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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  -oid  \-oid\  [Gr.  ?,  fr  ?  form  akin  to  ?  to  see  and  E.  wit: 
  cf.F.  -o["i]de,  L.  -o["i]des.] 
  A  suffix  or  combining  form  meaning  like  resembling,  in  the 
  form  of  as  in  anthropoid,  asteroid,  spheroid. 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  -oid  suff.  [from  Greek  suffix  -oid  =  `in  the  image  of']  1. 
  Used  as  in  mainstream  slang  English  to  indicate  a  poor  imitation,  a 
  counterfeit,  or  some  otherwise  slightly  bogus  resemblance.  Hackers  will 
  happily  use  it  with  all  sorts  of  non-Greco/Latin  stem  words  that  wouldn't 
  keep  company  with  it  in  mainstream  English.  For  example,  "He's  a  nerdoid" 
  means  that  he  superficially  resembles  a  nerd  but  can't  make  the  grade; 
  a  `modemoid'  might  be  a  300-baud  box  (Real  Modems  run  at  28.8  or  up); 
  a  `computeroid'  might  be  any  {bitty  box}.  The  word  `keyboid'  could  be 
  used  to  describe  a  {chiclet  keyboard},  but  would  have  to  be  written; 
  spoken,  it  would  confuse  the  listener  as  to  the  speaker's  city  of  origin. 
  2.  More  specifically,  an  indicator  for  `resembling  an  android'  which  in 
  the  past  has  been  confined  to  science-fiction  fans  and  hackers.  It  too 
  has  recently  (in  1991)  started  to  go  mainstream  (most  notably  in  the  term 
  `trendoid'  for  victims  of  terminal  hipness).  This  is  probably 
  traceable  to  the  popularization  of  the  term  {droid}  in  "Star  Wars" 
  and  its  sequels.  (See  also  {windoid}.) 
 
  Coinages  in  both  forms  have  been  common  in  science  fiction  for  at 
  least  fifty  years,  and  hackers  (who  are  often  SF  fans)  have  probably  been 
  making  `-oid'  jargon  for  almost  that  long  [though  GLS  and  I  can  personally 
  confirm  only  that  they  were  already  common  in  the  mid-1970s  --ESR]. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  OID 
 
  {object  identifier} 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  -oid 
 
    (Suffix,  from  "android")  1.  Used  as  in  mainstream 
  English  to  indicate  a  poor  imitation,  a  counterfeit,  or  some 
  otherwise  slightly  bogus  resemblance.  Hackers  will  happily 
  use  it  with  all  sorts  of  non-Greco/Latin  stem  words  that 
  wouldn't  keep  company  with  it  in  mainstream  English.  For 
  example,  "He's  a  nerdoid"  means  that  he  superficially 
  resembles  a  nerd  but  can't  make  the  grade;  a  modemoid"  might 
  be  a  300-baud  {modem}  (Real  Modems  run  at  144000  or  up);  a 
  computeroid"  might  be  any  {bitty  box}.  The  word  keyboid" 
  could  be  used  to  describe  a  {chiclet  keyboard},  but  would  have 
  to  be  written;  spoken,  it  would  confuse  the  listener  as  to  the 
  speaker's  city  of  origin. 
 
  2.  More  specifically,  an  indicator  for  "resembling  an  android" 
  which  in  the  past  has  been  confined  to  science-fiction  fans 
  and  hackers.  It  too  has  recently  (in  1991)  started  to  go 
  mainstream  (most  notably  in  the  term  trendoid"  for  victims  of 
  terminal  hipness).  This  is  probably  traceable  to  the 
  popularisation  of  the  term  {droid}  in  "Star  Wars"  and  its 
  sequels. 
 
  Coinages  in  both  forms  have  been  common  in  science  fiction  for 
  at  least  fifty  years,  and  hackers  (who  are  often  SF  fans)  have 
  probably  been  making  "-oid"  jargon  for  almost  that  long 
  [though  GLS  and  ESR  can  personally  confirm  only  that  they  were 
  already  common  in  the  mid-1970s]. 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
  (1999-07-10) 
 
 
 
  From  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  OID 
  Object  IDentifier  (OSI) 
 
 




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