Syllable (other)
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. Syllable may also refer to: * Syllable (computing), a unit of information storage * Syllable (operating system), an operating system based on AtheOS See also * Semi-syllable (other) * Syllabic (other) * Syllabary, a set of written symbols * Slab (unit), a unit of information storage consisting of 12 bits * Instruction syllable In computing, an opcode (abbreviated from operation code, also known as instruction machine code, instruction code, instruction syllable, instruction parcel or opstring) is the portion of a machine language instruction that specifies the operat ...

Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic metre and its stress patterns. Speech can usually be divided up into a whole number of syllables: for example, the word ''ignite'' is made of two syllables: ''ig'' and ''nite''. Syllabic writing began several hundred years before the first letters. The earliest recorded syllables are on tablets written around 2800 BC in the Sumerian city of Ur. This shift from pictograms to syllables has been called "the most important advance in the history of writing". A word that consists of a single syllable (like English ''dog'') is called a monosyllable (and is said to be ''monosyllabic''). Similar terms include disyllable (and ''disyllabic''; also '' ...
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Syllable (computing)
In computing, a syllable is a name for a platform-dependent unit of information storage. Depending on the target hardware, various bit widths (and sometimes internal groupings) are associated with it. Commonly used in the 1960s and 1970s, the term has mostly fallen into disuse in favour of terms like byte or word. Examples: * 3-bit syllables: some experimental CISC designs * 8-bit syllables: English Electric KDF9 (represented as syllabic octals and also called slob-octals or slobs in this context) and Burroughs large systems (see also: Burroughs B6x00-7x00 instruction set) * 12-bit syllables: NCR computers such as the NCR 315 (also called slabs in this context) and Burroughs large systems * 13-bit syllables: Saturn Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC) and Gemini Spacecraft On-Board Computer (OBC) See also * Byte * Catena (computing) * Instruction syllable * Nibble * Opcode * Opstring * Parcel (computing) * Syllable (in linguistics) * Word (computer architecture) In co ...
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Syllable (operating System)
Syllable Desktop is a discontinued free and open-source operating system for Pentium and compatible processors. Its purpose is to create an easy-to-use desktop operating system for the home and small office user. It was forked from the stagnant AtheOS in July 2002. It has a native web browser (Webster, which is WebKit-based), email client (Whisper), media player, IDE, and many more applications. Another version of Syllable OS is the Syllable Server, which is based on Linux core. Features Features according to the official website include: * Native 64-bit journaled file system, the AtheOS File System (usually abbreviated to ''AFS'' in this context; not to be confused with the Andrew File System which shares the same abbreviation) * C++ oriented API * Object-oriented graphical desktop environment on a native GUI architecture * Mostly POSIX compliant * Software ports, including Vim, Perl, Python, Apache, others. * GNU toolchain ( GCC, Glibc, Binutils, Make) * Preemptive ...
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Semi-syllable (other)
Semi-syllable may refer to: * minor syllable, in phonology *a glyph of a semi-syllabary A semi-syllabary is a writing system that behaves partly as an alphabet and partly as a syllabary. The main group of semi-syllabic writing are the Paleohispanic scripts of ancient Spain, a group of semi-syllabaries that transform redundant plosive ..., in orthography See also * Syllable (other) * Syllabic (other) {{dab ...
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Syllabic (other)
Syllabic may refer to: *Syllable, a unit of speech sound, considered the building block of words **Syllabic consonant, a consonant that forms the nucleus of a syllable *Syllabary, writing system using symbols for syllables *Abugida, writing system using symbols for consonant-vowel combinations (previously called ''syllabic'' and ''syllabic alphabet'') **Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, a family of abugidas used to write a number of Aboriginal Canadian languages *Syllabic octal, octal representation of 8-bit syllables or bytes *Syllabic verse, poetry that has a certain number of syllables per line *Syllabic text setting in music, in which each syllable is matched to a single note, as opposed to melismatic See also * Syllable (other) *Semi-syllable (other) Semi-syllable may refer to: * minor syllable, in phonology *a glyph of a semi-syllabary A semi-syllabary is a writing system that behaves partly as an alphabet and partly as a syllabary. The main group of semi-syl ...
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Syllabary
In the linguistic study of written languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words. A symbol in a syllabary, called a syllabogram, typically represents an (optional) consonant sound (simple onset) followed by a vowel sound (nucleus)—that is, a CV or V syllable—but other phonographic mappings, such as CVC, CV- tone, and C (normally nasals at the end of syllables), are also found in syllabaries. Types A writing system using a syllabary is ''complete'' when it covers all syllables in the corresponding spoken language without requiring complex orthographic / graphemic rules, like implicit codas ( ⇒ /C1VC2/) silent vowels ( ⇒ /C1V1C2/) or echo vowels ( ⇒ /C1V1C2/). This loosely corresponds to ''shallow'' orthographies in alphabetic writing systems. ''True'' syllabograms are those that encompass all parts of a syllable, i.e. initial onset, medial nucleus and final coda, but since onset and ...
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Slab (unit)
The NCR 315 Data Processing System, released in January 1962 by NCR Corporation, NCR, is a second-generation computer. All printed circuit boards use resistor–transistor logic (RTL) to create the various logic elements. It uses 12-bit computing, 12-bit ''slab'' memory structure using magnetic-core memory. The instructions can use a memory slab as either two BCD (6-bit), 6-bit alphanumeric characters or as three 4-bit computing, 4-bit Binary-coded decimal, BCD digits. Basic memory is 5000 "slabs" (10,000 characters or 15,000 decimal digits) of handmade core memory, which is expandable to a maximum of 40,000 slabs (80,000 characters or 120,000 decimal digits) in four refrigerator-size cabinets. The main processor includes three cabinets and a console section that houses the power supply, keyboard, output writer (an IBM electric typewriter), and a Front panel, panel with lights that indicate the current status of the program counter, registers, arithmetic accumulator, and system err ...
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