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5 definitions found 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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