Iapetus Definition

ī-ăpĭ-təs, ē-ăp-
noun
A satellite of Saturn having an extreme contrast of low and high reflectiveness on its leading and trailing sides.
Webster's New World
A satellite of Saturn.
American Heritage
A Titan who was the father of Prometheus and Atlas and an ancestor of the human race.
American Heritage
pronoun

(Greek mythology) A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.

Wiktionary

(astronomy) The third largest moon of Saturn.

Wiktionary

(geology) An ancient ocean which existed between 600 and 400 million years ago.

Wiktionary

Origin of Iapetus

  • Latin Īapetus from Greek Īapetos

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Ancient Greek Ἰαπετός (Iapetos).

    From Wiktionary

Iapetus Sentence Examples

  • Campani, with which he discovered in 1671 Iapetus, the ninth in distance of Saturn's family of satellites; Rhea was detected in 1672 with a glass by the same maker of 34-ft.

  • They are Ocean, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys and the youngest, Cronus, " and he hated his glorious father."

  • Iapetus's north pole is not visible here, nor is any part of the bright trailing hemisphere.

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