driver

n 1: the operator of a motor vehicle [ant: {nondriver}]

2: someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle

3: a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver

4: (computer science) a program that determines how a computer

will communicate with a peripheral device [syn: {device

driver}]

5: a golf club used for hitting long shots from the tee [syn: {number

one wood}]

driver

1. {device driver}.

2. The {main loop} of an event-processing

program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for

execution.

3. In the {TeX} world and the computerised typesetting

world in general, a program that translates some

device-independent or other common format to something a real

device can actually understand.

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