| slovo | definícia |
demon
(mass) | demon
- démon, zlý duch |
demon
(msasasci) | demon
- demon |
demon
(encz) | demon,démon n: Zdeněk Brož |
Demon
(gcide) | Demon \De"mon\, n. [F. d['e]mon, L. daemon a spirit, an evil
spirit, fr. Gr. dai`mwn a divinity; of uncertain origin.]
1. (Gr. Antiq.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a
middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
[1913 Webster]
The demon kind is of an intermediate nature between
the divine and the human. --Sydenham.
[1913 Webster]
2. One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the
demon of Socrates. [Often written d[ae]mon.]
[1913 Webster]
3. An evil spirit; a devil.
[1913 Webster]
That same demon that hath gulled thee thus. --Shak.
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demon
(wn) | demon
n 1: an evil supernatural being [syn: devil, fiend, demon,
daemon, daimon]
2: a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster, fiend,
devil, demon, ogre]
3: someone extremely diligent or skillful; "he worked like a
demon to finish the job on time"; "she's a demon at math" |
demon
(foldoc) | demon
1. (Often used equivalently to daemon,
especially in the Unix world, where the latter spelling and
pronunciation is considered mildly archaic). A program or
part of a program which is not invoked explicitly, but that
lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur.
At MIT they use "demon" for part of a program and "daemon"
for an operating system process.
Demons (parts of programs) are particularly common in AI
programs. For example, a knowledge-manipulation program
might implement inference rules as demons. Whenever a new
piece of knowledge was added, various demons would activate
(which demons depends on the particular piece of data) and
would create additional pieces of knowledge by applying their
respective inference rules to the original piece. These new
pieces could in turn activate more demons as the inferences
filtered down through chains of logic. Meanwhile, the main
program could continue with whatever its primary task was.
This is similar to the triggers used in {relational
databases}.
The use of this term may derive from "Maxwell's Demons" -
minute beings which can reverse the normal flow of heat from a
hot body to a cold body by only allowing fast moving molecules
to go from the cold body to the hot one and slow molecules
from hot to cold. The solution to this apparent thermodynamic
paradox is that the demons would require an external supply of
energy to do their work and it is only in the absence of such
a supply that heat must necessarily flow from hot to cold.
Walt Bunch believes the term comes from the demons in Oliver
Selfridge's paper "Pandemonium", MIT 1958, which was named
after the capital of Hell in Milton's "Paradise Lost".
Selfridge likened neural cells firing in response to input
patterns to the chaos of millions of demons shrieking in
Pandemonium.
2. Demon Internet Ltd.
3. A program generator for differential equation problems.
[N.W. Bennett, Australian AEC Research Establishment,
AAEC/E142, Aug 1965].
[Jargon File]
(1998-09-04)
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demon
(jargon) | demon
n.
1. Often used equivalently to daemon — especially in the Unix world,
where the latter spelling and pronunciation is considered mildly archaic.
2. [MIT; now probably obsolete] A portion of a program that is not invoked
explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur.
See daemon. The distinction is that demons are usually processes within a
program, while daemons are usually programs running on an operating system.
Demons in sense 2 are particularly common in AI programs. For example, a
knowledge-manipulation program might implement inference rules as demons.
Whenever a new piece of knowledge was added, various demons would activate
(which demons depends on the particular piece of data) and would create
additional pieces of knowledge by applying their respective inference rules
to the original piece. These new pieces could in turn activate more demons
as the inferences filtered down through chains of logic. Meanwhile, the
main program could continue with whatever its primary task was.
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| | podobné slovo | definícia |
demonstrate
(mass) | demonstrate
- dokázať, predvádzať |
demonstration
(mass) | demonstration
- prejav, demonštrácia |
demonstrative
(mass) | demonstrative
- otvorený |
demonštrácia
(msas) | demonštrácia
- demonstration |
demonstracia
(msasasci) | demonstracia
- demonstration |
cacodemon
(encz) | cacodemon,zlý duch n: antonymum k en eudemon Zdeněk Brož |
counter-demonstration
(encz) | counter-demonstration, |
counterdemonstration
(encz) | counterdemonstration, n: |
counterdemonstrator
(encz) | counterdemonstrator, n: |
counterpart to monetization/demonetization
(encz) | counterpart to monetization/demonetization, |
demon-ridden
(encz) | demon-ridden, adj: |
demonetisation
(encz) | demonetisation, n: |
demonetise
(encz) | demonetise, v: |
demonetization
(encz) | demonetization,demonetizace n: Zdeněk Brož |
demonetize
(encz) | demonetize,demonetizovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
demoniac
(encz) | demoniac,démonický adj: Zdeněk Broždemoniac,zuřivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
demoniacal
(encz) | demoniacal,démonický adj: Zdeněk Brož |
demoniacally
(encz) | demoniacally, |
demonic
(encz) | demonic,démonický |
demonically
(encz) | demonically,démonicky |
demonisation
(encz) | demonisation, n: |
demonise
(encz) | demonise, v: |
demonism
(encz) | demonism,démonismus Zdeněk Brož |
demonization
(encz) | demonization, n: |
demonize
(encz) | demonize,démonizovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
demonolatry
(encz) | demonolatry, n: |
demonology
(encz) | demonology,démonologie n: Zdeněk Brož |
demons
(encz) | demons,démoni Zdeněk Brož |
demonstrability
(encz) | demonstrability,dokazatelnost n: Zdeněk Broždemonstrability,prokazatelnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
demonstrable
(encz) | demonstrable,prokazatelný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
demonstrably
(encz) | demonstrably,prokazatelně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
demonstrate
(encz) | demonstrate,demonstrovat v: Zdeněk Broždemonstrate,dokázat v: Zdeněk Broždemonstrate,předvádět v: Zdeněk Broždemonstrate,ukázat v: Zdeněk Brož |
demonstrate the truth of
(encz) | demonstrate the truth of,dávat za pravdu |
demonstrated
(encz) | demonstrated,demonstrovaný adj: Zdeněk Broždemonstrated,předvedený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
demonstrates
(encz) | demonstrates,demonstruje v: Zdeněk Broždemonstrates,předvádí v: Zdeněk Brož |
demonstrating
(encz) | demonstrating,demonstrování n: Zdeněk Broždemonstrating,předvádění n: Zdeněk Brož |
demonstration
(encz) | demonstration,demonstrace n: Zdeněk Broždemonstration,důkaz n: Zdeněk Broždemonstration,projev n: Zdeněk Brož |
demonstration effect
(encz) | demonstration effect, |
demonstrations
(encz) | demonstrations,demonstrace n: Zdeněk Brož |
demonstrative
(encz) | demonstrative,neskrývaný adj: Zdeněk Broždemonstrative,otevřený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
demonstrative of
(encz) | demonstrative of, adj: |
demonstrative pronoun
(encz) | demonstrative pronoun, |
demonstratively
(encz) | demonstratively,demonstrativně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
demonstrativeness
(encz) | demonstrativeness,demonstrativnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
demonstrator
(encz) | demonstrator,demonstrátor n: Zdeněk Brož |
demonstrators
(encz) | demonstrators,předváděči Zdeněk Brož |
eudemon
(encz) | eudemon,dobrý duch n: antonymum k en cacodemon Jiří Drbálek |
eudemonia
(encz) | eudemonia,eudaimonie n: Jiří Drbálek |
eudemonic
(encz) | eudemonic,eudaimonický adj: Jiří Drbálek |
eudemonism
(encz) | eudemonism,eudaimonizmus n: Zdeněk Brož; Jiří Drbálek |
indemonstrable
(encz) | indemonstrable,nedokazatelný adj: Zdeněk Brožindemonstrable,neprokazatelný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
lecture demonstration
(encz) | lecture demonstration, n: |
pandemonium
(encz) | pandemonium,chaos n: Zdeněk Brožpandemonium,peklo n: [přen.] Petr Prášekpandemonium,vřava n: Zdeněk Brož |
sales demonstrator
(encz) | sales demonstrator, n: |
speed demon
(encz) | speed demon, n: |
undemonstrative
(encz) | undemonstrative,zdrženlivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
undemonstratively
(encz) | undemonstratively, |
advanced concept technology demonstration
(czen) | Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration,ACTD[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož
a automatický překlad |
advanced technology demonstration
(czen) | Advanced Technology Demonstration,ATD[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
advanced technology transition demonstration
(czen) | Advanced Technology Transition Demonstration,ATTD[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk
Brož a automatický překlad |
demonetizace
(czen) | demonetizace,demonetizationn: Zdeněk Brož |
demonetizovat
(czen) | demonetizovat,demonetizev: Zdeněk Brož |
demonstrace
(czen) | demonstrace,demonstrationn: Zdeněk Broždemonstrace,demonstrationsn: Zdeněk Broždemonstrace,marchn: Zdeněk Broždemonstrace,riotn: Zdeněk Broždemonstrace,riotspl. Zdeněk Brož |
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