orca

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seasSynonyms: killer whalekillergrampussea wolfOrcinus orca
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Orca \Or"ca\ ([^o]r"k[.a]), prop. n. The killer whale (Orcinus orca). [PJC]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Orca

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1986. Similar to Modula-2, but with support for distributed programming using shared data objects, like Linda. A 'graph' data type removes the need for pointers. Version for the Amoeba OS, comes with Amoeba. "Orca: A Language for Distributed Processing", H.E. Bal <bal@cs.vu.nl> et al, SIGPLAN Notices 25(5):17-24 (May 1990).

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