Definition of Juno
Juno, a Roman goddess, the wife of Jupiter, and the queen of heaven,
corresponding to the Hera (q. v.) of the Greeks; the
impersonation of womanhood, and the special protectress of the rights of
women, especially married women, and bore the names of Virginalis and
Matrona. She was the patroness of household and even state economy. See
Zeus.
- Wikipedia
Ju"no (jū"n&osl;), n.; pl.
Junos (-n&osl;z). [L.]
1. (Rom. Myth.) The sister and wife of
Jupiter, the queen of heaven, and the goddess who presided over
marriage. She corresponds to the Greek Hera.
Sweeter than the lids of Juno's
eyes. Shak.
2. (Astron.) One of the early
discovered asteroids.
Bird of Juno, the peacock.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
A numerical constraint-oriented language for graphics
applications. It solves its constraints using
Newton-Raphson relaxation. It was inspired partly by
Metafont.
["Juno, a Constraint-Based Graphics System", G. Nelson in
SIGGRAPH '85 Conf Readings, B.A. Barsky ed, Jul 1985,
pp. 235-243].
(1994-11-23)
- The Free Online Computing Dictionary
- The Roman equivalent of the Greeks' Hera, queen of the gods.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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