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prometheus

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [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  father  of  Deucalion  [syn:  {Prometheus}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [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)




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