Latex

[Sarah]

A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (calledlatex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles ofthe plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instancesyields caoutchouc upon coagulation.

[Sarah]

Thin rubber material most commonly associated with sexual fetishes, in particular BDSM. Common clothing items might include: tight leggings, corsets, mini-dress' etc... Whilst most commonly found in black, latex can come in any colour. This material is slightly stretchy (although it can tear easily), is photosensitive (so should be kept out of sunlight) and should be oiled before each use with special latex oil to give it that glossy shine.

[Sarah]

A typesetting program often used by mathematicians to write documents and proofs. It has many libraries that contain pretty much all symbols used for math, including ways to write sums and limits. The coded text is converted into a pdf document for viewing. The name can be distinguished from the rubber latex by capitalization of the L, T and X in the word.

[Sarah]

pronounced extremely unintuitively as luh-tek

A horrible/awesome document markup language. You can make your scientific documents and mathematical proofs look flawless at the small cost of several tedious hours per page (no exaggeration.) This time is usually spent googling how to do simple things like align text or figures. Often, the exact same problem has been posted in forums by equally frustrated individuals across the globe who also can't seem to figure out what should be intuitive but instead involves including some random package in your document's preamble. The problem with LaTeX is that the result is so great that once you start to use it and decide it is totally not worth the time, it's too late and you are in love with the pretty equations it can make and it devours your time (because you had lots of free time as a physics/engineering/grad student?) Now you can stay late at night in your office to work on papers and proofs. However you will likely get frustrated and distract yourself from preparing said documents, and end up browsing sites like [The Chive] and writing lengthy [urban dictionary] definitions.... oh wait.

[Monty]

a white liquid produced by many plants, especially rubber trees, or a rubber-like substance made from this or from plastic, used in making clothes, paint, glue, etc.: