Words I Had To Look Up

A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)

A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.

(bureaucracy) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.

The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.

Diligence; close thought or attention.

A kind of needlework; appliqué.

Compliance.

assent

/əˈsɛnt/

Agreement; act of agreeing

To agree; to give approval.

To admit a thing as true.

asynchronous

/eɪˈsɪŋkɹənəs/

Not synchronous; occurring at different times.

(of a request or a message) Allowing the client to continue during processing.

(communication) Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other.

atomicity

The quality or state of being atomic.

The number of atoms in a molecule.

The state of a system (often a database system) in which either all stages complete or none complete.

captious

/ˈkæpʃəs/

That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.

Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.

conniption

/kəˈnɪp.ʃən/

A fit of anger or panic; conniption fit.

A fit of laughing; convulsion.

corpus

/ˈkɔːpəs/

/ˈkɔɹpəs/

A collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic or a particular author, etc.

(specifically) Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.

A body, a collection.

cruft

/kɹʌft/

Anything old or of inferior quality.

Redundant, old or improperly written code, especially that which accumulates over time; clutter.

Meaningless and/or gratuitous content displayed on computer consoles in visual entertainment productions.

To generate cruft.

delta

/ˈdɛltə/

The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.

A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.

The letter D in the ICAO spelling alphabet, which assigns words to letters of the alphabet.

The symbol Δ.

A small but noticeable effect. Compare epsilon.

The set of differences between two versions of a file.

A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference".

The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.

A type of cargo bike that has one wheel in front and two in back.

The closed figure produced by connecting three coils or circuits successively, end for end, especially in a three-phase system.

The rate of change in an option value with respect to the underlying asset's price.

A value in delta notation indicating the relative abundances of isotopes.

(U.S. Space Force) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF operations wing, or an army regiment.

desiderata

Something that is wished for, or considered desirable.

discrete

/dɪsˈkɹiːt/

Separate; distinct; individual; non-continuous.

That can be perceived individually and not as connected to, or part of something else.

Having separate electronic components, such as individual diodes, transistors and resisters, as opposed to integrated circuitry.

(audio engineering) Having separate and independent channels of audio, as opposed to multiplexed stereo or quadraphonic, or other multi-channel sound.

Having each singleton subset open: said of a topological space or a topology.

Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause.

dispossess

/dɪspəˈzəs/

To deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them.

To take possession of the ball/puck etc. (from someone).

divesting

To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).

To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary.

To undress.

epicurean

/ˌɛp.ɪ.kjʊəˈɹiː.n̩/

/ˌɛp.ɪ.kjʊˈɹi.n̩/

One who is devoted to pleasure.

Pursuing pleasure, especially in reference to food or comfort.

Devoted to luxurious living.

esoteric

/ˌɛs.əʊˈtɛɹ.ɪk/

/ˌɛs.oʊˈtɛɹ.ɪk/

An esoteric doctrine or treatise; esoteric philosophy.

One who believes, or is an initiate, in esoteric doctrines or rites.

Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest, or an enlightened inner circle.

Having to do with concepts that are highly theoretical and without obvious practical application; often with mystical or religious connotations.

Confidential; private.

facile

/ˈfa.sʌɪl/

/ˈfæs.əl/

Easy, now especially in a disparaging sense; contemptibly easy.

Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with.

Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).

Lazy, simplistic (especially of explanations, discussions etc.).

Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.

funicular

A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable

Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.

Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.

idempotent

/aɪ.dəmˈpoʊ.tənt/

An idempotent element.

An idempotent structure.

Said of a function: describing an action which, when performed multiple times on the same subject, has no further effect on its subject after the first time it is performed.

Said of an element of an algebraic structure with a binary operation (such as a group or semigroup): when the element operates on itself, the result is equal to itself.

Said of a binary operation: that all of the distinct elements it can operate on are idempotent (in the sense given just above).

Said of an algebraic structure: having an idempotent operation (in the sense above).

ingratiate

/ɪnˈɡɹeɪ.ʃi.eɪt/

To bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please him or her.

(followed by to) To recommend; to render easy or agreeable.

inveterate

/ɪnˈvɛtəɹɪt/

To fix and settle after a long time; to entrench.

Firmly established from having been around for a long time; of long standing

(of a person) Having had a habit for a long time

Malignant; virulent; spiteful.

judgment

/ˈdʒʌdʒ.mənt/

The act of judging.

The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely

The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.

The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.

The final award; the last sentence.

livid

/ˈlɪvɪd/

Having a dark, bluish appearance.

Pale, pallid.

So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious.

milieu

/mɪlˈjɜː/

/mɪlˈju/

Medium.

Social setting or environment.

mnemonic

/nəˈmɒnɪk/

/niˈmɑːnɪk/

Anything (especially something in verbal form) used to help remember something.

The textual, human-readable form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands.

Of or relating to mnemonics: the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily.

Of or relating to memory.

monad

/ˈmɒnæd/

/ˈmoʊnæd/

An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.

A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group.

A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category.

mortified

/ˈmɔːtəˌfaɪd/

/ˈmɔɹtəˌfaɪd/

Acutely embarrassed.

To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.

(usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.

To kill.

To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.

To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.

To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.

To grant in mortmain.

To lose vitality.

To gangrene.

To be subdued.

neophyte

/ˈni.əˌfaɪt/

A beginner; a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief.

A novice (recent convert); a new convert or proselyte; a new monk.

A name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to those who have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, especially those converts from heathenism or Judaism.

A plant species recently introduced to an area (in contrast to archaeophyte, a long-established introduced species).

nonplussed

/nɒnˈplʌst/

/nɑnˈplʌst/

To perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox

Bewildered; unsure how to respond or act.

Unfazed, unaffected, or unimpressed.

obviated

To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required).

To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).

onerous

/ˈɒnəɹəs/

/ˈoʊnəɹəs/

Imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort; burdensome.

orthogonal

/ɔːˈθɒɡənəl/

/ɔɹˈθɑɡənəl/

An orthogonal line

Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other.

Of a pair of vectors: having a zero inner product; perpendicular.

Of a square matrix: such that its transpose is equal to its inverse.

Of a linear transformation: preserving its angles.

Of grid graphs, board games and polyominoes: vertical or horizontal but not diagonal.

Of a pair of elements in an ortholattice: each less than or equal to the orthocomplement of the other.

Statistically independent, with reference to variates.

Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately.

Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other.

paradigm

/ˈpæ.ɹə.daɪm/

/ˈpeɪɹ.ə.daɪm/

A pattern, a way of doing something, especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.

An example serving as the model for such a pattern.

A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.

pithy

/ˈpɪθi/

Concise and meaningful.

Of, like, or abounding in pith.

predicate

/ˈpɹɛdɪkət/

(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject or the object of the sentence.

A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.

An operator or function that returns either true or false.

(grammar) Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.

Predicated, stated.

Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.

primordial

/pɹaɪˈmɔː.di.əl/

/pɹaɪˈmɔɹ.di.əl/

A first principle or element.

First, earliest or original

Characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium

Primeval

rolodex

A type of rotating file index used for storing addresses, especially in a work context.

(by extension) One's contact list.

semaphore

/ˈsɛməfɔː/

/ˈsɛməˌfɔɹ/

Any equipment used for visual signalling by means of flags, lights, or mechanically moving arms, which are used to represent letters of the alphabet, or words.

A visual system for transmitting information using the above equipment; especially, by means of two flags held one in each hand, using an alphabetic and numeric code based on the position of the signaller's arms; flag semaphore.

A bit, token, fragment of code, or some other mechanism which is used to restrict access to a shared function or device to a single process at a time, or to synchronize and coordinate events in different processes.

To signal using, or as if using, a semaphore, with the implication that it is done nonverbally.

sophistry

/ˈsɒ.fɪ.stɹi/

/ˈsɑ.fɪ.stɹi/

Cunning, sometimes manifested as trickery.

The art of using deceptive speech or writing.

An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.

synchronous

/ˈsɪŋkɹənəs/

At the same time, at the same frequency.

(of communication) Single-threaded; blocking; occurring in the same thread as other computations, thereby preventing those computations from resuming until the communication is complete.

throughput

/ˈθɹu.pʊt/

/ˈθɹuː.pʊt/

/ˈθɹu.pʊt/

A conserved property of the light in an optical system which characterizes how "spread out" the light is in terms of angle and area: it is the product of its cross-sectional area (normal to the direction of propagation) and the solid angle it subtends.

The rate at which data is transferred through a system.

(operations) The rate of production; the rate at which something can be processed.

titular

/ˈtɪtjʊlə/

/ˈtɪtʃəlɚ/

One who holds a title.

The person from whom a church takes its special name; distinguished from a patron, who must be canonized or an angel.

Of, relating to, being, derived from, or having a title.

Existing in name only; nominal.

Named or referred to in the title.

unctuous

/ˈʌnktʃuəs/

(of a liquid or substance) Oily or greasy.

(of a wine, coffee, sauce, gravy etc.) Rich, lush, intense, with layers of concentrated, soft, velvety flavor.

(by extension, of a person) Profusely polite, especially unpleasantly so and insincerely earnest.

verboten

/ˌvɜː(ɹ)ˈbəʊ.tən/

/ˌfə(ɹ)ˈboʊ.tən/

Forbidden, prohibited.