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aegis - 7 dictionary results

ae⋅gis

[ee-jis]
–noun
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.
Also, egis.


Origin:
1695–1705; < L < Gk aigís shield of Zeus or Athena, prob. from aig- (s. of aíx goat) + -is n. suffix, from a type of shield made of goatskin


3. patronage.
ae·gis also e·gis   (ē'jĭs)   
n.  
  1. Protection: a child whose welfare is now under the aegis of the courts.
  2. Sponsorship; patronage: a concert held under the aegis of the parents' association.
  3. Guidance, direction, or control: a music program developed under the aegis of the conductor.
  4. Greek Mythology The goatskin shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena. Athena's shield carried at its center the head of Medusa.

[Latin, from Greek aigis, goatskin, skin shield, aegis, from aix, aig-, goat.]

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.

aegis 
"protection," 1793, from L. ægis, from Gk. Aigis, the shield of Zeus, said by Herodotus to be related to aix (gen. aigos) "goat," from PIE *aig- "goat" (cf. Skt. ajah, Lith. ozys "he-goat"), as the shield was of goatskin. Athene's aigis was a short goat-skin cloak, covered with scales, set with a gorgon's head, and fringed with snakes.

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.
(1997-02-25)

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)

AEGIS
AIDS Education Global Information System
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