Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Babel \Ba"bel\, n. [Heb. B[=a]bel, the name of the capital of
   Babylonia; in Genesis associated with the idea of
   ``confusion'']
   1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the
      confusion of languages took place.

            Therefore is the name of it called Babel. --Gen. xi.
                                                  9.

   2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused
      mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.

            That babel of strange heathen languages. --Hammond.

            The grinding babel of the street.     --R. L.
                                                  Stevenson.

Source : WordNet®

babel
     n 1: a confusion of voices and other sounds
     2: (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants
        (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to
        heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so
        they could no longer understand one another [syn: {Tower
        of Babel}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

BABEL
     
        1. A subset of {ALGOL 60}, with many {ALGOL W} extensions.
     
        ["BABEL, A New Programming Language", R.S. Scowen, Natl Phys
        Lab UK, Report CCU7, 1969].
     
        2. Mentioned in The Psychology of Computer Programming,
        G.M. Weinberg, Van Nostrand 1971, p.241.
     
        3. A language based on {higher-order function}s and
        {first-order logic}.
     
        ["Graph-Based Implementation of a Functional Logic Language",
        H. Kuchen et al, Proc ESOP 90, LNCS 432, Springer 1990,
        pp.271-290].
     
        ["Logic Programming with Functions and Predicates: The
        Language BABEL", Moreno-Navarro et al, J Logic Prog 12(3) (Feb
        1992)].
     
        (1994-11-28)