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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Datamation /day`t*-may'sh*n/ n. A magazine that many hackers assume all suits read. Used to question an unbelieved quote, as in "Did you read that in `Datamation?'" (But see below; this slur may be dated by the time you read this.) It used to publish something hackishly funny every once in a while, like the original paper on COME FROM in 1973, and Ed Post's "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" ten years later, but for a long time after that it was much more exclusively suit-oriented and boring. Following a change of editorship in 1994, Datamation is trying for more of the technical content and irreverent humor that marked its early days. Datamation now has a WWW page at `http://www.datamation.com' worth visiting for its selection of computer humor, including "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" and the `Bastard Operator From Hell' stories by Simon Travaglia (see BOFH). Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DATAMATION |
| Specialty definitions using "DATAMATION": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references) |
| "DATAMATION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DATAMATION" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
datamation | 18 |
datamation system | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DATAMATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | вычислительная техника (computing machinery). (various references) | |
Swedish | databehandling (data processing, data-processing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-i-m-n-o-t-t" | |
-2 letters: antiatom, manatoid. | |
-3 letters: adamant, amanita, animato, mattoid. | |
-4 letters: aidman, anatto, ataman, attain, daimon, diatom, domain, manito, mantid, mattin, tatami, titman. | |
-5 letters: adman, admit, amain, amido, amino, amnia, amnio, anima, atman, daman, danio, datto, ditto, manat, mania, manta, matin, monad, naiad, nomad, taint, tanto, titan, toman, tondi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-d-i-m-n-o-t-t" | |
+3 letters: dramatisation, dramatization, maladaptation. | |
+4 letters: antidefamation, dramatisations, dramatizations, maladaptations. | |
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