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| edit |
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noun
- A change to the text of a document.
verb
- To change a text, or a document
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| EDP |
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initialism - (computing) electronic data processing
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| electronic |
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adjective
- (context, physics, chemistry): Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
- Operating on the physical behavior of electrons, especially in semiconductors.
- Generated by an electronic (2) device (electronic music).
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| Em |
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proper noun
- Shortening of the given name Emily.
- Auntie , Auntie ...
abbreviation
- exametre, exameter
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| e-mail |
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noun
- (uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network.
- He sent me his details via .
- The advent of has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
- (countable; see Usage notes below) An e-mail message.
- I am searching through my old e-mails.
- He sent me several e-mails last week to that effect.
- (uncountable; see Usage notes below) A quantity of e-mail messages.
- I am searching through my old .
- My inbox used to only allow 50 MB of at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
verb to e-mail
- To compose and send an e-mail
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| emoticon |
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noun
- A graphical representation, either in the form of an image or made up of ASCII characters, of a particular emotion of the writer.
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| end user |
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noun
- The final consumer of a product; the intended recipient or user.
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| enter |
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noun
- (computing) The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.
- (computing) A stroke on that key.
verb
- To go into (a room, etc.)
- (transitive) To type (something) into a computer.
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| Environment |
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proper noun
- (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
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| EOF |
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initialism
- (context, Computing): end of file
- (context, Computing): Enterprise Objects Framework
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| escape |
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noun
- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel
- A key on most modern computer keyboards, sometimes abbreviated Esc, and typically programmed to cancel some current operation.
- (programming) The ASCII character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal.)
- You forgot to insert an in the datastream.
- (context, snooker) A sucessful shot from a snooker position.
verb (escap, ing)
- (intransitive) To get free, to free oneself.
- The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
- (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
- The children climbed out of the window to the fire.
- (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
- Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
- (transitive) To elude observation or notice; to not be seen or remembered by.
- The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
- (computing) To prefix a character with a special character (depending on context) to allow a character to pass through without special meaning.
- When using the "bash" shell, you can the ampersand character with a backslash.
- In your monobook.js file, you can the apostrophe character with a backslash.
- Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.
- (computing) to halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the Esc key) or combination of keys
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| Ethernet |
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noun
- A set of network cabling and network access (CSMA/CD) protocol standards for bus topology computer networks invented by Xerox but now controlled by the 802.3 subcommittee of the IEEE.
- A computer network which complies with such set of standards.
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| execute |
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verb (execut, ing)
- To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
- In Turkey, drug smugglers are often executed.
- To start a defined process and run it to completion.
- Your orders have been executed, Sir!
- To start a defined process, without regard to whether it runs to completion or not.
- I'll execute your orders as soon as this meeting is adjourned.
- To start, launch or run software.
- To sign or otherwise cause a document (especially a contract
- Noun, contract) to become legally valid.
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| execution |
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noun
- The act or manner of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances) or the state of being executed (accomplished.)
- The battle plan was risky but its was near perfect and thus ultimately succeeded.
- The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty.
- (rfd-redundant, unless def
- 1 was meant to be redundant with
- 2 (not anymore)) The manner or style of a performance etc.
- The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
- (rfd-redundant) (legal) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
- (computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.
- The entire machine slowed down during the of the virus checker.
- Whenever the matrix inversion function executed the program crashed.
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| expression |
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noun
- A particular way of phrase, phrasing an idea.
- A colloquialism or idiom.
- The "break a leg!" should not be taken literally.
- A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
- (math) A set of symbols denoting values and operations performed on them.
- (biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
- (context, programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
- The process of expressing milk
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