munge

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Infinitive
to munge

Third person singular
munges

Simple past
munged

Past participle
munged

Present participle
munging

to munge (third-person singular simple present munges, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)

  1. (transitive, computing) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner.
    Few hackers simultaneously munge their programming language and the application written in it.
  2. (transitive, computing) To add a spamblock to (an email address).
  3. (transitive, genealogy) To erroneously combine information about two different real people into a single record.
    It looks like this record is munged—it has this person's birth date, but his father's death date

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[edit] Verb

munge

  1. Third-person singular present tense of mungere.