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Audio Help [ahr-guhs] Pronunciation Key | 1. | Classical Mythology. a giant with 100 eyes, set to guard the heifer Io: his eyes were transferred after his death to the peacock's tail. |
| 2. | a son of Phrixus and builder of the Argo. |
| 3. | (in the Odyssey) Odysseus' faithful dog, who recognized his master after twenty years and immediately died. |
| 4. | any observant or vigilant person; a watchful guardian. |
| 5. | (lowercase) Also, argus pheasant. any of several brilliantly marked Malayan pheasants of the Argusianus or Rheinardia genera. |
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Argus
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Audio Help [ahr-guhs] Pronunciation Key for 1. | 1. | Astronomy. a very large southern constellation, now divided into Vela, Carina, Puppis, and Pyxis, four separate constellations lying largely south of Canis Major. |
| 2. | (italics) Classical Mythology. the ship in which Jason sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece. |
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[Latin, from Greek Argos.] |
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Argus
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| 1. | (Greek mythology) a giant with 100 eyes; was guardian of the heifer Io and was slain by Hermes |
| 2. | large brilliantly patterned East Indian pheasant |
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Argus
A creature in classical mythology who had a hundred eyes. Hera set him to watch over Io, a girl who had been seduced by Zeus and then turned into a cow; with Argus on guard, Zeus could not come to rescue Io, for only some of Argus' eyes would be closed in sleep at any one time. Hermes, working on Zeus' behalf, played music that put all the eyes to sleep and then killed Argus. Hera put his eyes in the tail of the peacock.
[Chapter:] Mythology and Folklore
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Argus language
A successor to CLU, from LCS at MIT. Argus supports distributed programming through guardians (like monitors, but can be created dynamically) and atomic actions (indivisible activity). It also has cobegin and coend.
["Argus Reference Manual", B. Liskov et al., TR-400, MIT/LCS, 1987].
["Guardians and Actions: Linguistic Support for Robust, Distributed Programs", B. Liskov
(1995-12-28)
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Argus, CA Zip code(s): 93562
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Argus
Ar"gus\, n. [L. Argus, Gr. ?.]1. (Myth.) A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail. 2. One very vigilant; a guardian always watchful. 3. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of East Indian pheasants. The common species (A. giganteus) is remarkable for the great length and beauty of the wing and tail feathers of the male. The species A. Grayi inhabits Borneo.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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