meaning of stoic

1. A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
2. Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.
3. Alt. of Stoical
4. STOIC STring Oriented Interactive Compiler stomp on To inadvertently overwrite something important, usually automatically. "All the work I did this weekend got stomped on last night by the nightly server script. " Compare scribble, mangle, trash, scrog, roach. [Jargon File] STONE A Structured and Open Environment: a project supported by the German Ministry of Research and Technology BMFT to design, implement and distribute a SEE for research and teaching. Stone Age In computer folklore, an ill-defined period from ENIAC ca. 1943 to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical dinosaurs. Sometimes used for the entire period up to 1960-61 see Iron Age; however, it is more descriptive to characterise the latter period in terms of a "Bronze Age" era of transistor-logic, pre-ferrite core memory machines with drum or CRT mass storage as opposed to just mercury delay lines and/or relays. More generally, the term is used pejoratively for ancient hardware or software, even by survivors from the Stone Age. [Jargon File]
5. a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno; "a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to ">destiny"

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