whetstone 音标拼音: [w'ɛtst
, on] [hw'ɛtst
, on]
n . 磨石
磨石
whetstone n 1 :
a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives Whetstone \
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hwetst [=
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n .]
A piece of stone ,
natural or artificial ,
used for whetting ,
or sharpening ,
edge tools .
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The dullness of the fools is the whetstone of the wits .
--
Shak .
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Diligence is to the understanding as the whetstone to the razor . --
South .
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Note :
Some whetstones are used dry ,
others are moistened with water ,
or lubricated with oil .
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{
To give the whetstone },
to give a premium for extravagance in falsehood . [
Obs .]
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The first major {synthetic benchmark } program ,
intended to be representative for numerical ({floating -point }
intensive ) programming . It is based on statistics gathered by
Brian Wichmann at the {National Physical Laboratory } in
England , using an {Algol 60 } {compiler } which translated Algol
into instructions for the imaginary Whetstone machine . The
compilation system was named after the small town of Whetstone
outside the City of Leicester , England , where it was designed .
The later {dhrystone } benchmark was a pun on Whetstone .
Source code : {C
ftp ://netlib .att .com /netlib /benchmark /whetstonec .Z )}, {single
precision Fortran
ftp ://netlib .att .com :/netlib /benchmark /whetstones .Z )},
double precision Fortran
ftp ://netlib .att .com :/netlib /benchmark /whetstoned .Z )}.
A Synthetic Benchmark ", H .J . Curnow and B .A . Wichmann , The
Computer Journal , 19 ,1 (1976 ), pp . 43 -49 ].
1994 -11 -14 )
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