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• bogosity /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which something is bogus.
  Bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered"....
• bogon flux: /boh'gon fluhks/ n. A measure of a supposed field of {bogosity} emitted by a speaker, measured by a {bogometer}
  as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising"....
• bogon flux /boh'gon fluhks/ n. A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogomete
  as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising"....
• bogometer: /boh-gom'-*t-er/ n. A notional instrument for measuring {bogosity}.
  Compare the `wankometer' described in the {wank} entry...
• bogus adj. 1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus.
  2. Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False....
• bogometer /boh-gom'-*t-er/ n. A notional instrument for measuring bogosity.
  Compare the Troll-O-Meter and the `wankometer' described in the wank entry; see also bogus....
• bogon /boh'gon/ n. [very common; by analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity to Douglas Adams's `Vogons'
  ee the Bibliography in Appendix C and note that Arthur Dent actually mispronounces `Vogons' as `Bogons' at one point] 1....
• bogon filter: /boh'gon fil'tr/ n. Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons.
  "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets....
• quantum bogodynamics: /kwon'tm boh`goh-di:-nam'iks/ n.
  A theory that characterizes the universe in terms of bogon sources (such as politicians, used-car salesmen, TV evangelists, and {suit}s in general), bogon sinks (such as taxpayers and computers), and bogosity potential fields....