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Forth.

A river in Scotland that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from The Trossachs through Stirling to the Firth of Forth on the North Sea.

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  1. A river in Scotland that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from The Trossachs through Stirling to the Firth of Forth on the North Sea.

  2. A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth

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  1. A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9453).

  2. A village in Central Coast council area and the City of Devonport, northern Tasmania, Australia.

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  1. An imperative, stack-based high-level concatenative programming language, used mostly in control applications.

Where this word comes from

From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.