Look up: vulcan

1. 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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2. Vulcan
   [n] - (Roman mythology) god of fire and metal working
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3. Vulcan
   Operational code name for the Allied offensive in Tunisia - May 1943
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4. Vulcan
   archaic or obsolete terms > Occupations:Blacksmith.
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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. Vulcan
   noun (Roman mythology) god of fire and metal working; counterpart of Greek Hephaestus
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9. Vulcan
   • (n.) The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephaestus.
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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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 Hand...
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13. Vulcan
    HMS Vulcan (originally the Mascot and later Aston Villa before being purchased by the Royal Navy in 1936) was a British trawler converted into a depot ship for torpedo boats. HMS Vulcan had a displacement of 623 tons and a top speed of 11.5 knots.
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14. 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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15. 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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16. Vulcan
    Vulcan was the Roman name for the Greek god Hephaestus.
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17. 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 Fornacalia, where he was worshipped as god of furnaces. In Rome the Vulcanale, an area with an altar, was dedicated to him on the north side of the Forum
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18. Vulcan
    Roman god of fire and the forge, after whom volcanoes are named.
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19. Vulcan
    Roman god of fire and the forge after whom volcanoes are named.
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20. Vulcan
    (hypothetical planet) `Vulcan` was a small planet proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun. In an attempt to explain peculiarities of Mercury`s orbit, in the 19th-century French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier hypothesized that they were the result of another plan...
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21. Vulcan
    (Star Trek) `Vulcans`, or sometimes `Vulcanians`, are an extraterrestrial humanoid species in the Star Trek universe who evolved on the planet Vulcan, and are noted for their attempt to live by reason and logic with no interference from emotion. They were the first extraterrestrial spe...
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22. Vulcan
    (volcano) `Vulcan` is a pumice cone in Papua New Guinea. It is a sub-vent of the Rabaul caldera and lies on the western rim of the larger feature. Its most recent eruption was in 1994, when in conjunction with another vent, Tavurvur, the eruptions of Vulcan forced the abandonment of the city ...
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23. Vulcan
    (motor vehicles) `Vulcan`, based in Southport, England, made cars from 1902 until 1928 and abbr=on--> and the chassis was now "armoured ash". Twin-cylinder 1.5 L models followed in 1904 now with steel chassis and in 1905, 2 and then 3 L four-cylinder types appeared...
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24. Vulcan
    (Marvel Comics) `Vulcan` (`Gabriel Summers`) is a fictional comic book supervillain who appears in books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Ed Brubaker and Trevor Hairsine, he first appeared in X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1 (January 2006). He is the third Summers brother to be revealed,...
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25. Vulcan
    (DC Comics) `Vulcan`, is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. He is the second character to star in a book titled Son of Vulcan, the first being Johnny Mann, who was created by Charlton Comics in 1965 and later purchased by DC Comics in 1983. In the...
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