English Dictionary
◊ ENTIRELY
entirely
adv 1: to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; "he
was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the
meal"; "it was completely different from what we
expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new
situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "It was
not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new
approach"; (`whole' is often used informally for
`wholly' as in "a whole new idea") [syn: {wholly}, {completely},
{totally}, {all}, {altogether}, {whole}] [ant: {partly}]
2: without any others being included or involved; "was entirely
to blame"; "a school devoted entirely to the needs of
problem children"; "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively";
"did it solely for money"; "the burden of proof rests on
the prosecution alone"; "a privilege granted only to him"
[syn: {exclusively}, {solely}, {alone}, {only}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN ENTIREX?
EntireX
The German company {Software AG}'s
implementation of {DCOM} under {Unix} and on {IBM}
{mainframes}, released at the end of 1997. EntireX enables
users to exchange their {DCOM} components between {Windows
95}, {Windows NT}, {Unix} and {OS/390} and to build
{application programs} with components running on any of those
{platforms}.
{Home
(http://www.softwareag.com/corporat/solutions/entirex/entirex.htm)}.
(1999-02-05)