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Boustrophedon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Graffito (archaeology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wordie : boustrophedonically. Wordie is a social network for people who love words. List words, add comments and citations, and discuss. ... about 1 year ago seanahan said: ... I'm sorry, but as a programmer I read that pdf and am almost about to cry. There is a reason modern program languages evolved.
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boustrophedonically; Came across this word in a book I read recently, and thought it was just really cool. The book is Envisioning Information and the author is talking about strange bar graphs where the illustrator, instead of making the scale high enough for the tallest bar, just makes that bar snake up and down in...
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Definition of boustrophedon from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. ... Britannica Online Encyclopedia ... One entry found.
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We still do many things boustrophedonically, such as mowing the lawn, vacuuming the floor, etc. In many computer printers, such as dot-matrix and inkjet, the print head usually moves in the boustrophedon mode (though thankfully doesn't print letters mirrored or rotated).
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There are a number of ancient languages which were written boustrophedonically, which I’m sure has given members of the Unicode committee many sleepless nights. The example here is a rare early Latin text written boustrophedonically.
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The Ultimate Language Resource on the Web. ... Part of Speech: Noun ... Meaning: The back-and-forth style of writing used by the Hittites, Greeks, and others, in which the lines are written alternately from left to right then right to left. Early impact-type computer printers often had boustrophedonic heads that moved left to right,
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Reading C declarations is made simpler when you realize that they are written boustrophedonically. Of course, even knowing the definition of boustrophedonically doesn't really help. The idea is that C declarations are interpreted based on the tricky precedence of operators such as "*", "[]", and "()".
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After the Land Ordinance of 1785, which authorized the surveying and division of all unsettled land in America west of the Appalachian mountains into six mile square townships, the settlers of those townships often, if not always, numbered the thirty-six subdivisions boustrophedonically, starting at the Northeast corner.
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