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Dictionary: re·gat·ta   (rĭ-gä'tə, -găt'ə) pronunciation
n.
A boat race or a series of boat races.

[Italian dialectal, a contention, regatta, from regattare, to contend, perhaps from recatare, to sell again, compete, from Vulgar Latin *recaptāre, to contend : Latin re-, re- + Latin captāre, to seek to catch, frequentative of capere, to seize; see catch.]


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A high-end Unix-based pSeries server from IBM. Introduced in late 2001, the model p690 incorporates mainframe class self healing capabilities and partitioning to the pSeries (RS/6000) family for the first time. The Regatta also inaugurated IBM's Power4 chip known as "Spinnaker," which contains two processors running at 1 GHz. The copper-based silicon on insulator (SOI) Power4 CPU chips provide increased performance and use up to 66% less power than previous POWER chips.

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IN BRIEF: A boat race or series of boat races.

pronunciation Did your college participate in the intercollegiate regatta?

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a meeting for boat races


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Dansk (Danish)
n. - regatta

Nederlands (Dutch)
regatta, roei-/ zeilwedstrijd

Français (French)
n. - régate

Deutsch (German)
n. - Regatta

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - λεμβοδρομίες, ιστιοπλοϊκοί αγώνες

Italiano (Italian)
regata

Português (Portuguese)
n. - regata (f)

Русский (Russian)
регата

Español (Spanish)
n. - regata

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kappsegling, regatta

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
赛舟会

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 賽舟會

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 보트 경주회, 요트 경주

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ボートレース, レガッタ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) سباق زوارق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מירוץ סירות‬


 
 
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