English Dictionary: Pandora | by the DICT Development Group |
4 results for Pandora | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pandora \Pan*do"ra\, n. [L., fr. Gr. Pandw`ra; pa^s, pa^n, all + dw^ron a gift.] 1. (Class. Myth.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pandora, OH (village, FIPS 59738) Location: 40.94768 N, 83.96123 W Population (1990): 1009 (377 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45877 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Pandora nondeterminism}. ["Pandora: Non-Deterministic Parallel Logic Programming", R. Bahgat et al, Proc 6th Intl Conf Logic Programming, MIT Press 1989 pp. 471-486]. (1995-04-27) |