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    adj. Loosely used to mean `in accordance with all the relevant rules', esp. in connection with some set of constraints defined by software. ... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    interrupts locked out

    adj. When someone is ignoring you. In a restaurant, after several fruitless attempts to get the waitress's attention, a hacker might well observe "She must have interrupts locked out". The synonym `interrupts disabled' is also common. Variations abound; "to have one's interrupt mask bit set" and "interrupts masked out" is also heard. See also spl.