lossage /los'*j/ n.
[very common] The result of a bug
or malfunction. This is a mass or collective noun. "What a
loss!" and "What lossage!" are nearly synonymous. The former is
slightly more particular to the speaker's present circumstances;
the latter implies a continuing lose of which the speaker is
currently a victim. Thus (for example) a temporary hardware
failure is a loss, but bugs in an important tool (like a compiler)
are serious lossage.
[very common] The result of a bug
or malfunction. This is a mass or collective noun. "What a
loss!" and "What lossage!" are nearly synonymous. The former is
slightly more particular to the speaker's present circumstances;
the latter implies a continuing lose of which the speaker is
currently a victim. Thus (for example) a temporary hardware
failure is a loss, but bugs in an important tool (like a compiler)
are serious lossage.
Related:
- lossage: /los'*j/ n. The result of a bug or malfunction.
This is a mass or collective noun. "What a loss... - loss n.
Something (not a person) that loses; a situation in
which something is losing.
Emphatic forms include `moby loss', and `total loss'... - loss: n. Something (not a person) that loses; a situation in which
something is losing.
Emphatic forms include `moby loss', and `total loss'... - screwage /skroo'*j/ n.
Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due... - screwage: /skroo'*j/ n. Like {lossage} but connotes that the
failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple
inadequacy or a mere bug.
The AI Hackers... - precedence lossage /pre's*-dens los'*j/ n.
[C
programmers] Coding error in an expression due to unexpected
grouping of arithmetic or logical operators by the compiler.
Used esp. of certain common coding errors in C due... - bug n.
An unwanted and unintended property of a program or
piece of hardware,
esp. one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym... - precedence lossage: /pre's*-dens los'*j/ [C programmers] n.
Coding error in an expression due to unexpected grouping... - buffer overflow: n. What happens when you try to stuff more data
into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle.
This may be due to a mismatch in the processing...
From the same category:
- Netscrape n.
[sometimes elaborated to `Netscrape
Fornicator',
also `Nutscrape'] Standard name-of-insult for Netscape... - daemon book n.
"The Design and Implementation of
the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System",
by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael... - demogroup n.
[demoscene] A group of demo
(sense 4) composers.
Job titles within a group include coders (the ones... - vaporware /vay'pr-weir/ n.
Products announced far in
advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
See also brochureware... - locked and loaded adj.,obs.
[from military slang for an
M-16 rifle with magazine inserted and prepared for firing] Said of
a removable disk volume properly prepared for use -
that is, ...
