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highly: [scientific computation] adv. The preferred modifier for
   overstating an understatement.  As in: `highly nonoptimal', the
   worst possible way to do something; `highly nontrivial', either
   impossible or requiring a major research project; `highly
   nonlinear', completely erratic and unpredictable; `highly
   nontechnical', drivel written for lusers, oversimplified to the
   point of being misleading or incorrect (compare drool-proof
   paper).  In other computing cultures, postfixing of in the
   extreme might be preferred.