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▪ I. Williams1|ˈwɪljəmz|
In full, Williams', Williams's (erron. William) Bon Chrétien: A very juicy variety of the Bon Chrétien pear (see bon a.), ripening in September, so called from the name of its first distributor in England.
Called also Bartlett from the name of its importer into the U.S.
1814Aiton Epit. Hortus Kewensis 151 Bishop's-thumb Pear. Bonchrétien winter... Williams's. 1852G. W. Johnson Cottage Gard. Dict. 690 Useful and profitable orchard Pears... Williams's Bon Chretien. 1860Hogg Fruit Man. 220 Williams' Bon Crêtien (Bartlett; De Lavault; Williams'). 1884Pall Mall Budget 22 Aug. 11/1 The..juicy flavour of the famous William Bon Chrétien. 1895C. W. Dalmon Song Favours 34 Luscious Harvest plums and William pears.
▪ II. Williams2 Computers.|ˈwɪljəmz|
[The name of F. C. Williams (1911–77), English electrical engineer, who with T. Kilburn described such a tube in 1948.]
Williams tube: a cathode-ray tube used in some early computers to store and display an array of spots representing bits; so Williams memory.
1950W. W. Stifler et al. High-Speed Computing Devices x. 202 The proposed machine will have an electrostatic storage system consisting of a bank of Williams tubes. 1970O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing x. 150 The Williams memory had many weaknesses but until the middle fifties it was the only available memory in the microsecond class apart from the expensive flip-flop registers. 1982D. P. Siewiorek et al. Computer Structures vii. 107/2 The Williams Tube which implemented the control register was also used to hold the present instruction..itself subsequent to its being read out of main store. |