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ˈmaɪ nəs, -nɒsmi·nos

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Minosnoun

    son of Zeus and Europa; king of ancient Crete; ordered Daedalus to build the labyrinth; after death Minos became a judge in the underworld

Wiktionary

  1. Minosnoun

    The mythical king of Crete and the son of Zeus and Europa.

  2. Etymology: From Μίνως.

Wikipedia

  1. MINOS

    Main injector neutrino oscillation search (MINOS) was a particle physics experiment designed to study the phenomena of neutrino oscillations, first discovered by a Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) experiment in 1998. Neutrinos produced by the NuMI ("Neutrinos at Main Injector") beamline at Fermilab near Chicago are observed at two detectors, one very close to where the beam is produced (the near detector), and another much larger detector 735 km away in northern Minnesota (the far detector). The MINOS experiment started detecting neutrinos from the NuMI beam in February 2005. On 30 March 2006, the MINOS collaboration announced that the analysis of the initial data, collected in 2005, is consistent with neutrino oscillations, with the oscillation parameters which are consistent with Super-K measurements. MINOS received the last neutrinos from the NUMI beam line at midnight on 30 April 2012. It was upgraded to MINOS+ which started taking data in 2013. The experiment was shut down on June 29, 2016, and the far detector has been dismantled and removed.

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  1. minos

    In Greek mythology, Minos was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. He was famous for his wisdom, his rule of law and as the founder of Crete's naval power. He is also known for having Daedalus construct a labyrinth to contain the monstrous Minotaur. The term "Minos" can also refer to this figure in various literary and art contexts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Minosnoun

    a king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions

  2. Etymology: [Gr. .]

Wikidata

  1. Minos

    In Greek mythology, Minos was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus' creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur. After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in the underworld. The Minoan civilization of Crete has been named after him by the archaeologist Arthur Evans. By his wife, Pasiphaë, he fathered Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus, Catreus, Acacallis and Xenodike. By a nymph, Pareia, he had four sons, Eurymedon, Nephalion, Chryses and Philolaus, who were killed by Heracles in revenge for the murder of the latter's two companions; and by Dexithea, one of the Telchines, he had a son Euxanthius. By Androgeneia of Phaestus he had Asterion, who commanded the Cretan contingent in the war between Dionysus and the Indians. Also given as his children are Euryale, possibly the mother of Orion with Poseidon, and Pholegander, eponym of the island Pholegandros. Minos, along with his brothers, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon, was raised by king Asterion of Crete. When Asterion died, his throne was claimed by Minos who banished Sarpedon and, according to some sources, Rhadamanthys too.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Minos

    an ancient king of Crete, celebrated for his administration of justice; was fabled to have been appointed, along with Æacus and Rhadamanthus, one of the judges of the dead on their descent into the nether world.

Mythology

  1. Minos

    (Mi′nos). The supreme of the three judges of hell, before whom the spirits of the departed appeared and heard their doom.

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  1. simon

  2. Simon

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Minos in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Minos in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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