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• file signature: n. A {magic number}, sense 3. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• magic number n. [Unix/C; common] 1. In source code
  some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line (hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commented #define....
• black magic: n. A technique that works, though nobody really understands why.
  More obscure than {voodoo programming}, which may be done by cookbook....
• This is a test signature file. If this had been a real signature file, you would have been directed to the nearest signature shelter.
• plash screen n. [Mac users] Syn. banner, sense 3.
• magic 1. adj. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explai
  compare automagically and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third Law...
• profile n. 1. A control file for a program, esp.
  a text file automatically read from each user's home directory and intended to be easily modified by the user in order to customize the program's behavior....
• ync /sink/ n., vi. (var. `synch') 1. To synchronize, to bring into synchronization.
  2. [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk...
• ync: /sink/ (var. `synch') n., vi. 1. To synchronize, to bring into synchronization.
  2. [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk...