presto : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: presto	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for presto
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
presto adv suddenly; "Presto! begone! 'tis here again"- Swift at a very fast tempo (faster than allegro) adj (of tempo) very fast
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Presto \Pres"to\, adv. [It. or Sp. presto quick, quickly. See {Prest}, a.] 1. Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly. Presto! begone! 'tis here again. --Swift. 2. (Mus.) Quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick, lively movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or any rate of time except prestissimo.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Presto, PA Zip code(s): 15142
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PRESTO A parallel language for shared-memory multiprocessors, built on top of C++ by Bershad et al, U Washington 1987. PRESTO provides {class}es for {thread}s and {spinlock}s as well as {Mesa}-style {monitor}s and {condition variable}s. {(ftp://cs.washington.edu/pub/presto1.0.tar.Z)}. E-mail: . ["PRESTO: A Kernel for Parallel Programming Environments", B.N. Bershad et al, U Wash CS TR, Jan 1987].