(n. pl.) Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.
Example Sentences:
Ascii
Definition:
(n. pl.) Alt. of Ascians
Example Sentences:
(1) Data is stored as an ASCII file on floppy disks, and protocol reports are printed.
(2) From the computer the data can be written to a printer and displayed as a chart or to an ASCII format file which can be used for analysis with statistical packages.
(3) The translation of mainframe-stored information in ASCII into spreadsheet format for use in Lotus 1-2-3 is explained.
(4) A complete system that operates directly on SYSTAT files is available for the IBM PC and compatibles; it includes a utility that converts ASCII files to SYSTAT format.
(5) In seven of these centers the local team was able to write a program for direct transmission of data, using standard sequential ASCII files.
(6) The data as an ASCII file is transferred via modem to mainframe computer, where another program transfers the information to a database management program.
(7) This calls for a specific HP48SX implementation with ASCII text output of the algorithm presented by Roberts and Coote (1965), and extended by Roussel and Husson (1991).
(8) The programs will be delivered by normal electronic mail; conversion mechanisms will transform binary files to ASCII to allow mail transfer.
(9) Drug-use data are down-loaded from the mainframe as an ASCII file on a floppy disk.
(10) The results are available immediately as printed reports and as ASCII files which are easily imported by most database, spreadsheet and statistics programs for further study.
(11) The calculated results are printed and stored in ASCII files which can be transferred to spreadsheets, databases, graphics or statistical programs.
(12) Sequences can be loaded from any ASCII format data bank or from keyboard.
(13) In a few minutes, he's done and we find ourselves gazing at a TV screen that fills with streams of code, ASCII typewriter-style stuff like I used to see in my short year of computer science lessons (1982-83).
(14) These more highly developed and extensive version of early emoticons – the :-) and :-( built from ASCII characters and used in texts and emails – have opened up serious new possibilities.
(15) Output can be displayed on the console or redirected to an ASCII file.
(16) The three types of database tested include (1) genetic nomenclature, mutation sites and strain names, (2) surnames extracted from literature files and (3) a set of 1000 numeric ASCII strings.
(17) Spot analyses, video images, and quantitative elemental images may be obtained and results transferred in ASCII format to other computers.
(18) We found that we could read and interpret the ASCII string transmitted by the VM220; then started a search for a suitable multiplexing device through which we could manage all six of our VM220's with only one interface card.
(19) The system provides for data entry and retrieval, graphic image capture and analysis, and query and ASCII interface capabilities.
(20) All files are ASCII text, accessible to most word processing programs.