Caliban
the ugly, beastlike slave of Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Contemporary Examples
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Historical Examples
Margarita’s Soul Ingraham Lovell
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
The Ornithology of Shakespeare James Edmund Harting
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles H. Sylvester
The Drunkard Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
Northern Lights Gilbert Parker
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Margarita’s Soul Ingraham Lovell
noun
a brutish or brutalized man
A declarative annotation language for controlling the partitioning and placement of the evaluation of expressions in a distributed functional language. Designed by Paul Kelly [email protected], Imperial College.
[“Functional Programming for Loosely-coupled Multiprocessors”, P. Kelly, Pitman/MIT Press, 1989].
(1995-01-11)
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the diameter of something of circular section, especially that of the inside of a tube: a pipe of three-inch caliber. Ordnance. the diameter of the bore of a gun taken as a unit of measurement. degree of capacity or competence; ability: a mathematician of high caliber. degree of merit or excellence; quality: the high moral […]
- Calibered
the diameter of something of circular section, especially that of the inside of a tube: a pipe of three-inch caliber. Ordnance. the diameter of the bore of a gun taken as a unit of measurement. degree of capacity or competence; ability: a mathematician of high caliber. degree of merit or excellence; quality: the high moral […]
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to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements). to divide or mark with gradations, graduations, or other indexes of degree, quantity, etc., as on a thermometer, measuring cup, or the like. to determine the correct range for (an artillery gun, mortar, etc.) by observing where the fired projectile hits. to […]
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to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements). to divide or mark with gradations, graduations, or other indexes of degree, quantity, etc., as on a thermometer, measuring cup, or the like. to determine the correct range for (an artillery gun, mortar, etc.) by observing where the fired projectile hits. to […]
- Calibration
to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements). to divide or mark with gradations, graduations, or other indexes of degree, quantity, etc., as on a thermometer, measuring cup, or the like. to determine the correct range for (an artillery gun, mortar, etc.) by observing where the fired projectile hits. to […]