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Definition of Sterope

Sterope
Asterope As*ter"o*pe, n. [Gr. ?, lit., lightning.] 1. (Myth.) One of the Pleiades; -- called also Sterope. 2. (Astron.) A double star in the Pleiades (21 k and 22 l Pleiadum, of the 5.8 and 6.4 magnitude respectively), appearing as a single star of the 5.3 magnitude to the naked eye.

Meaning of Sterope from wikipedia

- Sterope (/ˈstɛrəpiː/; Ancient Gr****: Στερόπη, [sterópɛː], from στεροπή, steropē, lightning) was the name of several individuals in Gr**** mythology: Sterope...
- In Gr**** mythology, Sterope (/ˈstɛrəpiː/; Ancient Gr****: Στερόπη, [sterópɛː], from στεροπή, steropē, lightning), also called Asterope (Ἀστερόπη), was...
- distinguished. In Hesiod's Theogony, the Cyclopes are the three brothers, Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, who made Zeus's weapon, the thunderbolt. In Homer's Odyssey...
- The Sterope /ˈstɛrəpiː/ or Asterope /əˈstɛrəpiː/ system is a double star in the zodiac constellation of Taurus. Its components have the Flamsteed designations...
- of a spring near Pisa) or Sterope, one of the Pleiades, whom some identify as his consort instead. He married, if not Sterope, then Evarete of Argos, the...
- In Gr**** mythology, Sterope (/ˈstɛrəpi/; Ancient Gr****: Στερόπη, from στεροπή, steropē, lightning) was a daughter of Cepheus, king of Tegea in Arcadia...
- USS Sterope (AK-96) was a Crater-class cargo ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for delivering troops...
- Achelous, either by the Muse Terpsic****, Melpomene or Calliope or lastly by Sterope, daughter of King Porthaon of Calydon. In Euripides's play Helen (167)...
- Orion pursued the Pleiades named Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope after he fell in love with their beauty and grace. Artemis...
- Agrius, Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus and Sterope. In some account, his wife Laothoe bore him three daughters, Sterope, Eurythemiste and Stratonice. By an unnamed...