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une vt. [from automotive or musical usage] To optimize a program or system for a particular environment, esp.
by adjusting numerical parameters designed as hooks for tuning, e.g., by cha...
urbo nerd n. See computer geek.
Turing tar-pit n. 1. A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical.
urist /too'rist/ n. Var. sp. of tourist, q.v. Also in adjectival form, `turistic'.
Poss. influenced by luser and `Turing'....
weak vt. 1. To change slightly, usually in reference to a value.
Also used synonymously with twiddle....
weeter n. [University of Waterloo] Syn. perf, chad (sense 1).
This term (like woofer) has been in use at Waterloo since 1972 but is elsewhere unknown....
TWENEX /twe'neks/ n.
widdle n. 1. Tilde (ASCII 1111110, ~). Also called `squiggle', `sqiggle' (sic -- pronounced /skig'l/), and `twaddle', but twiddle is the most common term.
2. A small and insignificant c...
wilight zone n. // [IRC] Notionally, the area of cyberspace where IRC operators live.
An op is said to have a "connection to the twilight zone"....

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