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pedant definition - telecom
A person who puts unnecessary emphasis on minor or trivial rules or points of learning, thereby displaying a scholarship lacking in proportion or judgment. Such a display often is purely ostentatious, if occasionally fun among friends. However, one should always eschew obfuscation.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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