heliac

adj : pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising

of a star after and last setting before its

invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun;

"the heliacal rising of the Dog Star"; "the heliacal or

Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of

Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star) [syn: {heliacal}]

NELIAC

Navy Electronics Laboratory International ALGOL Compiler.

An {Algol} variant designed for numeric and logical

computations and based on {IAL}. 1958-1959.

Version: BC NELIAC.

["Neliac - A Dialect of Algol", H.D. Huskey et al, CACM

3(8):463-468 (Aug 1960)].

(1994-11-29)