Rigel

3 definitions found

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

  Rigel \Ri"gel\, n. [Ar. rijl, properly, foot.] (Astron.)
     A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the
     constellation Orion. [Written also {Regel}.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  Rigel
       n : the brightest star in Orion [syn: {Beta Orionis}]

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

  Rigel
       
          A {database} language?  Based on {Pascal}.  Listed by
          M.P. Atkinson & J.W. Schmidt in a tutorial presented in
          Zurich, 1989.
       
          (1994-10-28)