(countable) Any plant of the genus Antirrhinum, with showy yellow, white or red flowers.
Used in a Sentence
snapdragon
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for snapdragon.
Editorial note
I mean, the Oppo R5 is the World's thinnest phone and it has an eight-core 64-bit Snapdragon chipset!
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Quick take
(countable) Any plant of the genus Antirrhinum, with showy yellow, white or red flowers.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of snapdragon gathered in one view.
(uncountable) A game in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; the substance snatched and eaten during the playing of the game; the vessel used for the game.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for snapdragon.
noun
(countable) Any plant of the genus Antirrhinum, with showy yellow, white or red flowers.
noun
(uncountable) A game in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; the substance snatched and eaten during the playing of the game; the vessel used for the game.
Example sentences
I mean, the Oppo R5 is the World's thinnest phone and it has an eight-core 64-bit Snapdragon chipset!
No one would develop something like a Snapdragon processor just for medical devices, but once the technology is pioneered on phones, it can definitely be reused.
Qualcomm would've been fine in the next 2 quarters, once it passed the Snapdragon 810 generation.
Shame it's based on the fairly old 32-bit Snapdragon 400; it immediately looks obsolete next to the current wave of Chinese wunderphones.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 in the Nexus 6 fully supports VP9 hardware acceleration.
Qualcomm will only support it next year with the high-end Snapdragon 810, and Apple only recently supported it in the latest iOS devices.
Quite the opposite if you check the benchmarks for snapdragon vs exynos.
The Snapdragon 800 / Adreno 330 GPU (Nexus 5) being the first phone form factor SoC capable of truly deep real time effects manipulation.
You have Snapdragon 800/801 phones under 300$ these days, why use a SOC that will not even be able to play a movie these days?
> All of this is made possible through the advanced, tightly integrated hardware and software in Snapdragon 800 processors.
Of course this is continued with the Snapdragon 805 / Adreno 420 and others like the NVidia K1 all of which are currently stable running my video engine.
That chip is less powerful than an Apple A8 or Nvidia Denver, and probably even the Snapdragon 805 inside the Nexus 6 and latest Motorola phones and Note 4.
Quote examples
"" [1] SnapDragon, who's current rating is 3005 on Topcoder, and was ranked 18 on that site said that, who by the way is employed at Google (at least he was when he gave that interview).
Proper noun examples
The Nexus 6 (Snapdragon 805, 2.7 GHz quad-core) have a slightly faster CPU than the Nexus 5 (Snapdragon 800, 2.26 GHz quad-core), but it only reflect the natural performance improvement over time.
A video engine of this complexity takes a lot of testing and I'll be staggering the launch initially on well tested hardware configurations (Snapdragon & Tegra K1 SoCs).
Maybe things will change in a few years as ARM/Snapdragon/etc processors continue to improve and phones get more memory, but for the time being I think MS's approach to phones + large monitors is preferable.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use snapdragon in a sentence?
I mean, the Oppo R5 is the World's thinnest phone and it has an eight-core 64-bit Snapdragon chipset!
What does snapdragon mean?
(countable) Any plant of the genus Antirrhinum, with showy yellow, white or red flowers.
What part of speech is snapdragon?
snapdragon is commonly used as noun.