fortune 5
noundomain: communication
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EnglishDefinition
(computing) A quotation, item of trivia, joke, or maxim selected at random from a collection (the "cookie file") and printed to the user's tty at login time or (less commonly) at logout time.
Examples
- 1.Like Arnold’s fortune program, this version uses a database of fortunes (the fortune cookie database) generated from a text file.
Synonyms
- fortune cookie 2
(computing) A quotation, item of trivia, joke, or maxim selected at random from a collection (the "cookie file") and printed to the user's tty at login time or (less commonly) at logout time.
