Medusa

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Medusa
n. (in Greek Mythology) one of the three Gorgons that had snakes for hair and everyone who looked at them was turned to stone
 
medusa
n. marine animal in the shape of a jellyfish that has long thin stinging appendages

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MEDUSA
MEDUSA, (since 2004 MEDUSA4) is a CAD program used in the areas of mechanical and plant engineering by manufacturers and Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies. The system's history is closely tied to the beginnings of mainstream CAD and the research culture fostered by Cambridge University and the UK government as well as the resulting transformation of Cambridge into a world-class tech centre in the 1980s.

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Medusa
In Greek mythology Medusa (, ; Μέδουσα "guardian, protectress") was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as a winged human female with a hideous face and living venomous snakes in place of hair. Gazers on her face would turn to stone. Most sources describe her as the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, though the author Hyginus (Fabulae Preface) makes Medusa the daughter of Gorgon and Ceto. According to Hesiod and Aeschylus, she lived and died on an island named Sarpedon, somewhere near Cisthene. The 2nd-century BCE novelist Dionysios Skytobrachion puts her somewhere in Libya, where Herodotus had said the Berbers originated her myth, as part of their religion.

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Medusa

Noun
1. (Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena; she was slain by Perseus
(hypernym) Gorgon
(classification) Greek mythology

 
medusa

Noun
1. any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
(synonym) jellyfish, medusan
(hypernym) coelenterate, cnidarian
(hyponym) Aegina
(member-holonym) Cnidaria, phylum Cnidaria, Coelenterata, phylum Coelenterata
2. one of two forms that coelenterates take: is the free-swimming sexual stage in the life cycle of a coelenterate and has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles
(hypernym) coelenterate, cnidarian
(member-holonym) Cnidaria, phylum Cnidaria, Coelenterata, phylum Coelenterata


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méduser
v. paralyse, daze, stun, stupefy

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medusa
nf. jellyfish, soft gelatinous marine animal with an umbrella shaped body and long trailing tentacles; Medusa, (in Greek Mythology) one of the three Gorgons that had snakes for hair and everyone who looked at them was turned to stone