Jupiter : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Jupiter	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for Jupiter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jupiter n the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky (Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus Synonym(s): Jupiter, Jove
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jupiter \Ju"pi*ter\, n. [L., fr. Jovis pater. See {Jove}.] 1. (Rom. Myth.) The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus. 2. (Astron.) One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2028 from the sun, the earth's mean distance being taken as unity. {Jupiter's beard}. (Bot.) (a) A South European herb, with cymes of small red blossoms ({Centranthus ruber}). (b) The houseleek ({Sempervivum tectorum}); -- so called from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured beard of Jove. --Prior. (c) the cloverlike {Anthyllis Barba-Jovis}. {Jupiter's staff} (Bot.), the common mullein; -- so called from its long, rigid spike of yellow blossoms.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Jupiter, FL (town, FIPS 35875) Location: 26.92410 N, 80.10459 W Population (1990): 24986 (14602 housing units) Area: 34.0 sq km (land), 2.9 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 33458, 33477, 33478
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
jupiter vt. [IRC] To kill an {IRC} {bot} or user and then take its place by adopting its {nick} so that it cannot reconnect. Named after a particular IRC user who did this to NickServ, the robot in charge of preventing people from inadvertently using a nick claimed by another user. Now commonly shortened to `jupe'. = K =
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
jupiter To kill an {IRC} {robot} or user and then take its place by adopting its {nick} so that it cannot reconnect. Named after a particular IRC user who did this to {NickServ}, the robot in charge of preventing people from inadvertently using a nick claimed by another user. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-23)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Jupiter the principal deity of the ancient Greeks and Romans. He was worshipped by them under various epithets. Barnabas was identified with this god by the Lycaonians (Acts 14:12), because he was of stately and commanding presence, as they supposed Jupiter to be. There was a temple dedicated to this god outside the gates of Lystra (14:13).
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Jupiter, the father that helpeth