clam

n 1: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud

2: (United States) a piece of paper money worth one dollar

[syn: {dollar}, {dollar bill}, {one dollar bill}, {buck}]

3: flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams

v : gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

CLAM

A system for {symbolic mathematics},

especially General Relativity. It was first implemented in

{ATLAS} {assembly language} and later {Lisp}.

See also {ALAM}.

["CLAM Programmer's Manual", Ray d'Inverno & Russell-Clark,

King's College London, 1971].

(1994-11-08)