bit decay: n. See {bit rot}. People with a physics background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay

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• bit decay n. See bit rot. People with a physics background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay
  See also computron, quantum...
• bit rot: n. Also {bit decay}. Hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed
  even if `nothing has changed'. The theory explains...
• quantum bogodynamics: /kwon'tm boh`goh-di:-nam'iks/ n
  A theory that characterizes the universe in terms...
• psyton: /si:'ton/ [TMRC] n. The elementary particle carrying the sinister force
  The probability of a process losing is proportional...
• link rot n. The natural decay of web links as the sites they're connected to change or die
  Compare bit rot...
• bit rot n. [common] Also bit decay. Hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed
  even if `nothing has changed'. The theory explains...
• alpha particles n
  See bit rot...
• trit: /trit/ [by analogy with `bit'] n. One base-3 digit
  the amount of information conveyed by a selection...
• bogon /boh'gon/ n. [very common; by analogy with proton/electron/neutron
  but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity...