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enured graduate student n. One who has been in graduate school for 10 years (the usual maximum is 5 or 6)
a `ten-yeared' student (get it?). Actually, this term may be used of any grad ...
era- /te'r*/ pref. [SI] See quantifiers.
eraflop club /te'r*-flop kluhb/ n.
erminak /ter'mi-nak`/ n. [Caltech, ca. 1979] Any malfunctioning computer terminal.
erminal brain death n. The extreme form of terminal illness (sense 1).
What someone who has obviously been h continuously for far too long is said to be suffering from....
erminal illness n. 1. Syn. raster burn. 2. The `burn-in' condition your CRT tends to get if you don't have a screen saver.
erminal junkie n. [UK] A wannabee or early larval stage hacker who spends mos directory tree and writing noddy programs just to get a fix of computer time.
Variants include `terminal jockey...
erpri /ter'pree/ vi. [from LISP 1.5 (and later, MacLISP)] To output a newline.
Now rare as jargon, though still used as techspeak in Common LISP....
est n. 1. Real users bashing on a prototype long enough to get thoroughly acquainted with it, with careful monitoring and followup of the results.
2. Some bored random user trying a couple ...
TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.

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