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scrap

a. waste material or used articles, esp metal, often collected and reprocessed

b. (as modifier): scrap iron

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scrap [skrap]

(engineering)

Any solid material cutting or reject of a manufacturing operation, which may be suitable for recycling as feedstock to the primary operation; for example, scrap from plastic or glass molding or metalworking.

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SCRAP - Something written at CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa in the late 1970s. It ran on Interdata and Perkin-Elmer computers and was in use until the late 1980s.