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n 1: a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or

morality

2: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court

record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in

New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out

there" [syn: {decree}, {edict}, {fiat}, {order}]

3: the act of rewriting something [syn: {revision}, {revisal},

{revise}]

4: something that has been written again; "the rewrite was much

better" [syn: {rewrite}, {revision}]

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1. An early system on the {IBM 702}.

[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].

2. A {real-time} language.

["A Communication Abstraction Mechanism and its Verification",

N. Francez et al, Sci Comp Prog 6(1):35-88 (1986)].

(1994-12-01)