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fat fin·ger

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  1. fat fingernoun

    A supposed cause of typographical errors.

  2. Etymology: From the implication that a finger that is too fat is likely to strike a key in addition to or other than the intended one.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. fat finger

    1. To introduce a typo while editing in such a way that the resulting manglification of a configuration file does something useless, damaging, or wildly unexpected. “NSI fat-fingered their DNS zone file and took half the net down again.” 2. More generally, any typo that produces dramatically bad results.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fat finger in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fat finger in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5


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