clay

n 1: soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

2: water soaked soil; soft wet earth [syn: {mud}]

3: the dead body of a human being [syn: {cadaver}, {corpse}, {stiff},

{remains}]

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)