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FASTER (First Automated Teleprocessing Environment Reponder) was a transaction processor that ran on IBM mainframe systems under OS/MFT. FASTER was available
FASTER_(software)
Topics referred to by the same term
fasting Isuzu Faster, a model of pick-up truck FASTER, stock trading and financial settlement system of New Zealand's Exchange (NZX) FASTER (software)
Faster
Scientific organization for research in cryptology
symposium: Crypto (flagship) Eurocrypt (flagship) Asiacrypt (flagship) Fast Software Encryption (FSE) Public Key Cryptography (PKC) Cryptographic Hardware
International Association for Cryptologic Research
International_Association_for_Cryptologic_Research
Authenticated encryption with associated data algorithm
message authentication code. It has fast software performance, and, without hardware acceleration, is usually faster than AES-GCM. The two building blocks
ChaCha20-Poly1305
Peer-to-peer program for uploading and downloading files via the BitTorrent protocol
customers to deliver a better user experience, higher quality video, faster software downloads, all with the security and reliability of a managed service
BitTorrent_(software)
Open source search engine
significant performance improvements, including up to 25% faster range queries and 2.5× faster concurrent k-NN search. It also included experimental support
OpenSearch_(software)
High level structures of a software system
Software architecture is the set of structures needed to reason about a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each
Software_architecture
Checking software against expectations
Software testing is the act of checking whether software meets its intended objectives and satisfies expectations. Software testing can provide objective
Software_testing
Use of purpose-built software to control test execution
Test automation is the use of software (separate from the software being tested) for controlling the execution of tests and comparing actual outcome with
Test_automation
but are much faster to generate and can fix erasures faster. Software-based implementations of tornado codes are about 100 times faster on small lengths
Tornado_code
Topics referred to by the same term
beginning with Fast All pages with titles containing fast All pages with titles containing F.A.S.T. Fast Company (disambiguation) Faster (disambiguation)
Fast
Topics referred to by the same term
"Faster Than the Speed of Light", a song by Raven "Faster Than the Speed of Light", a song written by Yngwie Malmsteen Faster Than Light (software publisher)
Faster than the speed of light (disambiguation)
Faster_than_the_speed_of_light_(disambiguation)
Type of software test
In computer programming and software testing, smoke testing (also confidence testing, sanity testing, build verification test (BVT) and build acceptance
Smoke_testing_(software)
Software suite for image processing
SilverFast is a family of software for image scanning and processing, including photos, documents and slides, developed by LaserSoft Imaging. There are
SilverFast
This is a list of notable version control software systems. Openness, whether the software is open source or proprietary Repository model, how working
List of version-control software
List_of_version-control_software
Knowledge base and note-taking software
base and note-taking application that operates on Markdown files. The software is free for personal and commercial use; only the offered cloud services
Obsidian_(software)
Swedish website monitoring software company
Pingdom AB is a Swedish website monitoring software as a service company launched in Stockholm and later acquired by the Austin, Texas–based SolarWinds
Pingdom
British video game publisher
Faster Than Light (FTL) was a software publishing label established by UK video game publisher Gargoyle Games. The aim was for FTL to publish arcade-style
Faster Than Light (software publisher)
Faster_Than_Light_(software_publisher)
Time management method
concepts such as timeboxing and iterative and incremental development used in software design, the method has been adopted in pair programming contexts. The original
Pomodoro_Technique
Belgian cryptographer (born 1963)
RIPEMD-160: A Strengthened Version of RIPEMD (PDF). International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption. Watanabe, Dai; Furuya, Soichi; Yoshida, Hirotaka; Takaragi
Bart_Preneel
Engineering approach to software development
Software engineering is a branch of both computer science and engineering focused on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications
Software_engineering
List of software tools for AI-assisted software development
discovering improved computer algorithms such as faster sorting algorithms and hashing AlphaEvolve – AI software agent for designing advanced algorithms List
List of AI-assisted software development tools
List_of_AI-assisted_software_development_tools
Cryptographer
"Bicliques for Preimages: Attacks on Skein-512 and the SHA-2 Family". Fast Software Encryption. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7549. pp. 244–263
Dmitry_Khovratovich
Creation and maintenance of software
implementation that runs significantly faster on multiprocessor computers. During the analysis and design phases of software development, structured analysis
Software_development
Set of cryptographic hash functions
However, in hardware implementations, SHA-3 is notably faster than all other finalists, and also faster than SHA-2 and SHA-1. As of 2018, ARM's ARMv8 architecture
SHA-3
Profession in software engineering
simplicity. Faster time-to-market requires maintainability, testability and deployability. Software architecture and, subsequently, software architects
Software_architect
Type of cryptanalytic attack
1997). The Block Cipher Square (PDF). 4th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption (FSE '97), Volume 1267 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Integral_cryptanalysis
American web infrastructure company
Google Cloud Content To Users Faster". TechCrunch. 9 September 2015. "Fastly Releases Edge Cloud Platform". Bizty. "Fastly raises another $50 million for
Fastly
Tabular comparison of deep learning software
The following tables compare notable software frameworks, libraries, and computer programs for deep learning applications. Licenses here are a summary
Comparison of deep learning software
Comparison_of_deep_learning_software
2023 film by Louis Leterrier
and called the film uninspiring, writing, "Fast X feels like it was written by a software program". Fast X was nominated in five categories at the 2023
Fast_X
3D printer software
employed by Ultimaker, a 3D printer manufacturing company, to maintain the software. Cura is available under LGPLv3 license. Cura was initially released under
Cura_(software)
Block cipher
of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory; it was first presented at the Fast Software Encryption workshop in Leuven in 1994, and first published in the proceedings
Tiny_Encryption_Algorithm
Free application for event monitoring and alerting
Prometheus is a free software application for event monitoring and alerting. It records metrics in a time series database built using an HTTP pull model
Prometheus_(software)
Software acceleration program for file loading
A fast loader is a software program for a home computer, such as the Commodore 64 or ZX Spectrum, that accelerates the speed of file loading from floppy
Fast_loader
Standard for the encryption of electronic data
David Wagner, and Doug Whiting, Improved Cryptanalysis of Rijndael, Fast Software Encryption, 2000 pp213–230 "Academic: Improved Cryptanalysis of Rijndael
Advanced_Encryption_Standard
Performance optimized backup software
FastCopy is software for file copying on Windows. Originally open-source, under the GPLv3 license, later releases were freeware with a note that "Due to
FastCopy
Stream cipher
stream cipher. While it is remarkable for its simplicity and speed in software, multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in RC4, rendering it insecure
RC4
Adage on computer performance
computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster. The adage is named after Niklaus Wirth
Wirth's_law
American cryptographer (born 1952)
(1990). "A fast software one-way hash function". Journal of Cryptology. 3 (1): 43–58. doi:10.1007/BF00203968. Merkle, Ralph C. (1991). "Fast software encryption
Ralph_Merkle
Free web browser
introduced with version 10.50. According to Opera Software, it made Opera 10.50 more than seven times faster in SunSpider than Opera 10.10. On 16 December
Opera_(web_browser)
Software library for computing discrete Fourier transforms
Institute of Technology. FFTW is one of the fastest free software implementations of the fast Fourier transform (FFT). It implements the FFT algorithm
Fastest Fourier Transform in the West
Fastest_Fourier_Transform_in_the_West
Software company
Ironclad is a software as a service company that makes contract management software. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Ironclad
Ironclad_(software)
AI customer service software company
Text (WSE: TXT), previously known as LiveChat Software, is a Polish software company specializing in customer service and artificial intelligence solutions
Text_(company)
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
performance cores are 20% faster with 30% lower power consumption than the Apple A12's, and the four high efficiency cores are 20% faster with 30% lower power
Apple_A13
Software development methodology
productivity, and provide faster release cycles. The process contrasts with traditional methods where a collection of software updates were integrated into
CI/CD
Topics referred to by the same term
of near-instantaneous or faster-than-light communication. Ansible may also refer to: Ansible (software), open-source software provisioning, configuration
Ansible_(disambiguation)
British software developer
Novagen Software Ltd (commonly referred to as Novagen) was a British software company that developed and published a number of computer games for a variety
Novagen_Software
register, and in software by a series of equivalent algorithms, starting with simple code close to the mathematics and becoming faster (and arguably more
Computation of cyclic redundancy checks
Computation_of_cyclic_redundancy_checks
Geospatial ETL Software
geospatial extract, transformation and load software platform developed and maintained by Safe Software of British Columbia, Canada. FME was first released
FME_(software)
Process of improving something by replacing part of it or adding additional parts
parts. For example, one can upgrade a computer by replacing the CPU with a faster one and by adding more RAM, and afterwards, the computer is an upgrade.
Upgrade
Tablet computer family by Amazon
microUSB with USB-C, a faster processor (upgraded from Quad-Core up to 1.8 GHz to Octa-core 2.0 GHz, which Amazon claims is 30% faster than the previous one)
Fire_HD
System software for the Xbox consoles
release frequent updates to the Xbox System Software, mainly containing new or improved features and faster installation and loading times for games and
Xbox_system_software
Acronym for a common web hosting solution
Perl/PHP/Python) is one of the most common software stacks for the web's most popular applications[citation needed]. Its generic software stack model has largely interchangeable
LAMP_(software_bundle)
Computer science observation
other CPUs. In 2018 the Nvidia GPU was 20 times faster than a comparable CPU node: the GPUs were 1.7x faster each year. Moore's law would predict a doubling
Huang's_law
Phrase used in cyberpunk literature
artificially intelligent.[citation needed] Though real-life firewalls, anti-virus software and similar programs fall under this classification, the term has little
Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics
Intrusion_Countermeasures_Electronics
Power engineering software is a software used to create models, analyze or calculate the design of Power stations, Overhead power lines, Transmission towers
Power_engineering_software
Degradation or loss of the use of software over time
Software rot (bit rot, code rot, software erosion, software decay, or software entropy) is the degradation, deterioration, or loss of the use or performance
Software_rot
Tool for Commodore 1541
The Epyx Fast Load is a floppy disk fast loader cartridge made by American software company Epyx in 1984 for the Commodore 64 home computer. It was programmed
Epyx_Fast_Load
Single large version-control repository for many projects
("mono" meaning 'single' and "repo" being short for 'repository') is a software-development strategy in which the code for a number of projects is stored
Monorepo
British payment system
taken over responsibility for the operation of the Bacs and Faster Payments systems and Faster Payments announced that it had become a subsidiary company
Faster Payment System (United Kingdom)
Faster_Payment_System_(United_Kingdom)
Retrieved 2014-08-28. "Software Developer Documentation - MEGA". mega.nz. "Will MEGAsync use peer-to-peer transfers to achieve faster syncing between computers
Comparison of file synchronization software
Comparison_of_file_synchronization_software
Stream cipher
Rivest. It was designed by Bartosz Żółtak, presented in 2004 at the Fast Software Encryption conference. The core of the cipher is the VMPC function,
Variably Modified Permutation Composition
Variably_Modified_Permutation_Composition
Improving the efficiency of software
program optimization, code optimization, or software optimization is the process of modifying a software system to make some aspect of it work more efficiently
Program_optimization
Single instance of a software that serves multiple tenants
be done by buying faster hardware, such as fast CPUs, more memory, and faster disk systems, and typically these costs grow faster than if the load was
Multitenancy
Photo editing app
Luminar Neo is a photo editing software application developed by Skylum (formerly Macphun) available for Windows and macOS. Luminar Neo was released in
Luminar_Neo
Digital signature scheme
Schnorr signature based on twisted Edwards curves. It is designed to be faster than existing digital signature schemes without sacrificing security. It
EdDSA
Direct information article
leading software corporations such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, shift their business model and transfer their products to cloud-based solutions. Faster shift
On-premises_software
Content delivery network
original software repository is moved or deleted. jsDelivr is powered by other content delivery network providers, including Cloudflare, Fastly and BunnyCDN
JSDelivr
Image viewer software for Windows
FastStone Image Viewer is an image viewer and organizer software for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use. The program
FastStone_Image_Viewer
Tool to flag poor computer code
utility that performs static program analysis on C language source code. The software gives its name to modern computing tools responsible for checking for coding
Lint_(software)
Generating images by computer software
hasn't completely died out. While early graphics cards were much faster than software renderers and originally had better quality and more features, it
Software_rendering
AI-dependent computer programming
Vibe coding is a software development practice assisted by artificial intelligence (AI) where the software developer describes a project or task in a
Vibe_coding
Process by which software is developed
A software development process prescribes a process for developing software. It typically divides an overall effort into smaller steps or sub-processes
Software_development_process
Open source web server and a reverse proxy server
HTTP cache. The software was created by Russian developer Igor Sysoev and publicly released in 2004. nginx is free and open-source software, released under
Nginx
Linux distribution
only the minimal functionality required for deploying applications inside software containers, together with built-in mechanisms for service discovery and
Container_Linux
Data center management method
consistently and at scale. Treating infrastructure configuration like software - storing it in version control, reviewing it, and deploying it automatically
Infrastructure_as_code
American technology company
AI-powered observability platform. Their software is used to monitor, analyze, and optimize application performance, software development, cyber security practices
Dynatrace
Umbrella term for certain approaches to software development
Agile software development is an umbrella term for approaches to developing software that reflect the values and principles agreed upon by The Agile Alliance
Agile_software_development
Software used to prevent money laundering
entities to prevent or report money laundering activities. AML software can facilitate faster and more accurate compliance and investigations. Anti-money
Anti–money laundering software
Anti–money_laundering_software
Cross-platform instant messaging service
server-side software is closed-source and proprietary. Pavel Durov said that it would require a major architectural redesign of the server-side software to connect
Telegram_(software)
License allowing software modification and redistribution
A free-software license is a notice that grants the recipient of a piece of software extensive rights to modify and redistribute that software. These
Free-software_license
Hash function that is suitable for use in cryptography
very different hash. So it is useful to check if two copies of data or software match. Typically the operation works on a block of input data; the hash
Cryptographic_hash_function
Automotive technology joint venture
2024 as a joint venture with the goal of advancing the capabilities of software-defined vehicles. Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies focuses on developing
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Rivian_and_Volkswagen_Group_Technologies
British computer scientist (1927–2004)
D. J.; Needham, R. M. (1995). "TEA, a tiny encryption algorithm". Fast Software Encryption. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1008. p. 363. doi:10
David Wheeler (computer scientist)
David_Wheeler_(computer_scientist)
Series of free software licenses
used for 42.5% of free software, and GPLv3 for less than 6.5%, according to Black Duck Software. GPL, copyleft use declining faster than ever Archived 4
GNU_General_Public_License
Commodore 64 software
2025). The most popular feature of Fast Hack'em was its ability to produce copies of copy-protected commercial software. When using the nibbler, disk copying
Fast_Hack'em
3D computer graphics software
Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software suite. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, Haiku, and IRIX and is used for general 3D
Blender_(software)
Software framework for macOS
Free and open-source software portal Sparkle is an open-source software framework for macOS designed to simplify updating software for the end user of
Sparkle_(software)
Unix operating system
native software of several other operating systems on the same architecture, using a binary compatibility layer. This is much simpler and faster than emulation;
Berkeley Software Distribution
Berkeley_Software_Distribution
Cryptographic hash function
Testers and Key Recovery Attacks on Reduced-Round MD6 and Trivium". Fast Software Encryption. Vol. 5665. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
MD6
Software company
enterprises to achieve end-to-end visibility, faster cloud migration, and managed integration services. Magic Software Enterprises was founded in 1983 by David
Magic_Software_Enterprises
Raster graphics editing software
Skin Software, Nik Software, OnOne Software, Topaz Labs Software, The Plugin Site, etc.) Special effects plugins (Alien Skin Software, Auto FX Software, AV
Adobe_Photoshop
System allowing a device to imitate another
In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the
Emulator
Vietnamese automotive company
due to many software glitches. Car and Driver said the vehicle has "immediately obvious flaws" that would make it difficult for VinFast to find customers
VinFast
American enterprise software company
TIBCO Software Inc. is a business unit of Cloud Software Group that provides enterprise software. It has headquarters in Palo Alto and offices in North
TIBCO_Software
Visual programming language
Manoury; the software synchronized a computer to a piano and controlled a Sogitec 4X for audio processing. In 1989, IRCAM developed Max/FTS ("Faster Than Sound")
Max_(software)
Family of block ciphers
Block-Ciphering Algorithm. Fast Software Encryption 1993: 1-17 James L. Massey: SAFER K-64: One Year Later. Fast Software Encryption 1994: 212-241 James
Secure and Fast Encryption Routine
Secure_and_Fast_Encryption_Routine
FastTrack Schedule is a Project Management Software app (PMS) for Mac and Windows. It helps teams plan, track, analyze, organize, manage resources, develop
FastTrack_Schedule
Scientist specializing in computer science
and related services industry, and the software publishing industry, which are projected to be 19% among the faster growing industries in the U.S. economy
Computer_scientist
Application that uses a web browser as a client
A web application (or web app) is application software that is created with web technologies and runs via a web browser. Web applications emerged during
Web_application
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Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, German, Indian
Transporter of Goods with a Cart; Cart Driver; Carter; Someone who Uses a Cart
Boy/Male
English
From the Roman camp.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : nickname for someone who behaved in a masterful manner, or an occupational name for someone who was master of his craft or a schoolmaster, from Middle English maister (Old French maistre, Latin magister). In early instances this surname was often borne by people who were franklins or other substantial freeholders, presumably because they had laborers under them to work their lands. In Scotland Master was the title given to administrators of medieval hospitals, as well as being born by the eldest sons of barons; thus, the surname may also have been acquired as a metonymic occupational name by someone in the service of such.Either a dialect form or an Americanized form of German Meister.Indian (Gujarat and Bombay city) : Parsi occupational name for someone who was a master of his craft, from the English word master.
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, which could have derived from any of the following: 1) Middle English foster, FOSTER means "foster-parent," 2) forster, meaning "forester," 3) forster, meaning "shearer," or 4) fuyster, meaning "saddle-tree maker."
Surname or Lastname
German
German : nickname from Middle High German agelster ‘magpie’, which was known especially in the Middle Ages for mischievous tricks.English : perhaps a variant of Easter.
Girl/Female
American, Anglo, Australian, British, English
Born at Easter; Goddess of the Dawn; Easter Time
Male
English
Low German pet form of Latin Silvester, FESTER means "from the forest."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places called Caistor, in Lincolnshire and Norfolk, Caister in Norfolk, or Castor in Cambridgeshire, all named with Old English cæster ‘Roman fort or town’.
Surname or Lastname
German
German : variant of Pastor 2.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Polish pasterz ‘shepherd’.English : generally a variant of Pastor, but possibly in some cases an occupational name for a baker, from an agent derivative of Old French paste ‘paste or dough’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Farrar.German : variant of Forer or Fahrer.
Girl/Female
American, British, English
Born at Easter
Surname or Lastname
Americanized spelling of German Köster or Küster ‘sexton’ (see Kuster).English
Americanized spelling of German Köster or Küster ‘sexton’ (see Kuster).English : variant of Coster.The American military officer George Custer (1839–76) was a descendant of a German officer from Hesse by the name of Küster.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Forster 3.
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, CARTER means "carter," someone who uses a cart.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone living to the east of a main settlement, from Middle English easter ‘eastern’, Old English ēasterra, in form a comparative of ēast ‘east’ (see East).English : habitational name from a group of villages in Essex, named from Old English eowestre ‘sheepfold’.English : nickname for someone who had some connection with the festival of Easter, such as being born or baptized at that time (Old English ēastre, perhaps from the name of a pagan festival connected with the dawn).Translation of the German family name Oster.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Castor.Americanized spelling of German Kaster.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : reduced form of Forster.English : nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fÅstre, a derivative of fÅstrian ‘to nourish or rear’).Jewish : probably an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames, such as Forster.This name was brought to North America by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. Thomas Foster (1640–79) is buried in the old burial ground in Cambridge, MA. John Foster, born 1648 in Dorchester, MA, was the earliest wood engraver in America.
Male
English
English unisex name derived from the holiday name "Easter," which is related to Old English Eosturmónaþ/Eastermónaþ, EASTER means "April."
Surname or Lastname
English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : variant of Lester.English (East Anglia) : occupational name for a maker of cobblers’ lasts, from Middle English last, lest, the wooden form in the shape of a foot used for making or repairing shoes (Old English lÇ£ste from lÄst ‘footprint’).
Male
Gaelic
Gaelic form of Latin Alexandrus, ALASTER means "defender of mankind."
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Male
English
Anglicized form of Welsh Bedwyr, possibly BEDIVERE means "grave-knower," inferring "one who knows (Arthur's) grave." In Arthurian legend, this is the name of a Knight of the Round Table who returned Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake after King Arthur's death. Described as being one-handed, he was still an excellent warrior. In Welsh, his full name was Bedwyr Bedrydant, meaning "Bedivere of the Perfect Sinews."
Surname or Lastname
English (southeastern)
English (southeastern) : nickname for someone with reddish hair, from a diminutive of Anglo-Norman French sor ‘chestnut (color)’.
Boy/Male
Indian, Traditional
Lord Shiva
Girl/Female
Australian, Danish, Swedish
Lily
Boy/Male
Arabic
Pure
Surname or Lastname
German
German : nickname for a clumsy person, from Middle High German sūsen ‘to move noisily’.English and Scottish : occupational name from Middle English sauser ‘sauce maker’ (Old French saucier, saussier).
Girl/Female
Tamil
Pure, Nectar
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Andrews.Swiss German and Hungarian : derivative of the personal name Andreas.Perhaps a reduced form of Greek Andronikos, Andronidis, or some other similar surname, all patronymics from Andreas.William Andros came to VA in 1617 and died there about 1655. Sir Edmund Andros (1637–1714) was the British colonial governor of several provinces in America between 1674 and 1698, most notably NY (1674–81).
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Lord of All Virtues; Lord Ganesh
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Mountain Peak
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n.
The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day.
v. t.
To cause to fester or rankle.
n.
That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
n.
One who has attained great skill in the use or application of anything; as, a master of oratorical art.
v. i.
To move in a canter.
n.
A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers.
v. t.
To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
n.
One who pastes; as, a paster in a government department.
a.
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.
v. & n.
To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.
v. t.
To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
a.
To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
v. t.
To gain the command of, so as to understand or apply; to become an adept in; as, to master a science.
n.
See Caster, a small wheel.
v. i.
Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.
n.
One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts.
n.
A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.
a.
Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.
a.
To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
n.
One who uses, or controls at will, anything inanimate; as, to be master of one's time.