Twelve tables
plural noun
1.
the Twelve Tables, the earliest code of Roman civil, criminal, and religious law, promulgated in 451–450 bc
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adjective, Music. 1. based on or incorporating the twelve-tone technique: twelve-tone music. 2. using or advocating the twelve-tone technique: a twelve-tone composer. adjective 1. of, relating to, or denoting the type of serial music invented and developed by Arnold Schoenberg, which uses as musical material a tone row formed by the 12 semitones of the […]
- Twelve-tone row
[roh] /roʊ/ noun 1. tone row.
- Twelve-tone technique
noun, Music. 1. a modern system of tone relationships in which the 12 tones of an octave are not centered around any one tone, but are unified by a selected order of tones for a given composition.
- Twenex
operating system /twe’neks/ The TOPS-20 operating system by DEC – the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 – preferred by most PDP-10 hackers over TOPS-10 (that is, by those who were not ITS or WAITS partisans). TOPS-20 began in 1969 as Bolt, Beranek & Newman’s TENEX operating system using special paging hardware. By the early […]
- Twente compiler generator system
language, tool (TCGS) A compiler generator developed at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. (1998-04-27)