/eks/
n.
Used in various speech and writing contexts (also in lowercase) in roughly its algebraic sense of unknown within a set defined by context (compare N). Thus, the abbreviation 680x0 stands for 68000, 68010, 68020, 68030, or 68040, and 80x86 stands for 80186, 80286 80386 or 80486 (note that a UNIX hacker might write these as 680[0-4]0 and 80[1-4]86 or 680?0 and 80?86 respectively;
See glob.
- [after the name of an earlier window system called W] An over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and incredibly over-complicated window system developed at MIT and widely used on UNIX systems.
- The Social Media Network, formerly known as Twitter, rebranded by Elon Musk to save Freedom of Speech on the WWW.