placebo

n 1: an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to

the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a

drug

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PLACE

Programming Language for Automatic Checkout Equipment.

["The Compiler for the Programming Language for Automatic

Checkout Equipment (PLACE)", AFAPL TR-68-27, Battelle Inst,

Columbus, May 1968].