Noun

(en noun)

A long step.

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(computing) The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.

* 2007 , Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful code

This stride value is generally equal to the pixel width of the bitmap times the number of bytes per pixel, but for performance reasons it might be rounded

A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.

Noun

(en noun)

A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.

* 1769 , Oxford Standard Text, , xviii, 14,

Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

Anything resembling such a pointed missile weapon; anything that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.

* 1830 , , Sensibility'', ''The Works of Hannah More , Volume 1, page 38,

The artful inquiry, whose venom?d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.

(Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.

* 1947 , , Halfway to Anywhere , 1970, page 79,

Trucking?s my dart too.

A sudden or fast movement.

* {{quote-news

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(sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.

* 2013 , The Economist, Nadia Popova

Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.

A fish; the dace.

(in the plural) A game of throwing darts at a target.