English

Go

A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.

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    Origin

    From go, likely with reference to the first two letters of Google.

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    • derivedEnglishgo “To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things such as p…”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishgon
        • inheritedOld Englishgān
          • inheritedProto-Germanic*gānaz “gone”
          • inheritedProto-West Germanic*gān
    • derivedEnglishGoogle “A particular Internet company.”
      • derivedEnglishgoogle “To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins fro…”
        • derivedEnglishgoogol “The number 10¹⁰⁰, or ten to the power of a hundred. Equivalent to ten duotrigintillion (short scale…”
        • partEnglish-le “A frequentative suffix of verbs, indicating repetition or continuousness”

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