meaning of gronk
1. gronk /gronk/ Popularised by Johnny Harts comic strip "B. C. " but the word apparently predates that. 1. To clear the state of a wedged device and restart it. More severe than "to frob" sense 2. 2. [TMRC] To cut, sever, smash, or similarly disable. 3. The sound made by many 3. 5-inch diskette drives. In particular, the microfloppies on a Commodore Amiga go "grink, gronk". [Jargon File] gronked 1. Broken. "The teletype scanner was gronked, so we took the system down. " 2. Of people, the condition of feeling very tired or less commonly sick. "Ive been chasing that bug for 17 hours now and I am thoroughly gronked!" Compare broken, which means about the same as gronk used of hardware, but connotes depression or mental/emotional problems in people. group A group G is a non-empty set upon which a binary operator * is defined with the following properties for all a,b,c in G: Closure: G is closed under *, a*b in G Associative: * is associative on G, a*b*c = a*b*c Identity: There is an identity element e such that a*e = e*a = a. Inverse: Every element has a unique inverse a such that a * a = a * a = e. The inverse is usually written with a superscript -1.
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