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chad [n]

1)	a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape

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paper dimple hanging_chad swinging_chad tri-chad

2)	a lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river

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lake_chad

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lake africa

3)	a landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa; was under French control until 1960

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republic_of_chad tchad

4)	a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa

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chadic chadic_language

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afrasian west_chadic biu-mandara east_chadic masa

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

/chad/ (Or "selvage" /sel'v*j/ (sewing and weaving), "perf", "perfory", "snaf"). 1. The perforated edge strips on paper for sprocket feed printers, after they have been separated from the printed portion.

The term perf may also refer to the perforations themselves, rather than the chad they produce when torn.

[Why "snaf"?]

2. (Or "chaff", "computer confetti", "keypunch droppings") The confetti-like bits punched out of punched cards or paper tape which collected in the chad box.

One of the Jargon File's correspondents believed that "chad" derived from the chadless keypunch.

[Jargon File]

(1997-07-18)

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