Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
(Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Charybdis \Cha*ryb"dis\, n. [L., Gr. cha`rybdis.]
A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla
on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster.
See Scylla.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Charybdis
n 1: (Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the
other side of a narrow strait from Scylla
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
CHARYBDIS
A Lisp program to display
mathematical expressions. It is related to MATHLAB.
[Sammet 1969, p. 522].
(1994-11-15)