1) Counterpart of Greek Hestia 2) Feminine given name 3) Fiery goddess 4) Fire goddess 5) Goddess of home and family 6) Goddess of the hearth 7) Hearth goddess 8) Is she a match for Lucifer 9) Large match 10) Latin girl name 11) Red-headed goddess 12) Roman deity 13) Roman goddess of the hearth 14) Roman hearth goddess
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[Software configuration management] Vesta is a software configuration management system developed in the 1990s. ==History== Vesta was developed by researchers at the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, California. The language for Vesta was first published in 1993. Vesta used a declarative approach to s...
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[mythology] Vesta (ˈwɛsta) is the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman religion. Vesta`s presence is symbolized by the sacred fire that burned at her hearth and temples. Her closest Greek equivalent is Hestia. The importance of Vesta to Roman religion is indicated by the prominence of the priesthood devoted to her, the ...
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[spacecraft] Vesta was a multiple asteroid flyby mission that the Soviet Union was planning in the 1980s. The Vesta mission would have consisted of two identical probes (just like earlier Soviet Venus missions), to be launched in 1991. Similar to the Vega program, each spacecraft would deploy one or more landers or balloons into the Venusia...
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wax-stemmed match
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• (n.) An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807. • (n.) One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it. • (n.) A wax friction match.
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in Roman religion, goddess of the hearth, identified with the Greek Hestia. The lack of an easy source of fire in the early Roman community placed a ... [3 related articles]
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third largest and the brightest asteroid of the asteroid belt and the fourth such object to be discovered, by the German astronomer and physician ... [3 related articles]
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Roman name of Hestia.
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(minor planet 4) Hubble image of Vesta taken in 1996. A 456-km wide crater is visible at the bottom of the image. Credit: Ben Zellner, Georgia Southern University; Peter Thomas, Cornell University; NASA Hubble image of Vesta taken in 2007. Credit: L. McFadden/NASA/E...
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One of the `minor planets` of our solar system. Discovered by Olbers on 29 Mar 1807. Diameter in km: 576. More data in TABLE 13. THE MINOR PLANETS
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In Roman mythology, the goddess of the hearth, equivalent with the Greek
Hestia. In Rome, the sacred flame in her shrine at the Forum represented the spirit of the community, and was kept constantly...
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1. One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it. ... 2. <astronomy> An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807. ... 3. A wax friction match. ... Origin: L. Vesta, akin to Gr. Vesta, th...
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Roma and Vesta were 2 goddesses who were especially important to Rome. Vesta was one of the most popular and mysterious goddesses of the Roman pantheon. She was the goddess of the hearth, equated with the Greek Hestia, and was also the goddess of the sacred eternal flame that burnt in the Temple of Vesta (built in the 3rd century BC) in the Forum R…...
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Ves'ta noun [ Latin
Vesta , akin to Greek ... Vesta, ... the hearth of the house, and perhaps to Sanskrit
ush to burn (see
East ), or perhaps to Sanskrit
vas to dwell, and English
was .]
1. (Rom. Myth.) One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans...
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Vesta is the fourth and brightest asteroid. It was discovered by Olbers on March the 29th 1807.
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Vesta is a cultivated variety of potato.
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The Vesta was a Swedish patrol boat of 105 tons displacement launched between 1908 and 1910 as a torpedo boat. The Vesta had a top speed of 25 knots and was armed with one 57 mm gun and one 18 inch torpedo tube.
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[
n] - (Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins 2. [n] - the brightest asteroid but the fourth to be discovered
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Second most massive asteroid in the asteroid belt
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Roman goddess of the hearth.
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noun the brightest asteroid but the fourth to be discovered
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In Roman mythology, the goddess of the hearth, equivalent with the Greek Hestia. In Rome, the sacred flame in her shrine at the Forum represented the spirit of the community, and was kept constantly alight by the six Vestal Virgins
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See Hestia.
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