yep           :

               Smooth affirmative.



0              :

               Please_Wait: PLEASE be patient AND bear with

               us, a RED light is ON.



0+x  x:0<x<1   :

               Please_Yourself: amber, blue, pink, yellow OR

               some other COLOUR, anyway, neither RED NOR

               GREEN.



1              :

               Please_Edit: Go Ahead, change the world we're

               ROOT ting for you. Signals are clear, HAPPY =

               ON, COLOUR = GREEN.



A



A!             :

               Answer



ACTION         :

               Makes a REAL & exciting difference.



ACTUATOR       :

               Something which does something in response to

               some INSTRUCTion.



ADVICE         :

               Good ADVICE is Dear

               Poor ADVICE is hard to tell Apart

               Honest ADVICE is Clear

               Follow ADVICE from your own 'Art



AFFINITY       :

               NATURAL attraction between 2 OR more things.



AGAIN          :

               Once more, another TIME.



AIR            :

               A very large amount of GAS maintained by the

               EARTH around herSELF with her GRAVITY.

               According to some ancient Greeks ONE of the

               four elements. It is IMPORTANT to realise that

               a breath is made of this.



ALL            :

               EVERYBODY OR EVERYTHING.



ALLITERATION   :

               An absolutely amazingly appropriate alliterative

               annotation arguably amusing almost anybody

               allegedly.



AND            :

               & OR *, Logical OPERATOR requiring that both

               OPERANDS be TRUE for the resulting expression

               to be TRUE.



ANTI           :

               Against, opposed to, OR generally tending to

               neutralise that which comes after.



ASS            :

               Absolutely_Simplified_System

               :

               A LEGEND! ary Computer [rumoured to have been]

               invented by Reinout Chris & al. It has only 2

               clear INSTRUCTions:-

                         Please_Edit             1

                         Please_Wait             0



                         Please_Yourself is actually a 3rd

                         INSTRUCTion which is Vague. SEE also

                         GUEST:\ASS\ASSINFO.

               :

               In the animal world, a four legged beast of

               burden UN fairly rumoured to be very stupid OR

               obstinate.



ATTEMPT        :

               IF you dare GOOD_LUCK; ELSE take COURAGE. IF

               you did, were you successful? AND IF NOT TRY

               AGAIN.





ATTRIBUTE      :

               An accessory or property of something.



AWARENESS      :

               Consciousness of the state of part of the world.

               Second ENEMY because AWARENESS of ALL OR some of

               the misery in the world can lead to a defeatist

               total paralysis OR inaction due to cynicism.



B



BABELGRAM      :

               MESSAGE understood by EVERYBODY NO MATTER what

               LANGUAGE s they may NOT understand.



BALANCE        :

               Equal ON both sides, for OR against, NOT

               biased.



BBB            :

               Beautifully_Bound_BOOK



BEGIN          :

               NO. You're past that already. Now TRY to finish

               the JOB.



BOOK           :

               So this GLoSsary is said to be part of the-

               BOOK.

               :

               Hopefully a valuable gift.



BREAKFAST      :

               An IMPORTANT start to the day.



BROWNIAN       :

               As in BROWNIAN motion entirely random movement,

               this way AND that, in a liquid OR in a GAS. It

               was first observed by mr Brown who saw STRANGE

               movements of tiny pollen particles in WATER

               with a microscope. This STRANGE jerky motion

               has since been explained as being due to the

               smoke OR dust particles being bumped into ALL

               the TIME by the molecules of the liquid OR the

               GAS, sometimes a few more are hitting it from

               ONE side, causing the fleck of dust to move in

               the opposite direction, AND at other times a

               few more may nudge it from another side.



C



C              :

               { Complex numbers }

               :

               coulomb



c              :

               Velocity OR SPEED of electromagnetic radiation

               (like light etc.) in a vacuum equal to

               (approximately) 299 792 458 METREs per second.

               It is believed that nothing material could EVER

               exceed this universal SPEED limit.



CHAOS          :

               SEE GAS



CHEAP          :

               Don't buy it IF it is NASTY as well, unless it

               is useable in a deformative way.



CLARENCE       :

               PROCEDURE

                    REPEAT as required:

                    BEGIN ( by suddenly realising that you are

                    insome DANGER )

                         STOP ( whatever it was that has lead

                         youinto this DANGER )

                         Take ONE step back

                         Find SAFE ty

                         Relax

                         Look, listen, ect.

                         THINK

                         Discuss with your friends

                    END



COLOUR         :

               Visual sensation. In a dull world this does NOT

               exist. Neither in ONE which is only black AND

               white. In our world, when there is enough light

               we can SEE COLOURs, like spring GREEN leaves OR

               a BLOOD RED setting SUN. There are two

               different kind of light receptors in the eye,

               NAMEd after their shapes: rods AND cones. The

               cones, which are able to respond to light of

               different COLOURs predominate in the "yellow"

               area of the retina directly opposite the lens

               AND close to the "blind spot" where the optic

               nerve leaves the eye. The rods which can only

               provide black-grey-white information are more

               common in the rest of the eye AND are

               responsible for peripheral vision. The rods are

               much more sensitive (to light) than the cones

               AND this is the reason why we can NOT SEE

               COLOURs in near darkness.

               :

               A quantum number of QUARKS.



COMMENT        :

               Any statement that is of NO consequence at ALL

               to the compiler. In the NATURAL LANGUAGE an

               opinion, explanation OR criticism about an

               idea, a BOOK, an event OR a state of affairs.



CONCLUSION     :

               The END of something. IF that something is

               thought, the CONCLUSION is said [ by Ludwig v.

               Wittgenstein ] to be FALSE IF it arrests the

               motion of the train of thought.



COSMOC         :

               FAMOUS flying lessons by the seat of your

               pants. Thanx for flying CoSmoc.



coulomb        :

               C, unit of electric charge. You would have 1

               coulomb (of negative charge) IF you managed to

               collect  62 500 000 000 000 000 000 electrons.



COURAGE        :

               Concept from olden days, mostly faulty like

               honour. IF there's TIME THEN TRY CLARENCE ELSE

               We're ROOTing for ye' GOOD_LUCK ! : Something

               that might perhaps be replaced by quickly

               running away  (Escaping). GOOD_LUCK to you!



D



DANGER         :

               Look out! Be careful, there is a possibility of

               harm. Without GOOD_LUCK NASTY things could

               happen.



DATA           :

               A finite extent of some non random signal.



DEATH          :

               END of LIFE OR perhaps prelude to a fresh ONE.

               OR Re_In_Karn_ate. OR Re_In_Cinerate OR

               Well_Done OR =========.

               :

               The fourth ENEMY.



DEFN           :

               DEFINITION



DEFINITION     :

               To give a DEFINITION of DEFINITION is more

               difficult than you might THINK. (Fortunately

               this is an annotation ON - AND NOT a DEFINITION

               of DEFINITION).



DIGNITY        :

               Something that may HELP you when you face

               DEATH. Something that will certainly HELP you

               IF you are threatened by those who may have

               more force but less DIGNITY than you do.



DIMENSION      :

               To open a FRESH! DIMENSION vary something

               previously fixed.

               :

               OTHERWISE something at right angles to ALL

               OTHER DIMENSIONs.

               :

               In physics length, MASS, TIME, charge,

               temperature.



DIRECTORY      :

               A usefully structured LIST of info items.



E



E              :

               E=mc2

               :

               Symbol representing ENERGY.



EARTH          :

               August LIFE supporting body we are NOT

               qualified to leave just yet. GROUND OR soil can

               also be referred to as EARTH.

               :

               According to some ancient Greeks ONE of the

               four elements.



EARTH-ED       :

               Earth-Editor. A simple AND quite small text

               editor configured from Guest-Editor which in

               turn was crafted by Reinout from the shareware

               version of Qedit. Was used to create AND EDIT

               the-Book.



EDIT           :

               Eh?! Start_Word. To change, add, append, amend,

               correct, delete, embellish, OR generally

               beautify any text OR other DATA.



ELSE           :

               IF NOT THEN



END            :

               Between something AND a fresh something,

               sometimes between something AND nothing.



END.           :

               The very last word that is of any consequnce [

               to the compiler ] in a PASCAL PROGRAM.



ENEMY          :

               Opponent OR antagonist who means you harm.



ENERGY         :

               Capacity to do work, measured in joules.

               According to modern insights in physics, an UN-

               condensed form of MATTER. E=mc2 shows just how

               much ENERGY E would be equivalent to some MASS

               m, c being the SPEED of light.



ESSENCE        :

               Nature OR main quality of an idea OR existence.

               :

               EXTRACT



EVER           :

               Well mmhm Marvin, the paranoid android, had to

               wait for more than forEVER AND look at what

               that did to him; & i'm certainly NOT going to

               keep ON going jest like that so you can SEE

               what forEVER is.

               :

               Did you EVER ... ? = Did you once OR more times

               ... ?



EVERYBODY      :

               ALL of us, ALL of you AND ALL of them.



EVERYTHING     :

               ALL of this, ALL of that AND ALL of any other.



EXPERT         :

               X is an UN known quantity. A spurt is a drip

               under pressure.



EXTRACT        :

               To take out words from a text OR juices from a

               fruit. The resulting product is also called

               EXTRACT.



F



f              :

               FREQUENCY



:              \ my very first REAL FORTH DEFINITION

FALSE          \

               TRUE NOT; \ HUMANs might say NOT TRUE

               \



FAMOUS         :

               A HYPE d-up version of something OR somebody.



FAWCE          :

               May it be with you IF you can use it.

               FAWCE is NOT force, it is hopefully more

               friendly AND FUN ny than the kind of force some

               people THINK is the only way to settle

               conflicts. OTHERWISE TRY CLARENCE.



FEAR           :

               The first ENEMY. FEAR may harm your DIGNITY AND

               will seriously cloud your AWARENESS.



FILE           :

               A collection of DATA somehow belonging together

               AND accessible under ONE NAME in a (computer)

               storage SYSTEM.



FIRE           :

               According to some ancient Greeks ONE of the

               four elements.



FLUID          :

               A fundamental phase of MATTER which is half

               chaotic [that is it will exhibit BROWNIAN

               motion]. Something you can pour. At very low

               temperatures there is even a superFLUID state

               of so-called helium III with ZERO viscosity.



FOLLY          :

               Obstinate attachment to, OR pursuit of a

               disserviceable goal. Child of POWER.

               :

               A very stupid act.



FOOD           :

               IMPORTANT nourishment needed to sustain the

               FAWCE of OPERATORs. "A nutricous meal, prepared

               AND taken under pleasant circumstances" is

               FOOD.



FORTH          :

               FAMOUS UN HYPE d computer LANGUAGE [ it is

               rumoured ] that there are several classes of

               people in relation to:=



                    *    Those who LOVE FORTH. There might

                         also be some people who might THINK

                         that FORTH could be very INTERESTING.



                    *    Those who HATE FORTH.



                    *    Those who've NEVER heard of FORTH.



                    *    Those who cannot HELP getting

                         involved with FORTH.



FREE           :

               UNbounded [as in GAS = CHAOS], able to move at

               will. I'm NOT CHEAP i'm FREE.

               :

               The best way to get FREE is to open a FRESH!

               DIMENSION



FREQUENCY      :

               How often something happens in a certain TIME

               interval.



FRESH!         :

               New AND exciting, NOT old & stale.



FUN            :

               ONE of the fundamental HUMOUR s needed to

               sustain the FAWCE of OPERATOR s.



G



G              :

               Symbol for the universal constant of

               gravitation OR GRAVITY, which is oddly enough

               NOT as accurately known as some other

               fundametal constants found in tables at the

               back of erudite BOOKs ON physics. Recent

               measurements have yielded the value 6.67259 x

               10-11 m3 kg-1 s-2.



GAS            :

               CHAOS OR chaotic collection of UNbound active

               particles, travelling every which way inside

               the vessel, some escaping through leak.

               :

               By the way, a Gravitational field is a vessel

               within the terms of reference of the above

               DEFN.



GERONIMO       :

               JUMP UNCONDITIONAL



GLS            :

               DIRECTORY containing the GLoSsary.

               :

               GLoSsary.



GND            :

               GROUND

               :

               Anything (electrically) at EARTH potential.



GOOD_LUCK      :

               UN suspected positive outcome of a vague

               INSTRUCT ion.



GRATIS!        :

               I'm NOT CHEAP i'm FREE.



GRAVITY        :

               Relatively very weak very long range universal

               attraction (AFFINITY) between any two bits of

               MATTER in the UNIVERSE. Isaac Newton, after

               reading an obscure BOOK by Johannes Kepler,

               which Galileo was silly enough NOT to read,

               proposed GRAVITY to explain the movement of

               planets around the SUN. In modern parlance we

               might put it like this: F=Gm1m2/r2 in other

               words, the force F (in newtons) between any two

               bits of MATTER of MASSes m1 AND m2 (in kg) is

               proportional to their MASSes (in kgs) AND

               INVERSEly proportional to the square of the

               distance r (in METREs) between them, where G is

               the gravitational constant of proportionality.



GREEN          :

               The COLOUR of chlorophyll, the substance

               responsible for photosynthesis, with which

               GREEN plants are able to turn sheer SUNlight

               (AND some AIR, WATER AND other stuff) into FOOD

               AND ENERGY. Curiously the spectrum of the SUN

               has a peak in GREEN (in other words it provides

               rather more GREEN light than blue OR RED).

               :

               A GREEN light being ON could mean Please_Edit



GROUND         :

               Place where you can plant your feet firmly OR

               NOT.

               :

               The basis of something.



GROUND_0       :

               In Sad_Stories about atomic bombs, the place

               directly under the centre of the explosion.

               :

               Alternative DEFN. := our own GROUND, EARTH, Soil

               OR HOME.



GUEST          :

               Somebody who is LUCK y enough to be made to feel

               at HOME somewhere by the steward of that place.



H



HAPPY          :

               GREEN light ON the ASS computer which indicates

               that it is operating well. Also SEE IMPORTANT.



HARMONY        :

               A state of compromise, providing space for all

               sides and interests, it is characterised by a

               certain lack of conflict.



HATE           :

               NASTY feeling you are ill advised to bear for

               any prolonged period.



HEALTH         :

               Wholesome condition, often ignored by those

               who enJOY it (though at their peril). IF there

               are five things that are IMPORTANT this would

               be ONE of them.



HELP           :

               Ideally enables you to do more than you could

               without it.



HOLY           :

               Adjective which indicates that something has an

               awesome, sacred, mysterious, OR generally

               UNfathomable FAWCE, which may however be very

               strongly felt by some. It is wise to respect

               the fact that anyone might consider something

               HOLY.



HOME           :

               IMPORTANT place, where you can hopefully be

               HAPPY, AND where you can receive a GUEST.



HOPE           :

               HOPE is hopefully much better than HYPE.



HUMAN          :

               Yesterday i thought i was NOT, today i am ONE.



HUMOR          :

               HUMOUR



HUMOUR         :

               According to medieval medical insights, ONE of

               several of the body's fundamental FLUIDs.

               According to present day common SENSE, it is

               good to be in good HUMOUR.



HYPE           :

               A New! FRESH! & Exciting! VIRTUAL aspect of

               something. HYPE is HYPEfully much better than

               HOPE.

               :

               Acronym of: Hello You Phoney Existence.



I



i              :

               i * i = -1

               :

               A VIRTUAL OR imaginary number which, IF you

               could EVER find it, would give you -1 when

               multiplied by itSELF.  The sum of an imaginary

               number AND a REAL ONE is called a complex

               number.



ID             :

               INVERSE of a MIRROR IMAGE.

               :

               According to Freud: ID + ego + superego = your

               SELVES.



IDENTITY       :

               Identically equal to IDENTITY. A (VIRTUAL OR

               REAL) presence can carry a NAME. ACTION *

               INVERSE (of that ACTION) = IDENTITY (matrices).



IF             :

               Part of "IF something is TRUE, THEN something

               might happen". IF provides the conditional

               element, "in the event that".



IFF            :

               IF AND only IF.



IMAGE          :

               A ( VIRTUAL OR REAL ) impression of something.



IMPORTANT      :

               According to the Brightening Ages there are

               only four facts of any importance: a breath, a

               good drink, a nutricious meal prepared AND

               taken under pleasant circumstances AND a place

               to be .. HAPPY.



INK            :

               ESSENCE OR Essential Component OR FLUID used in

               writing with certain old fashioned fine writing

               INSTRUMENTs OR PENs.



INSPIRATION    :

               An idea or a passion coming into the mind.

               Creative work is said to be 1% INSPIRATION and 99%

               perspiration.



INSTRUCT       :

               ASS INSTRUCTion set. { 0, x: 0<x<1, 1 }



INSTRUMENT     :

               Ideally, a (hardware, software OR OTHERWISE)

               thing OR apparatus, given that someone may have

               applied a great deal of effort to make it,

               someone may have applied another great deal of

               effort to get it working correctly OR

               accurately AND the ONE who uses the INSTRUMENT

               ought to take great care of it.



INTERESTING    :

               Basically anything anyone could like to study

               in this GLoSsary OR elsewhere. Anything which

               might attract attention AND occupy thoughts for

               a while.



INVERSE        :

               MIRROR IMAGE.

               :

               The way back.



ISD?           :

               Integrated Service Department.



J



J              :

               [ rumoured to belong to Judit ].

               :

               joule



JOB            :

               I still haven't finished the JOB of messing

               about with this here GLoSsary. Will i EVER?



JOLLY          :

               HAPPY, merry, joyful OR gay.



joule          :

               J, unit of ENERGY equivalent to overcoming a

               FORCE of ONE newton over a distance of ONE

               METRE.



JOY            :

               It was once said that the only reason why HUMANs

               are tolerated at ALL ON the EARTH is because

               they have the capacity to bring JOY.



JUMP           :

               To move in ONE go OR at ONE leap OR bound from

               ONE place to some other, without STOPping

               anywhere ELSE. You should be warned that

               landing SAFEly at the second place may be

               problematic.



K



K              :

               [ rumoured to belong to Kafka ].



kg             :

               kilogram, unit of MASS kept at Sœvres near

               Paris.



L



L              :

               [ rumoured to be a nice shape for a living room

               ].



LANGUAGE       :

               Symbolic SYSTEM supplying semantic models of

               anything imaginable in any REAL OR VIRTUAL

               world.



LEGEND!        :

               A legend is some FAMOUS old story, AND in olden

               TIMEs sadly usually a violent ONE at that.

               However, LEGEND! has been reclaimed to indicate

               some FAMOUS pursuits of some of our friends,

               which are fortunately NOT quite so bloody.



LIFE           :

               (According to Douglas Adams) Prelude to the

               UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING.



LIST           :

               Very usefully structured string of DATA.



LOVE           :

               0, NOUGHT, Q? "What is 1/2 a LOVE?" A! NOUGHT!

               :

               Also something you can feel very strongly for a

               very long TIME.



LUCK           :

               Any outcome of a vague INSTRUCTion.



M



M , m          :

               Symbol for MASS in INTERESTING dynamic

               statements.

m              :

               METRE



MANDATE        :

               Arrangement whereby ONE can act on behalf of

               more.



MAPPING        :

               Network of correspondences between the

               respective elements of at least two sets.



MASS           :

               A quantity which has the quality that it is

               extremely difficult to get going AND is often

               even more difficult to STOP AGAIN within the

               required TIME OR distance.



MATTER         :

               In the event that it would MATTER to know this

               i suppose any material thing with a (rest)MASS

               greater than ZERO.



MEMORY         :

               Any SYSTEM featuring HYSTERESIS



MESSAGE        :

               This could be a poke in the eye, a kick in the

               teeth, OR hopefully a more pleasant form of

               communication bringing you some DATA.



METER          :

               An INSTRUMENT which can provide a more OR less

               accurate measurement of some quantity.



METRE          :

               m, unit of distance equal to the length of the

               path travelled by electromagnetic radiation in

               a vacuum during a TIME interval of 1/299 792

               458 of a second.



MIRROR         :

               Shiny something which through reflection

               provides a VIRTUAL AND reversed IMAGE.



MOTTO          :

               Do nothing, leave nothing UNdone; say nothing,

               leave nothing UNsaid (Taken from "The Way" the

               very old AND concise basis of Taoism).



MUST           :

               Multi_User_Single_Tasking



N



N              :

               Often used as negative response to Q?

               :

               { NATURAL numbers }

               :

               newton, unit of force, NOT FAWCE.



NAME           :

               A NAME, a NAME, what's in a NAME? A rose by any

               other NAME would still as sweetly smell.



NAND           :

               NOT ( p AND q )



NASTY          :

               UN pleasant.



NATURAL        :

               Adjective, of a process, the ways & means of

               the UNIVERSE before you started Editing it.



NAUGHT         :

               Nothing, 0.

               :

               & ALL will come to this.



NEVER          :

               NEVER, REPEAT NEVER, EVER, write with

               indellible INK.

                    Of course we NEVER plan to finish, we

                    NEVER plan to start, AND we NEVER EVER

                    make a plan, (unless we happen to THINK

                    that it is very crafty).

  

newton         :

               N, unit of force, oddly enough about equal to

               the weight of the average apple ON EARTH.



NO             :

               NOT any; NOT a; NOT ONE.

               :

               Nay; NOT so; the opposite of _yep, used to

               deny, refuse OR disagree.



NODE           :

               NODULE



NODULE         :

               Centre for connectivity.



NOR            :

               NOT ( p OR q )



NOT            :

               -

               :

               INTERESTING ANTI OPERATOR.



NOW!           :

               NOT later OR some other TIME, but ACTION !!



NOUGHT         :

               0, ZERO, NOT a thing.



O



O              :

               Sometimes confused with 0 (ZERO).



OFF            :

               Resting, NOT working, UN -selected.



ON             :

               Working, functioning, selected.



ONE            :

               Unity.

               :

               a person (in the third person).

               :

               Please_Edit

               :

               1



OPERAND        :

               p,q,r,s etc. appearing to the Left AND to the

               Right of a logical OPERATOR.



OPERATOR       :

               Logical: NOT, AND, OR, XOR.

               :

               ONE who operates equipment or acts as an agent

               of social intercourse.



OR             :

               +, Logical OPERATOR allowing any ONE OR both

               out of two options.



ORDER          :

               A certain lack of CHAOS in a SYSTEM.



OTHER          :

               Anything ELSE which does NOT have an entry

               in the GLoSsary OR is OTHERWISE UN accounted

               for.



OTHERWISE      :

               'According to other wise guys...' ELSE



P



P , p          :

               Pressure.



p              :

               Logical OPERAND.



Pa             :

               pascal



PALINDROME     :

               1991 is palindromic which means that it reads

               the same way backwards OR forwards. Perhaps i

               should quote the FAMOUS example "able was I ere

               I saw elba".



PALINDROMEDARY :

               An INTERESTING AND mostly harmless LEGEND! ary

               animal who can walk both ways. It is troubled

               by the the arrows of indecision.



PASCAL         :

               Highly structured computer LANGUAGE devised by

               Niklaus Wirth using several words which are

               also mentioned OR annotated in this GLoSsary.

               NAMEd after the seventeenth century French

               philosopher, Blaise Pascal.



pascal         :

               Pa, unit of pressure, equal to ONE newton per

               square METRE.



PEN            :

               A fine writing INSTRUMENT said to be mightier

               than the sword.



PLEASE         :

               People_Live_Easy_Access_Service_Emulator

               :

               Personal_Live_Easy_Access_System_Emulator



Please_Edit    :

               Go ahead, change the world. Signals are clear.

               HAPPY = ON.

               :

               1



Please_Some_One_Else:

               Vague status between Please_Edit & Please_Wait.

               :

               A number greater than 1 OR less than 0.



Please_Wait    :

               Please be patient AND bear with us for a short

               while.

               :

               0



Please_Yourself:

               Vague status between Please_Wait & Please_Edit.

               IF you can't PLEASE yourSELF you can't PLEASE

               your soul.

               :

               A number greater than 0 AND less than 1.



POWER          :

               Strictly speaking the rate at which work can be

               done (OR ENERGY converted) per unit TIME.

               OTHERWISE the ability to do OR act.

               :

               The third ENEMY. In this SENSE it ought to

               pointed out that this ENEMY is ONE's own POWER,

               AND NOT that of others, because the misuse of

               POWER will damage DIGNITY.



Pretty_Vacant  :

               Ripe for Squatting.



PRIME          :

               A number which may be divided only by itSELF

               AND ONE. There is only ONE even PRIME number

               which is 2.

               :

               1993 is PRIME.



PRIVATE        :

               NOT PUBLIC



PROCEDURE      :

               A certain sequence of steps OR INSTRUCT ions

               which can be followed like a PROGRAM.



PROGRAM        :

               The very first word of a PASCAL computer

               PROGRAM. After some more words AND characters,

               declarations, PROCEDUREs, functions AND the

               main body of the PROGRAM (IF the PROGRAM is

               complete) you will find END..



PUBLIC         :

               Said of anything accessible to EVERYBODY in

               principle.



Q



Q              :

               { rational numbers }

               :

               Symbol representing electric charge, measured

               in coulombs.



q              :

               Logical OPERAND.



Q?             :

               QUESTION



QSO            :

               QUASI-Stellar Object OR QUASAR. A heavenly body

               that looks like a star (through a very POWERful

               telescope), but is thought to be situated far

               beyond the stars of the Milky Way AND must

               therefore be literally astronomically bright to

               be observable at all. Researchers THINK that

               QUASARS might be the brilliant, tiny central

               regions of far, far-away galaxies whose outer

               parts are hard to SEE because of the intense

               glare. QUASARs are characterized by extremely

               high RED shifts AND have a starlike appearance

               despite of the fact that they must be some of

               the brightest objects in the UNIVERSE.



QSR            :

               MESSAGE understood by Radio-Hams.



QUAD           :

               Four of something i suppose.



QUARK          :

               Hypothetical fundamental particle; all hadron

               MATTER is supposed to be made up of QUARK s.

               They come in six flavours, three carying two

               thirds the charge of a proton: up (u), charm

               (c), AND top (t), the remaining three carrying

               ONE third of the charge of an electron: down

               (d), STRANGE (s), AND bottom (b). Each flavour

               has conveniently been subdivided into three

               COLOUR s: RED, GREEN OR blue. Two up QUARK s AND

               ONE down would for example form a proton AND

               two down AND ONE up would form a neutron. It is

               thought that QUARK s may NEVER be observed

               seperately in the present configuration of the

               UNIVERSE. In this way they are rather like the

               END of a piece of string. IF you TRY to isolate

               the END of a piece of string AND pull very hard

               indeed, the string will break AND you will

               still NOT have isolated the END of a piece of

               string. Similarly with QUARK s, TRY ing to

               isolate them would require so much ENERGY, that

               it would be enough to materialize some extra

               QUARK s yielding an ordinary proton OR something

               like that.



QUASAR         :

               QSO



QUASI          :

               Pseudo.



QUERY          :

               Q?



QUEST          :

               A long AND possibly perilous pursuit of

               something thought to be highly desirable OR

               worthy.



QUESTION       :

               Q?, something ONE can ask OR wonder.

               :

               To be, OR NOT to be; - that is the QUESTION:-

               Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer       

               The slings AND arrows of outrageous fortune,

               OR to take arms against a sea of troubles,      

               AND, by opposing, END them? - To die - to sleep

               -NO more; AND by a sleep to say we END

               The heart-ache, AND the thousand NATURAL shocks

               That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consumation

               Devoutly to be wish'd. To die - to sleep; -

               To sleep! perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;

               For in that sleep of DEATH what dreams may come,

               When we have shuffled OFF this mortal coil,

               Must give us pause: there's the respect

               That makes calamity of so long LIFE;

               For who would bear the whips AND scorns of TIME,

               The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely

               The pangs of despised LOVE, the law's delay,

               The insolence of office, AND the spurns

               That patient merit of the unworthy takes,

               When he himSELF might his quietus make

               With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,

               To grunt AND sweat under a weary LIFE,

               But that the dread of something after DEATH, -  

               The UNdiscover'd country from whose bourn

               NO traveller returns, - puzzles the will,

               AND makes us rather bear those ills we have

               Than to fly to others that we know NOT of?

               Thus conscience does make cowards of us ALL;    

               AND thus the native hue of resolution

               Is sicklied o'er with a pale cast of thought,   

               AND enterprises of great pith AND moment,

               With this regard, their currents turn awry      

               AND lose the NAME of ACTION.



                    (Hamlet's soliloquy by Will. Shakespeare)



QUID           :

               Slang reference to money in England, OTHERWISE

               a vague Latin word meaning 'what' as in QUID

               pro quo.



QUILL          :

               Fine writing INSTRUMENT from olden days.



QUIZ           :

               FAMOUS method to waste TIME AND resources ON

               radio AND TV.



R



R              :

               {REAL numbers }

               :

               REAL s strictly (in cardinality) << Complex.



REAL           :

               NOT just imaginary, NOT VIRTUAL, existing in

               fact.



RED            :

               The COLOUR of BLOOD.



REPEAT         :

               Perform a certain PROCEDURE AGAIN OR AGAIN OR

               some more times.



ROGER          :

               Affirmative, understood, used a lot in military

               comms. N.B. the JOLLY ROGER was the skull AND

               crossed bones flag as used by pirates in years

               of yore AND these days by those who deny

               authority the right to monopolise the

               electromagnetic spectrum.



ROOT           :

               To support OR en COURAGE as by cheering OR

               applauding.

               :

               The part of a plant OR TREE usually under the

               GROUND, that holds it in position, draws WATER

               AND nourishment from the soil, AND stores FOOD.

               :

               A base.

               :

               A quantity that, multiplied by itSELF a

               specified number of times, produces a given

               quantity.



RUIS           :

               Dutch word meaning radio static (OR thermal

               noise) Used in the ISD? several of my friends &

               i like it.



S



s              :

               second



SAFE           :

               In the case of SEX (involving men) this is

               always with a condom. Even though it is NOT

               really SAFE even THEN.



second         :

               s, unit of TIME equal to the duration of 9 192

               631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding

               to the transition between two hyperfine levels

               of the GROUND state of the caesium-133 atom.



SEE            :

               To look is NOT necessarily to SEE AND you may

               NOT have to look in ORDER to SEE something in

               your mind's eye, which may be called insight,

               imagination OR fantasy.



SELF           :

               Look into a MIRROR AND you will SEE a MIRROR

               IMAGE of this.



SELVES         :

               A company of personalities accompanying

               anyone(s) with a lot of friends OR a split

               personality.



SENSE          :

               You need at least 1 SENSOR to do this.



SENSOR         :

               INSTRUMENT which notices something. TRY

               connecting ONE logically OR NOT to an ACTUATOR.



SEX            :

               INTERESTING AND oftentimes enjoyable activity

               of animals which may lead to LIFE OR DEATH.



SHELVES        :

               Very IMPORTANT support for BOOK s AND other

               items subject to GRAVITY.



SINK           :

               A place where something can disappear OR

               terminate.



SOURCE         :

               A place where something can originate OR spring

               from.



SPEED          :

               The rate at which something moves, given by the

               distance travelled per unit TIME.



STOP           :

               STOP the WAR, but don't STOP THINK ing.



STRANGE        :

               It was once said that it was very STRANGE, that

               STRANGE did NOT in fact appear in the GLoSsary

               until NOW!. It could have been said to be odd.

               STRANGE is often used to mean NOT of this

               place, NOT understood OR UNknown.

               :

               In the theory of QUARKs STRANGEness is a

               quantum number associated with elementary

               particles. It is conserved in strong AND

               electromagnetic interactions.



STYLE          :

               STYLE is rumoured NOT to be a homomorphic

               MAPPING.



SUN            :

               A primeval thermo-nuclear explosion in BALANCE

               with her GRAVITY about 150 000 000 km from here 

               described by Douglas Adams as "a small

               UN regarded yellow star somewhere at the

               UN fashionable END of the western spiral arm of

               the galaxy". The EARTH 's share of her radiation

               suffices to drive the weather engine.



SYSTEM         :

               A group of items functioning together.



T



T              :

               Symbol representing temperature.



T,t            :

               Symbols representing TIME.



TEA            :

               Very useful FLUID [ rumoured to be ] served

               shortly.



THEN           :

               In that case.

               :

               At that TIME.



THINK          :

               HMMMMM.

               "I THINK therefore I am" OR perhaps "i feel

               therefore i am ... i THINK".



TIME           :

               Ask Chronos. The perceived passing of past

               through present into the future. Measured in

               seconds. Any REAL ACTION will involve the

               passing of TIME. Given that many laws of

               physics (excepting thermodynamics) are TIME

               reversible, it is still a MATTER of debate

               whether TIME can only pass from the past to the

               future OR whether it can also move in another

               direction.



TRANSLATE      :

               XLATE



TREE           :

               Useful structure.

               :

               A large, living plant which can be said to have

               its affairs in better ORDER than most HUMAN s.



TREES          :

               Are for second hand EDITing only. (So don't be

               the first person to start cutting a piece of

               wood when it is still part of a living TREE).



TRIVIAL        :

               Anything which can be put into a closed box.

               :

               Anything which doesn't count/MATTER OR which is

               very easy.



TRUE           :

               Compare FALSE.

               Truth is already dealt with by FORTH.

               Furthermore don't believe people who say that

               they are in search of it.



TRUST          :

               TRUST is like WISDOM in many ways. A highly

               prized quality, which when once broken can NOT

               easily be restored. ONE is wise to know OR feel

               whom to TRUST AND whom NOT to TRUST.



TRY            :

               ATTEMPT



TURBULENT      :

               Said of highly chaotic, bumpy AND irregular

               motion, NOT at all smooth NOR laminar.



U



U              :

               055h

               :

               Symbol meaning UNION [INTERESTING Integration

               PROCEDURE].



UN             :

               In the NATURAL (English) LANGUAGE a prefix

               meaning ANTI OR NOT.

               :

               In twentieth century history allegedly a forum

               for world-wide politics (United Nations).



UNHOLY_BIBLE!  :

               INTERESTING concept for a BOOK.



UNION          :

               Symbol U, operation forming ONE set containing

               all the members of each of the OPERAND sets.



UNIVERSE       :

               EVERYTHING existing everywhere. Furthermore,

               the UNIVERSE is filled with electromagnetic

               radiation, but it is nearly empty of MATTER.



V



VIPOP          :

               Very IMPORTANT Piece Of Paper



VIRTUAL        :

               Something which is orthogonal to something

               REAL.



VORTEX         :

               INTERESTING Spiral thingy you get when a SOURCE

               AND SINK are temporarily out of BALANCE. Also

               occurs in TURBULENT situations.



W



WAIT           :

               IF ANYONE asks me what they can do any given computer

               PROGRAM, this would be my answer.





WAR            :

               Violent chaotic exchanges between POWER ful

               OPERATOR s. Usually a very Sad_Story



WATER          :

               Curiously common clear FLUID (at atmospheric

               AND  comfortable room temperature) essential to

               the operations of all LIFE ON EARTH. WATER can

               be a very good drink indeed (SEE IMPORTANT).

               :

               According to some ancient Greeks ONE of the

               four elements.



WISDOM         :

               Highly prized commodity which can nowhere be    

               bought, but which is sorely lacking resulting

               in a gamut of Sad_Stories this epoch.



WORKSHOP       :

               Studio of an artisan.

               :

               HUMAN_Computer_Literacy_AWARENESS



WHO'S_BILL?    :

               Crucial Q? asked in Bistronomics.



WW             :

               werkwiet [rumoured to] Create[s] Tension

                    PROCEDURE brainwave;

                    BEGIN

                         REPEAT UNTIL NOT_wanted;

                              BEGIN

                                   Create_Tension;

                                   Exchange_Phonons

                              END;

                    END; (* Handle with Care - Used in the

                    Integrated Service Dept. *)



X



X,x            :

               Symbols representing UNknown quantities.



XOR            :

               Logical OPERATOR in the NATURAL LANGUAGE best

               described with "OR".



XLATE          :

               Hopefully homomorphic MAPPING from ONE useful

               LANGUAGE to another [ a difficult AND TIME -

               consuming process ].



XLATOR         :

               Somebody who is able & willing to XLATE.



XREF           :

               Crossreference, which links items in two OR

               more tables of information.



Y



Y              :

               Often used as affirmative response.



 yep.          :

               Smooth affirmative.



Z



Z              :

               { whole numbers }



ZAPHOD         :

               A local minor subculture celebrity who was [

               rumoured to have been ] president of the

               UNIVERSE.



ZENO           :

               An ancient Greek philosopher (B.C. 336? -

               264?). Founded the Stoic School. FAMOUS for

               some stories, which are often (mistakenly)

               described as paradoxes:



               1. Achilles and the Tortoise

               2. Alpha to Beta

               3. Stadion

               4. Heap of salt



ZERO           :

               0



? other:=



               Much is missing from this GLoSsary AND ONE

               warned me that it would NEVER be finished.

               Having said that,



               END                     THIS*