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POM: /P-O-M/ N. Common Abbreviation For {phase Of The Moon}.
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:POM: /P-O-M/ n. Common abbreviation for {phase of the moon}. Usage:
usually in the phrase `POM-dependent', which means {flaky}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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POM /P-O-M/ n. Common abbreviation for phase of the moon.
Usage: usually in the phrase `POM-dep flaky....
abbrev: /*-breev'/, /*-brev'/ n. Common abbreviation for `abbreviation'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
confuser: n. Common soundalike slang for `computer'.
Usually encountered in compounds such as `confuser room', `personal confuser', `confuser guru'....
BRS: /B-R-S/ n. Syn. {Big Red Switch}. This abbreviation is fairly common on-line.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
amper: n. Common abbreviation for the name of the ampersand (`&', ASCII 0100110) character.
See {{ASCII}} for other synonyms. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
BOF: /B-O-F/ or /bof/ n. Abbreviation for the phrase "Birds Of a Feather" (flocking together), an informal discussion group and/or bull session scheduled on a conference program.
It is not clear where or when this term originated, but it is now associated with the USENIX conferences for UNIX techies and was already established there by 1984....
AI: /A-I/ n. Abbreviation for `Artificial Intelligence', so common that the full form is almost never written or spoken among hackers.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
KIPS: /kips/ [abbreviation, by analogy with {MIPS} using {K}] n.
Thousands (*not* 1024s) of Instructions Per Second....
P.O.D.: /P-O-D/ Acronym for `Piece Of Data' (as opposed to a code section).
Usage: pedantic and rare. See also {pod}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...