Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
(Roman mythology) god of fire and metal working;
counterpart of Greek Hephaestus;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Vulcan \Vul"can\, n. [L. Vulcanus, Volcanus: cf. Skr. ulk[=a] a
firebrand, meteor. Cf. Volcano.] (Rom. Myth.)
The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; --
answering to the Greek Hephaestus.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Vulcan
n 1: (Roman mythology) god of fire and metal working;
counterpart of Greek Hephaestus
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "Vulcan":
Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate,
Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter,
Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother,
Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen,
Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur,
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore,
Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus,
Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa,
Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina,
Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Venus, Vesta, Wayland, Zeus,
farrier, forger, metalworker, smith
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
VULCAN
1. A version of JPLDIS ported to CP/M by Wayne
Ratliff around 1980. VULCAN evolved into dBASE II.
2. The dBASE-like interpreter and compiler
sold by RSPI with their Emerald Bay product. [Same as 1?]
3. An early string manipulation language.
["VULCAN - A String Handling Language with Dynamic Storage
Control", E.P. Storm et al, Proc FJCC 37, AFIPS, Fall 1970].
4. A concurrent object-oriented logic
programming language implemented as a preprocessor for
FCP by Kahn et al at Xerox PARC.
["Vulcan: Logical Concurrent Objects", K. Kahn et al in
Research Directions in Object- Oriented Programming,
A.B. Shriver et al eds, MIT Press 1987].
(2004-09-01)