| n. | 1. | An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders. | ||||||
| 2. | A crayon drawing. | |||||||
| 3. | (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
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| v. t. | 1. | To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan. | ||||||
| Noun | 1. | crayon - writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing Synonyms: wax crayon |
| Verb | 1. | crayon - write, draw, or trace with a crayon |
| 1. | crayon - Someone who works on Cray supercomputers. More specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie (irrespective of gender). Systems types who have a Unix background tend not to be described as crayons. | ||
| 2. | crayon - A computron that participates only in number crunching. | ||
| 3. | crayon - A unit of computational power equal to that of a single Cray-1. There is a standard joke about this usage that derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener. |