mumps
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1. mumps - Noun
2. mumps - Verb
3. Mumps - Proper noun
Meaning
Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks.
A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.
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1970s By the early 1970s, there were many and varied implementations of MUMPS on a range of hardware platforms.
20-40 percent of persons infected with the mumps virus do not show symptoms, so it is possible to be infected and spread the virus without knowing it.
Additionally, the MUMPS language design requires that all subscripts of variables are automatically kept in sorted order.
A leading authority, and the author of an open source MUMPS implementation, Professor Kevin O'Kane, uses only 'MUMPS'.
A single space separates a command from its argument, and a space, or newline, separates each argument from the next MUMPS token.
Although MUMPS does not natively offer a full set of DBMS features such as mandatory schemas, several DBMS systems have been built on top of it that provide application developers with flat-file, relational and network database features.