Meaning of Ajax | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
2. A ghost town in Utah.
3. A toilet.
   archaic, historical, no-plural
4. An ace and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
   no-plural, slang
5. Either of two heroes of the Trojan War.
   Greek
6. A town in Ontario, Canada.
7. An unincorporated community in South Dakota.
8. An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
9. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
10. The Amsterdam football club AFC Ajax
11. Nickname of Aspen Mountain, a mountain in Pitkin County, Colorado.

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“In the legend of the Trojan War, Ajax was king of Salamis and son of Telamon. After Achilles, he was the bravest Greek warrior at Troy. In Homer's epic poem the Iliad, Ajax engages in many combats for...”

“In relative terms, the history of Ajax, Ontario, a town twenty-three miles east of Toronto, is short, spanning a little more than half a century. (Interestingly, to me at least, is the fact that the town is the same age as I am.).”

“An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by…”

“Seldom was the missionary more agreeably surprised than when the mail stage which had picked him up from the train at Ajax, Utah, drew up at an old ranch.”

“Once across Spring Creek the branch line turns southeast and then southwest and proceeds toward Ajax, South Dakota.”

“THE road north took us to Ajax, Louisiana, more of a crossroads than an actual town. The RV park sat just a minute or so from the interstate and miles from much else; a saw mill near the highway and a diner across the road were the only...”

“I say this much of this action, that it is requisite we should remit the same unto certaine prescribed night-houres, and by custome (as I have done) force and subject our selves unto it; But not (as I have done), growing in yeeres, strictly tie himselfe to the care of a particular convenient place, and of a commodious Ajax or easie close-stoole for that purpose, and make it troublesome with long sitting and nice observation.”

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