bottom

bottom

1. Nautical touch bottom to run aground

2. Nautical the parts of a vessel's hull that are under water

3. (in literary or commercial contexts) a boat or ship

4. Billiards Snooker a strike in the centre of the cue ball

5. a dry valley or hollow

6. US and Canadian the low land bordering a river

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bottom

[′bäd·əm]

(computer science)

The termination of a file.

(geology)

The bed of a body of running or still water.

root

(particle physics)

The new quantum number associated with the bottom quark. Also known as beauty.

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

Bottom

under spell, grows ass’s head. [Br. Lit.: A Midsummer Night’s Dream]

See: Enchantment

Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

bottom

(theory)

The least defined element in a given domain.

Often used to represent a non-terminating computation.

(In LaTeX, bottom is written as \perp, sometimes with the domain as a subscript).

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