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Eris : (noun)
1: (Greek mythology) goddess of discord; sister of Ares [syn: Eris]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Eris :
/e'ris/ The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and
Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinised to Discordia
and she was worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a very
friendly deity in the Classical original, she was reinvented
as a more benign personification of creative anarchy starting
in 1959 by the adherents of Discordianism and has since been
a semi-serious subject of veneration in several "fringe"
cultures, including hackerdom.
See Church of the SubGenius.
[{Jargon File]
(1994-12-08)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Eris : /e'ris/ n. The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and
Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinized to Discordia and she was
worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a very friendly deity in the
Classical original, she was reinvented as a more benign personification
of creative anarchy starting in 1959 by the adherents of Discordianism
and has since been a semi-serious subject of veneration in several
`fringe' cultures, including hackerdom. See Discordianism, Church of
the SubGenius.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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