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

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avalanching n. APDs are devices that detect incoming laser light from transmitters, convert that light into electrical signal and amplify that signal internally by a process known as avalanching, thus enhancing the receiver sensitivity. [ Language English Register Jargon Subject Technology] [full cite] (Oct. 9, 2005)

avar n. Designing cars for computer animation is not designing for the real world, but it has similarities. To orchestrate the motion, Pixar used a shared platform, a system not unlike a real carmaker’s. The film’s cars have a common software “chassis,” a “universal rig” of 100 animation controls known as avars. Suspensions are customized: the 50’s cars are looser and bouncier. [English Movies Technology] [full cite] (May. 20, 2006)

baby sitter test n. The software design owes an obvious debt to the TiVo’s famous attention to detail. In fact, the MovieBeam service is so easy to use, it easily passes what home-theater aficionados call the Baby Sitter Test. [English Technology New or Nonce] [full cite] (Jun. 1, 2006)

backfeed n. Backfeed is the term used to describe the sometimes lethal (to unsuspecting utility workers) voltage that appears on an apparently isolated circuit. [English Technology] [full cite] (Apr. 7, 2006)

backhaul n. Research firm GeoResults measures the market for the wholesale transport of communications traffic, or “backhaul” as it is called, at $2.8 billion in 2007, and projects the market to grow to $15.3 billion by 2011. [English Media Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Sep. 21, 2007)

backscatter n. Backscatter occurs when a spammer spoofs a legitimate e-mail address to send an unsolicited message to large distribution lists, causing the e-mail server to flood an unsuspecting e-mail address owner’s mailbox with hundreds or thousands of failed delivery messages or bounce backs. [English Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 8, 2008)

bacn n. This one’s hot off the presses, so we’re still deciding on the lame factor. It seems we have a new term in Web 2.0 land, “bacn.” Brought to light at the recent Pittsburgh Podcamp event, the term is being described as “notifications you want, just not right now.” It is in regards to all the special email newsletters and notification we sign up to. Even though you’re expecting them and love the content, now is just not a good time to read them—but you want to; you just don’t have time right now. [English Online Technology New or Nonce Abbreviation] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2007)

badware n. Other badware-related files are listed in the VIR files directory. [English Technology] [full cite] (Jan. 28, 2006)

baked in adj. VMware created the market for x86 virtualization in 2001, but industry experts predict 2006 is the year when the technology will finally take off. For one thing, Intel and AMD are starting to roll out chips with virtualization capabilities baked in. [English Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 20, 2006)

bandwidth rape n. Turner also saw his computer server suddenly flooded with Internet data traffic at about 100 times the normal rate—a major concern, because he is billed for all data that flows into and out of the server. In what’s known as “bandwidth rape,” tens of thousands of copies of his Web site and files were being downloaded to the same computers in an apparent bid to saddle him with overwhelming bandwidth fees and force him to shut down, Turner claims. [English Online Technology Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 2, 2007)

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