What is "claire"

Claire \Claire\, n. [F.] A small inclosed pond used for gathering and greening oysters. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||

fem. proper name, from French claire, fem. of clair literally "light, bright," from Latin clarus "clear, bright, distinct" (see clear (adj.); also compare Clara).

n. A small enclosed pond used for gathering and greening oysters.

Claire is a high-level functional and object-oriented programming language with rule processing abilities. It was designed by Yves Caseau at Bouygues' e-Lab research laboratory, and received its final definition in 2004.

Claire provides:

• a simple object system with parametric classes and methods
• polymorphic and parametric functional programming
• production rules triggered by events
• versioned snapshots of the state of the whole system, or any part, supporting rollback and easy exploration of search spaces
• explicit relations between entities; for example, two entities might be declared inverses of one another
• first-class sets with convenient syntax for set-based programming
• an expressive set-based type system allowing both second-order static and dynamic typing

Claire's reference implementation, consisting of an interpreter and compiler, was fully open-sourced with the release of version 3.3.46 in February 2009. Another implementation, WebClaire, is commercially supported.

Claire is a 2001 film by Milford Thomas.

The story itself is loosely based on Kaguyahime, on an old Japanese fairy tale about an elderly childless couple that finds a child from the moon in a stalk of bamboo and raises her as their own. Thomas’ version tells a tale of an elderly male couple on a farm in the rural 1920s South who find the moon princess in an ear of corn. Milford Thomas took the prize for Best First Feature (Special Mention) with this little number at the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in 2002. Claire is an homage to early cinema. Accompanied by its silent-era camera, all set-design and special effects were achieved the old-fashioned way. Canvas backgrounds are present, alongside semi-hidden wires, multiple exposures and was filmed with a hand-cranked 35mm camera.

Claire or Clair is a given name of Latin/Viking origin via French; the name could mean "clear" or "famous". The word still means clear in French in its feminine form.

Its popularity in the United Kingdom peaked during the 1970s and 1980s; in 1974 it was the second most popular female first name and in 1984 was still sixth, but by 1997 it had fallen out of the top 100 after several years of sharply declining popularity.

The name was traditionally considered male, specifically when spelt Clair; however, it is now commonly used as a female name and is usually spelt Claire.

Claire is an electropop band from Munich, Germany. Their lyrics are in English.

Claire is a 1924 German silent film directed by Robert Dinesen and starring Lya De Putti, Eduard von Winterstein and Theodor Loos.