ALL meanings of triton
tri·ton
T t - 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
- noun triton a nucleus of an atom of tritium, containing two neutrons and one proton 0
- noun triton a sea god, son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, depicted as having the upper parts of a man with a fish's tail and holding a trumpet made from a conch shell 0
- noun triton one of a class of minor sea deities 0
- noun triton the largest satellite of the planet Neptune. Diameter: 2700 km 0
- noun triton a sea god, son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, represented as having the head and upper body of a man and the tail of a fish and as carrying a conch-shell trumpet 0
- noun triton one of many attendants of the sea gods 0
- noun triton the largest of Neptune's eight satellites 0
- noun triton any of a family (Cymatiidae) of large sea snails with a long, spiral shell, often brightly colored 0
- noun triton the shell 0
- noun triton the nucleus of the tritium atom containing one proton and two neutrons, used as a projectile in nuclear reactions 0