English Dictionary
◊ STRANDED
stranded
adj 1: cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several
stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by
the blizzard" [syn: {isolated}, {marooned}]
2: with the bottom lodged on a reef or shoal in shallow water
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN STRAND?
Strand
1. {AND-parallel} {logic programming} language. Essentially
flat {Parlog83} with sequential-and and sequential-or
eliminated.
["Strand: New Concepts on Parallel Programming", Ian Foster et
al, P-H 1990]. {Strand88} is a commercial implementation.
2. A query language, implemented on top of {INGRES} (an
{RDBMS}). ["Modelling Summary Data", R. Johnson, Proc ACM
SIGMOD Conf 1981].