A female given name from Hebrew.
Used in a Sentence
lilith
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for lilith.
Editorial note
Some of the Mesa/Cedar ideas were re-used by Niklaus Wirth on his Oberon and Lilith OS research, and corresponding derivatives.
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Quick take
A female given name from Hebrew.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of lilith gathered in one view.
(Judaism) The first wife of Adam in Jewish folklore.
(mythology) A Mesopotamian storm demon, a bearer of disease and death.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for lilith.
noun
A female given name from Hebrew.
noun
(Judaism) The first wife of Adam in Jewish folklore.
noun
(mythology) A Mesopotamian storm demon, a bearer of disease and death.
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(astrology) The "dark moon" or "black moon", a fictitious invisible second moon of Earth proposed by astrologers in the early 20th century. Now often interpreted as the position of the apogee of the actual Moon, or as the empty focus of the Moon's elliptical orbit (Earth occupying the other focus).
Example sentences
Some of the Mesa/Cedar ideas were re-used by Niklaus Wirth on his Oberon and Lilith OS research, and corresponding derivatives.
Your agent config just points at lilith-zero instead of the server binary.
The first system Wirth and Jurg Gutknecht designed was Lilith [1].
Mesa was the inspiration for Lilith operating system done in Modula-2.
I did it informally in a style that copied Wirth's Lilith work albeit special-purpose.
I love the Lilith mouse that's used in the first photo.
He did (at least) p-Machine & p-Code (Pascal virtual machine), Lilith (2901-based bit-slice graphical workstation implementing a Modula-2 virtual machine) and Ceres (a series of ns32000 based workstations running Oberon).
The Lilith systems are often overlooked.
Wirth and Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon, the Lilith and Ceres; Psion; Acorn; other Apple efforts notably the Newton and things it inspired like Palm; Symbolics and InterLisp.
Quote examples
So security middleware like this is filling real gaps while the trust chain still starts with "I hope this URL is correct." Curious whether Lilith-zero's policy engine could validate server identity claims alongside response content.
In the late minicomputer era, their Am2900 series of bit-slice[1] components was king, being used to build CPUs for models of DEC PDP-11 and PDP-10, DG Nova, Xerox Dandelion ("Star"), Wirth's Lilith, Atari vector arcade machines, and countless other machines.
One of my own bands does some material that is basically "If Lilith Fair had a prog band" (so both progressive rock and "Lilith"), but other material that is straight up parody in the Weird Al style ("filk" or "dementia", neither of which I found on the list).
Proper noun examples
This (or a Lilith), an Alto, a Symbolics 3600...
Lilith-zero is runtime enforcement, not pre-connection trust.
The problem with Mesa/Cedar, Modula-3/Spin, Modula-2/Lilith, Oberon/Native Oberon, Oberon-2/AOS, Sing#/Singularity and many others is compatibility and lack of buy-in from OS vendors.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use lilith in a sentence?
Some of the Mesa/Cedar ideas were re-used by Niklaus Wirth on his Oberon and Lilith OS research, and corresponding derivatives.
What does lilith mean?
A female given name from Hebrew.
What part of speech is lilith?
lilith is commonly used as noun.