Indigo

(organic chemistry) C₁₆H₁₀O₂N₂ A component of the dye indigo, crystallizing as dark-blue rhomboids that break down at 30°C, that are soluble in hot aniline and hot chloroform, and that are also made synthetically; used as a reagent and a dye. Also known as indigo.

(1) An earlier family of desktop graphics computers from SGI. The low end were the Indy machines, which included their own digital video camera. The high end included a variety of Indigo workstations, with models specialized for graphics functions such as accelerated texture mapping and image processing. See SGI.

(2) The code name of the messaging system in Windows Vista. See Windows Communication Foundation.

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