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• phase 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle
  a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule....
• wrap around: vi. (also n. `wraparound' and v. shorthand `wrap') 1.
  [techspeak] The action of a counter that starts over at zero or at `minus infinity' (see {infinity}) after its maximum value has been reached, and continues incrementing, either because it is programmed to do so or because of an overflow (as when a car's odometer starts over at 0)....
• hacking run: [analogy with `bombing run' or `speed run'] n.
  A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours....
• wrap around vi. (also n. `wraparound' and v. shorthand `wrap') 1.
  [techspeak] The action of a counter that starts over at zero or at `minus infinity' (see infinity) after its maximum value has been reached, and continues incrementing, either because it is programmed to do so or because of an overflow (as when a car's odometer starts over at 0)....
• hacking run n. [analogy with `bombing run' or `speed run'] A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours.
  May cause you to `change phase the hard way' (see phase)....
• phase of the moon n. Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend.
  Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine....
• day mode n. See phase (sense 1). Used of people only.
• ight mode n. See phase (of people).
• phase-wrapping: [MIT] n. Syn. {wrap around}, sense 2. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary