Forth

See also: forth, forþ, forð, forth-, forð-, and forþ-

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Forth

1. A river in Scotland that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from The Trossachs through Stirling to the Firth of Forth on the North Sea.
2. A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth

Derived terms

• Firth of Forth

Etymology 2

From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.

Proper noun

Forth

1. An imperative, stack-based high-level programming language, used mostly in control applications.

Postscript is a language in the Forth family of languages.

Anagrams

• froth