[n. al-oi, uh-loi; v. uh-loi] 
| 1. | a substance composed of two or more metals, or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal, intimately mixed, as by fusion or electrodeposition. |
| 2. | a less costly metal mixed with a more valuable one. |
| 3. | standard; quality; fineness. |
| 4. | admixture, as of good with evil. |
| 5. | anything added that serves to reduce quality or purity. |
| 6. | to mix (metals or metal with nonmetal) so as to form an alloy. |
| 7. | to reduce in value by an admixture of a less costly metal. |
| 8. | to debase, impair, or reduce by admixture; adulterate. |
| al·loy (āl'oi', ə-loi') n.
[Alteration (influenced by French aloi) of obsolete allay, from Middle English alay, from Old North French allai, from allayer, to alloy, from Latin alligāre, to bind : ad-, ad- + ligāre, to bind; see leig- in Indo-European roots.] |
A material made of two or more metals, or of a metal and another material. For example, brass is an alloy of copper and zinc; steel is an alloy of iron and carbon. Alloys often have unexpected characteristics. In the examples given above, brass is stronger than either copper or zinc, and steel is stronger than either iron or carbon.
alloy al·loy (āl'oi', ə-loi')
n.
A homogeneous mixture or solid solution of two or more metals, the atoms of one replacing or occupying interstitial positions between the atoms of the other.
ALLOY language
A language by Thanasis Mitsolides
Evaluating modes support serial or parallel execution, eager evaluation or lazy evaluation, nondeterminism or multiple solutions etc. ALLOY is simple as it only requires 29 primitives in all (half of which are for object oriented programming support).
It runs on SPARC.
(ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/local/alloy/).
["The Design and Implementation of ALLOY, a Parallel Higher Level Programming Language", Thanasis Mitsolides
(1991-06-11)
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