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語源 1

From Hindi मूँग (mūṅg), from Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga).

発音

• IPA: /mʌŋ/, /muːŋ/
• 韻: -ʌŋ

名詞

mung (countable and uncountable, plural mungs)

1. mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts.

語源 2

Often doubtfully explained as mash until no good, or a self-referencing (recursive) acronym, mung until no good. Rumored to have originated from one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer groups in the 1970s or 1980s. Potentially related to mangle.

別の表記

• munge

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /mʌŋ/
• 韻: -ʌŋ

動詞

mung (third-person singular simple present mungs, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)

1. (computing, informal) To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.
2. (by extension, informal) To harm, to damage; to destroy.

派生語

Further reading

• mung bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mung (computer term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

参照

• “mung”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.