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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>highly</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="high-moby.html" title="high moby"/><link rel="next" href="hing.html" title="hing"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">highly</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="high-moby.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="highly"/><dt xmlns="" id="highly"><b>highly</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adv.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [scientific computation] The preferred modifier for overstating an
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understatement. As in: <span class="firstterm">highly
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nonoptimal</span>, the worst possible way to do something; <span class="firstterm">highly nontrivial</span>, either impossible or
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requiring a major research project; <span class="firstterm">highly
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nonlinear</span>, completely erratic and unpredictable; <span class="firstterm">highly nontechnical</span>, drivel written for
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<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>s, oversimplified to the point of being
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misleading or incorrect (compare <a href="../D/drool-proof-paper.html"><i class="glossterm">drool-proof paper</i></a>).
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In other computing cultures, postfixing of
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<a href="../I/in-the-extreme.html"><i class="glossterm">in the extreme</i></a> might be preferred.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="high-moby.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">high moby </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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