blivet

The usage of blivet for a fuel container is still current.

The word blivet is sometimes used as a kadigan.

In its most common usage, the word "blivet" refers to an indecipherable figure, illustrated above.

An understandable psychological blivet, under the circumstances."

Among computer programmers, a blivet refers to any embarrassing glitch that pops up during a customer demonstration.

Early versions of Adobe Photoshop used a blivet on the plugin icon.

In Naval Aviation, a blivet is the common term for an external baggage container carried on any aircraft.

A blivet, also known as a poiuyt, devil's fork or widget, is an undecipherable figure, an optical illusion and an impossible object.

Blivet (or Devil's tuning fork)

'So when a Raman needs a left-handed blivet, he punches out the correct code number, and a copy is manufactured from the pattern in here.'

All my incidental studies about trees, and I never split a single blivet of-" "Billet, ma'am," he said quickly.

Asked to define "interface," the juror said: "Well, if you take a blivet, turn it off one thing and drop it down, it's an interface change, right?"

Each time that he had pressed his finger down on the pickle switch, it had been a concrete blivet that dropped out the botab bay doors.

For those who are not up on the vernacular of a prior generation, I should explain that a blivet is a five-pound container with ten pounds of excrement.

In the United States Unmanned Aerial Systems community (specifically Shadow UAS) a blivet is a tool used to test the system's launcher to ensure proper functionality.

In The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror VIII", a blivet (or devil's tuning fork) can be seen on Professor Frink's yard sale.

A trapeze-like structure in place of the refueling boom which was used to trail an aerodynamic shape housing a specialized receiver array (colloquially known as a "blivet") on a wire was installed.

Other examples include the Three-legged blivet and artist M. C. Escher's artwork and the appearance of flashing marquee lights moving first one direction and then suddenly the other.

In December 1968 American optical designer and artist Roger Hayward wrote "Blivets: Research and Development" for The Worm Runner's Digest in which he presented interpretations of the blivet.

In various United States Air Force communities (e.g. Strategic Air Command), blivet may have referred to what are euphemistically called "Special Weapons" whose presence are officially neither confirmed nor denied.

The magazine dubbed it the "Mad poiuyt" after the six rightmost letter keys on a QWERTY keyboard in reverse order, not realizing that the existing image was already known to engineers and usually called a blivet.

During the Vietnam War, a heavy rubber bladder in which aviation fuel or POL (petroleum, oil, and lubricants) was transported was known as a blivet, as was anything which, once unpacked, could not be replaced in its container.