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cd tilde /C-D til-d*/ vi. To go home. From the Unix C-shell and Korn-shell command cd ~, which takes one to one's $
HOME (cd with no arguments happens to do the same thing). By extensio...
CDA /C-D-A/ The "Communications Decency Act" of 1996, passed on Black Thursday as section 502 of a major telecommunications reform bill.
The CDA made it a federal crime in the USA to send...
cdr /ku'dr/ or /kuh'dr/ vt.
chad /chad/ n. 1. [common] The perforated edge strips on printer paper, after they have been separated from the printed portion.
Also called selvage, perf, and ripoff 2. obs. The confetti...
chad box n. A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad (sense 2) that accumulated in Iron Age card punches.
You had to ope...
chain 1. vi. [orig. from BASIC's CHAIN statement] To hand off execution to a child or successor without going through the OS command interpreter that invoked it.
The state of the parent p...
channel n. [IRC] The basic unit of discussion on IRC.
Once one joins a channel, everything one types is read by others on that channel....
channel hopping n. [common; IRC, GEnie] To rapidly switch channels on IRC, or a GEnie chat board, just as a social butterfly might hop from one group to another at a party.
This term may...
channel op /chan'l op/ n. [IRC] Someone who is endowed with privileges on a particular IRC channel
commonly abbreviated `chanop' or `CHOP'. These privileges include the right to kick use...
chanop /chan'-op/ n. [IRC] See channel op.

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