refined

adj 1: used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel;

"she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship";

"refined people with refined taste" [ant: {unrefined}]

2: freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar";

"refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare [syn: {processed}]

[ant: {unrefined}]

3: showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that

comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner";

"maintained an urbane tone in his letters" [syn: {polished},

{svelte}, {urbane}]

4: made pure [syn: {purified}, {sublimate}]

5: suggesting taste, ease, and wealth [syn: {elegant}, {graceful}]

6: free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a

neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans

upset" [syn: {neat}, {tasteful}]

Refined C

(RC) An extension of C to directly specify data access rights

so that flow analysis, and hence automatic parallelisation, is

more effective. Research implementations only. "Refining A

Conventional Language For Race-Free Specification Of Parallel

Algorithms," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1984 Intl Conf Parallel

Proc, pp.380-382.