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ac⋅tor

  [ak-ter]
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–noun
1. a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
2. a person who does something; participant.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L āctor, equiv. to āg- (see act ) + -tor -tor
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Ac⋅tor

  [ak-ter]
–noun Classical Mythology.
a brother of King Augeas, sometimes believed to be the father, by Molione, of Eurytus and Cteatus.
Compare Moliones.
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ac·tor   (āk'tər)   
n.  

  1. A theatrical performer.

  2. One who takes part; a participant: "France, Britain . . . and any other external actors now involved . . . in the affairs of the continent" (Helen Kitchen).

  3. Law One, such as the manager of a business, who acts for another.


[Middle English actour, doer, probably from Latin āctor, from āctus, past participle of agere, to drive, do; see ag- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

actor 
1382, "an overseer, a plaintiff," from L. actor "an agent or doer," from stem of agere (see act). Sense of "one who performs in plays" is 1581, originally applied to both men and women. Actress "female stage player" is from 1700.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

Actor language
An object-oriented language for Microsoft Windows written by Charles Duff of the Whitewater Group ca. 1986. It has Pascal/C-like syntax. Uses a token-threaded interpreter. Early binding is an option.
["Actor Does More than Windows", E.R. Tello, Dr Dobb's J 13(1):114-125 (Jan 1988)].
(1994-11-08)

actor
1. In object-oriented programming, an object which exists as a concurrent process.
2. In Chorus, the unit of resource allocation.
(1994-11-08)

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