triton

Triton, in astronomy

Triton (trīt`ən), in astronomy, innermost and largest of the eight known moons, or natural satellites, of Neptune.

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Triton, in Greek mythology

Triton, in Greek mythology, son of Poseidon. He was a creature of the sea, the upper half of his body being human, the lower fishlike. Later legends speak of many Tritons, sometimes described as riding over the sea on horses. Tritons characteristically blew trumpets of conch shells.

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Triton

In Greek mythology, a merman and a demigod of the sea. He was the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. According to Hesiod, Triton lived in a golden palace in the depths of the sea. He was represented as human down to the waist, which tapered into a fish tail, and he had a spiral conch shell that he blew to calm or raise the waves. Some traditions held that there were many Tritons.

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Triton

Largest of Neptune's moons. Its diameter is about 1,680 mi (2,700 km), nearly 80% that of Earth's Moon. Unique among the large moons of the solar system, Triton moves in a retrograde orbit, opposite the direction of Neptune's rotation. Its orbital period of 5.9 Earth days is the same as its rotation period; as a result it always keeps the same face toward Neptune. It has a very thin atmosphere of nitrogen and methane and a surface temperature of −390 °F (−235 °C). Its surface is covered with enormous expanses of ice sculpted with fissures, puckers, and ridge-crossed depressions. Geyser-like plumes observed by the Voyager 2 spacecraft may be gas venting through fissures when the surface is warmed by sunlight. Triton appears to have formed elsewhere in the solar system and to have been gravitationally captured by Neptune in the planet's early history.

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TRITON

The name of earlier versions of Baan software, before the release of BAAN IV. See BAAN IV.

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triton [′trī‚tän]

(nuclear physics)

The nucleus of tritium.

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Triton [′trīt·ən]

(astronomy)

The largest satellite of Neptune, with a diameter of about 1681 miles (2705 kilometers), orbiting at a mean distance of 220,500 miles (354,800 kilometers) with a period of 5 days 21.0 hours.

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Triton

The nucleus of ²₁H (tritium); it is the only known radioactive nuclide belonging to hydrogen. The triton is produced in nuclear reactors by neutron absorption in deuterium (²₁H + ¹₀n → + + γ), and decays by β^- emission to ³₂H with a half-life of 12.4 years. Much of the interest in producing ³₁H arises from the fact that the fusion reaction ³₁H + ¹₁H → ⁴₂H releases about 20 MeV of energy. Tritons are also used as projectiles in nuclear bombardment experiments. See Nuclear reaction

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Triton

gigantic sea deity; son and messenger of Poseidon. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 277; Rom. Lit.: Aeneid]

See : Sea

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(processor)

Triton - Intel's Pentium core logic chip set. In addition to the traditional features, this chip set supports: EDO DRAM to increase the bandwidth of the DRAM interface; "pipelined burst SRAM" for a cheaper, faster second level cache; "bus master IDE" control logic to reduce processor load; a plug and play port for easy implementation of functions such as audio. The Triton I chipset (official name 82430FX) consists of 4 chips: one 82437FX TSC (Triton Sysetm Controller), two 82438FX TDP (Triton Data Path), and one 82371FB PIIX (PCI IDE Xcellerator). It supports PB Cache, EDO DRAM, and a maximum PCI and memory burst data transfer rate of 100 megabytes per second. There are also Moble Triton (82430MX), Triton II (82430HX), and the Triton VX (82430VX) chip sets. Introduction.