(n.) The god of the sun; in the later mythology identified with Apollo, and distinguished for his beauty.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Birch, director of digital currency consultants Hyperion, argued that the fatalistic view of Scotland's previous experiment with multiple currencies was wrong, and that they more successful than history gives credit.
(2) Four new methane-oxidizing bacteria have been isolated from marine samples taken at the Hyperion sewage outfall, near Los Angeles, CA.
(3) The exact location of Hyperion is a closely guarded secret, but standing at the base of any one of these giants is a truly humbling experience.
(4) Smartphones are the final nail in the coffin for cash,” says Dave Birch, director of innovation at Consult Hyperion, which helped TfL launch contactless payments.
(5) And a simple basic income payment will be more efficient, as well as fairer.... 12.27pm BST If the law authorities had "any balls at all" they wouldn't allow the European Central Bank to print €500 notes, says David Birch of Consult Hyperion, at Camp Alphaville.
(6) • Lost Coast links hiking trails , bear safety and canister regulations , history of the Punta Gorda lighthouse Redwood national and state parks Photograph: Alamy If you've been to Sequoia, you've already seen the largest trees in the world, but the Redwood national and state parks in northern California boast the tallest trees, including 115.7m Hyperion, the world's tallest living tree.
(7) Activated sludges obtained from the Rilling Road plant located at San Antonio, Tex., and from the Hyperion treatment plant located at Los Angeles, Calif., have the ability to remove all of the orthophosphate normally present in Tucson sewage within 3 hr after being added to the waste water.
(8) We plan to end the night at the Hyperion Tavern ( hyperiontavern.com ), a tiny dive bar with vintage chandeliers and stacks of books up the walls.
(9) Record companies have had it tough in the classical sector, trying to find a way to go online but stay in profit (although smaller independents like Chandos and Hyperion have pulled it off); there are major questions about how music education will survive grim budget cuts and a possible Conservative government; and every orchestra, opera house and promoter will have to fight for funding from the public and private sector as never before.
Saturn
Definition:
(n.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.
(n.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.
(n.) The metal lead.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our results indicated that Saturn's magnetic field was being dragged round Enceladus in a way that suggested it had an atmosphere."
(2) A linear accelerator (Saturne CGR 20) was utilized to deliver 15-20 Gy to the tumor volume.
(3) Six wore daily wear soft contact lenses, two wore extended-wear soft contact lenses, one wore a polymethylmethacrylate hard contact lens, one wore a gas-permeable hard contact lens, and one wore a Saturn lens (combined hard and soft lens).
(4) So while in Japan you can easily stumble across a remote-control tissue box or a battery-operated planetarium for your bathroom (by which I mean a waterproof Saturn-shaped orb that floats in the bath and projects the entire visible universe onto the ceiling), the sense of surrounding novelty has diminished.
(5) delta-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA), a heme precursor accumulated in acute intermittent porphyria and saturnism, undergoes autoxidation leading to ammonium ion and probably the corresponding alpha-ketoaldehyde.
(6) Some of the useful clinical radiation characteristics required for treatment planning using the 6,9,13,17, and 20 Me V scanning electron beams obtainable in a CGR Therac-20 Me V Saturne linear accelerator are outlined.
(7) A crew of robots and humans – headed by a captain named Pirx – is sent out into space to launch two satellites into Saturn’s rings.
(8) They have sent back images of Saturn's rings, Jupiter's red spot and sulphur volcanoes on its moons Europa and Io, and of "winter" on Uranus.
(9) For example, the Saturn project in Germany uses sensor-based technologies for sorting and recovery of nonferrous metals.
(10) In this respect, Saturn's satellite Titan is exemplary.
(11) Similar modules, also launched using reusable boosters, would remain in Earth’s orbit to refuel the interplanetary craft to be able to use multiple trips, including to other parts of the solar system such as Enceladus, a moon of Saturn on which Nasa’s Cassini mission recently found evidence of a polar subsurface water ocean that could harbor life.
(12) The effect of pure preparation of ordram, fosalon, DDT, methoxychlorine, hydrel, dihydrel, 2,4-D, 2M-4C and of technical preparations of saturn, linuron, ronstar and keltan on the membrane functions (respiration and motility) of Azospirillum brasilense and Chromatium minutissimum cells and on malate and NADH oxidation by the isolated membranes of Micrococcus lysodeikticus was investigated.
(13) Radiation therapy using a Rokus-M installation or a Saturn linear accelerator was performed in 26 cases, chemoradiation treatment--14 and cytostatic therapy alone--in 79 patients.
(14) Overall, the SoftPerm lens is a vast improvement over the Saturn II and is a reasonable means of correction of irregular astigmatism.
(15) It is hoped that this report will draw the attention of the practising physician and Preventive Medicine Departments to this unusual cause of saturnism.
(16) I still remember reading The Rings of Saturn for the first time.
(17) A sequence of nonrigid and rigid percepts (both 2-D and 3-D) precedes this Saturn-like configuration.
(18) Our results suggest that alcohol influences the lead metabolism and that the usual drinkers constitute a risk population for saturnism.
(19) The authors have developed a method for implantation of the Saturn-type intraocular lens (IOL), designed by Krasnov and Pivovarov, during a simultaneous cataract extraction with trabeculectomy.
(20) In all the patients manifested disturbances in the microcirculatory bed of the bulbar conjunctiva are revealed, the general character being identical at saturnism and TEL-intoxication.