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clobber: vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally
I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack....
CLOCK: A small mechanical device used to wake people up with no kids.
Clock doesn't have all its numbers.
Clock makers do it mechanically.
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
A busy man complained one day: "I get no time!" "Wha...
Clocks go entirely too slow at work.
clocks: n. Processor logic cycles, so called because each generally corresponds to one clock pulse in the processor's timing.
The relative execution times of instructions on a machine are u...
Clone: An acronym standing for "Copied Low-cost Optimal Non-IBM Equipment".
Often used as a cure for the dreaded Big Blue....
clone: n. 1. An exact duplicate: "Our product is a clone of their product.
Implies a legal reimplementation from documentation or by reverse-engineering....
Clones are people two.

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