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lava |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lava \La"va\, n. [It. lava lava, orig. in Naples, a torrent of rain overflowing the streets, fr It & L. lavare to wash. See {Lave}.] The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States. Note: Lavas are classed, according to their structure, as scoriaceous or cellular, glassy, stony, etc., and according to the material of which they consist, as doleritic, trachytic, etc {Lava millstone}, a hard and coarse basaltic millstone from the neighborhood of the Rhine. {Lava ware}, a kind of cheap pottery made of iron slag cast into tiles, urns, table tops, etc., resembling lava in appearance. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: lava n : rock that in its molten form issues from volcanos From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: LAVA A language for {VLSI} that deals with "sticks", i.e. wires represented as lines with thickness. ["A Target Language for Silicon Compilers", R.J. Matthews et al IEEE COMPCON, 1982, pp 349-353]. (1994-12-07)
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