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• creeping featuritis /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ n. Variant of creeping featurism, with its own spoonerizatio
  `feeping creaturitis'. Some people like to reserve this form for the disease as it actually manifests in software or hardware, as opposed to the lurking general tendency in designers' minds....
• creeping featurism: /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. 1. Describes a systematic tendency to load more {chrome} and {feature}s onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed.
  See also {feeping creaturism}. "You know, the main problem with {BSD} UNIX has always been creeping featurism....
• feeping creaturism: /fee'ping kree`ch*r-izm/ n. A deliberate spoonerism for {creeping featurism}
  meant to imply that the system or program in question has become a misshapen creature of hacks....
• creeping featurism /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. [common] 1.
  Describes a systematic tendency to load more chrome and features onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed....
• oftware bloat: n. The results of {second-system effect} or {creeping featuritis}.
  Commonly cited examples include `ls(1)', {X}, {BSD}, {Missed'em-five}, and {OS/2}....
• creeping elegance: n. Describes a tendency for parts of a design to become {elegant} past the point of diminishing retu
  something which often happens at the expense of the less interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things deemed important in the {Real World}....
• critical mass: n. In physics, the minimum amount of fissionable material required to sustain a chain reaction.
  Of a software product, describes a condition of the software such that fixing one bug introduces one plus {epsilon} bugs....
• feeping creaturism /fee'ping kree`ch*r-izm/ n. A deliberate spoonerism for creeping featurism
  meant to imply that the system or program in question has become a misshapen creature of hacks....
• feature creature: [poss. fr. slang `creature feature' for a horror movie] n.
  1. One who loves to add features to designs or programs, perhaps at the expense of coherence, concision, or {taste}....