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noun
- (figurative) a company that dominates its field
- 1968, George Washington University, Computers-in-Law Institute, National Law Center, The Law of Software: 1968 Proceedings:
- : Univac was the of the computer industry's incipiency; in 1952 Univac had virtually 100% of the market.
- 1982, Tracy Kidder, The Soul Of A New Machine (ISBN 0380599317), page 238:
- : First, to Sperry Univac, the descendent of the first real computer company, which might have become the of the industry had it not blown its early lead;
- 1990, Alfred Balk, The Myth of American Eclipse: The New Global Age (ISBN 0887383696), page 81:
- : The US lead was mainly due to one firm, the of its small, specialized field: Cray Research Inc.
abbreviation
- (stock symbol) International Business Machines
initialism
- intercontinental ballistic missile
- w:IBM, International Business Machines
- International Brotherhood of Magicians
- Individual-Based Models
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