Extensions to pet and proper names, such as the ie in laddie or lassie, or the y in names like Robby or Donny, surfaced in Scotland around 1400 and became popularized as endearments by the poems of Robert Bums (1759-1796).
This collection of shirts runs the gamut of color. The definition of gamut is the entire range or extent of something. An example of gamut is a clothing collection that includes every color of the rainbow. gamut. gamut.
(GA) An evolutionary algorithm which generates each individual from some encoded form known as a chromosome or genome. Chromosomes are combined or mutated to breed new individuals. Crossover, the kind of recombination of chromosomes found in sexual reproduction in nature, is often also used in GAs.