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• microfortnight n. 1/1000000 of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measureme
  1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel...
• anofortnight: [Adelaide University] n. 1 fortnight * 10^-9, or about 1.
  2 msec. This unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals....
• c file: /R-C fi:l/ [UNIX: from the startup script `/etc/rc', but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to `run commands'] n.
  Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up....
• bible: n. 1. One of a small number of fundamental source books such as {Knuth} and {K&R}.
  2. The most detailed and authoritative reference for a particular language, operating system, or other complex software system....
• epoch: [UNIX: prob. from astronomical timekeeping] n.
  The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values....
• wall time: n. (also `wall clock time') 1. `Real world' time (what the clock on the wall shows), as opposed to the system clock's idea of time.
  2. The real running time of a program, as opposed to the number of {tick}s required to execute it (on a timesharing system these always differ, as no one program gets all the ticks, and on multiprocessor systems with good thread support one may get more processor time than real time)....
• anofortnight n. [Adelaide University] 1 fortnight * 10^(-9), or about 1.
  2 msec. This unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals....
• finger: [WAITS, via BSD UNIX] 1. n. A program that displays information about a particular user or all users logged on the system, or a remote system.
  Typically shows full name, last login time, idle time, terminal line, and terminal location (where applicable)....
• attoparsec: n. About an inch. `atto-' is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^(-18).
  A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-yea...