meaning of twains

1. Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.
2. TWAIN standard> An image capture API for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems. The standard was first released in 1992, and is currently ratified at version 1. 9 as of January 2000. TWAIN is typically used as an interface between image processing software and a scanner or digital camera. The word TWAIN is from Kiplings "The Ballad of East and West" - ". . . and never the twain shall meet. . . ", reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers. It was up-cased to TWAIN to make it more distinctive. This led people to believe it was an acronym, and then to a contest to come up with an expansion. None were selected, but the entry "Technology Without An Interesting Name" continues to haunt the standard. Home http://www. twain. org/.
3. two items of the same kind

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