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noun
- (computing) Initialism of performance monitoring counter.
- Initialism of professional middle class.
- Initialism of professional–managerial class.
- (military) Initialism of private military company or corporation.
- (military) Initialism of private military contractor.
- Initialism of polar mesospheric cloud.
- (real estate) Initialism of property management company or corporation.
name
- (military) Initialism of People's Mobilization Committee.
- (Philippines, military) Initialism of Philippine Marine Corps.
- (Australian politics) Initialism of prime minister and cabinet.
- (military) Initialism of President of the Mess Committee.
- (software) Initialism of project management committee (a committee of the Apache Software Foundation)
noun
- A machine or algorithm that sums.
- One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as spanning either the period between the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, or the months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
- (architecture) A horizontal beam supporting a building.
- (poetic or humorous) year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.
- (figuratively) Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime.
- A person who sums.
- (countable, fashion) Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty
- the warmest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
verb
noun
- (computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.
- A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
- (management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
- (US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
- one who supervises or has charge and direction of
- a program that controls the execution of other programs
noun
- any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance
- a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves
- a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data
- (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
- (programming, loosely) An actual value given to such a formal parameter.
- A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
- (crystallography) The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
- (sciences) A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
- (geometry) In the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.
- (programming) An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.
- (commutative algebra) Clipping of uniformizing parameter.
- A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
- (crystallography) The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
- (statistics) Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population.
- (machine learning) A variable of a model that is trained by a machine learning algorithm.
noun
- the ratio of the output to the input of any system
- skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort
- (engineering, physics) The ratio of useful work to energy expended. Often given the symbol η.
- (US) A one-room apartment.
- The extent to which a resource is used for the intended purpose.
- The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.
verb
- compute the average of
- achieve or reach on average
- amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
- (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
- (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
- (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
- (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
adj
- lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
- relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
- approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
- around the middle of a scale of evaluation
- lacking exceptional quality or ability
- relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
- (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
- (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
- Typical.
- Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
noun
- an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual
- (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
- a statistic describing the location of a distribution
- (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
- (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
- (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
- (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
noun
- (countable) The group of computers involved in this practice.
- (uncountable) A method of transferring a computer file from one computer to another by copying it to a floppy disk, thumb drive, or some other external storage device, carrying the device to the other computer, and saving the file there, in contrast to electronic methods used by networked computers to transfer data.
noun
- (computing) A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.
- A very short space of time; an instant.
- One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
- The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
- A driving impulse or vital force; the vital center of something.
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- an animating or vital unifying force
adj
- (computing) Of a system: that responds to events or signals within a predictable time after their occurrence; specifically in which the response time must be within the maximum allowed, but is typically synchronous.
- Communicated as the events being responded to occur; communicated or proceeding without much delay.
- of or relating to computer systems that update information at the same rate they receive information
adj
noun
- (by extension) A person with low endurance.
- A person who cannot handle their drink; one who gets drunk on very little alcohol.
- Something that is light in weight, or relatively so.
- One of little consequence or ability.
- (rowing) A particular weight category as prescribed by the rules, separate from an open or heavyweight class.
- (combat sports) A particular weight class, or member of such, as prescribed by the rules, between that of the heavier welterweight and the lighter featherweight. See Wikipedia for the specifics of each sport.
- A political candidate with little chance of winning.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weight division as prescribed by the rules, between the heavier middleweight and the lighter featherweight.
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
- A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division.
- a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
- someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
verb
noun
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- (historically often capitalized) A sovereign country or city state, with the central government acting as its visible instrument.
- (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
- the territory occupied by a nation
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
- a state of depression or agitation
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
verb
noun
- (slang) Computing.
- (chemistry, uncountable) A nonmetallic element (symbol Si) with an atomic number of 14 and atomic weight of 28.0855.
- Abbreviation of silicon chip.
- (chemistry, countable) A single atom of this element.
- (slang) A computer processor.
- a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors
noun
- (computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.
- (philosophy) That which exists only as a quality of substance.
- (electronics) A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
- (music, in particular) One of several ancient Greek scales.
- (textiles) The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.
- A particular state of being, or frame of mind.
- Style or fashion; popular trend.
- A particular means of accomplishing something.
- (electromagnetism) A wave pattern in the electromagnetic field.
- (statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution.
- (especially engineering) A state related to signals or vibrations.
- (music) One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
- (video games) A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.
- (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
- how something is done or how it happens
- the most frequent value of a random variable
- a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
- any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
- verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- a particular functioning condition or arrangement
name
- (computing) A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.
- A surname.
- A suburb and ward in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2693).
- A census-designated place in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia, United States.
- A large village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5597).
noun
noun
- Initialism of performance monitoring system.
- Initialism of performance management system.
- Initialism of project management system.
- (computing, countable) Initialism of package management system.
- Initialism of planned maintenance system.
- Initialism of Phelan-McDermid syndrome.
- Initialism of performance measurement system.
- (medicine, uncountable) Initialism of premenstrual syndrome or premenstrual stress.
- a syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation
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name
verb
noun
- (computing) The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.
- One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
- (linguistics) A historical layer of a language.
- (biology) A layer of tissue.
- Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers.
- (ecology) A layer of vegetation, usually of similar height.
- (geology) A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.
- A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
- a subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling
- one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- people having the same social, economic, or educational status
noun
- (computing) A systems analyst.
- A mathematician who studies real analysis.
- Someone who is an analytical thinker.
- Someone who analyzes.
- (psychiatry) A practitioner of psychoanalysis.
- A financial analyst; a business analyst.
- someone who is skilled at analyzing data
- a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis
- an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions
noun
- (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer
- a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice
- the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
- the quality of being of practical use
- a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal
- (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
- The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
- (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
- Something that is useful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A coupé utility, or ute; an automobile with an open tray or bed behind the passenger cabin.
- (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system, or application software.
- (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
- (business, finance, by extension) A natural or legal monopoly distributer of such a utility; or, the securities of such a provider.
- (computing) A software program other than a game; one that is useful or creative rather than merely entertaining.
- (business) A commodity or service provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage.
adj
- capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
- used of beef; usable but inferior
- Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
- Functional rather than attractive.
- (Of a building or its components) containing or intended for any of a building’s often-utility-related commodity transport, such as pipes or wires, or converting equipment, such as furnaces, water tanks or heaters, circuit breakers, central air conditioning units, laundry facilities, etc.
noun
- (computer science) the time it takes for a process under computer control to occur
- the actual time that it takes a process to occur
- (computing) The duration required by a computer system to complete a particular task.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see real, time.
- The time during which an event or process occurs (and during which, without much delay, it is responded to, reacted to, etc).
noun
- (computing, rare) A background process similar to a daemon.
- A Komodo dragon.
- (UK, slang, rare, derogatory) An unattractive woman.
- (figurative) Something very formidable or dangerous.
- A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
- A sea dragon.
- Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.
- In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
- (military, weaponry, historical) A type of musket with a short, large-calibre barrel with a flared muzzle, often hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt.
- (with definite article, often capitalized) The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
- (mahjong) A class of playing tiles consisting of three types: white dragons, green dragons, and red dragons.
- In Eastern Asian mythologies, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent.
- (slang) Synonym of drag queen.
- (astronomy, with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco.
- A variety of carrier pigeon.
- (derogatory) A fierce and unpleasant woman.
- a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
- any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body
- a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman
noun
- (computing) Initialism of application performance management/monitoring.
- (gaming, uncountable) Initialism of actions per minute.
- (military, countable) Initialism of anti-personnel mine.
- (computing, uncountable) Initialism of advanced power management.
- (transport, countable) Initialism of automated people mover.
- (finance, countable) Initialism of arbitrage pricing model.
name
noun
- (computing) A computer program that monitors something.
- (computing) A musician who writes music in a tracker.
- (US politics) A person employed to follow and monitor a political rival.
- (file sharing) Server software that coordinates peers in the BitTorrent protocol.
- In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
- Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
- (finance) A tracker mortgage.
- (Australia) An Indigenous Australian employed by the law to track down fugitives and missing persons.
- (computing) A type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines.
- someone who tracks down game
verb
noun
- A datum used as the basis for calculation or for comparison.
- (typography) A line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs.
- (tennis) The line at the farthest ends of the court indicating the boundary of the area of play.
- A line that is a base for measurement or for construction.
- (engineering) A configuration of software, hardware, or a process that is established and documented as a point of reference.
- the lines a baseball player must follow while running the bases
- an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared
- the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line
noun
- (computer science, by extension) A property of systems where several processes execute at the same time.
- The property or an instance of being concurrent; something that happens at the same time as something else.
- (road transport, civil engineering) A stretch of road that is shared between two or more numbered or named routes.
- agreement of results or opinions
- acting together, as agents or circumstances or events
noun
- (computing) Intake of data into a computer system.
- (by extension) The process of ingesting something into a jet engine or an instance.
- The process of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.
- Any intake of a substance into an organism.
- the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
noun
- (computing, countable) A group of coordinated servers.
- (historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
- (historical) A baby farm.
- (countable) A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
- The body of farmers of public revenues.
- The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
- (countable, often in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
- (countable) A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
- (historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
- workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit
verb
- (Internet slang, derogatory, in compound terms) To act performatively or deliberately to elicit a desired response.
- (Internet slang, online gaming) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
- (UK, dialectal) To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out
- (transitive) To grow (a particular crop).
- (intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
- (transitive) To devote (land) to farming.
- (Internet) To cultivate and/or disseminate through artificial algorithm-incentivized means, especially in the a way that misinforms or causes harm.
- To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.
- collect fees or profits
- be a farmer; work as a farmer
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
noun
- (computer science) A system of instructions and data directly understandable by a computer's central processing unit.
- (computer science) Machine language instructions that can be executed directly by a computer's central processing unit.
- a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation
noun
- (computer hardware) Initialism of central processing unit.
- (nursing education) Initialism of clinical practice unit.
- (video games) Any character or entity controlled by the game software.
- (computing, slang) The main computer case containing the central components of a personal computer.
- (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
noun
- (computer science) a statistical theory dealing with the limits and efficiency of information processing
- (mathematics) A branch of applied mathematics and engineering involving the quantification of information sent over a communication channel, disregarding the meaning of the sent messages, exemplified by the noisy-channel coding theorem.
noun
- (countable) A type of system using such a method, differentiated by platform, configuration, frequency, power, and other technical attributes.
- (countable) An installation of such a system or of the transmitting and receiving apparatus.
- (uncountable) A system resembling sonar but used in the air, for meteorological measurements, rather than in water.
noun
- (computing) Initialism of performance monitoring counter.
- Initialism of professional middle class.
- Initialism of professional–managerial class.
- (military) Initialism of private military company or corporation.
- (military) Initialism of private military contractor.
- Initialism of polar mesospheric cloud.
- (real estate) Initialism of property management company or corporation.
name
- (military) Initialism of People's Mobilization Committee.
- (Philippines, military) Initialism of Philippine Marine Corps.
- (Australian politics) Initialism of prime minister and cabinet.
- (military) Initialism of President of the Mess Committee.
- (software) Initialism of project management committee (a committee of the Apache Software Foundation)
noun
- A machine or algorithm that sums.
- One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as spanning either the period between the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, or the months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
- (architecture) A horizontal beam supporting a building.
- (poetic or humorous) year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.
- (figuratively) Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime.
- A person who sums.
- (countable, fashion) Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty
- the warmest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
verb
noun
- (computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.
- A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
- (management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
- (US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
- one who supervises or has charge and direction of
- a program that controls the execution of other programs
noun
- any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance
- a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves
- a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data
- (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
- (programming, loosely) An actual value given to such a formal parameter.
- A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
- (crystallography) The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
- (sciences) A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
- (geometry) In the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.
- (programming) An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.
- (commutative algebra) Clipping of uniformizing parameter.
- A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
- (crystallography) The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
- (statistics) Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population.
- (machine learning) A variable of a model that is trained by a machine learning algorithm.
noun
- the ratio of the output to the input of any system
- skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort
- (engineering, physics) The ratio of useful work to energy expended. Often given the symbol η.
- (US) A one-room apartment.
- The extent to which a resource is used for the intended purpose.
- The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.
noun
- (countable) The group of computers involved in this practice.
- (uncountable) A method of transferring a computer file from one computer to another by copying it to a floppy disk, thumb drive, or some other external storage device, carrying the device to the other computer, and saving the file there, in contrast to electronic methods used by networked computers to transfer data.
noun
- (computing) A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.
- A very short space of time; an instant.
- One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
- The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
- A driving impulse or vital force; the vital center of something.
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- an animating or vital unifying force
noun
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- (historically often capitalized) A sovereign country or city state, with the central government acting as its visible instrument.
- (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
- the territory occupied by a nation
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
- a state of depression or agitation
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
verb
noun
- (slang) Computing.
- (chemistry, uncountable) A nonmetallic element (symbol Si) with an atomic number of 14 and atomic weight of 28.0855.
- Abbreviation of silicon chip.
- (chemistry, countable) A single atom of this element.
- (slang) A computer processor.
- a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors
noun
- (computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.
- (philosophy) That which exists only as a quality of substance.
- (electronics) A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
- (music, in particular) One of several ancient Greek scales.
- (textiles) The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.
- A particular state of being, or frame of mind.
- Style or fashion; popular trend.
- A particular means of accomplishing something.
- (electromagnetism) A wave pattern in the electromagnetic field.
- (statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution.
- (especially engineering) A state related to signals or vibrations.
- (music) One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
- (video games) A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.
- (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
- how something is done or how it happens
- the most frequent value of a random variable
- a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
- any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
- verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- a particular functioning condition or arrangement
noun
- Initialism of performance monitoring system.
- Initialism of performance management system.
- Initialism of project management system.
- (computing, countable) Initialism of package management system.
- Initialism of planned maintenance system.
- Initialism of Phelan-McDermid syndrome.
- Initialism of performance measurement system.
- (medicine, uncountable) Initialism of premenstrual syndrome or premenstrual stress.
- a syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation
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- (computing) The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.
- One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
- (linguistics) A historical layer of a language.
- (biology) A layer of tissue.
- Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers.
- (ecology) A layer of vegetation, usually of similar height.
- (geology) A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.
- A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
- a subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling
- one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- people having the same social, economic, or educational status
noun
- (computing) A systems analyst.
- A mathematician who studies real analysis.
- Someone who is an analytical thinker.
- Someone who analyzes.
- (psychiatry) A practitioner of psychoanalysis.
- A financial analyst; a business analyst.
- someone who is skilled at analyzing data
- a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis
- an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions
noun
- (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer
- a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice
- the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
- the quality of being of practical use
- a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal
- (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
- The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
- (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
- Something that is useful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A coupé utility, or ute; an automobile with an open tray or bed behind the passenger cabin.
- (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system, or application software.
- (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
- (business, finance, by extension) A natural or legal monopoly distributer of such a utility; or, the securities of such a provider.
- (computing) A software program other than a game; one that is useful or creative rather than merely entertaining.
- (business) A commodity or service provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage.
adj
- capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
- used of beef; usable but inferior
- Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
- Functional rather than attractive.
- (Of a building or its components) containing or intended for any of a building’s often-utility-related commodity transport, such as pipes or wires, or converting equipment, such as furnaces, water tanks or heaters, circuit breakers, central air conditioning units, laundry facilities, etc.
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- (computer science) the time it takes for a process under computer control to occur
- the actual time that it takes a process to occur
- (computing) The duration required by a computer system to complete a particular task.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see real, time.
- The time during which an event or process occurs (and during which, without much delay, it is responded to, reacted to, etc).
noun
- (computing, rare) A background process similar to a daemon.
- A Komodo dragon.
- (UK, slang, rare, derogatory) An unattractive woman.
- (figurative) Something very formidable or dangerous.
- A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
- A sea dragon.
- Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.
- In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
- (military, weaponry, historical) A type of musket with a short, large-calibre barrel with a flared muzzle, often hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt.
- (with definite article, often capitalized) The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
- (mahjong) A class of playing tiles consisting of three types: white dragons, green dragons, and red dragons.
- In Eastern Asian mythologies, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent.
- (slang) Synonym of drag queen.
- (astronomy, with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco.
- A variety of carrier pigeon.
- (derogatory) A fierce and unpleasant woman.
- a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
- any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body
- a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman
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- (computing) Initialism of application performance management/monitoring.
- (gaming, uncountable) Initialism of actions per minute.
- (military, countable) Initialism of anti-personnel mine.
- (computing, uncountable) Initialism of advanced power management.
- (transport, countable) Initialism of automated people mover.
- (finance, countable) Initialism of arbitrage pricing model.
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- (computing) A computer program that monitors something.
- (computing) A musician who writes music in a tracker.
- (US politics) A person employed to follow and monitor a political rival.
- (file sharing) Server software that coordinates peers in the BitTorrent protocol.
- In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
- Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
- (finance) A tracker mortgage.
- (Australia) An Indigenous Australian employed by the law to track down fugitives and missing persons.
- (computing) A type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines.
- someone who tracks down game
noun
- (computer science, by extension) A property of systems where several processes execute at the same time.
- The property or an instance of being concurrent; something that happens at the same time as something else.
- (road transport, civil engineering) A stretch of road that is shared between two or more numbered or named routes.
- agreement of results or opinions
- acting together, as agents or circumstances or events
noun
- (computing) Intake of data into a computer system.
- (by extension) The process of ingesting something into a jet engine or an instance.
- The process of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.
- Any intake of a substance into an organism.
- the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
noun
- (computing, countable) A group of coordinated servers.
- (historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
- (historical) A baby farm.
- (countable) A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
- The body of farmers of public revenues.
- The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
- (countable, often in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
- (countable) A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
- (historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
- workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit
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- (Internet slang, derogatory, in compound terms) To act performatively or deliberately to elicit a desired response.
- (Internet slang, online gaming) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
- (UK, dialectal) To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out
- (transitive) To grow (a particular crop).
- (intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
- (transitive) To devote (land) to farming.
- (Internet) To cultivate and/or disseminate through artificial algorithm-incentivized means, especially in the a way that misinforms or causes harm.
- To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.
- collect fees or profits
- be a farmer; work as a farmer
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
noun
- (computer science) A system of instructions and data directly understandable by a computer's central processing unit.
- (computer science) Machine language instructions that can be executed directly by a computer's central processing unit.
- a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation
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- (computer hardware) Initialism of central processing unit.
- (nursing education) Initialism of clinical practice unit.
- (video games) Any character or entity controlled by the game software.
- (computing, slang) The main computer case containing the central components of a personal computer.
- (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
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- (computer science) a statistical theory dealing with the limits and efficiency of information processing
- (mathematics) A branch of applied mathematics and engineering involving the quantification of information sent over a communication channel, disregarding the meaning of the sent messages, exemplified by the noisy-channel coding theorem.
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- (countable) A type of system using such a method, differentiated by platform, configuration, frequency, power, and other technical attributes.
- (countable) An installation of such a system or of the transmitting and receiving apparatus.
- (uncountable) A system resembling sonar but used in the air, for meteorological measurements, rather than in water.
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- compute the average of
- achieve or reach on average
- amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
- (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
- (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
- (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
- (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
adj
- lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
- relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
- approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
- around the middle of a scale of evaluation
- lacking exceptional quality or ability
- relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
- (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
- (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
- Typical.
- Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
noun
- an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual
- (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
- a statistic describing the location of a distribution
- (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
- (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
- (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
- (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
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- A datum used as the basis for calculation or for comparison.
- (typography) A line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs.
- (tennis) The line at the farthest ends of the court indicating the boundary of the area of play.
- A line that is a base for measurement or for construction.
- (engineering) A configuration of software, hardware, or a process that is established and documented as a point of reference.
- the lines a baseball player must follow while running the bases
- an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared
- the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line
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- (computing) Of a system: that responds to events or signals within a predictable time after their occurrence; specifically in which the response time must be within the maximum allowed, but is typically synchronous.
- Communicated as the events being responded to occur; communicated or proceeding without much delay.
- of or relating to computer systems that update information at the same rate they receive information
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- (by extension) A person with low endurance.
- A person who cannot handle their drink; one who gets drunk on very little alcohol.
- Something that is light in weight, or relatively so.
- One of little consequence or ability.
- (rowing) A particular weight category as prescribed by the rules, separate from an open or heavyweight class.
- (combat sports) A particular weight class, or member of such, as prescribed by the rules, between that of the heavier welterweight and the lighter featherweight. See Wikipedia for the specifics of each sport.
- A political candidate with little chance of winning.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weight division as prescribed by the rules, between the heavier middleweight and the lighter featherweight.
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
- A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division.
- a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
- someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous