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pres⋅to

  [pres-toh] adverb, adjective, noun, plural -tos.
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–adverb
1. quickly, rapidly, or immediately.
2. at a rapid tempo (used as a musical direction).
–adjective
3. quick or rapid.
4. executed at a rapid tempo (used as a musical direction).
–noun
5. Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
Origin:
1590–1600; < It: quick, quickly < LL praestus (adj.) ready, L praestō (adv.) at hand
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pres·to   (prěs'tō)   
adv.  

  1. Music In a very fast tempo, usually considered to be faster than allegro but slower than prestissimo. Used chiefly as a direction.

  2. So suddenly that magic seems involved; right away.

n.   pl. pres·tos Music
A passage or movement that is performed presto.

[Italian, from Late Latin praestus, quick, from Latin praestō, at hand; see ghes- in Indo-European roots.]
pres'to adj.
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PRESTO
A parallel language for shared-memory multiprocessors, built on top of C++ by Bershad et al, U Washington 1987. PRESTO provides classes for threads and spinlocks as well as Mesa-style monitors and condition variables.
(ftp://cs.washington.edu/pub/presto1.0.tar.Z). E-mail: .
["PRESTO: A Kernel for Parallel Programming Environments", B.N. Bershad et al, U Wash CS TR, Jan 1987].

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