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• wheel n. [from slang `big wheel' for a powerful person] A person who has an active wheel bit.
  We need to find a wheel to unwedge the hung tape drives....
• wizard: n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who {grok}s it)
  esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency....
• uperuser: [UNIX] n. Syn. {root}, {avatar}. This usage has spread to non-UNIX environme
  he superuser is any account with all {wheel} bits on....
• peon: n. A person with no special ({root} or {wheel}) privileges on a computer system.
  I can't create an account on *foovax* for you...
• wheel bit: n. A privilege bit that allows the possessor to perform some restricted operation on a timesharing system
  uch as read or write any file on the system regardless of protections, change or look at any address in the running monitor, crash or reload the system, and kill or create jobs and user accounts....
• cycle of reincarnation n. See wheel of reincarnation.
• Let's spin the big wheel and see what year we land on today, Dave.
• oot mode: n. Syn. with {wizard mode} or `wheel mode'.
  Like these, it is often generalized to describe privileged states in systems other than OSes....
• wizard mode: [from {rogue}] n. A special access mode of a program or system, usually passworded, that permits some users godlike privileges.
  Generally not used for operating systems themselves (`root mode' or `wheel mode' would be used instead)....