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meg /meg/ n. See quantifiers.
mega- /me'g*/ pref. [SI] See quantifiers.
megapenny /meg'*-pen`ee/ n. $10,000 (1 cent * 10^6).
Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and performance figures....
MEGO /me'goh/ or /mee'goh/ [`My Eyes Glaze Over', often `Mine Eyes Glazeth (sic) Over', attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also `MEGO factor'.
1. n. A handwave intended to confu...
meltdown, network n. See network meltdown.
meme /meem/ n. [coined by analogy with `gene', by Richard Dawkins] An idea considered as a replicator, esp.
with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much a...
meme plague n. The spread of a successful but pernicious meme, esp.
one that parasitizes the victims into giving their all to propagate it....
memetics /me-met'iks/ n. [from meme] The study of memes.
memory farts n. The flatulent sounds that some DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory on bootup.
memory leak n. An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion.
Also (esp....

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