orca n 1: predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas [syn: {killer whale}, {killer}, {orca}, {grampus}, {sea wolf}, {Orcinus orca}]
Orca \Or"ca\ ([^o]r"k[.a]), prop. n. The {killer whale} ({Orcinus orca}). [PJC]
Orca Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1986. Similar to Modula-2, but with support for distributed programming using shared data objects, like Linda. A 'graph' data type removes the need for pointers. Version for the Amoeba OS, comes with Amoeba. "Orca: A Language for Distributed Processing", H.E. Bal <[email protected]> et al, SIGPLAN Notices 25(5):17-24 (May 1990).