EDISON : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: EDISON	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for EDISON
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Edison n United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931) Synonym(s): Edison, Thomas Edison, Thomas Alva Edison
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Edison, GA (city, FIPS 26448) Location: 31.56072 N, 84.73807 W Population (1990): 1182 (482 housing units) Area: 6.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31746 Edison, NE (village, FIPS 14520) Location: 40.27759 N, 99.77569 W Population (1990): 148 (104 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68936 Edison, NJ (CDP, FIPS 20260) Location: 40.52877 N, 74.36929 W Population (1990): 88680 (32832 housing units) Area: 78.2 sq km (land), 1.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 08817, 08820, 08837 Edison, OH (village, FIPS 24598) Location: 40.55806 N, 82.86355 W Population (1990): 488 (163 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 43320
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Edison 1. (Named after the American inventor Thomas Edison (1847-1931)) A simplified Pascal by Per Brinch Hansen with {modules} and {concurrency} (cobegin/coend). ["Edison - A Multiprocessor Language", P. Brinch Hansen, CS Dept, USC, Sep 1980]. ["Programming a Personal Computer", Brinch Hansen, P-H 1977]. 2. A language which adds an {OPS5}-like {rete}-based {production system} system to {C}. It is implemented as a {C} {preprocessor}. ["Edison, A Unix and C Friendly Rete Based Production System", B. Thirion, SIGPLAN Notices 27(1):75-84 (Jan 1992)]. (1994-12-08)