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quicksilver

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quicksilver: see mercury mercury or quicksilver [from the Roman god Mercury], metallic chemical element; symbol Hg [Lat. hydrargyrum=liquid silver]; at. no. 80; at. wt. 200.59; m.p. −38.842°C;; b.p. 356.58°C;; sp. gr. 13.
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(1) (QuickSilver Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.qstech.com) A mobile communications company that specializes in a reconfigurable logic chip for cellphones and PDAs. See adaptive computing.

(2) A browser plug-in from Micrografx that allows a variety of vector drawings to be viewed from the Web.

(3) A family of dBASE III PLUS compilers developed by WordTech Systems, Inc. In 1992, the technology was acquired by Borland.

(database)Quicksilver - A dBASE-like compiler for MS-DOS from WordTech.
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While he was speaking, Quicksilver seemed to be in search of something; he went stooping along the ground, and soon laid his hand on a little plant with a snow-white flower, which he plucked and smelt of.
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
What that was, whether essence of quicksilver, or a few drops of hartshorn, there is no telling.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
The creeks, winding their way from the sea to the village, shone like quicksilver beneath the vivid sunshine.
The Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
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