3  definitions  found 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Waldo,  AL  (town,  FIPS  79488) 
  Location:  33.39087  N,  86.03539  W 
  Population  (1990):  309  (115  housing  units) 
  Area:  7.3  sq  km  (land),  0.1  sq  km  (water) 
  Waldo,  AR  (city,  FIPS  72350) 
  Location:  33.35247  N,  93.29532  W 
  Population  (1990):  1495  (669  housing  units) 
  Area:  5.7  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  71770 
  Waldo,  FL  (city,  FIPS  74925) 
  Location:  29.79055  N,  82.17166  W 
  Population  (1990):  1017  (491  housing  units) 
  Area:  4.0  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  32694 
  Waldo,  KS  (city,  FIPS  74575) 
  Location:  39.12015  N,  98.79750  W 
  Population  (1990):  57  (45  housing  units) 
  Area:  1.0  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  67673 
  Waldo,  KY 
  Zip  code(s):  41632 
  Waldo,  OH  (village,  FIPS  80500) 
  Location:  40.46159  N,  83.08557  W 
  Population  (1990):  340  (151  housing  units) 
  Area:  1.7  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  43356 
  Waldo,  WI  (village,  FIPS  83100) 
  Location:  43.67559  N,  87.94654  W 
  Population  (1990):  442  (155  housing  units) 
  Area:  2.2  sq  km  (land),  0.1  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  53093 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  waldo  /wol'doh/  n.  [From  Robert  A.  Heinlein's  story  "Waldo"] 
  1.  A  mechanical  agent,  such  as  a  gripper  arm,  controlled  by  a  human  limb. 
  When  these  were  developed  for  the  nuclear  industry  in  the  mid-1940s  they 
  were  named  after  the  invention  described  by  Heinlein  in  the  story,  which 
  he  wrote  in  1942.  Now  known  by  the  more  generic  term  `telefactoring', 
  this  technology  is  of  intense  interest  to  NASA  for  tasks  like  space 
  station  maintenance.  2.  At  Harvard  (particularly  by  Tom  Cheatham  and 
  students),  this  is  used  instead  of  {foobar}  as  a  metasyntactic  variable 
  and  general  nonsense  word  See  {foo},  {bar},  {foobar},  {quux}. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  waldo 
 
  /wol'doh/  [Robert  A.  Heinlein's  story  "Waldo"]  1.  A  mechanical 
  agent,  such  as  a  gripper  arm,  controlled  by  a  human  limb. 
  When  these  were  developed  for  the  nuclear  industry  in  the 
  mid-1940s  they  were  named  after  the  invention  described  by 
  Heinlein  in  the  story,  which  he  wrote  in  1942.  Now  known  by 
  the  more  generic  term  "telefactoring",  this  technology  is  of 
  intense  interest  to  NASA  for  tasks  like  space  station 
  maintenance. 
 
  2.  At  Harvard  (particularly  by  Tom  Cheatham  and  students), 
  this  is  used  instead  of  {foobar}  as  a  metasyntactic  variable 
  and  general  nonsense  word  See  {foo},  {bar},  {foobar}, 
  {quux}. 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
 

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