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Look up: Gnat

  1. Gnat
    HMS Gnat was a British River Gunboat of 625 tons displacement designed by the Yarrow company during the Great War and launched in 1915 and sunk during the Second World War. HMS Gnat was powered by Yarrow boilers providing a top speed of 14 knots. She carried a complement of between 54 and 65 and was...
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  2. gnat
    [n] - any of various small biting flies: midges 2. [n] - British usage
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Gnat
    Day interceptor jet aircraft, Hawker Siddley [UK]
    Found on http://www.jedsite.info/index.html

  4. Gnat
    Gnat noun [ Anglo-Saxon gnæt .] 1. (Zoology) A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex , undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of anima...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/39

  5. gnat
    1. <zoology> A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito. ......
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  6. gnat
    noun any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies
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  7. Gnat
    • (n.) Any fly resembling a Culex in form or habits; esp., in America, a small biting fly of the genus Simulium and allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc. • (n.) A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis a...
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  8. gnat
    any member of several species of small flies that bite and annoy humans. Several nonbiting insects, such as the midges, which resemble mosquitoes, ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/40

  9. gnat
    Type: Term Pronunciation: nat Definitions: 1. A midge; general term applied to several species of minute insects, including species of Simulium (buffalo gnat) and Hippelates (eye gnat). British authors sometimes include mosquitoes in this group, but this is not done in the U.S.
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  10. Gnat
    (language, tool) An Ada compiler written in Ada using the gcc code generator to allow easy porting to a variety of platforms. Gnat is the only Ada compiler that completely implements the Ada standard, including all the annexes. The compiler is released under the GNU license and is currently maintai...
    Found on http://foldoc.org/Gnat

  11. gnat
    gnat, common name for any one of a number of small, fragile-looking two-winged flies of the suborder Nematocera, order Diptera, which includes the families Tipulidae (crane flies), Bibionidae (hairflies), Ceratopogonidae (biting midges), Chironomidae (true midges), Cecidomyidae (gall midges), Simuli...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08210

  12. Gnat
    Gnat is a popular name for several species of insects of the genus Culex.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  13. gnat
    Any of a group of small two-winged biting insects belonging to the mosquito family. The eggs are laid in water, where they hatch into wormlike larvae, which pass through a pupal stage (see pupa) to emerge as adults. (Family Culicidae.) Species include Culex pipiens, abundant in England; the carrier of malaria Ano...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  14. GNAT
    `GNAT` is a free-software compiler for the Ada programming language which forms part of the GNU Compiler Collection. It supports all versions of the language, i.e. Ada&nbsp;2005, Ada&nbsp;95 and Ada&nbsp;83; it allows already some constructs of Ada&nbsp;2012 (i.e. pre/postconditions ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNAT



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On 10th February 1996, a computer, Deep Blue, beat Russian Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player on the planet, and mankind’s place in the order of things was reshuffled. The match immediately became an iconic symbol of the advances made in artificial intelligence and supercomputing. Kasparov has since retired, like Deep Blue, which now resides in a museum. He has become a vocal advocate for democracy in today’s Russia. read more

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