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dactyl

noun as in toe

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The control algorithm, Dactyl, needed some 100 years’ worth of experience in a simulation powered by 6,144 CPUs and 8 Nvidia V100 GPUs to accomplish this relatively simple task.

A Dactyl is a three-syllable foot accented on the first syllable.

It will be noted that the dactyl is very closely related in expression to the trochee, and the anapest to the iambic.

The proceleusmatic foot, or four short syllables, instead of the dactyl; scen.

This foot, consisting of one accented syllable, followed by two unaccented syllables, is called a dactyl.

The Dactyl, a foot of three syllables, the first long and the two last short, is used principally in the first place in the line.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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