strand
1 Chiefly poetic1. a shore or beach
2. a foreign country
strand
21. a set of or one of the individual fibres or threads of string, wire, etc., that form a rope, cable, etc.
2. a single length of string, hair, wool, wire, etc.
Strand
the. a street in W central London, parallel to the Thames: famous for its hotels and theatres
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strand
[strand] (engineering)
One of a number of steel wires twisted together to form a wire rope or cable or an electrical conductor.
A thread, yarn, string, rope, wire, or cable of specified length.
One of the fibers or filaments twisted or laid together into yarn, thread, rope, or cordage.
(geology)
A beach bordering a sea or an arm of an ocean.
(navigation)
To run aground; term strand usually refers to a serious grounding, while the term “ground” refers to any grounding, however slight.
(textiles)
An element of a woven material.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
strand
1. A number of individual steel wires twisted together.
2. A number of individual steel wires laid together (not twisted).
3. In pre-stressed concrete, a type of prestressing
tendon. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Strand
(1)AND-parallel
logic programming language. Essentially
flat Parlog83 with sequential-and and sequential-or
eliminated.
["Strand: New Concepts on Parallel Programming", Ian Foster et
al, P-H 1990].
Strand88 is a commercial implementation.
Strand
(2)A query language, implemented on top of
INGRES (an
RDBMS). ["Modelling Summary Data", R. Johnson, Proc ACM
SIGMOD Conf 1981].
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