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ac⋅ro⋅bat

  [ak-ruh-bat]
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–noun
1. a skilled performer of gymnastic feats, as walking on a tightrope or swinging on a trapeze.
2. a person who readily changes viewpoints or opinions.
Origin:
1815–25; < F acrobate < Gk akróbatos walking on tiptoe, equiv. to akro- acro- + -batos, verbal adj. of baínein to go; F word may be recoinage, or etymological reading of the Gk word
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ac·ro·bat   (āk'rə-bāt')   
n.  
  1. One who is skilled in feats of balance and agility in gymnastics.
  2. One who changes one's viewpoint on short notice in response to the circumstances.

[French acrobate, from Greek akrobatēs : akros, high; see acro- + bainein, bat-, to walk; see gwā- in Indo-European roots.]
ac'ro·bat'ic adj., ac'ro·bat'i·cal·ly adv.
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Acrobat

Ac"ro*bat\, n. [F. acrobate, fr. Gr. ? walking on tiptoe, climbing aloft; ? high + ? to go.] One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Acrobat
Spanish: acróbata,
German: der, *die Akrobat(in),
Japanese: 軽わざ師
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acrobat 
1825, from Fr. acrobate, from Gk. akrobates "rope dancer, gymnastic performer," related to akrobatos "going on tip-toe, climbing up high," from akros "topmost, at the point end" (see acrid) + bainein "walk, go" (see come).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Acrobat text, product
A product from Adobe Systems, Inc., for manipulating documents stored in Portable Document Format. Acrobat provides a platform-independent means of creating, viewing, and printing documents.
the magazine of Acrobat publishing (http://acropolis.com/acropolis).
(1995-04-21)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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