Words starting with alta
4 letter words starting with alta
- alta california — a former Spanish colony of New Spain, in the modern-day states of California, Nevada, and N Arizona: ceded by Mexico to the United States 1848.
- alta vista — (web) A website provided by Digital which features a very fast Web and Usenet search engine. As of April 1996 its word index is 33GB in size. AltaVista is currently (June 1996) the largest Web index, with 30 million pages from 225,000 servers, and three million articles from 14,000 Usenet news groups. It is accessed over 12 million times per weekday.
5 letter words starting with alta
- alta. — Alberta
- altac — (language) An extended Fortran II for the Philco 2000, built on TAC.
- altai — a territory of the Russian Federation in central Asia. 101,000 sq. mi. (261,700 sq. km). Capital: Barnaul.
- altar — An altar is a holy table in a church or temple.
- altay — a territory of the Russian Federation in central Asia. 101,000 sq. mi. (261,700 sq. km). Capital: Barnaul.
6 letter words starting with alta
- altaic — a postulated family of languages of Asia and SE Europe, consisting of the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic branches, and perhaps also Japanese, Korean, and Ainu
- altair — the brightest star in the constellation Aquila. Visual magnitude: 0.77; spectral type: A7V; distance: 16.8 light years
- altars — Plural form of altar.
- altair 8800 — (computer) An Intel 8080-based machine made by MITS. The Altair was the first popular microcomputer kit. It appeared on the cover of the January 1975 "Popular Electronics" magazine with an article (probably) by Leslie Solomon. Leslie Solomon was an editor at Popular Electronics who had a knack for spotting kits that would interest people and make them buy the magazine. The Altair 8800 was one such. The MITS guys took the prototype Altair to New York to show Solomon, but couldn't get it to work after the flight. Nonetheless, he liked it, and it appeared on the cover as "The first minicomputer in a kit." Solomon's blessing was important enough that some MITS competitors named their product the "SOL" to gain his favour. Some wags suggested SOL was actually an abbreviation for the condition in which kit purchasers would find themselves. The original Altair BASIC ran in less than 4K of RAM because a "loaded" Altair had 4K memory. Since there was no operating system on the Altair, Altair BASIC included what we now think of as BIOS. It was distributed on paper tape that could be read on a Teletype. Later versions supported the 8K Altair and the 16K diskette-based Altair (demonstrating that, even in the 1970s, Microsoft was committed to software bloat). Altair BASIC was ported to the Motorola 6800 for the Altair 680 machine, and to other 8080-based microcomputers produced by MITS' competitors.
8 letter words starting with alta
- altadena — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- altamaha — a river in SE Georgia, formed by the Oconee and Ocmulgee rivers and flowing to the Atlantic Ocean. 137 miles (220 km) long.
- altamira — a cave in N Spain, SW of Santander, noted for Old Stone Age wall drawings
- altarage — the donations made at an altar
9 letter words starting with alta
- altarwise — in the position of an altar
- altamonte springs — a city in central Florida.
10 letter words starting with alta
- altarpiece — An altarpiece is a work of art behind the altar in a church.
- altazimuth — an instrument for measuring the altitude and azimuth of a celestial body by the horizontal and vertical rotation of a telescope
- altazimuth mounting — a telescope mounting that allows motion of the telescope about a vertical axis (in azimuth) and a horizontal axis (in altitude)
11 letter words starting with alta
- altarpieces — Plural form of altarpiece.
- altazimuths — Plural form of altazimuth.
12 letter words starting with alta
- altaltissimo — the apex of something
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