wastage

n 1: the process of wasting

2: anything lost by wear or waste

massage

Vague term used to describe "smooth" transformations of a data

set into a different form, especially transformations that do

not lose information. Connotes less pain than {munch} or

{crunch}. "He wrote a program that massages {X bitmap} files

into {GIF} format." Compare {slurp}.

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