English Dictionary: Xiphias | by the DICT Development Group |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Xebec \Xe"bec\ (z[emac]"b[ecr]k), n. [Sp. jabegue, formerly spelt xabeque, or Pg. xabeco; both from Turk. sumbeki a kind of Asiatic ship; cf. Per. sumbuk, Ar. sumb[umac]k a small ship.] (Naut.) A small three-masted vessel, with projecting bow stern and convex decks, used in the Mediterranean for transporting merchandise, etc. It carries large square sails, or both. Xebecs were formerly armed and used by corsairs. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Xbase Generic term for the {dBASE} family of {database} languages. Coined in response to threatened litigation over use of the copyrighted trademark "dBASE." | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
XPC eXplicitly Parallel C. A dialect of {Parallel C} which is efficiently compilable to both {SIMD} and {MIMD} architectures. Only research implementations exist. ["Toward Semantic Self-Consistency in Explicitly Parallel Languages," M.J. Phillip & H.G. Dietz, Proc 4th Intl Conf on Supercomputing, Santa Clara, CA, May 1989, v.1, pp.398-407]. (1994-12-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
XPG {X/open Portability Guide} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
XPG3 Version 3 of the {X/open Portability Guide}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
XVGA {eXtended Video Graphics Array} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Xy-pic diagrams using {TeX}. It is structured as several modules, each defining a custom notation for a particular kind of graphical object or structure. Example objects are arrows, curves, and frames. These can be organised in matrix, {directed graph}, path, polygon, knot, and 2-cell structure. Xy-pic works with {LaTeX}, {AMS-LaTeX}, {AMS-TeX}, and {plain TeX}, and has been used to typeset complicated diagrams from many application areas including {category theory}, {automata} theory, {algebra}, {neural networks} and {database} theory. {Home (http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/Xy-pic.html)}. (1997-11-20) |