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VAXECTOMY

Specialty Definition: VAXECTOMY

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Computing

VAXectomy /vak-sek't*-mee/ n. [by analogy with `vasectomy'] A VAX removal. DEC's Microvaxen, especially, are much slower than newer RISC-based workstations such as the SPARC. Thus, if one knows one has a replacement coming, VAX removal can be cause for celebration. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: VAXECTOMY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-m-o-t-v-x-y"

-3 letters: avocet, comate, octave.

-4 letters: atomy, cameo, comae, comet, comte, covet, covey, coxae, cymae, etyma, exact, matey, meaty, motey, ovate.

-5 letters: acme, atom, came, cate, cave, cavy, coat, coax, coma, come, cote, cove, coxa, cyma, cyme, exam, mace, mate, mayo, meat, meta, moat, mote, move, moxa, tace, taco, tame, team, toea, tome, veto, vext.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VAXECTOMY


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

56 41 58 45 43 54 4F 4D 59

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)

01010110 01000001 01011000 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001111 01001101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#65 &#88 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#79 &#77 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0041 0058 0045 0043 0054 004F 004D 0059

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

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

563558393754494759

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