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asbestos longjohns n. Notional garments donned by Usenet posters just before emitting a remark they expect will elicit flamage.
This is the most common of the asbestos coinages. Also `a...
ASCII /as'kee/ n. [originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers.
Common: percent; <percent sign>; mod; grapes.
Rare: [double-oh-seven]. & Common: <ampersand&g...
ASCII art n. The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set (mainly |, -, /, \, and +).
Also known as `character graphics' or `ASCII graphics'; see also boxology. Here i...
ASCIIbetical order /as'kee-be'-t*-kl or'dr/ adj.,n.
Used to indicate that data is sorted in ASCII collated order rather than alphabetical order....
astroturfing n.
atomic adj. [from Gk. `atomos', indivisible] 1.
Indivisible; cannot be split up. For example, an instruction may be said to do several things `atomically', i....
attoparsec n. About an inch. `atto-' is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^(-18).
A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attoparsec is thus 3.26 * 10^(-18) ligh...
AUP /A-U-P/ Abbreviation, "Acceptable Use Policy".
The policy of a given ISP which sets out what the ISP considers to be (un)acceptable uses of its Internet resources....
autobogotiphobia /aw'toh-boh-got`*-foh'bee-*/ n. See bogotify.

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