Technology Dictionary

Technology acronyms, industry jargon, and technical concepts explained in plain English.

Explore the terminology behind website development, hosting, email, cybersecurity, payment processing, search engine optimization, and artificial intelligence. TECKnet explains what these terms mean, how they work, and why they matter to your business.

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SEO & Artificial Intelligence How search engines and AI assistants find, understand and present websites: search engine optimization, structured… 1 term
Website & Application Development The building blocks of websites and custom business software, from HTML and databases to APIs, deployment and version… 1 term
Hosting & Infrastructure What keeps a website and domain online: DNS, domain registration, TLS certificates, servers, caching, uptime and… 1 term
Email & Deliverability How business email is sent, authenticated and filtered, and why legitimate messages sometimes end up in spam: SPF… 1 term
Cybersecurity Defensive security concepts for business websites and accounts: firewalls, multi-factor authentication, patching… 1 term
Payments & E-commerce How card and bank payments move from a customer to a business: gateways, processors, merchant accounts, fees, PCI DSS… 1 term

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6 terms

A

API

Application Programming Interface

An API (application programming interface) is a defined way for one piece of software to request data or actions from another. It works like a contract: the requesting…

Acronym Website & Application Development

D

DMARC

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance

DMARC is a DNS record that lets a domain owner tell receiving mail servers what to do with messages that claim to come from the domain but fail SPF and DKIM checks, and…

Acronym Email & Deliverability

DNS Propagation

DNS propagation is the period after a DNS change when some visitors still get the old answer. Nothing is pushed out: resolvers keep cached records until each record's…

Concept Hosting & Infrastructure

G

GEO

Generative Engine Optimization

Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the practice of making web content easier for AI-powered search tools to find, understand, trust and cite in the answers they…

Acronym SEO & Artificial Intelligence

P

Payment Gateway

A payment gateway is the service that securely passes a customer's card or bank payment details from a website, app or terminal on for approval, then returns the…

Jargon Payments & E-commerce

W

WAF

Web Application Firewall

A web application firewall (WAF) inspects requests sent to a website or web application and blocks those that match known attack patterns, such as SQL injection or…

Acronym Cybersecurity

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