Lucid

4 definitions found

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

  Lucid \Lu"cid\, a. [L. lucidus, fr. lux, lucis, light. See
     {Light}, n.]
     1. Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of
        heaven.
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              Lucid, like a glowworm.               --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
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              A court compact of lucid marbles.     --Tennyson.
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     2. Clear; transparent. " Lucid streams." --Milton.
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     3. Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.
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              A lucid and interesting abstract of the debate.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     4. Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or
        confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular
        operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.
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     Syn: Luminous; bright; clear; transparent; sane; reasonable.
          See {Luminous}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lucid
       adj 1: (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable;
              "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a
              luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a
              crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument"
              [syn: {limpid}, {luculent}, {pellucid}, {crystal clear},
               {perspicuous}]
       2: having a clear mind; "a lucid moment in his madness"
       3: capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and
          consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more
          coherent than she had been just after the accident" [syn:
          {coherent}, {logical}]
       4: transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
          "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal
          clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the
          limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook";
          "transparent cristal" [syn: {crystalline}, {crystal clear},
           {limpid}, {pellucid}, {transparent}]

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

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "lucid":
     Attic, Ciceronian, all there, apprehensible, balanced, beaming,
     bright, brilliant, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear,
     clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, clearheaded,
     clearminded, cloudless, coherent, compos mentis, comprehensible,
     connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline,
     defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, easy,
     effulgent, elegant, explicit, express, fathomable, filmy, finished,
     gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, graspable,
     healthy-minded, incandescent, intelligible, knowable, lambent,
     light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, loud and clear,
     lucent, luculent, luminous, lustrous, mentally sound, natural,
     neat, nonopaque, normal, of sound mind, peekaboo, pellucid,
     perspicuous, plain, polished, pure, radiant, rational, reasonable,
     refined, refulgent, relucent, restrained, revealing, right, round,
     sane, sane-minded, see-through, semipellucid, semitranslucent,
     sensible, serene, sheer, simple, sound, sound-minded,
     straightforward, tasteful, terse, thin, together, translucent,
     translucid, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unaffected,
     unambiguous, unclouded, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal,
     unlabored, unmistakable, unobscured, well-defined, wholesome
  
  

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

  LUCID
       
          1. Early query language, ca. 1965, System Development Corp,
          Santa Monica, CA.  [Sammet 1969, p.701].
       
          2. A family of dataflow languages descended from {ISWIM},
          {lazy} but {first-order}.
       
          Ashcroft & Wadge , 1981.
       
          They use a dynamic {demand driven} model.  Statements are
          regarded as equations defining a network of processors and
          communication lines, through which the data flows.  Every data
          object is thought of as an infinite {stream} of simple values,
          every function as a {filter}.  Lucid has no {data
          constructor}s such as {array}s or {record}s.  {Iteration} is
          simulated with 'is current' and 'fby' (concatenation of
          sequences).  Higher-order functions are implemented using pure
          dataflow and no closures or heaps.
       
          ["Lucid: The Dataflow Language" by Bill Wadge
           and Ed Ashcroft, c. 1985].  ["Lucid, the
          Dataflow Programming Language", W. Wadge, Academic Press
          1985].
       
          (1995-02-16)