squirrelcide
squirrelcide noun: squirrel suicide, often with connotations of taking human equipment with it.
Noun
squirrelcide (usually uncountable, plural squirrelcides)
- Squirrel suicide, often with connotations of taking human equipment with it.
- After the second squirrelcide (which downed my laboratory's primary computer system for 4 days), SRI established a cogeneration plant that was supposed to guarantee uninterruptible power, with appropriate isolation between the standby generators and the local power utility.1994, Peter G. Neumann, Computer-Related Risks, Addison-Wesley Professional
- each of those assumptions can be vitiated by a wide variety of circumstances -- including insider misuse, penetrations that exploit design flaws and code bugs, and other forms of subversion, as well as nontolerated failures in hardware and software, power failures, interference, acts of God, and...2004, Peter G. Neumann, Principled Assuredly Trustworthy Composable Architectures
Forms of squirrelcide
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Origin of squirrelcide
From squirrel + -cide.
Questions about squirrelcide
- What does squirrelcide mean?
- Squirrelcide means squirrel suicide, often with connotations of taking human equipment with it.
- What part of speech is squirrelcide?
- Squirrelcide is a noun.
- What is the plural of squirrelcide?
- The plural of squirrelcide is squirrelcides.
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