Allochronism

Denies the simultaneous existence of the ethnographic object and the subject (observer and observed), and thus, represents the placement of the object in another time. Coined by anthropologist Johannes Fabian in "Time and the Other"

The perception of primitive art in the Western context has many moral-aesthetic dilemmas, that upon investigation can help use to understand native aesthetic allochronisms in ourselves and the Other.

Allochronism by rfpotter December 4, 2010

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Autochthon American

The original people of the “Americas” (A-Mu-Rica), but not the Mongoloid people we see as “Native Americans” today, these people were black people, black people are the original Native Americans, but they were before the “so called” Native Americans, so therefore they’re called the “Autochthon Americans”, one known example is the Luzia Woman.

Student:“Who were the first Native Americans?”

Teacher:“No, who the Autochthon Americans, and they were Black people.”

Autochthon American by Mbwa April 14, 2022

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File Allocation Table

A file allocation table (FAT) is a file system developed for hard drives that originally used 12 or 16 bits for each cluster entry into the file allocation table. It is used by the operating system (OS) to manage files on hard drives and other computer systems.

-www.techopedia.com

MS-DOS is ment to be installed on to a partition with the File Allocation Table

File Allocation Table by xxxman360 June 24, 2017

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allocation

Noun. Term used amongst organised drug dealers. It means the territory which they have been given to spread the drugs around. Very commonly used in suburban England and Australia.

"12 ks of coke, my friend."
"Oh yeah? I suppose your allocation's Armadale then."
"Spot on!"

allocation by Alex Quantashassle April 21, 2005