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

Entries in the Category Technology

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

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email bankruptcy n. choosing to delete, archive, or ignore a very large number of email messages without ever reading them, replying to each with a unique response, or otherwise acting individually on them. (posted Apr. 30, 2007) [full entry…]

farmer n. in role-playing video games, a player who accumulates in-game wealth rather than participate in game play. (posted Dec. 29, 2005) [full entry…]

femtosecond n. 10 to the -15th power or 0.000000000000001 second, equalling a quadrillionth of a second or 0.3 light microns. (posted Apr. 21, 2004) [full entry…]

finger trouble n. a problem caused by a typographical error, incorrect settings on a machine, or poor manual dexterity. (posted Jul. 4, 2007) [full entry…]

frankenpine n. a cellular telephone tower camouflaged to look like a pine tree. (posted Aug. 16, 2007) [full entry…]

fraudband n. low-quality broadband Internet service. (posted Jun. 22, 2007) [full entry…]

griefer n. an online game player who willfully and habitually disrupts game play. (posted Jan. 18, 2005) [full entry…]

i18n n. internationalization. (posted Jul. 16, 2005) [full entry…]

informationalization n. the computerization of business, industry, and military. (posted Sep. 25, 2006) [full entry…]

lappy n. a laptop computer. (posted Sep. 1, 2004) [full entry…]

lopomo n. lower power mode; a state in which an electric power supply uses less energy. (posted Jun. 15, 2007) [full entry…]

MP3Jing n. the live mixing or playing of recorded music in a dance club or other public space using a portable digital audio device such as an Apple iPod. (posted Dec. 21, 2004) [full entry…]

nine n. in a percentage between 99 and 100, a place on either side of the decimal point given a value of nine and counted in serial to indicate a number very near 100 percent, such as in measurements of reliability, accuracy, purity, etc. (posted Jun. 21, 2006) [full entry…]

off-deck adj. (said of software or digital media) coming from a remote server or system. (posted Jul. 21, 2006) [full entry…]

pain point n. a level of difficulty sufficient to motivate someone to seek a solution or an alternative; a problem or difficulty. (posted Feb. 8, 2007) [full entry…]

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