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parlance |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Parlance \Par"lance\, n. [OF., fr F. parler to speak. See {Parley}.] Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as in legal parlance; in common parlance. A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. --Tennyson. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: parlance n : a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language [syn: {idiom}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: Parlance A {concurrent} language. ["Parallel Processing Structures: Languages, Schedules, and Performance Results", P.F. Reynolds, PhD Thesis, UT Austin 1979]. (1994-12-12)
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