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deprecated
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adj. Said of a program or feature that is considered obsolescent and in the
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process of being phased out, usually in favor of a specified replacement.
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Deprecated features can, unfortunately, linger on for many years. This term
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appears with distressing frequency in standards documents when the
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committees writing the documents realize that large amounts of extant (and
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presumably happily working) code depend on the feature(s) that have passed
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out of favor. See also dusty deck. [Usage note: don't confuse this word with
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depreciated , or the verb form deprecate with depreciate. They are different
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words; see any dictionary for discussion.
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