blt

4 definitions found

blt - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  BLT
      n 1: sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with
           lettuce [syn: bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, BLT]

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

  BLT
  
     1. /B-L-T/, /bl*t/ or (rarely) /belt/ Synonym for blit.
     This is the original form of blit and the ancestor of
     bitblt.  It refers to any large bit-field copy or move
     operation (one resource-intensive memory-shuffling operation
     done on pre-paged versions of ITS, WAITS and TOPS-10 was
     sardonically referred to as "The Big BLT").  The jargon usage
     has outlasted the PDP-10 BLock Transfer instruction from
     which BLT derives; nowadays, the assembly language
     mnemonic BLT almost always means "Branch if Less Than
     zero".
  
     2. bacon, lettuce and tomato (sandwich).
  
     [Jargon File]
  

blt - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  BLT
   /B.L.T/, /bl@t/, /belt/, n.,vt.
  
     Synonym for blit. This is the original form of blit and the
     ancestor of bitblt. It referred to any large bit-field copy or move
     operation (one resource-intensive memory-shuffling operation done on
     pre-paged versions of ITS, WAITS, and TOPS-10 was sardonically
     referred to as "The Big BLT"). The jargon usage has outlasted the
     PDP-10 BLock Transfer instruction from which BLT derives;
     nowadays, the assembler mnemonic BLT almost always means "Branch if
     Less Than zero".
  

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

  BLT
         BLock Transfer