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Etymology
First attested in 1870; coined by Thomas Huxley. Either from Ancient Greek ἄγνωστος (agnōstos, “ignorant, not knowing”) or from a- + Gnostic. Deriving (either way) from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + γιγνώσκω (gignōskō, “I know”).
Pronunciation
Noun
agnostic (plural agnostics)
- A person who holds to a form of agnosticism, especially uncertainty of the existence of a deity.
Adjective
agnostic (comparative more agnostic, superlative most agnostic)
- Of or relating to agnosticism or its adherents.
- His agnostic viewpoint is summarized in his book.
- Doubtful or uncertain about the existence or demonstrability of God or other deity.
- She left the church when she became agnostic.
- (computing) A software component (or other entity) that is unaware or noncommittal regarding the specific nature of the components with which it interacts; polymorphic; modular; pluggable
- The socket communications layer is agnostic with regards to its underlying transport mechanism -- it is “transport-agnostic”.
Translations
of or relating to agnosticism
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SDTimes.com
Because of the fact that we've made our layers agnostic , it's really easy to work with JRuby. We will see things, Hibernate being the first obvious example ...
