What (who) is waldo - definition
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WALDO; Waldo (disambiguation)
waldo
A being that should have been a Greek god.
That waldo is huge.
That waldo is huge.
waldo
/wol'doh/ [Robert A. Heinlein's story "Waldo" ] 1. A mechanical
agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human limb.
When these were developed for the nuclear industry in the
mid-1940s they were named after the invention described by
Heinlein in the story, which he wrote in 1942. Now known by
the more generic term "telefactoring", this technology is of
intense interest to NASA for tasks like space station
maintenance.
2. At Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham and students),
this is used instead of foobar as a metasyntactic variable
and general nonsense word. See foo, bar, foobar,
quux.
[Jargon File ]
waldo
['w?:ld??]
¦ noun (plural waldos) a remote-controlled device for handling objects.
Origin
1940s: named after Waldo F. Jones, a fictional inventor described by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein.
Pronunciation examples for waldo
1. ADAM WALD: Adam Wald.
What to Do When Things Go Wrong _ Frank Supovitz, Boomer Esiason, Adam Wald _ Talks at Google
2. IRIT WALD: OK.
Creating a Winning Mindset _ Irit Wald _ Talks at Google
3. are by Christine Wald.
The Glass Universe _ Dava Sobel _ Talks at Google
4. IRIT WALD: Money.
Creating a Winning Mindset _ Irit Wald _ Talks at Google
5. IRIT WALD: Hi, everyone.
Creating a Winning Mindset _ Irit Wald _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of waldo
1. You have done what you could." _ Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet and philosopher (1803–1882).
2. Waldo Waterman‘s 1'37 Studebaker–powered Arrowbile did fly, and five were built, yet somehow the business never quite took off.
3. There‘s Chuck Berry duck–walking, Madonna grabbing her crotch, Bono with a microphone and even –– upon very close inspection –– Waldo.
4. Costumes ranged from Waldo of Where‘s Waldo‘‘ fame to Cap‘n Crunch and Moses, carrying what he purported to be the 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Beer Me.‘‘ David Peterson of Madison said he‘s been to the Halloween party every year since 1'76.
5. His van failed to negotiate a left turn as he was coming off a bridge and slammed into a wall, the Waldo County Sheriff‘s Department said.