English Dictionary
◊ COMING
coming
adj 1: of the relatively near future; "the approaching election";
"this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays";
"the upcoming spring fashions" [syn: {approaching}, {coming(a)},
{forthcoming}, {upcoming}]
2: yet to come; "coming generations"; "a future-day Gibbon of
Macaulay" [syn: {coming(a)}, {future day}]
n 1: the act of drawing spatially closer to something; "the
hunter's approach scattered the geese" [syn: {approach},
{approaching}]
2: esp. of something momentous; "the advent of the computer"
[syn: {advent}]
3: the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; "the
approach of winter" [syn: {approach}, {approaching}]
4: the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
[syn: {orgasm}, {climax}, {sexual climax}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN COLINGO?
COLINGO
Compile On-LINe and GO.
An english-like query system from {MITRE Corporation}. for
the {IBM 1401}.
["The COLINGO System Design Philosophy", Information System
Sciences, Proc Second Congress, 1965].
[Sammet 1969, p. 664].
(1995-01-04)