Y

	1.	Y, the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, at the beginning of a word or syllable, except when a prefix (see Y-), is usually a fricative vocal consonant; as a prefix, and usually in the middle or at the end of a syllable, it is a vowel. See Guide to Pronunciation, 145, 178-9, 272.
n.	1.	(Railroads) Something shaped like the letter Y; a forked piece resembling in form the letter Y. Y level (Surv.) an instrument for measuring differences of level by means of a telescope resting in Y's. Y moth (Zool.) a handsome European noctuid moth Plusia gamma) which has a bright, silvery mark, shaped like the letter Y, on each of the fore wings. Its larva, which is green with five dorsal white species, feeds on the cabbage, turnip, bean, etc. Called also gamma moth, and silver Y.
pron.	1.	I.

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Noun	1.	Y - a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys Synonyms: atomic number 39, yttrium
	2.	Y - the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet

1.		Y - General purpose language syntactically like RATFOR, semantically like C. Lacks structures and pointers. Used as a source language for Jack W. Davidson and Christopher W. Fraser's peephole optimiser which inspired GCC RTL and other optimisation ideas. ftp://ftp.cs.princeton.edu/pub/y+po.tar.Z. It is a copy of the original distribution from the University of Arizona during the early 80's, totally unsupported. ["The Y Programming Language", D.R. Hanson, SIGPLAN Notices 16(2):59-68 (Feb 1981)]. [Jack W. Davidson and Christopher W. Fraser, "The Design and Application of a Retargetable Peephole Optimiser", TOPLAS, Apr. 1980]. [Jack W. Davidson, "Simplifying Code Through Peephole Optimisation" Technical Report TR81-19, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1981]. [Jack W. Davidson and Christopher W. Fraser, "Register Allocation and Exhaustive Peephole Optimisation" Software-Practice and Experience, Sep. 1984].
2.		Y - See fixed point combinator.

To see the letter Y in your dream, indicates some decisions that you need to make. It may represent a fork in the road or path you need to choose. The letter Y may also be a pun on "why". You need to start questioning things.atomic number 39, fergusonite, gadolinite, metal, metallic element, xenotime, ytterbite, yttrium

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