clean
<jargon>
1. Used of hardware or software designs, implies "elegance in the small", that is, a design or implementation that may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the outside. The antonym is "grungy" or crufty. 2. To remove unneeded or undesired files in a effort to reduce clutter: "I'm cleaning up my account." "I cleaned up the garbage and now have 100 Meg free on that partition." [Jargon File]
Last updated: 1994-12-12
Nearby terms:
Clausal Language ♦ clause ♦ Clean ♦ clean ♦ cleanroom ♦ CLEAR ♦ clear box testing
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