MISFEATURE

Meaning of MISFEATURE in English

( n. )

Ill feature.

Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

MISFEATURE — (ˈ)mis+ noun Etymology: mis- (I) + feature archaic : a bad or distorted feature
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MISFEATURE — (n.) Ill feature.
Английский словарь Webster
MISFEATURE — — misfeatured , adj. /mis fee"cheuhr/ , n. Archaic. a distorted feature. [ 1815-25; MIS- 1 + FEATURE ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MISFEATURE — noun ill feature.
Webster English vocab
MISFEATURE — /mis-fee'chr/ or /mis'fee"chr/ A feature that eventually causes lossage, possibly because it is not adequate for a new situation that …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
MISFEATURE — [common] A feature that eventually causes lossage, possibly because it is not adequate for a new situation that has evolved. …
Jargon File English vocabulary
MISFEATURE — sl. неправильное свойство (полезное проектное свойство программы, неожиданно оказавшееся вредным)
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
MISFEATURE — сленг неправильное свойство (полезное проектное свойство программы, неожиданно оказавшееся вредным )
Англо-Русский словарь по компьютерам
MISFEATURE — сленг неправильное свойство (полезное проектное свойство программы, неожиданно оказавшееся вредным)
Англо-Русский словарь по вычислительной технике и программированию
MISFEATURE — неправильное свойство ( полезное проектное свойство программы, неожиданно оказавшееся вредным )
Англо-Русский словарь компьютерных терминов
MISFEATURE — ошибка, непредусмотренная [нежелательная] функция см. тж. misbug
Англо-Русский толковый словарь терминов и сокращений по ВТ, Интернету и программированию
MISFEATURE — sl. неправильное свойство (полезное проектное свойство программы, неожиданно оказавшееся вредным)
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
WORKAROUND — < jargon , programming > A temporary kluge used to bypass, mask or otherwise avoid a bug or misfeature in …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
VAXOCENTRISM — /vak"soh-sen"trizm/ [analogy with "ethnocentrism"] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions …
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SCREWAGE — /skroo'*j/ Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
SCREW — < jargon > (MIT) A lose , usually in software. Especially used for user-visible misbehaviour caused by a bug or …
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RANDOMNESS — 1. An inexplicable misfeature; gratuitous inelegance. 2. A hack or crock that depends on a complex combination of coincidences (or, …
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PATCH — < software > 1. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing …
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GOTCHA — < jargon , programming > A misfeature of a system, especially a programming language or environment, that tends to breed …
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FOSSIL — 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
FEATURECTOMY — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
FEATURE — < jargon > 1. A good property or behaviour (as of a program). Whether it was intended or not is …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
CASE SENSITIVITY — < text > Whether a text matching operation distinguishes upper- case (capital) letters from lower case (is "case sensitive") or …
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BUG-COMPATIBLE — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossil s …
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THAT'S NOT A BUG, THAT'S A FEATURE! — The canonical first parry in a debate about a purported bug . The complainant, if unconvinced, is likely to retort …
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REQUEST FOR COMMENTS — < standard > (RFC) One of a series, begun in 1969, of numbered Internet informational documents and standard s widely …
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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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AMERICAN STANDARD CODE FOR INFORMATION INTERCHANGE — The basis of character sets used in almost all present-day computers. US-ASCII uses only the lower seven bit s ( …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
WORKAROUND — 1. A temporary kluge used to bypass, mask, or otherwise avoid a bug or misfeature in some system. Theoretically, workarounds …
Jargon File English vocabulary
SCREWAGE — Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a …
Jargon File English vocabulary
FEATURE — 1. [common] A good property or behavior (as of a program). Whether it was intended or not is immaterial. 2. …
Jargon File English vocabulary

Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary

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