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gig /jig/ or /gig/ n. [SI] See quantifiers.
giga- /ji'ga/ or /gi'ga/ pref. [SI] See quantifiers.
GIGO /gi:'goh/ [acronym] 1.
gilley n. [Usenet] The unit of analogical bogosity.
gillion /gil'y*n/ or /jil'y*n/ n. [formed from giga- by analogy with mega/million and tera/trillion] 10^9.
Same as an American billion or a British `milliard'. How one pronounces this dep...
GIPS /gips/ or /jips/ n. [analogy with MIPS] Giga-Instructions per Second (also possibly `Gillions of Instructions per Second'
ee gillion). In 1991, this is used of only a handful of hi...
glark /glark/ vt. To figure something out from context.
"The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context....
glass n. [IBM] Synonym for silicon.
glass tty /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ n.
glassfet /glas'fet/ n. [by analogy with MOSFET, the acronym for `Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor'] Syn.
firebottle, a humorous way to refer to a vacuum tube....

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