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Lu⋅cy

[loo-see]
–noun
a female given name.
Also, Luci.

Lu⋅cy

[loo-see]
–noun
the incomplete skeletal remains of a female hominid found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974 and classified as Australopithecus afarensis.

Origin:
after the Beatles' song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” a tape of which was played in the discoverers' camp during the expedition
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Lu·cy   (lōō'sē)   
n.  The skeletal remains of a female hominid, Australopithecus afarensis, found in Tanzania in 1974 and dated at about 3 million years old. Lucy is the most complete australopithecine skeleton yet discovered, being about 40 percent intact.
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Lucy language
A distributed constraint programming language, which is an actor subset of Janus.
["Actors as a Special Case of Concurrent Constraint Programming", K. Kahn et al, SIGPLAN Notices 25(10):57-66 (OOPSLA/ ECOOP '90), Oct 1990].
(2001-03-04)

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