priority

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(idea) by Valarin (?) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:11:22

In essence, when something is going to be done, or how important it is. Used to talk about everything from processes in Unix to morals and life-related goals.

(thing) by RimRod (9 hr) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Jan 10 2001 at 5:39:45

An important term in modern fencing.

If, when regulation time expires in a fencing bout, the score is tied, then "priority" is given to one of the fencers through a simple game of chance (usually just flipping a coin). Then, a one minute overtime period is fenced. If a single touch is scored by either fencer during overtime, than that fencer is the winner. But, if neither fencer score a deciding touch by the end of the one minute, then the fencer with priority wins the bout.

Screwy, no? I personally think that priority is a ridiculously silly rule. Go to double or triple overtime if necessary, because losing a close match because of the flip of a coin absolutely sucks and is no measure of one fencer's superiority over the other.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:14:36

Pri*or"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. priorit'e. See Prior, a.]

The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.

Precedence; superior rank.

Shak.

Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.

Syn. -- Antecedence; precedence; preeminence.

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chaos

renice	priority inversion	CPU scheduling	HDD
priorities	Red Route	Fencing	prior
How video game music is created	The Prison House of Language	statutory bar	lottery scheduling
The Copenhagen Consensus	functionalist	Hamburger Helper	randomized algorithm
moral	abbr	United States	The State of Trade in Anatolia
Markan Priority	Programmer Hell	pre	Carl Heine

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