| Pronunciation: | | `avu'târ
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| | Definition: | | 1. An image representing a user in a multi-user virtual reality (or VR-like, in the case of palace) space. 2. (CMU, Tektronix) root, superuser. There are quite a few unix computers on which the name of the superuser account is "avatar" rather than "root". This quirk was originated by a cmu hacker who disliked the term "superuser", and was propagated through an ex-CMU hacker at tektronix. [jargon file] |
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| | See Also: | | chat, virtual reality |
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| | Related Terms: | | angelophany, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, Buddha, catabolism, catalysis, Christophany, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, consubstantiation, disclosure, displacement, dissemination, embodiment, emergence, epiphany, evidence, evincement, exposure, expression, forthcoming, heterotopia, incarnation, indication, issuance, Jagannath, Juggernaut, Kurma, manifestation, materialization, materializing, Matsya, metabolism, metagenesis, metamorphism, metamorphosis, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, mutant, mutated form, mutation, Narsinh, occurrence, opening, Parshuram, permutation, pneumatophany, presentation, proof, publication, Rama, realization, reincarnation, revelation, rise, rising, Satanophany, showing, showing forth, sport, theophany, transanimation, transfiguration, transfigurement, transformation, transformism, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmogrification, transmutation, transposition, transubstantiation, unfolding, unfoldment, Vaman, Varah |
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