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Sr, symbol for the element strontium strontium (strŏn`shēəm) [from Strontian, a Scottish town], a metallic chemical element; symbol Sr; at. no. 38; at. wt.
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1.(language)SR - Synchronizing Resources.

A language for concurrent programming.

"Resources" encapsulate processes and variables they share. Each Resource can be separately compiled. "Operations" provide the primary mechanism for process interaction.

SR provides a novel integration of the mechanisms for invoking and servicing operations. Consequently, it supports local and remote procedure call, rendezvous, message passing, dynamic process creation, multicast, semaphores and shared memory.

Version 2.2 has been ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, Decstation, SGI Iris, HP PA, HP 9000/300, NeXT, Sequent Symmetry, DG AViiON, RS/6000, Multimax, Apollo and others.

ftp://cs.arizona.edu/sr/sr.tar.Z.

E-mail: <sr-project@cs.arizona.edu>. Mailing list: info-sr-request@cs.arizona.edu.

["An Overview of the SR Language and Implementation", G. Andrews, ACM TOPLAS 10:51-86 (Jan 1988)].

["The SR Programming Language: Concurrency in Practice", G.R. Andrews et al, Benjamin/Cummings 1993, ISBN 0-8053-0088-0].
2.(networking)sr - The country code for Suriname.


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The specified frequency was chosen to be at the peak of the V([lambda]) distribution (555 nm) and the factor 1/683 watts per steradian was chosen based upon the best estimate at that time of the freezing point of platinum.
 
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