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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
brittle
adj 1: having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or
fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is
brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal" [syn:
brittle, brickle, brickly]
2: lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and
calculating woman"
3: (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily
cracked or fractured [syn: brittle, unannealed]
n 1: caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets [syn: brittle,
toffee, toffy]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Brittle \Brit"tle\, a. [OE. britel, brutel, AS. bryttian to
dispense, fr. bre['o]tan to break; akin to Icel. brytja, Sw.
bryta, Dan. bryde. Cf. Brickle.]
Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
[1913 Webster]
Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece
Of fine-cut crystal. --Cotton.
[1913 Webster]
Brittle silver ore, the mineral stephanite.
[1913 Webster]
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3. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
brittle
adj.
Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in
operating environment or configuration, or by any minor tweak to the
software itself. Also, any system that responds inappropriately and
disastrously to abnormal but expected external stimuli; e.g., a file system
that is usually totally scrambled by a power failure is said to be brittle.
This term is often used to describe the results of a research effort that
were never intended to be robust, but it can be applied to commercial
software, which (due to closed-source development) displays the quality far
more often than it ought to. Oppose robust.
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4. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
brittle
fragile
Said of software that is functional but easily
broken by changes in operating environment or configuration,
or by any minor tweak to the software itself. Also, any
system that responds inappropriately and disastrously to
abnormal but expected external stimuli; e.g. a file system
that is usually totally scrambled by a power failure is said
to be brittle. This term is often used to describe the
results of a research effort that were never intended to be
robust, but it can be applied to commercially developed
software, which displays the quality far more often than it
ought to.
Opposite of robust.
[Jargon File]
(1995-05-09)
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Thesaurus Results for brittle:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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