ALL meanings of algol
Al·gol
A a - noun algol the second brightest star in Perseus, the first known eclipsing binary. Visual magnitude: 2.2–3.5; period: 68.8 hours; spectral type (brighter component): B8V 3
- noun algol a computer programming language designed for mathematical and scientific purposes; a high-level language 3
- noun algol a computer language employing algebraic symbols, used internationally for scientific computations 3
- noun algol a binary variable star in the constellation Perseus: magnitude 2.2 to 3.5: the fainter star regularly eclipses its brighter companion 3
- abbreviation Technical meaning of ALGOL ALGOL 60 3
- noun Definition of algol in Technology (language) ALGOrithmic Language 1960. A portable language for scientific computations. ALGOL 60 was small and elegant. It was block-structured, nested, recursive and free form. It was also the first language to be described in BNF. There were three lexical representations: hardware, reference, and publication. The only structured data types were arrays, but they were permitted to have lower bounds and could be dynamic. It also had conditional expressions; it introduced :=; if-then-else; very general "for" loops; switch declaration (an array of statement labels generalising Fortran's computed goto). Parameters were call-by-name and call-by-value. It had static local "own" variables. It lacked user-defined types, character manipulation and standard I/O. See also EULER, ALGOL 58, ALGOL 68, Foogol. 1
- noun algol a star of the second magnitude in the constellation Perseus: the first known and most famous eclipsing binary star. 1