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• multitask n. Often used of humans in the same meaning it has for computers, to describe a person doing several things at once (but see thrash).
  The term `multiplex', from communications technology (meaning to handle more than one channel at the same time), is used similarly....
• wedged adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....
• oftware rot n. Term used to describe the tendency of software that has not been used in a while to lose
  uch failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to bit rot....
• wannabee /won'*-bee/ n. (also, more plausibly, spelled `wannabe') [from a term recently used to describe Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol
  prob. originally from biker slang] A would-be hacker....
• glitch /glich/ [very common; from German `glitschig' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
  . A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....
• glitch: /glich/ [from German `glitschen' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
  . A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....
• idempotent adj. [from mathematical techspeak] Acting as if used only once, even if used multiple times.
  This term is often used with respect to C header files, which contain common definitions and declarations to be included by several source files....
• idempotent: [from mathematical techspeak] adj. Acting as if used only once, even if used multiple times.
  This term is often used with respect to {C} header files, which contain common definitions and declarations to be included by several source files....
• macro /mak'roh/ n. [techspeak] A name (possibly followed by a formal arg list) that is equated to a text or symbolic expression to which it is to be expanded (possibly with the substitution of actual arguments) by a macro expander.
  This definition can be found in any technical dictionary...