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under the hood: adj. [hot-rodder talk] 1. Used to introduce the underlying implementation of a product
(hardware, software, or idea). Implies that the implementation is not
intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable
the listener to grok it. “Let's now look
under the hood to see how ....” 2. Can also imply that the implementation is much simpler than the
appearance would indicate: “Under the hood, we are just fork/execing
the shell.” 3. Inside a chassis, as in “Under the hood, this baby has a
40MHz 68030!”
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