Hyperion

4 definitions found

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

  Hyperion \Hy*pe"ri*on\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Class Myth.)
     The god of the sun; in the later mythology identified with
     Apollo, and distinguished for his beauty.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           So excellent a king; that was, to this,


           Hyperion to a satyr.                     --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Hyperion
       n : (Greek mythology) a Titan who was the son of Gaea and Uranus
           and the father of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient
           mythology

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

  89 Moby Thesaurus words for "Hyperion":
     Adonis, Agdistis, Amen-Ra, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo,
     Apollo Belvedere, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Astarte, Ate, Athena,
     Bacchus, Balder, Ceres, Cleopatra, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele,
     Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Freya, Gaea, Gaia,
     Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Hebe, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here,
     Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius,
     Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius,
     Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva,
     Mithras, Momus, Narcissus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods,
     Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo,
     Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Ra, Rhea, Saturn, Savitar,
     Shamash, Sol, Surya, Tellus, Titan, Venus, Venus de Milo, Vesta,
     Vulcan, Zeus, houri, peri, the Graces
  
  

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

  Hyperion
       
           An {MS-DOS} {personal computer} that was
          manufactured in Kanata (near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) in the
          mid-1980s.  It received considerable government subsidies and,
          while it was considered well-designed and manufactured and a
          real threat to the {Compaq Portable}, the Ottawa firm that
          designed it was unable to beat {Compaq}.
       
          (1997-07-21)