A metaphor that may be offensive and is currently being deprecated. Prefer source-replica or main-copy when possible. Current software that uses "master-slave" terminology includes various SQL databases, container technologies and CI/CD solutions, among others.

In C++ std::ostream is the base class for output streams.

`NSThread` is part of the Objective-C Foundation Framework and provides developers a way to create and manage threads.

Geocoding is a method to assign spatial coordinates - like longitude and latitude on the Earth's surface - to a data record or object which represents an address or other geographic data.

The Windows Shell is the main graphical user interface in Windows hosted by Windows Explorer. It also implements a shell namespace that enables computer programs running on Windows to access the computer's resources via the hierarchy of shell objects.

The Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) is a cross-platform plugin architecture used by many browsers, with the notable exception of Internet Explorer.

For questions about the Windows Driver Kit (WDK, formerly WinDDK), which includes the tools and documentation needed to develop drivers for the Windows platform.

QueryOver is a strongly-typed fluent-like wrapper on top of NHibernate ICritieria, a database-agnostic query API that supports query composition.

A std::pair is an ordered, heterogeneous sequence of exactly two objects (it is a special case of std::tuple).

Machine Learning engines use hyper-parameters for their learning phase behaviour. Different values thus modify the learner's model ability to generalise and avoid overfitting and/or bias towards a given DataSET training-phase observed values.