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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Greek Mythology A Titan who was the father of Prometheus and Atlas and an ancestor of the human race.
  • noun A satellite of Saturn.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In astronomy, the eighth or outermost, formerly called the fifth, of the satellites of Saturn.
  • noun In entomology, a genus of homopterous insects, of the family Fulgoridæ.

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  • proper noun Greek mythology A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.
  • proper noun astronomy The third largest moon of Saturn
  • proper noun geology An ancient ocean which existed between 600 and 400 million years ago.

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  • noun (Greek mythology) the Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin Īapetus, from Greek Īapetos.]

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Ancient Greek Ἰαπετός.

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Examples

  • I just wrote a song called Iapetus, named after a moon around Saturn and the Titan who defied Uranus.

    Buffalo Street Sean 2008

  • The relatively small size of Iapetus, which is just 900 miles (1,500 km) across, and its correspondingly low gravity, allow the ice to move easily from one hemisphere to another.

    SPACE.com 2009

  • Now, the researchers have discovered the other half of the story: giant volcanoes that formed during the closing of the proto-Atlantic Ocean - known as the Iapetus Ocean - set the stage for the rise of the Appalachians and the ice age that followed.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • The relatively small size of Iapetus, which is just 900 miles (1,500 km) across, and its correspondingly low gravity, allow the ice to move easily from one hemisphere to another.

    SPACE.com 2009

  • "Iapetus" is nice - it shows the continental drift at different times in the past (and one for the future)

    Discover Blogs 2010

  • Yea, though Iapetus walk through the valorization of the shagbark of deathwatch

    23rd Psaltery Bobbi Lurie 2011

  • Giovanni Domenico Cassini made the next four discoveries: Iapetus (in 1671), Rhea (in 1672), …

    Universe Puzzle No. 2 | Universe Today 2010

  • This allowes for Cassini, after discovering Saturn's satellite Iapetus in '71, and his discovery of another sattelite Rhe, and later or earlier, not sure, but to dare to approximate the distance between the sun and Earth, becoming the first to arrive at a close calculation.

    Universe Puzzle No. 2 | Universe Today 2010

  • It's amazing to reflect on how much more rapid astronomical discovery is, today, than back then; 45 years from the discovery of Saturn's rings to Titan, another 20 to the discovery of the Cassini Division; 16 years between the discovery of Titan and Iapetus; … and 74 years from the rings to Dione and Tethys.

    Universe Puzzle No. 2 | Universe Today 2010

  • The Titans later gave birth to other Titans, notably the children of Hyperion (Helios, Eos, and Selene), the daughters of Coeus (Leto and Asteria), and the sons of Iapetus — Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, and Menoetius; all of these descendants in the second generation are also known as "Titans".

    Louis Leterrier Explains How He Took on Clash of the Titans « FirstShowing.net 2008

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