Whetstone

5 definitions found

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

  Whetstone \Whet"stone`\, n. [AS. hwetst[=a]n.]
     A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting,
     or sharpening, edge tools.
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           The dullness of the fools is the whetstone of the wits.


                                                    --Shak.
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           Diligence is to the understanding as the whetstone to
           the razor.                               --South.
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     Note: Some whetstones are used dry, others are moistened with
           water, or lubricated with oil.
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     {To give the whetstone}, to give a premium for extravagance
        in falsehood. [Obs.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  whetstone
       n : a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives

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

  Whetstone
       
           The first major {synthetic benchmark} program,
          intended to be representative for numerical ({floating-point}
          intensive) programming.  It is based on statistics gathered by
          Brian Wichmann at the {National Physical Laboratory} in
          England, using an {Algol 60} {compiler} which translated Algol
          into instructions for the imaginary Whetstone machine.  The
          compilation system was named after the small town of Whetstone
          outside the City of Leicester, England, where it was designed.
       
          The later {dhrystone} benchmark was a pun on Whetstone.
       
          Source code: {C
          (ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/benchmark/whetstonec.Z)}, {single
          precision Fortran
          (ftp://netlib.att.com:/netlib/benchmark/whetstones.Z)},
          {double precision Fortran
          (ftp://netlib.att.com:/netlib/benchmark/whetstoned.Z)}.
       
          ["A Synthetic Benchmark", H.J. Curnow and B.A. Wichmann, The
          Computer Journal, 19,1 (1976), pp. 43-49].
       
          (1994-11-14)
       
       

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Whetstone, AZ (CDP, FIPS 82155)
    Location: 31.70171 N, 110.34075 W
    Population (1990): 1289 (593 housing units)
    Area: 32.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Whetstone, AZ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Arizona
     Population (2000):    2354
     Housing Units (2000): 1056
     Land area (2000):     11.801071 sq. miles (30.564633 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    11.801071 sq. miles (30.564633 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            82155
     Located within:       Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
     Location:             31.703917 N, 110.347996 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Whetstone, AZ
      Whetstone