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blt

 

  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  BLT 
  n  :  sandwich  filled  with  slices  of  bacon  and  tomato  with  lettuce 
  [syn:  {bacon-lettuce-tomato  sandwich},  {BLT}] 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  BLT  /B-L-T/,  /bl*t/  or  (rarely)  /belt/  n.,vt.  Synonym  for 
  {blit}.  This  is  the  original  form  of  {blit}  and  the  ancestor  of 
  {bitblt}.  It  referred  to  any  large  bit-field  copy  or  move  operation 
  (one  resource-intensive  memory-shuffling  operation  done  on  pre-paged 
  versions  of  ITS  WAITS,  and  TOPS-10  was  sardonically  referred  to  as  `The 
  Big  BLT').  The  jargon  usage  has  outlasted  the  {PDP-10}  BLock  Transfer 
  instruction  from  which  {BLT}  derives;  nowadays,  the  assembler  mnemonic 
  {BLT}  almost  always  means  `Branch  if  Less  Than  zero'. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  BLT 
 
  1.  /B-L-T/,  /bl*t/  or  (rarely)  /belt/  Synonym  for  {blit}. 
  This  is  the  original  form  of  {blit}  and  the  ancestor  of 
  {bitblt}.  It  refers  to  any  large  bit-field  copy  or  move 
  operation  (one  resource-intensive  memory-shuffling  operation 
  done  on  pre-paged  versions  of  {ITS},  {WAITS}  and  {TOPS-10}  was 
  sardonically  referred  to  as  "The  Big  BLT").  The  jargon  usage 
  has  outlasted  the  {PDP-10}  BLock  Transfer  instruction  from 
  which  {BLT}  derives;  nowadays,  the  {assembly  language} 
  {mnemonic}  {BLT}  almost  always  means  "Branch  if  Less  Than 
  zero". 
 
  2.  bacon,  lettuce  and  tomato  (sandwich). 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
 
 
  From  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  BLT 
  BLock  Transfer




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