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nuke /n[y]ook/ vt.
1. To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given rectory or storage volume. "On UNIX,`rm -r /usr' Kill nuke everything in the usr filesystem." Never used for accidental deletion. Oppose blow away}.
2. Syn. for {dike}, applied to smaller things such as files, features, or code sections. Often used to express a final verdict. "What do you want me to do with that 80-meg {wallpaper} file?" "Nuke it."
3. Used of processes as well as files; nuke is a frequent verbal alias for `kill -9' on UNIX.
4. On IBM PCs, a bug that results in {fandango on core} can trash the operating system, including the FAT (the in-core copy of the disk block chaining information). This can utterly scramble attached disks, which are then said to have been `nuked'. This term is also used of analogous lossages on Macintoshes and other micros without memory protection.
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