Neptune : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Neptune	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Neptune
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Neptune n (Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants; "the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Neptune \Nep"tune\, n. [L. Neptunus.] 1. (Rom. Myth.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter. 2. (Astron.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Neptune A hypertext system for computer assisted software engineering, developed at Tektronix.