Gemware

Gems being used in a functional way such as marking a piece of stemware for personal identification in a group or as a necklace to hold eyewear around the neck.

The base of the champagne stem was adorned with a gemstone wire charm called gemware.

by Wordametologist October 23, 2011

gelware

The stuff between your ears that does the same thing as hardware and software

I didn't have my computer handy, so I did that calculation in gelware.

by anon 7 January 5, 2009

gelware

A slang term for "soft hardware," digital electronic circuits that are programmed into a reconfigurable logic device such as a field-programmable gate array (FPGA).

Nuby: Should we create a custom chip for this design?
Guru: Nah, too expensive.
Nuby: Well, then let's just run it in software.
Guru: That won't perform fast enough.
Nuby: Well, what then?
Guru: We do in gelware, of course!

by drthanos2 October 8, 2010

gumware

Software that is like the underside of an old school desk's, gum stalactites—layer upon layer of contributions, some fresh, some fossilized, all stuck together in a way that mostly holds but isn’t exactly clean or intentional

Our poor software engineers had to deal with using a lot of gumware third-part libraries to make the application functional.

by concernedev January 29, 2025