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say it: AL-gahl
algol is a noun meaning "the second brightest star in Perseus; the first known eclipsing binary". It is pronounced /ˈælɡɑl/ — AL-gahl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the second brightest star in Perseus; the first known eclipsing binary
(from a combination of ALGOrithmic and Language); a programming language used to express computer programs as algorithms
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for algol come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.