aggressive

UK /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/ US /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/
adj 5noun 2

Definitions

adj

1

Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.

an aggressive policy, war, person, nation

When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).

2

Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.

This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.

Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.

3

That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.

4

Involving high risk for potentially high reward.

an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio

5

Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive.

noun

1

One who is aggressive.

2

A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch.

[...]; usually the femme is the ho [at the costume party], and the butch/aggressive is the pimp. [...] An aggressive is a masculine-identified woman like the category of butch; aggressive is the contemporary term among younger masculine-identified women.

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