PLY

PLY

PLY is a computer file format known as the Polygon File Format or the Stanford Triangle Format.

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Ply

In two-player sequential games, a ply refers to one turn taken by one of the players. The word is used to clarify what is meant when one might otherwise say "turn".

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ply

Noun

  1. A layer of material. (two-ply toilet paper)
  2. A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up yarn or rope.
  3. Plywood.
  4. In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn", or one move made by one of the players.
    He proposed to build Deep Purple, a super-computer capable of 24-ply look-ahead for chess.
  5. State, condition.

Verb

  1. to bend; to fold.
  2. to flex.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To work at diligently.
    He plied his trade as carpenter for forty-three years.
  2. To work diligently.
  3. To use vigorously.
    He plied his ax with bloody results.
  4. To travel over regularly.
    ply the seven seas
    A steamer plies between certain ports.
  5. To persist in offering.
    She plied him with liquor.
  6. To press upon; to urge importunately.
    to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink
  7. To employ diligently; to use steadily.
  8. To work to windward; to beat.


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