meaning of tick

1. tick 1. A jiffy sense 1. 2. In simulations, the discrete unit of time that passes between iterations of the simulation mechanism. In AI applications, this amount of time is often left unspecified, since the only constraint of interest is the ordering of events. This sort of AI simulation is often pejoratively referred to as "tick-tick-tick" simulation, especially when the issue of simultaneity of events with long, independent chains of causes is handwaved. 3. In the FORTH language, a single quote character. [Jargon File] TickIT A software industry quality assessment scheme. Tickle tool> A text editor, file translator and TCL interpreter for the Macintosh. Version 5. 0v1. The text editor breaks the 32K limit like MPW. The file translation utilities support drag and drop handling via tcl scripts of BinHex, MacBinary, Apple Computer Single/Double, StuffIt with engine, Unix compress, Unix tar and UUencode files as well as text translation. Tickle implements tcl 7. 0 with tclX extensions and Macintosh equivalents of Unixs ls, pwd, cd commands. It provides Macintosh access to Resource Manager, Communications Toolbox, OSA Components and AppleScript, Editions publish and subscribe and Apple Events including AEBuild and AEPrint. OSA Script support allows programming of any OSA scripting component within Tickle interpreter windows. It provides the OSAtcl and OSAJ J/APL extensions and creates "Ticklets" which are small application programs that carry only the tcl script and use code in the OSAtcl component to drive an application that allows drag and drop with tcl scripts. Tickle is scriptable and recordable. ftp://ftp. msen. com/pub/vendor/ice/tickle/Tickle5. 0v1. hqx. E-mail: com>.
2. any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals

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