lobectomy

n : surgical removal of a lobe from any organ of the body (as

the lung or brain)

lobotomy

1. What a hacker subjected to formal management training is

said to have undergone. At {IBM} and elsewhere this term is

used by both hackers and low-level management; the latter

doubtless intend it as a joke.

2. The act of removing the processor from a {microcomputer} in

order to replace or upgrade it. Some very cheap {clone}

systems are sold in "lobotomised" form - everything but the

brain.

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