line noise
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (computing) Spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link.
- (programming) Data that looks random, as when outputting a binary file as text.
- (computing, derogatory) Incomprehensible source code or other textual material (often due to terseness or overuse of operators).
References
[edit]- “line noise”, in The Jargon File[2], 2008 June 27 (last accessed)