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EXCH /eks'ch*/ or /eksch/ vt.

To exchange two things, each for the other; to swap places. If

you point to two people sitting down and say "Exch!", you are

asking them to trade places. EXCH, meaning EXCHange, was

originally the name of a PDP-10 instruction that exchanged the

contents of a register and a memory location. Many newer hackers

are probably thinking instead of the PostScript exchange operator (which is

usually written in lowercase).

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excl /eks'kl/ n.

Abbreviation for `exclamation point'. See bang, shriek, ASCII.

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