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De - Pt| English Dictionary: front end | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for front end | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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front end n. 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a `back end'). 2. What you're talking to when you have a conversation with someone who is making replies without paying attention. "Look at the dancing elephants!" "Uh-huh." "Do you know what I just said?" "Sorry, you were talking to the front end." 3. Software that provides an interface to another program `behind' it, which may not be as user-friendly. Probably from analogy with hardware front-ends (see sense 1) that interfaced with mainframes. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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front end 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a "back end"). 2. Software that provides an interface to another program "behind" it, which may not be as {user-friendly}. Probably from analogy with hardware front-ends that interfaced with {mainframe}s. [{Jargon File}] | |
