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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hyperion \Hy*pe"ri*on\, noun [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Class Myth.) The god of the sun; in the later mythology identified with Apollo, and distinguished for his beauty.
So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Hyperion
noun: (Greek mythology) a Titan who was the son of Gaea and Uranus and the father of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "Hyperion": Adonis, Agdistis, Amen-Ra, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollo Belvedere, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Astarte, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Balder, Ceres, Cleopatra, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Freya, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Hebe, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Narcissus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Ra, Rhea, Saturn, Savitar, Shamash, Sol, Surya, Tellus, Titan, Venus, Venus de Milo, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, houri, peri, the Graces
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Hyperion An {MS-DOS} {personal computer} that was manufactured in Kanata (near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) in the mid-1980s. It received considerable government subsidies and, while it was considered well-designed and manufactured and a real threat to the {Compaq Portable}, the Ottawa firm that designed it was unable to beat {Compaq}. (1997-07-21)
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