Definition of Ilad
Iliad, the great epic poem of Homer, consisting of 24 books, the
subject of which is the "wrath of Achilles" ( q. v.), and the
events which followed during the last year of the ten years' Trojan War,
so called from Ilion, one of the names of Troy. See Ilium.
- Wikipedia
Il"i*ad (?), n. [L. Ilias, -
adis, Gr. &?;, &?; (sc. &?;), fr. &?;, &?;, Ilium, the city of
Ilus, a son of Tros, founder of Ilium, which is a poetical name of
Troy.] A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on
the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to
Homer.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
<language, real-time> A real-time language.
["On the Design of a Language for Programming Real-Time
Concurrent Processes", H.A. Schutz, IEEE Trans Soft Eng
SE-5(3):248-255, May 1979].
(2000-09-03)
- The Free Online Computing Dictionary
- a famous ancient Greek epic poem about the Trojan War, attributed to Homer
- any long tragic story
- 1907: Gilbert Parker, The Weavers - listened to the tale he unfolded, some glow of pity must have possessed them; for it was an Iliad of herculean struggle against absolute disaster, ending with the bitter news of his grandfather's death.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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