meet

meet
    adj 1: being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that
           she should be seated first" [syn: {fitting}, {meet}]
    n 1: a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
         [syn: {meet}, {sports meeting}]
    v 1: come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How
         nice to see you again!" [syn: {meet}, {run into},
         {encounter}, {run across}, {come across}, {see}]
    2: get together socially or for a specific purpose [syn: {meet},
       {get together}]
    3: be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this
       point" [syn: {converge}, {meet}] [ant: {diverge}]
    4: fill or meet a want or need [syn: {meet}, {satisfy}, {fill},
       {fulfill}, {fulfil}]
    5: satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the
       requirements for the degree?" [syn: {meet}, {fit}, {conform
       to}]
    6: satisfy or fulfill; "meet a need"; "this job doesn't match my
       dreams" [syn: {meet}, {match}, {cope with}]
    7: collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement";
       "Let's gather in the dining room" [syn: {meet}, {gather},
       {assemble}, {forgather}, {foregather}]
    8: get to know; get acquainted with; "I met this really handsome
       guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in Singapore"
    9: meet by design; be present at the arrival of; "Can you meet
       me at the train station?"
    10: contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle;
        "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play
        Mary" [syn: {meet}, {encounter}, {play}, {take on}]
    11: experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much
        opposition" [syn: {meet}, {encounter}, {receive}]
    12: undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a
        terrible fate" [syn: {suffer}, {meet}]
    13: be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two
        buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not
        contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this
        point" [syn: {touch}, {adjoin}, {meet}, {contact}]
    

Meet \Meet\ (m[=e]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Met} (m[e^]t); p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Meeting}.] [OE. meten, AS. m[=e]tan, fr. m[=o]t,
   gem[=o]t, a meeting; akin to OS. m[=o]tian to meet, Icel.
   maeta, Goth. gam[=o]tjan. See {Moot}, v. t.]
   1. To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact
      with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon
      or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact
      by following and overtaking.
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   2. To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to
      encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated
      them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.
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   3. To come into the presence of without contact; to come
      close to; to intercept; to come within the perception,
      influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a
      junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to
      meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear.
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            His daughter came out to meet him.    --Judg. xi.
                                                  34.
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   4. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal
      acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, the eye
      met a horrid sight; he met his fate.
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            Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst,
            Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.
                                                  --Pope.
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   5. To come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to
      satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the
      supply meets the demand.
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   {To meet half way}, literally, to go half the distance
      between in order to meet (one); hence, figuratively, to
      yield or concede half of the difference in order to effect
      a compromise or reconciliation with.
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Meet \Meet\, v. t.
   1. To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in
      contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite
      directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in
      close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines
      meet so as to form an angle.
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            O, when meet now
            Such pairs in love and mutual honor joined !
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. To come together with hostile purpose; to have an
      encounter or conflict.
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            Weapons more violent, when next we meet,
            May serve to better us and worse our foes. --Milton.
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   3. To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on
      the first Monday of December.
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            They . . . appointed a day to meet together. --2.
                                                  Macc. xiv. 21.
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   4. To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree;
      to harmonize; to unite.
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   {To meet with}.
      (a) To light upon; to find; to come to; -- often with the
          sense of unexpectedness.
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                We met with many things worthy of observation.
                                                  --Bacon.
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      (b) To join; to unite in company. --Shak.
      (c) To suffer unexpectedly; as, to meet with a fall; to
          meet with a loss.
      (d) To encounter; to be subjected to.
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                Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury
                From the fierce prince.           --Rowe.
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      (e) To obviate. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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Meet \Meet\, n.
   An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for
   the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of
   meeting.
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Meet \Meet\, a. [OE. mete fitting, moderate, scanty, AS.
   m[=ae]te moderate; akin to gemet fit, meet, metan to mete,
   and G. m[aum]ssig moderate, gem[aum]ss fitting. See {Mete}.]
   Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient.
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         It was meet that we should make merry.   --Luke xv. 32.
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   {To be meet with}, to be even with; to be equal to. [Obs.]
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Meet \Meet\ (m[=e]t), adv.
   Meetly. [Obs.] --Shak.
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greatest lower bound
GLB
infimum
Meet

   <theory> (glb, meet, infimum) The greatest lower bound of two
   elements, a and b is an element c such that c <= a and c <= b
   and if there is any other lower bound c' then c' <= c.

   The greatest lower bound of a set S is the greatest element b
   such that for all s in S, b <= s.  The glb of mutually
   comparable elements is their minimum but in the presence of
   incomparable elements, if the glb exists, it will be some
   other element less than all of them.

   glb is the dual to {least upper bound}.

   (In {LaTeX} "<=" is written as {\sqsubseteq}, the glb of two
   elements a and b is written as a {\sqcap} b and the glb of set
   S as \bigsqcap S).

   (1995-02-03)
    

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