Hermes

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hermes \Her"mes\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]
     1. (Myth.) See {Mercury}.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Hermes Trismegistus [Gr. 'Ermh^s trisme`gistos, lit.,
           Hermes thrice greatest] was a late name of Hermes,


           especially as identified with the Egyptian god Thoth.
           He was the fabled inventor of astrology and alchemy.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Arch[ae]ology) Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to
        Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in
        some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a
        quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body
        belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other
        parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures,
        though often representing Hermes, were used for other
        divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of
        human beings. Called also {herma}. See {Terminal statue},
        under {Terminal}. Hermetic

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Hermes
       n : (Greek mythology) messenger and herald of the gods; god of
           commerce and cunning and invention and theft; identified
           with Roman Mercury

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "Hermes":
     Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate,
     Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter,
     Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother,
     Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion,
     Iris, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, 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, Paul Revere,
     Persephassa, Persephone, Pheidippides, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo,
     Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus,
     Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, carrier, commercialism, commissionaire,
     courier, diplomatic courier, emissary, estafette, express,
     go-between, industrialism, mercantilism, message-bearer, messenger,
     nuncio, post, postboy, postrider, runner
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  HERMES
       Heuristic Emergency Response Management Expert System (XPS)
       
       

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

  Hermes
       
           An experimental, very high level, integrated
          language and system from the {IBM} {Watson Research Centre},
          produced in June 1990.  It is designed for implementation of
          large systems and distributed applications, as well as for
          general-purpose programming.  It is an {imperative}, {strongly
          typed} and {process-oriented} successor to {NIL}.
       
          Hermes hides distribution and heterogeneity from the
          programmer.  The programmer sees a single {abstract machine}
          containing processes that communicate using calls or sends.
          The {compiler}, not the programmer, deals with the complexity
          of data structure layout, local and remote communication, and
          interaction with the {operating system}.  As a result, Hermes
          programs are portable and easy to write.  Because the
          programming paradigm is simple and high level, there are many
          opportunities for optimisation which are not present in
          languages which give the programmer more direct control over
          the machine.
       
          Hermes features {threads}, {relational table}sHermes is,
          {typestate} checking, {capability}-based access and {dynamic
          configuration}.
       
          Version 0.8alpha patchlevel 01 runs on {RS/6000}, {Sun-4},
          {NeXT}, {IBM-RT}/{BSD4.3} and includes a {bytecode compiler},
          a bytecode->C compiler and {run-time support}.
       
          {0.7alpha for Unix
          (ftp://software.watson.ibm.com/pub/hermes)}.
       
          E-mail: , Andy Lowry
          .
       
          {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.lang.hermes}.
       
          ["Hermes: A Language for Distributed Computing".  Strom,
          Bacon, Goldberg, Lowry, Yellin, Yemini.  Prentice-Hall,
          Englewood Cliffs, NJ.  1991.  ISBN: O-13-389537-8].
       
          (1992-03-22)
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Hermes
     Mercury, a Roman Christian (Rom. 16:14).