aeolus

Noun
US[eh-oh-loos]/ˈɛoʊlʊs/3 syllables

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)

  1. god of the winds in ancient mythologyInstance of Greek deity
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Aeolus, Æ′o·lus (…), prop. n.

Origin: L., fr. Gr. ….

Gr. & Rom. Myth. The god of the winds, in ancient mythology.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Aeolus

<language> A concurrent language with atomic transactions.

["Rationale for the Design of Aeolus", C. Wilkes et al, Proc IEEE 1986 Intl Conf Comp Lang, IEEE 1986, pp.107-122].

(1995-03-27)

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