mung

mung
1. noun
a) A type of small bean.
b) A type of plant cultivated for its sprouts Vigna radiata or Phaseolus aureus.
2. verb
a) To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.
b) to destroy

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  • Mung — may refer to: Mung (computer term), the act of making several incremental changes to an item that combine to destroy it. Defined as Mash until no good. Mung bean, a bean native to Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan A type of animal territory in… …   Wikipedia

  • Mung — (m[u^]ng), n. [Hind. m[=u]ng.] (Bot.) Green gram, a kind of legume (pulse) ({Vigna radiata} syn. {Phaseolus aureus}, syn. {Phaseolus Mungo}), grown for food in British India; called also {gram}, {mung bean}, {Chinese mung bean}, and {green seeded …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • MUNG — Until No Good (Medical » Human Genome) ** Mash Until No Good (Miscellaneous » Food) * Modify Until No Good (Computing » General) …   Abbreviations dictionary

  • MUNG — • Mung Until No Good http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon.html • ICAO Airportcode f. Nueva Gerona (Cuba) …   Acronyms

  • mung — 1. AND MUNG [marj] n. something that is mashed until no good; anything nasty or gloppy. (An acronym, but possibly a coinage before it became an acronym.) □ Get this mung off my plate. □ This mung is cruel and unusual punishment. I demand to see… …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • mung — n. (in full mung bean) a leguminous plant, Phaseolus aureus, native to India and used as food. Etymology: Hindi mung …   Useful english dictionary

  • mung — acronym. Mash until no good; to change something so that it no longer works properly. Example Citation: Reports from Usenet suggest that the pronunciation /muhnj/ is now usual in speech, but the spelling mung is still common in program comments… …   New words

  • MUNG — [1] Mung Until No Good (http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon.html) [2] ICAO Airportcode f. Nueva Gerona ( Cuba) …   Acronyms von A bis Z

  • Mung — Dirt, grime, and similar substances. I have some sort of Mung on my shoe …   Dictionary of american slang

  • Mung — Dirt, grime, and similar substances. I have some sort of Mung on my shoe …   Dictionary of american slang

  • mung — v. make major irreversible changes; destroy, ruin n. plant native to China which produces mung beans …   English contemporary dictionary

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