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"IDL" is a common misspelling or typo for: ill, idle, idly, idol, dill, IDP, idyl, IDSL.

Specialty Definition: IDL

Domain Definition
Computing IDL 1. Interactive Data analysis Language. Xerox. Built on Interlisp-D. 2. Interface Description Language (Snodgrass, UNC, Arizona). 3. Interface Definition Language (SunSoft, OMG). 4. Interactive Data Language (Research Systems). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Administration Instrument detection limit. (references)
Aerospace 1: Interface Definition Language�. (references)
  2: Interface Description Language: how web-objects' interfaces are written, something like a contract. This "language" establishes interface data types (similar to the types definable in C++), not data processing (it doesn't describe math operations or loops). Not to be confused with Research Systems Inc's Interactive Data Language, which is a commercial scientific visualization package. http://www.omg.org/corba/cichpter.html, http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/idl/intro/intro.html. (references)
  3: Interactive Data Language. (references)
Environment International Date Line. (references)
Family Interface Definition Language. (references)
Fisheries Instrumental detection limit. Calculated by multiplying the standard deviation of the replicate measurements by 3.143 (EPA 1984b). (references)
Information Technology 1: Interim data link. (references)
  2: Interactive distance learning. (references)
  3: Interoperable data link. (references)
Physics Interpretive Data Language: a proprietary data analysis system of Research Systems International. (references)
Technology 1: Interface Design Language. (references)
  2: Interface Definition Language that facilitates interfacing between servers and IDL compliant client computers. For example, a Java IDL enables Java to communicate with non-Java objects on networks. See also Java. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Common Expressions: IDL

Expressions Definition
IDL Drug Stores IDL Drug Stores or the Independent Drugstores League was a cooperative of independent drugstores that disbanded in the late 1960s. Several drugstores retain the IDL name, including Seebers IDL in Newport, Washington and Schneiders IDL in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Among their promotional items were baseball trading cards. (references)
IDL programming language IDL, short for interactive data language, is a programming language which is a popular data analysis language among scientists. IDL is often confused, at the acronym level, with another (unrelated) "IDL": the Interface description language. (references)
IDL specification language IDL (short for Interface Description Language) is a software interface specification language created by Lamb, Wulf and Nestor at Queen's University. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: IDL

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
IDL English Idle N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: IDL

IDL

IDL may mean:

General

  • International Date Line, the time zone date boundary
  • Intermediate density lipoprotein
  • John F. Kennedy International Airport, from when it was named "Idlewild Airport" ("IDL" IATA airport code)
  • International Drivers License, a supposed document with no real legal status
  • International Darts League, a major darts tournament
  • IDL Drug Stores, a now-defunct independent drug store cooperative

Computer Science

  • Interface description language, any computer language used to describe a software component's interface
    • IDL specification language, a specific IDL created by Lamb, Wulf and Nestor at Queen's University
    • Microsoft Interface Definition Language
  • IDL (programming language) (Interactive Data Language), a data analysis language popular for science applications
  • ICAD Design Language, a knowledge-based engineering language

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "IDL". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: IDL

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
IDL 23     IDL 23
IDL (programming language) 15     IDL (programming language) 15
IDL specification language 3     IDL Drug Stores 2
IDL Drug Stores 2     IDL specification language 3

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).