meaning of engelbart

1. Engelbart, Douglas Douglas Engelbart engine 1. A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function but cant be used without some kind of front end. Today we have, especially, "print engine": the guts of a laser printer. 2. An analogous piece of software; notionally, one that does a lot of noisy crunching, such as a "database engine", or "search engine". The hackish senses of "engine" are actually close to its original, pre-Industrial-Revolution sense of a skill, clever device, or instrument the word is cognate to "ingenuity". This sense had not been completely eclipsed by the modern connotation of power-transducing machinery in Charles Babbages time, which explains why he named the stored-program computer that he designed in 1844 the "Analytical Engine". [Jargon File]

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