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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Marshalling | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for Marshalling | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Marshal \Mar"shal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Marshaled}or {Marshalled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Marshaling} or {Marshalling}.] 1. To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal troops or an army. And marshaling the heroes of his name As, in their order, next to light they came. --Dryden. 2. To direct, guide, or lead. Thou marshalest me the way that I was going. --Shak. 3. (Her.) To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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marshalling or more items of data into a message {buffer}, prior to transmitting that message buffer over a communication channel. The packing process not only collects together values which may be stored in non-consecutive memory locations but also converts data of different types into a standard representation agreed with the recipient of the message. (2000-06-09) | |
