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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. (of tempo) very fast;


ADVERB (2)

1. suddenly;
- Example: "Presto! begone! 'tis here again"- Swift

2. 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].