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• erotics: /ee-ro'tiks/ n. [Helsinki University of Technology, Finland] n.
  English-language university slang for electronics....
• metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
  The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
• iron: n. Hardware, especially older and larger hardware of {mainframe} class with big metal cabinets housing relatively low-density electronics (but the term is also used of modern supercomputers).
  Often in the phrase {big iron}. Oppose {silicon}....
• person of no account: [University of California at Santa Cruz] n.
  Used when referring to a person with no {network address}, frequently to forestall confusion....
• charityware: /cha'rit-ee-weir`/ n. Syn. {careware}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• ignal-to-noise ratio: [from analog electronics] n.
  Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning....
• womb box: n. 1. [TMRC] Storage space for equipment.
  2. [proposed] A variety of hard-shell equipment case with heavy interior padding and/or shaped carrier cutouts in a foam-rubber matrix...
• anofortnight: [Adelaide University] n. 1 fortnight * 10^-9, or about 1.
  2 msec. This unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals....
• iffy: [University of Lowell, Massachusetts.] n. 3.
  5-inch {microfloppies}, so called because their jackets are more rigid than those of the 5....