9 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Jupiter \Ju"pi*ter\, n. [L., fr. Jovis pater. See {Jove}.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Rom. Myth.) The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus. [1913 Webster] 2. (Astron.) One of the planets, being the fifth from the sun, the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean radius being about 43,345 miles (69,758 kilometers), almost exactly one-tenth that of the sun. It revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2025 from the sun (778,140,000 km), the earth's mean distance (the astronomical unit) being taken as unity. It has a mass of 1.901 x 10^{27} kg, about one-thousandth that of the sun, and more than the remainder of the planets combined. It has an average solar day equal to 9.842 earth hours. The rapid revolution causes a noticeable flattening at the poles; the diameter at the equator is 71,370 km, and at the poles 66,644 km. --HCP61 [1913 Webster +PJC] {Jupiter's beard}. (Bot.) (a) A South European herb, with cymes of small red blossoms ({Centranthus ruber}). (b) The houseleek ({Sempervivum tectorum}); -- so called from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured beard of Jove. --Prior. (c) the cloverlike {Anthyllis Barba-Jovis}. {Jupiter's staff} (Bot.), the common mullein; -- so called from its long, rigid spike of yellow blossoms. Jupon From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: Jupiter n 1: the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites 2: (Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus [syn: {Jove}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 83 Moby Thesaurus words for "Jupiter": Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Earth, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, 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, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Uranus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, asteroid, inferior planet, major planet, minor planet, planet, planetoid, secondary planet, solar system, superior planet, terrestrial planet, wanderer From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]: jupiter vt. [IRC] To kill an {IRC} {bot} or user and then take its place by adopting its {nick} so that it cannot reconnect. Named after a particular IRC user who did this to NickServ, the robot in charge of preventing people from inadvertently using a nick claimed by another user. Now commonly shortened to `jupe'. = K = From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: jupiter To kill an {IRC} {robot} or user and then take its place by adopting its {nick} so that it cannot reconnect. Named after a particular IRC user who did this to {NickServ}, the robot in charge of preventing people from inadvertently using a nick claimed by another user. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-23) From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Jupiter the principal deity of the ancient Greeks and Romans. He was worshipped by them under various epithets. Barnabas was identified with this god by the Lycaonians (Acts 14:12), because he was of stately and commanding presence, as they supposed Jupiter to be. There was a temple dedicated to this god outside the gates of Lystra (14:13). From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Jupiter, the father that helpeth From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Jupiter, FL (town, FIPS 35875) Location: 26.92410 N, 80.10459 W Population (1990): 24986 (14602 housing units) Area: 34.0 sq km (land), 2.9 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 33458, 33477, 33478 From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]: Jupiter, FL -- U.S. town in Florida Population (2000): 39328 Housing Units (2000): 20943 Land area (2000): 19.998551 sq. miles (51.796007 sq. km) Water area (2000): 1.125379 sq. miles (2.914719 sq. km) Total area (2000): 21.123930 sq. miles (54.710726 sq. km) FIPS code: 35875 Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12 Location: 26.925985 N, 80.104963 W ZIP Codes (1990): 33458 33477 33478 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Jupiter, FL Jupiter
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