big iron
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Definition of big iron words
- noun Technical meaning of big iron (jargon) (Or "heavy metal [Cambridge]) Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. The term implies approval, in contrast to "dinosaur". 1
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- Words starting with b
- Words starting with bi
- Words starting with big
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