Napier : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Napier	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Napier
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Napier n Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617) Synonym(s): Napier, John Napier
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Napier, WV Zip code(s): 26631
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Napier Atkinson & Morrison, St Andrews U; design began ca. 1985, first implementation Napier88, 1988. Based on {orthogonal persistence}, permits definition and manipulation of namespaces. ["The Napier88 Reference Manual", R. Morrison et al, CS Depts St Andrews U and U Glasgow, Persistent Programming Research Report PPRR-77-89, 1989].