Midas

Midas

[′mīd·əs]

(aerospace engineering)

A two-object trajectory-measuring system whereby two complete cotar antenna systems and two sets of receivers at each station, with the multiplexing done after phase comparison, are utilized in tracking more than one object at a time.

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Midas

for judging Pan winner of flute contest, his ears are changed to ass’s ears. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 83]

See: Ass

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Midas

greedy king whose touch turned everything to gold. [Classical Myth.: Bulfinch, 42–44]

See: Greed

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Midas

everything he touched turned to gold. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 167]

See: Transformation

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Midas

Phrygian king; whatever he touched became gold. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Wheeler, 24]

See: Wealth

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MIDAS

(1)

A digital simulation language.

[Sammet 1969, p.627].

Midas

(2)

A Motif-based toolkit for interactive data analysis by T. Johnson, SLAC. The basis for the Midas-WWW browser.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Midas

 

king of Phrygia (738–696 B.C.). Assyrian sources of the late eighth century B.C. refer to him as Mita. In 717 he joined a coalition against the Assyrian king Sargon II but was subsequently forced to submit to him (707 B.C.).

Greek mythology has many legends about Midas, the son of Gordius. According to one myth, the god Dionysus endowed Midas with the ability to turn anything he touched into gold; since even food turned to gold, Midas had to free himself from this gift by bathing in the Pactolus River, which then became gold-bearing. In another myth, the ignorant and opinionated Midas expressed a preference for the music of Pan over that of Apollo (hence the expression “the judgment of Midas”—the judgment of an ignoramus). Apollo punished him by giving him ass’s ears, which Midas carefully concealed under a Phrygian cap (hence the expression “Midas ears”).

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