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reincarnation
(encz) | reincarnation,vtělení n: Zdeněk Brož |
reincarnation
(wn) | reincarnation
n 1: embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a
person in another form); "his reincarnation as a lion"
2: a second or new birth [syn: reincarnation, rebirth,
renascence]
3: the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn
successively into one of five classes of living beings (god
or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of Hell)
depending on the person's own actions |
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reincarnationism
(encz) | reincarnationism, n: |
reincarnationism
(wn) | reincarnationism
n 1: a doctrine that on the death of the body the soul migrates
to or is born again in another body |
cycle of reincarnation
(foldoc) | cycle of reincarnation
reincarnation, cycle of
A term coined by Ivan Sutherland ca. 1970 to refer to a
well-known effect whereby function in a computing system
family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral
hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves toward more
computing power as it does its job, then somebody notices that
it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in
the architecture and folds the function back into the main
CPU, at which point the cycle begins again.
Several iterations of this cycle have been observed in
graphics-processor (blitter) design, and at least one or
two in communications and floating-point processors. Also
known as "the Wheel of Life", "the Wheel of Samsara" and other
variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist theological idea.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-16)
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reincarnation, cycle of
(foldoc) | cycle of reincarnation
reincarnation, cycle of
A term coined by Ivan Sutherland ca. 1970 to refer to a
well-known effect whereby function in a computing system
family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral
hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves toward more
computing power as it does its job, then somebody notices that
it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in
the architecture and folds the function back into the main
CPU, at which point the cycle begins again.
Several iterations of this cycle have been observed in
graphics-processor (blitter) design, and at least one or
two in communications and floating-point processors. Also
known as "the Wheel of Life", "the Wheel of Samsara" and other
variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist theological idea.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-16)
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cycle of reincarnation
(jargon) | cycle of reincarnation
n.
See wheel of reincarnation.
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reincarnation, cycle of
(jargon) | reincarnation, cycle of
n.
See cycle of reincarnation.
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wheel of reincarnation
(jargon) | wheel of reincarnation
[coined in a paper by T.H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland On the Design of
Display Processors, Comm. ACM, Vol. 11, no. 6, June 1968)] Term used to
refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a computing system family
is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the
peripheral evolves toward more computing power as it does its job, then
somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical
processors in the architecture and folds the function back into the main
CPU, at which point the cycle begins again.
Several iterations of this cycle have been observed in graphics-processor
design, and at least one or two in communications and floating-point
processors. Also known as the Wheel of Life, the Wheel of Samsara, and
other variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist theological idea. See also {
blitter}.
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