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- [trahy-ton]
- /ˈtraɪ tɒn/
- /ˈtraɪ.tən/
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- [trahy-ton]
- /ˈtraɪ tɒn/
Definitions of triton word
- noun triton Classical Mythology. a son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, represented as having the head and trunk of a man and the tail of a fish, and as using a conch-shell trumpet. 1
- noun triton Astronomy. a moon of Neptune. 1
- noun triton (lowercase) any of various marine gastropods of the family Cymatiidae, having a large, spiral, often beautifully colored shell. 1
- noun triton (lowercase) the shell of a triton. 1
- noun Technical meaning of triton (processor) Intel's Pentium core logic chip set. In addition to the traditional features, this chip set supports: EDO DRAM to increase the bandwidth of the DRAM interface; "pipelined burst SRAM" for a cheaper, faster second level cache; "bus master IDE" control logic to reduce processor load; a plug and play port for easy implementation of functions such as audio. The Triton I chipset (official name 82430FX) consists of 4 chips: one 82437FX TSC (Triton Sysetm Controller), two 82438FX TDP (Triton Data Path), and one 82371FB PIIX (PCI IDE Xcellerator). It supports PB Cache, EDO DRAM, and a maximum PCI and memory burst data transfer rate of 100 megabytes per second. There are also Moble Triton (82430MX), Triton II (82430HX), and the Triton VX (82430VX) chip sets. 1
- noun triton any of various chiefly tropical marine gastropod molluscs of the genera Charonia, Cymatium, etc, having large beautifully-coloured spiral shells 0
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Origin of triton
First appearance:
before 1930 One of the 10% newest English words
1930-35; < Greek tríton, neuter of trítos third, equivalent to trí- tri- + -ton neuter adj. suffix; cf. -on1
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Parts of speech for Triton
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triton popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 75% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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