1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which something is
bogus. Bogosity is measured with a
bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says
something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say My
bogometer just triggered
. More extremely, You just pinned
my bogometer
means you just said or did something so outrageously
bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest
possible reading (one might also say You just redlined my
bogometer
). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the
microLenat.
2. The potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter, bogus.