Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Greek Mythology One of a family of giants, the children of Uranus and Gaea, who sought to rule heaven and were overthrown and supplanted by the family of Zeus.
- noun One of prodigious size, strength, or achievement.
- noun The largest satellite of Saturn and the second largest satellite in the solar system.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mythol., one of a race of primordial deities, children of Uranus and Ge (Heaven and Earth), or their son Titan, supposed to represent the various forces of nature.
- noun Any one of the immediate descendants of the Titans, as Prometheus and Epimetheus.
- noun The sun personified. Titan being at times substituted by the Latin poets for Helios as god of the sun.
- noun The sixth in order of the eight satellites of the planet Saturn, and the largest, appearing as a star of the ninth magnitude. See
Saturn . - noun A genus of beetles.
- noun A calcareous earth; titanite.
- noun Titanium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Titanic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the
giant gods inGreek mythology who preceded theOlympian gods. - proper noun The largest
moon of theplanet Saturn .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person of exceptional importance and reputation
- noun (Greek mythology) any of the primordial giant gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus; the Titans were offspring of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth)
- noun the largest of the satellites of Saturn; has a hazy nitrogen atmosphere
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But all I could do was remember, remember Captain Norden from _The Sands of Mars_ reminiscing about the cold, howling winds of Titan, remember Tuck and Davey from _Trouble on Titan_ and their homebuilt oxygen-jet, flying the methane skies.
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Milton -- a Titan Soul hurled down from heaven, struggling with all chaos and the deep to enunciate -- just to proclaim and put on everlasting record -- those two profound significant words, _Titan_ and _Soul, _ for a memorial to Man of the real nature of Man.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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The writers have a lot of fun with it, and you can tell they have a lot of love for the sport (Titan is a skater herself) ... almost to a fault, as sometimes the roller derby lingo in the dialogue can become a little overwhelming.
What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009
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As the article says, Titan is set 100 years in the future, when Saturn's moon Titan is defended by an elite squadron of young, brash pilots whose spaceships combine to form the giant robot Titan Maximum.
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If the failure modes in Titan motors were exclusively in areas where Shuttle type motors designed around it, then they'd not be fair comparisons.
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And, despite the cover, not only does Tempest not battle the Titans in this issue, no current Titan is ever even shown except in flashback.
19 « July « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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The state of differentiation of Saturn's moon, Titan, is between that of Callisto and Ganymede.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Paul Estrada -- From Dust to Planets SETI Institute 2010
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The mere fact that she lived was enough to wrest this Titan from the arms of the Church.
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Titan is a relative name and probably will no be used.
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And, despite the cover, not only does Tempest not battle the Titans in this issue, no current Titan is ever even shown except in flashback.
Quick Hits – Blackest Night #1, Titans #15, Batman: Streets of Gotham #2 and More 2009
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