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Noun (2)
- any place of complete bliss and delight and peaceSynonyms: paradisenirvanaheavenpromised landShangri-la
- a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man)Synonyms: Garden of Eden
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Eden \E"den\, n. [Heb. [=e]den delight, pleasure; also, a place of pleasure, Eden.] The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence. [1913 Webster]
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Eden
<language, operating system> A concurrent, object-oriented, distributed operating system and language, Eden Programming Language (EPL), based on remote procedure call. It has both synchronous and asynchronous message passing.
["The Eden System: A Technical Review", G. Almes et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-11(1):43-59, Jan 1985].
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