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wizardly adj. Pertaining to wizards. A wizardly feature is one that only a wizard could understand or use properly.
wok-on-the-wall n. A small microwave dish antenna used for cross-campus private network circuits, from the obvious resemblance between a microwave dish and the Chinese culinary utensil.
womb box n. 1. [TMRC] Storage space for equipment.
2. [proposed] A variety of hard-shell equipment case with heavy interior padding and/or shaped carrier cutouts in a foam-rubber matrix...
WOMBAT /wom'bat/ adj. [acronym
womble n. [Unisys UK: from British cartoon characters] A user who has great difficulty in communicating their requirements and/or in using the resulting software.
Extreme case of luser. An ...
wonky /wong'kee/ adj. [from Australian slang] Yet another approximate synonym for broken.
woofer n. [University of Waterloo] Some varieties of wide paper for printers have a perforation 8.
5 inches from the left margin that allows the excess on the right-hand side to be torn off ...
workaround n. 1. A temporary kluge used to bypass, mask, or otherwise avoid a bug or misfeature in some system.
Theoretically, workarounds are always replaced by fixes; in practice, custo...
working as designed adj. [IBM] 1. In conformance to a wrong or inappropriate specificatio
useful, but misdesigned. 2. Frequently used as a sardonic comment on a program's utility....
worm n. [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes.
Compare virus. Now...

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