UFO

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UFO:

see unidentified flying objectsunidentified flying object
or UFO,
an object or light reportedly seen in the sky whose appearance, trajectory, and general dynamic and luminescent behavior do not readily suggest a logical, conventional explanation.
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UFO

(science and technology)

unidentified flying object

UFO

(language)

(United Functions and Objects) A hybrid functional and object-oriented language designed by John Seargant at Manchester University for general-purpose parallel computation.

To a first approximation, UFO is a strict, higher-order functional language with an object-oriented type system, and strong support for numeric computation in the form of SISAL-style arrays and loops. Parallelism is implicit, and applies at various different levels of granularity, thereby facilitating implementations on a wide range of parallel architectures.

It is planned to run it on a 64 processor KSR machine.

UFO

(United Functions and Objects) A programming language developed by John Sargeant at Manchester University, U.K. It was designed for parallel computations and has both procedural and object-oriented capabilities.

References in periodicals archive ?

If Cyprus is currently a UFO hot-spot, tourists may come to see if they can have their own sighting.

The market for UFO tourism

Even UFO believers were sometimes convinced the objects had down-to-earth explanations.

The day ET almost came to Wednesbury

Defence intelligence staff were more interested in checking that UFOs were not in fact signs of earthly covert spying missions by other countries.

Ministry reveals close encounters; The World Today SIGHTINGS: Government publishes records of UFO activity

The study sees Lanarkshire rival Bonnybridge, near Falkirk, which has long claimed the title of Scotland's UFO capital.

ET comes home .. to Lanarkshire

The idea of UFOs and all that being real now, you know, that's faded into being more like fantastical (expletive) to just dream about and think about.

LIPS HAVE LOTS TO SAY

He claims both the burning bush and the Star of Bethelem were UFOs.

Gospel truth on aliens; EXCLUSIVE

The films are "Best UFO Sightings of the 1990s," "Evidence: The Case for NASA UFOs," "Life on Mars - Latest Photos," "Rods - The Smoking Gun Evidence," "Crop Circle Signs," "The Edge of Reality: Illinois Flying Triangle, Jan.

Screen Sideshows

The latter two consist of lists of UFO organizations, periodicals and non-print resources.

James R. Lewis. UFOs and Popular Culture, an Encyclopedia of Contemporary Myth

This stems from the fact that UFO has become synonymous with otherworldly spacecraft.

The war of the words: revamping operational terminology for UFOs

Spanos and his co-workers studied 49 people - most holding white-collar jobs -- who described a UFO sighting or a closer otherworldly encounter, such as meeting a space alien or being taken away in a spaceship.

UFO sighters: a down-to-Earth crowd

Though it didn't occur in Sweden Thursday, hole-punch clouds are also a common explanation for UFO sightings.