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moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....
mockingbird n.
mod vt.,n. [very common] 1. Short for `modify' or `modification'.
Very commonly used -- in fact the full terms are considered markers that one is being formal....
mode n. [common] A general state, usually used with an adjective describing the state.
mode bit n. [common] A flag, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation.
The connotations are different from flag bit in that mode bits are...
modulo /mod'yu-loh/ prep. Except for. An overgeneralization of mathematical terminology
one can consider saying that 4 equals 22 except for the 9s (4 = 22 mod 9)....
molly-guard /mol'ee-gard/ n. [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands.
Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised...
Mongolian Hordes technique n. [poss. from the Sixties counterculture expression `Mongolian clusterfuck' for a public orgy] Development by gang bang.
Implies that large numbers of inexperi...
monkey up vt. To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job.
Connotes an extremely crufty and consciously temporary solution....
monkey, scratch n. See scratch monkey.

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