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• IBM: International Bit Mangle
• enior bit n. [IBM; rare] Syn. meta bit.
• enior bit: [IBM] n. Syn. {meta bit}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• Is an idiotic sergeant a noncompoop?
• Top priority - it may be idiotic but the boss wants it -- Glossary of important business term
• mode bit: n. A {flag}, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation.
  The connotations are different from {flag} bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program....
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• meta bit n. The top bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128-255.
  Also called high bit, alt bit, or (rarely) hobbit....