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    n. The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void by... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    cray

    /kray/ n. 1. (properly, capitalized) One of the line of supercomputers designed by Cray Research. 2. Any supercomputer at all. 3. The canonical number-crunching machine.

    The term is actually the lowercased last name of Seymour Cray, a noted computer architect and co-founder of the company. Numerous vivid legends surround him, some true and some admittedly invented by Cray Research brass to shape their corporate culture and image.