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lucent

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Editorial note

Buying Alcatel-Lucent suggests to me they aren't all that healthy, based in part on my working at Lucent in 2001 and paying attention to that field since then.

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Quick take

Emitting light; shining, luminous.

Meaning at a glance

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

adjective

Emitting light; shining, luminous.

adjective

Translucent; clear, lucid.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lucent.

Example sentences

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Buying Alcatel-Lucent suggests to me they aren't all that healthy, based in part on my working at Lucent in 2001 and paying attention to that field since then.

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Eh, Lucent for a while had a logo that was (nearly literally) a sample brush from Painter or something.

3

Wikipedia lists Dennis Ritchie working for Lucent Technologies (currently) and Bell Labs.

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Of course, China has an exit that Lucent did not, as mentioned here (and the article mentioned it too) - China has the option of war!

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Nokia recently acquired Lucent and Bell Labs...

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Hans Vesterberg, the current CEO of Ericsson noted that 10 years ago Nokia, Siemens, Alcatel, Lucent and Motorola was Ericsson largest competitors, all more or less the same size.

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Plumbing, a compiler chain that makes cross-compilation stupidly easy (so much so that OpenBSD considered using it but backed away because of the Lucent license at the time), the acid debugger, mk, Venti, etc.

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I read an article recently which had a great analogy, comparing Chinas lending to the US (so that the US can continue to buy Chinese exports) to Lucent Technologies in the nineties, lending money to dot com startups so they could keep buying Lucent hardware - economic growth continues steadily, but eventually when these loans are to be cashed in, the economy will crumble.

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From where I'm sitting, having worked with someone here on an H1-B visa in 2001 at Lucent who was more qualified for the job than I who was paid $45K to my $80K, as someone who has acquaintances at e.g.

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Her name was Carly, she was a VP With Lucent and AT&T and a degree from MIT She went to HP and wowed the board room And while she tried to be a star, sometimes went a bit too far And then September 4, Compaq became the score They were failing and needed each other Leaning drunks galore!

Quote examples

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Because programmers Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (aka utah2000 or utah2k) By Rob Pike (Lucent Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill) “This talk is a polemic that distills the pessimistic side of my feelings about systems research these days.

Proper noun examples

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The company is profitable, its market cap is around $26 billion USD, and they recently announced a major deal to acquire Alcatel-Lucent.

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My hope is that Nokia become the business leader part of this acquisition, not Alcatel-Lucent.

3

I wonder what this means for Alcatel-Lucent here in Ottawa.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use lucent in a sentence?

Buying Alcatel-Lucent suggests to me they aren't all that healthy, based in part on my working at Lucent in 2001 and paying attention to that field since then.

What does lucent mean?

Emitting light; shining, luminous.

What part of speech is lucent?

lucent is commonly used as adjective.