AEGIS : n 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]
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.
From the Online Dictionary of Computing
AEGIS : A Unix variant that was used on Apolloworkstations 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)
From the Online Dictionary of Computing
AEGIS : A CASE tool for project change
management, from the GNU project.
(1995-03-27)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
AEGIS : Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System