Poll: V.,n. 1. [techspeak] The Action Of Checking The Status Of An Input Line, Sensor, Or Memory Location To See If A Particular External Event Has Been Registered.

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• poll v.,n. 1. [techspeak] The action of checking the status of an input line, sensor, or memory location to see if a particular external event has been registered.
  2. To repeatedly call or check with someone: "I keep polling him, but he's not answering his phone...
• iff: v.,n. Synonym for {poll}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• wap: vt. 1. [techspeak] To move information from a fast-access memory to a slow-access memory (`swap out'), or vice versa (`swap in').
  Often refers specifically to the use of disks as `virtual memory'....
• vi: /V-I/, *not* /vi:/ and *never* /siks/ [from `Visual Interface'] n.
  A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early {BSD} release....
• anity check: n. 1. The act of checking a piece of code (or anything else, e.
  g., a USENET posting) for completely stupid mistakes....
• EOF: /E-O-F/ [abbreviation, `End Of File'] n. 1. [techspeak] The {out-of-band} value returned by C's sequential character-input functions (and their equivalents in other environments) when end of file has been reached.
  This value is -1 under C libraries postdating V6 UNIX, but was originally 0....
• gweep: /gweep/ [WPI] 1. v. To {hack}, usually at night.
  At WPI, from 1977 onwards, one who gweeped coud often be found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the {PDP-10} or, later, the DEC-20....
• finger: [WAITS, via BSD UNIX] 1. n. A program that displays information about a particular user or all users logged on the system, or a remote system.
  Typically shows full name, last login time, idle time, terminal line, and terminal location (where applicable)....
• zorch: /zorch/ 1. [TMRC] v. To attack with an inverse heat sink.
  2. [TMRC] v. To travel, with v approaching c [that is, with velocity approaching lightspeed --- ESR]....