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aive adj. 1. Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or system
aive user n. A luser. Tends to imply someone who is ignorant mainly owing to inexperience.
NAK /nak/ interj. [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0010101] 1.
On-line joke answer to ACK?: "I'm not here." 2. On-line answer to a request for cha...
NANA // [Usenet] The newsgroups news.admin.net-abuse.
*, devoted to fighting spam and network abuse. Each individual newsgroup is often referred to by adding a letter to NANA....
ano /nan'oh/ n. [CMU: from `nanosecond'] A brief period of time.
Be with you in a nano" means you really will be free shortly, i....
ano- pref. [SI: the next quantifier below micro
meaning * 10^(-9)] Smaller than micro-, and used in the same rather loose and connotative way....
anoacre /nan'oh-ay`kr/ n. A unit (about 2 mm square) of real estate on a VLSI chip.
anobot /nan'oh-bot/ n. A robot of microscopic proportions, presumably built by means of nanotechnology.
As yet, only used informally (and speculatively!). Also called a `nanoagent'....
anocomputer /nan'oh-k*m-pyoo'tr/ n. A computer with molecular-sized switching elements.
anofortnight n. [Adelaide University] 1 fortnight * 10^(-9), or about 1.
2 msec. This unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals....

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