Lucid : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Lucid	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Lucid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lucid adj (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" Synonym(s): limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear, perspicuous having a clear mind; "a lucid moment in his madness" capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident" Synonym(s): coherent, logical, lucid transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent crystal" Synonym(s): crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lucid \Lu"cid\, a. [L. lucidus, fr. lux, lucis, light. See {Light}, n.] 1. Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven. Lucid, like a glowworm. --Sir I. Newton. A court compact of lucid marbles. --Tennyson. 2. Clear; transparent. [bd] Lucid streams.[b8] --Milton. 3. Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear. A lucid and interesting abstract of the debate. --Macaulay. 4. Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval. Syn: Luminous; bright; clear; transparent; sane; reasonable. See {Luminous}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
LUCID 1. Early query language, ca. 1965, System Development Corp, Santa Monica, CA. [Sammet 1969, p.701]. 2. A family of dataflow languages descended from {ISWIM}, {lazy} but {first-order}. Ashcroft & Wadge , 1981. They use a dynamic {demand driven} model. Statements are regarded as equations defining a network of processors and communication lines, through which the data flows. Every data object is thought of as an infinite {stream} of simple values, every function as a {filter}. Lucid has no {data constructor}s such as {array}s or {record}s. {Iteration} is simulated with 'is current' and 'fby' (concatenation of sequences). Higher-order functions are implemented using pure dataflow and no closures or heaps. ["Lucid: The Dataflow Language" by Bill Wadge and Ed Ashcroft, c. 1985]. ["Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language", W. Wadge, Academic Press 1985]. (1995-02-16)