A condition in automation is a logical test inside a workflow that decides, from current data, whether an action runs or which…
Configuration drift is the gap that grows between the declared infrastructure as code and the resources that actually run in a cloud…
Connection pooling keeps a set of open database connections ready for reuse, cutting connection setup cost and capping the load clients place…
A consent banner is the website notice that asks visitors to accept, reject or customize cookies and tracking before any optional data…
Consent mode is a tagging mechanism that passes users' cookie consent choices to analytics and advertising tags so they adjust storage and…
Consent withdrawal is a person's right to revoke previously given consent at any time, as easily as it was given, ending processing…
A container is an isolated process group that packages an application with its dependencies and shares the host kernel, the core unit…
A container format is a file or stream structure such as MP4, MOV or MKV that packages video, audio, subtitles and metadata…
A container image is an immutable, layered package of a filesystem and metadata from which containers are started, built once and run…
A container query in CSS applies styles based on the size or style of an ancestor container, letting components adapt to their…
A container registry is a server that stores and distributes container images, letting build systems push new versions and hosts pull them…
A container runtime is the software that pulls container images, sets up isolation with kernel features and starts, runs and stops containers.
Containment in incident response is the phase that limits how far an attack spreads and how much damage it causes while evidence…
A content creator is a person who produces and publishes media for an online audience and earns from that audience through platforms,…
A content gap is a topic, question or search intent that an audience looks for but a website does not yet cover…
Content moderation is how online platforms detect, assess and act on user content that is illegal or breaks their terms, under rules…
Content publishing automation moves articles, posts and newsletters from approval to scheduled release on several channels with little manual work.
Content strategy is the plan that decides what content an organization creates, for whom and why, and how it is produced, distributed,…
A context window is the maximum number of tokens a language model can process at once, covering the prompt, conversation history and…
Contextual advertising selects ads based on the content of the page or app being viewed rather than on a profile of the…
Contrast in design is the visible difference between elements in value, color, size, weight or shape that creates emphasis, structure and readability.
Contrast detection AF is an autofocus method that moves the lens until image contrast on the sensor peaks, giving precise but slower…
Contrast ratio in accessibility measures the luminance difference between text or graphics and their background, from 1:1 up to 21:1.
A control group is the set of units in an experiment that does not receive the tested change, providing the baseline for…
A conversion funnel in e-commerce models the steps shoppers take from first visit to purchase and shows where and how many of…
Conversion rate is the share of visitors, clicks or users who complete a defined goal action, a core efficiency metric in performance…
Conversion tracking records valuable user actions such as purchases or sign-ups and links them to the campaigns and channels that led to…
A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a neural network that learns spatial features with shared convolution filters, used mainly for images and…
A cookie is a small piece of data a website stores in the browser and receives back on later requests, used for…
A cookie policy is the public notice that explains which cookies and similar trackers a website uses, why, for how long and…
Cookieless measurement estimates marketing reach, conversions and campaign impact without browser cookies that identify individual users across visits.
Copyleft is a software licensing method that uses copyright to require that modified and redistributed versions stay under the same free terms.
Copyright is the exclusive right of authors over original works, and in the AI context it governs both model training data and…
Correlation in statistics measures how strongly two variables move together, summarized by a coefficient between -1 and +1 such as Pearson's r.
Cost allocation in cloud economics assigns every part of the cloud bill to the team, product or customer that caused it, using…
Cost per lead (CPL) is the average marketing spend needed to generate one lead, calculated by dividing campaign cost by the number…
A costmap in robot navigation is a grid that assigns each cell a traversal cost from obstacles and safety margins, guiding planners…
A covering index is a database index that contains every column a query needs, so the query is answered from the index…
CPA in digital advertising is cost per acquisition: the average ad spend needed to win one defined conversion, such as a sale,…
cPanel is a commercial hosting control panel for Linux servers that lets users manage websites, email, databases, domains and files through a…
CPC, or cost per click, is the price an advertiser pays for each click on a digital ad, set by auctions, bids…
CPM, or cost per mille, is the price an advertiser pays for one thousand ad impressions, the standard unit for buying reach…
A CPO (charge point operator) runs EV charging stations, keeping the hardware online, managing grid power and selling charging sessions to drivers.
A CPU, or central processing unit, is the general-purpose processor that fetches, decodes and executes the instructions of every program on a…
CPU affinity in Linux is the set of CPU cores on which the scheduler may run a process or thread, used to…
A CPU core is an independent processing unit within a processor that fetches, decodes and executes instructions, with its own registers and…
A CPU thread is a hardware execution context that lets a processor core run an independent instruction stream, often two per core…
CPU utilization is the share of time a server's processor cores spend running work instead of idling, measured as a percentage over…
The CRA, or Cyber Resilience Act, is an EU regulation setting mandatory cybersecurity requirements for hardware and software products sold in the…
Crash analytics is the collection, grouping and analysis of mobile app crash reports to find, prioritize and fix the defects that make…