Pandora

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