raft

name

1. Acronym of reliable, replicated, redundant, and fault-tolerant, a consensus algorithm.

   “For leader election only the reachable manager nodes are included for Raft consensus.”

noun

Etymology: Alteration of raff.

1. A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.

   “1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Pomeroy asked me a raft of factual-type questions (how old were you when you began menstruating? did you ever see your parents having intercourse? did you have many friends in high school? how was your relationship with your father?). It seemed he had a written questionnaire & checked off answers as I have them.”

   “Among those arrested was the grand master himself, Jacques de Molay, who found himself facing a raft of charges based on the specious evidence of former knights [...].”

verb

1. simple past and past participle of reave

   “Colin Clout raft me of his brother”