The letter A

• abbrev /*-breev'/, /*-brev'/ n. Common abbreviation for
• ABEND [ABnormal END] /o'bend/, /*-bend'/ n. Abnormal
• accumulator n. 1. Archaic term for a register. On-line use of it
• ACK /ak/ interj. 1. [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0000110]
• ad-hockery /ad-hok'*r-ee/ [Purdue] n. 1. Gratuitous assumptions
• Ada n. A Pascal-descended language that has been made
• adger /aj'r/ [UCLA] vt. To make a bonehead move with
• admin /ad-min'/ n. Short for `administrator'; very commonly
• ADVENT /ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game, first
• AFJ // n. Written-only abbreviation for "April Fool's Joke".
• AI /A-I/ n. Abbreviation for `Artificial Intelligence', so
• AI-complete /A-I k*m-pleet'/ [MIT, Stanford by analogy with
• AI koans /A-I koh'anz/ pl.n. A series of pastiches of Zen
• AIDS /aydz/ n. Short for A* Infected Disk Syndrome (`A*' is a
• AIDX n. /aydkz/ n. Derogatory term for IBM's perverted version
• airplane rule n. "Complexity increases the possibility of
• aliasing bug n. A class of subtle programming errors that can
• all-elbows [MS-DOS] adj. Of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident)
• alpha particles n. See bit rot.
• alt /awlt/ 1. n. The alt shift key on an IBM PC or clone
• alt bit /awlt bit/ [from alternate] adj. See meta bit.
• altmode n. Syn. alt sense 3.
• Aluminum Book [MIT] n. "Common LISP The Language", by
• amoeba n. Humorous term for the Commodore Amiga personal computer.
• amp off [Purdue] vt. To run in background. From the UNIX shell `&'
• amper n. Common abbreviation for the name of the ampersand (`&',
• angle brackets n. Either of the characters `<' (ASCII
• angry fruit salad n. A bad visual-interface design that uses too
• annoybot /*-noy-bot/ [IRC] n. See robot.
• AOS 1. /aws/ (East Coast), /ay-os/ (West Coast) [based on a
• app /ap/ n. Short for `application program', as opposed to a
• arena [UNIX] n. The area of memory attached to a process by
• arg /arg/ n. Abbreviation for `argument' (to a function),
• ARMM [acronym, `Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation'] n. A
• armor-plated n. Syn. for bulletproof.
• asbestos adj. Used as a modifier to anything intended to protect
• asbestos cork award n. Once, long ago at MIT, there was a
• asbestos longjohns n. Notional garments donned by USENET
• ASCII [American Standard Code for Information Interchange]
• ASCII art n. The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII
• ASCIIbetical order /as'kee-be'-t*-kl or'dr/ adj.,n. Used to
• atomic [from Gk. `atomos', indivisible] adj. 1. Indivisible;
• attoparsec n. About an inch. `atto-' is the standard SI
• autobogotiphobia /aw'toh-boh-got`*-foh'bee-*/ n. See bogotify.
• automagically /aw-toh-maj'i-klee/ or /aw-toh-maj'i-k*l-ee/ adv.
• avatar [CMU, Tektronix] n. Syn. root, superuser. There
• awk 1. n. [UNIX techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging

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