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frob

語源

Clipping of frobnicate, from frobnitz, coined circa 1958 by David R. Sawyer of the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC).[1] Year of origin uncertain, and could be 1958–1981: frob is not listed in the TMRC dictionaries of 1959 or 1960,[2] and is first listed in the Jargon File (1981 edition), so it may date from the 1960s or 1970s. Possibly variant of or influenced by frotsus (“a protruding arm または trunnion”), which is listed in TMRC 1959 and 1960.

名詞

frob (複数形 frobs)

  1. (MIT, slang) Any small device or object (usually hand-sized) which can be manipulated.
    Hand me that frob there, will you?

動詞

frob (三人称単数 現在形 frobs, 現在分詞 frobbing, 過去形および過去分詞形 frobbed)

  1. (computing, slang, rare, transitive) To manipulate in some ill-defined way; to tweak or mess about with.
  2. (Silicon Valley, slang) To perform a task that is clear to the speaker but too complex or tedious to be explained, so that outside help is not helpful.
    Why don't you go get lunch? I need to frob with this thing for about 30 minutes and then we'll be good to go.
  3. (programming, Linux, Gnu C) To transform and obscure in a trivial fashion with memfrob(3).

使用する際の注意点

Sometimes contrasted with twiddle and tweak: frob for aimless manipulation, twiddle for coarse manipulation, and tweak for fine manipulation.[1]

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参考

参照

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (29 December 2003), “frobnicate”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.
  2. ^ Peter Samson, AN ABRIDGED DICTIONARY of the TMRC LANGUAGE June 1959 (with 2005 commentary), AN ABRIDGED DICTIONARY of the TMRC LANGUAGE late summer/early fall 1960 (with 2005 commentary)

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