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3DNow!

name

Etymology

Trademark of AMD, from 3D + now, reflecting its potential for performance improvements in 3D graphics.

  1. inherited from *nū✻ — “now”
  2. inherited from *nu✻ — “now”
  3. inherited from *nū✻
  4. inherited from nū
  5. inherited from nou
  6. compounded as 3dnow! — “3D + now”

Definitions

  1. An enhancement of the MMX extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture, allowing…

    An enhancement of the MMX extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture, allowing for enhanced performance with 3D-graphics-heavy applications; rendered obsolescent by later versions of the SSE instruction-set extensions.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA