Traditionally, any drawing material made in stick form, including chalk, pastel, conté crayons, charcoal, lithographic and other grease crayons, as well as wax crayons
Traditionally, any drawing material, made in stick form, including chalk, crayon, charcoal To children, the term invariably refers to sticks of colour, usually in a paper wrapper and sold under various trade names
n 1 Someone who works on Cray supercomputers More specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie (irrespective of gender) Systems types who have a UNIX background tend not to be described as crayons 2 A {computron} (sense 2) that participates only in {number-crunching} 3 A unit of computational power equal to that of a single Cray-1 There is a standard joke about this that derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener