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1. (n.) chad
the small paper disks or squares formed when holes are punched in punch cards, punch-card ballots, or paper tape.
2. chad
one of these disks or squares.
3. (n.) Chad
Lake, a lake in Africa at the junction of Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. 5000 to 10,000 sq. mi. (13,000 to 26,000 sq. km) (seasonal variation).
4. Chad
Republic of, a republic in N central Africa, E of Lake Chad: a member of the French Community. 7,557,436; 501,000 sq. mi. (1,297,590 sq. km).
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) chad
a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape
2. (noun) Lake Chad, Chad
a lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river
3. (noun) Chad, Republic of Chad, Tchad
a landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa; was under French control until 1960
4. (noun) Chad, Chadic, Chadic language
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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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) CHAD
see Shad
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. CHAD
1. [common] The perforated edge strips on printer paper, after they
have been separated from the printed portion. Also called
selvage, perf, and
ripoff. 2. The confetti-like paper bits punched out of cards or paper tape;
this has also been called chaff,
computer confetti, and keypunch droppings. It's reported that this
was very old Army slang (associated with teletypewriters before the
computer era), and has been occasionally sighted in directions for
punched-card vote tabulators long after it passed out of live use among
computer programmers in the late 1970s. This sense of ‘chad’
returned to the mainstream during the finale of the hotly disputed
U.S. presidential election in 2000 via stories about the Florida vote
recounts. Note however that in the revived mainstream usage chad is not a
mass noun and ‘a chad’ is a single piece of the stuff.
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. CHAD
A republic in central Africa, east of NIGER, west of SUDAN and south of LIBYA. Its capital is N'Djamena.
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