Iliad

3 definitions found

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

  Iliad \Il"i*ad\, n. [L. Ilias, -adis, Gr. ?, ? (sc. ?), fr. ?,
     ?, Ilium, the city of Ilus, a son of Tros, founder of Ilium,
     which is a poetical name of Troy.]
     A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the
     destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed
     to Homer.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Iliad
       n : a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege
           of Troy

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

  ILIAD
       
           A {real-time} language.
       
          ["On the Design of a Language for Programming Real-Time
          Concurrent Processes", H.A. Schutz, IEEE Trans Soft Eng
          SE-5(3):248-255, May 1979].
       
          (2000-09-03)