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/pres`t*-di"j*-ti:-zay"sh*n/ 1. A term coined by Daniel Klein for the act of putting something into digital notation via sleight of hand.

["Open Channel", IEEE "Computer", November 1981].

2. Data entry through legerdemain.

[Jargon File]

(1994-11-01)