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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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