[par-uh-sawl, -sol] 
| a lightweight umbrella used, esp. by women, as a sunshade. |
| par·a·sol (pār'ə-sôl', -sŏl') n. A light, usually small umbrella carried as protection from the sun. [French, from Italian parasole : parare, to shield (from Latin parāre, to prepare; see perə-1 in Indo-European roots) + sole, sun (from Latin sōl; see sāwel- in Indo-European roots).] par'a·soled' adj. |
Parasol
Parallel Systems Object Language.
An object-oriented language which supports network and parallel computing. It has modules and exceptions.
["The Parasol Programming Language", R. Jervis
(1995-01-26)
əˌsɔl
