meaning of crayon
1. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
2. A crayon drawing.
3. A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
4. To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
5. crayon 1. Someone who works on Cray supercomputers. More specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie irrespective of gender. Systems types who have a Unix background tend not to be described as crayons. 2. A computron that participates only in number crunching. 3. A unit of computational power equal to that of a single Cray-1. There is a standard joke about this usage that derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener. [Jargon File]
6. writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
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