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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sex- \Sex-\ [L. sex six See {Six}.]
A combining form meaning six as sexdigitism; sexennial.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sex \Sex\, n. [L. sexus: cf F. sexe.]
1. The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both
animals and plants; the physical difference between male
and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by
which male is distinguished from female.
2. One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the
distinction of male and female.
3. (Bot.)
a The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being
fertilized; as staminate and pistillate flowers are
of opposite sexes.
b One of the groups founded on this distinction.
{The sex}, the female sex; women, in general.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sex
n 1: activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex
in the back seat" [syn: {sexual activity}, {sex activity}]
2: either of the two categories (male or female) into which
most organisms are divided; "the war between the sexes"
3: all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify
sexual impulses; "he wanted a better sex life"; "the film
contained no sex or violence" [syn: {sexual urge}]
4: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of
their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex
of the foetus" [syn: {gender}, {sexuality}]
v 1: arouse sexually [syn: {arouse}, {excite}, {turn on}, {wind
up}]
2: tell the sex (of young chickens)
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
SEX /seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n. 1. Software
EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of
millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been
terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among
hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to exchanges
of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a {Good Thing}, but
unprotected SEX can propagate a {virus}. See also {pubic directory}.
2. The rather Freudian mnemonic often used for Sign EXtend, a machine
instruction found in the PDP-11 and many other architectures. The RCA
1802 chip used in the early Elf and SuperElf personal computers had a
`SEt X register' SEX instruction, but this seems to have had little
folkloric impact. The Data General instruction set also had `SEX'.
{DEC}'s engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used the
`SEX' mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing
wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the last time this
happened, either The author of "The Intel 8086 Primer", who was one
of the original designers of the 8086, noted that there was originally a
`SEX' instruction on that processor, too He says that Intel management
got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and thus the instruction
was renamed `CBW' and `CWD' (depending on what was being extended).
Amusingly, the Intel 8048 (the microcontroller used in IBM PC keyboards)
is also missing straight `SEX' but has logical-or and logical-and
instructions `ORL' and `ANL'.
The Motorola 6809, used in the Radio Shack Color Computer and in
U.K.'s `Dragon 32' personal computer, actually had an official `SEX'
instruction; the 6502 in the Apple II with which it competed did not
British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense after all it
was commonly observed, you could (on some theoretical level) have sex
with a dragon, but you can't have sex with an apple.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
SEX
/seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] 1. Software EXchange. A
technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of
millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had
been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are
popular among hackers and others (of course, these are no
longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general,
SEX parties are a {Good Thing}, but unprotected SEX can
propagate a {virus}. See also {pubic directory}.
2. The {mnemonic} often used for Sign EXtend, a machine
instruction found in the {PDP-11} and many other
architectures. The {RCA 1802} chip used in the early {Elf}
and SuperElf {personal computers} had a "SEt X register" SEX
instruction, but this seems to have had little folkloric
impact.
DEC's engineers nearly got a {PDP-11} {assembler} that used
the SEX" mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once)
marketing wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the
last time this happened, either The author of "The Intel
8086 Primer", who was one of the original designers of the
{Intel 8086}, noted that there was originally a SEX"
instruction on that processor, too He says that Intel
management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and
thus the instruction was renamed CBW" and CWD" (depending on
what was being extended). The {Intel 8048} (the
{microcontroller} used in {IBM PC} keyboards) is also missing
straight SEX" but has logical-or and logical-and instructions
ORL" and "ANL".
The {Motorola 6809}, used in the UK's "{Dragon 32}" {personal
computer}, actually had an official SEX" instruction; the
{6502} in the {Apple II} with which it competed did not
British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense after
all it was commonly observed, you could (on some theoretical
level) have sex with a dragon, but you can't have sex with an
apple.
[{Jargon File}]
(1998-03-03)
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