Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
(of tempo) very fast;
ADVERB (2)
1.
suddenly;
- Example: "Presto! begone! 'tis here again"- Swift2.
at a very fast tempo (faster than allegro);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Presto \Pres"to\, adv. [It. or Sp. presto quick, quickly. See
Prest, a.]
1. Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly.
[1913 Webster]
Presto! begone! 'tis here again. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Mus.) Quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick,
lively movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or
any rate of time except prestissimo.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
presto
adv 1: suddenly; "Presto! begone! 'tis here again"- Swift
2: at a very fast tempo (faster than allegro)
adj 1: (of tempo) very fast
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
PRESTO
A parallel language for shared-memory multiprocessors, built
on top of C++ by Bershad et al, U Washington 1987. PRESTO
provides classes for threads and spinlocks as well as
Mesa-style monitors and condition variables.
(ftp://cs.washington.edu/pub/presto1.0.tar.Z). E-mail:
.
["PRESTO: A Kernel for Parallel Programming Environments",
B.N. Bershad et al, U Wash CS TR, Jan 1987].