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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | IRIX |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
IRIX is the System V based Unix Operating System with BSD extensions developed by SGI to run natively on their 32 and 64-bit MIPS architecture workstations and servers.
It is unusual for a current commercial UNIX because it is BSD based, rather than being based on System V. Because of its Unix underpinnings, it is capable of extremely long uptime, and its XFS filesystem regarded to be one of the most advanced journaling file systems in the industry.
IRIX has particularly strong support for 3D graphics, video and high-bandwidth bulk data transfer. So it was one of the first Unix flavors to feature a GUI for the main desktop environment and is currently used widely due to extremely high performance 3D graphics, the computer animation industry and for scientific visualization.
The current major version of IRIX is IRIX 6.5. New minor versions are released every quarter in two variants: a maintenance release that includes only fixes to the original IRIX 6.5 code, and a feature release that includes improvements and enhancements. As of July, 2003, the current minor version of IRIX is IRIX 6.5.20.
Rumors abound that SGI plans to end-of-life it along with MIPS, in favor of Linux on Itanium but as confirmed by SGI engineers on Usenet, this will not happen any time soon.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "IRIX."
Crosswords: IRIX |
| Specialty definitions using "IRIX": FUDGIT ♦ GNU Network Object Model Environment ♦ Moscow ML ♦ Windows 2000 ♦ XSB. (references) |
| "IRIX" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "IRIX" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
irix | 42 |
6.5 free irix ware | 12 |
6.5 irix r5000 | 6 |
6.5 free irix software | 6 |
irix pharmaceutical | 5 |
6.5 irix | 4 |
irix old shell | 3 |
download irix | 3 |
irix operativo sistema | 3 |
sgi irix | 2 |
irix printing | 2 |
appz irix | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-r-x" | |
-2 letters: xi. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-r-x" | |
+2 letters: elixir. | |
+3 letters: elixirs, trioxid. | |
+4 letters: aviatrix, cicatrix, crucifix, expiries, expiring, heritrix, intermix, oxidiser, oxidizer, refixing, remixing, sextarii, triaxial, trioxide, trioxids. | |
+5 letters: auxiliary, directrix, exhibitor, extrinsic, immixture, maximizer, mediatrix, oxidisers, oxidizers, peroxidic, preexilic, prefixing, premixing, priedieux, prolixity, proximity, reoxidize, trioxides, uxoricide. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 52 49 58 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. .-. .. -..- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01010010 01001001 01011000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I R I X |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0052 0049 0058 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43524358 |
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