The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in
two flavors, the righteous and the reluctant. Righteous
featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program
would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an
equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not
quite the same thing as removing a {misfeature}.) Reluctant
featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such
as code size or execution speed.
[glossary]