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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Euclid \Eu"clid\, n. A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also his treatise on geometry, and hence the principles of geometry, in general. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Euclid n : Greek geometer (3rd century BC) [syn: {Euclid}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Euclid, MN Zip code(s): 56722 Euclid, OH (city, FIPS 25704) Location: 41.59227 N, 81.51944 W Population (1990): 54875 (26586 housing units) Area: 27.7 sq km (land), 2.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 44117 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: Euclid(Named after the Greek geometer, fl ca 300 BC.) A {Pascal} descendant for development of verifiable system software. No {goto}, no {side effects}, no global assignments, no functional arguments, no nested procedures, no floats, no {enumeration types}. Pointers are treated as indices of special arrays called collections. To prevent {aliasing}, Euclid forbids any overlap in the list of actual parameters of a procedure. Each procedure gives an imports list, and the compiler determines the identifiers that are implicitly imported. Iterators Ottawa Euclid is a variant. ["Report on the Programming Language Euclid", B.W. Lampson et al SIGPLAN Notices 12(2):1-79, Feb 1977]. (1998-11-23)
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