URANUS : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: URANUS	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for URANUS
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Uranus n (Greek mythology) god of the heavens; son and husband of Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology Synonym(s): Ouranos, Uranus a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites; "Uranus was discovered by William Herschel in 1781"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Uranus \U"ra*nus\ (-n[ucr]s), n. [L. Uranus, Gr. O'yrano`s Uranus, o'yrano`s heaven, sky. Cf. {Uranium}.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans. 2. (Astron.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years. Note: This planet has also been called {Herschel}, from Sir William Herschel, who discovered it in 1781, and who named it {Georgium Sidus}, in honor of George III., then King of England.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Uranus Hideyuki Nakashima , 1993. A logic-based knowledge representation language. An extension of Prolog written in Common Lisp, with Lisp-like syntax. Extends Prolog with a multiple world mechanism, plus term descriptions to provide functional programming. {(ftp://etlport.etl.go.jp/pub/uranus/ftp)}.