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Cocoa, city, United States

Cocoa, city (1990 pop. 17,722), Brevard co., E Fla., on the Indian River (a lagoon), a segment of the Intracoastal Waterway; inc. 1895. It is a tourist and arts center in a region where citrus fruits are grown. An 8-mi (12.9 km) causeway leads from the city over Indian River to Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, and Cape Canaveral. Patrick Air Force Base is nearby.

cocoa, in cooking

cocoa: see cacao cacao (kəkä`ō, –kā`–), tropical tree (Theobroma cacao
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Cocoa

Apple's programming interface (API) for the Mac OS X operating system. Formerly known as the Yellow Box and derived from the OpenStep environment from NeXT, Cocoa applications are created with Apple's Xcode and Interface Builder development environments as well as with languages such as Perl and Python. See Xcode and OpenStep.

Carbon and Classic for Compatibility
Carbon is the programming interface (API) for writing applications that run on both Mac OS X and earlier Mac operating systems, while Classic was the API for the Mac prior to OS X. Classic also refers to the Blue Box, which is the OS X system program that runs a legacy Mac application as is. See Mac OS X.

cocoa, cacao
a. a light to moderate brown colour
b. (as adjective): cocoa paint


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