tarmac

adj : covered with paving material [syn: {asphalt}, {macadam}, {macadamized},

{tarmacadam}]

n 1: a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a

factory and shaped during paving [syn: {tarmacadam}]

2: a surface paved with compressed layers of broken rocks held

together with tar [syn: {tarmacadam}, {macadam}]

v : surface with macadam, of a road [syn: {macadamize}]

PARMACS

The "Argonne macros" from {Argonne National Laboratory}. A

package of {macro}s written in {m4} for portable {parallel

programming}, using {monitor}s on {shared memory} machines,

and {message passing} on {distributed memory} machines.

[E. Lusk et al, "Portable Programs for Parallel Processors",

HRW 1987. p4].

{(ftp://research.att.com/netlib/parmacs)}