Look up: Vulcan

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   Vulcan
   Roman deity worshiped at the festival Vulcanalia, where little fish and other animals, representing humans, were sometimes thrown into a fire in order to preserve the human lives they represented; god who made armor for Aeneas; identified with Hephaestus by Romans.
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   Vulcan
   Vulcan was the Roman name for the Greek god Hephaestus.
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   Vulcan
   see 'M61A1'
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   Vulcan
   The Vulcan is a British four-jet medium bomber. It is powered by Rolls-Royce Bristol Olympus 301 turbojets giving it a speed of Mach 0.94.
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   Vulcan
   [n] - (Roman mythology) god of fire and metal working
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   Vulcan
   Operational code name for the Allied offensive in Tunisia - May 1943
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   Vulcan
   archaic or obsolete terms > Occupations:Blacksmith.
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   Vulcan
   In Roman mythology, the god of fire and destruction, later identified with the Greek god Hephaestus. His principal festival was the Vulcanalia held on 23 Aug, but his most ancient feast was the...
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   VULCAN
   1. (database) A version of JPLDIS ported to CP/M by Wayne Ratliff around 1980. VULCAN evolved into dBASE II. 2. (database) The dBASE-like interpreter and compiler sold by RSPI with their Emerald Bay product. [Same as 1?] 3. (language) An early string manipulation language. ['VULCAN - A String Handling Language with Dynamic Storage Control', E.P. ...
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    Vulcan
    Vul'can noun [ Latin Vulcanus , Volcanus : confer Sanskrit ulkā a firebrand, meteor. Confer Volcano .] (Rom. Myth.) The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephæstus .
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    vulcan
    The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; answering to the Greek Hephaestus. ... Origin: L. Vulcanus, Volcanus: cf. Skr. Ulka a firebrand, meteor. Cf. Volcano. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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    Vulcan
    noun (Roman mythology) god of fire and metal working; counterpart of Greek Hephaestus
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    Vulcan
    • (n.) The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephaestus.
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    Vulcan
    in Roman religion, god of fire, particularly in its destructive aspects as volcanoes or conflagrations. Poetically, he is given all the attributes of ... [2 related articles]
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    Vulcan
    Vulcan In Roman mythology, god of fire and metal working; counterpart of Greek Hephaestus. The son of Jupiter and Juno, husband of Venus, and father of Caeculus. He was the god of fire and volcanoes, and the manufacturer of art, arms, iron, and armor for gods and heroes.
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    Vulcan
    • (astron.) A hypothetical intra-Mercurian planet, the existence of which was proposed by the 19th century French mathematician Urbain Leverrier to explain anomalies in Mercury's orbit (now accounted for by the general theory of relativity). Alleged sightings of Vulcan in 1859 inspired many ast...
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    Vulcan
    Vulcan, in Roman religion and mythology, fire god. Chiefly a god of destructive fire, Vulcan seems to have originated as a god of volcanoes. His festival, the Volcanalia, was held on Aug. 23. He was later identified with the Greek Hephaestus.
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    Vulcan
    Vulcan, in astronomy, hypothetical planet whose existence was proposed by Leverrier to explain part of the advance of the perihelion of Mercury, not all of which could be accounted for by gravitational effects of the other planets under the Newtonian theory of gravitation. The general theory of rela...
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