Caliban, in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Uranus Uranus (y
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Caliban [′kal·ə‚ban]
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Caliban [′kal·ə‚ban]
(astronomy)
A small satellite of Uranus in a retrograde orbit with a mean distance of 4,475,000 miles (7,200,000 kilometers), eccentricity of 0.081, and sidereal period of 1.59 years.
Caliban
his name is anagram of cannibal. [Br. Lit.: The Tempest]
See : Cannibalism
Caliban
misshapen “missing link.” [Br. Lit.: The Tempest]
See : Monsters
| Caliban - A declarative annotation language for controlling the
partitioning and placement of the evaluation of expressions in
a distributed functional language. Designed by Paul Kelly
<phjk@doc.ic.ac.uk>, Imperial College. ["Functional Programming for Loosely-coupled Multiprocessors", P. Kelly, Pitman/MIT Press, 1989]. |
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