Hyperion Definition

hī-pîrē-ən
noun
A Titan, son of Uranus and Gaea, and father of the sun god Helios.
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Helios himself.
Webster's New World
A small, irregularly shaped satellite of Saturn having an unusual shifting orientation and rotation.
Webster's New World
pronoun

(Greek mythology) A Titan, the son of Gaia and Uranus and the father of Helios, Selene and Eos.

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(astronomy) One of the moons of Saturn.

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Origin of Hyperion

  • From Ancient Greek Ὑπερίων (Huperiōn).

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek Huperiōn

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Hyperion Sentence Examples

  • The surface is covered with a darker material causing Hyperion to have a lower albedo compared to other icy moons.

  • Open Issues Will Hyperion's rotation remain chaotic forever?

  • With the same instrument, he further detected, on the 19th of September 1848, Hyperion, the seventh of Saturn's attendants, and, on the 24th of October 1851, Ariel and Umbriel, the interior moons of Uranus.

  • They are Ocean, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys and the youngest, Cronus, " and he hated his glorious father."

  • The dean was an elegant scholar, and his rendering of the Hyperion of Keats into Latin verse (1862) has received high praise.

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Words Starting With

HHYHYP

Words Ending With

NONION

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