Jargon File

loose bytes n.
lord high fixer n. [primarily British, from Gilbert &
Sullivan's `lord high executioner'] The person in an organization who knows the most about some aspect of a system....
lose vi. 1. [very common] To fail. A program loses when it encounters an exceptional condition or fails to work in the expected manner.
2. To be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky. 3. O...
lose lose interj. A reply to or comment on an undesirable situation.
I accidentally deleted all my files!" "Lose, lose....
loser n. An unexpectedly bad situation, program, programmer, or person.
Someone who habitually loses. (Even winners can lose occasionally....
losing adj. Said of anything that is or causes a lose or lossage.
The compiler is losing badly when I try to use templates....
loss n. Something (not a person) that loses; a situation in which something is losing.
Emphatic forms include `moby loss', and `total loss', `complete loss'....
lossage /los'*j/ n. [very common] The result of a bug or malfunction.
This is a mass or collective noun. "What a loss!...
lost in the noise adj. Syn. lost in the underflow.
This term is from signal processing, where signals of very small amplitude cannot be separated from low-intensity noise in the system....
lost in the underflow adj. Too small to be worth considering
more specifically, small beyond the limits of accuracy or measurement....

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