Re: Petascale computing

[Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>]

On Apr 25, 5:06 am, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
wrote:
> Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> writes:
> > incite |inˈsīt|
> > verb [ with obj. ]
> > encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behavior).
> > • urge or persuade (someone) to act in a violent or unlawful way.
>
> What dictionary is that from?
>
> OED (http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/93523?redirectedFrom=incite#eid)
>
> says:
>
>  a. trans. To urge or spur on; to stir up, animate, instigate, stimulate. Const. to do something; to or unto some action.
>
> ie _any_ action, not just negative ones. None of the OED definitions
> give negative connotations.
>
> --
> -- Stephe

It's from Dictionary.app which is included on OS X. IIRC, when it
first appeared on OS X, it was called (or credited) by its original
name, which I have forgotten. Now, it is credited only to Apple, with
copyright beginning in 2005. People have commented that it is unusual
in the way that it organizes its definitions.

OK--Wikipedia to the rescue: "It was introduced with Mac OS X v10.4
"Tiger", and provides definitions and synonyms from the New Oxford
American Dictionary, 2nd Edition and Oxford American Writer's
Thesaurus, 2nd Edition."

I actually included only part of the definition in my original post.
Here is the whole thing:

incite |inˈsīt|
verb [ with obj. ]
encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behavior): the offense of
inciting racial hatred.
• urge or persuade (someone) to act in a violent or unlawful way: he
incited loyal subjects to rebellion.
DERIVATIVES
incitation |ˌinsīˈtāSHən|noun,
inciter noun
ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from French inciter, from Latin incitare, from
in- ‘toward’ + citare ‘rouse.’

So now I suppose someone could comment or speculate on the meaning of
the Latin word for "rouse."

On OS X, from any Cocoa program, one can place the text cursor over
any word and (without clicking) press Control-Command-D and a smallish
scrollable window pops up with dictionary, thesaurus, and Wikipedia
entries for the word.

To get this thread on topic (not really 8^), the entry for Ada is:

Ada |ˈādə|
noun
a high-level computer programming language used esp. in real-time
computerized control systems, e.g., for aircraft navigation.
ORIGIN 1980s: from the name of Ada Lovelace (see Lovelace, Ada) .

And for Lovelace, Ada, this:
Lovelace, Ada |ˈləvlās|
, Countess of Lovelace (1815–52), English mathematician; full name
Augusta Ada King Lovelace. The daughter of Lord Byron, she worked with
Charles Babbage on his “analytical engine,” a mechanical computer. The
Ada standardized computer language was named for her in 1980.

BTW, in James Gleick's recent book, "The Information," there is a
rather nice telling of the work of Lovelace and Babbage.

Jerry

Jerry