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• boustrophedon n. [from a Greek word for turning like an ox while plowing] An ancient method of writing using alternate left-to-right and right-to-left lines.
  This term is actually philologists' techspeak and typesetters' jargon....
• woofer: [University of Waterloo] n. Some varieties of wide paper for printers have a perforation 8.
  5 inches from the left margin that allows the excess on the right-hand side to be torn off when the print format is 80 columns or less wide....
• woofer n. [University of Waterloo] Some varieties of wide paper for printers have a perforation 8.
  5 inches from the left margin that allows the excess on the right-hand side to be torn off when the print format is 80 columns or less wide....
• canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something.
  This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics....
• pace-cadet keyboard n. A now-legendary device used on MIT LISP machines, which inspired several still-current jargon terms and influenced the design of EMACS.
  It was equipped with no fewer than seven shift key...
• peedometer: n. A pattern of lights displayed on a linear set of LEDs (today) or nixie tubes (yesterday, on ancient mainframes).
  The pattern is shifted left every N times the operating system goes through its {main loop}....
• hexadecimal:: n. Base 16. Coined in the early 1960s to replace earlier `sexadecimal', which was too racy and amusing for stuffy IBM, and later adopted by the rest of the industry.
  Actually, neither term is etymologically pure....
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• andbox: n. 1. (also `sandbox, the') Common term for the R&D department at many software and computer companies (where hackers in commercial environments are likely to be found).
  Half-derisive, but reflects the truth that research is a form of creative play....