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pandora


  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pandora  \Pan*do"ra\,  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 
 
  2.  (Zo["o]l.)  A  genus  of  marine  bivalves,  in  which  one  valve 
  is  flat,  the  other  convex. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Pandora 
  n  :  in  Greek  mythology:  the  first  woman;  created  by  Hephaestus 
  on  orders  from  Zeus  who  presented  her  to  Epimetheus  along 
  with  a  box  filled  with  evils  [syn:  {Pandora}] 
 
  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  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [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  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  PANDORA 
  Preserving  and  Accessing  Networked  Documentary  Resources  of  Australia 
 
 




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