Cray

3 definitions found

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

  Crare \Crare\ (kr?r), n. [OF. craier, creer, croyer, ship of
     war, LL. craiera, creyera, perh. from G. krieger warrior, or
     D. krijger.]
     A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also
     {crayer}, {cray}, and {craie}.] --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]



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

  Cray \Cray\ (kr[=a]), Crayer \Cray"er\ (-[~e]r), n.
     See {Crare}. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  cray /kray/ n. 1. (properly, capitalized) One of the line of
     supercomputers designed by Cray Research. 2. Any supercomputer at all.
     3. The {canonical} {number-crunching} machine.
  
     The term is actually the lowercased last name of Seymour Cray, a noted
     computer architect and co-founder of the company. Numerous vivid legends
     surround him, some true and some admittedly invented by Cray Research
     brass to shape their corporate culture and image.