Thanksgiving: Do you speak Geek?

1. Dinner is served, so grab a plate and gather round the buffet. In wireless communications, this connects the antenna to the receiver, transmitter, or transceiver.
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2. Sounds like an endearment for the star of the traditional Thanksgiving meal: this is a false, or phantom, signal that appears in a superheterodyne wireless receiver.
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3. Loaded with food, it's sometimes called a groaning board: this is a data structure used to organize information.
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4. Sounds a bit like a savory turkey side-dish. In IT, this is the addition of a small number of binary digits to a transmission unit in order to fill it up to a standard size or to help synchronize signaling rates between points in a network.
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5. This is a derogatory term for someone who tends to spend a great deal of leisure time in front of the computer, perhaps coming to resemble a beloved tuber of the holiday table.
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6. Grind 'em up to serve with dessert! This is an object-oriented programming interface from Sun Microsystems that lets you build re-useable applications or program building blocks called components that can be deployed in a network on any major operating system platform.
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7. Would this be the result of husking maize for Thanksgiving dinner? This Unix command execution program developed at Bell Labs is a comprehensive combined version of other major UNIX shells.
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8. Does an overstuffed turkey leave this on the way to the stove? In IT, this is a navigation tool on a Web site that allows a user to see where the current page is in relation to the Web site's hierarchy.
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9. Do you use cinnamon in yours? In IT, this is a numerical constant that represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter on a flat plane surface.
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10. If you do this, you might not have to loosen your belt buckle after dinner. In IT, this is a computer system, especially in the entertainment industry, that combines disparate hardware and software-controlled lighting, sound, and visual effects into a single, synchronized system.
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How many could you guess correctly without peeking? Let us know and we'll add your name to the November Know-IT-All Honor Roll!

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