noun, adjective, verb, scrapped, scrap⋅ping.| 1. | a small piece or portion; fragment: a scrap of paper. |
| 2. | scraps,
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| 3. | a detached piece of something written or printed: scraps of poetry. |
| 4. | an old, discarded, or rejected item or substance for use in reprocessing or as raw material, as old metal that can be melted and reworked. |
| 5. | chips, cuttings, fragments, or other small pieces of raw material removed, cut away, flaked off, etc., in the process of making or manufacturing an item. |
| 6. | consisting of scraps or fragments. |
| 7. | existing in the form of fragments or remnants of use only for reworking, as metal. |
| 8. | discarded or left over. |
| 9. | to make into scraps or scrap; break up: to scrap old cars. |
| 10. | to discard as useless, worthless, or ineffective: He urged that we scrap the old method of teaching mathematics. |
SCRAP
Something written at CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa in the late 1970s. It ran on Interdata and Perkin-Elmer computers and was in use until the late 1980s.
[But what was it?]
(1994-12-15)