<jargon> What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a
particular program because it never works for anyone else;
especially used when nobody can ever see what the guru is
doing different from what J. Random Luser does.
Compare incantation, runes, examining the entrails; also
see theAI koan about Tom Knight.
(1997-12-26)
Cipher runes
CRYPTOGRAPHICAL REPLACEMENT OF THE LETTERS OF THE RUNIC ALPHABET
Continuous casting, also called strand casting, is the process whereby molten metal is solidified into a "semifinished" billet, bloom, or slab for subsequent rolling in the finishing mills. Prior to the introduction of continuous casting in the 1950s, steel was poured into stationary molds to form ingots.