meaning of pistol
1. pistol [IBM] A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. "Unix "rm *" makes such a nice pistol!" [Jargon File] PIT Language for IBM 650. See IT. PITA Pain in the arse/ass. pixel picture element pixmap Contraction of "pixel map". A 3 dimensional array of bits corresponding to a 2 dimensional array of pixels. It is used, for example, in the X Window System to describe a memory region where graphics can be drawn without affecting the screen. Typically this is used for the efficient handling of expose events, icon images or for animation. Compare bitmap. [Xlib Guide]. pizza box [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in especially Sun desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two megabyte single-platter removable disk packs used to be called pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. Its an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is. [Jargon File] PJPEG Progressive JPEG pk
2. a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
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