ALL meanings of ruby
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R r - noun plural ruby a red variety of corundum, used as a gem. 1
- noun plural ruby something made of this stone or one of its imitations, as a bearing in a watch. 1
- noun plural ruby a deep-red port wine. 1
- noun plural ruby deep red; carmine. 1
- noun plural ruby (initial capital letter) Digital Technology. an open-source, high-level programming language that is purely object-oriented. 1
- noun plural ruby British Printing. a 5½-point type, nearly corresponding in size to American agate. 1
- adjective ruby ruby-colored: ruby lips. 1
- adjective ruby containing or set or adorned with a ruby or rubies: a ruby necklace. 1
- noun ruby a female given name. 1
- noun Definition of ruby in Technology (language) 1. A relational language designed by Jones and M. Sheeran in 1986 for describing and designing circuits (a hardware description language). Ruby programs denote binary relations and programs are built-up inductively from primitive relations using a pre-defined set of relational operators. Ruby programs also have a geometric interpretation as networks of primitive relations connected by wires, which is important when layout is considered in circuit design. Ruby has been continually developed since 1986, and has been used to design many different kinds of circuits, including systolic arrays, butterfly networks and arithmetic circuits. E-mail: <[email protected]>. 2. One of five pedagogical languages based on Markov algorithms, used in Higman's report (below). The other languages are Brilliant, Diamond, Nonpareil, and Pearl. 3. A fully object oriented interpreted scripting language by Yukihiro Matsumoto <[email protected]>. Similar in scope to Perl and Python, Ruby has high-level data types, automatic memory management, dynamic typing, a module system, exceptions, and a rich standard library. Other features are CLU-style iterators for loop abstraction, singleton classes/methods and lexical closures. In Ruby, everything is an object, including the basic data types. For example, the number 1 is an instance of class Fixnum. Current version (stable): 1.6.7, as of 2002-03-01. 1
- noun ruby red gemstone 1
- noun ruby dark red colour 1
- adjective ruby dark red in colour 1
- countable noun ruby A ruby is a dark red jewel. 0
- colour ruby Something that is ruby is dark red in colour. 0
- noun ruby a deep red transparent precious variety of corundum: occurs naturally in Myanmar and Sri Lanka but is also synthesized. It is used as a gemstone, in lasers, and for bearings and rollers in watchmaking. Formula: Al2O3 0
- noun ruby the deep-red colour of a ruby 0
- noun ruby (as adjective) 0
- noun ruby something resembling, made of, or containing a ruby 0
- noun ruby (as modifier) 0
- noun ruby denoting a fortieth anniversary 0
- noun ruby (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 51⁄2 point 0
- noun ruby a feminine name 0
- noun ruby a clear, deep-red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone 0
- noun ruby something made of this stone, as a watch bearing 0
- noun ruby deep red 0
- noun ruby something having this color 0
- adjective ruby deep-red 0