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Jargon File
- 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...
- backronym n.
[portmanteau of back + acronym] A word
interpreted as an acronym that was not originally so intended.
This is a special case of what linguists call `back...
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