adlet meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

adlet

noun

Etymology From ad + -let.

A small advertisement.

Many ambitious men have used these adlets to better their positions and incomes.1916, Hide and Leather's Year Book and Directory for ...:

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A small app or active document that can be embedded in a Web page.

5 Merging of Adlets Adlets move from sites to sites to seek out new adlets or active documents, announce its own presence and collect information. In its movement adlets behave like magnets. An adlet or a collection of adlets can attract other ...1998, IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing, Information Technology Research Institute (Dayton, Ohio), IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Data Engineering, IW-MMDBMS ...
In our example, an adlet is created to perform the airline reservation. Such an adlet is equipped with the capability to interact with the airline reservation system and issue transactions to obtain available flights, seats and prices.1999, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Leszek Maciaszek, Proceedings, ... International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering, IEEE, →ISBN:

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The specific mobile agents of interest are called adlets, which are mobile agents carrying the metadata of various kinds of multimedia documents. Adlets autonomously travel from site to site on the Internet, advertising its contents and ...2000, Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering:

adlet

noun

Etymology From Inuktitut.

Biology, Cryptozoology, Human sciences, Mysticism, Mythology, Natural sciences, Philosophy, Sciences, Zoology A cryptid in Inuit mythology and folklore in Canada and Greenland, a tall, dog-legged humanoid (sometimes identified with inland Native Americans).

Adlets are wont to hunt on all fours, and so were born stories of giant black dogs that accost travelers.2006, Aaron Rosenberg, Various, Chosen RPG, Impressions, →ISBN:
An adlet is part-human and part-canine, […]. They can be cannibals, eating other dogs. When they first hunt prey they go for the victim's throat and drink the fresh blood.2012, Lisa Regan, Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies, Amber Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 71:

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... that one of their ancestors has been married to a dog and that they have canine blood in their veins. This does not mean, of course, that they can transform themselves into an Adlet or that they enjoy any special protection from its attentions.2016, Dr. Bob Curran, Andy Paciorek, The Carnival Of Dark Dreams, →ISBN, page 56:
"We could mate with humans, but then we'd have to expose our existence, and there's no guarantee that the baby will be an adlet." She cleared her throat. "Of course, I'd love a human baby just as much as an adlet, but we need more halflings […]" […] The dogs mated with other dogs and stayed in their canine form, but the halflings mated with both humans and dogs and so the adlets continued to spread across the land, always evolving. Some adlet families are more human than dog, ...2019, Laura Greenwood, Skye MacKinnon, Under the Ice, Peryton Press: