actors

n. one who acts, performer (in plays, films, etc.)

An actor, actress, or player (see terminology) is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity. The ancient Greek word for an actor, hypokrites, when rendered as a verb means "to interpret"; in this sense, an actor is one who interprets a dramatic character.
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The Hero Initiative, formerly known as A Commitment to Our Roots, or ACTOR, is the first federally recognized not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping comic book creators, writers and artists in need. Founded in late 2000 by a consortium of comic book and trade publishers including Marvel Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Wizard Entertainment, CrossGen Comics and Dynamic Forces Inc., the 501(c)(3) charity aims to assist comic creators with health, medical, and quality-of-life assistance.
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Noun
1. a theatrical performer
(synonym) histrion, player, thespian, role player
(hypernym) performer, performing artist
(hyponym) actress
(derivation) act, play, roleplay, playact
2. a person who acts and gets things done; "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker"
(synonym) doer, worker
(hypernym) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
(hyponym) demon
(derivation) act

<theory> A model for concurrency by Carl Hewitt. Actors are autonomous and concurrent objects which execute asynchronously. The Actor model provides flexible mechanisms for building parallel and distributed software systems.
http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/.
["Laws for Communicating Parallel Processes", C. Hewitt et al, IFIP 77, pp. 987-992, N-H 1977].
["ACTORS: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems", Gul A. Agha agha@cs.uiuc.edu, Cambridge Press, MA, 1986].
(1999-11-23)

<language> An object-oriented language for Microsoft Windows written by Charles Duff of the Whitewater Group ca. 1986. It has Pascal/C-like syntax. Uses a token-threaded interpreter. Early binding is an option.
["Actor Does More than Windows", E.R. Tello, Dr Dobb's J 13(1):114-125 (Jan 1988)].
(1994-11-08)

1. <programming> In object-oriented programming, an object which exists as a concurrent process.
2. In Chorus, the unit of resource allocation.
(1994-11-08)

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