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• imes-or-divided-by: [by analogy with `plus-or-minus'] quant.
  Term occasionally used when describing the uncertainty associated with a scheduling estimate, for either humorous or brutally honest effect....
• broket: /broh'k*t/ or /broh'ket`/ [by analogy with `bracket'
  a `broken bracket'] n. Either of the characters `&l...
• infinity: n. 1. The largest value that can be represented in a particular type of variable (register, memory location, data type, whatever).
  2. `minus infinity': The smallest such value, not necessarily or even usually the simple negation of plus infinity....
• glassfet: /glas'fet/ [by analogy with MOSFET, the acronym for `Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor'] n.
  Syn. {firebottle}, a humorous way to refer to a vacuum tube. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• Berkeley Quality Software: adj. (often abbreviated `BQS') Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some unique problem.
  It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it....
• down: 1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say
  and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on....
• block: [from process scheduling terminology in OS theory] 1.
  vi. To delay or sit idle while waiting for something....
• Law of Class Scheduling: When you are occasionally able to schedule two classes in a row, they will be held in classrooms at opposite ends of the campus.
• wetware: /wet'weir/ [prob. from the novels of Rudy Rucker] n.
  1. The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or software....