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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Baroque \Ba*roque"\, a. Irregular in form -- said esp. of a pearl. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Baroque \Ba*roque"\, a. [F.; cf It barocco.] (Arch.) In bad taste; grotesque; odd. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: baroque adj : having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells [syn: {churrigueresque}, {churrigueresco}] n : elaborate symmetrical ornamentation [syn: {baroqueness}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: baroque adj [common] Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of {elephantine} or {monstrosity} but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself "Metafont even has features to introduce random variations to its letterform output. Now _that_ is baroque!" See also {rococo}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: Baroque An early {logic programming} language written by Boyer and Moore in 1972. ["Computational Logic: Structure Sharing and Proof of program Properties", J. Moore, DCL Memo 67, U Edinburgh 1974]. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-22) From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: baroque Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (especially) software designs, this has many of the connotations of {elephantine} or monstrosity but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself "{Metafont} even has features to introduce random variations to its letterform output. Now *that* is baroque!" See also {rococo}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-22)
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