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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>under the hood</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="../U.html" title="U"/><link rel="previous" href="undefined-external-reference.html" title="undefined external reference"/><link rel="next" href="undocumented-feature.html" title="undocumented feature"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">under the hood</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="undefined-external-reference.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">U</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="undocumented-feature.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="under-the-hood"/><dt xmlns="" id="under-the-hood"><b>under the hood</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [hot-rodder talk] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Used to introduce the underlying implementation of a product
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(hardware, software, or idea). Implies that the implementation is not
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intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable
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the listener to <a href="../G/grok.html"><i class="glossterm">grok</i></a> it. “<span class="quote">Let's now look
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under the hood to see how ....</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Can also imply that the implementation is much simpler than the
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appearance would indicate: “<span class="quote">Under the hood, we are just fork/execing
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the shell.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Inside a chassis, as in “<span class="quote">Under the hood, this baby has a
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40MHz 68030!</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="undefined-external-reference.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../U.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="undocumented-feature.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">undefined external reference </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> undocumented feature</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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