iapetus
IPA: aɪʌpˈitʌs
Root Word: Iapetus
noun
- (Greek mythology) A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.
- (astronomy) The third largest moon of Saturn
- (geology) An ancient ocean which existed between 600 and 400 million years ago.
Examples of "iapetus" in Sentences
- For more details, see the main article on Iapetus.
- This is a rare and fantastic closeup picture of Iapetus.
- It's Iapetus that has the equatorial bulge, not Enceladus.
- The faults are related to the opening of the Iapetus Ocean.
- The Iapetus Suture runs from the Solway Firth to Lindisfarne.
- The Iapetus Ocean first closed in the north, then in the south.
- Across the Iapetus ocean to the south, was the continent of Baltica.
- It represents in part the remains of what was once the Iapetus Ocean.
- The name of the Saturnian moon Iapetus is spelled Japetus in the book.
- Iapetus is not an artificial world, the face on Mars is not artificial etc.
- 'iapetus' took his complaint directly to Amazon, where he'd bought his console.
- July 09, 2008 at 03:29 PM iapetus, you left out the big crater that makes it look like the death star though.
- NeoGAF administrator 'iapetus' just got a partial refund from Amazon UK for his launch-day PlayStation 3 60GB model.
- As the story goes, NeoGAF forum moderator "iapetus" cited European law to argue that his 60GB console no longer operated as advertised.
- "iapetus", then replied quoting a European Union directive (which was then incorporated into national laws) requiring that goods comply with the description given to the seller.
- They didn't mention that those plastic surgery'd girls in Brazil likely have Brazilian bikini waxes, which would probably get these idiots online booking their tickets in about 23 seconds. iapetus on April 07, 2009
- The gamer, who goes by the name "iapetus," pointed to European law Directive 1999/44/EC, which states in part that goods sold must "comply with the description given by the seller" and that all necessary features be "made known to the seller at the time of purchase."