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    v. The software equivalent of {crash and burn}, and the preferred emphatic form of {die}. "The converter choked on an FF in its... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    arg

    /arg/ n. Abbreviation for `argument' (to a function), used so often as to have become a new word (like `piano' from `pianoforte'). "The sine function takes 1 arg, but the arc-tangent function can take either 1 or 2 args." Compare param, parm, var.