Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| backplane | the circuit board on a computer to which other circuit boards and components can be connected. |
| baud | a unit of data transmission speed of one bit per second. |
| binit | a unit of computer information. |
| biochip | a computer logic circuit whose components are formed from biological molecules or structures. |
| bitrate | the speed of data processing. |
| brontobyte | a very large unit of computer memory. |
| byte | a set of usually eight binary digits (bits) considered as a unit. |
| cardpunch | a machine which perforates cards to record data. |
| chad | a bit of paper punched out of paper tape or cards. |
| chipset | a group of chips performing certain functions. |
| computability | the quality of being computable. |
| computer | a machine that computes automatically. |
| computerless | without a computer. |
| computerlike | like a computer. |
| computist | a computer. |
| coprocessing | the act of processing by means of a coprocessor. |
| coprocessor | a microprocessor supplementing the functions of a main processor. |
| crackberry | a BlackBerry handheld computer, particularly one used obsessively; a person who uses such a computer obsessively. |
| cyber | involving computers. |
| daisywheel | a kind of printer. |
| datacard | a smart card. |
| dataglove | an electrically wired glove-like device that transmits the wearer's movements to a virtual reality monitor. |
| daughterboard | a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer. |
| desknote | a small computer. |
| desktop | a computer system small enough to use at a desk. |
| diskette | a small flexible plastic disk with a magnetic coating used as an inexpensive data-storage device of moderate capacity. |
| dongle | a security device on computers. |
| eniac | an American pioneering electronic computer. |
| exabyte | a very large unit of computer memory. |
| fablet | a large smartphone that is able to perform many of the functions of a tablet computer. |
| floppy | given to flopping (noun) a floppy disk |
| floptical | a type of read-write head using a laser device. |
| gigabit | a thousand million bits. |
| gigabyte | a thousand million bytes. |
| gigacycle | one billion hertz. |
| gigaflop | a unit of processing speed. |
| gigahertz | one billion hertz. |
| handheld | something, eg a computer, held in the hand and operated from there. |
| hardboot | a type of computer startup. |
| hardware | metal goods. |
| hardwire | to program by hardware. |
| inkjet | a printer that spurts ink to form letters. |
| joypad | a device consisting of a pad with buttons on it, used for controlling the motion of objects in a computer game. |
| joystick | a lever by means of which the movement of a cursor on a screen may be controlled. |
| keyboard | the manually operated range of keys or levers in a musical instrument, computer, etc; (verb) to enter data on a keyboard. |
| keycard | a coded card for operating a device. |
| keypad | a small device with push-button controls, eg a TV remote control unit. |
| keypunch | to transfer data on to punched cards. |
| keypuncher | one who keypunches. |
| keyring | a type of computer drive. |
| kibibyte | two to the power of ten bytes. |
| lapheld | held in the lap. |
| laptop | a computer that can be used on the lap. |
| laserdisc | a disc similar to a long-playing record on which data is stored by the use of a laser. |
| laserdisk | a disc similar to a long-playing record on which data is stored by the use of a laser. |
| luggable | portable, but with some difficulty; (noun) a luggable computer. |
| mainframe | a large computer serving others. |
| mebibyte | two to the power of twenty bytes. |
| megabit | one million bits. |
| megabyte | one million bytes. |
| megacycle | a million cycles; a million cycles per second. |
| megaflop | a processing speed of one million operations per second. |
| megapixel | one million pixels. |
| metacomputer | a collection of computers that looks and functions like a single computer. |
| metacomputing | computing that uses metacomputers. |
| micro | a microcomputer. |
| microchip | a chip of silicon; (verb) to fit with a microchip. |
| microcircuit | a compact electronic circuit. |
| microcircuitry | circuitry composed of microcircuits. |
| microcomponent | a very small component. |
| microcomputer | a small computer usually equipped with a microprocessor. |
| microcomputing | computing with a microcomputer. |
| microdrive | a very small hard disk drive. |
| microfloppy | a small floppy disk. |
| microprocessing | the processing of data by a microprocessor. |
| microprocessor | a computer processor contained on an integrated-circuit chip. |
| microreader | a device that produces an enlarged image of a microphotograph or microfilm. |
| microworld | a discrete area within a computer database. |
| microwriter | a handheld five- or six-key device by means of which text can be generated on a printer or vdu. |
| minicomputer | a small computer that is intermediate between a microcomputer and a mainframe. |
| minidisc | a small recordable compact disk. |
| minidisk | a small disk for a microcomputer. |
| minifloppy | a small floppy disk. |
| minitower | a computer in a small vertical cabinet. |
| mips | a million instruction per second. |
| modem | an electronic device which converts digital data from a computer into analogue signals that can be sent to another computer over a telephone system; (verb) to transmit or receive by modem. |
| motherboard | part of a computer. |
| multicore | of an electrical cable having more than two cores. |
| multiplexer | a device enabling a computer to transmit data to many terminals by switching quickly from one user's data to another. |
| multiplexor | a device enabling a computer to transmit data to many terminals by switching quickly from one user's data to another. |
| nanodot | a microscopic cluster of several hundred nickel dots used to store large amounts of data in a computer chip. |
| netbook | a portable computer smaller than a laptop. |
| neurochip | a microchip used in neural networks. |
| neurocomputer | a computer that uses neural networks to mimic the action of the human brain. |
| neurocomputing | computing using neural networks to mimic the action of the human brain. |
| nybble | in computing, half a byte. |
| overclock | to run a computer component at a higher clock rate than it was designed for or was specified by the manufacturer. |
| overclocker | one who overclocks. |
| palmtop | a small handheld computer. |
| petabyte | in computing, 10 to the fifteenth bytes. |
| petaflop | a unit of processing speed equal to 2 to the power of 50 floating-point operations per second. |
| phablet | a handheld personal computer between a smartphone and a tablet in size and which combines features of both. |
| photodisk | a disk for use in a computer that contains photographs or can have photographs stored on it in a digitally coded manner. |
| policer | a computer device controlling use. |
| printwheel | another name for daisywheel, a kind of printer. |
| processor | something that processes. |
| qubit | in computing, a quantum bit. |
| qubyte | in computing, a quantum byte. |
| rootserver | a computer that acts as the main server for a whole service. |
| soundcard | the card in a computer that produces audio. |
| supercomputing | computing using a supercomputer, a large very fast mainframe used esp for scientific computations. |
| supermicro | a very small micro computer. |
| superscalar | of a processor, able to perform more than one instruction simultaneously. |
| swapfile | a computer file with space for transferred programs. |
| tebibyte | two to the power of forty bytes. |
| terabyte | a large unit of computer memory. |
| touchpad | part of a laptop computer functioning like a mouse. |
| touchscreen | a computer screen operated by touch. |
| trackball | a spherical ball mounted in a box structure that can be used to control a computer cursor. |
| trackerball | a spherical ball that can be rotated with the palm of the hand causing the cursor to move around the screen. |
| trackpad | part of a laptop computer functioning like a mouse. |
| transputer | a special computer chip able to process in parallel rather than sequentially. |
| vidscreen | a video screen. |
| viewport | a framed area on a computer display for viewing information. |
| yottabyte | a very large unit of computer memory. |
| zettabyte | a unit of computer memory, 10 to the 21 bytes. |