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万花筒,千变万化的景象

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Kaleidoscope \Ka*lei"do*scope\, n. [Gr. ? beautiful + ? form +
   -scope.]
   An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains
   loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting
   surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its
   contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and
   symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of
   design.

         Shifting like the fragments of colored glass in the
         kaleidoscope.                            --G. W. Cable.

资料来源 : WordNet®

kaleidoscope
     n : an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns
         as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors

资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Kaleidoscope
     
         An {object-oriented} language which mixes
        {imperative} and {constraint}-oriented features.  Kaleidoscope
        was written by Freeman-Benson of the {University of
        Washington}, {Universite de Nantes}, 1989; {University of
        Victoria}, 1992.  It is similar to {Siri} and vaguely related
        to {Prose}.
     
        Versions: Kaleidoscope '90 and Kaleidoscope '91.
     
        ["Kaleidoscope: Mixing Objects, Constraints and Imperative
        Programming", B.N. Freeman-Benson, SIGPLAN Notices
        25(10):77-88 (OOPSLA/ECOOP '90) (Oct 1990)].
     
        ["Constraint Imperative Programming", B.N. Freeman-Benson,
        Ph.D. Thesis, TR 91-07-02, U Wash (1991)].
     
        ["Constraint Imperative Programming", Freeman-Benson et al,
        IEEE Conf on Comp Lang, Apr 1992].
     
        (1994-11-09)