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English Dictionary: Hyperion by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Hyperion
n
  1. (Greek mythology) a Titan who was the son of Gaea and Uranus and the father of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hyperion \Hy*pe"ri*on\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?].] (Class Myth.)
      The god of the sun; in the later mythology identified with
      Apollo, and distinguished for his beauty.
  
               So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a
               satyr.                                                   --Shak.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Hyperion
  
      An {MS-DOS} {personal computer} that was
      manufactured in Kanata (near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) in the
      mid-1980s.   It received considerable government subsidies and,
      while it was considered well-designed and manufactured and a
      real threat to the {Compaq Portable}, the Ottawa firm that
      designed it was unable to beat {Compaq}.
  
      (1997-07-21)
  
  
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