The system by which internet domain names and addresses are tracked and regulated.

"DNS translates human-friendly domain names like 'example.com' into IP addresses that computers use to identify each other on the network."

In computing, a communication endpoint in an operating system. In the context of software, it refers to the process of adapting software to run on a different environment or platform.

"Porting an application from Windows to Linux involves modifying the software to work with different system calls, libraries, and hardware interfaces."

A string of characters that represents a significant piece of data.

"In programming, tokens are the basic building blocks of source code, such as keywords, operators, and identifiers."

The process of bringing together various software sub-systems so that they create a unified single system.

"Integration is often required when a firm buys software from different vendors and needs them to work together."

A call-by-need strategy that delays the evaluation of an expression until its value is actually needed and caches the result for future use, avoiding repeated evaluations.

"Lazy evaluation can improve performance by avoiding unnecessary calculations, especially in programs with complex data structures."