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hart

noun

  1. medieval hunting term for a red deer stag more than five years old
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /hɑːt/ / /hɑɹt/

name

Etymology: * As an English and north/Low German surname, from the noun hart (“stag”). * As a German surname, variant of Hardt. * As a Jewish/Yiddish and Dutch surname, from derivatives of *hertā (“heart”), *hard(ī) (“hard”), or *herut (“stag”), or converged senses of them. These senses are also translated from other languages such as French Francoeur, Jolicoeur, Vadeboncoeur, and Native American (Cheyenne) Homa'ehesta, from homa'e (“beaver”) + hesta (“heart”). * As an Irish surname, from Ó hAirt (“descendant of Art”), from the noun art (“bear”). Compare Hartin.

  1. An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname from Middle English hert (“stag, hart”).
  2. A surname from Irish anglicised from the Irish Ó hAirt (“descendant of a person named Bear or Champion”) (see Old Irish art (“bear”))
  3. A village and civil parish in Hartlepool borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4735).
  4. A local government district in northeastern Hampshire, England.
  5. A tributary of the River Whitewater in Hampshire and ultimately of the Thames; in full, the River Hart.
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  13. A locality in the Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia.
  14. A locality in Wakefield Regional council area, Mid North region, South Australia.

noun

Etymology: Abbreviation of hardware thread. As stated in The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual, Volume I: The term hart was introduced in the work on Lithe (Pan et al., 2009) and (Pan et al., 2010) to provide a term to represent an abstract execution resource as opposed to a software thread programming abstraction. RISC-V Foundation The corresponding source reads: Our proposal has two main components. First, we export a new low-level unvirtualized hardware thread abstraction, or hart, from the operating system to applications. […] Heidi Pan, Benjamin Hindman, Krste Asanović

  1. In the RISC-V instruction set architecture, a hardware thread.

    It is required by the RISC-V specification that at least one hart be assigned an ID of 0.