Tee

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tee
Usage: n. vt.
Etymology: Purdue University
Derivation: Purdue

See Also: plumbing


tee: n. vt.

[Purdue] A carbon copy of an electronic transmission. "Oh, you're sending him the bits to that? Slap on a tee for me." From the Unix command tee(1), itself named after a pipe fitting (see plumbing). Can also mean `save one for me', as in "Tee a slice for me!" Also spelled `T'.

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Source: tee, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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