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vulnerability
English
Etymology
From vulnerable +? -ability
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v?ln????b?l?ti/
- Rhymes: -?l?ti
- Hyphenation: vul?ner?a?bil?i?ty
Noun
vulnerability (countable and uncountable, plural vulnerabilities)
- (uncountable) Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
- The country recognized their defence vulnerability after an airplane landed in front of the central square without any consequences.
- (countable) a specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.
- (computing) a weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security
Synonyms
- vulnerableness
Antonyms
- invulnerability
Related terms
- vulnerable
Translations
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- what vulnerability means
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- what vulnerability is exposed in this code
- what vulnerability was exploited at solarwinds
loophole
English
Etymology
From Middle English loupe (“opening in a wall”) +? hole, from a Germanic source. Compare Medieval Latin loupa, lobia and Middle Dutch lupen (“to watch”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?lu?ph??l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?lupho?l/
- Hyphenation: loop?hole
Noun
loophole (plural loopholes)
- (historical) A slit in a castle wall; today, any similar window for shooting a ranged weapon or letting in light.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
- ... and having a fair loophole, as it were, from a broken hole in the tree, he took a sure aim, without being seen, waiting till they were within about thirty yards of the tree, so that he could not miss.
- 1809, Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee:
- There was a loophole in this wall, to let the light in, just at the height of a person's head, who was sitting near the chimney.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
- (figuratively) A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule or law that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.
Derived terms
- lo mein loophole
Translations
Verb
loophole (third-person singular simple present loopholes, present participle loopholing, simple past and past participle loopholed)
- (military, transitive) To prepare a building for defense by preparing slits or holes through which to fire on attackers
- (transitive) To exploit (a law, etc.) by means of loopholes.
- 2005, Deborah Rhode, David Luban, Legal Ethics Stories
- De-moralizing the subject can be, quite simply, demoralizing, as stirring statements of ideals turn into persnickety rules with exceptions crying out to be loopholed.
- 2005, Deborah Rhode, David Luban, Legal Ethics Stories
Further reading
- loophole on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- loophole (firearm) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
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