meaning of terse

1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.
2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons.
3. Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.
4. Terse Language for decryption of hardware logic. ["Hardware Logic Simulation by Compilation", C. Hansen, 25th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf, 1988]. test The process of exercising a product to identify differences between expected and actual behaviour. Typically testing is bottom-up: unit testing and integration testing by developers, system testing by testers, and user acceptance testing by users. Test coverage attempts to assess how complete a test has been. 2. The second stage in a generate and test search algorithm. [Jargon File]
5. brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes"; "short and terse and easy to ">understand"

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