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ac⋅tor

  [ak-ter]
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–noun
1. a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
2. a person who does something; participant.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L āctor, equiv. to āg- (see act ) + -tor -tor
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Ac⋅tor

  [ak-ter]
–noun Classical Mythology.
a brother of King Augeas, sometimes believed to be the father, by Molione, of Eurytus and Cteatus.
Compare Moliones.
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ac·tor   (āk'tər)   
n.  

  1. A theatrical performer.

  2. One who takes part; a participant: "France, Britain . . . and any other external actors now involved . . . in the affairs of the continent" (Helen Kitchen).

  3. Law One, such as the manager of a business, who acts for another.


[Middle English actour, doer, probably from Latin āctor, from āctus, past participle of agere, to drive, do; see ag- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

actor 
1382, "an overseer, a plaintiff," from L. actor "an agent or doer," from stem of agere (see act). Sense of "one who performs in plays" is 1581, originally applied to both men and women. Actress "female stage player" is from 1700.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

Actors theory
A model for concurrency by Carl Hewitt. Actors are autonomous and concurrent objects which execute asynchronously. The Actor model provides flexible mechanisms for building parallel and distributed software systems.
(http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/).
["Laws for Communicating Parallel Processes", C. Hewitt et al, IFIP 77, pp. 987-992, N-H 1977].
["ACTORS: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems", Gul A. Agha , Cambridge Press, MA, 1986].
(1999-11-23)

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