meaning of emerald
1. A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl.
2. A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare/l. It is used by English printers.
3. Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald.
4. Emerald An object-oriented distributed programming language and environment developed at the University of Washington in the early 1980s. Emeral was the successor to EPL. It is strongly typed and uses signatures and prototypes rather than inheritance. ["Distribution and Abstract Types in Emerald", A. Black et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-131:65-76 Jan 1987].
5. the green color of an emerald
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emerald | emerald creeper | emerald isle | emerald shiner | emeraldine |
