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Cassava \Cas"sa*va\, n. [F. cassave, Sp. cazabe, fr. kasabi, in the language of Hayti.] 1. (Bot.) A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus {Manihot}, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also {manioc}. Note: There are two species, bitter and sweet, from which the cassava of commerce is prepared in the West Indies, tropical America, and Africa. The bitter ({Manihot utilissima}) is the more important; this has a poisonous sap, but by grating, pressing, and baking the root the poisonous qualities are removed. The sweet ({M. Aipi}) is used as a table vegetable. 2. A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca. | |
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Manioc \Ma"ni*oc\, n. [Pg. mandioca, fr. Braz.] (Bot.) The tropical plants ({Manihot utilissima}, and {M. Aipi}), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava. [Written also {mandioc}, {manihoc}, {manihot}.] | |
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Mabby \Mab"by\, n. A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the Barbadoes. | |
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Mahovo \Ma*ho"vo\, n. (Mach.) A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel. | |
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Map \Map\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mapping}.] To represent by a map; -- often with out; as, to survey and map, or map out, a county. Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business. I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly. --Shak. | |
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Map \Map\, n. [From F. mappe, in mappemonde map of the world, fr. L. mappa napkin, signal cloth; -- a Punic word. Cf. {Apron}, {Napkin}, {Nappe}.] 1. A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat surface. Also, such a representation of the celestial sphere, or of some part of it. Note: There are five principal kinds of projection used in making maps: the orthographic, the stereographic, the globuar, the conical, and the cylindrical, or Mercator's projection. See {Projection}. 2. Anything which represents graphically a succession of events, states, or acts; as, an historical map. Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn. --Shak. {Map lichen} (Bot.), a lichen ({Lecidea geographica}.) growing on stones in curious maplike figures. --Dr. Prior. | |
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Mauve \Mauve\, n. [F., mallow, L. malva. So named from the similarity of the color to that of the petals of common mallow, Malva sylvestris. See {Mallow}.] A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac. {Mauve aniline} (Chem.), a dyestuff produced artificially by the oxidation of commercial aniline, and the first discovered of the so-called coal-tar, or aniline, dyes. It consists of the sulphate of mauve[8b]ne, and is a dark brown or bronze amorphous powder, which dissolves to a beatiful purple color. Called also {aniline purple}, {violine}, etc. | |
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May \May\, v. [imp. {Might}] [AS. pres. m[91]g I am able, pret. meahte, mihte; akin to D. mogen, G. m[94]gen, OHG. mugan, magan, Icel. mega, Goth. magan, Russ. moche. [?]. Cf. {Dismay}, {Main} strength, {Might}. The old imp. mought is obsolete, except as a provincial word.] An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can. How may a man, said he, with idle speech, Be won to spoil the castle of his health ! --Spenser. For what he [the king] may do is of two kinds; what he may do as just, and what he may do as possible. --Bacon. For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: [bd]It might have been.[b8] --Whittier. (b) Liberty; permission; allowance. Thou mayst be no longer steward. --Luke xvi. 2. (c) Contingency or liability; possibility or probability. Though what he learns he speaks, and may advance Some general maxims, or be right by chance. --Pope. (d) Modesty, courtesy, or concession, or a desire to soften a question or remark. How old may Phillis be, you ask. --Prior. (e) Desire or wish, as in prayer, imprecation, benediction, and the like. [bd]May you live happily.[b8] --Dryden. {May be}, [and] {It may be}, are used as equivalent to possibly, perhaps, by chance, peradventure. See 1st {Maybe}. | |
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Maybird \May"bird`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The whimbrel; -- called also {May fowl}, {May curlew}, and {May whaap}. (b) The knot. [Southern U. S.] (c) The bobolink. | |
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Whaap \Whaap\, n. [So called from one of its notes.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European curlew; -- called also {awp}, {whaup}, {great whaup}, and {stock whaup}. (b) The whimbrel; -- called also {May whaup}, {little whaup}, and {tang whaup}. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Maybe \May"be\, adv. [For it may be.] Perhaps; possibly; peradventure. Maybe the amorous count solicits her. --Shak. In a liberal and, maybe, somewhat reckless way. --Tylor. | |
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Maybe \May"be\, a. Possible; probable, but not sure. [R.] Then add those maybe years thou hast to live. --Driden. | |
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Maybe \May"be\, n. Possibility; uncertainty. [R.] What they offer is mere maybe and shift. --Creech. | |
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Mayhap \May"hap\, adv. Perhaps; peradventure. [Prov. or Dialectic] | |
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Meve \Meve\, v. t. & i. To move. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Miff \Miff\, n. [Cf. Prov. G. muff sullenness, sulkiness, muffen to be silky, muff[8b]g sullen, pouting.] A petty falling out; a tiff; a quarrel; offense. --Fielding. | |
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Miff \Miff\, v. t. To offend slightly. [Colloq.] | |
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Mob \Mob\, v. t. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.] | |
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Mob \Mob\, n. [See {Mobcap}.] A mobcap. --Goldsmith. | |
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Mob \Mob\, n. [L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See {Mobile}, n.] 1. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it. A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. --Addison. 2. Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd. The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. --Pope. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. --Madison. Confused by brainless mobs. --Tennyson. {Mob law}, law administered by the mob; lynch law. {Swell mob}, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] --Dickens. | |
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Mob \Mob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mobbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mobbing}.] To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person. | |
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Moeve \Moeve\, v. t. & i. To move. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Moff \Moff\, n. A thin silk stuff made in Caucasia. | |
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Mop \Mop\, n. [See {Mope}.] A made-up face; a grimace. [bd]What mops and mowes it makes![b8] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Mop \Mop\, n. [CF. W. mop, mopa, Ir. moipal, Gael. moibeal, moibean; or OF. mappe a napkin (see {Map}, {Napkin}).] 1. An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle. 2. A fair where servants are hired. [Prov. Eng.] 3. The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. {Mop head}. (a) The end of a mop, to which the thrums or rags are fastened. (b) A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop. [U.S.] | |
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Mop \Mop\, v. i. To make a wry mouth. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Mop \Mop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mopped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mopping}.] To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief. | |
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Mope \Mope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Moped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Moping}.] [Cf. D. moppen to pout, Prov. G. muffen to sulk.] To be dull and spiritless. [bd]Moping melancholy.[b8] --Milton. A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. --Shak. | |
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Mope \Mope\, v. t. To make spiritless and stupid. [Obs.] | |
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Mope \Mope\, n. A dull, spiritless person. --Burton. | |
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Move \Move\, n. 1. The act of moving; a movement. 2. (Chess, Checkers, etc.) The act of moving one of the pieces, from one position to another, in the progress of the game. 3. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. {To make a move}. (a) To take some action. (b) To move a piece, as in a game. {To be on the move}, to bustle or stir about. [Colloq.] | |
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Move \Move\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Moved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Moving}.] [OE. moven, OF. moveir, F. mouvoir, L. movere; cf. Gr. [?] to change, exchange, go in or out, quit, Skr. m[c6]v, p. p. m[umac]ta, to move, push. Cf. {Emotion}, {Mew} to molt, {Mob}, {Mutable}, {Mutiny}.] 1. To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage. 2. (Chess, Checkers, etc.) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king. | |
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Move \Move\, v. i. 1. To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly. The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. --Ps. xviii. 7. On the green bank I sat and listened long, . . . Nor till her lay was ended could I move. --Dryden. 2. To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter. 3. To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another. 4. (Chess, Checkers, etc.) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game. | |
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Movie \Mov"ie\, n. A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used in pl. [Slang or Colloq.] | |
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Whitethroat \White"throat`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species ({Sylvia cinerea}), called also {strawsmear}, {nettlebird}, {muff}, and {whitecap}, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler ({S. hortensis}), and the lesser whitethroat ({S. curruca}). | |
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Muff \Muff\ (m[ucr]f), n. [Cf. LG. muff, D. mof, G., Dan., & Sw. muff, F. moufle mitten, LL. muffula, MHG. mouwe sleeve, D. mouw, and E. muffle, v.] 1. A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold. 2. (Mech.) A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe. 3. (Glass Manuf.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet. 4. [Perhaps a different word; cf. Prov. E. maffle to slammer.] A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person. [Colloq.] [bd]A muff of a curate.[b8] --Thackeray. 5. [See 4.] (Baseball) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands. 6. (Zo[94]l.) The whitethroat. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Muff \Muff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Muffed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Muffing}.] To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it. | |
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Whitethroat \White"throat`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species ({Sylvia cinerea}), called also {strawsmear}, {nettlebird}, {muff}, and {whitecap}, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler ({S. hortensis}), and the lesser whitethroat ({S. curruca}). | |
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Muff \Muff\ (m[ucr]f), n. [Cf. LG. muff, D. mof, G., Dan., & Sw. muff, F. moufle mitten, LL. muffula, MHG. mouwe sleeve, D. mouw, and E. muffle, v.] 1. A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold. 2. (Mech.) A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe. 3. (Glass Manuf.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet. 4. [Perhaps a different word; cf. Prov. E. maffle to slammer.] A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person. [Colloq.] [bd]A muff of a curate.[b8] --Thackeray. 5. [See 4.] (Baseball) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands. 6. (Zo[94]l.) The whitethroat. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Muff \Muff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Muffed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Muffing}.] To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it. | |
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Myope \My"ope\, n. [F., fr. Gr. [?], [?]; [?] to close, shut the eyes + [?], [?], the eye.] A person having myopy; a myops. | |
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Myopia \My*o"pi*a\, n. [NL. See {Myope}.] (Med.) Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens. | |
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Myopy \My"o*py\, n. [F. myopie.] (Med.) Myopia. | |
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Mabie, WV Zip code(s): 26278 | |
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Mahaffey, PA (borough, FIPS 46568) Location: 40.87522 N, 78.72812 W Population (1990): 341 (145 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Maybee, MI (village, FIPS 52440) Location: 42.00576 N, 83.51608 W Population (1990): 500 (162 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48159 | |
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Mayview, MO (city, FIPS 46964) Location: 39.05258 N, 93.83386 W Population (1990): 279 (100 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 64071 | |
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Moab, UT (city, FIPS 50700) Location: 38.57253 N, 109.54710 W Population (1990): 3971 (1761 housing units) Area: 7.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 84532 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
MMF // [Usenet; common] Abbreviation: "Make Money Fast". Refers to any kind of scheme which promises participants large profits with little or no risk or effort. Typically, it is a some kind of multi-level marketing operation which involves recruiting more members, or an illegal pyramid scam. The term is also used to refer to any kind of spam which promotes this. For more information, see the Make Money Fast Myth Page (http://www.stopspam.org/usenet/mmf/). | |
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mobo /moh'bo/ Written and (rarely) spoken contraction of "motherboard" | |
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moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago. Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle'). Now common.] 1. adj. Large, immense, complex, impressive. "A Saturn V rocket is a truly moby frob." "Some MIT undergrads pulled off a moby hack at the Harvard-Yale game." (See {Appendix A} for discussion.) 2. n. obs. The maximum address space of a machine (see below). For a 680[234]0 or VAX or most modern 32-bit architectures, it is 4,294,967,296 8-bit bytes (4 gigabytes). 3. A title of address (never of third-person reference), usually used to show admiration, respect, and/or friendliness to a competent hacker. "Greetings, moby Dave. How's that address-book thing for the Mac going?" 4. adj. In backgammon, doubles on the dice, as in `moby sixes', `moby ones', etc. Compare this with {bignum} (sense 3): double sixes are both bignums and moby sixes, but moby ones are not bignums (the use of `moby' to describe double ones is sarcastic). Standard emphatic forms: `Moby foo', `moby win', `moby loss'. `Foby moo': a spoonerism due to Richard Greenblatt. 5. The largest available unit of something which is available in discrete increments. Thus, ordering a "moby Coke" at the local fast-food joint is not just a request for a large Coke, it's an explicit request for the largest size they sell. This term entered hackerdom with the Fabritek 256K memory added to the MIT AI PDP-6 machine, which was considered unimaginably huge when it was installed in the 1960s (at a time when a more typical memory size for a timesharing system was 72 kilobytes). Thus, a moby is classically 256K 36-bit words, the size of a PDP-6 or PDP-10 moby. Back when address registers were narrow the term was more generally useful, because when a computer had virtual memory mapping, it might actually have more physical memory attached to it than any one program could access directly. One could then say "This computer has 6 mobies" meaning that the ratio of physical memory to address space is 6, without having to say specifically how much memory there actually is. That in turn implied that the computer could timeshare six `full-sized' programs without having to swap programs between memory and disk. Nowadays the low cost of processor logic means that address spaces are usually larger than the most physical memory you can cram onto a machine, so most systems have much _less_ than one theoretical `native' moby of {core}. Also, more modern memory-management techniques (esp. paging) make the `moby count' less significant. However, there is one series of widely-used chips for which the term could stand to be revived -- the Intel 8088 and 80286 with their incredibly {brain-damaged} segmented-memory designs. On these, a `moby' would be the 1-megabyte address span of a segment/offset pair (by coincidence, a PDP-10 moby was exactly 1 megabyte of 9-bit bytes). | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
Moof /moof/ [Macintosh users] 1. n. The call of a semi-legendary creature, properly called the {dogcow}. (Some previous versions of this entry claimed, incorrectly, that Moof was the name of the _creature_.) 2. adj. Used to flag software that's a hack, something untested and on the edge. On one Apple CD-ROM, certain folders such as "Tools & Apps (Moof!)" and "Development Platforms (Moof!)", are so marked to indicate that they contain software not fully tested or sanctioned by the powers that be. When you open these folders you cross the boundary into hackerland. 3. v. On the Microsoft Network, the term `moof' has gained popularity as a verb meaning `to be suddenly disconnected by the system'. One might say "I got moofed". | |
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MAP 1. 2. {Mathematical Analysis without Programming}. (1996-12-01) | |
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map 1. 2. {higher-order function} over lists. Map applies its first argument to each element of its second argument (a list) and returns the list of results. map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] map f [] = [] map f (x:xs) = f x : map f xs This can be generalised to types other than lists. (1997-11-05) | |
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MAP 1. 2. {Mathematical Analysis without Programming}. (1996-12-01) | |
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map 1. 2. {higher-order function} over lists. Map applies its first argument to each element of its second argument (a list) and returns the list of results. map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] map f [] = [] map f (x:xs) = f x : map f xs This can be generalised to types other than lists. (1997-11-05) | |
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MAPI {Messaging Application Programming Interface} | |
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MB the size or data transfer rate of a storage device which is accessed in multiples of eight bits (e.g. {RAM}, {hard disk}) this almost certainly means megabytes, but when referring to the data transfer rate of a communications system it probably means {megabits}. Some years ago, it is claimed, "MB" always meant megabytes and "Mb" meant megabits but recently this useful distinction has been lost. (1996-09-22) | |
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MFE {maximal free expression} | |
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MIB {Management Information Base} | |
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MIF {Maker Interchange Format} | |
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mmap The {Unix} {system call} which establishes a mapping between a range of addresses in a user process's address space and a portion of some "memory object" (typically a file, one of the special "devices" /dev/mem or /dev/kmem or some {memory-mapped} peripheral). This allows the process to access a file at random byte offsets without using the seek {system call} or to access physical addresses or {kernel}'s {virtual address} space. It can also be used as an alternative to writing a {device driver} since it is usually simpler to code and faster to use. (1995-02-14) | |
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MNP {Microcom Networking Protocol} | |
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mobo {motherboard} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
moby among model railroad fans years ago. Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick", some say from "Moby Pickle") 1. Large, immense, complex, impressive. "A Saturn V rocket is a truly moby frob." "Some MIT undergrads pulled off a moby hack at the Harvard-Yale game." 2. (Obsolete) The maximum {address space} of a computer (see below). For a 680[234]0 or {VAX} or most modern 32-bit architectures, it is 4,294,967,296 8-bit bytes (four {gigabytes}). 3. A title of address (never of third-person reference), usually used to show admiration, respect, and/or friendliness to a competent hacker. "Greetings, moby Dave. How's that address-book thing for the Mac going?" 4. In backgammon, doubles on the dice, as in "moby sixes", "moby ones", etc. Compare this with {bignum}: double sixes are both bignums and moby sixes, but moby ones are not bignums (the use of "moby" to describe double ones is sarcastic). 5. The largest available unit of something which is available in discrete increments. Thus a "moby Coke" is not just large, it's the largest size on sale. This term entered hackerdom with the Fabritek 256K memory added to the MIT AI PDP-6 machine, which was considered unimaginably huge when it was installed in the 1960s (at a time when a more typical memory size for a {time-sharing} system was 72 kilobytes). Thus, a moby is classically 256K 36-bit words, the size of a PDP-6 or PDP-10 moby. Back when {address registers} were narrow the term was more generally useful, because when a computer had {virtual memory} mapping, it might actually have more physical memory attached to it than any one program could access directly. One could then say "This computer has six mobies" meaning that the ratio of physical memory to address space is six, without having to say specifically how much memory there actually is. That in turn implied that the computer could timeshare six "full-sized" programs without having to swap programs between memory and disk. Nowadays the low cost of processor logic means that address spaces are usually larger than the most physical memory you can cram onto a machine, so most systems have much *less* than one theoretical "native" moby of {core}. Also, more modern memory-management techniques (especially paging) make the "moby count" less significant. However, there is one series of widely-used chips for which the term could stand to be revived --- the Intel 8088 and 80286 with their incredibly {brain-damaged} segmented-memory designs. On these, a "moby" would be the 1-megabyte address span of a segment/offset pair (by coincidence, a PDP-10 moby was exactly one megabyte of nine-bit bytes). [{Jargon File}] (1997-10-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Moof /moof/ [MAC users] 1. A semi-legendary creature, also called the "dogcow", that lurks in the depths of the {Macintosh} Technical Notes {Hypercard} stack V3.1; specifically, the full story of the dogcow is told in technical note #31 (the particular Moof illustrated is properly named "Clarus"). Option-shift-click will cause it to emit a characteristic "Moof!" or "!fooM" sound. *Getting* to tech note 31 is the hard part; to discover how to do that, one must needs examine the stack script with a hackerly eye. Clue: {rot13} is involved. A dogcow also appears if you choose "Page Setup..." with a LaserWriter selected and click on the "Options" button. 2. Used to flag software that's a hack, something untested and on the edge. On one {Apple Computer} {CD-ROM}, certain {folder}s such as "Tools & Apps (Moof!)" and "Development Platforms (Moof!)", are so marked to indicate that they contain software not fully tested or sanctioned by the powers that be. When you open these folders you cross the boundary into hackerland. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
mp Islands. (1999-01-27) | |
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MP1 {MPEG-1 audio layer 1} | |
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MP-1 {Assembly language} for the {MasPar} computer. (1994-12-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MP1 {MPEG-1 audio layer 1} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MP-1 {Assembly language} for the {MasPar} computer. (1994-12-05) | |
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MP2 {MPEG-1 audio layer 2} | |
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MP3 {MPEG-1 audio layer 3} | |
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MPI {Message Passing Interface} | |
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MPP {Multiple Parallel Processing} | |
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MPPE {Microsoft Point to Point Encryption} | |
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MPV An extension of the {VRTX} {real-time} {operating system} to support {multi-processing}. (1994-11-08) | |
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muFP A {functional language} for hardware design, a predecessor of {Ruby}. | |
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MUP {Multiple Universal naming convention Provider} | |
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mv (1999-01-27) | |
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MYOB | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Moab the seed of the father, or, according to others, the desirable land, the eldest son of Lot (Gen. 19:37), of incestuous birth. (2.) Used to denote the people of Moab (Num. 22:3-14; Judg. 3:30; 2 Sam. 8:2; Jer. 48:11, 13). (3.) The land of Moab (Jer. 48:24), called also the "country of Moab" (Ruth 1:2, 6; 2:6), on the east of Jordan and the Dead Sea, and south of the Arnon (Num. 21:13, 26). In a wider sense it included the whole region that had been occupied by the Amorites. It bears the modern name of Kerak. In the Plains of Moab, opposite Jericho (Num. 22:1; 26:63; Josh. 13:32), the children of Israel had their last encampment before they entered the land of Canaan. It was at that time in the possession of the Amorites (Num. 21:22). "Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah," and "died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord" (Deut. 34:5, 6). "Surely if we had nothing else to interest us in the land of Moab, the fact that it was from the top of Pisgah, its noblest height, this mightiest of the prophets looked out with eye undimmed upon the Promised Land; that it was here on Nebo, its loftiest mountain, that he died his solitary death; that it was here, in the valley over against Beth-peor, he found his mysterious sepulchre, we have enough to enshrine the memory in our hearts." | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Moab, of his father |