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Cover of the comic book "THE SHMOO" The plot takes its name from the Shmoo, a fictional species created by Al Capp in the cartoon Li'l Abner.These small, blob-like creatures have shapes similar to the "working" volumes that would be enclosed by shmoo plots drawn against three independent variables (such as voltage, temperature, and response speed).
The origin of Capp's word "shmoo" has been the subject of linguistic consideration by scholars for decades.. It has been speculated by that shmoo was a thinly veiled phallic symbol, and that the name derives from Yiddish schmuck meaning ‘male genitalia’ or a ‘fool, contemptuous person’ (Arthur Asa Berger and Allan H. Orrick of Johns Hopkins).
Shmoo plot : In electrical engineering, a shmoo plot is a graphical display of the response of a component or system varying over a range of conditions and inputs. Often used to represent the results of the testing of complex electronic systems such as computers, ASICs or microprocessors.
Shmoo is a cartoon character created by Al Capp in the strip Li'l Abner. Shmoo or Schmoo may refer to: Shmoos, nickname of the Cosmic Ray Detection Units of CHICOS (California High School Cosmic Ray Observatory) Shmoo plot, an electrical engineering graphical display of the response of a component or system
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The most common form of core memory, X/Y line coincident-current, used for the main memory of a computer, consists of a large number of small toroidal ferrimagnetic ceramic ferrites (cores) held together in a grid structure (organized as a "stack" of layers called planes), with wires woven through the holes in the cores' centers.
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Joe Shmoe (also spelled Joe Schmoe and Joe Schmo), meaning "Joe Anybody", or no one in particular, is a commonly used fictional name in American English. Adding a "Shm" to the beginning of a word is meant to diminish, negate, or dismiss an argument (for instance, "Rain, shmain, we've got a game to play").