What is "clio"

Clione \Cli*o"ne\, n. A genus of naked pteropods. One species ( Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.

Victoria \Vic*to"ri*a\, n. [NL.]

1. (Bot.) A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.

2. A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.

3. (Astron.) An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also Clio.

4. One of an American breed of medium-sized white hogs with a slightly dished face and very erect ears.

   Victoria cross, a bronze Maltese cross, awarded for valor to members of the British army or navy. It was first bestowed in 1857, at the close of the Crimean war. The recipients also have a pension of [pounds]10 a year.

   Victoria green. (Chem.) See Emerald green, under Green.

   Victoria lily (Bot.), the Victoria regia. See def. 1, above.

Clio \Cli"o\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? the proclaimer, fr. ? to call, tell of, make famous.] (Class. Myth.) The Muse who presided over history.

"muse of history, muse who sings of glorious actions," usually represented with a scroll and manuscript case, from Latin Clio, from Greek Kleio, literally "the proclaimer," from kleiein "to tell of, celebrate, make famous," from kleos "rumor, report, news; good report, fame, glory," from PIE *klew-yo-, from root *kleu- "to hear" (see listen). Related to the -kles in Damocles, etc.

Clio is the muse of history in Greek mythology.

Clio may also refer to:

The Clio was a three-masted barque (1838-1866) built of black birch, pine and oak at Granville, Nova Scotia, (weight: 473 tons). She was registered at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador on completion. For many years she crossed back and forth over the Atlantic, bringing timber from Quebec, Canada which was then sailed to Padstow, Cornwall. In Cornwall she was loaded with passengers who then sailed back to Canada. Many of these passengers were Cornish people emigrating to the United States.

Hendrik Goltzius' engraving of the Greek muse Clio was executed in 1592. A print is held by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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CLIO is the Cryogenic Laser Interferometer Observatory, a prototype detector for gravitational waves. It is testing cryogenic mirror technologies for the future Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). It is located in Japan.

CLIO is an optical interferometer with two perpendicular arms each of 100 m length. The mirrors are cooled to ; this reduces various thermal noise sources which trouble other gravity observatories, but cooling the mirrors (which are heated by the powerful laser used in the interferometer) while keeping them isolated from vibrations is difficult.

CLIO is situated 1000 m underground in the Kamioka Observatory, Gifu Prefecture.

CLIO is one of the science facilities for physics of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research of the University of Tokyo.

The genus Clio is a taxonomic group of small floating sea snails, pelagic marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks, the sole genus belonging to the family Cliidae

All species in this genus are characterised by a bilaterally symmetric, straight or adapically dorso-ventrally slightly curved shell, with an elliptical to triangular transverse section; protoconch clearly separated, globular or elliptical, frequently with a spine at the tip. Subgenera are used for some species (e.g. Clio s.str., Balantium Bellardi, 1872, Bellardiclio Janssen, 2004), but most species cannot yet be assigned to one of these.

Numerous fossil species have been described.