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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Poly-  \Pol"y-\  [See  {Full},  a.] 
  A  combining  form  or  prefix  from  Gr  poly`s,  many  as 
  polygon,  a  figure  of  many  angles;  polyatomic,  having  many 
  atoms;  polychord,  polyconic. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Poly  \Po"ly\,  n.  [L.  polium,  the  name  of  a  plant,  perhaps 
  Teucrium  polium,  Gr  ?.]  (Bot.) 
  A  whitish  woolly  plant  ({Teucrium  Polium})  of  the  order 
  {Labiat[ae]},  found  throughout  the  Mediterranean  region.  The 
  name  with  sundry  prefixes,  is  sometimes  given  to  other 
  related  species  of  the  same  genus.  [Spelt  also  {poley}.] 
 
  {Poly  mountain}.  See  {Poly-mountain},  in  Vocabulary. 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  Poly 
 
    1.  A  {polymorphic},  {block-structured}  language 
  developed  by  D.C.J.  Matthews  at  Cambridge  in  the  early  1980s. 
 
  ["An  Overview  of  the  Poly  Programming  Language",  D.C.J. 
  Matthews,  in  Data  Types  and  Persistence, 
  M.P.  Atkinson  et  al  eds,  Springer  1988]. 
 
  2.  A  language  developed  at  Saint  Andrews  University,  Scotland. 
 
  [Software  Practice  &  Exp,  Oct  1986]. 
 
  3.  A  {polymorphic}  language  used  in  the  referenced  book. 
 
  ["Polymorphic  Programming  Languages",  David  M.  Harland,  Ellis 
  Horwood  1984]. 
 
  (2000-11-07)




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