English Dictionary: Klatscheinfluss | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Kaleidoscope \Ka*lei"do*scope\, n. [Gr. [?] beautiful + [?] form + -scope.] An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design. Shifting like the fragments of colored glass in the kaleidoscope. --G. W. Cable. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Kaleidoscopic \Ka*lei`do*scop"ic\, Kaleidoscopical \Ka*lei`do*scop"ic*al\, a. Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a kaleidoscope; variegated. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Kaleidoscopic \Ka*lei`do*scop"ic\, Kaleidoscopical \Ka*lei`do*scop"ic*al\, a. Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a kaleidoscope; variegated. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Keltic \Kelt"ic\, a. & n. Same as {Celtic}, a. & n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Celtic \Celt"ic\, a. [L. Celticus, Gr. [?]. See {Celt}.] Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue. [Written also {Keltic}.] | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Kahlotus, WA (city, FIPS 34575) Location: 46.64362 N, 118.55240 W Population (1990): 167 (90 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Kaltag, AK (city, FIPS 37430) Location: 64.33862 N, 158.68617 W Population (1990): 240 (74 housing units) Area: 56.6 sq km (land), 12.9 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99748 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Keltys, TX Zip code(s): 75901 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Koeltztown, MO Zip code(s): 65048 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
kludge 1. /klooj/ n. Incorrect (though regrettably common) spelling of {kluge} (US). These two words have been confused in American usage since the early 1960s, and widely confounded in Great Britain since the end of World War II. 2. [TMRC] A {crock} that works. (A long-ago "Datamation" article by Jackson Granholme similarly said: "An ill-assorted collection of poorly matching parts, forming a distressing whole.") 3. v. To use a kludge to get around a problem. "I've kludged around it for now, but I'll fix it up properly later." This word appears to have derived from Scots `kludge' or `kludgie' for a common toilet, via British military slang. It apparently became confused with U.S. {kluge} during or after World War II; some Britons from that era use both words in definably different ways, but {kluge} is now uncommon in Great Britain. `Kludge' in Commonwealth hackish differs in meaning from `kluge' in that it lacks the positive senses; a kludge is something no Commonwealth hacker wants to be associated too closely with. Also, `kludge' is more widely known in British mainstream slang than `kluge' is in the U.S. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Kaleidoscope {imperative} and {constraint}-oriented features. Kaleidoscope was written by Freeman-Benson of the {University of Washington}, {Universite de Nantes}, 1989; {University of Victoria}, 1992. It is similar to {Siri} and vaguely related to {Prose}. Versions: Kaleidoscope '90 and Kaleidoscope '91. ["Kaleidoscope: Mixing Objects, Constraints and Imperative Programming", B.N. Freeman-Benson, SIGPLAN Notices 25(10):77-88 (OOPSLA/ECOOP '90) (Oct 1990)]. ["Constraint Imperative Programming", B.N. Freeman-Benson, Ph.D. Thesis, TR 91-07-02, U Wash (1991)]. ["Constraint Imperative Programming", Freeman-Benson et al, IEEE Conf on Comp Lang, Apr 1992]. (1994-11-09) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics Address: Russian Academy of Sciences Miusskaya Pl. 4, 125047 Moscow, Russia. (1994-12-12) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
kludge outside toilet) A Scottish engineering term for anything added in an ad hoc (and possibly unhygenic!) manner. At some point during the Second World War, Scottish engineers met Americans and the meaning, spelling and pronunciation of kludge became confused with that of "{kluge}". The spelling "kludge" was apparently popularised by the "Datamation" cited below which defined it as "An ill-assorted collection of poorly matching parts, forming a distressing whole." The result of this tangled history is a mess; in 1993, many (perhaps even most) hackers pronounce the word /klooj/ but spell it "kludge" (compare the pronunciation drift of {mung}). Some observers consider this appropriate in view of its meaning. ["How to Design a Kludge", Jackson Granholme, Datamation, February 1962, pp. 30-31]. [{Jargon File}] (1998-12-09) |