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ROUND-ROBIN

Specialty Definition: ROUND-ROBIN

DomainDefinition

Computing

Round-robin A scheduling algorithm in which processes are activated in a fixed cyclic order. Those which cannot proceed because they are waiting for some event (e.g. termination of a child process or an input/output operation) simply return control to the scheduler. The virtue of round-robin scheduling is its simplicity - only the processes themselves need to know what they are waiting for or how to tell if it has happened. However, if a process goes back to sleep just before the event for which it is waiting occurs then the event will not get handled until all the other processes have been activated. Compare priority scheduling. (1996-02-10). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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Specialty Definition: Round-robin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The term round-robin is used in several contexts and usually means that a number of things are taking turns at something, for example a "round-robin-party" where participants walk door to door for small parties at each participants habitat.

Origin

The term comes from the French word ruban which actually means ribbon, so somewhere in history this word was corrupted and idiomized.

In the 17th or 18th century, when peasants in France wanted to complain to the king using a petition, the usual reaction from the monarch was to seize the two-three people on top of that petition list and execute them, so naturally nobody wanted to have his name on top of it.

As a solution to this, names were signed in a circle at the bottom of the petition (like a ribbon), so that no one would be on top of the list and thus all participants took equal blame for the petition.

The principle was later also used by sailors in the British Royal Navy.

See Also

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Round-robin."

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Crosswords: ROUND-ROBIN

Specialty definitions using "ROUND-ROBIN": data striping ♦ Group-Sweeping Scheduling ♦ multitasking ♦ priority scheduling. (references)
Non-English Usage: "ROUND-ROBIN" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (round-robin).

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Usage Frequency: ROUND-ROBIN

"ROUND-ROBIN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "ROUND-ROBIN" is used about 11 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)81.82%9117,287
Noun (singular)18.18%2245,945
                    Total100.00%11N/A

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Modern Translation: ROUND-ROBIN

Language Translations for "ROUND-ROBIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

圆知更鸟. (various references)

   

Danish

  

round-robin. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bij toerbeurt. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

round-robin vuorottelu, kiertovuorottelu. (various references)

   

French

  

round robin. (various references)

   

German

  

Round-Robin. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εξυπηρέτηση εκ περιτροπής. (various references)

   

Italian

  

round robin. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

総"たり . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そうあたり. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

둥글 울새. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ound-robinray

   

Portuguese

  

round-robin. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

карусель циклический. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

round-robin. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

cirkulär processlista. (various references)

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Anagrams: ROUND-ROBIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-i-n-n-o-o-r-r-u"

-1 letter: ironbound.

-3 letters: boudoir, bourdon, bridoon, inbound.

-4 letters: bunion, diuron, durion, inborn, indoor, ronion, unbind, unborn.

-5 letters: boron, bound, bourn, brood, bruin, burin, burro, dobro, donor, inurn, odour, onion, robin, rondo, round, unbid, union.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-i-n-n-o-o-r-r-u"
 

+5 letters: nonreproducible.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams 		5. Bibliography


  

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