English words for '(computing) Initialism of shortest access time first, a disk scheduling algorithm or approach'
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- (computing) The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.
- (US, Canada) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- (architecture, construction) The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
- (architecture, construction) The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
- (mathematics) The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
- (nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
- a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
- the distance or interval between two points
- the complete duration of something
- two items of the same kind
verb
- (transitive) To extend through (a time period).
- (transitive) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
- (mathematics) To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
- (transitive) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
- (transitive) To extend through the distance between or across.
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
verb
- (transitive, mathematics) To reach maximum throughput on at least part of a constrained network.
- (transitive, zoology) To alter sperm to allow it to fertilize eggs.
- (transitive) To make capable of functioning in a given capacity.
- make capable
- make legally capable or qualify in law
- cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg
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- (computing) The time interval between the issuing of a request to read data from or write data to a storage device and the completion of this action.
- (computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive
- (computing) An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed.
verb
- To create a time-schedule.
- (transitive, US) To classify as a controlled substance.
- (transitive) To plan (an activity or event) for a specific date or time.
- (transitive) To add (a name) to the list of those participating in an event; to reserve a place or time for.
- (transitive, Australia, medicine) To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law.
- plan for an activity or event
- make a schedule; plan the time and place for events
noun
- (computer science) An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.
- A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur.
- (US, law, often capitalized) One of the five divisions into which controlled substances are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.
- (law) A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.
- A serial record of items, systematically arranged.
- (Australia, law, medicine) One of the nine schedules of the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons. Identical to the American usage above.
- a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
- an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur
verb
- set the speed, duration, or execution of
- assign a time for an activity or event
- regulate or set the time of
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- (transitive) To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
- (transitive) To choose when something commences or its duration.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
noun
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- a suitable moment
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
- (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
- (uncountable) The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
- (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- (uncountable with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- (countable) An experience.
- (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
- (UK, in public houses) Closing time.
- (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- (uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- (uncountable) Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
- (uncountable) Rhythmical division, meter.
- (physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- (music, uncountable) The measured duration of sounds.
- (countable) An instance or occurrence.
- (jazz) (uncountable) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
- (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- (countable) An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
- (countable) A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
- (with possessives) The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
- The hour of childbirth.
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- (computing) Initialism of Time Sharing Option.
- (computing) Initialism of TCP segmentation offload.
- (aviation) Initialism of Technical Standard Order (“minimum performance standard issued by the United States Federal Aviation Administration for materials, components and processes used in civil aircraft”).
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- (computing) Initialism of instructions per second.
- (computing) Initialism of Internet Provider Security.
- Initialism of ichthyosis prematurity syndrome.
- Initialism of idiopathic pneumonia syndrome.
- (computing) Initialism of intrusion prevention system.
- (engineering) Initialism of iron piping size.
- Initialism of idiopathic postprandial syndrome.
- (electronics) Initialism of in-plane switching (“LCD screen technology”).
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- (computing) Initialism of Detailed Timing Descriptor.
- (physics, telecommunications) Initialism of Double Talk Detection.
- (computing, telecommunications) Initialism of Data Transfer Device.
- (pathology, psychology) Initialism of dissociative trance disorder.
- (computing, publication) Initialism of Document Type Definition.
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- (computing) Initialism of real-time computing.
- (UK, emergency services) Initialism of road traffic collision.
- (Philippines, law) Initialism of Regional Trial Court.
- (computing) Initialism of real-time control.
- (electronics) Initialism of real-time clock.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of real-time communications.
- (computing) Initialism of rational team concert.
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- A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
- (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.
- A rank or grade; a stratum.
- Something that ties.
- A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
- One who ties (knots, etc.).
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- any one of two or more competitors who tie one another
- one of two or more layers one atop another
- something that is used for tying
- a worker who ties something
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- (computing) Initialism of Windows Storage Server.
- (computing) Initialism of Web Security Service.
- (computing) Windows SharePoint Services, former name of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
- (electronics) Initialism of Wavelength Selective Switching.
- (computing) Initialism of WS-Security (meaning Web Services Security).
- (computing) Initialism of Windows Sound System.
- (computing) Initialism of Windows Server System.
- (computing) Initialism of Windows Search Service.
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- (software compilation) Initialism of link-time optimization.
- (electrochemistry, uncountable) Initialism of lithium titanate oxide (“Li₄Ti₅O₁₂”).
- (space science, countable) Initialism of lunar transfer orbit.
- (computing) Initialism of Linear Tape-Open, an open standard computer storage tape format having a single spooled cartridge with half-inch tape.
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- (computing theory) A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.
- (uncountable) The act of applying tiles.
- A covering of tiles.
- (geometry) A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
- the application of tiles to cover a surface
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- (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- (computing) A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
- (weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
- (motor racing, slang) The start/finish line.
- A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
- A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.
- Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
- A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
- (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- a kind or category
- an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
- V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
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name
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- (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
- a transparency for use with an overhead projector
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
- (transport) A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
- (tennis) A smash.
- (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
- (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
- (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
- (countable) An overhead projector.
- (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
- (computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
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- (computing) The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.
- (US, Canada) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- (architecture, construction) The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
- (architecture, construction) The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
- (mathematics) The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
- (nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
- a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
- the distance or interval between two points
- the complete duration of something
- two items of the same kind
verb
- (transitive) To extend through (a time period).
- (transitive) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
- (mathematics) To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
- (transitive) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
- (transitive) To extend through the distance between or across.
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
noun
- (computing) The time interval between the issuing of a request to read data from or write data to a storage device and the completion of this action.
- (computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive
- (computing) An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed.
noun
- (computing) Initialism of instructions per second.
- (computing) Initialism of Internet Provider Security.
- Initialism of ichthyosis prematurity syndrome.
- Initialism of idiopathic pneumonia syndrome.
- (computing) Initialism of intrusion prevention system.
- (engineering) Initialism of iron piping size.
- Initialism of idiopathic postprandial syndrome.
- (electronics) Initialism of in-plane switching (“LCD screen technology”).
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phrase
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- (computing) Initialism of Detailed Timing Descriptor.
- (physics, telecommunications) Initialism of Double Talk Detection.
- (computing, telecommunications) Initialism of Data Transfer Device.
- (pathology, psychology) Initialism of dissociative trance disorder.
- (computing, publication) Initialism of Document Type Definition.
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- (computing) Initialism of real-time computing.
- (UK, emergency services) Initialism of road traffic collision.
- (Philippines, law) Initialism of Regional Trial Court.
- (computing) Initialism of real-time control.
- (electronics) Initialism of real-time clock.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of real-time communications.
- (computing) Initialism of rational team concert.
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- (software compilation) Initialism of link-time optimization.
- (electrochemistry, uncountable) Initialism of lithium titanate oxide (“Li₄Ti₅O₁₂”).
- (space science, countable) Initialism of lunar transfer orbit.
- (computing) Initialism of Linear Tape-Open, an open standard computer storage tape format having a single spooled cartridge with half-inch tape.
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phrase
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- (computing theory) A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.
- (uncountable) The act of applying tiles.
- A covering of tiles.
- (geometry) A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
- the application of tiles to cover a surface
verb
noun
name
noun
- (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
- a transparency for use with an overhead projector
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
- (transport) A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
- (tennis) A smash.
- (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
- (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
- (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
- (countable) An overhead projector.
- (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
- (computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
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- (transitive, mathematics) To reach maximum throughput on at least part of a constrained network.
- (transitive, zoology) To alter sperm to allow it to fertilize eggs.
- (transitive) To make capable of functioning in a given capacity.
- make capable
- make legally capable or qualify in law
- cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg
verb
- To create a time-schedule.
- (transitive, US) To classify as a controlled substance.
- (transitive) To plan (an activity or event) for a specific date or time.
- (transitive) To add (a name) to the list of those participating in an event; to reserve a place or time for.
- (transitive, Australia, medicine) To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law.
- plan for an activity or event
- make a schedule; plan the time and place for events
noun
- (computer science) An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.
- A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur.
- (US, law, often capitalized) One of the five divisions into which controlled substances are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.
- (law) A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.
- A serial record of items, systematically arranged.
- (Australia, law, medicine) One of the nine schedules of the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons. Identical to the American usage above.
- a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
- an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur
verb
- set the speed, duration, or execution of
- assign a time for an activity or event
- regulate or set the time of
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- (transitive) To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
- (transitive) To choose when something commences or its duration.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
noun
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- a suitable moment
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
- (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
- (uncountable) The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
- (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- (uncountable with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- (countable) An experience.
- (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
- (UK, in public houses) Closing time.
- (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- (uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- (uncountable) Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
- (uncountable) Rhythmical division, meter.
- (physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- (music, uncountable) The measured duration of sounds.
- (countable) An instance or occurrence.
- (jazz) (uncountable) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
- (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- (countable) An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
- (countable) A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
- (with possessives) The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
- The hour of childbirth.
intj
verb
noun
- A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
- (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.
- A rank or grade; a stratum.
- Something that ties.
- A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
- One who ties (knots, etc.).
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- any one of two or more competitors who tie one another
- one of two or more layers one atop another
- something that is used for tying
- a worker who ties something
verb
noun
- (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- (computing) A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
- (weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
- (motor racing, slang) The start/finish line.
- A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
- A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.
- Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
- A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
- (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- a kind or category
- an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
- V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service