Shim : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Shim	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Shim
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shim n a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shim \Shim\, n. 1. A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds. 2. (Mach.) A thin piece of metal placed between two parts to make a fit.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
shim n. A small piece of data inserted in order to achieve a desired memory alignment or other addressing property. For example, the PDP-11 Unix linker, in split I&D (instructions and data) mode, inserts a two-byte shim at location 0 in data space so that no data object will have an address of 0 (and be confused with the C null pointer). See also {loose bytes}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
shim A small piece of data inserted in order to achieve a desired {memory alignment} or other addressing property. For example, the {PDP-11} {Unix} {linker}, in split I&D (instructions and data) mode, inserts a two-{byte} shim at location 0 in data space so that no data object will have an address of 0 (and be confused with the {C} null pointer). See also {loose bytes}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-21)