[krey-on, -uh
n] 
| 1. | a pointed stick or pencil of colored clay, chalk, wax, etc., used for drawing or coloring. |
| 2. | a drawing in crayons. |
| 3. | to draw or color with a crayon or crayons. |
| 4. | to make a drawing with crayons. |
| cray·on (krā'ŏn', -ən) n.
To draw, color, or decorate with a stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk. [French, diminutive of craie, chalk, from Latin crēta.] cray'on·ist (-ə-nĭst), cray'on·er (-ə-nər) n. |
crayon
1. Someone who works on Cray supercomputers. More specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie (irrespective of gender). Systems types who have a Unix background tend not to be described as crayons.
2. A computron that participates only in number crunching.
3. A unit of computational power equal to that of a single Cray-1. There is a standard joke about this usage that derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener.
[The Jargon File]
(1994-10-13)
crayon
an implement for drawing made from clay, chalk, plumbago, dry colour, and wax. There are two types of crayons, the colouring crayon and the chalk crayon.
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