/i-ˈsen(t)-shəl/
n. Things necessary to maintain a productive and secure hacking environment.
"A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, a 20-megahertz 80386 box with 8 meg of core and a 300-megabyte disk supporting full UNIX with source and X windows and EMACS and UUCP via a 'blazer to a friendly Internet site, and thou."