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A⋅jax

  [ey-jaks]
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1. Also called Great Ajax, Telamonian Ajax. Classical Mythology. a Greek hero in the Trojan War who rescued the body of Achilles and killed himself out of jealousy when Odysseus was awarded the armor of Achilles.
2. Also called Ajax the Lesser. Classical Mythology. a Locrian king, noted for his fighting during the Trojan War, who was said to have been killed in a shipwreck as punishment for violating a shrine of Athena.
3. (italics) a tragedy (c440 b.c.) by Sophocles.
4. a town in S Ontario, in S Canada. 20,774.
Also, Aias (for defs. 1–3).
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A·jax   (ā'jāks')   
n.   Greek Mythology

  1. The son of Telamon of Salamis and a warrior of great stature and prowess who fought against Troy.

  2. The son of Ileus of Locris and a warrior of small stature and arrogant character who fought against Troy.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

Ajax 
name of two Gk. heroes in the Trojan War (Great Ajax, son of Telamon, and Little Ajax, son of Oileus), L., from Gk. Aias, probably originally the name of an earth-god, from aia "earth."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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(Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) A collection of techniques for creating interactive web applications without having to reload the complete web page in response to each user input, thus making the interaction faster. AJAX typically uses the XMLHttpRequest browser object to exchange data asynchronously with the web server. Alternatively, an IFrame object or dynamically added

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