Forth

Meaning

Proper Noun

• river Scotland (constituent country) that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from The Trossachs through Stirling to the Firth of Forth on the North Sea.
• A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth
• An imperative, stack-based high-level programming language, used mostly in control applications.

Origin

• From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.