Prometheus

3 definitions found

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

  Prometheus \Pro*me"the*us\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, from ? to have
     forethought for.] (Class. Myth.)
     The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by
     the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to
     have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire
     stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent


     Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture
     preyed upon his liver.
     [1913 Webster] Prominence

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Prometheus
       n : (Greek mythology) the Titan who stole fire from Olympus and
           gave it to mankind; Zeus punished him by chaining him to
           a rock where an eagle gnawed at his liver until Hercules
           rescued him

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

  Prometheus
       
           A programmaing language geared for logic,
          mathematics, {AI}, and string, list and database processing.
          Prometheus runs on a variety of {platforms} from {Macintosh}
          to {MS-DOS}
       
          {Home (http://www.aard.tracor.com/Jason/Prometheus/)}.
       
          (1996-03-04)