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neptune |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Neptune \Nep"tune\, n. [L. Neptunus.] 1. (Rom. Myth.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter. 2. (Astron.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Neptune n 1: (Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon [syn: {Neptune}] 2: a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun [syn: {Neptune}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: Neptune A hypertext system for computer assisted software engineering, developed at Tektronix
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