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1. (n.) shim
a thin slip or wedge of metal, wood, etc., for driving into crevices, as between machine parts to compensate for wear, or beneath bedplates, large stones, etc., to level them.
Etymology: (1715–25)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) shim
a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) shim
a kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds
2. (noun) shim
a thin piece of metal placed between two parts to make a fit
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. shim
1. A small piece of data inserted in order to achieve a desired
memory alignment or other addressing property. For example, the PDP-11
Unix linker, in split I&D (instructions and data) mode, inserts a
two-byte shim at location 0 in data space so that no data object will have
an address of 0 (and be confused with the C null pointer). See also
loose bytes. 2. A type of small transparent image inserted into HTML documents by
certain WYSIWYG HTML editors, used to set the spacing of elements meant to
have a fixed positioning within a TABLE or DIVision. Hackers who work on
the HTML code of such pages afterwards invariably curse these for their
crocky dependence on the particular spacing of original image file, the
editor that generated them, and the version of the browser used to view
them. Worse, they are a poorly designed kludge which
the advent of Cascading Style Sheets makes wholly unnecessary; Any fool can
plainly see that use of borders, layers and positioned elements is the
Right Thing (or would be if adequate support for CSS were more
common).
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