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Definition: Hyperion |
HyperionNoun1. (Greek mythology) a Titan who was the son of Gaea and Uranus and the father of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Hyperion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Hyperion \Hy*pe"ri*on\, noun. [Latin expression, from a Greek expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Hyperion |
Aerospace | A satellite of Saturn orbiting at a mean distance of 1,481,000 kilometers. (references) |
Literature | Hyperion Properly, the father of the Sun and Moon, but by poets made a surname of the Sun. Shakespeare makes it a synonym of Apollo. The proper pronunciation is Hyperion. Thus Ovid - "Placat equo Persis radiis Hyperione cinctum." Fasti, i. 385. "So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr." Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 9. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Venus, Aphrodite, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo, Hyperion, Adonis, Antionous, Narcissus. |
Contrariety | Adjective: contrary, contrarious, contrariant; opposite, counter, dead against; converse, reverse; opposed, antithetical, contrasted, antipodean, antagonistic, opposing; conflicting, inconsistent, contradictory, at cross purposes; negative; hostile. differing toto coelo; diametrically opposite; diametrically opposed; as opposite as black and white, as opposite as light and darkness, as opposite as fire and water, as opposite as the poles; as different as night and day; " Hyperion to a satyr"; quite the contrary, quite the reverse;no such thing, just the other way, tout au contraire. |
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Crosswords: Hyperion |
| English words defined with "Hyperion": Eos. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Hyperion": Berkley. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Hyperion (1975) | |
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| "Hyperion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.92% of the time. "Hyperion" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 76.92% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 23.08% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Hyperion Solutions Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Words rhyming with "Hyperion" (pronounced 'Hy*pe"ri*on'): Abacination, Abaction, Abaddon, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Ablution, Abluvion, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Aboon, Abortion, Abrasion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstersion, Abstraction, Abstrusion, Absumption, Abusion, Abutilon, Accension, Accentuation, Acceptation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-n-o-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: hyperon, phonier. | |
-2 letters: ephori, heroin, orpine, phoney, pinery, pyrone. | |
-3 letters: ephor, henry, heron, honer, honey, hoper, horny, hyper, irone, irony, onery, opine, orpin, peony, phone, phony, piney, porny, prion, prone, repin, rhino, ripen, ropey. | |
-4 letters: heir, hern, hero, hire, hoer, hone, hope, horn, hype, hypo, inro, iron, noir, nope, nori, open, oyer, pein, peon. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-n-o-p-r-y" | |
+2 letters: hypersonic, hypertonia, hypertonic, overhyping, periphyton. | |
+3 letters: hypertonias, perionychia, periphytons, prophesying, pyrotechnic, rehypnotize, retinopathy. | |
+4 letters: attorneyship, hypertension, perionychium, phenocrystic, pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist, rehypnotized, rehypnotizes. | |
+5 letters: attorneyships, dryopithecine, hyperbolizing, hyperfunction, hyperrational, hyperromantic, hypertensions, hypertonicity, immunotherapy, lycanthropies, phycoerythrin, pyrotechnical, pyrotechnists, rehypnotizing, reproachingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 79 70 65 72 69 6F 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... -.--. .--. . .-. .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01111001 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H y p e r i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0079 0070 0065 0072 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4291827184758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Company Usage 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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