Source : WordNet®

Avon
     n 1: a river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire
          and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of
          the Severn [syn: {River Avon}]
     2: a river in central England that flows through
        Stratford-on-Avon and empties into the Severn [syn: {River
        Avon}, {Upper Avon}, {Upper Avon River}]
     3: a county in southwestern England

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Avon
     
         A {dataflow} language.
     
        ["AVON: A Dataflow Language", A. Deb, ICS 87, Second Intl Conf
        on Supercomputing, v.3, pp.9-19, ISI 1987].
     
        (1994-11-28)