ALL meanings of ufo
UFO
U u - noun Technical meaning of ufo (language) (United Functions and Objects) A hybrid functional and object-oriented language designed by John Seargant at Manchester University for general-purpose parallel computation. To a first approximation, UFO is a strict, higher-order functional language with an object-oriented type system, and strong support for numeric computation in the form of SISAL-style arrays and loops. Parallelism is implicit, and applies at various different levels of granularity, thereby facilitating implementations on a wide range of parallel architectures. It is planned to run it on a 64 processor KSR machine. 1
- noun plural ufo any unexplained moving object observed in the sky, especially one assumed by some observers to be of extraterrestrial origin. 1
- countable noun ufo A UFO is an object seen in the sky or landing on Earth which cannot be identified and which is often believed to be from another planet. UFO is an abbreviation for 'unidentified flying object'. 0
- abbreviation UFO unidentified flying object 0
- noun ufo any of a number of unidentified objects or phenomena frequently reported, esp. since 1947, to have been observed or tracked in the sky and variously explained as being atmospheric phenomena, hallucinations, misperceptions of actual objects, alien spacecraft, etc. 0
- noun ufo a spacecraft from another planet; flying saucer 0