The letter E

• earthquake [IBM] n. The ultimate real-world shock test for
• Easter egg [from the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in
• Easter egging [IBM] n. The act of replacing unrelated components
• eat flaming death imp. A construction popularized among hackers by
• EBCDIC /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ [abbreviation,
• echo [FidoNet] n. A topic group on FidoNet's echomail
• eighty-column mind [IBM] n. The sort said to be possessed by
• El Camino Bignum /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ n. The road
• elder days n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the
• elegant [from mathematical usage] adj. Combining simplicity,
• elephantine adj. Used of programs or systems that are both
• elevator controller n. An archetypal dumb embedded-systems
• ELIZA effect /*-li'z* *-fekt'/ [AI community] n. The tendency of
• elvish n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms
• EMACS /ee'maks/ [from Editing MACroS] n. The ne plus ultra of
• email /ee'mayl/ (also written `e-mail') 1. n. Electronic mail
• emoticon /ee-moh'ti-kon/ n. An ASCII glyph used to indicate an
• empire n. Any of a family of military simulations derived from a
• engine n. 1. A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function
• English 1. n.,obs. The source code for a program, which may be in
• enhancement n. {Marketroid}-speak for a bug fix. This abuse
• ENQ /enkw/ or /enk/ [from the ASCII mnemonic ENQuire for
• EOF /E-O-F/ [abbreviation, `End Of File'] n. 1. [techspeak] The
• EOL /E-O-L/ [End Of Line] n. Syn. for newline, derived
• EOU /E-O-U/ n. The mnemonic of a mythical ASCII control
• epoch [UNIX prob. from astronomical timekeeping] n. The time
• epsilon [see delta] 1. n. A small quantity of anything.
• epsilon squared n. A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as
• era, the Syn. epoch. Webster's Unabridged makes these words
• Eric Conspiracy n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named
• Eris /e'ris/ n. The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion,
• erotics /ee-ro'tiks/ n. [Helsinki University of Technology,
• error 33 [XEROX PARC] n. 1. Predicating one research effort upon
• evil adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program,
• evil and rude adj. Both evil and rude, but with the
• exa- /ek's*/ [SI] pref. See quantifiers.
• examining the entrails n. The process of grovelling through
• EXCH /eks'ch*/ or /eksch/ vt. To exchange two things, each
• excl /eks'kl/ n. Abbreviation for `exclamation point'. See
• EXE /eks'ee/ or /eek'see/ or /E-X-E/ n. An executable
• exec /eg-zek'/ vt., n. 1. [UNIX from `execute'] Synonym for
• exercise, left as an [from technical books] Used to complete a
• external memory n. A memo pad or written notes. "Hold on while
• eyeball search n.,v. To look for something in a mass of code or data

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The letter F