(thing) by Frater 219 Sat Nov 18 2000 at 22:45:21

A humorous term for the bit of electronic wizardry otherwise known as an oscilloscope. The name comes from the wiggly lines on the screen, and from the fact that the Latin verb oscillare literally means "to wiggle".

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