Vulcan

Definition: Vulcan

Vulcan

Noun

1. (Roman mythology) god of fire and metal working; counterpart of Greek Hephaestus.

"Vulcan" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "flash".

Date "Vulcan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	VULCAN 1. Wayne Ratliff ca. 1980. CP/M port of JPLDIS which evolved into dBASE II. 2. The dBASE-like interpreter and compiler sold by RSPI with their Emerald Bay product. [same as 1?] 3. Early string manipulation language. "VULCAN - A String Handling Language with Dynamic Storage Control", E.P. Storm et al, Proc FJCC 37, AFIPS (Fall 1970). 4. Kahn et al, Xerox PARC. Concurrent object orientation and logic programming. An object-oriented preprocessor for FCP. "Vulcan: Logical Concurrent Objects", K. Kahn et al in Research Directions in Object- Oriented Programming, A.B. Shriver et al eds, MIT Press 1987. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
19th Century Satire	The Olympian blacksmith, who always had his hammer with him. But not all who carry hammers are blacksmiths. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Biographical Satire	VULCAN, fireman and tinsmith. Made a number of celebrated forgings. Had a career like the ancients and fell in love with Venus. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
Literature	Vulcan The divine blacksmith, whose workshop was on Mount Etna, where the Cyclops assisted him in forging thunderbolts for Jove. He was also called Mulciber. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The GAU-4 20mm Vulcan (with two models, designated M61A1 and M61A2) is a hydraulically driven, 6 barreled, rotary action, air cooled, electrically fired gatling gun with selectable rates of fire of either 4000 or 6000 rounds per minute. It is mounted on F-104, F-105, later models of the F-106, F-111, F-4, B-58, F-15, F-16, F-22, F-14 and F/A-18 aircraft, and is used for short-range air-to-air combat with secondary usefulness in strafing ground targets. It was developed in 1946 by the United States Army Ordnance Research and Development Service, and manufactured by General Electric. Each of the gun's six barrels fires only once during each revolution of the barrel cluster; the six rotating barrels contribute to long weapon life by minimizing barrel erosion and heat generation. The gun's rate of fire, essentially 100 rounds per second, gives the pilot a shot density that will enable a "kill" when fired in one-second bursts. The weapon's current contractor is General Dynamics Armament Systems.

External link: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/equip/m61.htm

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Agent	Maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer; blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Vulcan

English words defined with "Vulcan": Cabbiri ♦ Hard-favored, Hephaestus, Hephaistos ♦ Intramercurial ♦ Vulcanian, Vulcanic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Vulcan": Consentes Dii ♦ Fingers before Forks, Flamberge ♦ Gods ♦ Harmonia's Robe, Hephæs'tos ♦ JPLDIS ♦ Momus's Lattice, Mulciber ♦ Pagan Works of Art ♦ three-finger salute ♦ VENUS, VULCAN, VULCAN CREWMEMBER, Vulcan death grip, Vulcan Materials Corp., Vulcan mind meld, Vulcan neck pinch, vulcan powder, Vulcan's Badge ♦ Wats Dyke. (references)

Etymologies containing "Vulcan": Vulcanization, Vulcanology. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Vulcan" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (volcano).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I can't believe she's getting that upset about a Vulcan. Big ears, no emotions, right? (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling) What's the matter, never seen anyone from the planet Vulcan before? (Mask; writing credit: Anna Hamilton Phelan) There was also some normal stuff, razor scooters, pictures of the vulcan lady from Enterprise. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain. (Back to the Future; writing credit: Robert Zemeckis; Bob Gale) Are you out of your Vulcan mind? (Star Trek; writing credit: Walter Black; William Hamilton)
Movie/TV Titles	Vulcan (1997)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	Vulcan International Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Vulcan Materials Co: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Crisis on Vulcan (Star Trek Starfleet Academy, No 1) (reference) Kawasaki 700-750 Vulcan, 1985-2002 (Clymer Motorcycle Repair) (reference) Night at the Vulcan (Dead Letter Mystery) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Vulcan (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Vulcan [IMPORT] (reference) Vulcan [Single] [CD-SINGLE] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Wildlife biologists construct water catchment for bighorn sheep on Vulcan Mountain in Ferry County, Washington.Credit: Todd Thompson.		My name, he said, is Leo Vulcan.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Charleston, S.C. Archibald McLeish's Vulcan Iron Works and other houses on Cumberland Street.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	I sacrificed it to Vulcan, for it was past serving the god Terminus.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Vulcan" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.84% of the time. "Vulcan" is used about 158 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 (proper)	96.84%	153	25,427
Noun (singular)	3.16%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	158	N/A

1. Vulcan, MI
Zip Code(s): 49892
Country: USA

2. Vulcan, MO
Zip Code(s): 63675
Country: USA

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Expressions: Vulcan

Expressions using "Vulcan": Vulcan death grip ♦ Vulcan Materials Corp. ♦ Vulcan nerve pinch ♦ Vulcan powder. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vulcan

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
vulcan	583	1500 vulcan	27
kawasaki vulcan	234	vulcan oven	26
vulcan material	127	500 vulcan	23
750 kawasaki vulcan	77	1600 vulcan	22
vulcan motorcycle	60	tinman vulcan	21
avro vulcan	58	vulcan waterproofing	21
vulcan 750	55	kawasaki vulcan classic	21
kawasaki vulcan 800	51	shocker vulcan	20
kawasaki vulcan 1500	49	kawasaki vulcan accessory	20
vulcan hart	46	vulcan material company	19
vulcan statue	45	vulcan cannon	18
vulcan 800	41	kawasaki vulcan nomad	18
vulcan stove	35	cope vulcan	18
birmingham vulcan	35	vulcan nomad	17
kawasaki vulcan 500	33	vulcan inc	17
1600 kawasaki vulcan	32	star trek vulcan	16
vulcan chemical	31	kawasaki vulcan part	14
vulcan alberta	31	kawasaki vulcan mean streak	13
vulcan venture	28	drifter vulcan	13
vulcan range	27	kawasaki vulcan motorcycle	13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vulcan

Language		Translations for "Vulcan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		�'улкан. (various references)

Czech		Bùh Ohnì. (various references)

Dutch		Vulcanus. (various references)

Esperanto		Vulkano. (various references)

French		Vulcain. (various references)

German		Vulkan (volcano). (various references)

Greek		ήφαιστοσ (hephaestus). (various references)

Hungarian		Vulkán (volcano). (various references)

Italian		Vulcano (volcano). (various references)

Manx		Vulcaan. (various references)

Pig Latin		ulcanvay

Portuguese		Vulcão (volcano). (various references)

Russian		�'улкан. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vulkan (volcano). (various references)

Spanish		Vulcano (acid, beast, blotter acid, blue caps, blue drops, brown caps, California sunshine, green caps, hawk, microdots, orange wedges, paper acid, pink drops, purple haze, purple wedges, sunshine, the ghost, white lightning, window panes, yellow caps, yellow drops, zen). (various references)

Swedish		Vulcanus. (various references)

Turkish		Vulkan, Ateş Ve Madencilik Tanrısı. (various references)

Ukranian		Полум'я, Коваль (Smith). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Vulcan

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Mulciber, Vulcanus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Vulcan

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Vulcan": vulcanian, vulcanic, vulcanicities, vulcanicity, vulcanisate, vulcanisates, vulcanisation, vulcanisations, vulcanise, vulcanised, vulcanises, vulcanising, vulcanism, vulcanisms, vulcanizate, vulcanizates, vulcanization, vulcanizations, vulcanize, vulcanized, vulcanizer, vulcanizers, vulcanizes, vulcanizing, vulcanologies, vulcanologist, vulcanologists, vulcanology. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vulcan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bulcan, volcan, Vulci, vulgan, vulkan. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Vulcan"

Words rhyming with "Vulcan" (pronounced 'Vul"can'): AEsthetican, Antelucan, Cancan, Cooncan, Dellacruscan, Etruscan, Flucan, Incan, Jamaican, Majorcan, Molluscan, Moroccan, Oscan, Spheniscan, toucan. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Vulcan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-l-n-u-v"
	-2 letters: caul, clan, luna, ulan, ulna, ulva.
	-3 letters: can, lac, lav, luv, vac, van, vau.
	-4 letters: al, an, la, na, nu, un.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-l-n-u-v"
	+1 letter: unvocal, vincula.
	+2 letters: univocal, vulcanic.
	+3 letters: avuncular, involucra, navicular, univocals, vulcanian, vulcanise, vulcanism, vulcanize.
	+4 letters: conventual, convulsant, involucral, naviculars, novaculite, subclavian, univocally, vernacular, victualing, vulcanised, vulcanises, vulcanisms, vulcanized, vulcanizer, vulcanizes.
	+5 letters: autoclaving, avuncularly, cavernously, conventuals, convulsants, countervail, cultivating, cultivation, curvilinear, equivalence, equivalency, inoculative, involucrate, nonvascular, novaculites, outcaviling, subclavians, unequivocal, vacuolation, ventricular, vernaculars, victualling, vulcanicity, vulcanisate, vulcanising, vulcanizate, vulcanizers, vulcanizing, vulcanology.
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