Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Alloy \Al*loy"\, v. t.
   To form a metallic compound.

         Gold and iron alloy with ease.           --Ure.

Alloy \Al*loy"\, n. [OE. alai, OF. alei, F. aloyer, to alloy,
   alier to ally. See {Alloy}, v. t.]
   1. Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a
      mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy
      of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals,
      the compound is called an amalgam.

   2. The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver;
      fineness.

   3. A baser metal mixed with a finer.

            Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any
            baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it.
                                                  --Locke.

   4. Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts
      from; as, no happiness is without alloy. ``Pure English
      without Latin alloy.'' --F. Harrison.

Alloy \Al*loy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alloyed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Alloying}.] [F. aloyer, OF. alier, allier, later allayer,
   fr. L. aligare. See {Alloy}, n., {Ally}, v. t., and cf.
   {Allay}.]
   1. To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable
      substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or
      silver with copper.

   2. To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.

   3. To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to
      alloy pleasure with misfortunes.

Source : WordNet®

alloy
     n 1: a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or
          metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together
          or dissolving into each other when molten; "brass is an
          alloy of zinc and copper" [syn: {metal}]
     2: the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of
        something [syn: {admixture}]

alloy
     v 1: lower in value by increasing the base-metal content [syn: {debase}]
     2: make an alloy of

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

ALLOY
     
         A language by Thanasis Mitsolides
         which combines {functional programming},
        {object-oriented programming} and {logic programming} ideas,
        and is suitable for {massively parallel} systems.
     
        Evaluating modes support serial or parallel execution, {eager
        evaluation} or {lazy evaluation}, {nondeterminism} or multiple
        solutions etc.  ALLOY is simple as it only requires 29
        primitives in all (half of which are for {object oriented
        programming} support).
     
        It runs on {SPARC}.
     
        {(ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/local/alloy/)}.
     
        ["The Design and Implementation of ALLOY, a Parallel Higher
        Level Programming Language", Thanasis Mitsolides
        , PhD Thesis NYU 1990].
     
        (1991-06-11)