trident
三叉戟,三叉星,三叉戟的作用
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Definitions
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- : a three-pronged instrument or weapon.
- : Roman History. a three-pronged spear used by a retiarius in gladiatorial combats.
- : Classical Mythology. the three-pronged spear forming a characteristic attribute of the sea god Poseidon, or Neptune.
- : a fish spear having three prongs.
- : Military. a 34-foot submarine-launched U.S. ballistic missile with eight to ten warheads and a range of 6,500 miles.
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- : Also tri·den·tal [trahy-den-tl]. /traɪˈdɛn tl/. having three prongs or tines.
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In January 2008, Mullaney formed Trident Financial Holdings & Acquisitions, LLC.
But Clegg was effective with his specific and repeated call to cut the budget for the Trident nuclear-submarine program.
This god of the sea, who is somewhat like the Roman Neptune, carried a lightning trident and caused earthquakes.
He is represented in art as bearing the trident, and surrounded by his attendants and the inhabitants of the sea.
If he wishes a storm, he strikes upon the waves with his trident, and calls the winds, and the huge billows threaten the clouds.
Neptune struck the ground with his trident, and there sprang forth a horse, strong and noble.
Neptune with his trident had just produced the horse, that animal so strong and so useful to man.