mung
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[edit] English
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[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌŋ
[edit] Etymology 1
From Hindi
[edit] Noun
mung (plural mungs)
- A type of small bean.
- A type of plant cultivated for its sprouts Vigna radiata or Phaseolus aureus.
[edit] Etymology 2
Possibly from Mash Until No Good, or a self referencing acronym, Mung Until No Good. Rumored to have originated from one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer groups in the 1970s or 1980s.
[edit] Verb
mung (third-person singular simple present mungs, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)
- (computing) To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.
- (by extension) to destroy
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[edit] Noun
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