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Filename extension
.doc (an abbreviation of "document") is a filename extension used for word processing documents stored on Microsoft's proprietary Microsoft Word Binary
Doc_(computing)
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up DOC, Doc, or doc in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. DOC, Doc, doc or DoC may refer to: Doc, an abbreviation of doctor Doc (nickname) Doc (mascot)
Doc
Form of shared internet-based computing
concert to perform very large tasks. Fog computing – Distributed computing paradigm that provides data, compute, storage and application services closer
Cloud_computing
Cloud-based word processing software
Google Docs is an online word processor and part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google. Google Docs is accessible via a web
Google_Docs
Concept in computer science
successor. Reversible computing is considered an unconventional approach to computation and is closely linked to quantum computing, where the principles
Reversible_computing
Remove power from a computer's main components in a controlled way
command. Booting Hibernation Sleep mode Ctrl+Alt+Del Shutdown | Microsoft Docs "Reactos/Reactos". GitHub. 26 October 2021. MPE/iX Commands Reference Manual
Shutdown_(computing)
Method of practicing orderly evacuation in case of a fire
Wayback Machine "Standards for Principals and Assistant Principals" (DOC (computing)). District of Columbia Public Schools. Retrieved 2008-09-14.[permanent
Fire_drill
Date and time from which a computer measures system time
In computing, an epoch is a fixed date and time used as a reference from which a computer measures system time. Most computer systems determine time as
Epoch_(computing)
Using devices designed to be portable
Vasilis. Iqbal, Omar. "Mobile Computing: Past, Present, and Future" https://web.archive.org/web/20181110210750/http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_96/j
Mobile_computing
Parallel computing platform and programming model
CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a proprietary parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) developed by the American
CUDA
Academic department in London, England
built the Imperial College Computing Engine, an early digital relay computer. In 1966, the postgraduate Centre for Computing and Automation came into being
Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Department_of_Computing,_Imperial_College_London
Category of cloud computing
the main business model for computing, and cluster computing enabled multiple computers to work together. Cloud computing emerged in the late 1990s with
Software_as_a_service
Study of computation
and databases. In the early days of computing, a number of terms for the practitioners of the field of computing were suggested (albeit facetiously) in
Computer_science
2008–2010 controversy
Strengthens Management, Oversight at Arlington National Cemetery" (DOC (computing)). United States Army. Retrieved June 19, 2010.[permanent dead link]
Arlington National Cemetery mismanagement controversy
Arlington_National_Cemetery_mismanagement_controversy
Cloud-based data-warehousing company
processing, with integrations for tools like Tableau, Power BI, and Sigma Computing. In October 2022, the company acquired a 5% stake in advanced TV advertising
Snowflake_Inc.
Cloud-based service and infrastructure
Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google that provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics
Google_Cloud_Platform
Software or hardware-based network security system
In computing, a firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on configurable security
Firewall_(computing)
Executing several computations during overlapping time periods
Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which several computations are executed concurrently—during overlapping time periods—instead of sequentially—with
Concurrent_computing
Cloud storage and file synchronization service
tablets. Google Drive encompasses Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, which are a part of the Google Docs Editors office suite that allows collaborative
Google_Drive
Device that forwards data packets between computer networks
University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah School of Computing in the United States. All were built with the Honeywell 516. These computers
Router_(computing)
Computational operation
In computing and mathematics, the modulo operation returns the remainder or signed remainder of a division, after one number is divided by another, the
Modulo
engaged in the development of quantum computing, quantum communication and quantum sensing. Quantum computing and communication are two sub-fields of
List of companies involved in quantum computing, communication or sensing
List_of_companies_involved_in_quantum_computing,_communication_or_sensing
American multinational technology company
online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence
Direct interface to an operating system
with a single PowerShell command. Windows PowerShell supports remote computing by using various technologies, including WMI, RPC, and WS-Management.
Shell_(computing)
Data storage used to support copy and paste operations
the original on 2018-02-12. Retrieved 2018-02-06. "clip | Microsoft Docs". Docs.microsoft.com. 2017-10-16. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
Clipboard_(computing)
External instruction to a computer program
In computing, a command is a high-level instruction received via an external interface that directs the behavior of a computer program. Commonly, commands
Command_(computing)
List of mascots for computer hardware, software, and concepts
This is a list of computing mascots. A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common
List_of_computing_mascots
Programming language for statistics
R is a programming language for statistical computing and data visualization. It has been widely adopted in the fields of data mining, bioinformatics
R_(programming_language)
List of software related to the MATLAB programming language
utilities, deployment platforms, and related numerical computing environments. MATLAB — numerical computing environment MATLAB Online — web-based environment
List of MATLAB software and tools
List_of_MATLAB_software_and_tools
Open standard for programming heterogenous computing systems, such as CPUs or GPUs
platform and execute programs on the compute devices. OpenCL provides a standard interface for parallel computing using task- and data-based parallelism
OpenCL
Technology developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group
Trusted Computing (TC) is a technology developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group. The term is taken from the field of trusted systems and has
Trusted_Computing
HotDocs to transition from the desktop to the internet for document production. Document Automation Cloud computing "Thomson Reuters and HotDocs to Collaborate
HotDocs
The concept of the cloud computing as a platform for distributed computing traces its roots back to 1993. At that time, Apple spin-off General Magic and
History_of_cloud_computing
Cloud-based survey software
as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google. The service also includes Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google
Google_Forms
Cloud-based Jupyter Notebook environment
limited GPU/TPU computing resources Integration with Google Drive for saving and loading notebooks Ability to share notebooks like Google Docs Multiple users
Google_Colab
Cloud computing plug-in for Microsoft Office
Cloud computing security Cloud collaboration Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office available to all Mashable: Now Anyone Can Sync Google Docs & Microsoft
Google_Cloud_Connect
Software development company
"Advanced HPC - GPU Computing - GPU Software - Bright Computing". www.advancedhpc.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24. "Prime Ventures - Bright Computing". www.primeventures
Bright_Computing
Text that identifies an item in a computer file system
systems". Microsoft Docs. Retrieved 14 July 2019. Ashcraft, Alvin (28 August 2024). "Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces". Microsoft Docs. Ashcraft, Alvin
Path_(computing)
Rust software and development tools
libraries, verification and debugging tools, numerical and scientific computing libraries, and related projects. Cranelift — code generator and JIT compiler
List of Rust software and tools
List_of_Rust_software_and_tools
AI accelerator ASIC by Google
filing, Singular Computing specifically called out Google's use of bfloat16, as that exceeds the dynamic range of float16. Singular Computing claims non-standard
Tensor_Processing_Unit
Open source cloud computing software
becomes a CNCF Graduated project Cilium was accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation on October 13, 2021 as an incubation-level project. It applied
Cilium_(computing)
Section of a source code file that is treated as if it were a separate file
In computing, a here document (here-document, here-text, heredoc, hereis, here-string or here-script) is a file literal or input stream literal: it is
Here_document
Unit of digital information, usually 8 bits
commonly optimize for this usage. The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided in the ubiquitous acceptance of the 8-bit byte
Byte
Parallel computing platform: GPGPU libraries and application programming interface
including general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU), high-performance computing (HPC), and heterogeneous computing. It offers several programming
ROCm
Symbol representing the word "and" (&)
from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021. "Pointer types". doc.rust-lang.org. "The Go Programming Language Specification". Archived from
Ampersand
Machine-learning framework
computation and program transformation, designed for high-performance numerical computing and large-scale machine learning. It is developed by Google with contributions
JAX_(software)
Set of problem-solving methods
logic is an approach to computing that includes both computational thinking and logical thinking. It is based on a view of computing as the application of
Computational_thinking
Linux distribution
igg-drah-sill), is an early Linux distribution developed by Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated, a company founded by Adam J. Richter in Berkeley, California
Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X
Computer machine code instruction
HCF, shows up as "Overextended Mnemonics" in the April 1980 Creative Computing flip-side parody issue. CPU designers sometimes incorporate one or more
Halt and Catch Fire (computing)
Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing)
Serverless computing platform
Serverless Computing". "Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing". "Lambda runtimes". "Optimizing AWS Lambda extensions in C# and Rust | AWS Compute Blog"
AWS_Lambda
Message Passing Interface for C, C++, and Fortran (distributed computing) SYCL Concurrent computing List of concurrent programming languages Parallel programming
List of concurrent and parallel programming languages
List_of_concurrent_and_parallel_programming_languages
Applied mathematician
scientific computing and numerical analysis. In particular, his research concerns the design of numerical algorithms for problems in scientific computing. Ying
Lexing_Ying
Twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet
October 13, 2022. Anderson, Deborah (December 7, 2020). "L2/21-021: Reference doc numbers for L2/20-266R "Consolidated code chart of proposed phonetic characters"
T
Use of a GPU for computations typically assigned to CPUs
supercomputing it is well-known that scientific computing drives the largest concentrations of Computing power in history, listed in the TOP500: the majority
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units
General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units
Computer architecture bit width
nonsensical documentation?". GCC-Help. Retrieved 23 January 2020. "i128 – Rust". doc.rust-lang.org. Retrieved 25 June 2020. "Math::Int128". metacpan.org. Retrieved
128-bit_computing
Open standard for parallel computing
application programming interface (API) intended to be used across different computing accelerator (coprocessor) architectures, including GPUs, AI accelerators
OneAPI_(compute_acceleration)
Cloud computing platform
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a part of Amazon's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), that allows users to rent virtual computers
Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud
Language model application development framework
https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/tools/arxiv AWS Lambda Yes Yes Proprietary Serverless computing https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/tools/awslambda
LangChain
Text editor
applications List of text editors Comparison of text editors List of computing mascots Computing mascots Media related to Kate (text editor) at Wikimedia Commons
Kate_(text_editor)
Cross-platform 3D graphics API and open standard
cross-platform API and open standard for 3D graphics and parallelized computing. It was intended to address the shortcomings of OpenGL, and allow developers
Vulkan
Measure of computer performance
(FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance or compute in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point
Floating point operations per second
Floating_point_operations_per_second
Cloud computing platform by IBM
IBM Cloud is a cloud computing platform offered by the information technology company IBM that provides a suite of services including infrastructure as
IBM_Cloud
Smartphone electronics product line
Intelligence Platform is purpose built to bring powerful visual computing and edge computing for machine learning to a wide range of IoT devices. The Qualcomm
List of Qualcomm Snapdragon systems on chips
List_of_Qualcomm_Snapdragon_systems_on_chips
Away Remembering James Moor, Trailblazing Scholar in the Philosophy of Computing Amoureux et défenseur du beau football, le journaliste Didier Roustan
Deaths_in_September_2024
Control flow construct for executing code repeatedly
while - JavaScript | MDN". MDN Web Docs. 2025-07-08. Retrieved 2026-01-22. "DO WHILE (FORTRAN 77 Language Reference)". docs.oracle.com. Archived from the original
Loop_(statement)
Signal to a computer processor emitted by hardware or software
implement computer multitasking and system calls, especially in real-time computing. Systems that use interrupts in these ways are said to be interrupt-driven
Interrupt
Network packet distribution with multiple cores
ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Emerging in-Network Computing Paradigms. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 27–33. doi:10.1145/3359993
Multi-core network packet steering
Multi-core_network_packet_steering
Type of database that uses vectors to represent other data
chroma-core/chroma". GitHub. "Can you use ClickHouse for vector search? | ClickHouse Docs". 2023-10-26. Archived from the original on 2025-06-22. Retrieved 2025-07-02
Vector_database
resistance – Taber method] ISO/IEC TR 3445:2022 Information technology – Cloud computing – Audit of cloud services [original draft was Modular coordination — Preferred
List of ISO standards 3000–4999
List_of_ISO_standards_3000–4999
Type of decentralized and distributed network architecture
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed computing or networking architecture in which participants share part of their own resources
Peer-to-peer
German computer scientist and mathematician
workflow systems, service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, pattern languages and quantum computing. His initial focus was on database technology: In
Frank_Leymann
(in Polish) British architect Michael Wilford dies aged 84 Obituary: Computing Pioneer William Wulf Leaves Lasting Mark on Teaching, Research 〈速報〉山田白山市長が死去
Deaths_in_March_2023
General-purpose programming language
something as usable for general programming as Python [...] "Modular Docs – Why Mojo". docs.modular.com. Archived from the original on 5 May 2023. Retrieved
Python_(programming_language)
Software overlay by Samsung Electronics
is a user interface developed by Samsung Electronics for its mobile, computing devices and TVs, including Android-based devices running Android 9 "Pie"
One_UI
American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967)
Trade Republic, PsiQuantum (photonic quantum computing), and Rigetti Computing (superconducting quantum computing). Thiel also backed DeepMind, a UK start-up
Peter_Thiel
Chinese businessman (born 1985)
methods to quantitative finance. Through High-Flyer, he built large-scale computing infrastructure that was later used to support artificial intelligence
Liang_Wenfeng
Dynamic programming language
Julia Computing, Inc. by Viral B. Shah, Deepak Vinchhi, Alan Edelman, Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski and Keno Fischer. In June 2017, Julia Computing raised
Julia_(programming_language)
Processor executing one instruction in minimal clock cycles
computer (RISC) chips. Explicitly parallel instruction computing No instruction set computing One-instruction set computer Very long instruction word
Reduced instruction set computer
Reduced_instruction_set_computer
Web browser developed by Google
Chrome's design bridges the gap between desktop and so-called "cloud computing". At the touch of a button, Chrome lets you make a desktop, Start menu
Google_Chrome
American business executive (born 1973)
YouTube Next Lab and Audience Development Group Programs Business Groups Computing University Initiative Contact Lens Content ID CrossCheck Data Liberation
Neal_Mohan
Task computing seeks to redefine how users interact with and use computing environments. It is built on pervasive computing. A Task Computing Framework
Task_computing
Fifteenth letter of the Latin alphabet
hooks" (PDF). Anderson, Deborah (December 7, 2020). "L2/21-021: Reference doc numbers for L2/20-266R "Consolidated code chart of proposed phonetic characters"
O
On-demand cloud computing provider
use more computing in times of high application usage, and then scale down to reduce costs when there is less traffic). These cloud computing web services
Amazon_Web_Services
Software package manager
Kubernetes resource manifests dynamically. Helm was accepted to Cloud Native Computing Foundation on June 1, 2018 at the Incubating maturity level and then moved
Helm_(package_manager)
Email service developed by Google
YouTube Next Lab and Audience Development Group Programs Business Groups Computing University Initiative Contact Lens Content ID CrossCheck Data Liberation
Inbox_by_Gmail
learning and deep learning developed by Google Brain Torch – scientific computing framework with support for machine learning and deep learning algorithms
Lists of open-source artificial intelligence software
Lists_of_open-source_artificial_intelligence_software
Need to sacrifice consistency or availability in the presence of network partitions
conjecture by Brewer at the 2000 Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC). In 2002, Seth Gilbert and Nancy Lynch of MIT published a formal
CAP_theorem
Subset of an IT infrastructure system that shares no service-critical components
availability zones - Amazon ElastiCache". docs.aws.amazon.com. Retrieved 2023-09-15. "Regions and zones | Compute Engine Documentation". Google Cloud. Retrieved
Availability_zone
2025 Android mobile operating system
YouTube Next Lab and Audience Development Group Programs Business Groups Computing University Initiative Contact Lens Content ID CrossCheck Data Liberation
Android_16
Software acting on behalf of a user
websites use other detection methods. "W3C Definition of User Agent". www.w3.org. 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2018-10-20. "User agent". MDN Web Docs. 8 July 2024.
User_agent
Data transfer program by Samsung and Google
YouTube Next Lab and Audience Development Group Programs Business Groups Computing University Initiative Contact Lens Content ID CrossCheck Data Liberation
Quick_Share
Australian computer scientist (born 1944)
seven professional organizations. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and is on the editorial board of three major mathematics journals
Vaughan_Pratt
Human identity and digital technology
(November 2017). "A Layered Model for AI Governance". IEEE Internet Computing. 21 (6): 58–62. Bibcode:2017IIC....21f..58G. doi:10.1109/MIC.2017.4180835
Digital_self-determination
Numerical programming library for the OCaml programming language
Owl Scientific Computing is a software system for scientific and engineering computing developed in the Department of Computer Science and Technology
Owl_Scientific_Computing
Chamberlain 1953, p. 225. Marley 2008, pp. 102–103. Wright 1932, pt. 1 doc. no. 29. De la O Torres 2020, pp. 285–286. Wright 1932, pp. 102–108, 196–198
English_settlement_of_Belize
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
debate on teaching computing science. Comm. ACM. 32 (12): 1398–1404. doi:10.1145/76380.76381. S2CID 16961489. — (1999). "Computing Science: Achievements
Edsger_W._Dijkstra
Device or computer program used for writing and editing documents
programs. Common word processor programs include LibreOffice Writer, Google Docs, and Microsoft Word. Word processors developed from mechanical machines,
Word_processor
Open internet standards organization
Internet Engineering Task Force. "org.ietf.jgss (Java SE 25 & JDK 25)". docs.oracle.com. Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 10 October 2025. Official website
Internet Engineering Task Force
Internet_Engineering_Task_Force
Topics referred to by the same term
MDN may refer to: MDN Web Docs (formerly Mozilla Developer Network), a Mozilla website for developer documentation Message Disposition Notification, a
MDN
Linux distribution by Fedora Project
editions have been made available: personal computer, server and cloud computing. This was expanded to five editions for containerization and Internet
Fedora_Linux
DOC COMPUTING
DOC COMPUTING
Surname or Lastname
English
English : of uncertain derivation; possibly from Middle English doke ‘duck’ (see Duck).Norwegian : habitational name from a farm named Dokk, from Old Norse d{o,}kk ‘hollow’, ‘depression’.Possibly an altered form of German Docke, a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in the cloth trade, from Middle Low German dÅk ‘fabric’.
Surname or Lastname
Scottish (also found in Ireland)
Scottish (also found in Ireland) : reduced form of McDow. This surname is borne by a sept of the Buchanans.English : variant of Daw.Americanized spelling of Dutch Douw, an Old Frisian personal name.Americanized spelling of German Dau.Henry Dow (1634–1707), NH soldier and statesman, was born at Ormsby in Norfolkshire, England. His father migrated with his family to Watertown in the colony of Massachusetts Bay in 1637 and moved to Hampton in the province of NH in 1644. Henry became an influential and prosperous figure in Hampton. He married twice and had four sons.
Male
Hebrew
(דּï‹×‘) Hebrew name DOV means "bear."
Boy/Male
Vietnamese
Ethical.
Boy/Male
Italian American Celtic English Irish Scottish
Present.
Male
Hungarian
Hungarian form of Greek Theodoros, TÓDOR means "gift of God."
Male
English
Short form of English Dominic, DOM means "belongs to the lord."
Male
Russian
(Фёдор) Variant form of Russian Fyodor, FÉDOR means "gift of God."
Boy/Male
English
Lives by tbe stronghold.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : nickname for a mild and gentle man, from Middle English do ‘doe’ (Old English dÄ).English (of Norman origin) : habitational name (Old French d’Eu) for someone from Eu in Seine-Maritime, France. The place name is either a dramatic reduction of Latin Augusta ‘(city of) Augustus’, or else derives from the Germanic element auwa ‘water meadow’, ‘island’.
Female
Hebrew
(דּï‹×¨) Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Dowr, DOR means "generation" or "period of time." In the bible, this is the name of a coastal city in Manasseh, south of Carmel.
Boy/Male
Celtic
Dark stranger.
Boy/Male
English Latin
Lord.
Boy/Male
British, Christian, English
Brilliant
Male
English
Short form of English Donald, DON means "world ruler."
Female
English
Pet form of English Dorothy, DOT means "gift of God."
Boy/Male
Irish American
Dark-haired.
Boy/Male
Vietnamese
Virtuous.
Male
English
Medieval pet form of English Robert, DOB means "bright fame."
Girl/Female
English
Gift of God. Aand the most common form of the name in English- speaking countries. Famous bearer:...
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DOC COMPUTING
Female
English
Latin form of French Louise, LOUISA means "famous warrior."Â
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Tamil
God Gifted; Talent Given by God; Precious
Girl/Female
Hebrew, Hindu, Indian
Tied; Joined; Beauty
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
God's Light
Boy/Male
English
From the Fenced Farm
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various places, in Bedfordshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Suffolk, Surrey, and Wiltshire, so named from Old English strǣt ‘paved highway’, ‘Roman road’ (see Street) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. A place of the same name in Cornwall, which may also be a partial source of the surname, probably has as its first element Cornish stras ‘valley’.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord Murugan
Boy/Male
Tamil
Lotus
Boy/Male
Muslim
Honor, Respect
Girl/Female
Tamil
Water, Source of life
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n.
Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.
v. t.
To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.
n.
A male fox. See the Note under Dog, n., 6.
n.
A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
v. t.
To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.
v. t.
To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.
n.
A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
a.
Having a face resembling that of a dog.
n.
The dog-rose.
v. t.
To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.
v. t.
to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.
n.
A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.
v. t.
To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.
n.
A feat. [Obs.] See Do, n.
n.
Ado; bustle; stir; to do.
v. t. / auxiliary
To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text.
n.
One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).