Eris

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Eris
       n : (Greek mythology) goddess of discord; sister of Ares

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  Eris /e'ris/ n. The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and


     Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinized to Discordia and she was
     worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a very friendly deity in the
     Classical original, she was reinvented as a more benign personification
     of creative anarchy starting in 1959 by the adherents of {Discordianism}
     and has since been a semi-serious subject of veneration in several
     `fringe' cultures, including hackerdom. See {Discordianism}, {Church of
     the SubGenius}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Eris
       
          /e'ris/ The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and
          Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinised to Discordia
          and she was worshiped by that name in Rome.  Not a very
          friendly deity in the Classical original, she was reinvented
          as a more benign personification of creative anarchy starting
          in 1959 by the adherents of {Discordianism} and has since been
          a semi-serious subject of veneration in several "fringe"
          cultures, including hackerdom.
       
          See {Church of the SubGenius}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-12-08)