demo
/de'moh/ [short for `demonstration'] 1. v. To
demonstrate a product or prototype. A far more effective way of
inducing bugs to manifest than any number of test runs,
especially when important people are watching. 2. n. The act of
demoing. "I've gotta give a demo of the drool-proof interface;
how does it work again?" 3. n. Esp. as `demo version', can
refer either to an early, barely-functional version of a program
which can be used for demonstration purposes as long as the
operator uses exactly the right commands and skirts its numerous
bugs, deficiencies, and unimplemented portions, or to a special
version of a program (frequently with some features crippled) which
is distributed at little or no cost to the user for enticement
purposes.
