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    n. A company that {fab}s chips to the designs of others. As of the late 1980s, the combination of silicon foundries and good... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    zero

    vt. 1. To set to 0. Usually said of small pieces of data, such as bits or words (esp. in the construction `zero out'). 2. To erase; to discard all data from. Said of disks and directories, where `zeroing' need not involve actually writing zeroes throughout the area being zeroed. One may speak of something being `logically zeroed' rather than being `physically zeroed'. See scribble.