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Demon Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
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demon
1. <operating system> (Often used equivalently to daemon, especially in the Unix world, where the latter spelling and pronunciation is considered mildly archaic). A program or part of a program which is not invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur.
At MIT they use "demon" for part of a program and "daemon" for an operating system process.
Demons (parts of programs) are particularly common in AI programs. For example, a knowledge-manipulation program might implement inference rules as demons. Whenever a new piece of knowledge was added, various demons would activate (which demons depends on the particular piece of data) and would create additional pieces of knowledge by applying their respective inference rules to the original piece. These new pieces could in turn activate more demons as the inferences filtered down through chains of logic. Meanwhile, the main program could continue with whatever its primary task was. This is similar to the triggers used in relational databases.
The use of this term may derive from "Maxwell's Demons" - minute beings which can reverse the normal flow of heat from a hot body to a cold body by only allowing fast moving molecules to go from the cold body to the hot one and slow molecules from hot to cold. The solution to this apparent thermodynamic paradox is that the demons would require an external supply of energy to do their work and it is only in the absence of such a supply that heat must necessarily flow from hot to cold.
Walt Bunch believes the term comes from the demons in Oliver Selfridge's paper "Pandemonium", MIT 1958, which was named after the capital of Hell in Milton's "Paradise Lost". Selfridge likened neural cells firing in response to input patterns to the chaos of millions of demons shrieking in Pandemonium.
2. Demon Internet Ltd.
3. A program generator for differential equation problems.
[N.W. Bennett, Australian AEC Research Establishment, AAEC/E142, Aug 1965].
[Jargon File]
(1998-09-04)
1. <operating system> (Often used equivalently to daemon, especially in the Unix world, where the latter spelling and pronunciation is considered mildly archaic). A program or part of a program which is not invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur.
At MIT they use "demon" for part of a program and "daemon" for an operating system process.
Demons (parts of programs) are particularly common in AI programs. For example, a knowledge-manipulation program might implement inference rules as demons. Whenever a new piece of knowledge was added, various demons would activate (which demons depends on the particular piece of data) and would create additional pieces of knowledge by applying their respective inference rules to the original piece. These new pieces could in turn activate more demons as the inferences filtered down through chains of logic. Meanwhile, the main program could continue with whatever its primary task was. This is similar to the triggers used in relational databases.
The use of this term may derive from "Maxwell's Demons" - minute beings which can reverse the normal flow of heat from a hot body to a cold body by only allowing fast moving molecules to go from the cold body to the hot one and slow molecules from hot to cold. The solution to this apparent thermodynamic paradox is that the demons would require an external supply of energy to do their work and it is only in the absence of such a supply that heat must necessarily flow from hot to cold.
Walt Bunch believes the term comes from the demons in Oliver Selfridge's paper "Pandemonium", MIT 1958, which was named after the capital of Hell in Milton's "Paradise Lost". Selfridge likened neural cells firing in response to input patterns to the chaos of millions of demons shrieking in Pandemonium.
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3. A program generator for differential equation problems.
[N.W. Bennett, Australian AEC Research Establishment, AAEC/E142, Aug 1965].
[Jargon File]
(1998-09-04)
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demon
n. 1. [MIT] A portion of a program that is not invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. See daemon. The distinction is that demons are usually processes within a program, while daemons are usually programs running on an operating system. 2. [outside MIT] Often used equivalently to daemon -- especially in the Unix world, where the latter spelling and pronunciation is considered mildly archaic.
n. 1. [MIT] A portion of a program that is not invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. See daemon. The distinction is that demons are usually processes within a program, while daemons are usually programs running on an operating system. 2. [outside MIT] Often used equivalently to daemon -- especially in the Unix world, where the latter spelling and pronunciation is considered mildly archaic.
Demons in sense 1 are particularly common in AI programs. For example, a knowledge-manipulation program might implement inference rules as demons. Whenever a new piece of knowledge was added, various demons would activate (which demons depends on the particular piece of data) and would create additional pieces of knowledge by applying their respective inference rules to the original piece. These new pieces could in turn activate more demons as the inferences filtered down through chains of logic. Meanwhile, the main program could continue with whatever its primary task was.
Demon Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Demon
(n.)
One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates.
(n.)
An evil spirit; a devil.
(n.)
A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
(n.)
One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates.
(n.)
An evil spirit; a devil.
(n.)
A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
| WordNet 2.0 |
demon
Noun
1. one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief
(synonym) devil, fiend, daemon, daimon
(hypernym) evil spirit
(hyponym) incubus
(derivation) demonize, demonise
2. a cruel wicked and inhuman person
(synonym) monster, fiend, devil, ogre
(hypernym) unpleasant person, disagreeable person
(hyponym) demoniac
(derivation) demonize, demonise
3. someone extremely diligent or skillful; "he worked like a demon to finish the job on time"; "she's a demon at math"
(hypernym) actor, doer, worker
Noun
1. one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief
(synonym) devil, fiend, daemon, daimon
(hypernym) evil spirit
(hyponym) incubus
(derivation) demonize, demonise
2. a cruel wicked and inhuman person
(synonym) monster, fiend, devil, ogre
(hypernym) unpleasant person, disagreeable person
(hyponym) demoniac
(derivation) demonize, demonise
3. someone extremely diligent or skillful; "he worked like a demon to finish the job on time"; "she's a demon at math"
(hypernym) actor, doer, worker
| Australian Slang |
Demon
detective; police officer, especially a motorcycle police officer
detective; police officer, especially a motorcycle police officer
Speed demon
person who likes to drive fast
| English Slang Dictionary v1.2 |
demon
dime
dime
| hEnglish - advanced version |
demon
demon
\de"mon\ (?), n. [f. démon, l. daemon a spirit, an evil spirit, fr. gr. &?; a divinity; of uncertain origin.]
1. (gr. antiq.) a spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. the demon kind is of an intermediate nature between the divine and the human.
2. one's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of socrates. [often written d?mon]
3. an evil spirit; a devil. that same demon that hath gulled thee thus.
demon
n
1. one of the evil spirits of traditional jewish and christian belief [syn: devil, fiend, daemon, daimon]
2. a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster, fiend, devil, ogre]
demon
see daemon.
demon
\de"mon\ (?), n. [f. démon, l. daemon a spirit, an evil spirit, fr. gr. &?; a divinity; of uncertain origin.]
1. (gr. antiq.) a spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. the demon kind is of an intermediate nature between the divine and the human.
2. one's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of socrates. [often written d?mon]
3. an evil spirit; a devil. that same demon that hath gulled thee thus.
demon
n
1. one of the evil spirits of traditional jewish and christian belief [syn: devil, fiend, daemon, daimon]
2. a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster, fiend, devil, ogre]
demon
see daemon.
| Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1 |
demon
deamhan m.; diabhal m.
deamhan m.; diabhal m.
| JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary |
Elff
Elff = n. pure state; a demon
Elff = n. pure state; a demon
Demon Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
| International Relations and Security Acronyms |
DEMON
Demodulated Noise
Demodulated Noise
Demon Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Demon
Demon(s) [from Greek daimones, Latin daemons] In many of the later religions, such as Christianity, either the gods of rival religions, nature spirits of paganism, or the exuviae or shells of the dead. Actually demons are a relatively modern misapprehension of a large class of nature sprites which in ancient thought comprised a vast range of spiritual, semi-spiritual, and astral beings, existing in different degrees of evolutionary unfoldment, and therefore classified into groups from the fully self-conscious down to the only partly conscious elementals of the astral realms. The teaching regarding daimones was extremely recondite; the later medieval Christian Demonologies, however, dealt almost exclusively with beings of low grade and of an astral character lacking moral sense and self-consciousness, which for ages have been called in European countries by names such as fairies, sprites, goblins, hobgoblins, pixies, nixies, and brownies. See also DAEMON
Demon(s) [from Greek daimones, Latin daemons] In many of the later religions, such as Christianity, either the gods of rival religions, nature spirits of paganism, or the exuviae or shells of the dead. Actually demons are a relatively modern misapprehension of a large class of nature sprites which in ancient thought comprised a vast range of spiritual, semi-spiritual, and astral beings, existing in different degrees of evolutionary unfoldment, and therefore classified into groups from the fully self-conscious down to the only partly conscious elementals of the astral realms. The teaching regarding daimones was extremely recondite; the later medieval Christian Demonologies, however, dealt almost exclusively with beings of low grade and of an astral character lacking moral sense and self-consciousness, which for ages have been called in European countries by names such as fairies, sprites, goblins, hobgoblins, pixies, nixies, and brownies. See also DAEMON
Daemon
Daemon or Demon [from Greek daimon, Latin daemon] A god, angel, or celestial power or spirit, of varying degrees of ethereality, and ranging from the supreme deity of the hierarchy, through the greater gods, down to mere genii and lemures. Originally the term applied to deity in general, but later it usually was referred to beings intermediate between the gods and mankind, representing the powers and functions of gods. The Greeks and Romans sometimes used the term for the human divine egos. Philsophers such as Plato divided the daemons into three classes, "the first two are invisible; their bodies are pure ether and fire (Planetary Spirits); the Daimons of the third class are clothed with vapoury bodies; they are usually invisible, but sometimes, making themselves concrete, become visible for a few seconds. These are the earthly spirits, or our astral souls" (BCW 6:187).
The daemon of Socrates stood for his higher and spiritual self, and parallels in this sense the Christian idea of the Guardian Angel. Hesiod designated them as spirits of the golden age appointed to watch over and guard mankind. We often find two daemones accompanying the individual, one prompting to good, the other to evil; while again it may be the same genius, whose influence is defined as at one time good, at another evil.
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| Easton's Bible Dictionary |
Demon
See DAEMON.
See DAEMON.
| Smith's Bible Dictionary |
Demon
In the Gospels generally, in (James 2:19) and in Reve 16:14 The demons are spoken of as spiritual beings, at enmity with God, and having power to afflict man not only with disease, but, as is marked by the frequent epithet "un-clean," with spiritual pollution also. They "believe" the power of God "and tremble," (James 2:19) they recognized the Lord as the Son of God, (Matthew 8:29; Luke 4:41) and acknowledged the power of his name, used in exorcism. In the place of the name of Jehovah, by his appointed messengers, (Acts 19:15) and looked forward in terror to the judgment to come. (Matthew 8:29) The description is precisely that of a nature akin to the angelic in knowledge and powers, but with the emphatic addition of the idea of positive and active wickedness.
In the Gospels generally, in (James 2:19) and in Reve 16:14 The demons are spoken of as spiritual beings, at enmity with God, and having power to afflict man not only with disease, but, as is marked by the frequent epithet "un-clean," with spiritual pollution also. They "believe" the power of God "and tremble," (James 2:19) they recognized the Lord as the Son of God, (Matthew 8:29; Luke 4:41) and acknowledged the power of his name, used in exorcism. In the place of the name of Jehovah, by his appointed messengers, (Acts 19:15) and looked forward in terror to the judgment to come. (Matthew 8:29) The description is precisely that of a nature akin to the angelic in knowledge and powers, but with the emphatic addition of the idea of positive and active wickedness.
| Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary |
Seir
Seirath, hairy; goat; demon; tempest
Seirath, hairy; goat; demon; tempest
Demon Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
| English to Federation-Standard Golic Vulcan |
Demon
eshu'a (anc.)
eshu'a (anc.)
| English - Klingon |
demon
n. veqlargh
n. veqlargh
Demon Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Telecom Terms |
DEMON
Demonstrating the Evolution of a Metropolitan Optical Network
Demonstrating the Evolution of a Metropolitan Optical Network
| Phobia |
Demonophobia
Demonophobia or - Fear of demons
Also known as Daemonophobia
Demonophobia or - Fear of demons
Also known as Daemonophobia
Satanophobia
Fear of Satan
Demon Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Demon
In religion, folklore, and mythology a demon (or daemon, dæmon, daimon from Greek: δαίμων [ðaïmon]) is a supernatural being that has generally been described as a malevolent spirit, and in Christian terms it is generally understood as a Fallen angel, formerly of God. A demon is frequently depicted as a force that may be conjured and insecurely controlled. The "good" demon in recent use is largely a literary device (e.g., Maxwell's demon), though references to good demons can be found in Hesiod and Shakespeare. In common language, to "demonize" a person means to characterize or portray them as evil, or as the source of evil.
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