7 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pandora \Pan*do"ra\, prop. n. [L., fr. Gr. Pandw`ra; pa^s, pa^n, all + dw^ron a gift.] 1. (Class. Myth.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: pandore \pan"dore\ (p[a^]n"d[=o]r or p[a^]n*d[=o]r"), n. [F. See {Bandore}.] An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore. [Written also {pandora}, {pandoura}. {pandure}, and {pandoran}.] [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: Pandora n : (Greek mythology) the first woman; created by Hephaestus on orders from Zeus who presented her to Epimetheus along with a box filled with evils From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]: PANDORA Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: Pandora{Parlog} extended to allow {don't-know nondeterminism}. ["Pandora: Non-Deterministic Parallel Logic Programming", R. Bahgat et al, Proc 6th Intl Conf Logic Programming, MIT Press 1989 pp. 471-486]. (1995-04-27) From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Pandora, OH (village, FIPS 59738) Location: 40.94768 N, 83.96123 W Population (1990): 1009 (377 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45877 From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]: Pandora, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio Population (2000): 1188 Housing Units (2000): 458 Land area (2000): 0.812558 sq. miles (2.104516 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.812558 sq. miles (2.104516 sq. km) FIPS code: 59738 Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39 Location: 40.946883 N, 83.959905 W ZIP Codes (1990): 45877 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Pandora, OH Pandora
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