class break n.— «What is a “class break?” In network security jargon, that’s what happens when one breach leads to a whole new “class” of attacks on various systems, using similar methods.» —“Citibank security breach: undisclosed internally, let...
white-label adj.— «The white labeled service will let vendors provide on-demand access to branded content within the NeoEdge private network.» —“NeoEdge Networks Founded to Radically Evolve Direct-to-Consumer Services for Digital Content...
pur laine adj.— «It wasn’t easy, because she had chosen television and the CBC’s French network was pur laine (pure wool, as they say in Quebec) meaning old-line (white) Quebecois.» —“Breaking down solitudes in Canada—Haitian-style” by Keeble...
spalting n.— «Wood left on the ground for several months, he said, will undergo “a startling transformation and develop a spidery network of black lines.” This process, called spalting, “is due to special fungi that live in the ground.”» —“Artists...
camioneta n.— «Van services like this—known as camionetas, after the Spanish word for van—are part of a loose-knit network of cottage industries profiting from immigrant smuggling. As far back as the 1980s, camionetas traveled weekly between Texas...
multi-plat-fornication n.— «Mr. Toffler has a plan in motion to upgrade the network for the age of digital convergence, a strategy he has been known to refer to as “multi-plat-fornication”: an all-out effort to deliver MTV content to every form of...