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• gillion /gil'y*n/ or /jil'y*n/ n. [formed from giga- by analogy with mega/million and tera/trillion] 10^9.
  Same as an American billion or a British `milliard'....
• GIPS: /gips/ or /jips/ [analogy with {MIPS}] n. Giga-Instructions per Second (also possibly `Gillions of Instructions per Second'
  ee {gillion}). In 1991, this is used of only a handful of highly parallel machines, but this is expected to change....
• quantifiers In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric prefixes used in the SI (Systè
  me International) conventions for scientific measurement have dual uses....
• GIPS /gips/ or /jips/ n. [analogy with MIPS] Giga-Instructions per Second (also possibly `Gillions of Instructions per Second'
  ee gillion). In 1991, this is used of only a handful of highly parallel machines, but this is expected to change....
• winged comments: n. Comments set on the same line as code, as opposed to {boxed comments}.
  In C, for example: d = sqrt(x*x + y*y); /* distance from origin */ Generally these refer only to the action(s) taken on that line....
• wedgitude: /wedj'i-t[y]ood/ n. The quality or state of being {wedged}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ewbie: /n[y]oo'bee/ n. [orig. from British public-school and military slang variant of `new boy'] A USENET neophyte.
  This term surfaced in the {newsgroup} talk.bizarre but is now in wide use....
• ewgroup wars: /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [USENET] n. The salvos of dueling `newgroup' and `rmgroup' messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a {newsgroup} should be created net-wide
  or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed....
• Error reading FAT table. Try SKINNY one? (Y/N)