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accumulator n. obs. 1. Archaic term for a register.
ACK /ak/ interj. 1. [common; from the ASCII mnemonic for 0000110] Acknowledge.
Used to register one's presence (compare mainstream Yo!...
Acme n. The canonical supplier of bizarre, elaborate, and non-functional gadgetry - where Rube Goldberg and Heath Robinson (two cartoonists who specialized in elaborate contraptions) shop.
acolyte n. obs. [TMRC] An OSU privileged enough to submit data and programs to a member of the priesthood.
ad-hockery /ad-hok'*r-ee/ n. [Purdue] 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp.
expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fac...
Ada n. A Pascal-descended language that has been made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon.
Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, i...
address harvester n. A robot that searches web pages and/or filters netnews traffic looking for valid email addresses.
Some address harvesters are benign, used only for compiling address ...
adger /aj'r/ vt. [UCLA mutant of nadger, poss.
also from the middle name of an infamous tenured graduate student] T been foreseen with even slight mental effort....
admin /ad-min'/ n. Short for `administrator'; very commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer.
Common constructions on this include `sysadmi...
ADVENT /ad'vent/ n.

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