alloy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: alloy	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for alloy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
alloy n a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten; "brass is an alloy of zinc and copper" Synonym(s): alloy, metal the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something Synonym(s): admixture, alloy v lower in value by increasing the base-metal content [syn: debase, alloy] make an alloy of
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Alloy \Alloy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alloyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Alloying}.] [F. aloyer, OF. alier, allier, later allayer, fr. L. aligare. See {Alloy}, n., {Ally}, v. t., and cf. {Allay}.] 1. To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy* gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper. 2. To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound. 3. To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Alloy \Alloy"\, n. [OE. alai, OF. alei, F. aloyer, to alloy, alier to ally. See {Alloy}, v. t.] 1. Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy* of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam. 2. The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness. 3. A baser metal mixed with a finer. Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it. --Locke. 4. Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy. [bd]Pure English without Latin alloy.[b8] --F. Harrison.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Alloy \Alloy"\, v. t. To form a metallic compound. Gold and iron alloy* with ease. --Ure.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
ALLOY A language by Thanasis Mitsolides which combines {functional programming}, {object-oriented programming} and {logic programming} ideas, and is suitable for {massively parallel} systems. Evaluating modes support serial or parallel execution, {eager evaluation} or {lazy evaluation}, {nondeterminism} or multiple solutions etc. ALLOY is simple as it only requires 29 primitives in all (half of which are for {object oriented programming} support). It runs on {SPARC}. {(ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/local/alloy/)}. ["The Design and Implementation of ALLOY, a Parallel Higher Level Programming Language", Thanasis Mitsolides , PhD Thesis NYU 1990]. (1991-06-11)