gnu

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gnu - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gnu \Gnu\, n. [Hottentot gnu, or nju: cf. F. gnou.] (Zool.)
     One of two species of large South African antelopes of the
     genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved
     horns in both sexes. [Written also gnoo.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The common gnu or wildebeest (Catoblephas gnu) is
           plain brown; the brindled gnu or blue wildebeest (C. gorgon
           ) is larger, with transverse stripes of black on
           the neck and shoulders.
           [1913 Webster]

gnu - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  gnu
      n 1: large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox
           and a long tufted tail [syn: gnu, wildebeest]

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

  GNU
  
     <body, project> /g*noo/ 1. A recursive acronym:
     "GNU's Not Unix!".  The Free Software Foundation's project
     to provide a freely distributable replacement for Unix.  The
     GNU Manifesto was published in the March 1985 issue of
     Dr. Dobb's Journal but the GNU project started a year and a
     half earlier when Richard Stallman was trying to get funding
     to work on his freely distributable editor, Emacs.
  
     Emacs and the GNU C compiler, gcc, two tools designed
     for this project, have become very popular.  GNU software is
     available from many GNU archive sites.
  
     See also Hurd.
  
     2. <person> John Gilmore.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1997-04-12)
  

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

  GNU
   /gnoo/, not, /noo/
  
     1. [acronym: `GNU's Not Unix!', see recursive acronym] A
     Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation
     headed by Richard Stallman. GNU EMACS and the GNU C compiler, two
     tools designed for this project, have become very popular in
  hackerdom
     and elsewhere. The GNU project was designed partly to proselytize for
     RMS's position that information is community property and all
  software
     source should be shared. One of its slogans is "Help stamp out
     software hoarding!" Though this remains controversial (because it
     implicitly denies any right of designers to own, assign, and sell the
     results of their labors), many hackers who disagree with RMS have
     nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of high-quality
     software for free redistribution under the Free Software Foundation's
     imprimatur. The GNU project has a web page at http://www.gnu.org/.
  See
     EMACS, copyleft, General Public Virus, Linux.
  
     2. Noted Unix hacker John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>}, founder of
  Usenet's
     anarchic alt.* hierarchy.
  

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

  GNU
         GNU's Not Unix (recursive!, Unix, GNU, OS)
         

gnu - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "gnu":
     Cape elk, Virginia deer, antelope, buck, camel, camelopard,
     caribou, deer, deerlet, doe, dromedary, eland, elk, fallow deer,
     fawn, gazelle, giraffe, hart, hartebeest, hind, kaama, moose,
     mule deer, musk deer, okapi, red deer, reindeer, roe, roe deer,
     roebuck, springbok, stag, wildebeest