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    [scientific computation] n. Output of a computation that may not be significant results but at least indicate that the program is running. May... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    loose bytes

    n. Commonwealth hackish term for the padding bytes or shims many compilers insert between members of a record or structure to cope with alignment requirements imposed by the machine architecture.