| n. | 1. | (Zool.) Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx. They have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears. |
| 2. | (Astron.) One of the northern constellations. |
| Noun | 1. | lynx - short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their furSynonyms: catamount |
| 1. | LYNX - A language for large distributed networks, using remote procedure calls, developed by the University of Wisconsin
in 1984. ["The Lynx Distributed Programming Language: Motivation, Design and Experience", M.L. Scott, Computer Langs 16:209-233 (1991)]. | ||
| 2. | Lynx - 1. A WWW browser from the University of Kansas for use
on cursor-addressable, character cell terminals or
terminals emulators under Unix or VMS. Lynx is a
product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic
Computing Services of The University of Kansas. Lynx was
originally developed by Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe and
Charles Rezac. Garrett Blythe created DosLynx and later
joined the Lynx effort as well. Foteos Macrides ported much
of Lynx to VMS and is now maintaining it. Version: 2.4-FM (1995-10-25). http://www.cc.ukans.edu/about_lynx/about_lynx.html. Mailing list: lynx-dev@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu (send "subscribe lynx-dev |
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