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Definition of Triton

1. Noun. (Greek mythology) a sea god; son of Poseidon.

2. Noun. The largest moon of Neptune.

3. Noun. Tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells.

4. Noun. Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia.

Definition of Triton

1. n. A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell.

Definition of Triton

1. Proper noun. (Greek god) A god of the sea, son of Poseidon. ¹

2. Proper noun. (astronomy) The seventh moon of Neptune. ¹

3. Noun. (physics) the atomic nucleus of a tritium atom, consisting of a proton and two neutrons ¹

4. Noun. any of several marine gastropods of the family ''Cymatiidae'' having a pointed spiral shell ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Triton

1. a marine mollusk [n -S]

Medical Definition of Triton

1. The nucleus of a tritium atom, tritium ion. See: tritium. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Triton

tritide tritides tritium tritium-breeding ratio tritium inventory tritium oxide tritiums trito- tritocaline tritocerebra

tritocerebral tritocerebrum tritolyl phosphates tritoma tritomas triton (current term) triton burnup triton tumour tritone tritones

tritonia tritonias tritons tritoqualine tritordeum tritoria tritorium tritovum tritoxide

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