The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
bogosity
/boh?go's@?tee/, n.
1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which something is bogus.
Bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says
something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say ?My bogometer just
triggered?. More extremely, ?You just pinned my bogometer? means you just
said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale,
pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might
also say ?You just redlined my bogometer?). The agreed-upon unit of
bogosity is the microLenat.
2. The potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum
bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter, bogus.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
bogosity
/boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in
the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with
a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something
bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer
just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my
bogometer" means you just said or did something so
outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the
bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might
also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon
unit of bogosity is the microLenat.
Also, the potential field generated by a bogon flux; see
quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon
filter.
(2002-04-14)