In software development and project management, metrics and measurements related to the volume or size of code, data, or other project artifacts, often used to estimate effort, track progress, and assess project complexity.

"The team used volumetrics to estimate the size of the codebase and plan the development effort accordingly."

A data type used in programming languages to represent the absence of a value or the result of a function that does not return a value, often used in function signatures to indicate no return value.

"The void keyword in C indicates that a function does not return a value."

A screen reader built into macOS and iOS devices that provides spoken descriptions of on-screen elements and enables users with visual impairments to navigate and interact with the operating system and applications using keyboard shortcuts and gestures.

"She enabled VoiceOver on her iPhone to assist with navigating and using apps."

A software-based emulation of a physical computer that runs an operating system and applications, providing an isolated and sandboxed environment with its own virtualized hardware resources, often used for software testing, development, and server virtualization.

"The developer spun up a virtual machine to test the application on different operating systems."

An improved version of the vi text editor, known for its extensibility, powerful editing features, and wide range of plugins and customization options, often preferred by advanced users and developers for editing text efficiently.

"He customized his vim configuration to streamline his coding workflow."

In the context of Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture, the component responsible for presenting data to users and handling user interactions, typically consisting of user interface elements and layout logic.

"The view renders the model data and presents it to the user in a web application."

A text editor for Unix-like operating systems, known for its modal editing capabilities and compact command syntax, often used by system administrators and experienced users for editing configuration files and scripts from the command line.

"She opened the configuration file in vi to make changes to the server settings."

A method of increasing computing power or capacity by adding more resources to a single machine, such as upgrading the CPU, memory, or storage, often limited by the physical constraints of the hardware and diminishing returns in cost-effectiveness.

"The company opted for vertical scaling by upgrading the server hardware to handle increased traffic."

The process of converting operations or computations from scalar to vector form, enabling parallel execution of multiple operations on elements of arrays or vectors, often used to optimize performance in numerical computing and simulations.

"Vectorization improved the performance of the image processing algorithm by leveraging SIMD instructions."

A type of graphic that uses mathematical descriptions of shapes and paths to represent images, allowing for scalability and resolution independence, often used for illustrations, diagrams, and logos.

"SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a popular format for creating vector graphics on the web."

A storage location paired with an associated symbolic name, which contains some known or unknown quantity of information referred to as a value.

"Variables in programming are used to store data values that can be changed during the execution of a program."

Plain or pure JavaScript without any additional libraries or frameworks, often used to refer to native JavaScript code that does not rely on third-party dependencies or abstractions.

"The developer preferred using vanilla JavaScript for simple projects to avoid unnecessary complexity."

A low-overhead, cross-platform graphics and compute API developed by the Khronos Group, designed to provide high-performance access to graphics and GPU computing on modern GPUs, with support for features like multithreading, explicit control over GPU resources, and reduced CPU overhead.

"Game developers adopted Vulkan for its performance and efficiency in rendering high-quality graphics on various platforms."

A progressive JavaScript framework for building user interfaces, known for its simplicity, flexibility, and reactivity, allowing developers to create interactive web applications with ease.

"The team decided to use Vue.js for the frontend development of the project due to its simplicity and performance."

A technology that enables voice communication and multimedia sessions over the internet, allowing users to make phone calls, video calls, and send messages using IP-based networks, often providing cost savings and flexibility compared to traditional telephony systems.

"Skype and Zoom are popular VoIP services for video conferencing and online meetings."

A lightweight, open-source code editor developed by Microsoft for editing and debugging code, supporting a wide range of programming languages and extensions, known for its versatility, performance, and extensibility.

"Visual Studio Code has quickly become one of the most popular code editors among developers due to its features and community support."

An integrated development environment (IDE) developed by Microsoft for building software applications, websites, and services using various programming languages and frameworks, providing tools for code editing, debugging, and project management.

"The developer used Visual Studio to write, debug, and deploy the web application."

A programming language developed by Microsoft that is designed for building Windows-based applications.

"Visual Basic enables rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects."

A programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) developed by Microsoft for building Windows applications with a graphical user interface (GUI), known for its simplicity, rapid development capabilities, and ease of use for beginners.

"Many early Windows applications were written in Visual Basic due to its ease of development and GUI design tools."

A clean architecture framework for building applications in Go (Golang), developed by the Go team at Uber, designed to enforce separation of concerns, maintainability, and testability by organizing code into layers and modules.

"The team adopted the Viper framework to structure and organize their Go applications."

A system that records changes to a file or set of files over time so that you can recall specific versions later.

"Git is a widely used version control system that enables multiple developers to work collaboratively on the same project."

An abbreviation for Visual Studio Code, a popular open-source code editor developed by Microsoft for editing and debugging code, known for its versatility, performance, and extensive ecosystem of extensions.

"Many developers use VS Code as their primary code editor for web development."

A simulated experience generated by computer technology that immerses users in an interactive three-dimensional environment, often using specialized hardware such as headsets and controllers to provide realistic visuals, sounds, and interactions.

"The VR game allowed players to explore virtual worlds and interact with objects using motion controllers."

A software emulation of a physical computer that runs an operating system and applications just like a physical computer.

"Virtual machines allow for the running of multiple operating systems on a single physical machine, isolating them from each other."

A JavaScript engine developed by Google for the Chrome web browser and Node.js runtime environment, known for its speed, performance optimizations, and support for modern JavaScript features.

"V8 compiles and executes JavaScript code in the Chrome browser and Node.js runtime."

A programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, widely used for data analysis, visualization, and machine learning tasks, known for its extensive library ecosystem and powerful data manipulation capabilities.

"The data scientist used R to analyze and visualize the research data."