munge
verb/mʌnd͡ʒ/
Etymology Variant of mung; likely a misconstructed back-formation from munging, munged or munger.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Informal To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner, as for example when data wrangling requires nonsystemic or nonsystematic edits.
- As a part of the code review with the development team, notify them that you want to have these options as a part of the installation script, rather than you munging the installation scripts during deployment.2011, Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Informal To add a spamblock to (an email address).
- Munging is effective — it prevents unwanted email from reaching you by keeping your real email address out of the clutches of the address-harvesting programs.1998, Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel, Stopping spam:
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Informal To corrupt a record about a person by erroneously merging in information about another person.
- It looks like this record is munged—it has this person’s birth date, but his father’s death date.
- Derived terms
- data munging, munger