ALL meanings of vulcan
Vul·can
V v - noun vulcan the ancient Roman god of fire and metalworking, identified with the Greek Hephaestus. 1
- noun vulcan Military. a six-barrel, 20mm U.S. Army antiaircraft gun system mounted on an armored personnel carrier and first deployed in 1968. 1
- noun vulcan Astronomy. a hypothetical planet nearest the sun whose existence was erroneously postulated to account for perturbations in Mercury's orbit. 1
- noun Definition of vulcan in Technology 1. (database) A version of JPLDIS ported to CP/M by Wayne Ratliff around 1980. VULCAN evolved into dBASE II. 2. (database) The dBASE-like interpreter and compiler sold by RSPI with their Emerald Bay product. [Same as 1?] 3. (language) An early string manipulation language. 4. (language) A concurrent object-oriented logic programming language implemented as a preprocessor for FCP by Kahn et al at Xerox PARC. 1
- noun vulcan (Slang) (pejorative) A person who seems to lack emotion or is overly analytical and boring. 0
- noun vulcan the Roman god of fire and metalworking 0
- noun vulcan a hypothetical planet once thought to lie within the orbit of Mercury 0
- noun vulcan the god of fire and of metalworking: later identified with the Greek Hephaestus 0