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Aegis - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Aegis : (noun)
1: kindly endorsement and guidance; "the tournament was held
under the auspices of the city council" [syn: auspices,
protection]
2: armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a
cuirass [syn: breastplate, egis]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Aegis : \[AE]"gis\, n. [L. aegis, fr. Gr. ? a goat skin, a shield,
? goat, or fr. ? 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Aegis :
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)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Aegis :
A CASE tool for project change
management, from the GNU project.
(1995-03-27)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Aegis : Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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