Driver
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a part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:
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the driving wheel of a locomotive
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a crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone
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- The main loop of an event-processing
program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution.
2. [techspeak] In device
driver, code designed to handle a particular peripheral device
such as a magnetic disk or tape unit. 3. In the TeX world and the computerized typesetting world in
general, a program that translates some device-independent or other common
format to something a real device can actually understand.
- The main loop of an event-processing
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A large sail formerly used with the wind aft or quartering. It
was a square sail cut like a studding-sail, and set with a great yard on
the end of the spanker-boom, across the taffrail. The name latterly has
been officially applied to the spanker, both being the aftermost sails
of a ship, the ring-tail being only an addition, as a studding or
steering sail. (See STEERING-SAIL.) Also, the foremost spur in the
bilge-ways, the heel of which is fayed to the fore-side of the foremost
poppet, and the sides of it look fore and aft. Also, a sort of
fishing-boat. -
(computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
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a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
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the person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive
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an attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier
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the after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker
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One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
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