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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>spin</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="spike.html" title="spike"/><link rel="next" href="Spinning-Pizza-of-Death.html" title="Spinning Pizza of Death"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">spin</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="spike.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Spinning-Pizza-of-Death.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="spin"/><dt xmlns="" id="spin"><b>spin</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vi.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Equivalent to <a href="../B/buzz.html"><i class="glossterm">buzz</i></a>. More common among C and
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Unix programmers. See the discussion of ‘spinlock’ under
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