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presto

 

  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Presto  \Pres"to\,  adv  [It.  or  Sp  presto  quick,  quickly.  See 
  {Prest},  a.] 
  1.  Quickly;  immediately;  in  haste;  suddenly. 
 
  Presto!  begone!  'tis  here  again  --Swift. 
 
  2.  (Mus.)  Quickly;  rapidly;  --  a  direction  for  a  quick, 
  lively  movement  or  performance;  quicker  than  allegro,  or 
  any  rate  of  time  except  prestissimo. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  presto 
  adj  :  (of  tempo)  very  fast 
  adv  1:  suddenly;  "Presto!  begone!  'tis  here  again"-  Swift 
  2:  (music)  at  a  very  fast  tempo  (faster  than  allegro) 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Presto,  PA 
  Zip  code(s):  15142 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  PRESTO 
 
  A  parallel  language  for  shared-memory  multiprocessors,  built 
  on  top  of  C++  by  Bershad  et  al  U  Washington  1987.  PRESTO 
  provides  {class}es  for  {thread}s  and  {spinlock}s  as  well  as 
  {Mesa}-style  {monitor}s  and  {condition  variable}s. 
 
  {(ftp://cs.washington.edu/pub/presto1.0.tar.Z)}.  E-mail: 
  . 
 
  ["PRESTO:  A  Kernel  for  Parallel  Programming  Environments", 
  B.N.  Bershad  et  al  U  Wash  CS  TR  Jan  1987].




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