English Dictionary: poly- | by the DICT Development Group |
3 results for poly- | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Poly- \Pol"y-\ [See {Full}, a.] A combining form or prefix from Gr. poly`s, many; as, polygon, a figure of many angles; polyatomic, having many atoms; polychord, polyconic. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Poly \Po"ly\, n. [L. polium, the name of a plant, perhaps Teucrium polium, Gr. [?].] (Bot.) A whitish woolly plant ({Teucrium Polium}) of the order {Labiat[91]}, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus. [Spelt also {poley}.] {Poly mountain}. See {Poly-mountain}, in Vocabulary. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Poly developed by D.C.J. Matthews at Cambridge in the early 1980s. ["An Overview of the Poly Programming Language", D.C.J. Matthews, in Data Types and Persistence, M.P. Atkinson et al eds, Springer 1988]. 2. A language developed at Saint Andrews University, Scotland. [Software Practice & Exp, Oct 1986]. 3. A {polymorphic} language used in the referenced book. ["Polymorphic Programming Languages", David M. Harland, Ellis Horwood 1984]. (2000-11-07) |