Leda

noun

Classical Mythology. the mother, by her husband Tyndareus, of Castor and Clytemnestra and, by Zeus in the form of a swan, of Pollux and Helen.

Astronomy. a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.

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Leda¹ (ˈliːdə)

—n
	Greek myth a queen of Sparta who was the mother of Helen and Pollux by Zeus, who visited her in the form of a swan

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Leda² (ˈliːdə)

—n
	astronomy a small satellite of Jupiter in an intermediate orbit

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LEDA definition

Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms

Leda definition

language
A multi-paradigm language supporting imperative programming, declarative programming, procedural programming, functional programming, logic programming and object-oriented programming developed by Tim Budd budd@cs.orst.edu at Oregon State University in 1990-1993.
["Blending Imperative and Relational Programming", Tim Budd, IEEE Software 8(1):58-65 (Jan 1991)]. Forthcoming book.
(ftp://cs.orst.edu/pub/budd/leda/).
(2007-10-02)

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"The presence that thus so strangely rose beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire.... She [Leonardo's Mona Lisa] is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments and tinged the eyelids and the hands. The fancy of a perpetual life, sweeping together ten thousand experiences, is an old one; and modern thought has conceived the idea of humanity as wrought upon by, and summing up in itself, all modes of thought and life. Certainly Lady Lisa might stand as the embodiment of the old fancy, the symbol of the modern idea."

-Walter Pater

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