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TRITON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia
Synonyms:
newt; triton
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("triton" is a kind of...):
salamander (any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "triton"):
common newt; Triturus vulgaris (small semiaquatic salamander)
Notophthalmus viridescens; red eft (red terrestrial form of a common North American newt)
Pacific newt (any of several rough-skinned newts found in western North America)
eft (a newt in its terrestrial stage of development)
Holonyms ("triton" is a member of...):
family Salamandridae; Salamandridae (salamanders)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("triton" is a kind of...):
seasnail (any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids)
Holonyms ("triton" is a member of...):
Cymatiidae; family Cymatiidae (tritons)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The largest moon of Neptune
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
moon (any natural satellite of a planet)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(Greek mythology) a sea god; son of Poseidon
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Greek deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)
Domain category:
Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)
Context examples:
Triton settled into a circular orbit and the debris from shattered Neptunian moons re-coalesced into a second generation of natural satellites.
(Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon, NASA)
Pluto is unlikely to be a copy of Triton, but some of the same types of features may be present.
(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)
Scientists suggest that Triton, with its icy surface, bright poles, varied terrain and cryovolcanoes, is a Pluto-like object that Neptune pulled into orbit.
(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)
They will also be looking to see how Pluto and Triton compare and contrast, and how their different histories have shaped the surfaces we see.
(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)
Although both bodies originated in the outer solar system, Triton was captured by Neptune and has undergone a radically different thermal history than Pluto.
(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)
The production of the new Triton map was inspired by anticipation of NASA's New Horizons encounter with Pluto, coming up a little under a year from now.
(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)
Although Triton is a moon of a planet and Pluto is a dwarf planet, Triton serves as a preview of sorts for the upcoming Pluto encounter.
(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)
Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first close-up look at Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989.
(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)
The colors have been enhanced to bring out contrast but are a close approximation to Triton's natural colors.
(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)
The new Triton map has a resolution of 1,970 feet (600 meters) per pixel.
(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)
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