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Ni⋅ke

  [nahy-kee]
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–noun
1. the ancient Greek goddess of victory.
2. one of a series of antiaircraft or antimissile missiles having two or three rocket stages.
Origin:
< Gk nkē victory, conquest
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Ni·ke   (nī'kē)   
n.   Greek Mythology
The goddess of victory.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Nike 
1867, statue of the Gk. goddess of victory (identified by the Romans with their Victoria), lit. "victory," probably connected with neikos "quarrel, strife," neikein "to quarrel with." As a type of U.S. defensive surface-to-air missiles, attested from 1952.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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