rendezvous

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(rän'dā-vū', -də-) pronunciation
n., pl., ren·dez·vous (-vūz').
  1. A meeting at a prearranged time and place. See synonyms at engagement.
  2. A prearranged meeting place, especially an assembly point for troops or ships.
  3. A popular gathering place: The café is a favorite rendezvous for artists.
  4. Aerospace. The process of bringing two spacecraft together.
tr. & intr.v., -voused (-vūd'), -vous·ing (-vū'ĭng), -vous (-vūz').
To bring or come together at a rendezvous.

[French, from the phrase rendez vous, present yourselves, from Old French : rendez, second person pl. imperative of rendre, to present; see render + vous, yourselves, you (from Latin vōs, you).]



The plural is spelt the same, but is pronounced with the final syllable as -vooz.

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noun

  1. A commitment to appear at a certain time and place: appointment, assignation, date, engagement, tryst. See agree/disagree.
  2. A frequently visited place: haunt, resort, stamping ground. Slang hangout. See place, repetition.

verb

    To come together face-to-face by arrangement: get together, meet1. See meet.


[ܒrändiܖvōō; ܒrändā-]

ˈrändiܖvōō; ˈrändā- n. 1. a meeting up of troops, ships, or aircraft at an agreed time and place.

2. a prearranged meeting between spacecraft in space.

v. rendezvouses -ܖvōōz, rendezvoused -ܖvōōd, rendezvousing -ܖvōōiŋ

meet at an agreed time and place: the special forces paratroopers rendezvoused at a predetermined site behind enemy lines.

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IN BRIEF: An agreement to meet at a certain time and place. Also: The meeting itself.

pronunciation The ice cream store is our favorite place to rendezvous.

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A prearranged meeting of different aircraft, or formations, at a given time and location from which to begin an action, or phase of an operation, or to which to return after an operation.

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Rendezvous (Plan 9)

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Rendezvous is a data synchronization mechanism in Plan 9 from Bell Labs. It is a system call that allows two processes to exchange a single datum while synchronizing.

The rendezvous call takes a tag and a value as its arguments. The tag is typically an address in memory shared by both processes. Calling rendezvous causes a process to sleep until a second rendezvous call with a matching tag occurs. Then, the values are exchanged and both processes are awakened.

More complex synchronization mechanisms can be created from this primitive operation. See also mutual exclusion.

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Common misspelling(s) of rendezvous

  • rendevous

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - rendezvous, kort møde, stævnemøde, mødested
v. tr. - få til at mødes
v. intr. - mødes, samles

Nederlands (Dutch)
ontmoeting(splaats), verzamelplaats, ontmoeten/afspreken

Français (French)
n. - rendez-vous
v. tr. - se retrouver, rejoindre qn
v. intr. - se retrouver, rejoindre qn

Deutsch (German)
n. - Rendezvous, Verabredung, Treffpunkt
v. - sich treffen, sich versammeln

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ραντεβού, συνάντηση

Italiano (Italian)
appuntamento, luogo d'incontro

Português (Portuguese)
n. - encontro (m)

Русский (Russian)
свидание, встреча

Español (Spanish)
n. - cita, encuentro, lugar de reunión
v. tr. - acudir, juntarse, reunirse
v. intr. - acudir, juntarse, reunirse

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - träff, möte

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
约会, 会合, 会面, 约会地点, 在指定地点见面, 使在指定地点集合

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 約會, 會合, 會面, 約會地點
v. tr. - 在指定地點見面, 使在指定地點集合
v. intr. - 約會, 會合, 會面

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 만날 장소, 만날 약속
v. tr. - 약속 장소에서 만나다
v. intr. - 약속장소에서 만나게 하다, 집결시키다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 会合, 集合, ランデブー, 会合場所, 人のよく集まる場所, 待ち合わせ
v. - 集合する, 会う

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مكان اللقا, الملتقى‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮פגישה, מקום מפגש, קביעת פגישה‬
v. tr. - ‮נפגש עם‬
v. intr. - ‮נפגש עם‬


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