KALEIDOSCOPE - Definition

Meaning of KALEIDOSCOPE

Pronunciation:		ku'lIdu`skowp
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors

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	See Also:	plaything, toy

Products Dictionary

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Kalei"doscope\, n. [Gr. ? beautiful + ? form + -scope.] An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design. Shifting like the fragments of colored glass in the kaleidoscope. --G. W. Cable.

Computing Dictionary

	Definition:	An object-oriented language which mixes imperative and constraint-oriented features. Kaleidoscope was written by Freeman-Benson of the University of Washington, Universite de Nantes, 1989; University of Victoria, 1992. It is similar to Siri and vaguely related to Prose. Versions: Kaleidoscope '90 and Kaleidoscope '91. ["Kaleidoscope: Mixing Objects, Constraints and Imperative Programming", B.N. Freeman-Benson, SIGPLAN Notices 25(10):77-88 (OOPSLA/ECOOP '90) (Oct 1990)]. ["Constraint Imperative Programming", B.N. Freeman-Benson, Ph.D. Thesis, TR 91-07-02, U Wash (1991)]. ["Constraint Imperative Programming", Freeman-Benson et al, IEEE Conf on Comp Lang, Apr 1992].

Dream Dictionary

	Definition:	Seeing a kaleidoscope in your dream means diversity and fragments or various aspects that is coming together. It also foretells that you will have difficulties in choosing a career path.

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