Synonym Game

Actors

[ak-ter]

ac·tor

[ak-ter]
noun
1.
a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
2.
a person who does something; participant.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin āctor, equivalent to āg- (see act) + -tor -tor

non·ac·tor, noun

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Actors is always a great word to know.
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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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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Actors definition

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)

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