Tuxedo


noun, plural tuxedos.
1.
Also called dinner jacket. a man’s jacket for semiformal evening dress, traditionally of black or dark-blue color and characteristically having satin or grosgrain facing on the lapels.
2.
the complete semiformal outfit, including this jacket, dark trousers, often with silk stripes down the sides, a bow tie, and usually a cummerbund.
noun (pl) -dos
1.
the usual US and Canadian name for dinner jacket Often shortened to tux
database, networking
Cross-platform distributed transaction monitor middleware marketed by BEA systems. Tuxedo supports the production of scalable client-server applications and the coordination of transactions spanning heterogeneous databases, operating systems, and hardware.
BEA Home (http://beasys.com/).
[Connection with Novell, Inc.?]
(2003-01-08)

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