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bogosity
/bohgos@tee/ , n. 1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which
something is bogus. Bogosity is measured with a bogometer ; in a seminar,
when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say
My bogometer just triggered. More extremely, You just pinned my bogometer
means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off
the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one
might also say You just redlined my bogometer ). The agreed-upon unit of
bogosity is the microLenat. 2. The potential field generated by a bogon flux
; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux , bogon filter , bogus.