English words for '(computing) The delay arising from communication between networked computers.'
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noun
- (telecommunications) The delay that occurs when a call arrives at an automatic switching device and no channel or facility is immediately available to process the call.
- (telecommunications) The time between the instant a system receives a call attempt and the instant of initiation of ringing at the target device.
noun
- (networking) The management of the data transmission rate between two nodes to prevent a fast sender from outrunning a slow receiver.
- (environmental engineering, US) Laws, regulations, and economic incentives or disincentives used by waste managers to direct waste generated in a specific geographic area to a designated landfill, recycling, or waste-to-energy facility.
- (aviation, US) The practice of holding aircraft on the ground in anticipation of congestion at destination airspace and airports.
verb
noun
- (computing) A service that purposely delays incoming connections in order to reduce the effectiveness of spamming and similar techniques.
- A lake of asphalt formed when subterranean bitumen leaks to the ground surface. Such pits are important in forming fossil fuel reserves; they are also apt to trap passing animals, which become fossilized in the tar.
noun
- (networking) The rate at which data is transferred through a system.
- (optics) Synonym of etendue.
- (operations) The rate of production; the rate at which something can be processed.
- output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time)
noun
- (networking) Latency.
- (video games) A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
- (Wikimedia jargon) A notification.
- (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
- (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
- a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)
verb
- (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
- (colloquial) To flick.
- To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (Australia, colloquial) To penalize.
- (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
- (ambitransitive, LGBTQ, slang) To trigger a person's gaydar; to look or act obviously homosexual.
- (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To bounce.
- (networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
- (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
- hit with a pinging noise
- contact, usually in order to remind of something
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active
- make a short high-pitched sound
noun
- (computing, networking) The total amount of time spent by a user of a computer connected to a network.
- (computing, networking) The amount of time during which a user of a remote terminal is connected with a time-sharing system.
- The amount of time it takes to establish a connection.
- (electronics) The amount of time that a circuit is in use, usually in a circuit-switched environment.
name
adj
noun
noun
- the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time
- buying and selling; especially illicit trade
- the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
- social or verbal interchange (usually followed by ‘with’)
- Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
- The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
- The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
- The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
- (advertising) The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc., in a publication.
- The commodities of the market.
- (radio) Of CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
verb
- deal illegally
- trade or deal a commodity
- (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
- (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
- (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
adj
noun
verb
intj
noun
- The act of connecting multiple computer networks together; internetworking.
- (rare) The act of entwining or linking things together so as to form a network; interconnecting, networking.
- (informal) The act of using the Internet; specifically, searching for information using the Internet.
- The act of connecting a computer, an electronic device, etc., into a computer network (in particular, the Internet).
verb
noun
- (computing) The notional part of a network configuration which isolates computers physically from connection to a wider network such as the Internet.
- (computing) A secure networking solution that uses Host Identity Protocol to make the network invisible to hackers while still allowing endpoints to communicate with the broader network.
noun
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- (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
- 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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adv
prep
noun
- (communication, computing) Initialism of transmit packet steering, a scaling technique for network traffic processing.
- (uncountable, physics) Initialism of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
- (countable, physics) Initialism of X-ray photoelectron spectroscope.
- (manufacturing) Initialism of extruded polystyrene (“plastic foam”).
name
noun
- (artificial intelligence) The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
- Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
- A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
- Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
- (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
- the state of being not yet evident or active
- (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
- the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
noun
- (uncountable) Delay; latency.
- A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
- (snooker) A method of deciding which player is to start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
- (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
- (US, carpentry) Clipping of lag screw.
- A bird, the greylag.
- (slang) A period of imprisonment.
- One who lags; that which comes in last.
- The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.
- the time between one event, process, or period and another
- the act of slowing down or falling behind
- one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
adj
verb
- (computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.
- (transitive) To slacken
- To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
- To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
- throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
- cover with lagging to prevent heat loss
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
noun
- (computing, networking) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
- (fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
- Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
- the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.
verb
noun
verb
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
adv
adj
- Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service.
- being in progress now
- connected to a computer network or accessible by computer
- on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system
- Of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid.
- Of a system: active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant.
- (slang) Immersed in Internet culture. (Usually modified by an intensifier such as extremely or terminally)
- Connected to the Internet.
- Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.
- Available on a computer system, even if not networked.
verb
noun
- The temporary reduction of bandwidth through a communications network by controlling the package flow rate, in order to minimise congestion.
- Reduction in amount of chemical or other fluid in process such as a heating or ventilation system.
- Reduction in flow rate between two points caused by an intermediate restriction, device, structure or configuration.
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
verb
noun
- (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.
- (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.
noun
- (computing, Internet) Initialism of denial of service.
- (emergency services) Initialism of death on scene.
- (sciences) Initialism of density of states.
- (military) Initialism of date of separation.
- (computing) Initialism of disk operating system
- (education) Initialism of director of studies.
- (military) Initialism of date of service.
- an operating system that is on a disk
name
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, computing) To transfer data to a computer on a network, especially to a server on the Internet.
- (Canada) To transfer jurisdiction and responsibility of a government asset or service to a higher level of government.
- transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location
noun
noun
- the rate at which circuits or other devices operate when handling digital information
- (electronics) The speed at which data is sent over a data link or channel; generally expressed in bytes per second.
- (telephony) The fee that a cell phone customer is charged for data traffic (sending and receiving data).
adj
- (computing theory) Without the possibility of data packets colliding on the network.
- (physics, of an interaction, or of the transfer of energy) That does not involve a collision between particles, bodies, plasmas or waves.
- (computing theory) Without the possibility of items having the same value, which would prevent reliable lookup.
noun
- (computing) a system that enforces boundaries between computer networks
- an electrical device that sets off an alarm when someone tries to break in
- (computing) A similar software system that prevents unauthorised access.
- A hardware system that prevents unauthorised intrusion into a premises, and reports such attempts.
noun
- (networking, informal) The rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second; the bitrate.
- (graph theory) The minimum, over all orderings of vertices of a given graph, of the length of the longest edge.
- The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.
- (informal) The capacity, energy or time required.
- (of a signal) The width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit.
- a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel
noun
- (computing, telecommunications) The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
- (phonology) A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap [ɾ] before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.
- (uncountable) The unlicensed racing of horses or greyhounds.
- An instance where one, or something, flaps.
- the motion made by flapping up and down
adj
verb
noun
- (telecommunications) The delay that occurs when a call arrives at an automatic switching device and no channel or facility is immediately available to process the call.
- (telecommunications) The time between the instant a system receives a call attempt and the instant of initiation of ringing at the target device.
noun
- (networking) The management of the data transmission rate between two nodes to prevent a fast sender from outrunning a slow receiver.
- (environmental engineering, US) Laws, regulations, and economic incentives or disincentives used by waste managers to direct waste generated in a specific geographic area to a designated landfill, recycling, or waste-to-energy facility.
- (aviation, US) The practice of holding aircraft on the ground in anticipation of congestion at destination airspace and airports.
noun
- (networking) The rate at which data is transferred through a system.
- (optics) Synonym of etendue.
- (operations) The rate of production; the rate at which something can be processed.
- output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time)
noun
- (networking) Latency.
- (video games) A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
- (Wikimedia jargon) A notification.
- (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
- (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
- a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)
verb
- (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
- (colloquial) To flick.
- To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- (Australia, colloquial) To penalize.
- (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
- (ambitransitive, LGBTQ, slang) To trigger a person's gaydar; to look or act obviously homosexual.
- (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To bounce.
- (networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
- (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
- hit with a pinging noise
- contact, usually in order to remind of something
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active
- make a short high-pitched sound
noun
- (computing, networking) The total amount of time spent by a user of a computer connected to a network.
- (computing, networking) The amount of time during which a user of a remote terminal is connected with a time-sharing system.
- The amount of time it takes to establish a connection.
- (electronics) The amount of time that a circuit is in use, usually in a circuit-switched environment.
noun
- the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time
- buying and selling; especially illicit trade
- the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
- social or verbal interchange (usually followed by ‘with’)
- Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
- The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
- The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
- The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
- (advertising) The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc., in a publication.
- The commodities of the market.
- (radio) Of CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
verb
- deal illegally
- trade or deal a commodity
- (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
- (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
- (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
adj
noun
verb
intj
verb
noun
- (computing) A service that purposely delays incoming connections in order to reduce the effectiveness of spamming and similar techniques.
- A lake of asphalt formed when subterranean bitumen leaks to the ground surface. Such pits are important in forming fossil fuel reserves; they are also apt to trap passing animals, which become fossilized in the tar.
noun
- The act of connecting multiple computer networks together; internetworking.
- (rare) The act of entwining or linking things together so as to form a network; interconnecting, networking.
- (informal) The act of using the Internet; specifically, searching for information using the Internet.
- The act of connecting a computer, an electronic device, etc., into a computer network (in particular, the Internet).
verb
noun
- (computing) The notional part of a network configuration which isolates computers physically from connection to a wider network such as the Internet.
- (computing) A secure networking solution that uses Host Identity Protocol to make the network invisible to hackers while still allowing endpoints to communicate with the broader network.
noun
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- (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
- 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.
adj
adv
prep
noun
- (communication, computing) Initialism of transmit packet steering, a scaling technique for network traffic processing.
- (uncountable, physics) Initialism of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
- (countable, physics) Initialism of X-ray photoelectron spectroscope.
- (manufacturing) Initialism of extruded polystyrene (“plastic foam”).
name
noun
- (artificial intelligence) The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
- Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
- A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
- Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
- (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
- the state of being not yet evident or active
- (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
- the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
noun
- (uncountable) Delay; latency.
- A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
- (snooker) A method of deciding which player is to start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
- (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
- (US, carpentry) Clipping of lag screw.
- A bird, the greylag.
- (slang) A period of imprisonment.
- One who lags; that which comes in last.
- The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.
- the time between one event, process, or period and another
- the act of slowing down or falling behind
- one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
adj
verb
- (computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.
- (transitive) To slacken
- To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
- To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
- throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
- cover with lagging to prevent heat loss
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
noun
- (computing, networking) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
- (fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
- Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
- the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- The temporary reduction of bandwidth through a communications network by controlling the package flow rate, in order to minimise congestion.
- Reduction in amount of chemical or other fluid in process such as a heating or ventilation system.
- Reduction in flow rate between two points caused by an intermediate restriction, device, structure or configuration.
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
verb
noun
- (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.
- (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.
noun
- (computing, Internet) Initialism of denial of service.
- (emergency services) Initialism of death on scene.
- (sciences) Initialism of density of states.
- (military) Initialism of date of separation.
- (computing) Initialism of disk operating system
- (education) Initialism of director of studies.
- (military) Initialism of date of service.
- an operating system that is on a disk
name
noun
- the rate at which circuits or other devices operate when handling digital information
- (electronics) The speed at which data is sent over a data link or channel; generally expressed in bytes per second.
- (telephony) The fee that a cell phone customer is charged for data traffic (sending and receiving data).
noun
- (computing) a system that enforces boundaries between computer networks
- an electrical device that sets off an alarm when someone tries to break in
- (computing) A similar software system that prevents unauthorised access.
- A hardware system that prevents unauthorised intrusion into a premises, and reports such attempts.
noun
- (networking, informal) The rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second; the bitrate.
- (graph theory) The minimum, over all orderings of vertices of a given graph, of the length of the longest edge.
- The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.
- (informal) The capacity, energy or time required.
- (of a signal) The width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit.
- a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel
noun
- (computing, telecommunications) The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
- (phonology) A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap [ɾ] before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.
- (uncountable) The unlicensed racing of horses or greyhounds.
- An instance where one, or something, flaps.
- the motion made by flapping up and down
adj
verb
verb
noun
- (computing) A service that purposely delays incoming connections in order to reduce the effectiveness of spamming and similar techniques.
- A lake of asphalt formed when subterranean bitumen leaks to the ground surface. Such pits are important in forming fossil fuel reserves; they are also apt to trap passing animals, which become fossilized in the tar.
noun
verb
intj
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
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, computing) To transfer data to a computer on a network, especially to a server on the Internet.
- (Canada) To transfer jurisdiction and responsibility of a government asset or service to a higher level of government.
- transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location
noun
adv
adj
- Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service.
- being in progress now
- connected to a computer network or accessible by computer
- on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system
- Of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid.
- Of a system: active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant.
- (slang) Immersed in Internet culture. (Usually modified by an intensifier such as extremely or terminally)
- Connected to the Internet.
- Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.
- Available on a computer system, even if not networked.
verb
adv
adj
- Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service.
- being in progress now
- connected to a computer network or accessible by computer
- on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system
- Of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid.
- Of a system: active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant.
- (slang) Immersed in Internet culture. (Usually modified by an intensifier such as extremely or terminally)
- Connected to the Internet.
- Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.
- Available on a computer system, even if not networked.
verb
adj
- (computing theory) Without the possibility of data packets colliding on the network.
- (physics, of an interaction, or of the transfer of energy) That does not involve a collision between particles, bodies, plasmas or waves.
- (computing theory) Without the possibility of items having the same value, which would prevent reliable lookup.