Computing and technology terms

Questions about this list

What is the computing terms collection?

Words tagged to computer science, computing and information technology — the vocabulary that came with the machines. It holds 424 entries drawn from the 147,478 in AltF Lexicon.

How was this list of computing terms put together?

Membership is computed from data the entry already carries, applied to every entry in the corpus, so the list regenerates correctly whenever the corpus changes.

What is the most common of the computing terms?

access — it sits in the top commonness band of the words stored for this list. The list is ordered by commonness, so the words most readers already half know come first and the specialist tail comes last.

What is the longest word in this collection?

american standard code for information interchange, at 45 letters. The average across the list is 2.5 syllables per word.

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