get

get

Informal (in tennis) a successful return of a shot that was difficult to reach

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get

[get]

(computer science)

An instruction in a computer program to read data from a file.

(industrial engineering)

A combination of two or more of the elemental motions of search, select, grasp, transport empty, and transport loaded; applied to time-motion studies.

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get

(1) In programming, a request for the next record in an input file. Contrast with put.

(2) An FTP command used to download a file from a server or to display the contents of a text file. See ftp commands.

(3) (GET) An HTTP command used to retrieve data from a Web server. See HTTP GET.

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