aggressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more aggressive
form: most aggressive
Etymology: From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif.
Senses: examples: text: an aggressive policy, war, person, nation
text: When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).
ref: 2011, Judith S. Weis, Do Fish Sleep, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 63:
text: This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:56 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
glosses: Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
examples: text: This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.
ref: 1996, Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6, Springer, →ISBN, page 59:
text: Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.
ref: 2001, Paul Feautrier, edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal, Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems, Springer, →ISBN, page 173:
text: However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.
ref: 2002, Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 465:
text: The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.
ref: 2002, Shpeisman, T. ; Lueh, G.-Y. ; Adl-Tabatabai, A.-R., PACT 2002: 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques : proceedings : 22-25 September, 2002, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press →ISBN, page 249
text: This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure.
ref: 2003, Susanna Pelagatti, edited by Fethi Rabhi and Sergei Gorlatch, Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Springer, →ISBN, page 182:
text: The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on.
ref: 2011, Wen-mei W. Hwu, GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 11:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
raw_tags: of a method or process
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
raw_tags: of a tumour or disease
examples: text: an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio
topics: business
finance
glosses: Involving high risk for potentially high reward.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive.
qualifier: Black lesbian slang
glosses: Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.
Derived terms: aggressively
aggressive mimicry
aggressiveness
aggressivism
aggressivist
aggressivity
alloaggressive
antiaggressive
autoaggressive
hyperaggressive
microaggressive
nonaggressive
overaggressive
passive-aggressive
superaggressive
unaggressive
Related terms: aggression
aggressor