aegis
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)
- kindly endorsement and guidance“the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council”Synonyms: auspicesprotectionType of endorsement, indorsement
- armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirassSynonyms: breastplateegisType of armor plate, armour plateKinds plastronPart of body armor, body armour
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. aegis, fr. Gr. αἰγίς a goat skin, a shield, αἴξ goat, or fr. ἀί̈σσω to rush.
A shield or protective armor; — applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<operating system> A Unix variant that was used on Apollo workstations before Apollo was bought by Hewlett Packard. AEGIS has some advantages over standard BSD or System V Unix. It includes faster file access and a richer command set; there are commands to find out which process is running on a particular node, which process is locking a particular file, etc.
(1997-02-25)
<programming, tool> A CASE tool for project change management written by Peter Miller, with minor contributions by a few others. Aegis is licensed using the GNU GPL but is not a GNU project.
Aegis Home (http://aegis.sourceforge.net/).
(2005-03-24)