tera-
= T =
terminak
teraflop club /te'r*-flop kluhb/ n.
[FLOP = Floating
Point Operation] A mythical association of people who consume
outrageous amounts of computer time in order to produce a few
simple pictures of glass balls with intricate ray-tracing
techniques. Caltech professor James Kajiya is said to have been
the founder. Compare Knights of the Lambda Calculus.
--Jargon File, autonoded by rescdsk.