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Latex : (noun)
1: a milky exudate from certain plants that coagulates on
exposure to air
2: a water-base paint having a latex binder [syn: latex paint,
rubber-base paint]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Latex : \La"tex\, n. [L.] (Bot.)
A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities
(called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar
principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid,
and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Latex :
(Lamport TeX) Leslie Lamport
's document preparation system built on
top of TeX. LaTeX was developed at SRI International's
Computer Science Laboratory and was built to resemble
Scribe.
LaTeX adds commands to simplify typesetting and lets the user
concentrate on the structure of the text rather than on
formatting commands.
BibTeX is a LaTeX package for bibliographic citations.
Lamport's LaTeX book has an exemplary index listing every
symbol, concept and example in the book. The index in the,
now obsolete, first edition includes (on page 221) the
mysterious entry "Gilkerson, Ellen, 221". The second edition
(1994) has an entry for "infinite loop" instead.
["LaTeX, A Document Preparation System", Leslie Lamport, A-W
1986, ISBN 0-201-15790-X (first edition, now obsolete)].
(1997-11-17)
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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