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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Creeping elegance n. Describes a tendency for parts of a design to become elegant past the point of diminishing return, something which often happens at the expense of the less interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things deemed important in the Real World. See also creeping featurism, second-system effect, tense. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CREEPING ELEGANCE |
| Specialty definitions using "CREEPING ELEGANCE": banana problem. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-e-e-e-g-g-i-l-n-n-p-r" | |
-4 letters: precanceling. | |
-5 letters: precleaning. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 52 45 45 50 49 4E 47 45 4C 45 47 41 4E 43 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01010010 01000101 01000101 01010000 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000101 01001100 01000101 01000111 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C R E E P I N G   E L E G A N C E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0052 0045 0045 0050 0049 004E 0047 0045 004C 0045 0047 0041 004E 0043 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)375239395043484123946394135483739 |
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