lucid
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Adjective (4)
- (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable“writes in a limpid style”“lucid directions”“a luculent oration — Robert Burton”“pellucid prose”“a crystal clear explanation”“a perspicuous argument”Synonyms: limpidluculentpellucidcrystal clearperspicuousOpposite unclearSimilar clear
- having a clear mind“a lucid moment in his madness”Opposite insaneSimilar sane
- capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner“a lucid thinker”“she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident”Synonyms: coherentlogicalOpposite irrationalSimilar rational
- transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity“the cold crystalline water of melted snow”“crystal clear skies”“could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool”“lucid air”“a pellucid brook”“transparent crystal”Synonyms: crystallinecrystal clearlimpidpellucidtransparentOpposite opaqueSimilar clear
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Translations
Adjective clear, easily understood
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. lucidus, fr. lux, lucis, light. See Light, noun
1. Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.
Lucid, like a glowworm.— Sir Isaac Newton
A court compact of lucid marbles.— Alfred Tennyson
2. Clear; transparent. “ Lucid streams.” John Milton
3. Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.
A lucid and interesting abstract of the debate.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
4. Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.
Synonyms: Luminous; bright; clear; transparent; sane; reasonable. See Luminous.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.Early query language, ca. 1965, System Development Corp, Santa Monica, CA. [Sammet 1969, p.701].
2.A family of dataflow languages descended from ISWIM, lazy but first-order.
Ashcroft & Wadge <wwadge@csr.uvic.ca>, 1981.
They use a dynamic demand driven model. Statements are regarded as equations defining a network of processors and communication lines, through which the data flows. Every data object is thought of as an infinite stream of simple values, every function as a filter. Lucid has no data constructors such as arrays or records. Iteration is simulated with 'is current' and 'fby' (concatenation of sequences). Higher-order functions are implemented using pure dataflow and no closures or heaps.
["Lucid: The Dataflow Language" by Bill Wadge <wwadge@csr.UVic.CA> and Ed Ashcroft, c. 1985]. ["Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language", W. Wadge, Academic Press 1985].
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