wisp

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I didn't catch even a wisp of arrogance in that statement.

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a small tuft or lock; "wisps of hair"

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noun

a small tuft or lock; "wisps of hair"

noun

a small person; "a mere wisp of a girl"

noun

a small bundle of straw or hay

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wisp.

noun

a small tuft or lock; "wisps of hair"

noun

a small person; "a mere wisp of a girl"

noun

a small bundle of straw or hay

noun

a flock of snipe

Example sentences

I didn't catch even a wisp of arrogance in that statement.

Those other people may not necessarily be correct about anything, but when it comes to engineering even the faintest wisp of objective truth is worth a lot more than strongly expressed emotions, no matter how poetic it may seem to you.

Consider some other chaotic organization of matter, that spontaneously forms a Boltzmann Brain?Would we be capable of defining a reliable test for a spontaneously self-aware wisp of cigarette smoke?

A part of you will wonder if you should instead generate a compiled function, but then you have to capture the variables properly and it will be a lot more work, but it could become more efficient, since the Lisp compiler would have access to that information and could do better things with it...Anyway, my point is that this is sort of a will-o-the-wisp or mermaid example, because it's intended to capture the imaginations of non-Lispers, but actual Lispers have never actually gotten serious enough about it to make a robust implementation and ship it with the system, because the mindset that values infix math is incompatible with the mindset that produces good Lisp programmers.