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orca

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  orca 
  n  :  predatory  black-and-white  toothed  whale  with  large  dorsal 
  fin;  common  in  cold  seas  [syn:  {killer  whale},  {killer}, 
  {grampus},  {sea  wolf},  {Orcinus  orca}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  Orca 
 
  Vrije  Universiteit  Amsterdam,  1986.  Similar  to  Modula-2,  but 
  with  support  for  distributed  programming  using  shared  data 
  objects,  like  Linda.  A  'graph'  data  type  removes  the  need  for 
  pointers.  Version  for  the  Amoeba  OS  comes  with  Amoeba. 
  "Orca:  A  Language  for  Distributed  Processing",  H.E.  Bal 
    et  al  SIGPLAN  Notices  25(5):17-24  (May  1990). 
 
 
 
  From  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  ORCA 
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