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goldilocks

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The flexible Goldilocks Zone is the least fragile -- to society that is, not to law.

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Quick take

A person with golden hair, especially a girl with long hair.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of goldilocks gathered in one view.

noun

A person with golden hair, especially a girl with long hair.

noun

A goldilocks aster, Aster linosyris.

noun

(used attributively) A happy medium or optimal point between two extremes.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for goldilocks.

noun

The protagonist of a traditional fairy tale. She is a golden-haired young girl who inquisitively enters the house of three bears and tries their three bowls of porridge, three chairs, and three beds, in each case finding only one that suits her.

See also: aster-linosyris, goldilocks-aster, linosyris-vulgaris

Example sentences

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The flexible Goldilocks Zone is the least fragile -- to society that is, not to law.

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A couple problems - when there's even a tiny wobble the goldilocks zone will alternate from extreme freezing to extreme heat.

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True, if you're out of cache, there's a goldilocks zone where linear search works better.

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However to be fair, I was in the Goldilocks zone for health care coverage.

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American Federalism needs to find its Goldilocks moment.

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I've often wondered - maybe bonobos were too friendly, chimps were too aggressive, to sort out technology, but prehumans hit the Goldilocks for that.

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Oh, another planet in the Goldilocks zone?

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We're not debating the Goldilocks Curve vs.

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It's a Goldilocks combo of written and video tutorials and exercises, weekly live sessions and nearly instant responses to questions from students, the founders and TAs in their project forums.

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- Write goldilocks specs -- enough to get the feature built, no more.

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I mostly pass the Goldilocks tests (maybe not the 'immediate need' one), but I'm surprised at how much followup spam (email and calls) I get from conferences.

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If you want to work someplace that’s just starting to take off but small enough to have a huge impact on its outcome, then we’re at the perfect Goldilocks size for you.

Quote examples

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Just like the Goldilocks fairy tale, I think the world is not looking for a solution that is "too hot" or "too cold".

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Looking forward, Curve25519 (≈128-bit) and Ed448-Goldilocks (≈222-bit) are, of course, even better still as the algorithms are more foolproof and they are "rigid" with no doubts about where they come from (and in Curve25519's case, it's even faster still).

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What we wanted was for the US Government to exercise its Anti-Trust capabilities and bust the universally hated Comcast and Time Warner into a bunch of small companies, and set "Goldilocks" regulation so that it's easy for small and new ISPs to compete on both price and service.

Proper noun examples

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This will change if 'draft-irtf-cfrg-curves-02' is accepted and Curve25519 and Ed448-Goldilocks become part of the standard.

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Ed448-Goldilocks is great, and may indeed be a good contender for certificates as it seems to represent a good inflexion point of security versus performance.

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Goldilocks is one of the potential curves on the table there.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use goldilocks in a sentence?

The flexible Goldilocks Zone is the least fragile -- to society that is, not to law.

What does goldilocks mean?

A person with golden hair, especially a girl with long hair.

What part of speech is goldilocks?

goldilocks is commonly used as noun.