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• heology n. 1. Ironically or humorously used to refer to religious issues.
  2. Technical fine points of an abstruse nature, esp....
• mod: vt.,n. 1. Short for `modify' or `modification'.
  Very commonly used --- in fact the full terms are considered markers that one is being formal....
• lint: [from UNIX's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
  vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
• mart terminal: n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote {server}'s storage, using said devices as displays....
• deep magic: [poss. from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] n.
  An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, esp....
• heavy wizardry: n. Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface.
  Distinguished from {deep magic}, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge....
• char: /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ n. Shorthand for `character'.
  Esp. used by C programmers, as `char' is C's typename for character data....
• deep magic n. [poss. from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, esp.
  one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art)...
• umber-crunching: n. Computations of a numerical nature, esp.
  those that make extensive use of floating-point numbers....