name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
cron
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CMU ARPABET: K R AA1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A scheduler or timer that automatically starts a job, program, task.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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History
Etymology
* As a Scottish surname, variant of Crone, itself shortened from McCrone, from Scottish Gaelic Mac Cróin (“son of the swarthy one”), from crón (“swarthy”). * As a German, Jewish, and Swedish surname, Americanized/variant of Kron. * As a French surname, from the regional word crone (“water hole”). * Also as a French surname, from Picard Old French cron (“bent, curved”), itself probably a Germanic borrowing akin to Proto-Germanic *krumpaz or a similar variant. * As a Breton surname, from kronn (“round, rounded”), from Proto-Brythonic *krunn.
From chrono-, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”). Originating as the name of a specific program, but since generalized to analogous ones.