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Whetstone
"Whetstone" in a Sentence (9 examples)
Sand and gravel are stone broken into bits. A whetstone, flint, marble etcetera are ordinary stones.
Tom slid the knife across the whetstone until it was razor-sharp.
The blacksmith kept a whetstone beside the forge.
[…]for alwaies the dulneſſe of the foole, is the whetstone of the wits.
It was as if a stone were ground to dust; as if white sparks flew from a livid whetstone, which was his spine; as if the switchback railway, having swooped to the depths, fell, fell, fell.
Near-synonym: hone (verb)
Developed in the early 1970s by Harold Curnow and Brian Wichmann, Whetstones was originally released in Algol and Fortran versions but was later translated into several other languages.
Whetstone reflects mostly numerical computing, using a substantial amount of floating-point arithmetic.
The Prodigy 4 does 500,000 Whetstones.
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