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<li >bit plane</li >
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<li >bitwise operators</li >
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<li >BlackBerry</li >
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- <li >–black-box/white-box testing s/b avoided (alternatives: behavioral/structural testing, closed/open testing, opaque/clear testing)</li >
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- <li >–black hat/white hat s/b avoided (alternatives: unethical/ethical, malicious/preventative)</li >
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- <li >–blacklist/whitelist s/b avoided (alternatives: block list/allow list, deny/permit, excluded/included)</li >
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<li >Boolean (unless referring to a datatype in code, in which case s/b lowercase)</li >
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<li >Bourne-again shell (bash)</li >
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<li >Bourne shell</li >
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<li >copyright</li >
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<li >coworker</li >
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<li >CPU (no need to expand to central processing unit)</li >
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<li >criterion (s), criteria (p)</li >
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<li >cross-reference</li >
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<li >C shell</li >
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<li >drag-and-drop (n)</li >
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<li >drag and drop (v)</li >
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<li >drop-down (a)</li >
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</ul >
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<p ><a href =" #getting_started " >back to top</a ></p >
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<li >keywords</li >
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<li >key performance indicators (KPIs)</li >
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<li >kHz (kilohertz)</li >
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<li >Korn shell</li >
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</ul >
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<li >macOS (replaces Mac OS X)</li >
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<li >machine learning (n and a, no hyphen)</li >
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<li >mail-handling (adjective)</li >
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- <li >– man hours s/b avoided (alternatives: work hours, employee hours)</li >
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<li >manpage</li >
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<li >markup</li >
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<li >Mb (megabit)</li >
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<li >MB (megabyte)</li >
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<li >MBps (megabytes per second)</li >
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<li >Microsoft Windows NT</li >
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<li >Microsoft Windows XP</li >
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<li >Microsoft Windows 2000</li >
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<li >MIDlet</li >
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<li >MKS Toolkit</li >
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<li >model-in-the-loop</li >
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<li >single-precision (a)</li >
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<li >single quote</li >
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<li >site map</li >
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<li >Smalltalk</li >
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<li >SMP (a, n)</li >
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<li >SOAP</li >
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<li >top-level (a)</li >
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<li >toward</li >
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<li >trade-off</li >
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<li >tweet, retweet, live-tweet v, n (avoid “tweet out”)</li >
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<li >web server</li >
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<li >web services (unless preceded by a proper noun, as in Microsoft Web Services)</li >
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<li >website</li >
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- <li >–white hat/black hat s/b avoided (alternatives: ethical/unethical, preventative/malicious)</li >
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<li >white pages</li >
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<li >whitepaper (I printed my whitepaper on white paper.)</li >
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<li >whitespace</li >
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<li >wide area network or WAN</li >
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