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Jargon File
- CDA /C-D-A/
The "Communications Decency Act" of 1996,
passed on Black Thursday as section 502 of a major...
- cdr /ku'dr/ or /kuh'dr/ vt.
[from LISP] To skip past
the first item from a list of things (generalized from the LISP
operation on binary tree structures,
which returns a list
consisting...
- chad /chad/ n.
1. [common] The perforated edge strips
on printer paper,
after they have been separated from the printed
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- chad box n.
A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in
some models a large wastebasket),
for collecting the chad
(sense 2) that accumulated...
- chain
1. vi. [orig. from BASIC's CHAIN statement]
To hand off execution to a child or successor without going
through the OS command interpreter that invoked it.
The state
of the parent...
- channel n.
[IRC] The basic unit of discussion on
IRC.
Once one joins a channel, everything one types is read...
- channel hopping n.
[common; IRC, GEnie] To rapidly
switch channels on IRC,
or a GEnie chat board, just as a
social butterfly...
- channel op /chan'l op/ n.
[IRC] Someone who is endowed
with privileges on a particular IRC channel;
commonly
abbreviated `chanop' or `CHOP'. These...
- chanop /chan'-op/ n.
[IRC] See channel op...
- char /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ n.
Shorthand for
`character'.
Esp. used by C programmers, as `char' is C's
typename...
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