2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
|
|
|
flavor
|
|
|
|
|
|
2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
|
|
|
n. 1. [common] Variety, type, kind. DDT commands come in two flavors. These
|
|
|
|
|
lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small green ones. Linux is a
|
|
|
|
|
flavor of Unix See vanilla. 2. The attribute that causes something to be
|
|
|
|
|
flavorful. Usually used in the phrase yields additional flavor. This
|
|
|
|
|
convention yields additional flavor by allowing one to print text either
|
|
|
|
|
right-side-up or upside-down. See vanilla. This usage was certainly
|
|
|
|
|
reinforced by the terminology of quantum chromodynamics, in which quarks
|
|
|
|
|
(the constituents of, e.g., protons) come in six flavors (up, down, strange,
|
|
|
|
|
charm, top, bottom) and three colors (red, blue, green) however, hackish use
|
|
|
|
|
of flavor at MIT predated QCD. 3. The term for class (in the object-oriented
|
|
|
|
|
sense) in the LISP Machine Flavors system. Though the Flavors design has
|
|
|
|
|
been superseded (notably by the Common LISP CLOS facility), the term flavor
|
|
|
|
|
is still used as a general synonym for class by some LISP hackers.
|
|
|
|
|
|
