May 15, 2003

massage

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[common] Vague term used to describe ‘smooth’ transformations of a data set into a different form, esp. transformations that do not lose information. Connotes less pain than munch or crunch. He wrote a program that massages X bitmap files into GIF format. Compare slurp.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:39 AM

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