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Waldo - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Waldo :
/wol'doh/ [Robert A. Heinlein's story "Waldo"] 1. A mechanical
agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human limb.
When these were developed for the nuclear industry in the
mid-1940s they were named after the invention described by
Heinlein in the story, which he wrote in 1942. Now known by
the more generic term "telefactoring", this technology is of
intense interest to NASA for tasks like space station
maintenance.
2. At Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham and students),
this is used instead of foobar as a metasyntactic variable
and general nonsense word. See foo, bar, foobar,
quux.
[{Jargon File]
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Waldo, AL (town, FIPS 79488)
Location: 33.39087 N, 86.03539 W
Population (1990): 309 (115 housing units)
Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Waldo, AR (city, FIPS 72350)
Location: 33.35247 N, 93.29532 W
Population (1990): 1495 (669 housing units)
Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 71770
Waldo, FL (city, FIPS 74925)
Location: 29.79055 N, 82.17166 W
Population (1990): 1017 (491 housing units)
Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 32694
Waldo, KS (city, FIPS 74575)
Location: 39.12015 N, 98.79750 W
Population (1990): 57 (45 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 67673
Waldo, KY
Zip code(s): 41632
Waldo, OH (village, FIPS 80500)
Location: 40.46159 N, 83.08557 W
Population (1990): 340 (151 housing units)
Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 43356
Waldo, WI (village, FIPS 83100)
Location: 43.67559 N, 87.94654 W
Population (1990): 442 (155 housing units)
Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 53093
Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:
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Waldo : /wol'doh/ n. [Based on Robert A. Heinlein's story "Waldo"] 1. A
mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human limb.
When these were developed for the nuclear industry in the mid-1940s they
were named after the invention described by Heinlein in the story, which
he wrote in 1942. Now known by the more generic term `telefactoring',
this technology is of intense interest to NASA for tasks like space
station maintenance. 2. At Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham and
students), this is used instead of foobar as a metasyntactic variable
and general nonsense word. See foo, bar, foobar, quux.
Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:
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Example Usage of Waldo |
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RecessionInfo: “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”” Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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quoteshash: @tiffany_kay Nothing can bring you peace but yourself - Ralph Waldo Emerson #quote |
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ghota: Find me! (Where's Wally/Waldo, Twitter Style) http://wally.tweetdoc.org/?name=ghota |
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