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Microsoft is the key investor in the latest round of funding to N-trig, a supplier of digitizers and software that enable touch-based computing.

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  1. adjective Smart and trim, as in appearance; neat.
  2. adjective Being in good condition.
  3. transitive verb To make trim or neat, especially in dress.
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  • I put it in the brokerage house of a college classmate of mine who couldn't pass elementary trig, and flunked out of about everything else, and who is now worth fifty million dollars Already, in five days, I have lost a thousand dollars of the little stake I had put in. —  June, 1943
  • Microsoft is the key investor in the latest round of funding to N-trig, a supplier of digitizers and software that enable touch-based computing. —  Visual Studio Magazine Online | News
  • N-trig, an Israel-based company with a U.S. office in Austin, Texas, today announced it has received $24 million from Aurum Ventures, Challenger Ltd., —  Visual Studio Magazine Online | News
  • While N-trig is not providing a breakdown of the financing, Microsoft is leading the investment, according to an N-trig spokeswoman. —  Visual Studio Magazine Online | News
  • Microsoft's investment in N-trig is noteworthy because the company is a key provider of the touch technology used in numerous tablet PCs and recent touch-enabled computers, such as Dell's Latitude XT and Hewlett-Packard's TouchSmart tx2. —  Visual Studio Magazine Online | News
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  1. Middle English, true, from Old Norse tryggr, loyal, true; see deru- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse tryggr, firm; see trig1.

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  1. trig, n.-
  2. from Middle English trig, tryg, from Icelandic tryggr =Swedish trygg, trusty, faithful, true, =Danish tryg, secure, safe, =Gothic (Moesogothic) triggws, true, faithful: see true, of which trig is a doublet. Cf. trick, a.
  3. from trig, a.
  4. from Danish trykke =Swedish trycka =Old High German drucchen, Middle High German drücken, drucken, G. drücken, drucken =Anglo-Saxon thryccan, press.
  5. See trig, v.
  6. Perhaps a particular use of trig, cram. Some compare W. trigo, stay, tarry, Provencal trigar, stop, Middle Latin trigare, tricare, delay.
  7. from trig, v.
  8. Cf. tridge, trudge.
 

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