munge
Pronunciation: /mʌnd͡ʒ/
The English word “munge” has 3 meanings listed here.
verb
- To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner, as for example when data wrangling requires nonsystemic or nonsystematic edits.
- To add a spamblock to (an email address).
- To corrupt a record about a person by erroneously merging in information about another person.
Etymology
Variant of mung; likely a misconstructed back-formation from munging, munged or munger.
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