Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun algol

2 senses of algol

Sense 1
Algol -- (the second brightest star in Perseus; the first known eclipsing binary)
       INSTANCE OF=> binary star, binary, double star -- (a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation)

Sense 2
ALGOL -- ((from a combination of ALGOrithmic and Language); a programming language used to express computer programs as algorithms)
       => algebraic language -- (an algorithmic language having statements that resemble algebraic expressions)