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FAT-FINGER

Specialty Definition: FAT-FINGER

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Fat-finger vt. 1. To introduce a typo while editing in such a way that the resulting manglification of a configuration file does something useless, damaging, or wildly unexpected. "NSI fat-fingered their DNS zone file and took half the net down again." 2. More generally, any typo that produces dramatically bad results. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: FAT-FINGER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-g-i-n-r-t"

-1 letter: firefang.

-2 letters: engraft, fainter, fearing, frigate, giraffe, granite, gratine, ingraft, ingrate, rafting, reffing, tangier, tearing.

-3 letters: affine, aigret, argent, earing, eating, engirt, fainer, faring, fating, feting, finger, fringe, gaffer, gainer, gaiter, garnet, gratin, griffe, infare, ingate, niffer, ratine, rating, reagin, regain, regina, retain, retina, tariff, taring, triage.

-4 letters: afire, afrit, after, agent, anger, antre.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-g-i-n-r-t"
 

+1 letter: restaffing.

 

+2 letters: afforesting.

 

+3 letters: overstaffing.

 

+4 letters: reafforesting, understaffing.

 

+5 letters: understaffings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FAT-FINGER


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

46 41 54 2D 46 49 4E 47 45 52

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

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

01000110 01000001 01010100 00101101 01000110 01001001 01001110 01000111 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#65 &#84 &#45 &#70 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0041 0054 002D 0046 0049 004E 0047 0045 0052

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

40355415404348413952

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

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