noun Technical meaning of euclid (language) (Named after the Greek geometer, fl ca 300 BC.) A Pascal descendant for development of verifiable system software. No goto, no side effects, no global assignments, no functional arguments, no nested procedures, no floats, no enumeration types. Pointers are treated as indices of special arrays called collections. To prevent aliasing, Euclid forbids any overlap in the list of actual parameters of a procedure. Each procedure gives an imports list, and the compiler determines the identifiers that are implicitly imported. Iterators. Ottawa Euclid is a variant. 1
noun euclid 3rd century bc, Greek mathematician of Alexandria; author of Elements, which sets out the principles of geometry and remained a text until the 19th century at least 0
noun euclid the works of Euclid, esp his system of geometry 0
noun euclid fl. 300 b.c.; Gr. mathematician: author of a basic work in geometry 0
noun euclid city in NE Ohio: suburb of Cleveland: pop. 53,000 0
