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automagically /aw-toh-maj'i-klee/ adv.
avatar n. Syn. [in Hindu mythology, the incarnation of a god] 1.
awk /awk/ 1. n. [Unix techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name derives from their initials).
It is ...
B5 // [common] Abbreviation for "Babylon 5", a science-fiction TV series as revered among hackers as was the original Star Trek.
back door n. [common] A hole in the security of a system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers.
The motivation for such holes is not always sinister; some operating syste...
backbone cabal n. A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of Usenet during most of the 1980s.
During most of its lifetime, the C...
backbone site n.,obs.
backgammon See bignum (sense 3), moby (sense 4), and pseudoprime.
background n.,adj.,vt.
backreference n. 1. In a regular expression or pattern match, the text which was matched within grouping parentheses parentheses.
2. The part of the pattern which refers back to the matche...

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