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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Simple \Sim"ple\, a. [Compar. {Simpler}; superl. {Simplest}.] [F., fr L. simplus or simplex, gen. simplicis The first part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same and the sense one one and the same cf L. semel once, singuli one to each single. Cg {Single}, a., {Same}, a., and for the last part of the word cf {Double}, {Complex}.] 1. Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks. 2. Plain; unadorned; as simple dress. ``Simple truth.'' --Spenser. ``His simple story.'' --Burns. 3. Mere; not other than being only. A medicine . . . whose simple touch Is powerful to araise King Pepin. --Shak. 4. Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true. Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here and I trust them --Marston. Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue? --Byron. To be simple is to be great. --Emerson. 5. Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward. In simple manners all the secret lies. --Young. 6. Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as a simple statement; simple language. 7. Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence foolish; silly. ``You have simple wits.'' --Shak. The simple believeth every word but the prudent man looketh well to his going. --Prov. xiv. 15. 8. Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as a simple diet; a simple way of living. Thy simple fare and all thy plain delights. --Cowper. 9. Humble; lowly; undistinguished. A simple husbandman in garments gray. --Spenser. Clergy and laity, male and female, gentle and simple made the fuel of the same fire. --Fuller. 10. (BOt.) Without subdivisions; entire; as a simple stem; a simple leaf. 11. (Chem.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known elementary; thus atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf {Ultimate}, a. Note: A simple body is one that has not as yet been decomposed. There are indications that many of our simple elements are still compound bodies, though their actual decomposition into anything simpler may never be accomplished. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Simple \Sim"ple\, v. i. To gather simples, or medicinal plants. As simpling on the flowery hills she [Circe] strayed. --Garth. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Simple \Sim"ple\, n. [F. See {Simple}, a.] 1. Something not mixed or compounded. ``Compounded of many simples.'' --Shak. 2. (Med.) A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy. What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies. --Sir W. Temple. 3. (Weaving) a A drawloom. b A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom. 4. (R. C. Ch.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pendulum \Pen"du*lum\, n.; pl {Pendulums}. [NL., fr L. pendulus hanging, swinging. See {Pendulous}.] A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery. Note: The time of oscillation of a pendulum is independent of the arc of vibration, provided this arc be small {Ballistic pendulum}. See under {Ballistic}. {Compensation pendulum}, a clock pendulum in which the effect of changes of temperature of the length of the rod is so counteracted, usually by the opposite expansion of differene metals, that the distance of the center of oscillation from the center of suspension remains invariable; as the mercurial compensation pendulum, in which the expansion of the rod is compensated by the opposite expansion of mercury in a jar constituting the bob; the gridiron pendulum, in which compensation is effected by the opposite expansion of sets of rodsof different metals. {Compound pendulum}, an ordinary pendulum; -- so called as being made up of different parts and contrasted with simple pendulum. {Conical} or {Revolving}, {pendulum}, a weight connected by a rod with a fixed point; and revolving in a horizontal cyrcle about the vertical from that point. {Pendulum bob}, the weight at the lower end of a pendulum. {Pendulum level}, a plumb level. See under {Level}. {Pendulum wheel}, the balance of a watch. {Simple} or {Theoretical}, {pendulum}, an imaginary pendulum having no dimensions except length, and no weight except at the center of oscillation; in other words a material point suspended by an ideal line From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: simple adj 1: not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design" [ant: {complex}] 2: not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem" [syn: {elementary}, {uncomplicated}, {unproblematic}] 3: apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth" [syn: {bare(a)}, {mere(a)}, {simple(a)}] 4: exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust" [syn: {childlike}, {dewey-eyed}] 5: free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a plain blue suit"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes" [syn: {modest}, {plain}] 6: lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety [syn: {dim-witted}, {half-witted}, {simple-minded}] 7: to be expected; standard; "common decency"; "simple courtesy" [syn: {common}] 8: (biology) especially of leaf shapes; having no divisions or subdivisions [syn: {unsubdivided}] [ant: {compound}] 9: not derived; primary or simple [syn: {underived}] [ant: {derived}] 10: composed of only one thing or element or part "a simple substance" 11: not elaborate in style; unornamented; "her black dress--simple to austerity" 12: unpretentious; "homely truths"; "letters to his son full of homely advice"; "simple (or homely) fare" [syn: {homely}] 13: cleverly simple; used of e.g. a solution to a problem; "his proposal is elegantly simple" n 1: (archaic) any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties 2: a person lacking intelligence or common sense [syn: {simpleton}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: SIMPLE 1. Early system on Datatron 200 series. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959). 2. Simulation of Industrial Management Problems with Lots of Equations. R.K. Bennett, 1958. Predecessor to DYNAMO, for IBM 704.
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