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Mung

Mung \Mung\ (m[u^]ng), n. [Hind. m[=u]ng.] (Bot.) Green gram, a kind of legume (pulse) ( Vigna radiata syn. Phaseolus aureus, syn. Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food in British India; called also gram, mung bean, Chinese mung bean, and green-seeded mung bean. It is an erect, bushy annual producing edible green or yellow seeds, and edible pods and young sprouts.
--Balfour (Cyc. of India).

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mung

Etymology 1 n. 1 A type of small bean. 2 The mung bean, cultivated for its sprouts, ''Vigna radiata'' or (taxlink Phaseolus aureus species noshow=1). Etymology 2

vb. 1 (context computing informal English) To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original dat

  1. 2 (context by extension informal English) to destroy

WordNet
mung

n. erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus [syn: mung bean, green gram, golden gram, Vigna radiata, Phaseolus aureus]

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Mung (computer term)

Mung or munge is computer jargon for a series of potentially destructive or irrevocable changes to a piece of data or a file. It is sometimes used for vague data transformation steps that are not yet clear to the speaker. Common munging operations include removing punctuation or html tags, data parsing, filtering, and transformation.

The term was coined in 1958 in the Tech Model Railroad Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1960 the backronym "Mash Until No Good" was created to describe Mung, and a while after it was revised to "Mung Until No Good", making it one of the first recursive acronyms. It lived on as a recursive command in the editing language TECO.

Usages of the term appear in munged password (a strong, secure password created through character substitution), data munging (cleaning data from one "raw" form into a structured, purged one) and address munging (disguising an e-mail address).

Munging may also describe the constructive operation of tying together systems and interfaces that were not specifically designed to interoperate. Munging can also describe the processing or filtering of raw data into another form.

As the "no good" part of the acronym implies, munging often involves irrevocable destruction of data. Hence in the early text-adventure game Zork, also known as Dungeon, the user could mung an object and thereby destroy it (making it impossible to finish the game if the object was an important item).

Mung (seaweed)
Mung

Mung may refer to:

  • Mung (computer term), the act of making several incremental changes to an item that combine to destroy it
  • Mung bean, a bean native to Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan
  • Rafael Cabrera Airport (ICAO code MUNG)
  • A fouling material (a disgusting substance)
  • The common name of the brown algae Pylaiella
  • A transliteration of the Korean word 멍멍, an onomatopoeia for bark (dog)
  • MUNG, acronym of Military University Nueva Granada

In fiction:

  • Mung, Lord of all Deaths, a god in Lord Dunsany's short story collection The Gods of Pegāna
  • Mung Daal, a character in the cartoon series Chowder
  • Mung the Inconceivable, a member of the Warbound, appearing in Hulk comics
  • Mung, Lord Dregg's second-in-command in the cartoon series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Usage examples of "mung".

If we had about six jars of beans sprouting then we could rotate them and have something different every day: things like mung beans, aduki beans, fenugreek and chick peas.

Which stands as the leading question of the year, because Munger rummaged around in the folds of his toga and came up with a Mistral coagulator, which he then pointed at my head.

The firelight gleamed from the polished skin of Duodecimus Munger, who had doffed the formal toga and assumed the simple loincloth of the jungle.

I had all that time to sit there, trying to figure out where Munger was making those duplicate bills, and what was so important about that tree.

If I could have gotten loose somehow, I would have grabbed my gun, which Munger now had strapped to his waist, and shot that berserk drummer before even thinking about making a break for it.

Neither Munger nor I were in a mood for small talk or pleasant conversation by that time.

It is nearly identical with the language still spoken in Tirhut, the ancient Mithili, and in Munger and Bhagalpur, the ancient Magadha, than modern Bengali.

Edward Avery, Toyo Biddle, Loren Bussert, Yee Chang, Eric Crystal, Paul DeLay, Timothy Dunnigan, Francesca Farr, Tim Gordon, Glenn Hendricks, Marc Kaufman, Sue Levy, Blia Yao Moua, Dang Moua, Ron Munger, George Schreider, Peter Vang, Jonas Vangay, Doug Vincent, John Xiong, and May Ying Xiong provided helpful background information.

Professor Strickler, who taught Hebrew, and Professor Munger, who taught Homiletics, each of whom had been trying for years to discredit the other in the opinion of the parsons over a region five hundred miles in diameter.

If we had about six jars of beans sprouting then we could rotate them and have something different every day: things like mung beans, aduki beans, fenugreek and chick peas.

It is nearly identical with the language still spoken in Tirhut, the ancient Mithili, and in Munger and Bhagalpur, the ancient Magadha, than modern Bengali.

Plumber put the mung in a box over a heavy little gas generator that provided electricity for the tubes that emitted electrons, smiled at Sister Beatrice, and then fried her to a gloppy stain seeping through the wicker.

Like a mung bean my body stretched up toward the great grow lamp in the sky, and my case was even more significant because I continued to grow in the dark.

The jar did not, and broken glass and mung beans flew from hell to breakfast.

Done what she had to do, which was (as far as she knew) to watch her new friend Tommy get her brains broken by a jug of mung beans.