 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lava
noun: rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from
volcanos; lava is what magma is called when it reaches
the surface
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lava \La"va\ (l[aum]"v[.a]; 277), noun [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.
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.
{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.
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)
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