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Artemis

American  
[ahr-tuh-mis] / ˈɑr tə mɪs /

noun

  1. Also called Cynthia.  an ancient Greek goddess, the daughter of Leto and the sister of Apollo, characterized as a virgin huntress and associated with the moon.

  2. a first name.


Artemis British  
/ ˈɑːtɪmɪs /

noun

  1. Roman counterpart: Diana.  Also called: CynthiaGreek myth the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon: the twin sister of Apollo

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Artemis Cultural  
  1. The Greek name for Diana, the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon; the daughter of Zeus and the sister of Apollo. Artemis was also called Cynthia.


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Because of this, a classical electromagnetic simulation platform like ARTEMIS, originally developed under the DOE's Exascale Computing Project, is well suited for studying these systems.

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

"Until ARTEMIS, this dark matter of the genome was essentially ignored, but now we're seeing that these repeats are not occurring randomly," Velculescu says.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024

ARTEMIS, one of the principal goddesses in Greek mythology, the counterpart of the Roman Diana.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

Mr. Browning has also given us an original fragment in the classic manner:— "ARTEMIS PROLOGIZES."

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

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