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tiny

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tiny  \Ti"ny\,  a.  [Compar.  {Tinier};  superl.  {Tiniest}.] 
  [Probably  fr  tine,  teen,  trouble,  distress,  vexation.] 
  Very  small  little;  puny. 
 
  When  that  I  was  and  a  little  tiny  boy.  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tiny 
  adj  :  very  small  "diminutive  in  stature";  "a  lilliputian  chest  of 
  drawers";  "her  petite  figure";  "tiny  feet"  [syn:  {bantam}, 
  {diminutive},  {lilliputian},  {midget},  {petite}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  Tiny 
 
  1.  A  language  which  provides  {concurrency}  through 
  {message-passing}  to  named  message  {queues}. 
 
  2.  A  tool  written  by  Michael  Wolfe    at 
  {Oregon  Graduate  Institute  of  Science  &  Technology}  for 
  examining  {array}  data  dependence  {algorithm}s  and  {program 
  transformation}s  for  scientific  computations. 
 
  {Extended  Tiny}  was  used  to  implement  the  {Omega  test}. 
  Michael  Wolfe  has  also  made  extensions  to  his  version  of  tiny. 
 
  (1994-12-12)




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