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🌱 A green seed 🌿 A bean plant 💻 To clean data
to mung

to mung

9.9
To clean and change messy computer data so it is ready for use
  • verb
  • /mʌŋ/
  • Jargon
translation icon : procesar
  • I would like to mung the input files to ensure they are clean and ready for processing.

Examples

  • Oh, I munged it with the I munched it with the actual jaws of the drill.

  • Before analyzing the data, we need to mung it to remove any unnecessary information.

  • It doesn't look like any of these parts have been crashed or munged, and many of the surfaces, while old, are still actually pretty darn great.

  • Also, if you don't like my attitude, you should try this website that I have been following for over ten years (will mung URL since there is a limit of two): dub dub dub dot **32;4306;TOOLONG.

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  • She used a script to mung the raw logs into a more readable format.

Compounds

mung bean
2 3.4

A small green bean from Asia that people cook or grow into sprouts

mung bean plant
3.2

A bushy plant grown in warm places for edible seeds and bean sprouts

How Thorough

to transform
  • Specialized
7 5.6
to mung
  • Jargon
9.9
to edit
337 1.5

Surface Forms

mung infinitive
munged past
munged past participle
munging present participle
mungs third person singular

Etymology

Mung as a computing verb began in programmer slang to mean repeatedly changing or messing up data, and a playful phrase used to remember it is 'Mash Until No Good'. So to mung data is to clean, change, or reshape it, often in a rough or experimental way.