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garbage
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noun
  1. Any leftover waste or scraps or material deemed useless or disposable.
generator
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noun
  1. An apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
  2. A machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
  3. One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
  4. An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
  5. (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
gigabyte
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noun (plural gigabytes)
  1. (SI) One billion (1,000,000,000) bytes, as opposed to a gibibyte. SI symbol: GB
  2. (context, computing, colloquial) Imprecisely, a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes. SI symbol: GiB?, computing symbol: GB.
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GIGO
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initialism
  1. (computing) Garbage In, Garbage Out. Indicates that the integrity of the output is dependent on the integrity of the input
glitch
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noun
  1. A problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection.
They are still trying to work out all the glitches.
gopher
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noun
  1. a small burrowing furry rodent
  2. an Internet protocol for document search/retrieval
  3. (biblical) an unknown tree; Noah's Ark was built in gopher-wood
  4. (slang) a junior worker, usually in an office " someone who can be sent to go for things; in this sense it is sometimes spelled gofer
graphic
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noun
  1. a drawing or picture
  2. (in the plural) computer generated images as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.
I've just played this new computer game, the graphics are amazing.
adjective
  1. drawn, pictorial
  2. vivid, descriptive
  3. grotesque or otherwise repulsive gory
graphics
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noun (wikipedia, computer graphics)
  1. The making of architectural or engineering drawings.
  2. The graphic arts.
  3. (computing) The pictorial representation and manipulation of data; the process by which a computer displays data.
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