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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>winnitude</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="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="winner.html" title="winner"/><link rel="next" href="Wintel.html" title="Wintel"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">winnitude</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="winner.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Wintel.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="winnitude"/><dt xmlns="" id="winnitude"><b>winnitude</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/win'@·t[y]ood/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The quality of winning (as opposed to
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<a href="winnage.html"><i class="glossterm">winnage</i></a>, which is the result of winning).
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“<span class="quote">Guess what? They tweaked the microcode and now the LISP interpreter
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runs twice as fast as it used to.</span>” “<span class="quote">That's really great! Boy,
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what winnitude!</span>” “<span class="quote">Yup. I'll probably get a half-hour's winnage
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on the next run of my program.</span>” Perhaps curiously, the obvious
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antonym ‘lossitude’ is rare.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="winner.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Wintel.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">winner </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Wintel</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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