Algol : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Algol	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Algol
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Algol n the second brightest star in Perseus; the first known eclipsing binary (from a combination of ALGOrithmic and Language); a programming language used to express computer programs as algorithms
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Algol \Al"gol\, n. [Ar. al-gh[umac]l destruction, calamity, fr. gh[be]la to take suddenly, destroy.] (Astron.) A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
ALGOL {ALGOL 60}