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• uperuser n. [Unix] Syn. root, avatar. This usage has spread to non-Unix environme
  he superuser is any account with all wheel bits on. A more specific term than wheel....
• avatar: [CMU, Tektronix] n. Syn. {root}, {superuser}.
  There are quite a few UNIX machines on which the name of the superuser account is `avatar' rather than `root'....
• oot: [UNIX] n. 1. The {superuser} account (with user name `root') that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a UNIX system.
  The term {avatar} is also used. 2. The top node of the system directory structure (home directory of the root user)....
• avatar n. Syn. [in Hindu mythology, the incarnation of a god] 1.
  Among people working on virtual reality and cyberspace interfaces, an avatar is an icon or representation of a user in a shared virtual reality....
• oot n. [Unix] 1. The superuser account (with user name `root') that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a Unix system.
  The term avatar is also used. 2. The top node of the system directory structure...
• wheel bit: n. A privilege bit that allows the possessor to perform some restricted operation on a timesharing system
  uch as read or write any file on the system regardless of protections, change or look at any address in the running monitor, crash or reload the system, and kill or create jobs and user accounts....
• lint: [from UNIX's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
  vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
• oot mode: n. Syn. with {wizard mode} or `wheel mode'.
  Like these, it is often generalized to describe privileged states in systems other than OSes....
• wheel n. [from slang `big wheel' for a powerful person] A person who has an active wheel bit.
  We need to find a wheel to unwedge the hung tape drives....