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   Utopia
         n 1: a book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the
               perfect society on an imaginary island
         2: ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political
            and moral aspects [ant: {dystopia}]
         3: a work of fiction describing a utopia
         4: an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal [syn:
            {Utopia}, {Zion}, {Sion}]

English Dictionary: Utopia by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Utopia \U*to"pi*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. not + [?] a place.]
      1. An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a
            work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in
            politics, laws, and the like. See {Utopia}, in the
            Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
  
      2. Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Utopia, TX
      Zip code(s): 78884

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   UDP   /U-D-P/ v.,n.   [Usenet] Abbreviation for {Usenet Death
   Penalty}. Common (probably now more so than the full form), and
   frequently verbed. Compare {IDP}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   udb
  
      {Universal Debugger}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   UDF
  
      {Universal Disk Format}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   UDP
  
      {User Datagram Protocol}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   UTF
  
      {UCS transformation format}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   UTF-8
  
      (UCS transformation format 8) An
      {ASCII}-compatible multibyte {Unicode} and {UCS} encoding,
      used by {Java} and {Plan 9}.
  
      The {Unicode character} set occupies a 16-bit code space.   The
      most obvious Unicode encoding (known as UCS-2) consists of a
      sequence of 16-bit words.   Such strings can contain bytes like
      '\0' or '/' which have a special meaning in filenames and
      other {C} library function parameters.   In addition, the
      majority of {Unix} tools expects ASCII files and can't read
      16-bit words as characters without major modifications.   For
      these reasons, UCS-2 is not a suitable external encoding of
      Unicode in filenames, text files, environment variables, etc.
  
      The {ISO 10646} {Universal Character Set} (UCS), a superset of
      Unicode, occupies a 31-bit code space and the obvious UCS-4
      encoding for it (a sequence of 32-bit words) has the same
      problems.
  
      The UTF-8 encoding of Unicode and UCS avoids the problems of
      fixed-length Unicode encodings because an ASCII file encoded
      in UTF is exactly same as the original ASCII file and all
      non-ASCII characters are guaranteed to have the most
      significant bit set (bit 0x80).   This means that normal tools
      for text searching etc. work as expected.
  
      UTF-8 is defined in {RFC 2279}.
  
      ["File System Safe UCS Transformation Format (FSS_UTF)",
      X/Open Preliminary Specification, X/Open Company Ltd.,
      Document Number: P316.   This information also appears in
      ISO/IEC 10646, Annex P].
  
      {Plan 9 UTF manual entry
      (ftp://ftp.uu.net/doc/obi/Bell.Labs/plan9pm/09utf.ps.Z)}.
  
      (1998-07-29)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   UTP
  
      {unshielded twisted pair}
  
  
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