CHARM

Charm

Charm is the critically acclaimed third studio album from American rapper/record producer Danny! and the first of his records to be released commercially. As evidenced in the title, Charm was a huge milestone in Danny!'s career; after two unsuccessful attempts to make a name for himself in the music world, the record unanimously won rave reviews, culminating in the inclusion of the album on the 49th Annual Grammy Awards short list and, eventually, a record deal with Definitive Jux Records.

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Charm++

Charm++ is a parallel object-oriented programming language based on C++ and developed in the Parallel Programming Laboratory at the University of Illinois. Charm++ is designed with the goal of enhancing programmer productivity by providing a high-level abstraction of a parallel program while at the same time delivering good performance on a wide variety of underlying hardware platforms. Programs written in Charm++ are decomposed into a number of cooperating message-driven objects called chares. When a programmer invokes a method on an object, the Charm++ runtime system sends a message to the invoked object, which may reside on the local processor or on a ...

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charm

Noun

  1. An object, act or words believed to have magic power.
    a charm against evil
    It works like a charm.
  2. The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
    He had great personal charm.
    She tried to win him over with her charms.
  3. A quantum number of hadrons determined by the quantity of charm quarks & antiquarks.
  4. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
    She wears a charm bracelet on her wrist.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
  2. A flock, group (especially of finches).

Verb

  1. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
  2. To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence.
  3. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
  4. To make music upon.
  5. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.


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