rendezvous
Overview page. Subjects: Maritime History.
A British naval recruiting centre of the 18th and early 19th centuries, usually set up in times of war in some tavern near the waterfront of seaport towns with a strong lock-up room, known...
rendezvous
Overview page. Subjects: Maritime History.
A British naval recruiting centre of the 18th and early 19th centuries, usually set up in times of war in some tavern near the waterfront of seaport towns with a strong lock-up room, known...
rendezvous
Overview page. Subjects: Warfare and Defence — Astronomy and Astrophysics.
A planned meeting of two spacecraft in orbit or of a spacecraft and celestial target, such as a comet. A rendezvous in Earth orbit usually precedes the docking of spacecraft or the...
rendezvous
in A Dictionary of Computer Science
January 2016; p ublished online January 2016 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Computing. 9 words.
A method of synchronizing concurrent tasks in *Ada.
rendezvous
in A Dictionary of Computing
January 2008; p ublished online January 2008 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Computing. 9 words.
A method of synchronizing concurrent tasks in *Ada.
rendezvous
in A Dictionary of Space Exploration
January 2005; p ublished online January 2006 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 37 words.
A planned meeting of two spacecraft in orbit or of a spacecraft and celestial target, such as a comet. A
rendezvous
in Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage
January 2016; p ublished online September 2015 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Language Reference. 27 words.
The plural is spelt the same, but is pronounced with the final syllable as -vooz. The verb has the
rendezvous
in Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage
January 2015; p ublished online June 2015 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Language Reference. 24 words.
/ˈrɒndeɪvuː/, /-dɪvuː/. The plural is the same, but pronounced /-vuːz/. As verb the inflected forms are rendezvouses
Rendezvous
in Meeting Place
October 2013; p ublished online August 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: Urban and Rural Studies. 1636 words.
The three previous chapters constitute the introduction to The Meeting Place. Illustrating the description of the book in the previous chapter, this chapter plunges the reader into the...
rendezvous
in New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary
January 2012; p ublished online May 2013 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Language Reference. 3 words.
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