Alps

n. mountain range in southern Europe stretching from southern Germany through Austria and Switzerland down to Italy and southern France

n. high mountain

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The Alps (; ; ; ) is the name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west. The word "Alps" was taken via French from Latin Alpes (meaning "the Alps"), which may be influenced by the Latin words albus (white) or altus (high) or more likely a Latin rendering of a Celtic or Ligurian original.
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Noun
1. a large mountain system in south-central Europe; scenic beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist attraction
(synonym) the Alps
(hypernym) range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains
(part-holonym) Switzerland, Swiss Confederation, Suisse, Schweiz, Svizzera
(part-meronym) Dolomite Alps

Noun
1. any high mountain
(hypernym) mountain, mount

n. goblin, gremlin, incubus, evil spirit; nightmare

<language> 1. An early interpreted algebraic language for the Bendix G15 by Richard V. Andree of the University of Oklahoma. ALPS is said to have preceded and influenced development of BASIC.
Dale Peters dpeters@theshop.net reports that in the summer of 1966 he attended the second year of an NSF-sponsored summer institute in mathematics and computing at the University of Oklahoma. Richard Andree taught the computing class which mostly used the language GO-GO which was later renamed ALPS. Andree, Harold Wiebe, Ralph Howenstein, and another grad student were changing the language frequently during the class, which was occasionally a little disorienting. Dale believes it was used in the previous summer as well and that it was about this time that Kemeny (one of the designers of BASIC) saw it during a visit.
2. A parallel logic language.
["Synchronization and Scheduling in ALPS Objects", P. Vishnubhotia, Proc 8th Intl Conf Distrib Com Sys, IEEE 1988, pp. 256-264].
(1994-11-24)

<language> A list processing extension of Mercury Autocode.
["ALP, An Autocode List-Processing Language", D.C. Cooper et al, Computer J 5:28-31, 1962].
(1995-01-24)