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Tao

  [dou, tou]
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–noun (sometimes lowercase)
1. (in philosophical Taoism) that in virtue of which all things happen or exist.
2. the rational basis of human activity or conduct.
3. a universal, regarded as an ideal attained to a greater or lesser degree by those embodying it.
Origin:
< Chin (Wade-Giles) Tao4, (pinyin) dào lit., way
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Tao   (dou, tou)   
n.  

  1. In Taoism, the basic, eternal principle of the universe that transcends reality and is the source of being, non-being, and change.

  2. In Confucianism, the right manner of human activity and virtuous conduct seen as stemming from universal criteria and ideals governing right, wrong, and other categories of existence.


[Chinese (Mandarin) dào, way.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Computing Dictionary

TAO language
1. A Lisp dialect with concurrency, object-orientation and logic.
["Concurrent Programming in TAO - Practice and Experience", I. Takeuchi in Parallel Lisp: Languages and Systems, T. Ito et al eds, LNCS 441, Springer 1989, pp. 271-299].
(2006-02-06)
2. A programming language for APE/Quadrics parallel computers, largely modelled on FORTRAN and evolved from the even more primitive APESE language. TAO is particularly hard to work with, due to the lack of systematics, poor documentation and a primitive compiler.
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(2006-02-06)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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