What is "ink"

Inc \Inc\, n. A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards. [Written also ink.]

"the black liquor with which men write" [Johnson], mid-13c., from Old French encre, formerly enque "dark writing fluid" (11c.), originally enca, from Late Latin encaustum, from Greek enkauston "purple or red ink," used by the Roman emperors to sign documents, originally a neuter adjective form of enkaustos "burned in," from stem of enkaiein "to burn in," from en- "in" (see en- (1)) + kaiein "to burn" (see caustic). The word is from a Greek method of applying colored wax and fixing it with heat. The Old English word for it was simply blæc, literally "black." The -r- in the Latin word is excrescent. Donkin credits a Greek pronunciation, with the accent at the front of the word, for the French evolution; the same Latin word became inchiostro in Italian, encausto in Spanish. Ink-blot test attested from 1928.

"to mark or stain in ink," 1560s, from ink (n.). Meaning "to cover (a printing plate, etc.) with ink" is from 1727. Related: Inked; inking.

n. 1 A pigment (or dye)-based fluid used for writing, printing etc. 2 (context countable English) A particular type, color or container of this fluid. 3 The black or dark-colored fluid ejected by squid, octopus etc, as a protective strategy. 4 (context slang uncountable English) publicity. 5 (context slang uncountable English) tattoo work. 6 (context slang English) cheap red wine. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To apply #Noun to; to cover or smear with ink. 2 (context transitive English) To sign (a document) (with or as if with ink). 3 (context transitive English) To apply a tattoo to (someone).

1. n. a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing

2. dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods

1. v. append one's signature to; "They inked the contract"

2. fill with ink; "ink a pen"

Ink is a liquid or paste that contains pigments or dyes and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing or writing with a pen, brush, or quill. Thicker inks, in paste form, are used extensively in letterpress and lithographic printing.

Ink can be a complex medium, composed of solvents, pigments, dyes, resins, lubricants, solubilizers, surfactants, particulate matter, fluorescents, and other materials. The components of inks serve many purposes; the ink’s carrier, colorants, and other additives affect the flow and thickness of the ink and its appearance when dry.

Ink is the sixth studio album by British new wave band The Fixx, released in 1991.

While generally much less successful than their previous albums, Ink did produce a big hit for the band in the form of "How Much Is Enough?", which reached #11 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and #10 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, where it was their only Top 10 single.

Ink is a television sitcom which aired on CBS from 1996–1997 that starred real-life husband and wife Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen as newspaper journalists, allegedly inspired by the film His Girl Friday. The show was also produced by Danson and Steenburgen. The show was canceled after one season due to lower than expected ratings. The show's pilot was drastically changed and reshot from the original version.

Ink was filmed at the soundstages of CBS Studio City in the Studio City area of Los Angeles. Outdoor scenes were usually shot at the small backlot streets of the same studio.

Ink is a liquid containing pigments or dyes used for drawing, writing or printing.

Ink may also refer to:

Ink (Eric Gitter) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Marc Guggenheim and artist Yanick Paquette, he first appeared in Young X-Men #1.

"Ink" is the second episode of the fourth season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes and sixty-first episode overall. The episode aired on September 28, 2009.

Ink: The Book of All Hours 2 is a speculative fiction novel by Hal Duncan.

It is Duncan's second novel and a sequel to Vellum: The Book of All Hours. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Pan Macmillan in February 2007 and, later that same month, in the USA by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House.

Ink is the fifth album by Spanish/ German rock band Frogcircus, released on the German label BlackRock Records in 2010.

The album was produced by Antonio J. Pérez Alonso and Gonzalo Ramos. The recordings took place at D&S Studio in Berlin (Germany) between December 2009 and March 2010. Mixes were made by Gonzalo Ramos in Almería (Spain) at Estudios Mix, while the mastering was done at London's Abbey Road Studios.

"Ink" is a song recorded by British alternative rock band Coldplay from their sixth studio album Ghost Stories (2014). It was released as the fifth overall single from the album on 13 October 2014. Prior to its single release, "Ink" debuted at number 156 on the UK Singles Chart.

Ink is a 2009 American science fiction fantasy film, written and directed by Jamin Winans, starring Chris Kelly, Quinn Hunchar and Jessica Duffy. It was produced by Winans's own independent production company, Double Edge Films, with Kiowa K. Winans, and shot by cinematographer Jeff Pointer in locations around Denver, Colorado. The film premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on January 23, 2009, and has screened in Denver, the Cancun Film Festival (where it won the Best International Feature award), Rams Head Onstage in Baltimore and in a number of independent movie houses in cities around the US. The film was widely circulated in peer-to-peer networks, which led to its commercial success.

Ink, or Ink Global, is a British travel media publishing and technology company. Founded in 1994, Ink is the largest travel media publishing company in the world. Ink publishes 26 inflight magazines for 20 airlines worldwide, as of January 2015. The company's 100 magazines, publications, and other media products currently reach more than 783 million global consumers annually. Ink Global is headquartered in West Hampstead, London.

Between 2013 and 2015, Ink acquired the rights for several additional inflight magazines, including the publications for Iberia, Hong Kong Express Airways, Norwegian Air Lines, as well as United Airlines' Hemispheres magazine. In August 2014, American Airlines transferred production of its inflight magazine, American Way, from its in-house unit, AA Publishing, to Ink Global. American Way, which reaches approximately 193 million people annually, was relaunched by Ink in January 2015 as one of the company's largest publications.

INK (for I/O Node Kernel) is the operating system that runs on the input output nodes of the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer. INK is a Linux-derivative.

• The compute nodes of the Blue Gene family of supercomputers run CNK (for Compute Node Kernel), a lightweight kernel that runs on each node and supports a single application running for a single user on that node. For the sake of efficient operation, the design of CNK was kept simple and minimal, and it was implemented in about 5,000 lines of C++ code. Physical memory is statically mapped and the CNK neither needs nor provides scheduling or context switching, given that at each point it runs a single application for a single user. By not allowing virtual memory or multi-tasking, the design of CNK aimed to devote as many cycles as possible to application processing. CNK does not even implement file I/O on the compute node, but delegates that to dedicated I/O nodes.
• The I/O nodes of the Blue Gene family of supercomputers run INK (for I/O Node Kernel). INK is based on a modified Linux kernel.