meaning of fod

1. FOD /fod/ [Abbreviation for "Finger of Death", originally a spell-name from fantasy gaming] To terminate with extreme prejudice and with no regard for other people. From MUDs where the wizard command "FOD " results in the immediate and total death of , usually as punishment for obnoxious behaviour. This usage migrated to other circumstances, such as "Im going to fod the process that is burning all the cycles. " Compare gun. In aviation, FOD means Foreign Object Damage, e. g. what happen when a jet engine sucks up a rock on the runway or a bird in flight. Finger of Death is a distressingly apt description of what this generally does to the engine. [Jargon File] FOIL File Oriented Interpretive Language. CAI language. ["FOIL - A File Oriented Interpretive Language", J. C. Hesselbart, Proc ACM 23rd National Conf 1968]. FoIP Fax over IP FOIRL Fiber Optic InterRepeater Link fold case case sensitivity folder system> A directory in the sense of a collection of computer files. The term is more common in systems such as the Macintosh or Windows 95 which have a graphical user interface and provide a graphical file browser in which directories are traditionally depicted as folders like small briefcases.

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