User:Queenfeline/IDIOTICON

Welcome to my personal dictionary.

I read that Idioticon is a synonym for dictionary and i loved the word, cause there is Idiot in it lol.

API

API stands for Application Programming Interface. It's an interface for two computers to communicate in order to carry out tasks on the internet. The application can be any software that performs a specific task and the interface is a point where two applications communicate. One application acts as a client and the other acts as a server. A client asks for some resource, say for example a photo, and the server sends that photo to the client. The client here can be your mobile phone, desktop or laptop computer, or any device you use to surf the internet. And the server is a bigger computer that stores the data you want (a photo in our case).

APIs follow the HTTP protocol to communicate, which has a specific request and response structure.

Different methods exist to perform different tasks and numerous status codes are available that indicate whether the request is successful, declined, or in a pending state.

cascading

"To fall quickly and in large amounts". As I understood it: An event in a series of events. Eins stupst das andere an und bildet somit eine kette an events. "to pass on information by giving it to just a few people, who then give it to more people; to be passed on in this way." source

copyleft

Das Copyleft ist eine Klausel in urheberrechtlichen Nutzungslizenzen, die den Lizenznehmer verpflichtet, jegliche Bearbeitung des Werks unter die Lizenz des ursprünglichen Werks zu stellen. Die Copyleft-Klausel soll verhindern, dass veränderte Fassungen des Werks mit Nutzungseinschränkungen weitergegeben werden, die das Original nicht hat. Das Copyleft setzt voraus, dass Vervielfältigungen und Bearbeitungen in irgendeiner Weise erlaubt sind.

meticulous

Marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details. Etymological news: meticulous comes from the Latin word for "fearful"—metīculōsus—and ultimately from the Latin noun metus, meaning "fear." Although meticulous currently has no "fearful" meanings, it was originally used as a synonym of "frightened" and "timid." This sense had fallen into disuse by 1700, and in the 1800s meticulous acquired a new meaning of "overly and timidly careful" (possibly due to the influence of the French word méticuleux). This meaning in turn led to the current one of "painstakingly careful," with no connotations of fear at all. The newest use was controversial for a time, but it is now by far the most common meaning; even the most meticulous (or persnickety, depending on your view) among us consider it perfectly acceptable. source

Notation

Notation ist die Benennung von Gegenständen durch das Festhalten von Dingen und Bewegungsverläufen in schriftlicher Form mit vereinbarten symbolischen Zeichen.