aggressive

adjective

1. 1

   Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.

   an aggressive policy, war, person, nation

   When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).

   This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts.

2. 2

   Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.

   This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.

   Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.

   However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.

   The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.

3. 3

   Of a tumor or disease, that spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.

4. 4

   Involving high risk for potentially high reward.

   an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio

5. 5

   Female but having a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive.

noun

1. 1

   One who is aggressive.

2. 2

   A (Black) woman who presents as masculine; a butch.

   [...]; usually the femme is the ho [at the costume party], and the butch/aggressive is the pimp. [...] An aggressive is a masculine-identified woman like the category of butch; aggressive is the contemporary term among younger masculine-identified women.

Forms

plural

aggressives

comparative

more aggressive

superlative

most aggressive