[thik-it] 
| a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice. |
| thick·et (thĭk'ĭt) n.
[Old English thiccet, from thicce, thick; see thick.] |
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)
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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