Electra
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Classical Mythology. Also Elektra the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who incited her brother Orestes to kill Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.
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Astronomy. one of the six visible stars in the Pleiades.
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The “Electra complex” in psychology involves a girl's or woman's unconscious sexual feelings for her father.
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US-based aerospace startup Electra expects its nine-seater hybrid plane to take flight by 2029, running on a combination of jet fuel and electric power.
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025
Companies such as Electra and Boston Metal offer a completely different vision of the steel-making industry but they won't get far without further investment – and a market that appreciates what they are doing.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025
“The loudest thing down there is the pump we have pushing the fluid through the electrical cells,” says Trevor Braun, a chemist at Electra who oversees development of the process.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 30, 2024
He had applied filters that sorted for objects with straight lines and the same dimensions as the Lockheed Electra.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2024
The other two were a girl and a boy, Electra and Orestes.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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