aids

4 definitions found

aids - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  AIDS
      n 1: a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system
           transmitted through blood products especially by sexual
           contact or contaminated needles [syn: AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome
           ]

aids - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  AIDS
  
     <jargon> /aydz/ A* Infected Disk Syndrome ("A*" is a
     glob pattern that matches, but is not limited to, Apple Computer
     ), this condition is quite often the result of
     practicing unsafe SEX.
  
     See virus, worm, Trojan horse, virgin.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1995-04-13)
  

aids - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  AIDS
         Automatic Installation and Diagnostic Service
         

aids - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  AIDS, Engl. law. Formerly they were certain sums of money granted by the
  tenant to his lord in times of difficulty and distress, but, as usual in
  such cases, what was received as a gratuity by the rich and powerful from
  the weak and poor, was soon claimed as a matter of right; and aids became a
  species of tax to be paid by the tenant to his lord, in these cases: 1. To
  ransom the lord's person, when taken prisoner; 2. To make the lord's eldest
  son a knight; 3. To marry the lord's eldest daughter, by giving her a
  suitable portion. The first of these remained uncertain; the other two were
  fixed by act of parliament at twenty shillings each being the supposed
  twentieth part of a knight's fee, 2 Bl. Com. 64.