Thx to the lexicographers at Oxford Dictionaries who added a fresh round of tech jargon to its online English dictionary, you can now look up words like "thx." Some of Friday's additions will be ...

Sideways Dictionary is accessible online. You can browse through a list of included terms or start typing for a specific definition. Currently, around 75 words are featured on the site, a number ...

The tech incubator, owned by Google's parent company, partners with the Washington Post to make technical terms easier to understand. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on ...

If you ever get confused about tech jargon (or want to clear up said confusion), a new tool from Google's Jigsaw incubator and the Washington Post may help. The "Sideways Dictionary" uses analogies ...

The most common mistake made by authors of technical definitions is to believe they must contain explanations. Of course they ...

Technical Communication, Vol. 29, No. 1 (FIRST QUARTER 1982), pp. 16-19 (4 pages) A LIMITED-WORD TECHNICAL DICTIONARY imposes constraints upon a writer by specifying the words that can be used in a ...

Compare that to a top-ranking definition for DDoS attack on Sideways, a new website that clearly defines complex technology terms, created by Alphabet’s Jigsaw in collaboration with the Washington ...

Here at Lifehacker we talk about all sorts of tech-related things, and often times we'll use acronyms or terms that even the geekiest out there don't understand. So, we've created a tech dictionary to ...

If you're not too busy deleting phishing e-mails while updating your wiki with links to podcasts debating the politics of offshoring, you might have time to check out the latest additions to the ...

AN accurate and reasonably comprehensive technical dictionary has become an almost indispensable adjunct to the equipment of the scientific worker, and also to that of the layman who desires to march ...