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u- pref.
Written shorthand for micro-; techspeak when applied to metric units, jargon when used otherwise. Derived from the Greek letter µ the first letter of “micro” (and which letter looks a lot like the English letter “u”).
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u-u- pref. Written shorthand for micro-; techspeak when applied to metric units, jargon when used otherwise. Derived from the Greek letter µ the first letter of “micro” (and which letter looks a lot like the English letter “u”). |
The Jargon FileCartoonsThe crunchly saga
The infamous Crunchly cartoons by The Great Quux are woven into the lexicon, each next to an appropriate entry. To read them in the sequence in which they were written, chase pointers from here using the ‘next cartoon’ information in the captions. |