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thick⋅et

  [thik-it]
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–noun
a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.
Origin:
bef. 1000; OE thiccet (not recorded in ME), equiv. to thicce thick + -et n. suffix

Related forms:
thick⋅et⋅ed, thick⋅et⋅y, adjective
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thick·et   (thĭk'ĭt)   
n.  

  1. A dense growth of shrubs or underbrush; a copse.

  2. Something suggestive of a dense growth of plants, as in impenetrability or thickness: "the thicket of unreality which stands between us and the facts of life" (Daniel J. Boorstin).


[Old English thiccet, from thicce, thick; see thick.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

thicket 
late O.E. þiccet, from þicce (see thick) + denominative suffix -et.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

thicket jargon
Multiple files output from some operation.
The term has been heard in use at Microsoft to describe the set of files output when Microsoft Word does "Save As a Web Page" or "Save as HTML". The process can result in a main XML or HTML file, a graphic file for each image in the original, a CSS file, etc.
This can be an issue as XML can be used as the default format in Office 2000, and document management systems can't yet cope with the relationship between the files in a thicket when checking in and out.
(2001-09-01)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Encyclopedia

thicket

a dense grove of small trees or shrubs that have grown from suckers or sprouts rather than from seed. A coppice usually results from human woodcutting activity and may be maintained by continually cutting new growth as it reaches usable size

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