Meaning

Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing..

Definitions by Sense

1. Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
2. (especially programming, of a method or process) Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
3. (pathology, of a tumour or disease) That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
4. (finance) Involving high risk for potentially high reward.
5. (US, LGBTQ, Black lesbian slang) Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.
6. One who is aggressive.
7. (US, LGBTQ, Black lesbian slang) A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch.

Example Sentences

an aggressive policy, war, person, nation

When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).

This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts.

The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.

This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.

Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.

However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.

This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.

Word Forms

• more aggressive
• most aggressive
• aggressives

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