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- [hal]
- /hæl/
- /hæl/
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- [hal]
- /hæl/
Definitions of hal word
- noun hal Harold Brent [brent] /brɛnt/ (Show IPA), ("Hal") 1899–1986, U.S. film producer. 1
- noun hal John, 1616–1703, English mathematician. 1
- noun hal a male given name, form of Wallace. 1
- noun hal a female given name. 1
- noun Technical meaning of hal 1. (computer) HAL 9000, the murdering computer on the spaceship in the science fiction classic "2001, A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C. Clark. "HAL" is "IBM" with each letter changed to the one before and there is an unconfirmed rumour that 9000 is the sum of the various IBM computer numbers that were in service at the time. However, in the sequel "2010", Clarke emphatically denies that HAL's name is supposed to be "one step ahead of IBM". It is, rather, short for "heuristic algorithm". 2. (operating system) Hardware Abstraction Layer. 1
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hal popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 82% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
hal usage trend in Literature
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