Related:

• marginally adv. Slightly. "The ravs here are only marginally better than at Small Eating Place.
  See epsilon....
• monstrosity: 1. n. A ridiculously {elephantine} program or system, esp.
  one that is buggy or only marginally functional. 2....
• epsilon: [see {delta}] 1. n. A small quantity of anything.
  "The cost is epsilon." 2. adj. Very small, negligible...
• delta: n. 1. [techspeak] A quantitative change, especially a small or incremental one (this use is general in physics and engineering).
  I just doubled the speed of my program!" "What was the delta on program size?...
• This job is marginally better than daytime TV. -- Jim Pastore
• epsilon squared: n. A quantity even smaller than {epsilon}, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal
  completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is {epsilon}, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared....
• lost in the underflow: adj. Too small to be worth considering
  more specifically, small beyond the limits of accuracy or measurement....
• fudge: 1. vt. To perform in an incomplete but marginally acceptable way, particularly with respect to the writing of a program.
  I didn't feel like going through that pain and suffering, so I fudged it --- I'll fix it later....
• upthread: adv. Earlier in the discussion (see {thread}), i.
  e., `above'. "As Joe pointed out upthread, ..." See also {followup}....