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noun

• An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.

adjective

• Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.

  Example: My room is neat because I tidied it this morning.  She has very neat hair.

• Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.

  Example: I like my whisky neat.

• Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.

  Example: The Arbuzov reaction is performed by adding the bromide to the phosphite, neat.  The molecular beam was neat acetylene.

• With all deductions or allowances made; net.

• Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.

  Example: The front room was neat and carefully arranged for the guests.

• Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.

  Example: Having the two protagonists meet in the last act was a particularly neat touch.

• Facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity.

  Example: Courts should not reduce this case to a neat set of legal rules.

• Good, excellent, desirable.

  Example: Hey, neat convertible, man.

noun

• A bull or cow.

• Cattle collectively.