agile
See also: Agile
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- Agile (software engineering senses)
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From earlier agil, borrowed from Latin agilis (“agile, nimble”), from agō (“do, act; move”). See agent.
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agile (comparative agiler or more agile, superlative agilest or most agile)
- Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move.
- Synonym: nimble
- an agile creature
- an agile wit
- 1901 August – 1902 April, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, London: George Newnes, […], published 1902, →OCLC:
- The man drew out paper and tobacco and twirled the one up in the other with surprising dexterity. He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect.
- Characterised by quick motion.
- agile movements
- (chiefly software engineering) Of or relating to agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams.[1]
- agile methods
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having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs
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agile (uncountable)
- (chiefly software engineering) Agile software development.
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Borrowed from Latin agilis (“swift”).
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agile (plural agiles)
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- “agile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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agile
- inflection of agil:
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From Latin agilis (“agile, nimble”), from agō (“do, act; move”).
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agile (plural agili, superlative agilissimo)
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- agile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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agile
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agile (comparative mair agile, superlative maist agile)
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- “agile” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary[2], 2016.
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agile
- second-person singular voseo imperative of agir combined with le