Oz
[oz] 
jocular back formation from aussie (with voiced sibilant)
oz.
| ounce; ounces. |
abbr. of It onza
Land of Oz
| an unreal, otherworldly, or magical place. |
after the magical place created by L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and other fantasy novels
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| ounce 1 (ouns) n.
[Middle English unce, from Old French, from Latin ūncia; see oi-no- in Indo-European roots.] |
| oz also oz. abbr. ounce |
| Oz 1 (ŏz) n. An unreal, magical, often bizarre place: regarded New York City as the Oz of the Northeast. [After the fantasy land Oz created by L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful World of Oz and other novels.] |
| Oz 2 (ŏz) n. Slang Australia. [Alteration of Aus(tralian).] |
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Main Entry: oz
Function: abbreviation
ounce; ounces
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oz or oz.
abbr.
ounce
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| oz
Abbreviation of ounce |
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Oz
An object-oriented concurrent constraint language from the University of Saarbrucken. Oz is based on constraint communication, a new form of asynchronous communication using logic variables. Partial information about the values of variables is imposed concurrently and incrementally. Supports higher order programming and object-orientation including multiple inheritance.
duck.dfki.uni-sb.de/pub/papers).
["Object-Oriented Concurrent Constraint Programming in Oz", G. Smolka et al].
oz
An old Australian top-level domain and network which got incorporated into the current one. The former Australian domains .oz, .edu and .com are now .oz.au, .edu.au and .com.au.
(1994-10-04)
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