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• beta /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/ n.
  1. Mostly working, but still under test; usu. used with `in'...
• Life is just one big beta test cycle.
• My life is still in BETA test.
• The human race is still in beta test...
• The three biggest software lies: 1: *Of course* we'll give you a copy of the source.
  2: *Of course* the third party vendor we bought that from will fix the microcode....
• Alpha test version: too buggy to release Beta test versio
  ill too buggy to release Release 1.0: alternate pronounciation of beta test versio...
• If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.
• bang path: n. An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address specifying hops to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee, so called because each {hop} is signified by a {bang} sign.
  Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!...
• bang path n. [now historical] An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address specifying hops to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee
  o called because each hop is signified by a bang sign....