Io Definition

īō, ēō
noun
A maiden loved by Zeus and changed into a heifer by jealous Hera or, in some tales, by Zeus to protect her.
Webster's New World
The third largest satellite of Jupiter: discovered in 1610 by Galileo and found in 1979 to be volcanically active.
Webster's New World

A type of moth, the io moth.

Wiktionary
symbol
Ionium.
Webster's New World
interjection
An exclamation of joy or triumph.
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abbreviation

The ccTLD for British Indian Ocean Territory as assigned by the IANA.

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Origin of Io

  • From Latin; compare Ancient Greek ἰώ (iō, “oh!”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek ἰώ (iṓ, “Io”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin Īō from Greek

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

Io Sentence Examples

  • The distance of the lucid points was the tangent of the magnified angles subtended by the stars to a radius of io ft.

  • The image of a normal reseau-square, as viewed in the microscope, shall exactly coincide with the square formed by the fixed webs - that is to say, the image of the sides of a normal reseau-square shall measure exactly io screw-revolutions.

  • A suitable proportion between the size of the tank or cylinder and that of the boiler is 8 or io to 1.

  • In 1898 the list comprised only 1416 sailing vessels of all classes, from Io tons up, with a total tonnage of 118,894 tons, and 222 steamships, of 36,323 tons.

  • Rosas met the allies at the head of a body of troops fully equal in numbers to their own, but was crushingly routed, February 3rd, at Monte Caseros, about io m.

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