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What (who) is Enfilade - definition
CLASS OF TREE DATA STRUCTURES USED IN PROJECT XANADU "GREEN" DESIGNS OF THE 1970S AND 1980S
Enfilade(Xanadu); Granfilade; Spanfilade
enfilade
v. a.
(Mil.) Rake with shot.
Enfilade
·noun A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.
II. Enfilade ·vt To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops.
III. Enfilade ·noun A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, ·etc.; a raking fire.
enfilade
[??nf?'le?d]
¦ noun
1. a volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to end.
2. a suite of rooms with doorways in line with each other.
¦ verb direct an enfilade at.
Origin
C18 (denoting a military post commanding the length of a line): from Fr., from enfiler 'thread on a string'.
Wikipedia
Enfilade (Xanadu)
Enfilades are a class of tree data structures invented by computer scientist Ted Nelson and used in Project Xanadu "Green" designs of the 1970s and 1980s. Enfilades allow quick editing, versioning, retrieval and inter-comparison operations in a large, cross-linked hypertext database. The Xanadu "Gold" design starting in the 1990s used a related data structure called the Ent.
