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De - Pt| English Dictionary: drop-ins | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for drop-ins | |
| From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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drop-ins n. [prob. by analogy with {drop-outs}] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Esp. used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input. Compare {drop-outs}, sense 2. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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drop-ins [analogy with {drop-outs}] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of {line noise} or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input. [{Jargon File}] | |
