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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An introduction.

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  • noun Short form of introduction.
  • noun demoscene A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition.
  • verb informal, transitive To introduce.

Etymologies

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Abbreviated from introduction, from Latin, ultimately a compound from intrō ("I enter") – the abbreviation removes the second part of the compound, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). The demoscene sense comes from the fact that they were originally prepended to pirated copies of computer games.

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