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sprint

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sprint
1. Athletics a short race run at top speed, such as the 100 metres
2. a fast finishing speed at the end of a longer race, as in running or cycling, etc.

SPRINT - List processing language involving stack operations. "SPRINT - A Direct Approach to List Processing Languages", C.A. Kapps, Proc SJCC 30 (1967). Sammet 1969, p 462.


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In trying interviews, as in sprint races, the start is everything.
It is a lucky thing,' said he, 'that they did not tear up the tree on which I was sitting, or I should have had to sprint on to another like a squirrel; but we tailors are nimble.
If he is an elderly man he is not this active cyclist who sprints away from that young lady's athletic pursuit.
 
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