bare-bones

adj

Definitions

  1. Minimalist

    Minimalist; lacking that which is not essential.

    • Meals on early space flights were bare-bones affairs; able to supply nutrition, but severely lacking in palatability.
  2. Describes a computer sold preassembled, but without certain essential components, such as…

    Describes a computer sold preassembled, but without certain essential components, such as a processor, memory, and hard drive.

    • Emil bought a bare-bones rig and a new CPU at the computer show, then popped in his old hard drive.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bare-bones. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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