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WYSIWYG /wiz'ee-wig/ adj.
X /X/ n. 1. Used in various speech and writing contexts (also in lowercase) in roughly its algebraic sense of `unknown within a set defined by context' (compare N).
Thus, the abbreviatio...
XEROX PARC /zee'roks park'/ n. The famed Palo Alto Research Center.
XOFF /X-of/ n. Syn. control-S.
XON /X-on/ n. Syn. control-Q.
xor /X'or/, /kzor/ conj. Exclusive or. `A xor B' means `A or B, but not both'.
I want to get cherry pie xor a banana split....
xref /X'ref/ v.,n. Hackish standard abbreviation for `cross-reference'.
XXX /X-X-X/ n. A marker that attention is needed.
Commonly used in program comments to indicate areas that are kluged up or need to be....
xyzzy /X-Y-Z-Z-Y/, /X-Y-ziz'ee/, /ziz'ee/, or /ik-ziz'ee/ adj.
[from the ADVENT game] The canonical `magic word'....
YA- abbrev. [Yet Another] In hackish acronyms this almost invariably expands to Yet Another, following the precedent set by Unix yacc(1) (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler).
See YABA....

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