a. | 1. | Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. |
2. | Refined; accomplished; - said of persons. | |
3. | Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; |
Adj. | 1. | terse - brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand" |
Terse - Language for decryption of hardware logic. ["Hardware Logic Simulation by Compilation", C. Hansen, 25th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf, 1988]. |