Look up: hobbit

1. Hobbit
   Hobbit: Nickname for the Flores man (Homo floresiensis). Derived from the fictional race from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe which first appears in the book The Hobbit.
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2. hobbit
   High order bit. The most significant bit (of a byte). Also known as the meta bit or high bit. [Jargon File]
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3. Hobbit
   A Scheme to C compiler by Tanel Tammet (tammet@cs.chalmers.se). Hobbit attempts to retain most of the original Scheme program structure, making the output C program readable and modifiable. Hobbit is written in Scheme and is able to self-compile. Hobbit release 1 works together with the scm relea...
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4. Hobbit
   `Hobbits` are a fictional diminutive race who inhabit the lands of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien`s legendarium. Hobbits first appeared in the novel The Hobbit, in which the main protagonist, Bilbo Baggins, is the titular hobbit. The novel The Lord of the Rings includes more Hobbits ...
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5. Hobbit
   (computer) `Hobbit` (Хоббит) is a Soviet/Russian 8-bit home computer, based on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum hardware architecture. It also featured a CP/M mode and Forth mode or LOGO mode, with the Forth or LOGO operating environment residing in an on-board ROM chip. Hobbit<...
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6. Hobbit
   (word) The invention of the word `hobbit` is traditionally ascribed to J. R. R. Tolkien, whose The Hobbit was first published in 1937. The Oxford English Dictionary since the 1970s has credited Tolkien with the invention of the word. Since then, however, it has been noted that t...
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