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MICROSERF

Specialty Definition: MICROSERF

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Computing

Microserf /mi:'kro-s*rf/ [popularized, though not originated, by Douglas Coupland's book "Microserfs"] A programmer at Microsoft, especially a low-level coder with little chance of fame or fortune. Compare MicroDroid. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: MICROSERF

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Anagrams: MICROSERF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-m-o-r-r-s"

-2 letters: cirrose, comfier, corries, crosier, firmers, forcers, formers, orrices, reforms.

-3 letters: comers, corers, corrie, cosier, criers, crimes, crores, fermis, ferric, ficoes, firers, firmer, forcer, forces, former, formes, formic, fresco, friers, isomer, micros, moires, morris, ormers, orrice, reform, ricers, rimers, rimose, rosier, scorer.

-4 letters: ceros, cires, coifs, coirs, comer, comes, corer, cores, corms, corse, cosie.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-f-i-m-o-r-r-s"
 

+1 letter: reconfirms.

 

+2 letters: formicaries.

 

+3 letters: microfilmers.

 

+5 letters: reinforcements.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MICROSERF


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 49 43 52 4F 53 45 52 46

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ..    -.-.    .-.    ---    ...    .    .-.    ..-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001001 01000011 01010010 01001111 01010011 01000101 01010010 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#73 &#67 &#82 &#79 &#83 &#69 &#82 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0049 0043 0052 004F 0053 0045 0052 0046

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

474337524953395240

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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