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An uncommon clock function name

An uncommon clock function name

Posted Dec 22, 2011 23:21 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: An uncommon clock function name by neilbrown
Parent article: A common clock framework

It's in Merriam-Webster (Unabridged): "To cause to be unprepared; to make unfit or unready." It's certainly uncommon, but I don't think it's hard to understand or suggestive of the wrong thing. It's hardly a neologism; it's got a citation to someone who's been dead for 27 years.


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