iliad

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iliad - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Iliad \Il"i*ad\, n. [L. Ilias, -adis, Gr. ?, ? (sc. ?), fr. ?,
     ?, Ilium, the city of Ilus, a son of Tros, founder of Ilium,
     which is a poetical name of Troy.]
     A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the
     destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed
     to Homer.
     [1913 Webster]

iliad - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Iliad
      n 1: a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the
           siege of Troy

iliad - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  ILIAD
  
     <language, real-time> A real-time language.
  
     ["On the Design of a Language for Programming Real-Time
     Concurrent Processes", H.A. Schutz, IEEE Trans Soft Eng
     SE-5(3):248-255, May 1979].
  
     (2000-09-03)