Waldo : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Waldo	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Waldo
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Waldo, AL (town, FIPS 79488) Location: 33.39087 N, 86.03539 W Population (1990): 309 (115 housing units) Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Waldo, AR (city, FIPS 72350) Location: 33.35247 N, 93.29532 W Population (1990): 1495 (669 housing units) Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71770 Waldo, FL (city, FIPS 74925) Location: 29.79055 N, 82.17166 W Population (1990): 1017 (491 housing units) Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 32694 Waldo, KS (city, FIPS 74575) Location: 39.12015 N, 98.79750 W Population (1990): 57 (45 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67673 Waldo, KY Zip code(s): 41632 Waldo, OH (village, FIPS 80500) Location: 40.46159 N, 83.08557 W Population (1990): 340 (151 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 43356 Waldo, WI (village, FIPS 83100) Location: 43.67559 N, 87.94654 W Population (1990): 442 (155 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53093
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
waldo /wol'doh/ n. [From Robert A. Heinlein's story "Waldo"] 1. A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human limb. When these were developed for the nuclear industry in the mid-1940s they were named after the invention described by Heinlein in the story, which he wrote in 1942. Now known by the more generic term `telefactoring', this technology is of intense interest to NASA for tasks like space station maintenance. 2. At Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham and students), this is used instead of {foobar} as a metasyntactic variable and general nonsense word. See {foo}, {bar}, {foobar}, {quux}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
waldo /wol'doh/ [Robert A. Heinlein's story "Waldo"] 1. A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human limb. When these were developed for the nuclear industry in the mid-1940s they were named after the invention described by Heinlein in the story, which he wrote in 1942. Now known by the more generic term "telefactoring", this technology is of intense interest to NASA for tasks like space station maintenance. 2. At Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham and students), this is used instead of {foobar} as a metasyntactic variable and general nonsense word. See {foo}, {bar}, {foobar}, {quux}. [{Jargon File}]