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barfulous /bar'fyoo-l*s/ adj.

(alt. `barfucious', /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make

anyone barf, if only for esthetic reasons.

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barn n.

[uncommon; prob. from the nuclear military] An unexpectedly large

quantity of something: a unit of measurement. "Why is /var/adm taking

up so much space?" "The logs have grown to several barns." The source

of this is clear: when physicists were first studying nuclear

interactions, the probability was thought to be proportional to the

cross-sectional area of the nucleus (this probability is still called

the cross-section). Upon experimenting, they discovered the

interactions were far more probable than expected; the nuclei were `as

big as a barn'. The units for cross-sections were christened Barns,

(10^-24 cm^2) and the book containing cross-sections has a picture of

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