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| 1. | the tenth letter of the English alphabet, a consonant. |
| 2. | any spoken sound represented by the letter J or j, as in just, major, or rajah. |
| 3. | something having the shape of a J. |
| 4. | a written or printed representation of the letter J or j. |
| 5. | a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter J or j. |
| 1. | the tenth in order or in a series, or, when I is omitted, the ninth. |
| 2. | (sometimes lowercase ) the medieval Roman numeral for 1. |
| 1. | Mathematics. a unit vector on the y-axis of a coordinate system. |
| 2. | Engineering. the imaginary number . |
| j 2 or J Electricity The symbol for current density. |
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joule (jōōl, joul) n. Abbr. J or j
[After James Prescott Joule.] |
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A Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that the stock has voting rights.
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joule (j&oomacr;l, joul)
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Abbr. J
The International System unit of electrical, mechanical, and thermal energy.
A unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of 1 ampere is passed through a resistance of 1 ohm for 1 second.
A unit of energy equal to the work done when a force of 1 newton acts through a distance of 1 meter.
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Abbreviation of joule |
| Joule, James Prescott 1818-1889.
British physicist who demonstrated that heat is a form of energy. His work established the law of conservation of energy, stating that energy is never destroyed but may be converted from one form into another. The joule unit of energy is named for him. |
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A derivative and redesign of APL with added features and control structures. J is purely functional with lexical scope and more conventional control structures, plus several new concepts such as function rank and function arrays. J was designed and developed by Kennneth E. Iverson and Roger Hui
Version 4.1 for MS-DOS, Sun, Mac, Archimedes. Source available in C from Iverson Software, +1 (416) 925 6096.
Version 6 package from ISI includes an interpreter and tutorial. Ported to DEC, NeXT, SGI, Sun-3, Sun-4, Vax, RS/6000, MIPS, Macintosh, Acorn Archimedes, IBM PC, Atari, 3b1, Amiga.
(ftp://watserv1.waterloo.edu/languages/apl/j).
J-mode GNU Emacs macros available by (ftp://think.com/pub/j/gmacs/j-interaction-mode.el).
["APL\?", Roger K.W. Hui et al, APL90 Conf Proc, Quote Quad 20(4):192-200].
(1992-10-31)
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