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Ith⋅a⋅ca

  [ith-uh-kuh]
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–noun
1. one of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece: legendary home of Ulysses. 4156; 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km).
2. a city in S New York at the S end of Cayuga Lake. 28,732.
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Ith⋅a⋅can, adjective, noun
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Ith·a·ca   (ĭth'ə-kə)   

  1. A city of southwest-central New York on Cayuga Lake south-southwest of Syracuse. It is the seat of Cornell University (chartered 1865). Population: 29,800.

  2. See Itháki.

I·thá·ki   (ē-thä'kē)   
An island of western Greece in the Ionian Islands. According to tradition, it was the home of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's Odyssey.
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ITHACA
An Esprit project to put a "4th generation" object-oriented system to practical use in an industrial environment. The ITHACA environment offers an application support system incorporating advanced technologies in the fields of object-oriented programming, programming languages, database technologies, user interface systems and software development tools.

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Ithaca

the second smallest of the seven main Ionian Islands, in the nomos (department) of Kefallinia, Greece. (The smallest is Paxos.)

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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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