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buzz
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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vi. 1. Of a program, to run with no indication of progress and perhaps
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without guarantee of ever finishing; esp. said of programs thought to be
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executing tight loops of code. A program that is buzzing appears to be
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catatonic , but never gets out of catatonia, while a buzzing loop may
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eventually end of its own accord. The program buzzes for about 10 seconds
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trying to sort all the names into order. See spin ; see also grovel. 2. [ETA
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Systems] To test a wire or printed circuit trace for continuity, esp. by
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applying an AC rather than DC signal. Some wire faults will pass DC tests
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but fail an AC buzz test. 3. To process an array or list in sequence, doing
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the same thing to each element. This loop buzzes through the tz array
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looking for a terminator type.
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