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• ignal-to-noise ratio [from analog electronics] n. Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning.
  `Signal' refers to useful information conveyed by some communications medium, and `noise' to anything else on that medium....
• bandwidth: n. 1. Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle.
  Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess....
• S/N ratio: // n. (also `s/n ratio', `s:n ratio'). Syn.
  {signal-to-noise ratio}. Often abbreviated `SNR'. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• bandwidth n. 1. [common] Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a compute
  person, or transmission medium can handle. "Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess....
• S/N ratio // n. (also `s/n ratio', `s:n ratio').
  Syn. signal-to-noise ratio. Often abbreviated `SNR'....
• TANSTAAFL: /tan'stah-fl/ [acronym, from Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
  ] "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch", often invoked when someone is balking at the prospect of using an unpleasantly {heavyweight} technique, or at the poor quality of some piece of free software, or at the {signal-to-noise ratio} of unmoderated USENET newsgroups....
• flamage: /flay'm*j/ n. Flaming verbiage, esp. high-noise, low-signal postings to {USENET} or other electronic {fora}.
  Often in the phrase `the usual flamage'. `Flaming' is the act itself...
• His signal-to-noise ratio is epsilon.
• lost in the noise: adj. Syn. {lost in the underflow}.
  This term is from signal processing, where signals of very small amplitude cannot be separated from low-intensity noise in the system....