Caliban

Caliban

(kal -ă-ban) See Uranus's satellites.

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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.

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Caliban

his name is anagram of cannibal. [Br. Lit.: The Tempest]

See: Cannibalism

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Caliban

misshapen “missing link.” [Br. Lit.: The Tempest]

See: Monsters

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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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