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elvage /sel'v*j/ n. [from sewing and weaving] See chad (sense 1).
emi /se'mee/ or /se'mi:/ 1. n. Abbreviation for `semicolon', when speaking.
Commands to grind are prefixed by semi-semi-star" means that the prefix i...
emi-automated adj. [US Geological Survey] A procedure that has yet to be completely automated
it still requires a smidge of clueful human interaction. Semi-automated programs usually come ...
emi-infinite n. See infinite.
enior bit n. [IBM; rare] Syn. meta bit.
September that never ended All time since September 1993.
erver n. A kind of daemon that performs a service for the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the server runs.
A particularly common term on the Inte...
SEX /seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n.
1. Software EXchange....
DEC's engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used the SEX mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing wasn't asleep and forced a change.
That wasn't the last time thi...
ex changer n. Syn. gender mender.

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