datagram
verbEtymology From data + -gram.
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Empty gloss, No gloss, Rare (rare)
- The Modifiable Data Base is a very nice system and is, generally, highly recommended* It is memory dependent and, once formated,^([sic]) (datagrammed) is not changeable.1981 October, Alfred R. Dixon Jr., “Data Base Management”, in Terry Tufts, editor, The Harvest, volume 3, number 2, Arlington Heights, Ill.: Northern Illinois Apple Users Group, →OCLC, page 13, column 1:
- >* How does the dispatch station know where the trains are? Is it >just by the engineer notifying them, or is it done by some computerized >system in the track? Varies. Most common is by track circuits, in which the train indicates occupancy of a "block" by shorting the rails together. This gets "datagrammed" to the CTC center. (short hand, simplified description).1992 July 31, Dave Pierson, “Uploads to wuarchive.wustl.edu”, in rec.railroad (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Jun 2025:
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- the crowd mills about datagrammed packets flowing without words to say.1999 October 30, Decklin Foster, “[haiku] nyc right about now.”, in alt.teens.poetry.and.stuff (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Jun 2025: