munge

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʌnd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ʌndʒ

Verb

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

1. (transitive, computing, informal) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner.
   • 2011, Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration

     As a part of the code review with the development team, notify them that you want to have these options as a part of the installation script, rather than you munging the installation scripts during deployment.

2. (transitive, computing, informal) To add a spamblock to (an email address).
   • 1998, Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel, Stopping spam

     Munging is effective — it prevents unwanted email from reaching you by keeping your real email address out of the clutches of the address-harvesting programs.

3. (transitive, genealogy, informal) To corrupt a record about an individual by erroneously merging in information about another individual.

   It looks like this record is munged—it has this person's birth date, but his father's death date

Alternative forms

• mung

Derived terms

• data munging

Translations

transform data in an undefined/unexplained manner

• Finnish: pulauttaa (fi)
• German: beschädigen (de), zerstören (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Turkish: tahrip etmek (tr), zarar vermek (tr)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -undʒe

Verb

munge

1. third-person singular present indicative of mungere