Kali

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kali \Ka"li\, n. [Skr. kali.] (Hind. Cosmog.)
     The last and worst of the four ages of the world; --
     considered to have begun B. C. 3102, and to last 432,000
     years.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kali \Ka"li\, prop. n. [Skr. k[=a]l[imac].] (Hind. Myth.)
     The black, destroying goddess; -- called also {Doorga}, {Anna
     Purna}.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kali \Ka"li\, n. [Ar. qali. See {Alkali}.] (Bot.)
     The glasswort ({Salsola Kali}).
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cali \Ca"li\, n. (Hindoo Myth.)
     The tenth avatar or incarnation of the god Vishnu. [Written
     also {Kali}.]
     [1913 Webster] Caliber

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  kali
       n 1: bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having
            prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash [syn:
             {saltwort}, {barilla}, {glasswort}, {kelpwort}, {Salsola
            kali}, {Salsola soda}]
       2: wife of Siva and malevolent form of Devi; "the black"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "Kali":
     Agni, Asvins, Avalokita, Bhairava, Bhairavi, Brahma, Chandi,
     Daksha, Devaki, Devi, Dharma, Dharti Mai, Durga, Dyaus, Ganapati,
     Ganesa, Ganesha, Garuda, Hanuman, Himavat, Indra, Kama, Kamsa,
     Karttikeya, Lakshmi, Parjanya, Parvati, Pushan, Rahu, Rhibhus,
     Rudra, Sarasvati, Savitar, Shiva, Sita, Soma, Surya, Uma, Ushas,
     Vaja, Varuna, Varuni, Vayu, Vishnu, Yama
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Kali
       
          A {data parallel} language.
       
          ["Supporting Shared Data Structures on Distributed Memory
          Architectures", C. Koelbel et al in Second ACM SIGPLAN Symp on
          Princ and Prac of Parallel Programming, pp.177-186, Mar 1990].
       
          (1994-11-09)