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bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction).
Disca...
bit decay n. See bit rot. People with a physics background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay.
See also computron, quantum bogodynamic...
bit rot n. [common] Also bit decay.
bit twiddling n. [very common] 1.
bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt.
bitblt /bit'blit/ n. [from BLT, q.v.] 1.
BITNET /bit'net/ n., obs. [acronym: Because It's Time NETwork] Everybody's least favorite piece of the network (see the network) - until AOL happened.
The BITNET hosts were a collection o...
bits pl.n. 1. Information. Examples: "I need some bits about file formats.
("I need to know about file formats.") Compare core dump, sense 4....
bitty box /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it.
Especial...
bixen pl.n. Users of BIX (the BIX Information eXchange, formerly the Byte Information eXchange).
Parallels other plurals like boxen, VAXen, oxen....

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