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語源 1

Scots wabbit, ultimate origin uncertain.

形容詞

wabbit (comparative more wabbit, superlative most wabbit)

1. (Scotland) Exhausted; tired.

語源 2

Pronunciation spelling of rabbit representing the pronunciation of children and some adults who have trouble saying the English /r/ (the cartoon character Elmer Fudd is a caricature of the latter). Computing sense refers to the ability of rabbits to multiply quickly.

名詞

wabbit (plural wabbits)

1. (humorous, childish) A rabbit.
2. (computing) A self-replicating computer process that (unlike a virus or worm) does not infect host programs or documents and remains on the local computer rather than spreading across networks of computers. [from 1974]

   Coordinate term: fork bomb

   • 2002, Philip E. N. Howard, “Hacktivism”, in Steve Jones, editor, Encyclopedia of New Media, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 216:

     For example, a hacker might write a quine virus program that generates complete copies of itself as part of its output, a worm virus program that reproduces itself across a network, or a wabbit virus program designed to perpetually duplicate itself, at least until the system crashes. In contrast to the wabbit's slow growth, a fork bomb quickly generates multiple copies itself.

Further reading

• fork bomb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia