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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cantor

	Cantor \Can"tor\, n. [L., a singer, fr. caner to sing.]
   A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.
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         The cantor of the church intones the Te Deum. --Milman.
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Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
Cantor

	cantor
     n 1: the musical director of a choir [syn: choirmaster, precentor]
     2: the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part
        of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to
        be performed as solos [syn: hazan]

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Cantor

	64 Moby Thesaurus words for "cantor":
   Heldentenor, Levite, Meistersinger, alto, aria singer, baal kore,
   baritenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante,
   basso profundo, blues singer, canary, cantatrice, caroler, chanter,
   chantress, chief rabbi, choir chaplain, choirmaster,
   choral director, chorister, coloratura soprano, comic bass,
   contralto, countertenor, crooner, deep bass, diva,
   dramatic soprano, heroic tenor, high priest, hymner, improvisator,
   kohen, lead singer, lieder singer, melodist, mezzo-soprano,
   minister of music, opera singer, precentor, priest, prima donna,
   psalm singer, rabbi, rabbin, rock-and-roll singer, scribe, singer,
   singstress, songbird, songster, songstress, soprano, tenor,
   torch singer, vocalist, vocalizer, voice, warbler, yodeler

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
Cantor

	Cantor
     
        1.  A mathematician.
     
        Cantor devised the diagonal proof of the uncountability of the
        real numbers:
     
        Given a function, f, from the natural numbers to the real
        numbers, consider the real number r whose binary expansion is
        given as follows: for each natural number i, r's i-th digit is
        the complement of the i-th digit of f(i).
     
        Thus, since r and f(i) differ in their i-th digits, r differs
        from any value taken by f.  Therefore, f is not surjective
        (there are values of its result type which it cannot return).
     
        Consequently, no function from the natural numbers to the
        reals is surjective.  A further theorem dependent on the
        axiom of choice turns this result into the statement that
        the reals are uncountable.
     
        This is just a special case of a diagonal proof that a
        function from a set to its power set cannot be surjective:
     
        Let f be a function from a set S to its power set, P(S) and
        let U =  x in S: x not in f(x) .  Now, observe that any x in
        U is not in f(x), so U != f(x); and any x not in U is in f(x),
        so U != f(x): whence U is not in  f(x) : x in S .  But U is
        in P(S).  Therefore, no function from a set to its power-set
        can be surjective.
     
        2.  An object-oriented language with fine-grained
        concurrency.
     
        [Athas, Caltech 1987.  "Multicomputers: Message Passing
        Concurrent Computers", W. Athas et al, Computer 21(8):9-24
        (Aug 1988)].
     
        (1997-03-14)