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buzz
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buzz [bəz]
(aerospace engineering)
Sustained oscillation of an aerodynamic control surface caused by intermittent flow separation on the surface, or by a motion of shock waves across the surface, or by a combination of flow separation and shock-wave motion on the surface.
(control systems)
(electronics)
The condition of a combinatorial circuit with feedback that has undergone a transition, caused by the inputs, from an unstable state to a new state that is also unstable.
(fluid mechanics)
In supersonic diffuser aerodynamics, a nonsteady shock motion and airflow associated with the shock system ahead of the inlet.

1.buzz - Of a program, to run with no indication of progress and perhaps without guarantee of ever finishing; especially said of programs thought to be executing a tight loop of code. A program that is buzzing appears to be catatonic, but never gets out of catatonia, while a buzzing loop may eventually end of its own accord. "The program buzzes for about 10 seconds trying to sort all the names into order." See spin; see also grovel.
2.buzz - [ETA Systems] To test a wire or printed circuit trace for continuity by applying an AC rather than DC signal. Some wire faults will pass DC tests but fail a buzz test.
3.buzz - To process an array or list in sequence, doing the same thing to each element. "This loop buzzes through the tz array looking for a terminator type."


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He then went over the two-minute time limit for speech and was buzzed off by Garcetti, who recommended that Wiseman and other speakers avail themselves of the service of council ambassadors and the Chief Legislative Analyst's Office if they had additional questions.
``In Piedmont, I was buzzed off the road by a woman in a police car, and I was going the speed limit,'' DeLong said.
 
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