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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Malleate \Mal"le*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Malleated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Malleating}.] [L. malleatus hammered, fr. malleus a hammer. See {Mall}, v. t.] To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf. | |
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Malt \Malt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Malted}: p. pr. & vb. n. {Malting}.] To make into malt; as, to malt barley. | |
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Meld \Meld\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Melded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Melding}.] [G. melden to announce.] (Card Playing) In the game of pinochle, to declare or announce for a score; as, to meld a sequence. | |
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Mellitate \Mel"li*tate\, n. [Cf. F. mellitate. See {Mellitic}.] (Chem.) A salt of mellitic acid. | |
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Melt \Melt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Melted} (obs.) p. p. {Molten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Melting}.] [AS. meltan; akin to Gr. me`ldein, E. malt, and prob. to E. smelt, v. [root]108. Cf. {Smelt}, v., {Malt}, {Milt} the spleen.] 1. To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow. 2. Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth. --Shak. For pity melts the mind to love. --Dryden. Syn: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften. | |
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Mildew \Mil"dew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mildewed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mildewing}.] To taint with mildew. He . . . mildews the white wheat. --Shak. | |
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Militate \Mil"i*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Militated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Militating}.] [L. militare, militatum, to be a soldier, fr. miles, militis, soldier.] To make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by against and with. These are great questions, where great names militate against each other. --Burke. The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor. --Gibbon. | |
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Militate \Mil"i*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Militated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Militating}.] [L. militare, militatum, to be a soldier, fr. miles, militis, soldier.] To make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by against and with. These are great questions, where great names militate against each other. --Burke. The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor. --Gibbon. | |
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Militate \Mil"i*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Militated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Militating}.] [L. militare, militatum, to be a soldier, fr. miles, militis, soldier.] To make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by against and with. These are great questions, where great names militate against each other. --Burke. The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor. --Gibbon. | |
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Militiate \Mi*li"ti*ate\, v. i. To carry on, or prepare for, war. [Obs.] --Walpole. | |
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Mill \Mill\, n. [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln, mylen; akin to D. molen, G. m[81]hle, OHG. mul[c6], mul[c6]n, Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone; prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth. malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. [root]108. See Meal flour, and cf. {Moline}.] 1. A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill. 2. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill. 3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill. 4. A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc. 5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill. 6. (Die Sinking) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. 7. (Mining) (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot. 8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under {Milling}. 9. A pugilistic. [Cant] --R. D. Blackmore. {Edge mill}, {Flint mill}, etc. See under {Edge}, {Flint}, etc. {Mill bar} (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill. {Mill cinder}, slag from a puddling furnace. {Mill head}, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill. {Mill pick}, a pick for dressing millstones. {Mill pond}, a pond that supplies the water for a mill. {Mill race}, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel. {Mill tail}, the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows. {Mill tooth}, a grinder or molar tooth. {Mill wheel}, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill. {Roller mill}, a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers. {Stamp mill} (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps. {To go through the mill}, to experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state. | |
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Mold \Mold\, Mould \Mould\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Molded} or {Moulded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Molding} or {Moulding}.] To cover with mold or soil. [R.] | |
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Mollitude \Mol"li*tude\, n. [L. mollitudo, fr. mollis soft.] Softness; effeminacy; weakness. [R.] | |
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Molt \Molt\, Moult \Moult\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Molted} or {Moulted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Molting} or {Moulting}.] [OE. mouten, L. mutare. See {Mew} to molt, and cf. {Mute}, v. t.] [The prevalent spelling is, perhaps, {moult}; but as the {u} has not been inserted in the otherwords of this class, as, bolt, colt, dolt, etc., it is desirable to complete the analogy by the spelling {molt}.] To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. --Bacon. | |
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Mold \Mold\, Mould \Mould\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Molded} or {Moulded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Molding} or {Moulding}.] To cover with mold or soil. [R.] | |
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Molt \Molt\, Moult \Moult\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Molted} or {Moulted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Molting} or {Moulting}.] [OE. mouten, L. mutare. See {Mew} to molt, and cf. {Mute}, v. t.] [The prevalent spelling is, perhaps, {moult}; but as the {u} has not been inserted in the otherwords of this class, as, bolt, colt, dolt, etc., it is desirable to complete the analogy by the spelling {molt}.] To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. --Bacon. | |
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Multeity \Mul*te"i*ty\, n. [L. multus much, many.] Multiplicity. [R.] --Coleridge. | |
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Multidentate \Mul`ti*den"tate\, a. [Multi- + dentate.] Having many teeth, or toothlike processes. | |
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Multidigitate \Mul`ti*dig"i*tate\, a. [Multi- + digitate.] Having many fingers, or fingerlike processes. | |
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Multititular \Mul`ti*tit"u*lar\, a. [Multi- + titular.] Having many titles. | |
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Multitubular \Mul`ti*tu"bu*lar\, a. [Multi- + tubular.] Having many tubes; as, a multitubular boiler. | |
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Multitude \Mul"ti*tude\, n. [F. multitude, L. multitudo, multitudinis, fr. multus much, many; of unknown origin.] 1. A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them. --Matt. ix. 36. 2. A great number of persons or things, regarded collectively; as, the book will be read by a multitude of people; the multitude of stars; a multitude of cares. It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they uttery neglect method in their harangues. --I. Watts. A multitude of flowers As countless as the stars on high. --Longfellow. 3. The state of being many; numerousness. They came as grasshoppers for multitude. --Judg. vi. 5. {The multitude}, the populace; the mass of men. Syn: Throng; crowd; assembly; assemblage; commonalty; swarm; populace; vulgar. See {Throng}. | |
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Multitudinary \Mul`ti*tu"di*na*ry\, a. Multitudinous. | |
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Multitudinous \Mul`ti*tu"di*nous\, a. 1. Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or condition; as, multitudinous waves. [bd]The multitudinous seas.[b8] --Shak. A renewed jingling of multitudinous chains. --G. Kennan. 2. Of or pertaining to a multitude. [bd]The multitudinous tongue.[b8] --Shak. -- {Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ly}, adv. -- {Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ness}, n. | |
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Multitudinous \Mul`ti*tu"di*nous\, a. 1. Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or condition; as, multitudinous waves. [bd]The multitudinous seas.[b8] --Shak. A renewed jingling of multitudinous chains. --G. Kennan. 2. Of or pertaining to a multitude. [bd]The multitudinous tongue.[b8] --Shak. -- {Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ly}, adv. -- {Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ness}, n. | |
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Multitudinous \Mul`ti*tu"di*nous\, a. 1. Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or condition; as, multitudinous waves. [bd]The multitudinous seas.[b8] --Shak. A renewed jingling of multitudinous chains. --G. Kennan. 2. Of or pertaining to a multitude. [bd]The multitudinous tongue.[b8] --Shak. -- {Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ly}, adv. -- {Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ness}, n. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
multitask n. Often used of humans in the same meaning it has for computers, to describe a person doing several things at once (but see {thrash}). The term `multiplex', from communications technology (meaning to handle more than one channel at the same time), is used similarly. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
multitasking "multiprogramming", "concurrency", "process scheduling") A technique used in an {operating system} for sharing a single processor between several independent jobs. The first multitasking operating systems were designed in the early 1960s. Under "{cooperative multitasking}" the running task decides when to give up the CPU and under "{pre-emptive multitasking}" (probably more common) a system process called the "{scheduler}" suspends the currently running task after it has run for a fixed period known as a "{time-slice}". In both cases the scheduler is responsible for selecting the next task to run and (re)starting it. The running task may relinquish control voluntarily even in a pre-emptive system if it is waiting for some external {event}. In either system a task may be suspended prematurely if a hardware {interrupt} occurs, especially if a higher priority task was waiting for this event and has therefore become runnable. The scheduling {algorithm} used by the scheduler determines which task will run next. Some common examples are {round-robin} scheduling, {priority scheduling}, {shortest job first} and {guaranteed scheduling}. Multitasking introduces {overheads} because the processor spends some time in choosing the next job to run and in saving and restoring tasks' state, but it reduces the worst-case time from job submission to completion compared with a simple {batch} system where each job must finish before the next one starts. Multitasking also means that while one task is waiting for some external event, the {CPU} to do useful work on other tasks. A multitasking operating system should provide some degree of protection of one task from another to prevent tasks from interacting in unexpected ways such as accidentally modifying the contents of each other's memory areas. The jobs in a multitasking system may belong to one or many users. This is distinct from {parallel processing} where one user runs several tasks on several processors. {Time-sharing} is almost synonymous but implies that there is more than one user. {Multithreading} is a kind of multitasking with low {overheads} and no protection of tasks from each other, all threads share the same memory. (1998-04-24) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Multi-tasking Program for Microcomputers {Gary Kildal}, very similar to {CP/M}, also written by Kildal. MP/M allowed {virtual terminals}, each of which could execute an {application} while another terminal was called to the screen with a special key combination. See also {Control Program for Microcomputers}. (1996-09-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
multithreaded {multithreading} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
multithreading "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from {multitasking} in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their {program counters} and {stack pointers} while sharing a single {address space} and set of {global variables}. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide {latency} by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A {light-weight process} is somewhere between a thread and a full process. {TL0} is an example of a threaded machine language. {Dataflow} computation (E.g. {Id} and {SISAL}) is an extreme form of multithreading. (1997-12-23) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MultiTOS main advantage was support for {pre-emptive multitasking} and {memory protection}. It also supported the latest (and far superior) versions of {GEM}. MultiTOS was supplied with the Falcon030 range of computers from {Atari}. It is a little known fact that the MultiTOS {kernel} was based heavily on the {freeware} OS {MinT} which was developed long before Atari got MultiTOS working. (1997-01-10) |