strand

strand

¹ Chiefly poetic

1. a shore or beach

2. a foreign country

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strand

²

1. a set of or one of the individual fibres or threads of string, wire, etc., that form a rope, cable, etc.

2. a single length of string, hair, wool, wire, etc.

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Strand

the. a street in W central London, parallel to the Thames: famous for its hotels and theatres

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strand

[strand]

(engineering)

One of a number of steel wires twisted together to form a wire rope or cable or an electrical conductor.

A thread, yarn, string, rope, wire, or cable of specified length.

One of the fibers or filaments twisted or laid together into yarn, thread, rope, or cordage.

(geology)

A beach bordering a sea or an arm of an ocean.

(navigation)

To run aground; term strand usually refers to a serious grounding, while the term “ground” refers to any grounding, however slight.

(textiles)

An element of a woven material.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

strand

1. A number of individual steel wires twisted together.

2. A number of individual steel wires laid together (not twisted).

3. In pre-stressed concrete, a type of prestressing tendon.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Strand

(1)

AND-parallel logic programming language. Essentially flat Parlog83 with sequential-and and sequential-or eliminated.

["Strand: New Concepts on Parallel Programming", Ian Foster et al, P-H 1990]. Strand88 is a commercial implementation.

Strand

(2)

A query language, implemented on top of INGRES (an RDBMS). ["Modelling Summary Data", R. Johnson, Proc ACM SIGMOD Conf 1981].

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