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Babel : (noun)
1: a confusion of voices and other sounds
2: (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants
(probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to
heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so
they could no longer understand one another [syn: Tower
of Babel, Babel]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Babel : \Ba"bel\, n. [Heb. B[=a]bel, the name of the capital of
Babylonia; in Genesis associated with the idea of
``confusion'']
1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the
confusion of languages took place.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel. --Gen. xi.
9.
2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused
mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
That babel of strange heathen languages. --Hammond.
The grinding babel of the street. --R. L.
Stevenson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Babel :
1. A subset of ALGOL 60, with many ALGOL W extensions.
["BABEL, A New Programming Language", R.S. Scowen, Natl Phys
Lab UK, Report CCU7, 1969].
2. Mentioned in The Psychology of Computer Programming,
G.M. Weinberg, Van Nostrand 1971, p.241.
3. A language based on higher-order functions and
first-order logic.
["Graph-Based Implementation of a Functional Logic Language",
H. Kuchen et al, Proc ESOP 90, LNCS 432, Springer 1990,
pp.271-290].
["Logic Programming with Functions and Predicates: The
Language BABEL", Moreno-Navarro et al, J Logic Prog 12(3) (Feb
1992)].
(1994-11-28)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Babel, confusion; mixture
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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