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new word for wordnet: performant



On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:17, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> Once upon a time John Summerfield said...
> > Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> > >Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant?

> > According to dictionary.com,
> >   1 entry found for performant?.                              
> > 
> >   Main Entry: performant
> >   Function: noun
> >   Definition: a performer
> >   Etymology: based on informant, etc.
> 
> I have seen this word used in the past in a similar context and guessed
> what it meant, but you prompted me to look it up in a bunch of online
> dictionaries.
> 
> Apart from what you found, I found it nowhere but
> dictionary.cambridge.org in the french/english dictionary, where it had
> this definition:
> 
>   performant(e) adj (appareil, technique) high-performance; (entreprise,
>   industrie, produit) successful; (cadre, manager) effective

Hi Ben, perhaps this is another word for wordnet?

(This is the third submission in two days - kind of funny really.)

tia
zen



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