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Alvey Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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amaranth \am"a*ranth\ (&?;), n. [l. amarantus, gr. &?;, unfading, amaranth; 'a priv. + &?; to quench, cause to wither, fr. a root meaning to die, akin to e. mortal; -- so called because its flowers do not soon wither: cf. f. amarante. the spelling with th seems to be due to confusion with gr. &?; flower.]
1. an imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [poetic]
2. (bot.) a genus of ornamental annual plants (amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.
2. a color inclining to purple.
alvey
amaranth \am"a*ranth\ (&?;), n. [l. amarantus, gr. &?;, unfading, amaranth; 'a priv. + &?; to quench, cause to wither, fr. a root meaning to die, akin to e. mortal; -- so called because its flowers do not soon wither: cf. f. amarante. the spelling with th seems to be due to confusion with gr. &?; flower.]
1. an imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [poetic]
2. (bot.) a genus of ornamental annual plants (amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.
2. a color inclining to purple.
Alvey Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Alvey
The Alvey Programme was a British government sponsored research program in information technology that ran from 1983 to 1987. The program was a reaction to the Japanese Fifth generation computer project.
Focus areas for the Alvey Programme included:
- VLSI (very large scale integration) technology for microelectronics
- Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems (IKBS) or Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Software Engineering
- Man-Machine Interface (included Natural Language Processing)
- Systems Architecture (for parallel processing)
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