ani

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. black tropical American cuckoo
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Ani \A"ni\or Ano \A"no\, n. [Native name.] (Zool.) A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, having a compressed, bladelike bill and remarkable for communistic nesting. [1913 Webster] Anicut

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Automatic Number Identification ANI

<communications> (ANI) A service that tells the recipient of a telephone call the telephone number of the person making the call. This number can be passed to computer equipment to automatically retrieve associated information about the caller, i.e. account status, billing records, etc.

See CTI.

(1996-12-08)

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