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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky;

2. (Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus;
[syn: Jupiter, Jove]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jupiter \Ju"pi*ter\, n. [L., fr. Jovis pater. See Jove.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Rom. Myth.) The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus. [1913 Webster] 2. (Astron.) One of the planets, being the fifth from the sun, the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean radius being about 43,345 miles (69,758 kilometers), almost exactly one-tenth that of the sun. It revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2025 from the sun (778,140,000 km), the earth's mean distance (the astronomical unit) being taken as unity. It has a mass of 1.901 x 10^27 kg, about one-thousandth that of the sun, and more than the remainder of the planets combined. It has an average solar day equal to 9.842 earth hours. The rapid revolution causes a noticeable flattening at the poles; the diameter at the equator is 71,370 km, and at the poles 66,644 km. --HCP61 [1913 Webster +PJC] Jupiter's beard. (Bot.) (a) A South European herb, with cymes of small red blossoms (Centranthus ruber). (b) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum); -- so called from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured beard of Jove. --Prior. (c) the cloverlike Anthyllis Barba-Jovis. Jupiter's staff (Bot.), the common mullein; -- so called from its long, rigid spike of yellow blossoms. Jupon
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Jupiter n 1: the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky 2: (Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus [syn: Jupiter, Jove]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

jupiter To kill an IRC robot or user and then take its place by adopting its nick so that it cannot reconnect. Named after a particular IRC user who did this to NickServ, the robot in charge of preventing people from inadvertently using a nick claimed by another user. [Jargon File] (1994-11-23)
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

jupiter vt. [IRC] To kill an IRC bot or user and then take its place by adopting its nick so that it cannot reconnect. Named after a particular IRC user who did this to NickServ, the robot in charge of preventing people from inadvertently using a nick claimed by another user. Now commonly shortened to jupe. K