Meaning of PANDORA
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| | Definition: | | [n] (Greek mythology) the first woman; created by Hephaestus on orders from Zeus who presented her to Epimetheus along with a box filled with evils |
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| Products Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Pandora
Pandora tells the story of her life as a politician`s daughter in ancient Rome, and her subsequent conversion to vampirism. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pan*do"ra\, n. [L., fr. Gr. Pandw`ra; pa^s, pa^n, all +
dw^ron a gift.]
1. (Class. Myth.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom
Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to
punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the
fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing
all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped
and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box.
Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of
the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve
is flat, the other convex.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Parlog extended to allow don't-know nondeterminism. ["Pandora: Non-Deterministic Parallel Logic Programming", R. Bahgat et al, Proc 6th Intl Conf Logic Programming, MIT Press 1989 pp. 471-486]. |
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