Tuba

5 definitions found

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

  Tuba \Tu"ba\, n. [L., trumpet.] (Mus.)
     (a) An ancient trumpet.
     (b) A sax-tuba. See {Sax-tuba}.
         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  tuba
       n : the lowest brass wind instrument [syn: {bass horn}, {sousaphone}]
       [also: {tubae} (pl)]

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

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "tuba":
     alpenhorn, alphorn, althorn, alto horn, ballad horn, baritone,
     bass horn, brass choir, brass wind, brass-wind instrument, brasses,
     bugle, bugle horn, clarion, cornet, cornet-a-pistons,
     corno di caccia, cornopean, double-bell euphonium, euphonium,
     helicon, horn, hunting horn, key trumpet, lituus, lur, mellophone,
     ophicleide, orchestral horn, pocket trumpet, post horn, sackbut,
     saxhorn, saxtuba, serpent, slide trombone, sliphorn, sousaphone,
     tenor tuba, tromba, trombone, trumpet, valve trombone,
     valve trumpet
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  TUBA
       TCP and UDP with Bigger Addresses (TCP, UDP, RFC 1347)
       
       

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

  TUBA
       
           An {Internet} {protocol}, described in
          {RFC 1347}, {RFC 1526} and {RFC 1561}, and based on the {OSI}
          {Connectionless Network Protocol} (CNLP).
       
          TUBA is one of the proposals for {Internet Protocol Version
          6}.
       
          (1995-04-03)