iliad

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Iliad
    n 1: a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the
         siege of Troy

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Iliad \Il"i*ad\, n. [L. Ilias, -adis, Gr. ?, ? (sc. ?), fr. ?,
   ?, Ilium, the city of Ilus, a son of Tros, founder of Ilium,
   which is a poetical name of Troy.]
   A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the
   destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed
   to Homer.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

ILIAD

   <language, real-time> A {real-time} language.

   ["On the Design of a Language for Programming Real-Time
   Concurrent Processes", H.A. Schutz, IEEE Trans Soft Eng
   SE-5(3):248-255, May 1979].

   (2000-09-03)

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