Waldo

Wal·do

W0013600 (wôl′dō, wäl′-) or Val·do (văl′-, väl′-), Peter Also known as Peter or Pierre Valdès. fl. 12th century. French religious leader who founded the Waldenses and was excommunicated in 1184.

waldo

(ˈwɔːldəʊ) n, pl -dos or -does (Tools) a gadget for manipulating objects by remote control[C20: named after Waldo F. Jones, inventor in a science-fiction story by Robert Heinlein]

Wal•do

(ˈwɔl doʊ, ˈwɒl-)

n. Pierre or Peter, died c1217, French religious reformer, declared a heretic.

waldo

/wol'doh/ [Robert A. Heinlein's story "Waldo"] 1. A mechanicalagent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human limb.When these were developed for the nuclear industry in themid-1940s they were named after the invention described byHeinlein in the story, which he wrote in 1942. Now known bythe more generic term "telefactoring", this technology is ofintense interest to NASA for tasks like space stationmaintenance.

2. At Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham and students),this is used instead of foobar as a metasyntactic variableand general nonsense word. See foo, bar, foobar,quux.

WALDO

Acronym	Definition
WALDO➣Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization (est. 1982)
WALDO➣Work and Live District Overlay (zoning strategy; New Jersey)
WALDO➣Wisconsin Asbestos and Lead Database Online (Department of Health Services)
WALDO➣Wayfinding Agents for Locating Distributed Objects
WALDO➣Wellington Avenue Local Development Organization (Chicago, IL)