Julia

Proper noun

Julia (plural Julias)

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • Salute Philologus & Iulia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the Saints which are with them.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 16:15
   • "Julia!" when alone he would exclaim; "what a sweet sounding and romantic name: Julia! what music and magic in its sound! 'tis a name worthy only the fairest and purest of creation!1826 The New-York Literary Gazette and American Athenaeum, July 8, 1826, J.G.Brooks&G.Bond, page 216
2. 89 Julia, a main belt asteroid; named for Saint Julia of Corsica.
3. A village in central Poland.
4. A French surname.
5. A programming language suited for numerical analysis and scientific computing.
   • And then came Julia, a general purpose programming language designed according to the requirements of scientific and technical computing, providing performance comparable to C/C++, and with an environment productive enough for prototyping like the high-level dynamic language of Python.2016, Anshul Joshi, Julia for Data Science, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 8