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trident
[ trahyd-nt ]
noun
- a three-pronged instrument or weapon.
- Roman History. a three-pronged spear used by a retiarius in gladiatorial combats.
- Classical Mythology. the three-pronged spear forming a characteristic attribute of the sea god Poseidon, or Neptune.
- a fish spear having three prongs.
- Trident, Military. a 34-foot (10-meter) submarine-launched U.S. ballistic missile with eight to ten warheads and a range of 6,500 miles (10,459 km).
adjective
- Also tri·den·tal [] having three prongs or tines.
trident
1/ ˈtraɪdənt /
noun
- a three-pronged spear, originally from the East
- (in Greek and Roman mythology) the three-pronged spear that the sea god Poseidon (Neptune) is represented as carrying
- a three-pronged instrument, weapon, or symbol
adjective
- having three prongs
Trident
2/ ˈtraɪdənt /
noun
- a type of US submarine-launched ballistic missile with independently targetable warheads
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In January 2008, Mullaney formed Trident Financial Holdings & Acquisitions, LLC.
But Clegg was effective with his specific and repeated call to cut the budget for the Trident nuclear-submarine program.
This god of the sea, who is somewhat like the Roman Neptune, carried a lightning trident and caused earthquakes.
He is represented in art as bearing the trident, and surrounded by his attendants and the inhabitants of the sea.
If he wishes a storm, he strikes upon the waves with his trident, and calls the winds, and the huge billows threaten the clouds.
Neptune struck the ground with his trident, and there sprang forth a horse, strong and noble.
Neptune with his trident had just produced the horse, that animal so strong and so useful to man.
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