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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A trademark for a widely used programming language that has powerful text-processing features.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A simplified spelling of pearl.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A text-oriented programming language, widely used in Internet applications.

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