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Rendezvous

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Rendezvous
See Bonjour and TIB/Rendezvous.
rendezvous [′rän·də‚vü]
(aerospace engineering)
The event of two or more objects meeting with zero relative velocity at a preconceived time and place.
The point in space at which such an event takes place, or is to take place.
1.rendezvous - In Ada, the method of synchronising the activity of different tasks.
2.rendezvous - Query language, close to natural English.

["Seven Steps to Rendezvous with the Casual User", E. Codd in Data Base Management, J.W. Klimbie et al eds, N-H 1974, pp.179-199].
Rendezvous 

(1) A meeting agreed upon in advance.

(2) In the navy, an assigned meeting of ships or of units of ships. A rendezvous assignment usually includes the time and the latitude and longitude of the place, as well as approach courses and measures for identifying the ships.
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So the Big Nation assembled all its ships of war from all over the world, and was about to send them three hundred and fifty thousand miles to the place of rendezvous, when the President of the Big Nation received the following note from the President of the Little Nation:
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Hence there have been, in all ages and nations, certain places set apart for public rendezvous, where the curious might meet and satisfy their mutual curiosity.
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