Orion

[ uh-rahy-uhn ]

noun

, genitive Or·i·o·nis [awr-ee-, oh, -nis, or-, uh, -, rahy, -, uh, -nis]

1. Classical Mythology. a giant hunter who pursued the Pleiades, was eventually slain by Artemis, and was then placed in the sky as a constellation.
2. Astronomy. the Hunter, a constellation lying on the celestial equator between Canis Major and Taurus, containing the bright stars Betelgeuse and Rigel.
3. Military. a land-based U.S. Navy patrol plane with four turboprop engines, used to detect, track, and destroy enemy submarines and armed with missiles, torpedoes, mines, and depth bombs.

Orion

¹

/ əˈraɪən /

noun

1. Greek myth a Boeotian giant famed as a great hunter, who figures in several tales

Orion

²

/ əˈraɪən /

noun

1. a conspicuous constellation near Canis Major containing two first magnitude stars (Betelgeuse and Rigel) and a distant bright emission nebula (the Orion Nebula ) associated with a system of giant molecular clouds and star formation

Orion

/ ō-rī′ən /

1. A constellation in the equatorial region of the celestial sphere, near Taurus and Gemini. Orion (the Hunter) contains the bright stars Betelgeuse and Rigel.

Example Sentences

The breach was part of a wide-ranging hack that compromised the distribution system for the widely used Orion network-management software from SolarWinds and pushed out malicious updates to Microsoft and roughly 18,000 other customers.

From Ars Technica

At the top of Bridenstine's mind was remaining on track for a June 2020 launch of an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to the Moon.

From Ars Technica

It didn’t take long for him to find three vulnerabilities, two in Orion and a third in a product known as the Serv-U FTP for Windows.

From Ars Technica

Close to the Seven Sisters in the sky is the constellation of Orion, which is often called “the saucepan” in Australia.

From Singularity Hub 

The development of SLS has been plagued by countless delays, and there is no guarantee Orion or SLS will be ready by November.

From MIT Technology Review

Orion represents the first step towards human exploration of other planets, like Mars.

From The Daily Beast

Orion will orbit Earth twice before splashing down off the California coast.

From The Daily Beast

Lewis waves at Tony Orion, a nominee up for Best Bear/Cub whose biceps have stretched his black mesh jersey to a shine.

From The Daily Beast

Along with Lewis, Orion is one of the few minority escorts to be seen.

From The Daily Beast

Orion had asked him to write and produce a comedy about a country club.

From The Daily Beast

And yet there are millions of stars whose distances are even greater than the distance of the Great Nebula in Orion.

From Project Gutenberg

The River, formed of stars, flows from a source at the left foot of Orion.

From Project Gutenberg

The road got steadily worse, but Orion was clear in view ahead of me, dropping down behind Uttoxeter, and I pushed on.

From Project Gutenberg

One day they saw Orion, a great hunter, coming toward them with his dog and his big club.

From Project Gutenberg

They named him Orion—after the constellation, perhaps—though they changed the accent to the first syllable, calling it Orion.

From Project Gutenberg