- automagically /aw-toh-maj'i-klee/ adv.
Automatically
but in a way that, for some reason (typically because... - avatar n. Syn.
[in Hindu mythology, the incarnation of
a god] 1
Among people working on virtual reality and cyberspace... - awk /awk/
1. n. [Unix techspeak] An interpreted language
for massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho
Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name... - B5 //
[common] Abbreviation for "Babylon 5
a science-fiction TV series as revered among hackers... - back door n.
[common] A hole in the security of a
system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers
The motivation for such holes is not always sinister... - backbone cabal n.
A group of large-site administrators who
pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of
Usenet during most of the 1980s
During most of its lifetime, the... - backbone site n.,obs.
Formerly, a key Usenet and email
site
one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic... - backgammon
See bignum (sense 3), moby (sense 4)
and pseudoprime... - background n.,adj.,vt.
[common] To do a task `in
background' is to do it whenever foreground matters are not
claiming your undivided attention
and `to background' something means to... - backreference n.
1. In a regular expression or pattern
match
the text which was matched within grouping parentheses...
