prometheus

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prometheus - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Prometheus \Pro*me"the*us\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, from ? to have
     forethought for.] (Class. Myth.)
     The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by
     the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to
     have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire
     stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent
     Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture
     preyed upon his liver.
     [1913 Webster] Prominence

prometheus - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Prometheus
      n 1: (Greek mythology) the Titan who stole fire from Olympus and
           gave it to mankind; Zeus punished him by chaining him to a
           rock where an eagle gnawed at his liver until Hercules
           rescued him

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

  Prometheus
  
     <language> A programmaing language geared for logic,
     mathematics, AI, and string, list and database processing.
     Prometheus runs on a variety of platforms from Macintosh
     to MS-DOS
  
     (http://aard.tracor.com/Jason/Prometheus/).
  
     (1996-03-04)