meaning of cedar
1. The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.
2. Of or pertaining to cedar.
3. Cedar A superset of Mesa, from Xerox PARC, adding garbage collection, dynamic types and a universal pointer type REF ANY. Cedar is a large complex language designed for custom Xerox hardware and the Cedar operating system/environment. Data types are atoms, lists, ropes "industrial strength" strings, conditions. Multi-processing features include threads, monitors, signals and catch phrases. It was used to develop the Cedar integrated programming environment. ["A Description of the Cedar Language", Butler Lampson, Xerox PARC, CSL-83-15 Dec 1983]. ["The Structure of Cedar", D. Swinehart et al, SIGPLAN Notices 207:230-244 July 1985].
4. any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars
Related Words
cedar | cedar chest | cedar elm | cedar mahogany | cedar nut | cedar of goa | cedar of lebanon | cedar rapids | cedar tree | cedar waxwing | cedar-apple rust | cedarbird | cedared | cedarn | cedarwood |
