edison at CMU American English spelling Of Explained:
['edısən]
Edison at English => English (Longman) Of Explained:
Thomas Alva (1847-1931) a US inventor who made over 1300 electrical inventions, including the microphone, the record player, and equipment for the cinema. He is most famous for inventing the light bulb (=a glass container with a thin wire inside, which produces light by using electricity).//
edison at English => English (Computer) Of Explained:
Edison
1. (Named after the American inventor Thomas Edison
(1847-1931))
A simplified Pascal by Per Brinch Hansen with {modules} and
{concurrency} (cobegin/coend).
["Edison - A Multiprocessor Language", P. Brinch Hansen, CS
Dept, USC, Sep 1980].
["Programming a Personal Computer", Brinch Hansen, P-H 1977].
2. A language which adds an {OPS5}-like {rete}-based
{production system} system to {C}. It is implemented as a {C}
{preprocessor}.
["Edison, A Unix and C Friendly Rete Based Production System",
B. Thirion, SIGPLAN Notices 27(1):75-84 (Jan 1992)].
(1994-12-08)
Edison at English => English (WordNet) Of Explained:
Edison
n : United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph
and incandescent electric light and the microphone and
the Kinetoscope (1847-1931) [syn: {Thomas Edison}, {Thomas
Alva Edison}]
Edison at English (WD) Of Explained:
==English==
Proper noun
Inter: en-proper nou » nNoun
Inter: en-nou » nAlternate forms
* edison , ed , EdSee also
* HydroAnagrams
* diones, does in, inodes, noised, no side, on side, onsideCategory: Category:English surnames from given names -
Translation: et » Edison
Translation: es » Edison
Translation: ru » Edison
Translation: sr » Edison
Translation: zh » Edison