Define the word Kaleidoscope"Kaleidoscope" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Kaleidoscope \Ka*lei"do*scope\, n. [Gr. ? beautiful + e'i^dos
form + -scope.]
An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains
loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting
surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its
contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and
symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of
design.
[1913 Webster]
Shifting like the fragments of colored glass in the
kaleidoscope. --G. W. Cable.
Kaleidoscopic
"kaleidoscope" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
kaleidoscope
n : an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns
as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors
"kaleidoscope" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"
Kaleidoscope
An object-oriented language which mixes
imperative and constraint-oriented features. Kaleidoscope
was written by Freeman-Benson of the University of Washington, Universite de Nantes, 1989; University of Victoria, 1992. It is similar to Siri and vaguely related
to Prose.
Versions: Kaleidoscope '90 and Kaleidoscope '91.
["Kaleidoscope: Mixing Objects, Constraints and Imperative
Programming", B.N. Freeman-Benson, SIGPLAN Notices
25(10):77-88 (OOPSLA/ECOOP '90) (Oct 1990)].
["Constraint Imperative Programming", B.N. Freeman-Benson,
Ph.D. Thesis, TR 91-07-02, U Wash (1991)].
["Constraint Imperative Programming", Freeman-Benson et al,
IEEE Conf on Comp Lang, Apr 1992].
(1994-11-09)
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