Bogosity

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  bogosity /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 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}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  bogosity
       
          /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in
          the hackish sense of "bad".  At CMU, 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}.
       
          Also, the potential field generated by a {bogon flux}; see
          {quantum bogodynamics}.  See also {bogon flux}, {bogon
          filter}.
       
          (2002-04-14)