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Ariel

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Copyright

Ariel The fourth-largest satellite of Uranus, 1158 km in average diameter; also known as Uranus I. Ariel orbits Uranus in 2.52 days at a distance of 190 900 km, keeping the same face towards the planet. It was discovered in 1851 by W.Lassell. Ariel is an icy body, with a surface scored by giant steep‐sided troughs, termed chasmata, between lightly cratered regions. The longest trough, Kachina Chasmata, is over 600 km long, and the largest crater, Yangoor, is 78 km wide. The erosion of some craters and the presence of smooth‐floored material in the chasmata is evidence of volcanic or tectonic resurfacing by viscous ice flows.

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Ariel

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Ariel,
1. an airy spirit in Shakespeare's The Tempest;

2. a rebel angel in Milton's Paradise Lost (VI. 371);

3. in Pope's Rape of the Lock (II. 53 ff.) the chief of the sylphs.

Shakespeare's character (1) has inspired many later writers to identify the name ‘Ariel’ with poetic imagination: T. S. Eliot called five Christmas poems (1927–54) ‘Ariel poems’; the first Penguin paperback was Maurois' life of Shelley called Ariel (1935); and there have been several literary journals with ‘Ariel’ as title. See also Plath, S.

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Ariel

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Ariel the name of a fairy in Shakespeare's The Tempest, who has been rescued from the enchantment of the witch Sycorax by Prospero and who must serve his new master until he is released; Ariel is the airy spirit who contrasts with the gross and animal Caliban.

The name was given to a satellite of Uranus discovered in 1851, the twelfth closest to the planet and the fourth largest (diameter 1,160 km), and subsequently to a series of six American and British satellites devoted to studies of the ionosphere and X-ray astronomy (1962–79).

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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Ariel." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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Ariel

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Ariel ♂, ♀ From the biblical place name Ariel, said to mean ‘lion of God’ in Hebrew. It is mentioned in the prophecies of Ezra (8:16) and Isaiah (29:1–2). This is relatively common as a boy's name in modern Israel, but in the United States it is more frequently used as a girl's name.

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Ariel

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

Ariel (Uranus I) One of the major satellites of Uranus, with a radius of 581.1 × 577.9 × 577.7 km; mass 13.53 × 10²⁰ kg; mean density 1670 kg/m³; albedo 0.34. Surface features are visible, including fissures, craters, and flows.

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Ariel

A Dictionary of the Bible | 1997 | | Copyright

Ariel In Isa. 29: 1–2 it stands for Jerusalem and has ominous overtones: the word means ‘altar hearth’. The empty religious ritual will lead to the sacrifice of the inhabitants themselves.

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Ariel

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Ariel , in the Bible, aide of Ezra. In two other passages AV calls them "lionlike men" ( "two ariels of Moab" in RV). Nothing is known of them. Ariel is also used as a symbolic name of Jerusalem.

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Ariel

Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology | 2001 | Copyright

Ariel

One of the two spirits supposed to have attended the seventeenth-century English writer on witchcraft, John Beaumont.

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Ariel

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Ariel , in astronomy, one of the moons, or natural satellites, of Uranus .

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ARIEL

ARIEL (ˈɛərɪəl) Automated Real-time Investments Exchange Limited (former computerized share-dealing system)

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FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH. "ARIEL." The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH. "ARIEL." The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. 1998. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O25-ARIEL.html

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