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Forth en · PROPN · etymology 1

Meanings

  1. A river in Scotland that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from The Trossachs through Stirling to the Firth of Forth on the North Sea.
  2. A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9453).
  3. A village in Central Coast council area and the City of Devonport, northern Tasmania, Australia.
  4. A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth

Forms

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the Forth canonical lexicographic

Deriveds

Firth of Forth

wikipedia: Forth

Forth en · PROPN · etymology 2

Etymology

From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.

Meanings

  1. An imperative, stack-based high-level concatenative programming language, used mostly in control applications.
    • PostScript is another concatenative language similar to the Forth family of languages.

Relateds

Forth and Bargy

wikipedia: Forth