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• power cycle: vt. (also, `cycle power' or just `cycle') To power off a machine and then power it on immediately, with the intention of clearing some kind of {hung} or {gronk}ed state.
  Syn. {120 reset}; see also {Big Red Switch}. Compare {Vulcan nerve pinch}, {bounce} (sense 4), and {boot}, and see the AI Koan in "{A Selection of AI Koans}" (in {Appendix A}) about Tom Knight and the novice....
• 120 reset: /wuhn-twen'tee ree'set/ [from 120 volts, U.
  S. wall voltage] n. To cycle power on a machine in order to reset or unjam it....
• 120 reset /wuhn-twen'tee ree'set/ n. [from 120 volts, U.
  S. wall voltage] To cycle power on a machine in order to reset or unjam it....
• cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• Big Red Switch: [IBM] n. The power switch on a computer, esp.
  he `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM {mainframe} or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red....
• cycle 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper described himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• Big Red Switch n. [IBM] The power switch on a computer, esp.
  he `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red....
• letterbomb: 1. n. A piece of {email} containing {live data} intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's machine or terminal.
  It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed, so thoroughly that the user must cycle power (see {cycle}, sense 3) to unwedge them....
• cram switch: [from the nuclear power industry] n. An emergency-power-off switch (see {Big Red Switch}), esp.
  one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel....