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English Dictionary: LAVA by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lava
n
  1. rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lava \La"va\, n. [It. lava lava, orig. in Naples, a torrent of
      rain overflowing the streets, fr. It. & L. lavare to wash.
      See {Lave}.]
      The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured
      sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It
      also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms
      beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern
      United States.
  
      Note: Lavas are classed, according to their structure, as
               scoriaceous or cellular, glassy, stony, etc., and
               according to the material of which they consist, as
               doleritic, trachytic, etc.
  
      {Lava millstone}, a hard and coarse basaltic millstone from
            the neighborhood of the Rhine.
  
      {Lava ware}, a kind of cheap pottery made of iron slag cast
            into tiles, urns, table tops, etc., resembling lava in
            appearance.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   LAVA
  
      A language for {VLSI} that deals with "sticks", i.e. wires
      represented as lines with thickness.
  
      ["A Target Language for Silicon Compilers", R.J. Matthews et
      al, IEEE COMPCON, 1982, pp. 349-353].
  
      (1994-12-07)
  
  
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