Lava

4 definitions found

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

  Lava \La"va\ (l[aum]"v[.a]; 277), n. [It. lava lava, orig. in
     Naples, a torrent of rain overflowing the streets, fr. It. &
     L. lavare to wash. See {Lave}.]
     The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured
     sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It
     also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms


     beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern
     United States.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Lavas are classed, according to their structure, as
           scoriaceous or cellular, glassy, stony, etc., and
           according to the material of which they consist, as
           doleritic, trachytic, etc.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     {Lava millstone}, a hard and coarse basaltic millstone from
        the neighborhood of the Rhine.
  
     {Lava ware}, a kind of cheap pottery made of iron slag cast
        into tiles, urns, table tops, etc., resembling lava in
        appearance.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lava
       n : rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from
           volcanos; lava is what magma is called when it reaches
           the surface

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

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "lava":
     aa, abyssal rock, ash, ashes, basalt, bedrock, block lava, brand,
     brash, breccia, calx, carbon, charcoal, cinder, clinker, coal,
     coke, conglomerate, coom, crag, dross, druid stone,
     festooned pahoehoe, fume, gneiss, granite, igneous rock, limestone,
     living rock, magma, mantlerock, metamorphic rock, monolith,
     pahoehoe, pillow lava, porphyry, pudding stone, reek, regolith,
     rock, ropy lava, rubble, rubblestone, sandstone, sarsen, schist,
     scoria, scree, sedimentary rock, shelly pahoehoe, slag, smoke,
     smudge, smut, soot, stone, sullage, talus, tufa, tuff
  
  

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

  LAVA
       
          A language for {VLSI} that deals with "sticks", i.e. wires
          represented as lines with thickness.
       
          ["A Target Language for Silicon Compilers", R.J. Matthews et
          al, IEEE COMPCON, 1982, pp. 349-353].
       
          (1994-12-07)