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jupiter


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jupiter - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Jupiter \Ju"pi*ter\, n. [L., fr. Jovis pater. See Jove.]
     [1913 Webster]
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Astron.) One of the planets, being the fifth from the
        sun, the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them
        all, its mean radius being about 43,345 miles (69,758
        kilometers), almost exactly one-tenth that of the sun. It
        revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance
        of 5.2025 from the sun (778,140,000 km), the earth's mean
        distance (the astronomical unit) being taken as unity. It
        has a mass of 1.901 x 10^27 kg, about one-thousandth
        that of the sun, and more than the remainder of the
        planets combined. It has an average solar day equal to
        9.842 earth hours. The rapid revolution causes a
        noticeable flattening at the poles; the diameter at the
        equator is 71,370 km, and at the poles 66,644 km. --HCP61
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     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. Jupon

jupiter - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Jupiter
      n 1: the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many
           satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night
           sky
      2: (Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek
         Zeus [syn: Jupiter, Jove]

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

  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)
  

jupiter - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.
  

jupiter - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  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).

jupiter - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  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

jupiter - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "Jupiter":
     Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate,
     Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter,
     Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Earth, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge,
     Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes,
     Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter Fidius,
     Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius,
     Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva,
     Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus,
     Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon,
     Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Uranus, Venus, Vesta,
     Vulcan, Zeus, asteroid, inferior planet, major planet,
     minor planet, planet, planetoid, secondary planet, solar system,
     superior planet, terrestrial planet, wanderer