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• BLOB 1. n. [acronym: Binary Large OBject] Used by database people to refer to any random large block of bits that needs to be stored in a database, such as a picture or sound file.
  The essential point about a BLOB is that it's an object that cannot be interpreted within the database itself....
• widget: n. 1. A meta-thing. Used to stand for a real object in didactic examples (especially database tutorials).
  Legend has it that the original widgets were holders for buggy whips....
• English: 1. n.,obs. The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler.
  The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favorite programming language is at least as readable as English....
• wango: /wang'goh/ n. Random bit-level {grovel}ling going on in a system during some unspecified operation.
  Often used in combination with {mumble}. For example...
• ig block: /sig blok/ [UNIX; often written `.sig' there] n.
  Short for `signature', used specifically to refer to the electronic signature block that most UNIX mail- and news-posting software will {automagically} append to outgoing mail and news....
• atomic: [from Gk. `atomos', indivisible] adj. 1. Indivisible
  cannot be split up. For example, an instruction may be said to do several things `atomically', i....
• engine: n. 1. A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function but can't be used without some kind of {front end}.
  Today we have, especially, `print engine': the guts of a laser printer....
• cons: /konz/ or /kons/ [from LISP] 1. vt. To add a new element to a specified list, esp.
  at the top. "OK, cons picking a replacement for the console TTY onto the agenda....
• flat-file: adj. A {flatten}ed representation of some database or tree or network structure as a single file from which the structure could implicitly be rebuilt, esp.
  one in {flat-ASCII} form. See also {sharchive}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...