kaleidoscope

Noun
US[kuh-lahy-duh-skohp]/kəˈlaɪdəˌskoʊp/4 syllables

Open English WordNet

Noun (2)

  1. a complex pattern of constantly changing colors and shapesType of form, shape
  2. an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrorsType of plaything, toy

Related words kaleidoscopic adjective, kaleidoscopical adjective

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Ka·lei′do·scope noun

Origin: Gr. … beautiful + εἶδος form + -scope.

An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design.

Shifting like the fragments of colored glass in the kaleidoscope.— George W. Cable

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Kaleidoscope

<language> An object-oriented language which mixes imperative programming and constraint-oriented features. Kaleidoscope was written by Freeman-Benson of the University of Washington, Universite de Nantes, 1989; University of Victoria, 1992. It is similar to Siri and vaguely related to Prose.

Versions: Kaleidoscope '90 and Kaleidoscope '91.

["Kaleidoscope: Mixing Objects, Constraints and Imperative Programming", B.N. Freeman-Benson, SIGPLAN Notices 25(10):77-88 (OOPSLA/ECOOP '90) (Oct 1990)].

["Constraint Imperative Programming", B.N. Freeman-Benson, Ph.D. Thesis, TR 91-07-02, U Wash (1991)].

["Constraint Imperative Programming", Freeman-Benson et al, IEEE Conf on Comp Lang, Apr 1992].

(1994-11-09)

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