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

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Portia (Uranus XII) One of the lesser satellites of Uranus, with a diameter of 55 km. It was discovered in 1986.

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Portia,
1. the heroine of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice;

2. in his Julius Caesar, the wife of Brutus.

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