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• arg: /arg/ n. Abbreviation for `argument' (to a function), used so often as to have become a new word (like `piano' from `pianoforte').
  The sine function takes 1 arg, but the arc-tangent function can take either 1 or 2 args....
• param /p*-ram'/ n. [common] Shorthand for `parameter'. See also parm; compare arg, var.
• var /veir/ or /var/ n. Short for `variable'. Compare arg, param.
• parm /parm/ n. Further-compressed form of param.
  This term is an IBMism, and written use is almost unknown outside IBM shop...
• parm: /parm/ n. Further-compressed form of {param}.
  This term is an IBMism, and written use is almost unknown outside IBM shop...
• mkdir: arg cou
• percent-S /per-sent' es'/ n. [From the code in C's printf(3) library function used to insert an arbitrary string argument] An unspecified person or object.
  I was just talking to some percent-s in administration." Compare random....
• bum 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity.
  I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code....
• bum: 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity.
  I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code....