lu⋅cid
[loo-sid] 
sɪd
| 1. | easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible: a lucid explanation. |
| 2. | characterized by clear perception or understanding; rational or sane: a lucid moment in his madness. |
| 3. | shining or bright. |
| 4. | clear; pellucid; transparent. |
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| lu·cid
(lōō'sĭd) Pronunciation Key
adj.
[Latin lūcidus, from lūcēre, to shine; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.] lu·cid'i·ty, lu'cid·ness n., lu'cid·ly adv. |
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lucid
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| lucid | |
adjective | |
| 1. | (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn: limpid] |
| 2. | having a clear mind; "a lucid moment in his madness" |
| 3. | capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident" [syn: coherent] |
| 4. | transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent crystal" [syn: crystalline] |
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LUCID
1. Early query language, ca. 1965, System Development Corp, Santa Monica, CA. [Sammet 1969, p.701].
2. A family of dataflow languages descended from ISWIM, lazy but first-order.
Ashcroft & Wadge
They use a dynamic demand driven model. Statements are regarded as equations defining a network of processors and communication lines, through which the data flows. Every data object is thought of as an infinite stream of simple values, every function as a filter. Lucid has no data constructors such as arrays or records. Iteration is simulated with 'is current' and 'fby' (concatenation of sequences). Higher-order functions are implemented using pure dataflow and no closures or heaps.
["Lucid: The Dataflow Language" by Bill Wadge
(1995-02-16)
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Lucid
Di*lu"cid\, a. [L. dilucidus, fr. dilucere to be light enough to distinguish objects apart. See Lucid.] Clear; lucid. [Obs.] --Bacon. -- Di*lu"cid*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Di`lu*cid"i*ty, n. [Obs.]Cite This Source
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