(1)
Also referred to as the
Mono Project, a development initiative sponsored by Ximian to create an
open source Unix version of Microsoft’s
.NET development
platform. Mono focuses just on the development platform (a
runtime for the
Common Language Infrastructure, a
compiler for
C# and a set of
class libraries) and not the
end user applications that the term
.NET also refers to.
Mono is named for the Spanish word for
monkey.
(2) Abbreviation for monophonic
sound.
