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1. (n.) Mars
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
2. Mars
the planet fourth in order from the sun, having a diameter of 4222 mi. (6794 km), a mean distance from the sun of 141.6 million mi. (227.9 million km), a period of revolution of 686.95 days, and two moons.
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) Mars, Red Planet
a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color
"Mars has two satellites"
2. (noun) Mars
(Roman mythology) Roman god of war and agriculture; father of Romulus and Remus; counterpart of Greek Ares
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) mars
the god of war and husbandry
2. (noun) mars
one of the planets of the solar system, the fourth in order from the sun, or the next beyond the earth, having a diameter of about 4,200 miles, a period of 687 days, and a mean distance of 141,000,000 miles. It is conspicuous for the redness of its light
3. (noun) mars
the metallic element iron, the symbol of which / was the same as that of the planet Mars
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. mars
the exterior planet of the Solar system, nearest the earth, of one-half its diameter, with a mean distance from the sun of 141,000,000 m., round which it takes 686 days to revolve, in a somewhat centric orbit, and 24½ hours to revolve on its own axis, which inclines to its equator at an angle of 29°; examination of it shows that there is four times as much land as water in it; it is accompanied by two moons, an outer making a revolution round it in 30 hours 18 minutes, and an inner in 7 hours and 38 minutes; they are the smallest heavenly bodies known to science.
2. mars
the Roman god of war, the reputed father of Romulus, and the recognised protector of the Roman State, identified at length with the Greek Ares.
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. mars
A legendary tragic failure, the archetypal Hacker Dream Gone Wrong.
Mars was the code name for a family of PDP-10-compatible computers built by
Systems Concepts (now, The SC Group): the multi-processor SC-30M, the small
uniprocessor SC-25, and the never-built superprocessor SC-40. These
machines were marvels of engineering design; although not much slower than
the unique Foonly F-1, they were physically smaller
and consumed less power than the much slower DEC
KS10 or Foonly F-2, F-3, or F-4 machines. They were also completely
compatible with the DEC KL10, and ran all KL10 binaries (including the
operating system) with no modifications at about 2--3 times faster than a
KL10.When DEC cancelled the Jupiter project in 1983 (their followup to the
PDP-10), Systems Concepts should have made a bundle selling their machine
into shops with a lot of software investment in PDP-10s, and in fact their
spring 1984 announcement generated a great deal of excitement in the PDP-10
world. TOPS-10 was running on the Mars by the summer of 1984, and TOPS-20
by early fall. Unfortunately, the hackers running Systems Concepts were
much better at designing machines than at mass producing or selling them;
the company allowed itself to be sidetracked by a bout of perfectionism
into continually improving the design, and lost credibility as delivery
dates continued to slip. They also overpriced the product ridiculously;
they believed they were competing with the KL10 and
VAX 8600 and failed to reckon with the likes of Sun
Microsystems and other hungry startups building workstations with power
comparable to the KL10 at a fraction of the price. By the time SC shipped
the first SC-30M to Stanford in late 1985, most customers had already made
the traumatic decision to abandon the PDP-10, usually for VMS or Unix
boxes. Most of the Mars computers built ended up being purchased by
CompuServe. This tale and the related saga of Foonly hold
a lesson for hackers: if you want to play in the
Real World, you need to learn Real World moves.
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. mars
The fourth planet in order from the sun. Its two natural satellites are Deimos and Phobos. It is one of the four inner or terrestrial planets of the solar system.
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