meaning of mace
1. A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57. 98 grains.
2. A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.
3. A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor.
4. A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority.
5. An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
6. A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
7. A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand.
8. MACE A concurrent object-oriented language. Mach An operating system kernel under development at Carnegie-Mellon University to support distributed and parallel computation. Mach is designed to support computing environments consisting of networks of uniprocessors and multiprocessors. Mach is the kernel of the OSF/1. Machiavelli An extension of Standard ML developed by Peter Buneman & Atsushi Ohori of the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, based on orthogonal persistence. ["Database Programming in Machiavelli: A Polymorphic Language with Static Type Inference", A. Ohori, Proc SIGMOD Conf, ACM, June 1989].
Related Words
mace | macedonian | macedonianism | macer | macerate | macerated | macerater | macerating | maceration |
