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crayon
1. a small stick or pencil of charcoal, wax, clay, or chalk mixed with coloured pigment
2. a drawing made with crayons
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crayon
[′krā‚än] (graphic arts)
A small stick for drawing, usually made of a combination of pigments or dyes in a wax or oil medium.
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crayon
(1)Someone who works on Cray supercomputers. More
specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC
ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie
(irrespective of gender). Systems types who have a Unix
background tend not to be described as crayons.
crayon
(2)A computron that participates only in number crunching.
crayon
(3)A unit of computational power equal to that of a single
Cray-1. There is a standard joke about this usage that
derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When
you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener.
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