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poll v.,n. 1. [techspeak] The action of checking the status of an input line, sensor, or memory location to see if a particular external event has been registered.
2. To repeatedly call or c...
polygon pusher n. A chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing lots of multi-colored polygons).
Also `rectangle slinger'....
POM /P-O-M/ n. Common abbreviation for phase of the moon.
Usage: usually in the phrase `POM-dep flaky....
pop /pop/ [from the operation that removes the top of a stack, and the fact that procedure return addresses are usually saved on the stack] (also capitalized `POP') 1.
vt. To remove someth...
POPJ /pop'J/ n.,v. [from a PDP-10 return-from-subroutine instruction] To return from a digression.
By verb doubling, "Popj, popj" means roughly "Now let's see, where were we?" See RTI....
poser n. A wannabee; not hacker slang, but used among crackers, phreaks and warez d00dz.
Not as negative as lamer or leech....
post v. To send a message to a mailing list or newsgroup.
Distinguished in context from `mail'; one might ask, for example...
postcardware n. A kind of shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something.
(This practice, silly...
posting n. Noun corresp. to v. post (but note that post can be nouned).
postmaster n. The email contact and maintenance person at a site connected to the Internet or UUCPNET.
Often, but not always, the same as the admin. The Internet standard for electronic ...

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