English Dictionary
◊ SIMILAR
similar
adj 1: marked by correspondence or resemblance; "similar food at
similar prices"; "problems similar to mine"; "they
wore similar coats" [ant: {dissimilar}]
2: having the same or similar characteristics; "all politicians
are alike"; "they looked utterly alike"; "friends are
generaly alike in background and taste" [syn: {alike(p)},
{like}] [ant: {unalike}]
3: resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same
characteristics; often used in combination; "suits of like
design"; "a limited circle of like minds"; "members of the
cat family have like dispositions"; "as like as two peas
in a pod"; "doglike devotion"; "a dreamlike quality" [syn:
{like}] [ant: {unlike}]
4: (of words) expressing closely related meanings
5: capable of replacing or changing places with something else;
"interchangeable parts" [syn: {exchangeable}, {interchangeable},
{standardized}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN SIMILIX?
Similix
An autoprojector (self-applicable partial evaluator) for a
higher order subset of the strict functional language Scheme.
Similix handles programs with user defined primitive abstract
data type operators which may process global variables (such
as input/output operators).
Version 5.0.
Anders Bondorf
conformance: extension of large subset of R4RS Scheme.
requires: Scheme
ports: Scm, Chez Scheme
portability: high
E-mail: Anders Bondorf
{(ftp://ftp.diku.dk/pub/diku/dists/Similix.tar.Z)}
(1993/05/18)