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A constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Octans
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apus
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Apus is a small constellation in the southern sky, first defined in the late 16th century. Its name means "no feet" in Greek , and it represents a bird-of-paradise , which was once wrongly believed to lack feet. Its genitive is "Apodis". The orange giant ...
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Apus \A"pus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See Apode , n.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. See Phyllopod .
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n. (APU English)
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The Astronautical Council had shortly before completed preparations for the reception of visitors from the planets of not too distant stars in the Ophiuchus, Cygnus, Ursa Major and Apus constellations.
Rivas and Apus had shed their roles as advocates and had joined Warin in impartial consideration.
Nine millions of dollars, in other words, that would have gone to purchase aviation fire trucks, avionic maintenance vans, hydraulic stands, tools, APUs, and the other paraphernalia of aircraft maintenance, went instead to the marines to fund a "Joint Project in Engineering Feasibility Studies for Twin Engined Observation Aircraft.