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  1. The painstaking process of removing nits -- lice eggs -- from someone's hair.
  2. By extension, any process of finding or pointing out tiny details or errors, particularly if the pointed-out details seem insignificant or irrelevant to all but the finder.
"Of all life's pleasures, I like nitpicking the best." -- w:Wally (Dilbert character), Wally in w:Dilbert, Dilbert
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