) will learn to write queries in a notation that Wolfram Alpha understands, much like our hands learned Graffiti. [English Online Technology] [full cite] (May. 25, 2009)

approximeet n. You can’t “approximeet”—an excellent word that is defined as meeting in a vague area at an approximate time and then sorting out the details by mobile. [English Technology] [full cite] (Sep. 27, 2004)

artcasting n. Museums, realizing this is a way to reach a younger generation of potential patrons, are racing to get involved. They are making their in-house audio tours of special exhibits, as well as original programming, available on their websites for free use on iPods and other MP3 players. And art lovers can listen through their home computers as well. There’s even a newly coined term for the phenomenon—“artcasting.” [English Arts & Literature Technology] [full cite] (Jul. 6, 2006)

(1/69 pages) 1 2 3 > Last »