Audio Help [ee-jis] Pronunciation Key | 1. | Classical Mythology. the shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena, bearing at its center the head of the Gorgon. |
| 2. | protection; support: under the imperial aegis. |
| 3. | sponsorship; auspices: a debate under the aegis of the League of Women Voters. |
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n.
[Latin, from Greek aigis, goatskin, skin shield, aegis, from aix, aig-, goat.] |
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noun | |
| 1. | kindly endorsement and guidance; "the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council" [syn: auspices] |
| 2. | armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass [syn: breastplate] |
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AEGIS operating system
A Unix variant that was used on Apollo workstations before Apollo was bought by Hewlett Packard. AEGIS has some advantages over standard BSD or System V Unix. It includes faster file access and a richer command set; there are commands to find out which process is running on a particular node, which process is locking a particular file, etc.
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Aegis programming, tool
A CASE tool for project change management written by Peter Miller, with minor contributions by a few others. Aegis is licensed using the GNU GPL but is not a GNU project.
Aegis Home.
(2005-03-24)
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AEgis
[AE]"gis\, n. [L. aegis, fr. Gr. ? a goat skin, a shield, ? goat, or fr. ? to rush.] A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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