erotics /ee-ro'tiks/ n.
[Helsinki University of Technology, Finland] n.
English-language university slang for electronics. Often used by
hackers in Helsinki, maybe because good electronics excites them
and makes them warm.
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error 33 [XEROX PARC] n.
1. Predicating one research effort upon the success of
another. 2. Allowing your own research effort to be placed on the
critical path of some other project (be it a research effort or
not).