Joliet

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J0059200 (jō′lē-ĕt′, jō′lē-ĕt′) A city of northeast Illinois southwest of Chicago on the Des Plaines River. It developed as a port and industrial center.

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(ˌdʒoʊ liˈɛt; for 1 also -liˈeɪ)

n. 1. Louis, 1645–1700, French-Canadian explorer of the Mississippi. 2. a city in NE Illinois. 74,540.

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Joliet - French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)Jolliet, Louis Joliet, Louis Jolliet

Joliet

(jō`lēĕt'), city (1990 pop. 76,836), seat of Will co., NE Ill., on the Des Plaines River; inc. 1857. It is a river port and an industrial shipping center, with limestone quarries and coal mines in the area, but riverboat casino gambling is now the city's primary industry. Machinery, electronic and transportation equipment, chemicals, and metal and paper products are made in Joliet, and there are oil refineries. Joliet is the seat of the College of St. Francis, and there are several state correctional facilites in or near the city.

Joliet

(standard, storage)An extension of the ISO 9660:1988 ISOstandard file system for CD-ROMs that allows Unicodecharacters in file names and other enhancements. Version 1 ofJoliet was released on 1995-05-22.

Joiliet supports file and directory names up to 128 bytes (64unicode characters) long, directory names with file nameextensions, a directory hierarchy deeper than 8 levels and thevolume recognition sequence supports multisession.

Joliet uses ISO 9660's "supplementary volume descriptor" (SVD)to specify Unicode files. Use of the previously unused escapesequence ISO 2022 means that Joliet is backward compatiblewith ISO 9660..

http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/jolspec.html.

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noun French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)

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