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| dragoon [n] | | | | | 1) | a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen |
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| cavalryman | | | | | dragoon [v] | | | | | 1) | compel by coercion, threats, or crude means; "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone" |
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| coerce | | | | | 2) | subjugate by imposing troops |
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)
A distributed, concurrent, object-oriented Ada-based language developed in the Esprit DRAGON project by Colin Atkinson at Imperial College in 1989 (Now at University of Houston, Clear Lake). DRAGOON supports object-oriented programming for embeddable systems and is presently implemented as an Ada preprocessor.
["Object-Oriented Reuse, Concurrency and Distribution: An Ada-Based Approach", C. Atkinson, A-W 1991, ISBN 0-2015-6-5277].
(1999-11-22)
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