BOGOSITY

Meaning of BOGOSITY in English

Degree of bogusness in any given statement or situation Example: Counsellor, your statements contain a very high degree of bogosity. or: God! this party is high on the bogosity level!

Slang English vocab. Английский сленговый словарь. 2012

BOGOSITY — /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with …
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BOGOSITY — 1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which something is bogus . Bogosity is measured with a bogometer …
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RESTRICTION — A bug or design error that limits a program's capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work …
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QUANTUM BOGODYNAMICS — /kwon'tm boh"goh-di:-nam"iks/ A theory that characterises the universe in terms of bogon sources (such as politicians, used-car salesmen, TV evangelists, …
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MICROREID — /mi:'kroh-reed/ See bogosity . [ Jargon File ]
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MICROLENAT — /mi:"-kroh-len"-*t/ The unit of bogosity , written uL; the consensus is that this is the largest unit practical for everyday …
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GILLEY — < humour > ( Usenet ) The unit of analogical bogosity. According to its originator, the standard for one gilley …
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DEEP SPACE — 1. The notional location of any program that has gone off the trolley . Especially used of programs that just …
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COEFFICIENT OF X — Hackish speech makes heavy use of pseudo-mathematical metaphors. Four particularly important ones involve the terms "coefficient", "factor", "index", and "quotient". …
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BRUTE FORCE AND IGNORANCE — < jargon > (BFI) A popular design technique at many software houses - brute force coding unrelieved by any knowledge …
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BOGUE OUT — /bohg owt/ To become bogus, suddenly and unexpectedly. "His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked him a trick question; …
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BOGOTIFY — < jargon > /boh-go't*-fi:/ To make or become bad. A program that has been changed so many times as to …
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BOGON FLUX — /boh'gon fluhks/ A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer ; as …
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BOGON FILTER — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a …
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BOGON — /boh'gon/ [by analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity to Douglas Adams's "Vogons"] 1. The elementary …
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BOGOMETER
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NIGHTMARE FILE SYSTEM — Pejorative hackerism for Sun 's Network File System (NFS). In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot …
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LISP — < language > LISt Processing language. (Or mythically "Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses"). Artificial Intelligence 's mother tongue, a symbolic, …
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BWQ — [IBM] Buzz Word Quotient. The percentage of buzzwords in a speech or documents. Usually roughly proportional to bogosity . See …
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RESTRICTION — A bug or design error that limits a program's capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work …
Jargon File English vocabulary
QUANTUM BOGODYNAMICS — A theory that characterizes the universe in terms of bogon sources (such as politicians, used-car salesmen, TV evangelists, and suit …
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MICROLENAT — The unit of bogosity . consensus is that this is the largest unit practical for everyday use. The microLenat, originally …
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GILLEY — [Usenet] The unit of analogical bogosity . According to its originator, the standard for one gilley was "the act of …
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DEEP SPACE — 1. Describes the notional location of any program that has gone off the trolley . Esp. used of programs that …
Jargon File English vocabulary
COEFFICIENT OF X — Hackish speech makes heavy use of pseudo-mathematical metaphors. Four particularly important ones involve the terms `coefficient', `factor', `index of X', …
Jargon File English vocabulary
BRUTE FORCE AND IGNORANCE — A popular design technique at many software houses -- brute force coding unrelieved by any knowledge of how problems have …
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BOGUS — 1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus." 2. Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False. "Your arguments are bogus." 4. …
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BOGUE OUT — To become bogus, suddenly and unexpectedly. "His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked him a trick question; then he …
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BOGOTIFY — To make or become bogus. A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganized has …
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BOGON FLUX — A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer ; as a speaker …
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BOGON FILTER — Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter …
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